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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he property market in West Oakland is booming, but from the corner of West Grand Avenue and Market Street you can't tell that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We looked at that site. That one. That one. The one that’s now been demolished,\" says Brahm Ahmadi. There are seven sites he points to, all of which he's failed to purchase. The cost is just too high, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi has worked for years to bring a full-service grocery store to West Oakland -- where most food sales in the neighborhood are apparently at liquor and corner stores. Meanwhile, wealthier people are moving in, causing rents and property prices to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10657451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0461.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10657451 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0461-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Brahm Ahmadi says he will not be able to develop a grocery store at his first choice location at West Grand Avenue and Market Street in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brahm Ahmadi says he will not be able to develop a grocery store at his first-choice location at West Grand Avenue and Market Street in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi says West Grand and Market would be ideal for the market he envisions. It's one of West Oakland's major intersections, is served by public transportation and already has plenty of potential customers living nearby. But Ahmadi hasn't been able to swing a deal with potential sellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were almost every time floored by the counteroffer and how dramatically more they were asking for their properties,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Opening a full-service grocery store looked like a promising venture in 2011.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some land in the area is going for three times the amount he offered -- well above its assessed value, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi’s offers were sad, says George Kim, who helps manage the West Grand Shopping Center owned by his parents -- one of the seven properties Ahmadi tried and failed to purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim sympathizes with Ahmadi and agrees that the neighborhood needs a grocery store, but Ahmadi's offers weren't even close to what Kim wanted, he says. Recently, he says he was offered more than $9 million for the land. Ahmadi couldn’t offer even half of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A housing development is going up across the street from his shopping center, and Kim says he will probably wait until it's finished before deciding whether to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi says he doesn't blame property owners for holding out for more cash. He says that's the \"American way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem is, it has a greater negative impact on the community,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The idea for \u003ca href=\"http://peoplescommunitymarket.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ahmadi's People's Community Market\u003c/a> spun off of a West Oakland community food organization he founded called \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplesgrocery.org/\" target=\"_blank\">People's Grocery\u003c/a>. The organization focuses on food justice programs and has brought cooking classes, produce deliveries and a community garden to West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10657496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10657496 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"People's Grocery has offered West Oakland food justice programs, including this community garden. Ahmadi says the next obvious step, to him, was to open a full-service grocery store.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People's Grocery has offered West Oakland food justice programs, including this community garden. Ahmadi says the next obvious step, to him, was to open a full-service grocery store. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opening a full-service grocery store looked like a promising venture in 2011. Ahmadi raised $1.2 million from nearly 400 Californians, most of whom were East Bay residents, he says. His efforts were even featured in the\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/business/smallbusiness/seeking-capital-some-companies-turn-to-do-it-yourself-ipos.html?_r=0\"> New York Times.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Times article was written in the summer of 2013. Ahmadi's fundraising campaign successfully ended later that year, around the time West Oakland property prices and rents were just taking off. Ahmadi has been trying for the last 18 months to find property to buy or lease, but he has failed. It was just bad timing, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we did was shift to accepting that we’re going to have to pay an exorbitant price to get a piece of land in this neighborhood,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The City's Role\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city could help pay for a site. But that would be controversial, says Renee Roy Elias, a volunteer with the \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandfood.org/\">Oakland Food Policy Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do we want taxpayer dollars to go towards this very, very overpriced piece of land?\" she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elias would like to see the city get creative with how it supports equitable access to food and possibly offer more incentives, like tax breaks, to local healthy food projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>More: A Changing Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/19/oaklands-sobrante-park-fights-to-resurrect-a-neighborhood-jewel\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16397_IMG_7457.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/25/west-oakland-activist-wants-to-create-a-cafe-for-everyone\" target=\"_blank\">Activists, Entrepreneurs Fight for a Place in West Oakland’s Future\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/26/can-west-oakland-change-and-stay-the-same-all-at-once\" target=\"_blank\">Can West Oakland Change and Stay the Same All at Once?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/18/sideshows-the-birth-of-oaklands-hyphy-culture\">Sideshows: The Birth of Oakland’s Hyphy Culture\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"That would set an amazing precedent for future projects like Brahm’s project,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city could also assume a stronger role as mediator between entrepreneurs and property owners, says Elias. A few years ago the city worked aggressively to get a large Foods Co. store to move into West Oakland. The City Council even voted to use \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/ourxperience/2011/02/08/locals-seem-to-support-city-plans-for-new-grocery-store/\">eminent domain\u003c/a> to secure property from owners who wouldn't sell. The deal never panned out. But Ahmadi says he would like the city to work just as hard to help his project.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If Not the Government, Then Who?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city has to be careful about what steps it takes to help local businesses and can’t take too many risks, says Ben Mangan, who teaches at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s good sometimes and that’s deeply frustrating at other times,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mangan has researched the types of people who do take these risks. They’re called impact investors, and they're usually philanthropists or others willing to put their money on the line for the public good, even though it could involve making a risky investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’re often competing in a marketplace where you may be the only one seeking that extra bottom line, and you have to work harder to achieve social impact while your competitors are just looking for a return on investment,\" says Mangan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi says he thinks he's found his impact investor -- a former Oakland resident who went to Wall Street, made some cash, retired young and now is back and wants to help. Ahmadi won’t name him, but he says this potential partner, who would act as landlord until he's repaid, is willing to pay well above market rate for land the grocery store needs. But it would be in a cheaper location than Ahmadi's dream spot at West Grand and Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a half-mile from that ideal location, at San Pablo Avenue and 32nd Street, Ahmadi is looking at a couple of properties where his market might be built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the area comes with more risk. Across the street, there's St. Andrews Plaza, a compact concrete triangle sporting a few eucalyptus trees. Ahmadi says there is drug use, prostitution and violence around the park. Community groups have been trying to work with the city to find a solution to clean up the area, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel if this problem is here and we try to open our doors, the sense of a lack of safety will be a major deterrent to a lot of people shopping here,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, this is his best shot, he says. There are two property owners he needs to convince to sell in order to have enough space for his grocery store. One deal may be signed this week, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second property hasn’t been easy. He’s had no luck contacting the owner, and the city isn’t helping out, he says. If he fails to secure the second property, Ahmadi says, his longtime campaign to bring a full-service grocery to a community that badly needs one could be over.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he property market in West Oakland is booming, but from the corner of West Grand Avenue and Market Street you can't tell that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We looked at that site. That one. That one. The one that’s now been demolished,\" says Brahm Ahmadi. There are seven sites he points to, all of which he's failed to purchase. The cost is just too high, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi has worked for years to bring a full-service grocery store to West Oakland -- where most food sales in the neighborhood are apparently at liquor and corner stores. Meanwhile, wealthier people are moving in, causing rents and property prices to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10657451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0461.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10657451 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0461-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Brahm Ahmadi says he will not be able to develop a grocery store at his first choice location at West Grand Avenue and Market Street in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brahm Ahmadi says he will not be able to develop a grocery store at his first-choice location at West Grand Avenue and Market Street in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi says West Grand and Market would be ideal for the market he envisions. It's one of West Oakland's major intersections, is served by public transportation and already has plenty of potential customers living nearby. But Ahmadi hasn't been able to swing a deal with potential sellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were almost every time floored by the counteroffer and how dramatically more they were asking for their properties,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Opening a full-service grocery store looked like a promising venture in 2011.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some land in the area is going for three times the amount he offered -- well above its assessed value, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi’s offers were sad, says George Kim, who helps manage the West Grand Shopping Center owned by his parents -- one of the seven properties Ahmadi tried and failed to purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim sympathizes with Ahmadi and agrees that the neighborhood needs a grocery store, but Ahmadi's offers weren't even close to what Kim wanted, he says. Recently, he says he was offered more than $9 million for the land. Ahmadi couldn’t offer even half of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A housing development is going up across the street from his shopping center, and Kim says he will probably wait until it's finished before deciding whether to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi says he doesn't blame property owners for holding out for more cash. He says that's the \"American way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem is, it has a greater negative impact on the community,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The idea for \u003ca href=\"http://peoplescommunitymarket.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ahmadi's People's Community Market\u003c/a> spun off of a West Oakland community food organization he founded called \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplesgrocery.org/\" target=\"_blank\">People's Grocery\u003c/a>. The organization focuses on food justice programs and has brought cooking classes, produce deliveries and a community garden to West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10657496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10657496 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"People's Grocery has offered West Oakland food justice programs, including this community garden. Ahmadi says the next obvious step, to him, was to open a full-service grocery store.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0491-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People's Grocery has offered West Oakland food justice programs, including this community garden. Ahmadi says the next obvious step, to him, was to open a full-service grocery store. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opening a full-service grocery store looked like a promising venture in 2011. Ahmadi raised $1.2 million from nearly 400 Californians, most of whom were East Bay residents, he says. His efforts were even featured in the\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/business/smallbusiness/seeking-capital-some-companies-turn-to-do-it-yourself-ipos.html?_r=0\"> New York Times.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Times article was written in the summer of 2013. Ahmadi's fundraising campaign successfully ended later that year, around the time West Oakland property prices and rents were just taking off. Ahmadi has been trying for the last 18 months to find property to buy or lease, but he has failed. It was just bad timing, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we did was shift to accepting that we’re going to have to pay an exorbitant price to get a piece of land in this neighborhood,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The City's Role\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city could help pay for a site. But that would be controversial, says Renee Roy Elias, a volunteer with the \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandfood.org/\">Oakland Food Policy Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do we want taxpayer dollars to go towards this very, very overpriced piece of land?\" she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elias would like to see the city get creative with how it supports equitable access to food and possibly offer more incentives, like tax breaks, to local healthy food projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>More: A Changing Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/19/oaklands-sobrante-park-fights-to-resurrect-a-neighborhood-jewel\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16397_IMG_7457.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/25/west-oakland-activist-wants-to-create-a-cafe-for-everyone\" target=\"_blank\">Activists, Entrepreneurs Fight for a Place in West Oakland’s Future\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/26/can-west-oakland-change-and-stay-the-same-all-at-once\" target=\"_blank\">Can West Oakland Change and Stay the Same All at Once?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/18/sideshows-the-birth-of-oaklands-hyphy-culture\">Sideshows: The Birth of Oakland’s Hyphy Culture\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"That would set an amazing precedent for future projects like Brahm’s project,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city could also assume a stronger role as mediator between entrepreneurs and property owners, says Elias. A few years ago the city worked aggressively to get a large Foods Co. store to move into West Oakland. The City Council even voted to use \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/ourxperience/2011/02/08/locals-seem-to-support-city-plans-for-new-grocery-store/\">eminent domain\u003c/a> to secure property from owners who wouldn't sell. The deal never panned out. But Ahmadi says he would like the city to work just as hard to help his project.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If Not the Government, Then Who?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city has to be careful about what steps it takes to help local businesses and can’t take too many risks, says Ben Mangan, who teaches at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s good sometimes and that’s deeply frustrating at other times,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mangan has researched the types of people who do take these risks. They’re called impact investors, and they're usually philanthropists or others willing to put their money on the line for the public good, even though it could involve making a risky investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’re often competing in a marketplace where you may be the only one seeking that extra bottom line, and you have to work harder to achieve social impact while your competitors are just looking for a return on investment,\" says Mangan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadi says he thinks he's found his impact investor -- a former Oakland resident who went to Wall Street, made some cash, retired young and now is back and wants to help. Ahmadi won’t name him, but he says this potential partner, who would act as landlord until he's repaid, is willing to pay well above market rate for land the grocery store needs. But it would be in a cheaper location than Ahmadi's dream spot at West Grand and Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a half-mile from that ideal location, at San Pablo Avenue and 32nd Street, Ahmadi is looking at a couple of properties where his market might be built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the area comes with more risk. Across the street, there's St. Andrews Plaza, a compact concrete triangle sporting a few eucalyptus trees. Ahmadi says there is drug use, prostitution and violence around the park. Community groups have been trying to work with the city to find a solution to clean up the area, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel if this problem is here and we try to open our doors, the sense of a lack of safety will be a major deterrent to a lot of people shopping here,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, this is his best shot, he says. There are two property owners he needs to convince to sell in order to have enough space for his grocery store. One deal may be signed this week, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]nside a warehouse in West Oakland, a child swings upside down in the air, attached to a harness and a rope that’s hooked onto metal rafters. A man shouts to the girl, “Kick your legs up,” encouraging her to complete a trapeze routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades ago this space was a “company of machines that made machines,” said Lili Gaudreau, owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.trapezearts.com/\">Trapeze Arts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s a school for circus arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building is in the southwest corner of West Oakland. You’d almost have to be lost to find it, even though it’s located right near the Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It couldn’t be in a better place, but it’s like the forgotten stepsister,” Gaudreau said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10656277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10656277 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The building occupied by Trapeze Arts was once a used by a heavy manufacturing company.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0327-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The building occupied by Trapeze Arts was once used by a heavy manufacturing company. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To some, that has been the story of West Oakland, once a hub for World War II shipbuilding and manufacturing, where people migrated from the South to live and work. At its height, around 1950, there were 40,000 residents in the neighborhood. Today roughly 25,000 people live there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220998621&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Some are concerned that the speed at which West Oakland is changing is leaving behind economic equity and human dignity.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After the war, thousands of people and jobs left for the suburbs, and several public projects destroyed parts of West Oakland. Decades of blight and crime followed, with little revitalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now West Oakland is experiencing an influx of new money and people, driven by the demand for space in the Bay Area. Rents and home prices have soared. It's been hard for the city to keep up, and some are concerned that the speed at which West Oakland is changing is leaving behind economic equity and human dignity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Industrial Spaces Could Play a Role in Creating Economic Equity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Achieving a new neighborhood can be done in a lot of different ways, said Brian Beveridge, co-director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.woeip.org/\">West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project\u003c/a>, a nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think leadership and public policy need to use a different lens,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the redevelopment happening now is focused on big developments and projects with strong capital, leaving out a portion of the population that has been underserved for years, said Beveridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other critics say many of the people who have been struggling in West Oakland for decades are being displaced, rather than lifted, by this new tide of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/137309375?title=0&byline=0\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, you want to deal with racism, then deal with racism,\" Beveridge said. \"Racism is an economic issue. People are shut out of the economy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There needs to be more innovative thinking in government and more “handholding” for local entrepreneurs to create more economic opportunities for them to succeed, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10656541\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/2646498376_66bccac51c_b.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10656541\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/2646498376_66bccac51c_b-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Some space in Emeryville's Public Market is leased by small food, retail and health-related businesses.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/2646498376_66bccac51c_b-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/2646498376_66bccac51c_b.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some space in Emeryville's Public Market is leased by small food, retail and health-related businesses. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonholmberg/2646498376/in/photolist-5Nb1tf-rfHCiM-a4eGG-rfHFk8-ryQfX5-wtnv1Q-wHEUVJ-otxA4T-uPgwTs-92qXmV-5Fav1R-3fHppm-5FeMXq-5Nb37J-87P5qP-dKUq3H-j9PB56-do5tPp-j9N8hM-dKUpst-73P5Lj-5cYfii-5d3zJf-dYNTaL-dYHc5R-c3e2DA-bWZk1G-bWZkSu-7oaryc-gkiqjX-edouet-5Nb5vW-sfoPa-5N6P3D-aPXcnp-85kn8o-52RZLm-52RZuL-dHWyey-52MKzB-qvtiH9-rqHPZG-rHc7Xa-4RKdN9-qtQusW-4RF3en-4RF4ue-a4cVC-MQvi5-5GrPKb\" target=\"_blank\">Flickred!\u003c/a>/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beveridge likes the idea of creating a large space -- perhaps the size of a Costco -- that could accommodate lots of smaller vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why couldn’t we take a warehouse and do that effectively with 30 or 40 small businesses?” said Beveridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The space could be a destination spot, like the Public Market in Emeryville or Market Hall in Rockridge, he said. But in West Oakland, it would look and feel like the local businesses in that community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This would give the city a chance to live up to the values it preaches, such as equity and integrity, said Beveridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Oakland Lacks Resources to Support All Kinds of Business\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The city doesn’t have the staff that would support such a project, said Margot Lederer-Prado, with the city's economic development office. She is also the person at City Hall who knows the most about the current and future status of industrial properties in Oakland. Her job is find space for new or expanding businesses, but not necessarily the microbusinesses that Beveridge is talking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need someone like me, who rolls up the sleeves and writes the grants,” she said. Someone who can spend the time and energy to see a project through, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>More: A Changing Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/19/oaklands-sobrante-park-fights-to-resurrect-a-neighborhood-jewel\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16397_IMG_7457.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/25/west-oakland-activist-wants-to-create-a-cafe-for-everyone\" target=\"_blank\">Activists, Entrepreneurs Fight for a Place in West Oakland’s Future\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/18/sideshows-the-birth-of-oaklands-hyphy-culture\">Sideshows: The Birth of Oakland’s Hyphy Culture\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/19/oaklands-sobrante-park-fights-to-resurrect-a-neighborhood-jewel\">Oakland’s Sobrante Park Fights to Resurrect a Neighborhood Jewel\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some have criticized the\u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PBN/OurOrganization/PlanningZoning/OAK028334\"> West Oakland Specific Plan\u003c/a>, adopted by the city in 2014, for not including enough direction on how to equal the playing field for current residents. The plan itself states that it's important to retain and preserve West Oakland's industrial land and the job base that it supports. And in that document, Lederer-Prado asks how the city can court new industries while preserving \"existing quality jobs that have provided generations of Oakland residents with a decent living wage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Oakland doesn’t really get to decide which businesses move in and which move out on private property, said Lederer-Prado. And the city is not prepared to buy property to develop because of what it costs, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the plan acknowledges that there is a skills gap between residents and the kinds of jobs that are expected to grow in the region, such as tech, life sciences and green energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those with families who may have been unemployed for one or two generations -- it is hard to relate,” said Lederer-Prado.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Providing Jobs is About Human Dignity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some businesses moving into the area are providing good entry-level jobs for locals while trying to improve the area. If you pass Ocho Candy on Adeline Street, you might see Rich Turner taking a break. His apron is covered in organic chocolate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the people in the community out here come by and knock on the door,\" he said. \"And they are constantly looking for work. It’s hit and miss.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner will tell you he’s come a long way. Last year, he was living in a halfway house in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fresh out of prison, you don’t really have much to fall back on,\" he said. \"And I did 10 years, so I didn’t have too much waiting for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Turner was given a chance to work at Ocho Candy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the best thing next to sliced bread,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10656278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10656278\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rich Turner, 32, says Ocho Candy has helped improve the safety of the neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rich Turner, 32, says Ocho Candy has helped improve the safety of the neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The owner, Denis Ring, said he tries to hire locally. But he estimates Ocho retains around 20 percent of local hires, adding that some employees just don’t have the simple skills -- such as showing up -- to stay with the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he gives them a chance. He said it’s about human dignity -- and that for a neighborhood like West Oakland, providing jobs is one of the best things any business can do.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220998621&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Some are concerned that the speed at which West Oakland is changing is leaving behind economic equity and human dignity.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After the war, thousands of people and jobs left for the suburbs, and several public projects destroyed parts of West Oakland. Decades of blight and crime followed, with little revitalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now West Oakland is experiencing an influx of new money and people, driven by the demand for space in the Bay Area. Rents and home prices have soared. It's been hard for the city to keep up, and some are concerned that the speed at which West Oakland is changing is leaving behind economic equity and human dignity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Industrial Spaces Could Play a Role in Creating Economic Equity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Achieving a new neighborhood can be done in a lot of different ways, said Brian Beveridge, co-director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.woeip.org/\">West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project\u003c/a>, a nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think leadership and public policy need to use a different lens,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the redevelopment happening now is focused on big developments and projects with strong capital, leaving out a portion of the population that has been underserved for years, said Beveridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other critics say many of the people who have been struggling in West Oakland for decades are being displaced, rather than lifted, by this new tide of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/137309375?title=0&byline=0\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, you want to deal with racism, then deal with racism,\" Beveridge said. \"Racism is an economic issue. People are shut out of the economy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There needs to be more innovative thinking in government and more “handholding” for local entrepreneurs to create more economic opportunities for them to succeed, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10656541\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/2646498376_66bccac51c_b.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10656541\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/2646498376_66bccac51c_b-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Some space in Emeryville's Public Market is leased by small food, retail and health-related businesses.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/2646498376_66bccac51c_b-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/2646498376_66bccac51c_b.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some space in Emeryville's Public Market is leased by small food, retail and health-related businesses. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonholmberg/2646498376/in/photolist-5Nb1tf-rfHCiM-a4eGG-rfHFk8-ryQfX5-wtnv1Q-wHEUVJ-otxA4T-uPgwTs-92qXmV-5Fav1R-3fHppm-5FeMXq-5Nb37J-87P5qP-dKUq3H-j9PB56-do5tPp-j9N8hM-dKUpst-73P5Lj-5cYfii-5d3zJf-dYNTaL-dYHc5R-c3e2DA-bWZk1G-bWZkSu-7oaryc-gkiqjX-edouet-5Nb5vW-sfoPa-5N6P3D-aPXcnp-85kn8o-52RZLm-52RZuL-dHWyey-52MKzB-qvtiH9-rqHPZG-rHc7Xa-4RKdN9-qtQusW-4RF3en-4RF4ue-a4cVC-MQvi5-5GrPKb\" target=\"_blank\">Flickred!\u003c/a>/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beveridge likes the idea of creating a large space -- perhaps the size of a Costco -- that could accommodate lots of smaller vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why couldn’t we take a warehouse and do that effectively with 30 or 40 small businesses?” said Beveridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The space could be a destination spot, like the Public Market in Emeryville or Market Hall in Rockridge, he said. But in West Oakland, it would look and feel like the local businesses in that community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This would give the city a chance to live up to the values it preaches, such as equity and integrity, said Beveridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Oakland Lacks Resources to Support All Kinds of Business\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The city doesn’t have the staff that would support such a project, said Margot Lederer-Prado, with the city's economic development office. She is also the person at City Hall who knows the most about the current and future status of industrial properties in Oakland. Her job is find space for new or expanding businesses, but not necessarily the microbusinesses that Beveridge is talking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need someone like me, who rolls up the sleeves and writes the grants,” she said. Someone who can spend the time and energy to see a project through, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>More: A Changing Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/19/oaklands-sobrante-park-fights-to-resurrect-a-neighborhood-jewel\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16397_IMG_7457.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/25/west-oakland-activist-wants-to-create-a-cafe-for-everyone\" target=\"_blank\">Activists, Entrepreneurs Fight for a Place in West Oakland’s Future\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/18/sideshows-the-birth-of-oaklands-hyphy-culture\">Sideshows: The Birth of Oakland’s Hyphy Culture\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/19/oaklands-sobrante-park-fights-to-resurrect-a-neighborhood-jewel\">Oakland’s Sobrante Park Fights to Resurrect a Neighborhood Jewel\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some have criticized the\u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PBN/OurOrganization/PlanningZoning/OAK028334\"> West Oakland Specific Plan\u003c/a>, adopted by the city in 2014, for not including enough direction on how to equal the playing field for current residents. The plan itself states that it's important to retain and preserve West Oakland's industrial land and the job base that it supports. And in that document, Lederer-Prado asks how the city can court new industries while preserving \"existing quality jobs that have provided generations of Oakland residents with a decent living wage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Oakland doesn’t really get to decide which businesses move in and which move out on private property, said Lederer-Prado. And the city is not prepared to buy property to develop because of what it costs, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the plan acknowledges that there is a skills gap between residents and the kinds of jobs that are expected to grow in the region, such as tech, life sciences and green energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those with families who may have been unemployed for one or two generations -- it is hard to relate,” said Lederer-Prado.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Providing Jobs is About Human Dignity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some businesses moving into the area are providing good entry-level jobs for locals while trying to improve the area. If you pass Ocho Candy on Adeline Street, you might see Rich Turner taking a break. His apron is covered in organic chocolate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the people in the community out here come by and knock on the door,\" he said. \"And they are constantly looking for work. It’s hit and miss.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner will tell you he’s come a long way. Last year, he was living in a halfway house in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fresh out of prison, you don’t really have much to fall back on,\" he said. \"And I did 10 years, so I didn’t have too much waiting for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Turner was given a chance to work at Ocho Candy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the best thing next to sliced bread,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10656278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10656278\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rich Turner, 32, says Ocho Candy has helped improve the safety of the neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_0369-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rich Turner, 32, says Ocho Candy has helped improve the safety of the neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The owner, Denis Ring, said he tries to hire locally. But he estimates Ocho retains around 20 percent of local hires, adding that some employees just don’t have the simple skills -- such as showing up -- to stay with the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Pension reform's sometimes tortuous grip on San Jose loosened Tuesday when the City Council passed a new agreement \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_28700793/measure-b-settlement-at-top-san-jose-council\">with police and firefighter unions\u003c/a> on retirement benefits and wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement is a watered-down version of Measure B , the pension reform ballot measure that San Jose voters overwhelmingly passed in 2012. It gave less generous retirement benefits to new employees and forced existing workers to either reduce benefits or pay more to keep them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.publicceo.com/2015/08/san-jose-scraps-pension-reform-measure/\">The new plan scales back what employees must contribute fo\u003c/a>r retirement, offers a cheaper health care plan for new and existing employees, gives police officers an 8 percent raise plus a one-time retention bonus, and reinstates the police and fire retirement plan's earlier definition of disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We needed to find a Goldilocks solution,\" said Mayor Sam Liccardo, who had backed Measure B. \"We needed a set of benefits that can make us a competitive employer and still insure that we had a financially sustainable system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now a judge will have to invalidate parts of Measure B and insert the changes before it goes back to San Jose voters in November 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220998952\" 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>Few cities in California have had more upheaval and fractures within the community over voter-approved pension reform than San Jose has. There were three years of bitter legal battles with police and firefighters, who felt Measure B was a frontal assault on the benefits they earned, and they took the measure to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities around the state have been keeping a close eye on the fallout from Measure B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was, in a sense, the experiment,\" said Josh Rauh, a pension reform scholar at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. \"There had been no city that had up until now in California tried to change pension benefits for existing employees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure B came about as cities like Stockton and San Bernardino were on the verge of bankruptcy, partially caused by crushing retirement payments that came due as the economy was tanking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ex-Mayor's Bold Move\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed took Measure B pension reform to the ballot in 2012, saying he couldn't cut city services and staff any further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10656543\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10656543 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Former San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed reads an editorial about his 2016 statewide pension reform ballot measure.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chuck Reed, former San Jose mayor, reads an editorial about his 2016 statewide pension reform ballot measure. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Even though it's painful to take these matters on directly, the costs of doing nothing were enormous because we were cutting services to our people every year to pay for these skyrocketing costs,\" said Reed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rauh said many politicians take a piecemeal approach to pension reform or dabble around the edges of benefits for new employees, fearing blowback from public employee unions. Reed, he said, acted boldly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mayor Reed was at a point in his career where his political aspirations beyond his time in office were fairly limited, and he also had a very strong view that pensions in the state of California are unsustainable they way they are budgeted and the way they are measured,\" said Rauh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed agrees that most politicians have a lot to lose by taking on public employee unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew in the Democratic Party -- and I'm a Democrat -- that if you crossed the public employees unions, you probably don't have a future in the party,\" said Reed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, San Jose police officers left for jobs in surrounding cities where the pension benefits and pay were better. Tom Saggau, a spokesman for the San Jose Police Officers' Association, said the Police Department had already lost officers because of budget layoffs. Then it was hit by pension reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were already losing officers,\" said Saggau. \"What Measure B did was accelerate it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.publicceo.com/2015/08/san-jose-scraps-pension-reform-measure/\">This year the new crop of city leaders, including Liccardo and the new POA president, were able to sit down and negotiate \u003c/a>a revised pension reform plan. A good part of the work had already been accomplished in court in 2013, when \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/us/a-mixed-ruling-on-san-jose-cuts.html?_r=0\">a judge ruled the city \u003c/a>could not require existing employees to contribute more to their pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rauh said what happened in San Jose shows that cities can't succeed in reining in pension costs by working alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cities need to band together and get behind those who are proposing statewide ballot initiatives to make this issue something that is in voters' hands,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed and former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio are now pushing \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Attorney-General-Kamala-Harris-skews-ballot-6451702.php\">a 2016 statewide pension reform ballot measure. 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There were three years of bitter legal battles with police and firefighters, who felt Measure B was a frontal assault on the benefits they earned, and they took the measure to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities around the state have been keeping a close eye on the fallout from Measure B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was, in a sense, the experiment,\" said Josh Rauh, a pension reform scholar at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. \"There had been no city that had up until now in California tried to change pension benefits for existing employees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure B came about as cities like Stockton and San Bernardino were on the verge of bankruptcy, partially caused by crushing retirement payments that came due as the economy was tanking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ex-Mayor's Bold Move\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed took Measure B pension reform to the ballot in 2012, saying he couldn't cut city services and staff any further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10656543\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10656543 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Former San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed reads an editorial about his 2016 statewide pension reform ballot measure.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16481_photo-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chuck Reed, former San Jose mayor, reads an editorial about his 2016 statewide pension reform ballot measure. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Even though it's painful to take these matters on directly, the costs of doing nothing were enormous because we were cutting services to our people every year to pay for these skyrocketing costs,\" said Reed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rauh said many politicians take a piecemeal approach to pension reform or dabble around the edges of benefits for new employees, fearing blowback from public employee unions. Reed, he said, acted boldly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mayor Reed was at a point in his career where his political aspirations beyond his time in office were fairly limited, and he also had a very strong view that pensions in the state of California are unsustainable they way they are budgeted and the way they are measured,\" said Rauh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed agrees that most politicians have a lot to lose by taking on public employee unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew in the Democratic Party -- and I'm a Democrat -- that if you crossed the public employees unions, you probably don't have a future in the party,\" said Reed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, San Jose police officers left for jobs in surrounding cities where the pension benefits and pay were better. Tom Saggau, a spokesman for the San Jose Police Officers' Association, said the Police Department had already lost officers because of budget layoffs. Then it was hit by pension reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were already losing officers,\" said Saggau. \"What Measure B did was accelerate it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.publicceo.com/2015/08/san-jose-scraps-pension-reform-measure/\">This year the new crop of city leaders, including Liccardo and the new POA president, were able to sit down and negotiate \u003c/a>a revised pension reform plan. A good part of the work had already been accomplished in court in 2013, when \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/us/a-mixed-ruling-on-san-jose-cuts.html?_r=0\">a judge ruled the city \u003c/a>could not require existing employees to contribute more to their pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rauh said what happened in San Jose shows that cities can't succeed in reining in pension costs by working alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cities need to band together and get behind those who are proposing statewide ballot initiatives to make this issue something that is in voters' hands,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed and former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio are now pushing \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Attorney-General-Kamala-Harris-skews-ballot-6451702.php\">a 2016 statewide pension reform ballot measure. I\u003c/a>t would require local voter approval of any future increases in public employee pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed's signature Measure B has been weakened but he remains determined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you go on the path of pension reform, you have to realize it's going to be long and difficult,\" said Reed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public employee unions are now gearing up to fight the statewide measure.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the most visible sense, California's four-year drought has brought the worst of times to the state's farm sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://watershed.ucdavis.edu/files/biblio/Final_Drought%20Report_08182015_Full_Report_WithAppendices.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">revised analysis\u003c/a> (\u003ca href=\"#droughtreport\">embedded below\u003c/a>) from a team of UC Davis experts says that nearly 900 square miles of normally robust cropland now stand idle for lack of water, more than 10,000 seasonal farm jobs have been wiped out, and the direct financial cost to agriculture this year is estimated to be around $1.8 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if all that reminds you of \"The Grapes of Wrath\" and farmers huddled against the swirling clouds of the Dust Bowl, the report might make you think again. Because even in the middle of the most punishing drought in the state's history, the report says, the agriculture sector continues to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study points to two factors that account for that. First, California farmers are marketing high-value crops, led by almonds, that command premium prices. So even with reduced acreages for many commodities, the overall farm sector's bottom line remains relatively healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, agriculture continues to make up for a shortage in surface water -- supplies that typically come from the the state's network of reservoirs and canals -- by pumping massive volumes of groundwater and, to a lesser extent, buying water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report estimates the agricultural surface water shortfall at 8.7 million acre-feet -- leaving about half of what might be expected in a base year. But farms are making up two-thirds of that amount by pumping water, with 6 million acre-feet expected to be withdrawn from underground aquifers. To put that amount into a domestic/urban context, 6 million acre-feet would supply about 12 million California homes and as many as 30 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study says all that pumping has a significant short-term cost -- agricultural operators will spend an additional $590 million this year just to get the water out of the ground -- and a more disturbing longer-term impact. The document questions whether a law adopted last year to create a statewide groundwater management scheme will be adequate to head off depletion of a resource that's critical to agriculture:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Given the unprecedented rate of groundwater depletion during the current drought, the present 27 year timeline for stabilizing critical groundwater basins under Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) of 2014 is likely to be too long to ensure replacement of the cumulated overdraft under the current drought (approximately 15 million acre-feet so far).\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Richard Howitt, a UC Davis agriculture economist who is a co-author of the study, said that the groundwater pumping is \"exactly the right thing to do in one sense – it’s our buffer against drought.\" The problem, he said, is that there's no incentive to replenish the aquifers that are being tapped. And that's what creates deep uncertainty for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are really eating up our seed corn, or however you want to say it,\" Howitt said. \"We're spending our 401K on kitchen improvements.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"droughtreport\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/275078365/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_11269\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>This ragtag Oakland storefront at 23rd Street and Telegraph Avenue was at the geographic center of the original \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandartmurmur.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art Murmur\u003c/a> in 2006. It’s an all-in-one art gallery, classroom, clothing shop and activist meeting space. The volunteer-run collective operating \u003ca href=\"http://rpscollective.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rock Paper Scissors\u003c/a> exemplifies the city’s social justice-seeking, DIY art and activism scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with Oakland rents soaring, they’ve been priced out of their space. August’s will be the last \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandfirstfridays.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Friday\u003c/a> street fair and Art Murmur gallery stroll for the collective — the last remaining organization of those that helped start the monthly festival almost a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/218061535″ 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>On a recent East Bay summer evening, volunteers gathered inside the storefront to learn how to become pen pals with LGBTQ prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can get really complicated, because if someone’s legal name is John but they go by Jennifer, for instance, you have to put J or John on the outside of the envelope,” said Beja Alisheva, co-facilitator of \u003ca href=\"https://flyingoverwalls.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flying Over Walls\u003c/a>, a queer/trans prisoner solidarity organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10632273\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10632273 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-800x513.jpg\" alt=\"Flying Over Walls volunteers gather at Rock Paper Scissors to write letters to LGBTQ prisoners.\" width=\"800\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-800x513.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-400x257.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-1440x924.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-1180x757.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-960x616.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128.jpg 1646w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flying Over Walls volunteers gather at Rock Paper Scissors to write letters to LGBTQ prisoners. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are lots of rules about how the envelopes sent into prisons can be decorated, so they won’t be confiscated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No glitter?” Louis Smith asked incredulously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter-writing get-together was just one of dozens of gatherings held at Rock Paper Scissors every month, ranging from writing workshops to a sewing lab and jewelry-making for teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we first came to Rock Paper Scissors looking for a space, they said of course,” Alisheva said. “Obviously, we don’t have a lot of money. It’s not something that brings in a lot of revenue, but that didn’t matter to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: “It was such a relief when we finally landed here, so now we’re not sure where we’re going to end up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a sentiment shared with the quirky, creative space’s regulars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gentrification is real,” said Alexandra Rigaud, an assistant with the collective’s youth program. “We are getting pushed out, and we did start First Friday … Now we are paying for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s becoming a common story all over the Bay Area. The artists who, in recent times, made a neighborhood “hip” are being driven out, in part due to their own success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The neighborhood has changed a lot,” said Kristi Holohan, the collective’s youth, community and interim gallery director. “We are basically like sandwiched in between two bars, there are some really high-end galleries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10632275\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10632275 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The Rock Paper Scissors storefront on 23rd Street and Telegraph Avenue.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rock Paper Scissors storefront on 23rd Street and Telegraph Avenue. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said the plight of Rock Paper Scissors raises a much bigger question as the city continues to boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just the housing affordability that is a potential crisis for us,” she said. “The threat of displacement of our small businesses, of our cultural institutions, of our nonprofits — those are also community stabilization issues that absolutely need to be solved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said the city’s “solutions are more limited” because \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=civ&group=01001-02000&file=1954.25-1954.31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state law prevents\u003c/a> rent stabilization for commercial space. The mayor said she’s creating a new Artist Affordable Housing and Workspace Task Force, but that’s yet to be staffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyka Barber, who founded \u003ca href=\"http://www.bettiono.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Betti Ono\u003c/a> gallery in downtown Oakland, said the city needs to do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order for it to continue to be a world-class city and build on the strengths that it has, especially around culture and arts, we really have to have the investment match the brand recognition,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber is a lead organizer of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KeepOAKCreative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Creative Neighborhoods Coalition\u003c/a> — a newly formed group that’s calling for the re-establishment of Oakland’s Arts Commission, which had its funding and staff eliminated more than five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of talk about the economic development side of arts experiences or cultural experiences, based on people visiting, what kinds of funds or revenues that brings back to the city,” Barber said. “Currently, it looks like maybe 1.3 percent of the total city budget is funding or investing in community development or cultural programs. That does not reflect equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10632276\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10632276 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The Rock Paper Scissors Collective's mission statement.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rock Paper Scissors Collective’s mission statement. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The coalition’s demands were left out of the recently adopted 2016-17 city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rock Paper Scissors, meanwhile, has until the end of the month to find a new space or close up shop and try to raise more money. The collective is seeking volunteers to \u003ca href=\"http://rpscollective.org/help-rock-paper-scissors-pack-and-move/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">help pack up and move\u003c/a> to a yet-to-be-determined location.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This ragtag Oakland storefront at 23rd Street and Telegraph Avenue was at the geographic center of the original \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandartmurmur.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art Murmur\u003c/a> in 2006. It’s an all-in-one art gallery, classroom, clothing shop and activist meeting space. The volunteer-run collective operating \u003ca href=\"http://rpscollective.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rock Paper Scissors\u003c/a> exemplifies the city’s social justice-seeking, DIY art and activism scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with Oakland rents soaring, they’ve been priced out of their space. August’s will be the last \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandfirstfridays.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Friday\u003c/a> street fair and Art Murmur gallery stroll for the collective — the last remaining organization of those that helped start the monthly festival almost a decade ago.\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/218061535″&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/218061535″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent East Bay summer evening, volunteers gathered inside the storefront to learn how to become pen pals with LGBTQ prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can get really complicated, because if someone’s legal name is John but they go by Jennifer, for instance, you have to put J or John on the outside of the envelope,” said Beja Alisheva, co-facilitator of \u003ca href=\"https://flyingoverwalls.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flying Over Walls\u003c/a>, a queer/trans prisoner solidarity organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10632273\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10632273 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-800x513.jpg\" alt=\"Flying Over Walls volunteers gather at Rock Paper Scissors to write letters to LGBTQ prisoners.\" width=\"800\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-800x513.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-400x257.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-1440x924.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-1180x757.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128-960x616.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-around-table-qut-e1438908707128.jpg 1646w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flying Over Walls volunteers gather at Rock Paper Scissors to write letters to LGBTQ prisoners. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are lots of rules about how the envelopes sent into prisons can be decorated, so they won’t be confiscated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No glitter?” Louis Smith asked incredulously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter-writing get-together was just one of dozens of gatherings held at Rock Paper Scissors every month, ranging from writing workshops to a sewing lab and jewelry-making for teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we first came to Rock Paper Scissors looking for a space, they said of course,” Alisheva said. “Obviously, we don’t have a lot of money. It’s not something that brings in a lot of revenue, but that didn’t matter to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: “It was such a relief when we finally landed here, so now we’re not sure where we’re going to end up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a sentiment shared with the quirky, creative space’s regulars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gentrification is real,” said Alexandra Rigaud, an assistant with the collective’s youth program. “We are getting pushed out, and we did start First Friday … Now we are paying for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s becoming a common story all over the Bay Area. The artists who, in recent times, made a neighborhood “hip” are being driven out, in part due to their own success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The neighborhood has changed a lot,” said Kristi Holohan, the collective’s youth, community and interim gallery director. “We are basically like sandwiched in between two bars, there are some really high-end galleries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10632275\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10632275 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The Rock Paper Scissors storefront on 23rd Street and Telegraph Avenue.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-storefront-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rock Paper Scissors storefront on 23rd Street and Telegraph Avenue. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said the plight of Rock Paper Scissors raises a much bigger question as the city continues to boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just the housing affordability that is a potential crisis for us,” she said. “The threat of displacement of our small businesses, of our cultural institutions, of our nonprofits — those are also community stabilization issues that absolutely need to be solved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said the city’s “solutions are more limited” because \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=civ&group=01001-02000&file=1954.25-1954.31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state law prevents\u003c/a> rent stabilization for commercial space. The mayor said she’s creating a new Artist Affordable Housing and Workspace Task Force, but that’s yet to be staffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyka Barber, who founded \u003ca href=\"http://www.bettiono.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Betti Ono\u003c/a> gallery in downtown Oakland, said the city needs to do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order for it to continue to be a world-class city and build on the strengths that it has, especially around culture and arts, we really have to have the investment match the brand recognition,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber is a lead organizer of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KeepOAKCreative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Creative Neighborhoods Coalition\u003c/a> — a newly formed group that’s calling for the re-establishment of Oakland’s Arts Commission, which had its funding and staff eliminated more than five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of talk about the economic development side of arts experiences or cultural experiences, based on people visiting, what kinds of funds or revenues that brings back to the city,” Barber said. “Currently, it looks like maybe 1.3 percent of the total city budget is funding or investing in community development or cultural programs. That does not reflect equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10632276\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10632276 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The Rock Paper Scissors Collective's mission statement.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mission-statement-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rock Paper Scissors Collective’s mission statement. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The coalition’s demands were left out of the recently adopted 2016-17 city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rock Paper Scissors, meanwhile, has until the end of the month to find a new space or close up shop and try to raise more money. The collective is seeking volunteers to \u003ca href=\"http://rpscollective.org/help-rock-paper-scissors-pack-and-move/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">help pack up and move\u003c/a> to a yet-to-be-determined location.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Prepare to be shocked: California’s state government is about to make its final interest payments on 2004 deficit bonds, payments that have averaged more than $1 million a day. \u003cem>That’s $1 million a day, every day, for 11 straight years.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sobering statistic that speaks volumes about California’s decade of deficits — a decade that saw billions more in both painful and gimmickry-laden fixes, a fair amount of national ridicule, and enough voter anger to prompt the historic firing of a governor before the end of his term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, the reality is there is no free lunch,” says Joe Canciamilla, a former Democratic state legislator who was deeply involved in the crisis negotiations over California’s finances in 2003 and 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resulting debt, incurred through voter passage of Proposition 57 in 2004, will be officially wiped off the state’s ledger by the close of business on Wednesday. Officials will certify the state has collected the final dollars needed to satisfy investors, money doled out when the last of California’s Economic Recovery Bonds (ERBs) mature on July 1, 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In truth, the cost of all that borrowing could have been much higher. Original estimates were that the Proposition 57 bonds could take as long as 14 years to fully retire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown pushed for accelerated payments after the tax revenue windfalls of the past few years. Brown has counted the ERBs as part of the “\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/10/us/with-surplus-in-hand-california-eyes-debt.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wall of debt\u003c/a>” he inherited upon taking office, a series of costly short-term financial obligations that have weighed down the state budget and its ability to fund other obligations and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have to be able to think ahead,” said Brown, when asked about it during a May news conference about how to pay for the state’s needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can’t think ahead a few years and realize you don’t have the money, you do that in your own personal life [and] you go bankrupt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2003: The Debt Deal Was Born\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s state government isn’t technically subject to bankruptcy laws, but the specter of fiscal calamity was palpable in the late winter of 2003. Republicans in the Legislature were the first to propose a short-term loan to cover a portion of what was then estimated to be a \u003ca href=\"http://governors.library.ca.gov/addresses/s_37-davis5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$35 billion budget shortfall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GOP proposal was more narrow — a $10 billion loan to be paid back in five years with existing sales tax revenues — than what was wanted by Democrats. By the end of that summer’s long budget fight, Gov. Gray Davis signed a plan that included a $10.7 billion deficit bond financed through a complex system using existing tax dollars. It was quickly challenged in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We looked at the Gray Davis debt as being fundamentally illegal debt,” says Jon Coupal of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hjta.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal fights over the deficit borrowing plan ended after Davis was recalled by voters in October 2003 and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pushed what ultimately became Prop. 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Prop 57 — \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2004/57_03_2004.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a $15 billion deficit bond also to be repaid through a complex series of tax dollar reallocations\u003c/a> — had to be approved by voters, Coupal and almost every other government spending critic ended up endorsing the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was voter approved,” he says. “It doesn’t mean it was smart debt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10629979\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10629979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16261_GettyImages-51834754-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger led the campaign to persuade voters to sell up to $15 billion in deficit bonds.\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16261_GettyImages-51834754-800x573.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16261_GettyImages-51834754-400x287.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16261_GettyImages-51834754-1440x1032.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16261_GettyImages-51834754-1920x1376.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16261_GettyImages-51834754-1180x846.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16261_GettyImages-51834754-960x688.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger led the campaign to persuade voters to sell up to $15 billion in deficit bonds. \u003ccite>(Frederick M. Brown/Getty )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schwarzenegger cast the bond measure, linked with the loose \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2004/58_03_2004.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">balanced budget requirement in Proposition 58\u003c/a>, as a way to finally tear up what he called the state government’s “credit card.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one prominent critic disagreed, and still does: Former state treasurer Phil Angelides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We borrowed to paper over the problem,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision facing Democrats in early 2004, weeks after Prop. 57 had been crafted, wasn’t an easy one. Without a quick infusion of cash, the state was projected to run out of operating funds. But joining Schwarzenegger’s campaign would no doubt boost the Republican’s bipartisan credentials and his political power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Democrat, Schwarzenegger’s most prominent ally in the effort, still insists it was a no-brainer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor and I did the only thing we could do,” says Steve Westly, the former state controller who hit the campaign trail with Schwarzenegger to pass both the deficit bond and budget balancing propositions. “At that point, you can’t really have an esoteric discussion about the pros and cons of debt. You’re dealing with a crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVtjRnEgBmk?rel=0]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men, Schwarzenegger and Westly, became the chief salesmen for the deficit bond and the budget balancing amendment. The most memorable TV ad of the time featured them finishing each other’s sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early polls showed Prop. 57 losing, but Schwarzenegger’s persistent sales pitch won them over. On Election Night, the first-of-its-kind deficit borrowing plan was approved by 63 percent of the votes cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those left on the sidelines — liberals and conservatives alike — were not moved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of, at the time, talk about, ‘Oh, there’s broad bipartisan support,'” says former treasurer Angelides. “But in fact, it was bipartisan support to kick the can down the road.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Fix Or A Stopgap?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even some supporters of the Prop 57 deficit bond thought the campaign — the pitch that had been made to voters — was all wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks were trying to sell this as a fix,” recalls Canciamilla, \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_22917922/contra-costas-new-elections-chief-joe-canciamilla-takes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who represented Contra Costa County in the Assembly and is now the county’s registrar of voters\u003c/a>. “We weren’t solving anything. It was a bridge loan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gap covered by that bridge had been widened by Schwarzenegger himself on his first day in office, rescinding \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/story/news/politics/john-myers/2014/01/22/4754465/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an unpopular but valuable increase in vehicle license fees\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials sold the first $7.9 billion in Prop. 57 bonds on May 5, 2004. Wall Street investors \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2004/may/06/business/fi-bonds6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jumped at the chance to buy the California debt\u003c/a>, perhaps in part because the state’s tenuous finances forced a higher yield — that is, the state had to pay a higher interest rate to bond buyers even though Prop. 57 was structured to guarantee a payback from dependable sales tax revenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first interest payment was made on July 1, 2004, but the borrowing was far from over. In February 2008, almost four years after Prop. 57 was hailed as a one-time fix, \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=8462\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Schwarzenegger and legislators approved selling another $3.3 billion in Prop. 57 bonds to shore up the rapidly eroding state finances months before the global economic collapse\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2008 borrowing was made legal by state finance officials attributing some of that year’s budget woes to money shortages dating back to 2004 — a decision that allowed more deficit borrowing, even though the original companion measure, Prop. 58, amended the state constitution to ban any new deficit borrowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prop 57’s Bottom Line: $19.2 Billion\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10629979\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10629979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS8355_73908800-400x271.jpg\" alt=\"Prop 57 deficit bond interest could have funded UC for 15 months.\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How much is $4.4 billion? It could fund the state’s portion of the University of California system for 15 months. \u003ccite>(Frederick M. Brown/Getty )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In all, state treasury officials say the Prop. 57 bonds — $14.2 billion in borrowing — resulted in interest payments totaling $4.8 billion, plus another $200 million in administrative costs. The final payments have been set aside in a state escrow account to be disbursed to bond holders through July 1, 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The formal ceremony on Wednesday marks the end of the collection of tax revenues to pay off the bonds. And that, say finance officials, allows the state to formally erase the debt, $19.2 billion in all, from the state’s outstanding obligations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those involved with the policy and political effort to borrow the money don’t dispute the fiscal impact. Interest payments of $4.8 billion, paid out since the first payment in early July 2004, have meant less money for other government services in the intervening decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much less money?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For perspective, $4.8 billion could fully fund the state budget’s current share of University of California system expenses for more than a year. It could fully pay for the California Department of Fire and Forestry Protection for more than two years. Or it could boost K-12 spending by as much as $658 per student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that would have required different and perhaps more politically impossible choices in late 2003 and early 2004: Tax increases, spending cuts or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad this chapter of California’s fiscal history is finally closed,” said Schwarzenegger in an emailed statement. The former governor also praised voters for closing the door on future deficit borrowing with Prop 58.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others involved in the saga that gripped California more than a decade ago seem, no matter their position, to look back with a least a twinge of disappointment that there wasn’t another solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I were to do something differently, it wouldn’t have been the actions that Gov. Schwarzenegger and I took,” says Westly, the former state controller. “It would have been how did we get there to start with? The answer is we spent ahead of our means.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of government spending agree on that point. They also note that California voters have a tendency to miss the real lesson in all of this: The actual cost of bond measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t necessarily grasp the fact that bonds equal debt equal taxes in the future,” says Coupal of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. “I think that is part of the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated early in the afternoon on Wednesday, Aug. 5 to reflect the final numbers provided by the state treasurer’s staff on Prop 57 costs — a slight uptick in cost from our original version. We also clarified that the final bond payments include both principal and interest, and not just interest alone.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Prepare to be shocked: California’s state government is about to make its final interest payments on 2004 deficit bonds, payments that have averaged more than $1 million a day. \u003cem>That’s $1 million a day, every day, for 11 straight years.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sobering statistic that speaks volumes about California’s decade of deficits — a decade that saw billions more in both painful and gimmickry-laden fixes, a fair amount of national ridicule, and enough voter anger to prompt the historic firing of a governor before the end of his term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, the reality is there is no free lunch,” says Joe Canciamilla, a former Democratic state legislator who was deeply involved in the crisis negotiations over California’s finances in 2003 and 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resulting debt, incurred through voter passage of Proposition 57 in 2004, will be officially wiped off the state’s ledger by the close of business on Wednesday. Officials will certify the state has collected the final dollars needed to satisfy investors, money doled out when the last of California’s Economic Recovery Bonds (ERBs) mature on July 1, 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In truth, the cost of all that borrowing could have been much higher. Original estimates were that the Proposition 57 bonds could take as long as 14 years to fully retire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown pushed for accelerated payments after the tax revenue windfalls of the past few years. Brown has counted the ERBs as part of the “\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/10/us/with-surplus-in-hand-california-eyes-debt.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wall of debt\u003c/a>” he inherited upon taking office, a series of costly short-term financial obligations that have weighed down the state budget and its ability to fund other obligations and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have to be able to think ahead,” said Brown, when asked about it during a May news conference about how to pay for the state’s needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can’t think ahead a few years and realize you don’t have the money, you do that in your own personal life [and] you go bankrupt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2003: The Debt Deal Was Born\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s state government isn’t technically subject to bankruptcy laws, but the specter of fiscal calamity was palpable in the late winter of 2003. Republicans in the Legislature were the first to propose a short-term loan to cover a portion of what was then estimated to be a \u003ca href=\"http://governors.library.ca.gov/addresses/s_37-davis5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$35 billion budget shortfall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GOP proposal was more narrow — a $10 billion loan to be paid back in five years with existing sales tax revenues — than what was wanted by Democrats. By the end of that summer’s long budget fight, Gov. Gray Davis signed a plan that included a $10.7 billion deficit bond financed through a complex system using existing tax dollars. It was quickly challenged in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We looked at the Gray Davis debt as being fundamentally illegal debt,” says Jon Coupal of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hjta.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal fights over the deficit borrowing plan ended after Davis was recalled by voters in October 2003 and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pushed what ultimately became Prop. 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Prop 57 — \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2004/57_03_2004.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a $15 billion deficit bond also to be repaid through a complex series of tax dollar reallocations\u003c/a> — had to be approved by voters, Coupal and almost every other government spending critic ended up endorsing the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was voter approved,” he says. “It doesn’t mean it was smart debt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10629979\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10629979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16261_GettyImages-51834754-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger led the campaign to persuade voters to sell up to $15 billion in deficit bonds.\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16261_GettyImages-51834754-800x573.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16261_GettyImages-51834754-400x287.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16261_GettyImages-51834754-1440x1032.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16261_GettyImages-51834754-1920x1376.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16261_GettyImages-51834754-1180x846.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16261_GettyImages-51834754-960x688.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger led the campaign to persuade voters to sell up to $15 billion in deficit bonds. \u003ccite>(Frederick M. Brown/Getty )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schwarzenegger cast the bond measure, linked with the loose \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2004/58_03_2004.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">balanced budget requirement in Proposition 58\u003c/a>, as a way to finally tear up what he called the state government’s “credit card.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one prominent critic disagreed, and still does: Former state treasurer Phil Angelides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We borrowed to paper over the problem,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision facing Democrats in early 2004, weeks after Prop. 57 had been crafted, wasn’t an easy one. Without a quick infusion of cash, the state was projected to run out of operating funds. But joining Schwarzenegger’s campaign would no doubt boost the Republican’s bipartisan credentials and his political power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Democrat, Schwarzenegger’s most prominent ally in the effort, still insists it was a no-brainer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor and I did the only thing we could do,” says Steve Westly, the former state controller who hit the campaign trail with Schwarzenegger to pass both the deficit bond and budget balancing propositions. “At that point, you can’t really have an esoteric discussion about the pros and cons of debt. You’re dealing with a crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/XVtjRnEgBmk?rel=0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/XVtjRnEgBmk?rel=0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men, Schwarzenegger and Westly, became the chief salesmen for the deficit bond and the budget balancing amendment. The most memorable TV ad of the time featured them finishing each other’s sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early polls showed Prop. 57 losing, but Schwarzenegger’s persistent sales pitch won them over. On Election Night, the first-of-its-kind deficit borrowing plan was approved by 63 percent of the votes cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those left on the sidelines — liberals and conservatives alike — were not moved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of, at the time, talk about, ‘Oh, there’s broad bipartisan support,'” says former treasurer Angelides. “But in fact, it was bipartisan support to kick the can down the road.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Fix Or A Stopgap?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even some supporters of the Prop 57 deficit bond thought the campaign — the pitch that had been made to voters — was all wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks were trying to sell this as a fix,” recalls Canciamilla, \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_22917922/contra-costas-new-elections-chief-joe-canciamilla-takes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who represented Contra Costa County in the Assembly and is now the county’s registrar of voters\u003c/a>. “We weren’t solving anything. It was a bridge loan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gap covered by that bridge had been widened by Schwarzenegger himself on his first day in office, rescinding \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/story/news/politics/john-myers/2014/01/22/4754465/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an unpopular but valuable increase in vehicle license fees\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials sold the first $7.9 billion in Prop. 57 bonds on May 5, 2004. Wall Street investors \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2004/may/06/business/fi-bonds6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jumped at the chance to buy the California debt\u003c/a>, perhaps in part because the state’s tenuous finances forced a higher yield — that is, the state had to pay a higher interest rate to bond buyers even though Prop. 57 was structured to guarantee a payback from dependable sales tax revenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first interest payment was made on July 1, 2004, but the borrowing was far from over. In February 2008, almost four years after Prop. 57 was hailed as a one-time fix, \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=8462\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Schwarzenegger and legislators approved selling another $3.3 billion in Prop. 57 bonds to shore up the rapidly eroding state finances months before the global economic collapse\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2008 borrowing was made legal by state finance officials attributing some of that year’s budget woes to money shortages dating back to 2004 — a decision that allowed more deficit borrowing, even though the original companion measure, Prop. 58, amended the state constitution to ban any new deficit borrowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prop 57’s Bottom Line: $19.2 Billion\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10629979\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10629979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS8355_73908800-400x271.jpg\" alt=\"Prop 57 deficit bond interest could have funded UC for 15 months.\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How much is $4.4 billion? It could fund the state’s portion of the University of California system for 15 months. \u003ccite>(Frederick M. Brown/Getty )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In all, state treasury officials say the Prop. 57 bonds — $14.2 billion in borrowing — resulted in interest payments totaling $4.8 billion, plus another $200 million in administrative costs. The final payments have been set aside in a state escrow account to be disbursed to bond holders through July 1, 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The formal ceremony on Wednesday marks the end of the collection of tax revenues to pay off the bonds. And that, say finance officials, allows the state to formally erase the debt, $19.2 billion in all, from the state’s outstanding obligations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those involved with the policy and political effort to borrow the money don’t dispute the fiscal impact. Interest payments of $4.8 billion, paid out since the first payment in early July 2004, have meant less money for other government services in the intervening decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much less money?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For perspective, $4.8 billion could fully fund the state budget’s current share of University of California system expenses for more than a year. It could fully pay for the California Department of Fire and Forestry Protection for more than two years. Or it could boost K-12 spending by as much as $658 per student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that would have required different and perhaps more politically impossible choices in late 2003 and early 2004: Tax increases, spending cuts or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad this chapter of California’s fiscal history is finally closed,” said Schwarzenegger in an emailed statement. The former governor also praised voters for closing the door on future deficit borrowing with Prop 58.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others involved in the saga that gripped California more than a decade ago seem, no matter their position, to look back with a least a twinge of disappointment that there wasn’t another solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I were to do something differently, it wouldn’t have been the actions that Gov. Schwarzenegger and I took,” says Westly, the former state controller. “It would have been how did we get there to start with? The answer is we spent ahead of our means.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of government spending agree on that point. They also note that California voters have a tendency to miss the real lesson in all of this: The actual cost of bond measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t necessarily grasp the fact that bonds equal debt equal taxes in the future,” says Coupal of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. “I think that is part of the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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His log deck outside -- where the logs are stacked several stories high before being milled -- is almost full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It means for the first time in many years, he has to turn customers away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10624083\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-800x588.jpg\" alt=\"The log deck at Sierra Forest Products is almost full.\" width=\"800\" height=\"588\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10624083\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-800x588.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-400x294.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-1440x1059.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-1180x868.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-960x706.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The log deck at Sierra Forest Products is almost full. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had so many years of, I’ll say famine, as far as supply goes,” Duysen says. “It’s really disheartening for me to have to answer a phone call and tell people we just cannot help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s talking mainly about private landowners who are hoping to sell wood from trees killed by the drought and bark beetles. 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Taking new contracts is out of the question right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The emergency or catastrophe is at such an extent that at this time we can’t take all the wood,” Duysen says of the fire and insect salvage. “We don’t have the capacity for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mill can take 36 million board-feet of lumber a year; the wood from the fires alone amounts to about 40 million board-feet, Duysen says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2½ hours north of Terra Bella, logger Hudson Fisk knows all too well that there’s a glut at the mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been removing dead trees from private properties in Mariposa and Madera counties all summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10624085\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-800x1123.jpg\" alt=\"Hudson Fisk’s team of loggers takes down a dead Ponderosa pine tree.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1123\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10624085\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-800x1123.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-400x562.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-1440x2022.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-1180x1657.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-960x1348.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hudson Fisk’s team of loggers takes down a dead Ponderosa pine tree. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In past years, he would take the logs to Terra Bella or one of two sawmills in Sonora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s really no market for it anymore,” Fisk says of the insect salvage. “It’s hard to make a profit selling the wood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He used to be able to give landowners a credit for their wood. 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His log deck outside -- where the logs are stacked several stories high before being milled -- is almost full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It means for the first time in many years, he has to turn customers away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10624083\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-800x588.jpg\" alt=\"The log deck at Sierra Forest Products is almost full.\" width=\"800\" height=\"588\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10624083\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-800x588.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-400x294.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-1440x1059.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-1180x868.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LogDeck-960x706.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The log deck at Sierra Forest Products is almost full. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had so many years of, I’ll say famine, as far as supply goes,” Duysen says. “It’s really disheartening for me to have to answer a phone call and tell people we just cannot help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s talking mainly about private landowners who are hoping to sell wood from trees killed by the drought and bark beetles. 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Taking new contracts is out of the question right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The emergency or catastrophe is at such an extent that at this time we can’t take all the wood,” Duysen says of the fire and insect salvage. “We don’t have the capacity for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mill can take 36 million board-feet of lumber a year; the wood from the fires alone amounts to about 40 million board-feet, Duysen says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2½ hours north of Terra Bella, logger Hudson Fisk knows all too well that there’s a glut at the mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been removing dead trees from private properties in Mariposa and Madera counties all summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10624085\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-800x1123.jpg\" alt=\"Hudson Fisk’s team of loggers takes down a dead Ponderosa pine tree.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1123\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10624085\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-800x1123.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-400x562.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-1440x2022.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-1180x1657.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DeadPine-960x1348.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hudson Fisk’s team of loggers takes down a dead Ponderosa pine tree. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In past years, he would take the logs to Terra Bella or one of two sawmills in Sonora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s really no market for it anymore,” Fisk says of the insect salvage. “It’s hard to make a profit selling the wood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He used to be able to give landowners a credit for their wood. But now he has to charge them to remove it. “We’re just stockpiling it back at our yard,” he says. “Some of it we process into firewood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some will be used for lumber, but most of it will go into a chipper. “I have a feeling in a couple years from now, a large portion of our log decks are gonna just end up getting chipped into mulch,” Fisk says. “We’ll make compost out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If he had fresh green trees, he’d get more money. But the damaged trees bring in about 40 percent less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now I can’t even get a contract to sell,\" Fisk says. \"But if I could, the price would be so low it wouldn’t even cover my trucking cost.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some people are benefiting from the surplus wood, at least in Mariposa County. Homeowners can donate their logs to the senior firewood program at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mariposafiresafe.net/\">Mariposa Fire Safe Council\u003c/a> -- and feel good about helping those on a fixed income stay warm in the winter.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Measure FF passed in Oakland last November, raising the city's minimum wage to $12.25 an hour, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/05/24/east-bay-restaurants-adapt-to-new-minimum-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">restaurant owners were faced with difficult decisions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area cities, including San Francisco, have passed minimum wage laws that are being phased in over several years. But Measure FF took full effect on March 1, suddenly raising the minimum wage in Oakland by $3.25 an hour. This 36 percent hike was the highest percent increase in the nation at that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Restaurants operate on extremely tight margins as it is,” said Chris Hillyard, co-owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.farleyscoffee.com\" target=\"_blank\">Farley's Coffee\u003c/a>, which has three Bay Area locations, one in Oakland. “So this is a huge increase in one day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With labor costs rising so quickly, how could restaurant owners alter their businesses to remain open and profitable?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Hillyard joined a group of independent Oakland restaurant owners, the Oakland Indie Alliance, to discuss the best way to deal with the increased labor costs. The group came up with three different options. The first was to simply increase prices on all menu items. The second was to add a service charge on each bill. The third option was more radical: a price increase combined with a no-tipping policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hillyard decided to go with the first option: to raise all the prices at Farley's East, his company's Oakland store, by approximately 20 percent. So far, he hasn't seen any decrease in sales, and the higher prices are covering the higher wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's great for the workers,” Hillyard said. “Their wages are higher. They're happy about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Piper Conrad, a barista at Farley's, isn't so sure. While she is very happy to be working at Farley's, she's not convinced that the minimum wage increase is something to be happy about because it isn’t high enough to be truly effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the new minimum wage in Oakland is a pacifier,” she said. “[Workers] are settling for something that's a little higher, but not really what they asked for” -- referring to a proposed\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/09/04/across-the-country-fast-food-workers-rally-for-15-an-hour-pay/\"> $15 per hour wage\u003c/a> that many workers advocated for prior to Measure FF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conrad claims that tips are down across the board since prices have increased at Farley's East. She estimates that about 30 percent of her regular customers are tipping less or not tipping at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred and Elizabeth Sassen, co-owners of \u003ca href=\"http://homesteadoakland.com\">Homestead Restaurant\u003c/a> on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, are trying one of the other options to handle the higher minimum wage— a no-tipping policy. It's a growing trend in Oakland restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Measure FF was proposed, Homestead operated under a standard restaurant model in which the servers were receiving tips. With tips, servers were the highest-paid members of the staff, making approximately three times as much as cooks and other employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Sassen described the problem anecdotally. If one imagines restaurant revenue as one bill in the amount of $100, labor costs would account for 30 percent. In a restaurant with 20 employees, each employee would be entitled to $1.05 of this hypothetical check. If nine of the employees are servers, they would split an additional $20 tip, increasing their share to $3.22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a lot of resentment in the industry between servers and cooks,” Elizabeth Sassen said. “The line cook works all day preparing food, while the server comes in at the end of the day and takes home the lion’s share of the money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sassens decided that simply raising prices wouldn’t address this underlying inequality. Measure FF presented them with an opportunity to try a new kind of pay structure. Homestead raised its prices by 20 percent and raised the wages for every employee, but servers are no longer allowed to collect tips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sassens believe this change has created a more unified staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the old system, a server would never want to become a manager because it is an increase in hours and not necessarily an increase in pay,” Fred Sassen said. “Now we've created a career ladder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sassens didn’t say exactly how much they were paying servers, but they did say that employees are now paid higher wages based on experience. The lowest-paid employee is now making $15 per hour and the highest-paid employees make approximately $24 per hour. Servers are now paid a consistent wage, but they no longer have the opportunity to make substantially more money on a good night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the no-tipping policy was implemented, many servers at Homestead moved on to other restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tips are what we absolutely rely on,” said Conrad. “If I was working in a restaurant that didn't allow tips, I would quit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a barista, Conrad makes a certain amount of her income in tips, but not as much as a server would make in a full-service restaurant. She hopes to get a job as a server in the near future, while she finishes her massage therapy studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conrad believes that most servers do not see their job as a career. 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And a new poll suggests he and his fellow Democrats are pretty much speaking what Californians want to hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wednesday night poll by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC)\u003c/a> finds strong support for not only the idea that climate change is linked to the state’s historic drought, but also equally robust support for a handful of legislative ideas to double down on the state’s response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sixty-one percent of likely voters — and 64 percent of all adults in the survey — agree that California needs to do its own thing to combat the effects of carbon emissions and not wait for action in Washington, D.C. And almost eight of every 10 state residents in the poll say the climate change threat is serious, with most (52 percent) calling it very serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor, long regarded as the politician who seems to have the best barometer on what Californians think, has ramped up his defense of quick action on the part of the state. His trip this month to the Vatican for a climate change summit made headlines across the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A fundamental challenge is our inability to imagine where we could end up if we don’t take the measures that we have to,” Brown said in a \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=19048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speech\u003c/a> on the final day of the Vatican symposium. “It’s hard to imagine catastrophe, it’s hard to imagine extinction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has spent most of 2015 attempting to use the crisis of the drought as a defense of California’s aggressive climate laws, and the polling suggests it’s in line with the citizenry. Sixty-four percent of adults in the new poll say the overall warming of the planet has contributed to California’s lack of water, and 84 percent say they are somewhat or very concerned about the possibility of even more severe droughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It remains to be seen whether the governor will succeed in his attempt to link those fears to public and political acceptance of his effort to rejigger California’s water supply system — highlighted by plans for twin underground water tunnels around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. But his fellow Democrats in the California Legislature have other goals in mind, and the new survey offers them some possible momentum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether those surveyed support the idea of cutting California’s 1990-measured greenhouse gases by 80 percent over the next 3½ decades, the answer is yes: 69 percent like that idea. 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