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"content": "\u003cp>Rancher Gary Tarbell stands in the sale barn at the Tulare County Stockyard watching as cattle pass through a gate, into a ring and, one by one, are sold to the highest bidder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going out of state, all these cattle,” Tarbell says. “There’s no water here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as farmers in the Central Valley are fallowing thousands of acres because of the drought, cattle ranchers are also cutting production. In fact, herd numbers nationwide are at their lowest since the 1950s, due in part to the Texas and California droughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to cut way back,” Tarbell says. “I sold over half of my herd already because there’s no water on the ranch.”\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/214694279&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\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not atypical, says Jon Dolieslager, owner of the \u003ca href=\"http://tularecountystockyard.com/\">Tulare County Stockyard\u003c/a>. “Everybody here is selling, you know, probably double of what they would normally do just because they’re out of feed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolieslager is also the auctioneer. 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He’s the ranch manager for Elliott Land and Cattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Typically, we wean our calves in early summer, run them over another year and sell them as yearlings,” he says. “Last year, we weaned them right away and sold them instead of keeping them because we didn’t have enough feed and water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been a cowboy for 44 years, since the age of 14, and he’s never seen a drought like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year, we fed almost all year-round,” he says. “It was a huge expense.” Just buying hay cost the ranch around $140,000, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, he says, the water is holding on the ranch he manages. But he bought a water truck just in case the creek beds and wells go dry and he needs to haul in water. But that would be pricy. Cows drink a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Twenty-five to 35, 40 gallons a day,” he says. “Yeah, that’s a lot of water, times 400, that’s a lot of water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ranch has reduced its breeding herd in the past three years by 60 percent, down to about 440 cows. And that means Loveall brought fewer calves to the auction this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is it,” he says. “This is basically our income for the year. Instead of 600 calves, we’re gonna sell 120 calves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, beef prices are high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These cattle will bring a lot of money but it’d be nice if we had a thousand cows and the market was like this,” Loveall says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranchers who are forced to sell will at least get a good price on their cattle, says Justin Oldfield, vice president of government affairs for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calcattlemen.org/\">California Cattlemen’s Association\u003c/a>. But, he adds, there’s a lot more to running a ranch than just buying and selling cattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes a lot of time to build up a herd, Oldfield says. Ranchers look for certain traits, including disposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of that work that you’ve put in, to putting together a cow herd that works for your ranch, goes out the window,” says Oldfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10600650\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10600650\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sally Baker is a fourth-generation rancher dealing with the drought.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/IMG_3467-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally Baker is a fourth-generation rancher dealing with the drought. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 30 minutes east of the Tulare County Stockyard, Sally Baker looks out at her ranch in the Sierra foothills directly below Sequoia National Park. She points to an empty streambed where her cattle used to drink. It’s not the only place on the ranch that’s dry, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our springs have all dried up on the west side of our ranch, and we had a well on the north end of the ranch also go dry,” says Baker, a fourth-generation rancher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Baker’s dad died 20 years ago, she and her mom took over the ranch. Last year was particularly tough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We unfortunately had to sell about 50 cows, which broke my heart,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they had to buy hay twice. But Baker says her mom grew up in the Depression, so she knows how to plan for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so we were fortunate,” she says. “We had the means to do that. Unfortunately, a lot of ranchers didn’t have a reserve and had to sell off a lot of their stock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mom, Sally Dudley, can see their cattle from her living-room window. 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"content": "\u003cp>It's called the \"Green Rush.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the name given to the flood of investment into marijuana startups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, new companies are trying to corner different parts of the medical marijuana market, hoping to position themselves for widespread legalization. Delivery is one hot spot for competition. Companies are jockeying to become the “Uber” of pot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/214130896\" 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>I'm sitting with Kat Ilera in her apartment, waiting for a delivery of medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ilera uses medical marijuana to cope with pain and anxiety. She was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer last fall. It quickly metastasized to her liver and spine. On Thanksgiving she got surgery on her back, which left her fairly immobile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10824047\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KatKat-1440x1837.jpg\" alt=\"Kat Ilera with her recent delivery of medical marijuana from Eaze.\" width=\"640\" height=\"816\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10824047\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KatKat-1440x1837.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KatKat-400x510.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KatKat-800x1020.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KatKat-768x980.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KatKat.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KatKat-1180x1505.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KatKat-960x1225.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kat Ilera with her recent delivery of medical marijuana from Eaze. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ilera now uses a cane to get around and wears a white plastic back brace. She puts it on to show me what it looks like. “I call myself a stormtrooper,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ilera can't twist or bend, so it's hard for her to get around -- to go places like her marijuana dispensary. And that brings us to Eaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eazeup.com/#/home\">Eaze\u003c/a> is one of the new companies that are delivering marijuana to patients like Ilera. There's also \u003ca href=\"https://getnugg.com/#/\">Nugg\u003c/a> in Southern California. And apps like \u003ca href=\"https://getmeadow.com/\">Meadow\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the founders of these companies come from the world of tech, like Keith McCarty, Eaze's CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarty says, “When I was at Microsoft, I started looking at the next wave of technology and became really bullish on this whole on-demand consumer service category.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'We definitely have our eye on the recreational market.'\u003ccite>Keith McCarty, CEO of Eaze\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>McCarty is following the lead of on-demand delivery companies like Uber. He sees big potential with marijuana. “We are focused on just the medical market today,” he says, “but we definitely have our eye on the recreational market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so do investors. Eaze has received at least $10 million, including money from Snoop Dogg, the rapper with the lyric commanding listeners to “smoke weed every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies like Eaze, which want to do more than help medical marijuana patients, are positioning themselves in the medical marijuana market to get ready for when California legalizes recreational use. That seems more likely every day. \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2015/03/25/majority-of-californians-ready-to-legalize-marijuana-new-poll-confirms/\">A poll now\u003c/a> shows over 50 percent of voters support legalization, which will almost certainly be on the 2016 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if investors get in now and the market for pot blows up -- boom, cash money. It's the California Green Rush. Well, not so fast, says Professor David Ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'If it were my money, I wouldn't be putting it into the Green Rush.'\u003ccite>David Ball, Law Professor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“If it were my money,” Ball says, “I wouldn't be putting it into the Green Rush.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ball teaches law at Santa Clara University and has done policy work and research on marijuana. He thinks the hype of these new companies is just that -- hype. Because if cannabis goes legal, a lot could change -- taxes, regulations and, most importantly, Ball says, the price for pot will drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't think Eaze or other companies are necessarily going to be able to deliver on the promise of these gigantic profits because they are assuming Prohibition-era prices in a legalized market when those prices are going to fall dramatically,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's a bigger problem with delivery. It's been declared illegal in every place that has legalized recreational marijuana. Delivery is already \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-nestdrop-pot-marijuana-delivery-20141223-story.html\">banned in L.A.\u003c/a> And it could be shut down throughout California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would make a lot of investor cash go up in smoke. Sorry Snoop.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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On Thanksgiving she got surgery on her back, which left her fairly immobile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10824047\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KatKat-1440x1837.jpg\" alt=\"Kat Ilera with her recent delivery of medical marijuana from Eaze.\" width=\"640\" height=\"816\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10824047\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KatKat-1440x1837.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KatKat-400x510.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KatKat-800x1020.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KatKat-768x980.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KatKat.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KatKat-1180x1505.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KatKat-960x1225.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kat Ilera with her recent delivery of medical marijuana from Eaze. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ilera now uses a cane to get around and wears a white plastic back brace. She puts it on to show me what it looks like. “I call myself a stormtrooper,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ilera can't twist or bend, so it's hard for her to get around -- to go places like her marijuana dispensary. And that brings us to Eaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eazeup.com/#/home\">Eaze\u003c/a> is one of the new companies that are delivering marijuana to patients like Ilera. There's also \u003ca href=\"https://getnugg.com/#/\">Nugg\u003c/a> in Southern California. And apps like \u003ca href=\"https://getmeadow.com/\">Meadow\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the founders of these companies come from the world of tech, like Keith McCarty, Eaze's CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarty says, “When I was at Microsoft, I started looking at the next wave of technology and became really bullish on this whole on-demand consumer service category.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'We definitely have our eye on the recreational market.'\u003ccite>Keith McCarty, CEO of Eaze\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>McCarty is following the lead of on-demand delivery companies like Uber. He sees big potential with marijuana. “We are focused on just the medical market today,” he says, “but we definitely have our eye on the recreational market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so do investors. Eaze has received at least $10 million, including money from Snoop Dogg, the rapper with the lyric commanding listeners to “smoke weed every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies like Eaze, which want to do more than help medical marijuana patients, are positioning themselves in the medical marijuana market to get ready for when California legalizes recreational use. That seems more likely every day. \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2015/03/25/majority-of-californians-ready-to-legalize-marijuana-new-poll-confirms/\">A poll now\u003c/a> shows over 50 percent of voters support legalization, which will almost certainly be on the 2016 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if investors get in now and the market for pot blows up -- boom, cash money. It's the California Green Rush. Well, not so fast, says Professor David Ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'If it were my money, I wouldn't be putting it into the Green Rush.'\u003ccite>David Ball, Law Professor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“If it were my money,” Ball says, “I wouldn't be putting it into the Green Rush.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ball teaches law at Santa Clara University and has done policy work and research on marijuana. He thinks the hype of these new companies is just that -- hype. Because if cannabis goes legal, a lot could change -- taxes, regulations and, most importantly, Ball says, the price for pot will drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't think Eaze or other companies are necessarily going to be able to deliver on the promise of these gigantic profits because they are assuming Prohibition-era prices in a legalized market when those prices are going to fall dramatically,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's a bigger problem with delivery. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Thursday 3:50 p.m.: \u003c/strong>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/07/09/exclusiveapple-signs-major-lease-in-north-san-jose.html?ana=twt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Business Journal\u003c/a> has reported that Apple Inc. signed a major lease for space in San Jose. Citing unnamed sources, the business publication said the Cupertino-based company has reached an agreement to lease nearly 300,000 square feet in North San Jose. The deal, if confirmed, would mark Apple’s first major entry into San Jose in quite some time. Apple wouldn’t comment on the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is Part 2 of two-part series looking at why San Jose, the third largest city in California, has faced fiscal problems while the tech boom is enriching the Silicon Valley communities around it. Read \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/07/why-san-jose-is-barely-in-the-black-despite-the-tech-boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 1 here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose, the self-described “Capitol of Silicon Valley,” is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/07/why-san-jose-is-barely-in-the-black-despite-the-tech-boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">barely in the black\u003c/a> after years of deep deficits and painful cutbacks. Why?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could say San Jose didn’t have the luck to be home to one of the tech firms that blew up in this latest boom, like Google, headquartered in Mountain View, or Facebook, based in Menlo Park. But the longer the boom goes on, the more San Jose finally may be getting a piece of the economic action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”amQD6ZjYu8t2YRGCmpFryBtpOyytyVJQ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/sanjose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whole Foods\u003c/a> in downtown San Jose that opened last December. It’s got its own brewery, and it’s steps away from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sapcenteratsanjose.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAP Center\u003c/a>, a massive arena home to the San Jose Sharks. On warm summer nights, the open-air tap room is packed with people like Oz Rosario and his wife Jaime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They did a tremendous job here,” says Oz Rosario between sips of beer. “It’s just a great ambiance to come and catch some of the city vibe of what’s going on here — the re-gentrification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosarios came to San Jose two years ago because of his job in tech. He’s in product development at Verizon. They’ve got two kids under three years old. In many ways, they’re exactly the kind of affluent family Whole Foods expected to attract to this store when it signed the lease seven years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Twyman, regional president for Whole Foods Northern California, explains the calculation. “We want to be sure it’s a fairly densely populated area: high proportion of college grads proportionately, and that the site itself is strong in terms of its access, visibility and there’s an affinity for natural foods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the US Census, the median household income in San Jose is $81,829. Compare that to $75,604 in San Francisco. But San Jose lags other cities in the region in capitalizing on sales tax revenues. People shop regionally without regard for city borders. So while Whole Foods has stores in nearby small cities — Campbell and Los Gatos, and another coming soon in Santa Clara — San Jose has only two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose officials say this city of a million people serves as a bedroom community for the region. But in order to provide those residents with the city services they require, urban planners say San Jose needs to pull in more retail and corporate development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley tech companies are the city’s natural target. To start with, the city is home to tech giants from previous tech booms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be fair, Cisco Systems in North San Jose isn’t something to sneeze at,” says Paul Krutko, who was San Jose’s Chief Development Officer for eight years. “Adobe headquartering in San Jose is nothing to sneeze at. Ebay, Pay Pal. Two IBM research centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Jose \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/07/big-tech-changes-character-of-downtown-redwood-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been slower\u003c/a> to draw in tech companies from this latest boom, even though many of them have expanded across the region with multiple campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the very fact San Jose has lagged behind the rest of the region may now prove to be its saving grace. Much of the rest of Silicon Valley is tapped out for big spaces, and San Jose now seems relatively open and cheap by comparison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10584721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10584721\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"Going shopping for Class A office space in Silicon Valley? There's a wide range of geographic options, and prices.\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-800x518.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-400x259.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-1440x932.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-1180x763.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-960x621.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Going shopping for Class A office space in Silicon Valley? There’s a wide range of geographic options, and prices. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Clark Steele and Laura Tu, Newmark Cornish & Carey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least one marquee firm that essentially sidestepped San Jose in the past is now reportedly \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/05/20/apple-contemplates-san-jose-expansion-hat-it-means.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">circling back\u003c/a> to sniff out big properties: Apple Inc. has been looking at two locations in San Jose for expansion, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal. The Journal, citing unnamed real estate sources, also reported that Tesla Motors Inc. had looked at one of the same sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple and Tesla both declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think San Jose has been able to attract a number of companies that couldn’t afford the rents in the higher priced areas,” says Joe Horwedel, a former planning director for San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003cspan class=\"Subhead2\">Kim Walesh, \u003c/span>Director of Economic Development for San Jose, some of the tech companies that have moved into the city in the last 18 months include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>ABB\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Barracuda Networks\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dice\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Datawise\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Naprotek\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Protein Simple\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Quanta Cloud Technologies\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Univision\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Spiraledge\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vander-Bend\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Verizon\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There’s no telling whether Apple or Tesla will be added to the list, but news that they’re considering San Jose is gratifying to Horwedel because it suggests his 31 years spent preparing the way for development in San Jose have been worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked through a lot of traffic mitigation,” Horwedel says. “We worked through streamlining the approval process to go and be able to approve projects very quickly. So we set the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10593412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10593412\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"From San Jose's perspective, too many tech buses head out of the city every work day. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From San Jose’s perspective, too many tech buses head out of the city every work day. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paul Krutko, who was San Jose’s Chief Development Officer for eight years, agrees. “You have to do some of this work way in advance. Because if you aren’t prepared, if we didn’t do anything on the site [that Apple is examining], Apple [might say] ‘We’d like to locate there,’ and you don’t have the proper zoning, the entitlements, whatever, then they can’t develop it there. They’re going to go to another site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A big table has been set. According to the mayor’s office, 10.3 million square feet of office and R&D space is in the pipeline in North San Jose alone, the neighborhood Apple is considering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been growing at a record clip for really the last two or three years in terms of jobs,” says Mayor Sam Liccardo. “What we’re seeing in terms of demand for sites from employers has been incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone says from the time he moved to Sunnyvale in 1970, “Everything historically has rolled from north to south: high tech companies, occupancies, vacancies, rents, roll from Palo Alto south to San Jose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it is important that San Jose takes advantage of the current boom to lock in new tech companies. That’s because while he doesn’t think this tech boom is a bubble, he says he’s seen enough economic busts to doubt that any boom lasts forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because our cycles tend to be steeper, there’s more pressure for cities to get with it before the inevitable downturn to come.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Thursday 3:50 p.m.: \u003c/strong>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/07/09/exclusiveapple-signs-major-lease-in-north-san-jose.html?ana=twt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Business Journal\u003c/a> has reported that Apple Inc. signed a major lease for space in San Jose. Citing unnamed sources, the business publication said the Cupertino-based company has reached an agreement to lease nearly 300,000 square feet in North San Jose. The deal, if confirmed, would mark Apple’s first major entry into San Jose in quite some time. Apple wouldn’t comment on the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is Part 2 of two-part series looking at why San Jose, the third largest city in California, has faced fiscal problems while the tech boom is enriching the Silicon Valley communities around it. Read \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/07/why-san-jose-is-barely-in-the-black-despite-the-tech-boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 1 here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose, the self-described “Capitol of Silicon Valley,” is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/07/why-san-jose-is-barely-in-the-black-despite-the-tech-boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">barely in the black\u003c/a> after years of deep deficits and painful cutbacks. Why?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could say San Jose didn’t have the luck to be home to one of the tech firms that blew up in this latest boom, like Google, headquartered in Mountain View, or Facebook, based in Menlo Park. But the longer the boom goes on, the more San Jose finally may be getting a piece of the economic action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/sanjose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whole Foods\u003c/a> in downtown San Jose that opened last December. It’s got its own brewery, and it’s steps away from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sapcenteratsanjose.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAP Center\u003c/a>, a massive arena home to the San Jose Sharks. On warm summer nights, the open-air tap room is packed with people like Oz Rosario and his wife Jaime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They did a tremendous job here,” says Oz Rosario between sips of beer. “It’s just a great ambiance to come and catch some of the city vibe of what’s going on here — the re-gentrification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosarios came to San Jose two years ago because of his job in tech. He’s in product development at Verizon. They’ve got two kids under three years old. In many ways, they’re exactly the kind of affluent family Whole Foods expected to attract to this store when it signed the lease seven years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Twyman, regional president for Whole Foods Northern California, explains the calculation. “We want to be sure it’s a fairly densely populated area: high proportion of college grads proportionately, and that the site itself is strong in terms of its access, visibility and there’s an affinity for natural foods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the US Census, the median household income in San Jose is $81,829. Compare that to $75,604 in San Francisco. But San Jose lags other cities in the region in capitalizing on sales tax revenues. People shop regionally without regard for city borders. So while Whole Foods has stores in nearby small cities — Campbell and Los Gatos, and another coming soon in Santa Clara — San Jose has only two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose officials say this city of a million people serves as a bedroom community for the region. But in order to provide those residents with the city services they require, urban planners say San Jose needs to pull in more retail and corporate development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley tech companies are the city’s natural target. To start with, the city is home to tech giants from previous tech booms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be fair, Cisco Systems in North San Jose isn’t something to sneeze at,” says Paul Krutko, who was San Jose’s Chief Development Officer for eight years. “Adobe headquartering in San Jose is nothing to sneeze at. Ebay, Pay Pal. Two IBM research centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Jose \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/07/big-tech-changes-character-of-downtown-redwood-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been slower\u003c/a> to draw in tech companies from this latest boom, even though many of them have expanded across the region with multiple campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the very fact San Jose has lagged behind the rest of the region may now prove to be its saving grace. Much of the rest of Silicon Valley is tapped out for big spaces, and San Jose now seems relatively open and cheap by comparison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10584721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10584721\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"Going shopping for Class A office space in Silicon Valley? There's a wide range of geographic options, and prices.\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-800x518.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-400x259.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-1440x932.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-1180x763.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut-960x621.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15942_Silicon-Valley-Class-A-Asking-Rates-Q2-2015_aerial-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Going shopping for Class A office space in Silicon Valley? There’s a wide range of geographic options, and prices. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Clark Steele and Laura Tu, Newmark Cornish & Carey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least one marquee firm that essentially sidestepped San Jose in the past is now reportedly \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/05/20/apple-contemplates-san-jose-expansion-hat-it-means.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">circling back\u003c/a> to sniff out big properties: Apple Inc. has been looking at two locations in San Jose for expansion, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal. The Journal, citing unnamed real estate sources, also reported that Tesla Motors Inc. had looked at one of the same sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple and Tesla both declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think San Jose has been able to attract a number of companies that couldn’t afford the rents in the higher priced areas,” says Joe Horwedel, a former planning director for San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003cspan class=\"Subhead2\">Kim Walesh, \u003c/span>Director of Economic Development for San Jose, some of the tech companies that have moved into the city in the last 18 months include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>ABB\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Barracuda Networks\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dice\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Datawise\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Naprotek\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Protein Simple\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Quanta Cloud Technologies\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Univision\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Spiraledge\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vander-Bend\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Verizon\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There’s no telling whether Apple or Tesla will be added to the list, but news that they’re considering San Jose is gratifying to Horwedel because it suggests his 31 years spent preparing the way for development in San Jose have been worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked through a lot of traffic mitigation,” Horwedel says. “We worked through streamlining the approval process to go and be able to approve projects very quickly. So we set the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10593412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10593412\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"From San Jose's perspective, too many tech buses head out of the city every work day. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15897_IMG_9728-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From San Jose’s perspective, too many tech buses head out of the city every work day. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paul Krutko, who was San Jose’s Chief Development Officer for eight years, agrees. “You have to do some of this work way in advance. Because if you aren’t prepared, if we didn’t do anything on the site [that Apple is examining], Apple [might say] ‘We’d like to locate there,’ and you don’t have the proper zoning, the entitlements, whatever, then they can’t develop it there. They’re going to go to another site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A big table has been set. According to the mayor’s office, 10.3 million square feet of office and R&D space is in the pipeline in North San Jose alone, the neighborhood Apple is considering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been growing at a record clip for really the last two or three years in terms of jobs,” says Mayor Sam Liccardo. “What we’re seeing in terms of demand for sites from employers has been incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone says from the time he moved to Sunnyvale in 1970, “Everything historically has rolled from north to south: high tech companies, occupancies, vacancies, rents, roll from Palo Alto south to San Jose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it is important that San Jose takes advantage of the current boom to lock in new tech companies. That’s because while he doesn’t think this tech boom is a bubble, he says he’s seen enough economic busts to doubt that any boom lasts forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In most fire stations across America, you’ll find a fire engine ready to fight fires. But in San Jose, budget cuts forced the Fire Department to mothball a handful of engines. So some stations have trucks that can respond to medical emergencies -- but they can't put out fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you live in those areas, you see a big red vehicle in the building, and you think, 'Oh, we've got a fire engine here; we're OK,' \" explains San Jose Fire Capt. Sean Kaldor, who is also vice president of IAFF, Local 230. \"The reality is they're not carrying the water it would take to put out a fire, or to stop that fire from spreading in your house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"2RvVMonWOFVa4cxqRSnTUYY2mIxMuSLN\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, two years ago, a house \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Serial-San-Jose-Arsonist-Sparks-Concerns-About-Fire-Department-Staffing-240190001.html\" target=\"_blank\">across the street from Station 30\u003c/a> burned. While the neighbors yelled at firefighters to do something, all they could do was call for help from other stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose's under-resourced fire stations provide just one example of the fiscal challenges facing California's third-largest city. San Jose is barely in the black after years of deep deficits and painful cutbacks. Yet all around San Jose, the Silicon Valley boom is pumping unprecedented wealth into the Bay Area. Why is San Jose -- the self-described “Heart of Silicon Valley” -- not riding the economic wave?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10585514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10585514\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='Captain Sean Kaldor: \"Nationwide, the best practice for response times is six minutes. In San Jose, we set a response time standard of eight minutes. Nationwide, the standard is to achieve that 90 percent of the time. In San Jose, we set a goal of 80 percent of the time. How are we actually doing? We’re only around 72 percent of the time. And in certain areas, around certain stations, far worse than that.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose Fire Captain Sean Kaldor: \"Nationwide, the best practice for response times is six minutes. In San Jose, we set a response time standard of eight minutes. Nationwide, the standard is to achieve that 90 percent of the time. In San Jose, we set a goal of 80 percent of the time. How are we actually doing? We’re only around 68 percent of the time. And in certain areas, around certain stations, far worse than that.\" \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"In Silicon Valley, in the public sector, we live in a very different world than in the private sector,\" says Mayor Sam Liccardo. \"Many of the employers that drive Silicon Valley innovation and many of the large employers are located just outside our border, and so we don’t get necessarily all the tax revenue from all those companies’ growth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, being “wealth-adjacent” doesn’t do anything for city coffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/213818606\" 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>With 1 million residents, San Jose is the 10th-largest city in the United State, according to the U.S. Census. But each workday, it drops to the equivalent of the 13th-largest city. That's because residents leave San Jose for jobs elsewhere in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has negative consequences for the city budget. Take sales taxes, for instance. San Jose pulls in some of the lowest revenues per capita in Santa Clara County. Every business lunch bought in Los Gatos, every pair of hiking boots in Campbell, helps to cement a regional imbalance. The smaller cities are pulling in more sales tax income relative to their population base. That applies to hotel, business, utility and parcel taxes, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/finance/local-taxes/voter-approval-032014.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">too\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10582009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 728px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10582009\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax.png\" alt=\"San Jose is bigger than other Silicon Valley cities. That translates into higher costs for San Jose, even though, as this chart shows, it's not pulling in the same kind of per capita sales tax revenues as other cities in the region are.\" width=\"728\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax.png 728w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax-400x272.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose is bigger than other Silicon Valley cities. That translates into higher costs for San Jose, even though, as this chart shows, it's not pulling in the same kind of per capita sales tax revenues as other cities in the region are. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Jose Auditor's Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The more taxes a city has coming in, the more money it has to pay for services like police and fire protection. Ideally, a city cultivates a healthy mix of residential, corporate and retail taxes to pay the bills. Here again is where San Jose is out of balance: It's housing-heavy. More housing means more people who draw on city services. And in a post-Proposition 13 era when many property tax bills are more or less frozen in time, that’s a big problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did San Jose get into this budgetary pickle?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most locals start by blaming A.P. “Dutch” Hamann, city manager back in the '50s and '60s. He was the guy who started paving over farmland to create a sprawling suburb in the image of Los Angeles. (Before the city tied itself to the Silicon Valley moniker, the area was \"The Valley of Heart’s Delight.\") This video shows how dramatically the city grew after World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5sDrsHEtPI]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seemed like a good idea at the time. The \"Greatest Generation\" was raising a bumper crop of baby boomers. Defense firms were hiring locally. And Hamann could count on an ever-growing pot of property taxes because Prop 13 hadn’t passed yet. By the time he left in 1969,\u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/publications/article/2013-04-04/shaping-downtown-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\"> San Jose had grown\u003c/a> from 17 to 136 square miles, from 95,000 to roughly half a million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was city manager when it was the Divine Right of Kings-era of city managers,\" says Tom McEnery, mayor through much of the 1980s and the son of \"Big John\" McEnery, who was good friends with Hamann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamann wasn’t the last housing-happy bureaucrat. Long after San Jose planners should have known better, they kept paving over not just farmland but factories, warehouses and office complexes in favor of housing, McEnery says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Thousands of acres that should have been the tax base for cops, youth workers, firefighters, et cetera, was pretty much gobbled up in a mistaken attempt to satisfy a lot of developers that didn’t deserve to be satisfied in that way,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10584434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10584434 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"From an overpass above 280 at 8:45 a.m. on a weekday, you can see that San Jose is a net exporter of employees.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From an overpass above I-280 at 8:45 a.m. on a weekday, you can see that San Jose is a net exporter of employees. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose is now the biggest bedroom community in Silicon Valley, but it didn’t find the right balance to create the tax base it needs today. \u003cem>This\u003c/em> tech boom offers San Jose another chance to get that mix right. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In most fire stations across America, you’ll find a fire engine ready to fight fires. But in San Jose, budget cuts forced the Fire Department to mothball a handful of engines. So some stations have trucks that can respond to medical emergencies -- but they can't put out fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you live in those areas, you see a big red vehicle in the building, and you think, 'Oh, we've got a fire engine here; we're OK,' \" explains San Jose Fire Capt. Sean Kaldor, who is also vice president of IAFF, Local 230. \"The reality is they're not carrying the water it would take to put out a fire, or to stop that fire from spreading in your house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, two years ago, a house \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Serial-San-Jose-Arsonist-Sparks-Concerns-About-Fire-Department-Staffing-240190001.html\" target=\"_blank\">across the street from Station 30\u003c/a> burned. While the neighbors yelled at firefighters to do something, all they could do was call for help from other stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose's under-resourced fire stations provide just one example of the fiscal challenges facing California's third-largest city. San Jose is barely in the black after years of deep deficits and painful cutbacks. Yet all around San Jose, the Silicon Valley boom is pumping unprecedented wealth into the Bay Area. Why is San Jose -- the self-described “Heart of Silicon Valley” -- not riding the economic wave?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10585514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10585514\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='Captain Sean Kaldor: \"Nationwide, the best practice for response times is six minutes. In San Jose, we set a response time standard of eight minutes. Nationwide, the standard is to achieve that 90 percent of the time. In San Jose, we set a goal of 80 percent of the time. How are we actually doing? We’re only around 72 percent of the time. And in certain areas, around certain stations, far worse than that.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15947_Sean-Kaldor.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose Fire Captain Sean Kaldor: \"Nationwide, the best practice for response times is six minutes. In San Jose, we set a response time standard of eight minutes. Nationwide, the standard is to achieve that 90 percent of the time. In San Jose, we set a goal of 80 percent of the time. How are we actually doing? We’re only around 68 percent of the time. And in certain areas, around certain stations, far worse than that.\" \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"In Silicon Valley, in the public sector, we live in a very different world than in the private sector,\" says Mayor Sam Liccardo. \"Many of the employers that drive Silicon Valley innovation and many of the large employers are located just outside our border, and so we don’t get necessarily all the tax revenue from all those companies’ growth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, being “wealth-adjacent” doesn’t do anything for city coffers.\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/213818606&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/213818606'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 1 million residents, San Jose is the 10th-largest city in the United State, according to the U.S. Census. But each workday, it drops to the equivalent of the 13th-largest city. That's because residents leave San Jose for jobs elsewhere in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has negative consequences for the city budget. Take sales taxes, for instance. San Jose pulls in some of the lowest revenues per capita in Santa Clara County. Every business lunch bought in Los Gatos, every pair of hiking boots in Campbell, helps to cement a regional imbalance. The smaller cities are pulling in more sales tax income relative to their population base. That applies to hotel, business, utility and parcel taxes, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/finance/local-taxes/voter-approval-032014.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">too\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10582009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 728px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10582009\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax.png\" alt=\"San Jose is bigger than other Silicon Valley cities. That translates into higher costs for San Jose, even though, as this chart shows, it's not pulling in the same kind of per capita sales tax revenues as other cities in the region are.\" width=\"728\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax.png 728w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/salestax-400x272.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose is bigger than other Silicon Valley cities. That translates into higher costs for San Jose, even though, as this chart shows, it's not pulling in the same kind of per capita sales tax revenues as other cities in the region are. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Jose Auditor's Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The more taxes a city has coming in, the more money it has to pay for services like police and fire protection. Ideally, a city cultivates a healthy mix of residential, corporate and retail taxes to pay the bills. Here again is where San Jose is out of balance: It's housing-heavy. More housing means more people who draw on city services. And in a post-Proposition 13 era when many property tax bills are more or less frozen in time, that’s a big problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did San Jose get into this budgetary pickle?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most locals start by blaming A.P. “Dutch” Hamann, city manager back in the '50s and '60s. He was the guy who started paving over farmland to create a sprawling suburb in the image of Los Angeles. (Before the city tied itself to the Silicon Valley moniker, the area was \"The Valley of Heart’s Delight.\") This video shows how dramatically the city grew after World War II.\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/y5sDrsHEtPI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/y5sDrsHEtPI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seemed like a good idea at the time. The \"Greatest Generation\" was raising a bumper crop of baby boomers. Defense firms were hiring locally. And Hamann could count on an ever-growing pot of property taxes because Prop 13 hadn’t passed yet. By the time he left in 1969,\u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/publications/article/2013-04-04/shaping-downtown-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\"> San Jose had grown\u003c/a> from 17 to 136 square miles, from 95,000 to roughly half a million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was city manager when it was the Divine Right of Kings-era of city managers,\" says Tom McEnery, mayor through much of the 1980s and the son of \"Big John\" McEnery, who was good friends with Hamann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamann wasn’t the last housing-happy bureaucrat. Long after San Jose planners should have known better, they kept paving over not just farmland but factories, warehouses and office complexes in favor of housing, McEnery says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Thousands of acres that should have been the tax base for cops, youth workers, firefighters, et cetera, was pretty much gobbled up in a mistaken attempt to satisfy a lot of developers that didn’t deserve to be satisfied in that way,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10584434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10584434 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"From an overpass above 280 at 8:45 a.m. on a weekday, you can see that San Jose is a net exporter of employees.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15941_280-Traffic-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From an overpass above I-280 at 8:45 a.m. on a weekday, you can see that San Jose is a net exporter of employees. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose is now the biggest bedroom community in Silicon Valley, but it didn’t find the right balance to create the tax base it needs today. \u003cem>This\u003c/em> tech boom offers San Jose another chance to get that mix right. 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"content": "\u003cp>You think your water cutbacks are tough? Try farming without irrigation, relying only on rainwater. Actually, lots of crops are dry-farmed across the state. Wheat and grapes are common, and there are tomatoes on the Central Coast, squash in Humboldt and potatoes in Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jutta Thoerner dry-farms walnuts outside Paso Robles in San Luis Obispo County, and she’s an outspoken advocate of the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thoerner and her partner, Cynthia Douglas, own \u003ca href=\"http://mmorganics.com/\">Manzanita Manor Organics\u003c/a>. They have solar panels running their coolers and sheep grazing their vineyards. At their walnut orchard, Thoerner gets a tractor out only twice a year. Mostly, she uses horses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/212163239″ 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>Today, Thoerner sits in a wagon, gently but firmly directing two horses named Sonny and Lily. They’re pulling a large log behind the wagon to smooth out the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10576984\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10576984\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Jutta Thoerner and her horses, Lily and Sonny, drag a log to flatten dirt, which helps to retain moisture in the soil underneath.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin-1440x811.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin-960x541.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jutta Thoerner and her horses, Lily and Sonny, drag a log to flatten dirt, which helps to retain moisture in the soil underneath. \u003ccite>(Cynthia Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We want to get this as smooth and as flat as we possibly can,” says Thoerner. “No big clumps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This process will help keep moisture underground, and make harvesting easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ideally, we want it like glass,” she says. “It’s a little difficult on these hills, but we try.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she unhooks the horses, she explains that it’s all part of her process of dry farming, using no irrigation ever, on her trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What that means is whatever rain comes down from the sky is the water that they’re getting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘When you let them do their own thing … it really accentuates the unique flavor of each variety.’\u003ccite>Mike Cirone, on dry-farming apples\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>People have farmed this way for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Forty or 50 years ago we were all dry-farming here in the California hills,” says Thoerner. “Everybody dry-farmed almonds and walnuts and grapes and some fruit trees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was before irrigation came in and people planted crops more densely on all types of soil. Thoerner says dry farming’s a good fit for coastal or foggy areas, less so for huge operations in sandy soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But,” she says, “If farmers have the right soil and the right conditions, it can be done on other properties. And who knows? Maybe this drought will make that happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10577120\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10577120\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-800x814.jpg\" alt=\"Thoerner spaces her trees far apart so they don't compete for water, and grafts two different kinds of walnut together. The heartier, water-seeking root stock is different from the producer tree on top, which is chosen for other qualities like taste.\" width=\"800\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-800x814.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-400x407.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-1440x1466.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-1180x1201.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-960x977.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-75x75.jpg 75w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thoerner spaces her trees far apart so they don’t compete for water, and grafts two different kinds of walnut together. The heartier, water-seeking root stock is different from the producer tree on top, which is chosen for other qualities like taste. \u003ccite>(Cynthia Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dry farming’s not about crossing your fingers and hoping for rain. Thoerner keeps her trees spaced far apart so they don’t compete for water. She monitors the weather carefully, trying to estimate the ideal time to cultivates the soil. Then she creates a dust mulch, a kind of seal, like she was doing with her horses and that log.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While workers trim trees by hand, Thoerner explains that she has to graft two kinds of walnuts together to get the best results. The variety on the top — which grows a great-tasting walnut — is grafted onto a different, heartier stock, whose roots are great at finding water underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are fantastic as a dry-farm root stock. They go to China, those roots,” she jokes. “They go so, so deep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These last few dry years, Thoerner and workers protect grafted branches by wrapping them in cages of chicken wire covered in shade cloth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looked ridiculous but it worked,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the drought definitely makes dry farming harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, with the way the weather has been, my production of walnuts has been going down steadily every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thoerner and I stand underneath a tree where she looks for examples of doubles, sets of two walnuts in clusters, which can mean a better yield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every farmer likes to see doubles. But we really like to see triplets.” When I spot one, she says, excitedly, “Lisa found a triplet! That’s cool. I have not seen triplets in a few years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery size=\"large\" type=\"square\" ids=\"10577264,10577196,10577127\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that find, I can see the orchard is suffering. Some trees have dead branches, and the walnuts, which are always smaller than ones from irrigated orchards, are really tiny this year. Many are just a little bigger than my thumb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These small nuts taste sweet and buttery. But lately, Thoerner says, tree breeders have focused most on developing varieties that produce big walnuts that crack easily, and fall out in perfect halves. That’s a silly standard, she says, when people are just going to chop them up into salads and cookies anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever happened to taste, people?” she asks, incredulously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 40 miles west, farmer Mike Cirone says his farmers market customers are becoming connoisseurs of his small, sweet, dry-farmed fruit, clamoring over his dry-farmed apricots. Same goes for the 60 varieties of apples he farms without irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you pump ’em all up, they tend to all taste the same,” he says. “When you let them do their own thing, then it really accentuates the unique flavor of each variety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10577178\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10577178 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-800x798.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Cirone has been successfully dry-farming for over 30 years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-800x798.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-400x399.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-1180x1177.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-960x958.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-75x75.jpg 75w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Cirone has been successfully dry-farming for over 30 years. \u003ccite>(Cynthia Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cirone’s been successfully dry-farming for over 30 years. Digging his boot heel into dry topsoil and revealing moisture underneath, Cirone explains that he made it through a drought in the ‘80s pretty well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The difference was, the ’80s drought, it was cool,” he says. “This drought is warm. This drought feels like we’re living in Palm Springs in the middle of winter. To me, that is the most unsettling notion. That signifies real climate change to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jutta Thoerner is concerned, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the drought continues and the global warming continues, I don’t want people to stop farming,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She concedes that the profits aren’t as big in dry farming, but she hopes some small growers will consider converting their irrigated orchards, or planting new ones for dry farming, rather than giving up. She’s most hopeful that young farmers will hear this message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of them are just a few years out of school. All they know is the drought,” she says. “The new generation that is not afraid to try new things, I want to tell them: ‘Just dry farm. You absolutely can make a living if you work your behind off.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her advice? Just find a piece of land with good soil and do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece is part of the series \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiafoodways.com/\">California Foodways\u003c/a>. Stories in the series that address food and climate change are funded by a grant from \u003ca href=\"http://invokingthepause.org/\">Invoking the Pause\u003c/a>. Lisa Morehouse produced this story while at a residency at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mesarefuge.org/\">Mesa Refuge\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This process will help keep moisture underground, and make harvesting easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ideally, we want it like glass,” she says. “It’s a little difficult on these hills, but we try.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she unhooks the horses, she explains that it’s all part of her process of dry farming, using no irrigation ever, on her trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What that means is whatever rain comes down from the sky is the water that they’re getting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘When you let them do their own thing … it really accentuates the unique flavor of each variety.’\u003ccite>Mike Cirone, on dry-farming apples\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>People have farmed this way for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Forty or 50 years ago we were all dry-farming here in the California hills,” says Thoerner. “Everybody dry-farmed almonds and walnuts and grapes and some fruit trees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was before irrigation came in and people planted crops more densely on all types of soil. Thoerner says dry farming’s a good fit for coastal or foggy areas, less so for huge operations in sandy soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But,” she says, “If farmers have the right soil and the right conditions, it can be done on other properties. And who knows? Maybe this drought will make that happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10577120\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10577120\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-800x814.jpg\" alt=\"Thoerner spaces her trees far apart so they don't compete for water, and grafts two different kinds of walnut together. The heartier, water-seeking root stock is different from the producer tree on top, which is chosen for other qualities like taste.\" width=\"800\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-800x814.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-400x407.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-1440x1466.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-1180x1201.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-960x977.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-75x75.jpg 75w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thoerner spaces her trees far apart so they don’t compete for water, and grafts two different kinds of walnut together. The heartier, water-seeking root stock is different from the producer tree on top, which is chosen for other qualities like taste. \u003ccite>(Cynthia Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dry farming’s not about crossing your fingers and hoping for rain. Thoerner keeps her trees spaced far apart so they don’t compete for water. She monitors the weather carefully, trying to estimate the ideal time to cultivates the soil. Then she creates a dust mulch, a kind of seal, like she was doing with her horses and that log.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While workers trim trees by hand, Thoerner explains that she has to graft two kinds of walnuts together to get the best results. The variety on the top — which grows a great-tasting walnut — is grafted onto a different, heartier stock, whose roots are great at finding water underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are fantastic as a dry-farm root stock. They go to China, those roots,” she jokes. “They go so, so deep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These last few dry years, Thoerner and workers protect grafted branches by wrapping them in cages of chicken wire covered in shade cloth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looked ridiculous but it worked,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the drought definitely makes dry farming harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, with the way the weather has been, my production of walnuts has been going down steadily every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thoerner and I stand underneath a tree where she looks for examples of doubles, sets of two walnuts in clusters, which can mean a better yield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every farmer likes to see doubles. But we really like to see triplets.” When I spot one, she says, excitedly, “Lisa found a triplet! That’s cool. I have not seen triplets in a few years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that find, I can see the orchard is suffering. Some trees have dead branches, and the walnuts, which are always smaller than ones from irrigated orchards, are really tiny this year. Many are just a little bigger than my thumb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These small nuts taste sweet and buttery. But lately, Thoerner says, tree breeders have focused most on developing varieties that produce big walnuts that crack easily, and fall out in perfect halves. That’s a silly standard, she says, when people are just going to chop them up into salads and cookies anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever happened to taste, people?” she asks, incredulously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 40 miles west, farmer Mike Cirone says his farmers market customers are becoming connoisseurs of his small, sweet, dry-farmed fruit, clamoring over his dry-farmed apricots. Same goes for the 60 varieties of apples he farms without irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you pump ’em all up, they tend to all taste the same,” he says. “When you let them do their own thing, then it really accentuates the unique flavor of each variety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10577178\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10577178 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-800x798.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Cirone has been successfully dry-farming for over 30 years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-800x798.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-400x399.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-1180x1177.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-960x958.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-75x75.jpg 75w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Cirone has been successfully dry-farming for over 30 years. \u003ccite>(Cynthia Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cirone’s been successfully dry-farming for over 30 years. Digging his boot heel into dry topsoil and revealing moisture underneath, Cirone explains that he made it through a drought in the ‘80s pretty well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The difference was, the ’80s drought, it was cool,” he says. “This drought is warm. This drought feels like we’re living in Palm Springs in the middle of winter. To me, that is the most unsettling notion. That signifies real climate change to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jutta Thoerner is concerned, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the drought continues and the global warming continues, I don’t want people to stop farming,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She concedes that the profits aren’t as big in dry farming, but she hopes some small growers will consider converting their irrigated orchards, or planting new ones for dry farming, rather than giving up. She’s most hopeful that young farmers will hear this message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of them are just a few years out of school. All they know is the drought,” she says. “The new generation that is not afraid to try new things, I want to tell them: ‘Just dry farm. You absolutely can make a living if you work your behind off.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her advice? Just find a piece of land with good soil and do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Calling the negotiations \"difficult but productive,\" Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic legislative leaders have unveiled a $167.6 billion state budget, a plan that includes some adjustments demanded by legislators but is awfully close to a slam dunk for the governor's own fiscal priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=19005\" target=\"_blank\">deal announced Monday afternoon at the state Capitol\u003c/a> paves the way for an enacted budget in plenty of time for the July 1 beginning of the state’s new fiscal year, a rarity for most of the past two decades, but now a common occurrence since voters made legislative passage of a budget simpler by approving \u003ca href=\"http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/past/2010/general/propositions/25/\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 25 in 2010\u003c/a>. Legislative staffers said they expect final votes sometime on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/210775919\" 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>Those votes will be on a budget that largely hews to the governor's demands, demonstrably different than the spending plan lawmakers endorsed only a day earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preschool In, Developmental Services Funding Out\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the brokered deal, the state will expand access to preschool and child care services by 13,800 slots. That’s more than Brown had endorsed in his \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2015-16/Revised/BudgetSummary/BSS/BSS.html\" target=\"_blank\">revised budget in May\u003c/a> (and financed from a number of pots of money, including some out of the K-14 education funding guarantee); but it’s smaller than the 27,000 slots legislative Democrats had demanded in their own spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it offers $40 million for a high-profile effort to allow all children, regardless of their immigration status, health care coverage under the Medi-Cal plan. Legislative Democrats had wanted the coverage to kick in early in 2016; the compromise allows undocumented children into the system on May 1 of next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal also expands funding for the California State University and University of California systems beyond the governor's May budget -- $59 million more for CSU, $25 million more for UC -- but that money comes with strings attached, especially for UC officials who would have to add 5,000 in-state students by the summer of 2017 to get the cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other highlights of the deal between the governor and legislative leaders include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>$226 million to restore a cut made several years ago to In-Home Supportive Services funding, but only for the 2016-17 budget year\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A $500 million block grant to focus on teacher effectiveness, paid for out of the state's K-14 education funding guarantee\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A new state earned income tax credit to help the working poor, at a cost of $380 million\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>But there was much more, it seemed, that the governor was unwilling to give legislative Democrats and to advocacy groups who wanted expanded social services. Perhaps most notable was a boost in funding for the developmental disability programs and a boost in monthly cash stipends for the aged, blind and disabled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also missing: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/04/lawmakers-push-for-welfare-money\" target=\"_blank\">additional money for families in the welfare assistance program, CalWORKs\u003c/a> -- including a legislative proposal to end the maximum family grant cap for families that have more children while receiving assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have more work to do,\" said Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) in her remarks at the news conference with the governor and Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles). \"We didn't get everything we wanted accomplished in this budget, and so we'll redouble our efforts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Special Legislative Sessions On Roads, Health Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those efforts will now turn to special legislative sessions being called by the governor to address state infrastructure needs and to craft long-term funding for health care services. Moving those items to a special session -- and out of the budget -- not only buys more time for negotiations, but also could put some political pressure on legislative Republicans. A number of GOP legislators expressed support for both policy needs during the budget debates this year, but would now be asked to approve new revenues to fund them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Governor Wins Tax Estimate Fight ... Again\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brown, the deal marks another milestone in his quest for state budget stability -- stability brought on by a fascinating combination of an improving economy, new budget crafting rules approved by voters over the past few years, and the governor’s unique ability to control the master political narrative in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was, after all, Brown who vetoed the budget in his first go round on returning to the governor’s office in 2011. 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Legislative Democrats had wanted the coverage to kick in early in 2016; the compromise allows undocumented children into the system on May 1 of next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal also expands funding for the California State University and University of California systems beyond the governor's May budget -- $59 million more for CSU, $25 million more for UC -- but that money comes with strings attached, especially for UC officials who would have to add 5,000 in-state students by the summer of 2017 to get the cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other highlights of the deal between the governor and legislative leaders include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>$226 million to restore a cut made several years ago to In-Home Supportive Services funding, but only for the 2016-17 budget year\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A $500 million block grant to focus on teacher effectiveness, paid for out of the state's K-14 education funding guarantee\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A new state earned income tax credit to help the working poor, at a cost of $380 million\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>But there was much more, it seemed, that the governor was unwilling to give legislative Democrats and to advocacy groups who wanted expanded social services. Perhaps most notable was a boost in funding for the developmental disability programs and a boost in monthly cash stipends for the aged, blind and disabled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also missing: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/04/lawmakers-push-for-welfare-money\" target=\"_blank\">additional money for families in the welfare assistance program, CalWORKs\u003c/a> -- including a legislative proposal to end the maximum family grant cap for families that have more children while receiving assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have more work to do,\" said Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) in her remarks at the news conference with the governor and Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles). \"We didn't get everything we wanted accomplished in this budget, and so we'll redouble our efforts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Special Legislative Sessions On Roads, Health Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those efforts will now turn to special legislative sessions being called by the governor to address state infrastructure needs and to craft long-term funding for health care services. Moving those items to a special session -- and out of the budget -- not only buys more time for negotiations, but also could put some political pressure on legislative Republicans. A number of GOP legislators expressed support for both policy needs during the budget debates this year, but would now be asked to approve new revenues to fund them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Governor Wins Tax Estimate Fight ... Again\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brown, the deal marks another milestone in his quest for state budget stability -- stability brought on by a fascinating combination of an improving economy, new budget crafting rules approved by voters over the past few years, and the governor’s unique ability to control the master political narrative in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was, after all, Brown who vetoed the budget in his first go round on returning to the governor’s office in 2011. Since then, he has won pretty much every budget fight, none more important than the debate over tax revenue projections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new budget agreement again relies on the estimates crafted by the governor’s fiscal advisers, an estimate that’s approximately $2.2 billion smaller in size than the one favored by the Legislature. As such, the negotiated deal is less ambitious than the spending plan approved less than 24 hours earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we start fiddling\" with the system of predicting revenues, said Brown in the budget deal news conference, \"we get subjective, political, and I'm not prepared to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/27/california-state-budget-fight-now-about-predictions-more-than-programs\" target=\"_blank\">continued success in shrinking revenue expectations\u003c/a> has meant fewer resources for social services and other non-mandated expenses. 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"content": "\u003cp>UPDATE 9/15/15: The Pacific Legal Foundation, representing the California Building Industry Association, has \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacificlegal.org/releases/release-9-15-15-CBIA-San-Jose-4-1508\" target=\"_blank\">appealed\u003c/a> \u003cem>California Building Industry Association v. City of San Jose\u003c/em> to the US Supreme Court. Legal analysts are split on whether the highest court in the land is likely to take the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, the California Supreme Court\u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S212072.PDF\" target=\"_blank\"> sided\u003c/a> with the city of San Jose in a case that could affect affordable housing rules all over the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cacities.org/\" target=\"_blank\">League of California Cities\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.counties.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California State Association of Counties\u003c/a> estimate more than 170 municipalities have some kind of ordinance on the books to tackle the fact that real estate, especially in coastal markets, has become increasingly unaffordable for many renters and would-be homeowners. Both groups backed San Jose in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five years ago, San Jose tried to require that all new residential developments of 20 units or more set aside 15 percent of those units for sale below the market rate. Developers could opt out of building affordable units by paying a fee. That’s pretty common, a tactic that goes by the name \"inclusionary zoning,\" but the city side-stepped the usual study showing a relationship between the development of for-sale housing and the city’s need for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Jose Knew It Was Breaking New Ground\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were the largest city that was applying inclusionary housing citywide,\" explains San Jose’s interim Housing Director Jacky Morales-Ferrand. \"In addition to that, we used our legislative powers to impose inclusionary on developers. What we said was that because affordable housing is such a priority of the highest order, cities should have the power to legislate this requirement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbia.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Building Industry Association\u003c/a> sued, calling the new ordinance an unconstitutional taking of property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University of San Francisco law professor Tim Iglesias organized and co-wrote an amicus brief for the city of San Jose. \"Most inclusionary ordinances give developers a number of different ways to comply with the requirement. So what the opponents have done is to seize on those alternative options and say, 'Hey look: This is an exaction,' which is kind of a term of art in law that makes the city have to justify that requirement in a different, stricter way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/210511868\" 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>A Santa Clara County judge invalidated San Jose's ordinance in 2012, referencing a case called \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/san-remo-hotel-v-city-and-county-san-francisco-32243\" target=\"_blank\">San Remo Hotel L.P. v. 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In addition, the court said enforcing those limits to address the city's affordable housing problem was \"constitutionally legitimate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo wrote: \"I only regret that it required a Supreme Court ruling to uphold the ordinance, because we could have had the benefit of several years of implementation of this important tool.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iglesias and Jacky Morales-Ferrand say the next step for cities and affordable housing advocates is to head to the state Legislature to allow for more expansive inclusionary zoning measures to be applied to rental housing as well as new units for sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So does the California Building Industry Association intend to appeal? Anthony Francois is a senior staff attorney at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacificlegal.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Legal Foundation\u003c/a>, which is representing the plaintiff. \"All options are under consideration,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think it's a very disappointing decision from the standpoint of property rights,\" Francois adds. \"The ruling allows local governments to impose financial penalties on anyone who provides new housing, and unfortunately, we believe that can only deter efforts by builders to ease the state's housing shortage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The case is CALIFORNIA BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION v. CITY OF SAN JOSE et al. (AFFORDABLE HOUSING NETWORK OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY et al.) \u003ca href=\"http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/mainCaseScreen.cfm?dist=0&doc_id=2051066&doc_no=S212072\" target=\"_blank\">S212072 \u003c/a>(H038563; Santa Clara County Superior Court – CV167289)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>There’s just something about cherries. They’re small, sweet and crunchy, with an early harvest that tells us summer’s coming. Right now, though, this beloved fruit is a bit of a canary in a coal mine. The last couple of cherry harvests could be a warning about climate change and its impact on future tree crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out more, I went to the south end of the Santa Clara Valley to meet Nicole Rajkovich. She started working with her family at Fairhaven Orchards when she was a little kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was my fun summer vacation,” she says. “I didn’t go to the beach. I didn’t go on family vacation. We were working in the fruit stand every summer, and it was just so much fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/210100639\" 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> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10559890\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_7324.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10559890 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_7324-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Rajkovich standing in her family’s Bing cherry orchard in Hollister, Calif. (Cynthia E. 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Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So when the weather got weird this winter, she was nervous. Up near Yreka, people got flooded out. At Huntington Beach, it hailed. In San Francisco, where I was walking around in a sundress, meteorologists announced it was the driest January ever. Rajkovich distinctly remembers the 90-degree heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s great for sunbathing, but it’s not optimal weather for our crops,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I meet up with her at one plot a couple of hours south of San Francisco, in the shadow of big box stores in Gilroy. The four men on the crew use ladders to reach all the deep-red Royal Hazel cherries, dropping them into buckets slung around their necks then loading them into bins on a truck. Rajkovitch says this is one of only a handful of orchards they can harvest this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like the past couple years the warmer winters made us have huge failures in our crops,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s not talking about the drought, though that certainly doesn’t help. They’re not getting any water from their former source, the Central Valley Water Project, but their wells are holding up okay. What really hurts the cherry trees is that winter temperatures here weren’t cold enough for long enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10559941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_71431.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10559941 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_71431-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Though the drought has taken its toll, warm winters are to blame for a shrinking cherry crop. (Cynthia E. Wood/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_71431-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_71431-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_71431-1440x958.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_71431-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_71431-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_71431.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Though the drought has taken its toll, warm winters are to blame for the smaller cherry crop. (Cynthia E. Wood/KQED) \u003ccite>(Cynthia E. Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t get enough chill hours they don’t produce the fruit,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Put simply: Chill hours are crucial blocks of time when temperatures drop below 45 degrees. To produce a robust crop, fruit and nut trees need a certain amount of chilling for a healthy dormancy period. Cherries are really sensitive, needing more chill hours than most tree crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: the cherries in the Rajkovich home orchard in nearby Hollister. Here, the classic Bing cherry trees look confused about what season it is, what they’re supposed to be doing. I meet up with Bill Coates, a longtime farm adviser here in San Benito County, to learn more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have some ripe cherries, you have some blossoms, some branches that are almost devoid of leaves, and you have some buds that are still dormant,” he explains. “And this is all a result of lack of chilling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery size=\"large\" type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"10559948,10559947\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bing cherries need about 1,000 hours, but San Benito County got just over \u003ca href=\"http://fruitsandnuts.ucdavis.edu/Weather_Services/chilling_accumulation_models/Chill_Calculators/index.cfm\">500\u003c/a>. Chill hours are down all over the state. In California, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/1679168/fts-357.pdf\">USDA reports\u003c/a> last year’s cherry production down 60 percent. And scientists at \u003ca href=\"http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0006166\">UC Davis predict\u003c/a> that if greenhouse gas emissions aren’t curbed, chill hours will continue to shrink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People may disagree on the cause of the change,” Coates says, “but there definitely has been a change in the climate, and it’s going to impact tree crops greatly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"JQ0dflQvnFxaDQnRImRZgo4RTAgWu8cK\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He would love to see more effort put into breeding varieties that can withstand less chilling. Cherries won’t make or break California’s agricultural economy on their own, but the way they’re hit by fewer chill hours may serve as a warning for more lucrative commodities that are slightly less sensitive, tree crops like apples, pears and walnuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few feet away from the orchard, Nicole’s father, George Rajkovich, maneuvers a forklift, loading pallets of cherries onto a customer’s truck. This fruit all comes from those few orchards in production in Gilroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year, there’s nothing out there in our Hollister orchards ... nothing,” Rajkovich says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the few cherries that did grow, many were damaged by rain in May. He thinks they’ll get 5 percent of a normal harvest in Hollister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my lifetime, I’ve never seen one so bad,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10559957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_9931.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10559957\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_9931-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"Workers sort cherries at the Rajkovich’s farm stand and sorting facility in Hollister, Calif.\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_9931-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_9931-400x268.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_9931-1440x964.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_9931-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_9931-960x643.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_9931.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort cherries at the Rajkovich’s farm stand and sorting facility. \u003ccite>(Cyntha E. Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And Rajkovich has seen a lot of cherry harvests. His father planted in San Jose after he emigrated from a region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before it became Yugoslavia, before it became Croatia. He and his brother would go running through the orchards, chasing their father and uncle, waiting for their mother to bring them lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew nothing else,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his brother farmed all over this region, and they started planting cherries in Hollister in the late '50s, and started a fruit stand in the '70s. Rajkovich remembers decades ago when they’d have to put smudge pots in the orchards in the middle of the night and turn on fans to keep frost from killing a crop. He says he hasn’t had to do that in 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When his brother died eight years ago, Rajkovich had a talk with his kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10560453\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_0071.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10560453\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_0071-400x268.jpg\" alt=\"George and Lucille Rajkovich, along with their children, have started to plant other crops on their land.\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_0071-400x268.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_0071-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_0071-1440x964.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_0071-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_0071-960x643.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_0071.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George and Lucille Rajkovich, along with their children, have started to plant other crops on their land. \u003ccite>(Cynthia E. Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s up to you now,” he recalls, choking up. ‘We’ll sell it, or take it over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They did. The kids joined their parents and continue to look for ways to lessen climate change’s negative impact: planting sod between rows of trees to keep moisture in the ground, experimenting with different cherry varieties, and using technology to figure out exactly when to apply chemicals that can help trees produce despite reduced chilling. Why all the effort? Because unlike lettuce or strawberries, for instance, trees have to be planned sometimes decades ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a whole lifetime actually of work and expense in planting and nurturing these orchards,” Rajkovich says. “If we don’t get chilling and don’t get production we have to start changing crops.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re already doing that. On new land they’ve bought, and orchards they’ve had to pull, the Rajkovich’s planted walnut trees, not cherries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece is part of the series \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiafoodways.com/\">California Foodways\u003c/a>. Stories in the series about food and climate change are funded by a grant from \u003ca href=\"http://invokingthepause.org/\">Invoking the Pause\u003c/a>. Lisa Morehouse produced this story while at a residency at the Mesa Refuge.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s great for sunbathing, but it’s not optimal weather for our crops,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I meet up with her at one plot a couple of hours south of San Francisco, in the shadow of big box stores in Gilroy. The four men on the crew use ladders to reach all the deep-red Royal Hazel cherries, dropping them into buckets slung around their necks then loading them into bins on a truck. Rajkovitch says this is one of only a handful of orchards they can harvest this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like the past couple years the warmer winters made us have huge failures in our crops,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s not talking about the drought, though that certainly doesn’t help. They’re not getting any water from their former source, the Central Valley Water Project, but their wells are holding up okay. What really hurts the cherry trees is that winter temperatures here weren’t cold enough for long enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10559941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_71431.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10559941 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_71431-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Though the drought has taken its toll, warm winters are to blame for a shrinking cherry crop. (Cynthia E. Wood/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_71431-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_71431-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_71431-1440x958.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_71431-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_71431-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_71431.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Though the drought has taken its toll, warm winters are to blame for the smaller cherry crop. (Cynthia E. Wood/KQED) \u003ccite>(Cynthia E. Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t get enough chill hours they don’t produce the fruit,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Put simply: Chill hours are crucial blocks of time when temperatures drop below 45 degrees. To produce a robust crop, fruit and nut trees need a certain amount of chilling for a healthy dormancy period. Cherries are really sensitive, needing more chill hours than most tree crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: the cherries in the Rajkovich home orchard in nearby Hollister. Here, the classic Bing cherry trees look confused about what season it is, what they’re supposed to be doing. I meet up with Bill Coates, a longtime farm adviser here in San Benito County, to learn more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have some ripe cherries, you have some blossoms, some branches that are almost devoid of leaves, and you have some buds that are still dormant,” he explains. “And this is all a result of lack of chilling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And scientists at \u003ca href=\"http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0006166\">UC Davis predict\u003c/a> that if greenhouse gas emissions aren’t curbed, chill hours will continue to shrink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People may disagree on the cause of the change,” Coates says, “but there definitely has been a change in the climate, and it’s going to impact tree crops greatly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He would love to see more effort put into breeding varieties that can withstand less chilling. Cherries won’t make or break California’s agricultural economy on their own, but the way they’re hit by fewer chill hours may serve as a warning for more lucrative commodities that are slightly less sensitive, tree crops like apples, pears and walnuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few feet away from the orchard, Nicole’s father, George Rajkovich, maneuvers a forklift, loading pallets of cherries onto a customer’s truck. This fruit all comes from those few orchards in production in Gilroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year, there’s nothing out there in our Hollister orchards ... nothing,” Rajkovich says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the few cherries that did grow, many were damaged by rain in May. He thinks they’ll get 5 percent of a normal harvest in Hollister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my lifetime, I’ve never seen one so bad,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10559957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_9931.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10559957\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_9931-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"Workers sort cherries at the Rajkovich’s farm stand and sorting facility in Hollister, Calif.\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_9931-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_9931-400x268.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_9931-1440x964.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_9931-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_9931-960x643.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_9931.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort cherries at the Rajkovich’s farm stand and sorting facility. \u003ccite>(Cyntha E. Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And Rajkovich has seen a lot of cherry harvests. His father planted in San Jose after he emigrated from a region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before it became Yugoslavia, before it became Croatia. He and his brother would go running through the orchards, chasing their father and uncle, waiting for their mother to bring them lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew nothing else,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his brother farmed all over this region, and they started planting cherries in Hollister in the late '50s, and started a fruit stand in the '70s. Rajkovich remembers decades ago when they’d have to put smudge pots in the orchards in the middle of the night and turn on fans to keep frost from killing a crop. He says he hasn’t had to do that in 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When his brother died eight years ago, Rajkovich had a talk with his kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10560453\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_0071.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10560453\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_0071-400x268.jpg\" alt=\"George and Lucille Rajkovich, along with their children, have started to plant other crops on their land.\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_0071-400x268.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_0071-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_0071-1440x964.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_0071-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_0071-960x643.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/20150522-CynthiaWoodPhoto-DSC_0071.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George and Lucille Rajkovich, along with their children, have started to plant other crops on their land. \u003ccite>(Cynthia E. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco city officials plan to put a measure on the November ballot asking voters to back a preservation fund supporting longtime small businesses and nonprofits facing rising commercial rents and gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have a very important part in the character of these neighborhoods, and unless the city makes an investment in helping them, they're going to fail,\" says Supervisor David Campos, who is sponsoring the legislation along with supervisors John Avalos, Jane Kim and Eric Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the city's budget and legislative analyst \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=50557\" target=\"_blank\">issued a report\u003c/a> saying thousands of businesses would close, driven in part by commercial real estate prices. It predicted that if current trends continue, more than 5,000 businesses would close or change locations by 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos says the proposed measure, the first of its kind in the nation, was crafted in consultation with a broad array of stakeholders, including the small business community, preservation activists like \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfheritage.org/\" target=\"_blank\">SF Heritage\u003c/a>, nonprofits, the Chamber of Commerce and realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have worked with folks that are not necessarily on the same page and said, 'How can we as San Francisco prioritize these legacy businesses?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed Legacy Business Historic Preservation Fund would make businesses that are 30 years or older eligible for annual grants of up to $50,000, or $500 per employee, and an annual $4.50-per- square foot grant would be available to property owners up to $22,500. No more than 300 businesses could qualify each year. Campos says businesses will have to show to the \u003ca href=\"http://sfgsa.org/index.aspx?page=4204\">Small Business Commission\u003c/a> that they've contributed to the community and that they've benefited or provided character to the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it's especially important to give property owners incentives to provide 10-year leases, instead of short-term leases that are sometimes month to month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That instability is very dangerous and actually has lead to businesses closing because the rents can go up so quickly,\" he says, pointing out that the state does not allow rent control on commercial properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos' office says there are 7,000 businesses in the city that are 30 years or older, and around 3,000 may be eligible for the program. The money for the fund, estimated annually at $3 million, would come out of the city's general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure is expected to be put on the ballot by the Board of Supervisors, and early polling indicates voters would support it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years the city has seen a number of famous and beloved restaurants and bars close, including \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/25/goodbye-lexington-owner-to-shut-doors-to-beloved-lesbian-bar\" target=\"_blank\">The Lexington Club\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2014/03/17/joes-cable-car-says-goodbye/\" target=\"_blank\">Joe's Cable Car\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/chinatown-landmark-empress-of-china-set-to-shutter/Content?oid=2915368\" target=\"_blank\">Empress of China\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/02/27/esta-noche-to-close-nothing-is-sacred-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">Esta Noche\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not going to answer every problem, and it's not going to address every situation,\" says Campos. \"But it's some assistance and I think it will have an impact and make a difference.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Tuesday 6:20 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A majority of San Francisco supervisors voted to postpone action on two competing measures aimed at strengthening short-term rental regulation in the city -- but an unhappy minority forced some debate before the continuance passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A vote for a continuance is a vote for Airbnb,\" Supervisor John Avalos said about an hour into the debate, as it became increasingly clear that most supervisors supported moving the issue to the Board's July 15 meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avalos co-sponsored David Campos' proposal that contained stronger enforcement mechanisms and a shorter, 60-day cap on how many days a unit can legally be rented on the \"sharing economy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But supervisors either behind Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Mark Farrell's competing ordinance, or ones who thought there might be common ground between the two measures, outnumbered Campos' supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would welcome these additional conversations on this complicated topic,\" Farrell said. \"From my perspective, we passed a framework last year, now let’s take the time to get it right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell's ordinance would impose a 120-day cap and doesn't require the company to report data to the city, a provision officials with the city's planning department have called a \"lynchpin\" in their ability to enforce any limit on Airbnb rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Campos’ legislation goes too far and is not the appropriate response,\" Supervisor Scott Wiener said, adding that many people in his district are clinging to their homes through money they're making on short-term rentals. \"Sixty days is not going to meet these needs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos criticized a law that took effect Feb. 1, and Airbnb's role in crafting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reason that we are in this mess is because we have as a city decided to roll over for a $20 billion corporation and let that corporation write the laws that should be written by the elected legislators,\" Campos said. \"The last thing that we need in this building is to give the lobbyists of Airbnb more time to do what they have been doing in this building for the last couple of years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell's motion for a continuance passed 7-4, with supervisors Katy Tang, Norman Yee, London Breed, Julie Christensen, Malia Cohen, Wiener and Farrell in favor. Eric Mar, Jane Kim, Avalos and Kim opposed the delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a year after a messy, drawn-out debate over how to regulate short-term rentals like those found on Airbnb, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors will take up the issue again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board will vote Tuesday on two plans to change the current ordinance governing how city residents can rent out their homes on a short-term basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most supervisors are in agreement that the law (which took effect in February) \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/23/San-Francisco-Tighten-Airbnb-Law\" target=\"_blank\">is not working\u003c/a>, particularly in cracking down on hosts who rent out their entire homes for more than the currently allowed 90 days a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dueling plans, one from Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Mark Farrell, the other from Supervisor David Campos, would both set a hard cap on the length of all rentals, which are currently unlimited if the host stays in the home while renting out a room.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The fact that short-term rentals are taking housing off the market in the middle of this brutal housing crisis is simply unacceptable.'\u003ccite class=\"alignright\">Supervisor David Campos\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The plan from Lee and Farrell would give the city more resources to register residents and enforce the law by creating a new office staffed through other city agencies to handle short-term rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The city has to be the primary enforcement agency here,\" says Farrell. \"It's a law that we're creating and that we should be tasked with enforcing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor David Campos wants to give more enforcement power to neighbors and nonprofits, who under his plan would be able to institute civil proceedings against hosts, even if a violation has not been determined by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that short-term rentals are taking housing off the market in the middle of this brutal housing crisis is simply unacceptable,\" Campos said at a Land Use and Transportation Committee meeting last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb disputes Campos' assertion that short-term rentals are tied to the city's housing crunch. The company released data in advance of the vote showing that residents in nearly all San Francisco neighborhoods would have to rent out homes for over 200 nights a year on Airbnb to equal the money they would get from a normal rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the report concludes that the extra income residents make by renting out their homes is \"the one thing making it possible for thousands of middle-class families to stay in the city they love.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one expects Tuesday's vote to end San Francisco's short-term rental debate. The group \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharebettersf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">ShareBetter SF\u003c/a> has filed a measure for the November ballot that would enact many provisions found in Campos' bill. Campos has said he will support that measure if he can't achieve his goals at the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ShareBetter SF released a poll on Monday, conducted by Goodwin-Simon Strategic Research, showing strong support for two key pieces of Campos' plan: a provision that would bar Airbnb from listing properties that aren't registered with the city, and another giving neighbors a private right-of-action against hosts who violate the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Alex Emslie contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Tuesday 6:20 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A majority of San Francisco supervisors voted to postpone action on two competing measures aimed at strengthening short-term rental regulation in the city -- but an unhappy minority forced some debate before the continuance passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A vote for a continuance is a vote for Airbnb,\" Supervisor John Avalos said about an hour into the debate, as it became increasingly clear that most supervisors supported moving the issue to the Board's July 15 meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avalos co-sponsored David Campos' proposal that contained stronger enforcement mechanisms and a shorter, 60-day cap on how many days a unit can legally be rented on the \"sharing economy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But supervisors either behind Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Mark Farrell's competing ordinance, or ones who thought there might be common ground between the two measures, outnumbered Campos' supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would welcome these additional conversations on this complicated topic,\" Farrell said. \"From my perspective, we passed a framework last year, now let’s take the time to get it right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell's ordinance would impose a 120-day cap and doesn't require the company to report data to the city, a provision officials with the city's planning department have called a \"lynchpin\" in their ability to enforce any limit on Airbnb rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Campos’ legislation goes too far and is not the appropriate response,\" Supervisor Scott Wiener said, adding that many people in his district are clinging to their homes through money they're making on short-term rentals. \"Sixty days is not going to meet these needs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos criticized a law that took effect Feb. 1, and Airbnb's role in crafting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reason that we are in this mess is because we have as a city decided to roll over for a $20 billion corporation and let that corporation write the laws that should be written by the elected legislators,\" Campos said. \"The last thing that we need in this building is to give the lobbyists of Airbnb more time to do what they have been doing in this building for the last couple of years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell's motion for a continuance passed 7-4, with supervisors Katy Tang, Norman Yee, London Breed, Julie Christensen, Malia Cohen, Wiener and Farrell in favor. Eric Mar, Jane Kim, Avalos and Kim opposed the delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a year after a messy, drawn-out debate over how to regulate short-term rentals like those found on Airbnb, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors will take up the issue again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board will vote Tuesday on two plans to change the current ordinance governing how city residents can rent out their homes on a short-term basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most supervisors are in agreement that the law (which took effect in February) \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/23/San-Francisco-Tighten-Airbnb-Law\" target=\"_blank\">is not working\u003c/a>, particularly in cracking down on hosts who rent out their entire homes for more than the currently allowed 90 days a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dueling plans, one from Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Mark Farrell, the other from Supervisor David Campos, would both set a hard cap on the length of all rentals, which are currently unlimited if the host stays in the home while renting out a room.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The fact that short-term rentals are taking housing off the market in the middle of this brutal housing crisis is simply unacceptable.'\u003ccite class=\"alignright\">Supervisor David Campos\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The plan from Lee and Farrell would give the city more resources to register residents and enforce the law by creating a new office staffed through other city agencies to handle short-term rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The city has to be the primary enforcement agency here,\" says Farrell. \"It's a law that we're creating and that we should be tasked with enforcing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor David Campos wants to give more enforcement power to neighbors and nonprofits, who under his plan would be able to institute civil proceedings against hosts, even if a violation has not been determined by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that short-term rentals are taking housing off the market in the middle of this brutal housing crisis is simply unacceptable,\" Campos said at a Land Use and Transportation Committee meeting last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb disputes Campos' assertion that short-term rentals are tied to the city's housing crunch. The company released data in advance of the vote showing that residents in nearly all San Francisco neighborhoods would have to rent out homes for over 200 nights a year on Airbnb to equal the money they would get from a normal rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the report concludes that the extra income residents make by renting out their homes is \"the one thing making it possible for thousands of middle-class families to stay in the city they love.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one expects Tuesday's vote to end San Francisco's short-term rental debate. The group \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharebettersf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">ShareBetter SF\u003c/a> has filed a measure for the November ballot that would enact many provisions found in Campos' bill. Campos has said he will support that measure if he can't achieve his goals at the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ShareBetter SF released a poll on Monday, conducted by Goodwin-Simon Strategic Research, showing strong support for two key pieces of Campos' plan: a provision that would bar Airbnb from listing properties that aren't registered with the city, and another giving neighbors a private right-of-action against hosts who violate the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Alex Emslie contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For Democrats in the state Capitol, their quest to expand Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal is all about people like Deshay Rigsby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rigsby's 3-year-old son still doesn't quite understand that the one-bedroom Oakley apartment he and his mother moved into in April is actually their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rigsby, now 25, had been homeless since she aged out of the foster care system at 18. Kion had spent his short life sleeping with his mom in homeless shelters, on couches at friends' houses and in cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in April, Rigsby and Kion were able to move into a clean one-bedroom apartment in Contra Costa County, thanks in large part to the state's welfare-to-work program for families, CalWORKS, and an accompanying housing assistance program. Kion is now in preschool, where he is excelling; Rigsby is working in child care full time. They even have new furniture and dishes from \u003ca href=\"http://shelterinc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Shelter, Inc.\u003c/a>, the local nonprofit that has been assisting the family.\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/208770446&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\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's nice here. It's quiet. I can think,\" Rigsby said of her new life. \"I wake up every day to go to work and I feel like I am in charge of my own life, and I like it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said both she and Kion are still adjusting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's overwhelming because my son doesn’t understand still -- he'll say, 'Mom, I want to go back to my house,' \" she said, referring to a friend's place where they had been crashing. \"I was like -- that was never your house ... he says, 'Well, is this my house now? Yes? Is this my bedroom? Is this my tablecloth?' Everything, it's just it’s a little overwhelming, and he's still coping with trying to understand is this mine, so I am just wanting him to be comfortable and understand we don’t have to go couch-to-couch anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10548644\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10548644\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Three-year-old Kion and his mom now have an apartment. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three-year-old Kion and his mom now have an apartment. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, wants to hear more success stories like Rigsby's. Mitchell has been pushing for years to expand state spending on CalWORKS. This year, she has the backing of the entire Democratic legislative caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Assembly and Senate are pushing Gov. Jerry Brown to add between $200 million and $300 million a year in additional funding for CalWORKS, a program that costs $6 billion a year and serves more than 525,000 families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell said the grant amounts offered to families -- the average CalWORKS family receives around $570 a month -- are simply not enough to help struggling Californians get back on their feet. Grant levels were cut during the recession, she noted, creating \"the perfect storm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our grant levels are at really historical lows, at the same level we paid 20-plus years ago -- and a quart of milk doesn't cost what it cost 20 years ago,\" she said. \"Housing costs have gone up, grant levels have gone down, jobs are difficult to come by.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are some differences between the Assembly and Senate proposals, Democrats in both houses would like to see the state \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article10966202.html\" target=\"_blank\">repeal a two-decade-old law\u003c/a> that denies additional CalWORKS cash to families who have another child while they're on welfare. That change alone would cost the state $158 million a year; it's one Mitchell has pushed for three years running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known as the \"maximum family grant\" rule, the limit was pushed by Republicans in the early 1990s, when there was a public perception that families were abusing the welfare system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was really fundamentally, I believe, based on the premise that poor women on CalWORKS simply had babies to increase their grant,\" said Mitchell. \"I don't believe in that premise, I don't know anybody who would have a baby for the mere fact of getting an additional $120 a month.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Democrats also want to delay a 2012 law set to go into effect in the coming months that would \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_quick.asp?i=1011\" target=\"_blank\">cut families' CalWORKS grants after two years\u003c/a> unless a parent is working or engaged in work-related activity at least 20 hours a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I don't know anybody who would have a baby for the mere fact of getting an additional $120 a month.'\u003ccite>State Sen. Holly Mitchell\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>H.D. Palmer, Brown's budget spokesman, said the two-year limit was imposed to comply with federal rules and that the state could face steep fines if it reverses the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Michael Herald, a lobbyist for the Western Center on Law and Poverty, said many families have barriers that prevent them from working that much -- and in some cases, can't get consistent enough hours at their low-paying jobs to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Frank Mecca, director of the County Welfare Directors Association of California, said for some people, 24 months simply isn't long enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes a family might experience a job loss or domestic violence, and they address whatever issues come up and move from welfare to work, and then a recession comes up and they are out of work again,\" he said. \"People's lives are not linear and people's lives are complicated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the timing wouldn't be as big of a deal if there were better resources to help CalWORKS parents thrive. The Assembly, for example, has proposed a cost-of-living increase that would bring grant levels up by about 2.5 percent next year -- at an annual cost to the state of $91 million. The Assembly is also proposing to increase the amount of funding available to help house CalWORKS families -- the program that helped Deshay Risgby get her apartment -- from $20 million to $50 million next fiscal year .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we really need to do,\" said Mecca, \"is make sure people have adequate resources, adequate supportive services, like meaningful job training and child care, and give them that assistance as quickly as possible so they can move from welfare to work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two legislative houses are meeting this week in a conference committee to iron out their budget differences; negotiations with Brown are likely to begin in earnest by Monday. But Palmer, the governor's spokesman, said that in general the administration is opposed to the increased spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the Legislature is depending on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/27/california-state-budget-fight-now-about-predictions-more-than-programs\" target=\"_blank\">revenue projections\u003c/a> that are about $3 billion higher than the governor's. Even if revenues are significantly higher, Palmer said, it would be irresponsible to commit any extra money to ongoing spending programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'If we get to a point where the economy takes a turn for the worse ... then these programs are going to have to turn right back around and face reductions.'\u003ccite>H.D. Palmer,\u003cbr>\nSpokesman for Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"They are basing that higher revenue significantly on higher assumptions around capital gains, which are, by definition, volatile and can turn on a dime,\" he said. \"The augmentations the Legislature has made at this point ... are intended to be ongoing in nature, and if we get to a point where the economy takes a turn for the worse, and revenues decline significantly, then these programs are going to have to turn right back around and face reductions. So we don't believe it's prudent to build ongoing spending on revenues we believe from that forecast are going to be one time in nature.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmer noted that the governor has proposed a poverty-fighting program that pretty much everyone in Sacramento seems to support: An \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-jerry-brown-tax-credit-budget-california-20150513-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">earned income tax credit\u003c/a> for the working poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for all the disagreements, Mecca struck a positive note, saying policymakers in California seem to agree -- after years of attacking these programs -- that poverty is \u003ca href=\"http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/september/toddler-language-gap-091213.html\" target=\"_blank\">damaging to kids\u003c/a> and that state leaders have a responsibility to tackle the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a big hill to climb and a long way to go, but before the Legislature and the governor right now is a really great foundation,\" Mecca said, citing the proposals to repeal the maximum family grant, enact the earned income tax credit and expand housing support for families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are all really incredibly important foundational measures that can help us take the first step toward eliminating poverty, because that should be our goal -- to eliminate poverty for children and their parents,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's nice here. It's quiet. I can think,\" Rigsby said of her new life. \"I wake up every day to go to work and I feel like I am in charge of my own life, and I like it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said both she and Kion are still adjusting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's overwhelming because my son doesn’t understand still -- he'll say, 'Mom, I want to go back to my house,' \" she said, referring to a friend's place where they had been crashing. \"I was like -- that was never your house ... he says, 'Well, is this my house now? Yes? Is this my bedroom? Is this my tablecloth?' Everything, it's just it’s a little overwhelming, and he's still coping with trying to understand is this mine, so I am just wanting him to be comfortable and understand we don’t have to go couch-to-couch anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10548644\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10548644\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Three-year-old Kion and his mom now have an apartment. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15338_transform2-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three-year-old Kion and his mom now have an apartment. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, wants to hear more success stories like Rigsby's. Mitchell has been pushing for years to expand state spending on CalWORKS. This year, she has the backing of the entire Democratic legislative caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Assembly and Senate are pushing Gov. Jerry Brown to add between $200 million and $300 million a year in additional funding for CalWORKS, a program that costs $6 billion a year and serves more than 525,000 families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell said the grant amounts offered to families -- the average CalWORKS family receives around $570 a month -- are simply not enough to help struggling Californians get back on their feet. Grant levels were cut during the recession, she noted, creating \"the perfect storm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our grant levels are at really historical lows, at the same level we paid 20-plus years ago -- and a quart of milk doesn't cost what it cost 20 years ago,\" she said. \"Housing costs have gone up, grant levels have gone down, jobs are difficult to come by.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are some differences between the Assembly and Senate proposals, Democrats in both houses would like to see the state \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article10966202.html\" target=\"_blank\">repeal a two-decade-old law\u003c/a> that denies additional CalWORKS cash to families who have another child while they're on welfare. 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Palmer, Brown's budget spokesman, said the two-year limit was imposed to comply with federal rules and that the state could face steep fines if it reverses the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Michael Herald, a lobbyist for the Western Center on Law and Poverty, said many families have barriers that prevent them from working that much -- and in some cases, can't get consistent enough hours at their low-paying jobs to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Frank Mecca, director of the County Welfare Directors Association of California, said for some people, 24 months simply isn't long enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes a family might experience a job loss or domestic violence, and they address whatever issues come up and move from welfare to work, and then a recession comes up and they are out of work again,\" he said. \"People's lives are not linear and people's lives are complicated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the timing wouldn't be as big of a deal if there were better resources to help CalWORKS parents thrive. The Assembly, for example, has proposed a cost-of-living increase that would bring grant levels up by about 2.5 percent next year -- at an annual cost to the state of $91 million. The Assembly is also proposing to increase the amount of funding available to help house CalWORKS families -- the program that helped Deshay Risgby get her apartment -- from $20 million to $50 million next fiscal year .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we really need to do,\" said Mecca, \"is make sure people have adequate resources, adequate supportive services, like meaningful job training and child care, and give them that assistance as quickly as possible so they can move from welfare to work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two legislative houses are meeting this week in a conference committee to iron out their budget differences; negotiations with Brown are likely to begin in earnest by Monday. 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