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From this side of the road all you see are brown yards and dirt driveways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/176966818\" 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>Sometimes Keeney, with his water delivery company \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/site/nrkservices/\">NRK Services\u003c/a>, delivers drinking water as far as 50 miles away, but today his trip is shorter, across the street. “In this little neighborhood here, I have probably about 10 to 15 customers,” Keeney says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these wells have run dry and some homeowners are on waiting lists for new wells. “Some of the areas that are north of town -- their groundwater wells are inadequate for their needs,” says Lisa Cohen, assistant public utilities director for Clovis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keeney says the price to hire a well driller is costly, and even if a new well is drilled there is no guarantee water is in the aquifer. “One customer got one done in six months,” says Keeney. “I got another customer that’s been waiting seven months now, but they got to go like 1,000 feet deep. 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Keeney checks out a water meter from the city, he tells the clerk what hydrants he’ll draw from, he self-reports the gallons pumped over the phone, pays his bill and brings his meter in every six months for evaluation\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It costs him only $3.50 or so to fill his 2,500-gallon truck. That’s the same rate people who live in Clovis pay. Keeney’s profit is about $147 per truckload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10348644\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Hammar1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10348644\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Hammar1-400x362.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Hammar’s private household well was reduced to a dribble this summer when the well nearly dried up. Hammar has grown accustomed to preserving his water by taking short showers, reusing sink water and limiting the watering of his once-green yard. 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(Ezra David Romero/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Clovis Water Authority says that although this seems like a lot of city water used by truck haulers, it’s really less than 4 percent of the city’s yearly water production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twice a week Keeney delivers water to over 40 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Hammar, who lives on a 2½-acre parcel, is one of Keeney’s customers. He’s had to severely cut his household water consumption since his well was reduced to a dribble earlier this summer.“We noticed that the tank was filling slower and slower and slower,” Hammar says. “Finally, I had the well guy out, Scott Water. Scott’s guy said the well is essentially dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hammar’s yard is sparse. There’s not a weed in sight, just a giant palm and three other trees. He’s turned to living weed eaters to keep his plot tidy and drought-tolerant. “Come on you guys, wake up,” Hammar calls out to his goats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Past the goats and behind a fence, Hammar’s well is pumping at about one cup per minute. “I have a large green 3,000-gallon tank that you see all over the unincorporated parts of this county and it’s quite empty. You can hear how resonant that is,” Hammar says. “The water is about at the last quarter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the higher cost of buying water from Keeney and the uncertainty of building a second well, Hammar and his wife are using water very carefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You take measures; you do the best you can,” Hammar says. “Putting dishpans in every sink so you collect your rinse water, and that becomes your wash water. 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"content": "\u003cp>There’s no question about what the top line is on Republican gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari’s resume: He led the federal government’s high-profile response to the 2008 economic meltdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the campaign trail, Kashkari doesn’t spend too much time talking about the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. And there’s a reason: Even though the bailout plan worked, it was messy, complicated and deeply unpopular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173159774\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not that Kashkari completely ignores TARP. He briefly mentions it during his stump speech and has a stock answer prepared when voters and reporters ask about the program. By and large, Kashkari paints the $450 billion program as a bipartisan success.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Hard choices are easy to make when you really don’t have a choice ... when the consequences of inaction are so grave we have to step in.'\u003ccite>Neel Kashkari, U.S. Treasury Department, 2008\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Everyone told us, 'Washington, D.C., is so complicated. You can’t get Republicans and Democrats to work together. You can’t navigate the House and the Senate.' ” Kashkari said during his September debate with Gov. Jerry Brown. “We figured it out. We got them to work together. We got the leaders of both parties to put their country before their political careers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not the way Kashkari characterized it six years ago, at the depths of the economic crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hard choices are easy to make when you really don’t have a choice,” he told a group in the fall of 2008, his voice sounding strained and stressed. “When the consequences of inaction are so grave we have to step in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Your ATM Wouldn't Work'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s back up a bit. The economy imploded in 2008 for a long list of complicated reasons. The short summary is that too many banks bought up too many bad mortgages, and the global credit market basically dried up. (Need a refresher? \"This American Life’s\" 2008 \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money\" target=\"_blank\">episode on the subprime lending crisis\u003c/a> remains one of the best explanations out there.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Kashkari likes to put it on the campaign trail, the economy was on the verge of a situation where “literally, your ATM wouldn’t work. You type in your code, no money comes out. You get your paycheck, you can’t cash it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because Kashkari had decided to leave a comfortable job at Goldman Sachs when the bank’s CEO, Hank Paulson, became President George W. Bush’s Treasury secretary, this was suddenly Kashkari’s problem. He was all of 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Yeah, let’s bail them out, but don’t give them bonuses on top of all the money the taxpayers have to pay. The people who caused the problem, they got rewarded.'\u003ccite>Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Kashkari was just one staffer in the U.S. Treasury Department, of course, but he played a major role in shaping, and eventually implementing, the federal government’s response to the crisis. A big enough role that he was portrayed in the HBO movie, \"Too Big To Fail.\" (Like the real-life Kashkari, the movie character has a massive Newfoundland dog.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movie was based on Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book of the same name, which has become the definitive account of the 2008 crisis. According to Sorkin, Kashkari not only came up with the idea that became TARP, he came up with the initial $700 billion price tag, too. The total had more to do with politics than economics. The deliberations, as recounted by Sorkin:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"What about $1 trillion?\" Kashkari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ll get killed,” Paulson said grimly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... \"Okay,\" Kashkari said. \"How about $700 billion?\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The initial plan: The Treasury would buy up these so-called toxic assets of subprime mortgages that had paralyzed all the banks. Kashari eventually justified the $700 billion as about 5 percent of the nation’s total residential and commercial mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shifting Gears\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But shortly after Congress approved the plan, the Treasury Department shifted gears in a major way. Instead of buying up “toxic” mortgages, the government would now basically give the money directly to the nation’s largest banks. The first round of purchases distributed $125 billion to banks like JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America. By this point, Kashkari had been tapped as the head of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress, to put it mildly, freaked out. San Diego Republican Darrell Issa may be endorsing Kashkari this year, but at the time he ripped into Kashkari:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe frameborder=\"0\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" scrollable=\"no\" src=\"http://www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?c4511989\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to know whether Congress was lied to,” Issa demanded of a somewhat flustered Kashkari during a memorable hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari and the rest of the Treasury Department argued that the direct stock purchases were the better way to unfreeze the markets quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TARP eventually doled out $250 billion to banks and $450 billion overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included more than $60 billion for insurance giant AIG, which would become the most controversial aspect of Kashkari’s tenure. That’s because months after receiving federal assistance, AIG distributed more than $1 billion in bonuses and other payments to its employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'A Failure of Oversight by Treasury'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Brown’s campaign strategy has been to ignore Kashkari’s existence. The main critique Brown lobbed at the Republican during their sole debate, however, focused on the AIG bonuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, let’s bail them out,” Brown said. “But don’t give them bonuses on top of all the money the taxpayers have to pay. The people who caused the problem, they got rewarded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AIG had to be bailed out, Treasury Department officials argued at the time, because the company had been left essentially holding the bag on a large chunk of the insurance policies that banks had purchased to protect themselves against foreclosures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This action was necessary to maintain stability of our financial system,” Kashkari said the day the department purchased its initial round of preferred stock. “In return, AIG must comply with stringent limitations on executive compensation for its top executives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the department didn’t realize was that it wasn’t just executives -- AIG had a massive, companywide bonus program in place. In March 2009, it handed out more than $1.7 billion in bonuses, retention payments and deferred compensation. The move generated a political firestorm, and was one of the first (of many) PR nightmares to confront the Obama administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The special inspector general overseeing TARP, Neil Barofsky, told Congress that Kashkari’s team dropped the ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Treasury didn’t know about [the bonuses] until two weeks beforehand,” he testified after \u003ca href=\"http://www.sigtarp.gov/Audit%20Reports/Extent_of_Federal_Agencies'_Oversight_of_AIG_Compensation_Varied_and_Important_Challenges_Remain_10_14_09.pdf\">releasing an audit focused on the AIG bonuses\u003c/a>. “And they didn’t know the scope of those payments. That they were going to apply not just to essential personnel, but also to nonessential. People who worked in the mail room, in the kitchen, the file room. Our audit concludes this was a failure. A failure of oversight by Treasury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love the luxury of 20/20 hindsight,” Kashkari responded during a recent appearance on KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>. “We were trying to prevent the American, and the global, economy from collapsing.” Still, he didn’t dispute the critique. “With all the luxury of six years to contemplate this, sure, we’d do lots of little things differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Thankless Task\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Kashkari says TARP got every dollar back, and turned billions in profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s actually a contested point. While repayments, interest and dividends have generated billions more in revenue than what the government paid out, TARP’s special inspector general \u003ca href=\"http://www.sigtarp.gov/Quarterly%20Reports/July_30_2014_Report_to_Congress.pdf\">argues the government is still owed about $40 billion in principal\u003c/a>. Kashkari disputes that figure, pointing to \u003ca href=\"http://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/financial-stability/reports/Pages/TARP-Tracker.aspx\">the Treasury Department’s official accounting\u003c/a>, which backs his claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to the larger point, UC Berkeley Law Professor Steven Davidoff Solomon says the answer is pretty clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“TARP was undoubtedly a success,” said Solomon, who has written several papers on the government’s response to the financial meltdown. “The fact that we’re standing here and the banks are up, and the economy is growing -- maybe not as fast as we want [it] to -- clearly shows that TARP was a success. It stopped the financial crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was seen as rewarding the banks that helped create the crisis to begin with. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not the way Kashkari characterized it six years ago, at the depths of the economic crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hard choices are easy to make when you really don’t have a choice,” he told a group in the fall of 2008, his voice sounding strained and stressed. “When the consequences of inaction are so grave we have to step in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Your ATM Wouldn't Work'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s back up a bit. The economy imploded in 2008 for a long list of complicated reasons. The short summary is that too many banks bought up too many bad mortgages, and the global credit market basically dried up. (Need a refresher? \"This American Life’s\" 2008 \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/the-giant-pool-of-money\" target=\"_blank\">episode on the subprime lending crisis\u003c/a> remains one of the best explanations out there.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Kashkari likes to put it on the campaign trail, the economy was on the verge of a situation where “literally, your ATM wouldn’t work. You type in your code, no money comes out. You get your paycheck, you can’t cash it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because Kashkari had decided to leave a comfortable job at Goldman Sachs when the bank’s CEO, Hank Paulson, became President George W. Bush’s Treasury secretary, this was suddenly Kashkari’s problem. He was all of 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Yeah, let’s bail them out, but don’t give them bonuses on top of all the money the taxpayers have to pay. The people who caused the problem, they got rewarded.'\u003ccite>Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Kashkari was just one staffer in the U.S. Treasury Department, of course, but he played a major role in shaping, and eventually implementing, the federal government’s response to the crisis. A big enough role that he was portrayed in the HBO movie, \"Too Big To Fail.\" (Like the real-life Kashkari, the movie character has a massive Newfoundland dog.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movie was based on Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book of the same name, which has become the definitive account of the 2008 crisis. According to Sorkin, Kashkari not only came up with the idea that became TARP, he came up with the initial $700 billion price tag, too. The total had more to do with politics than economics. The deliberations, as recounted by Sorkin:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"What about $1 trillion?\" Kashkari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ll get killed,” Paulson said grimly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... \"Okay,\" Kashkari said. \"How about $700 billion?\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The initial plan: The Treasury would buy up these so-called toxic assets of subprime mortgages that had paralyzed all the banks. Kashari eventually justified the $700 billion as about 5 percent of the nation’s total residential and commercial mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shifting Gears\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But shortly after Congress approved the plan, the Treasury Department shifted gears in a major way. Instead of buying up “toxic” mortgages, the government would now basically give the money directly to the nation’s largest banks. The first round of purchases distributed $125 billion to banks like JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America. By this point, Kashkari had been tapped as the head of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress, to put it mildly, freaked out. San Diego Republican Darrell Issa may be endorsing Kashkari this year, but at the time he ripped into Kashkari:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe frameborder=\"0\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" scrollable=\"no\" src=\"http://www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?c4511989\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to know whether Congress was lied to,” Issa demanded of a somewhat flustered Kashkari during a memorable hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kashkari and the rest of the Treasury Department argued that the direct stock purchases were the better way to unfreeze the markets quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TARP eventually doled out $250 billion to banks and $450 billion overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included more than $60 billion for insurance giant AIG, which would become the most controversial aspect of Kashkari’s tenure. That’s because months after receiving federal assistance, AIG distributed more than $1 billion in bonuses and other payments to its employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'A Failure of Oversight by Treasury'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Brown’s campaign strategy has been to ignore Kashkari’s existence. The main critique Brown lobbed at the Republican during their sole debate, however, focused on the AIG bonuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, let’s bail them out,” Brown said. “But don’t give them bonuses on top of all the money the taxpayers have to pay. The people who caused the problem, they got rewarded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AIG had to be bailed out, Treasury Department officials argued at the time, because the company had been left essentially holding the bag on a large chunk of the insurance policies that banks had purchased to protect themselves against foreclosures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This action was necessary to maintain stability of our financial system,” Kashkari said the day the department purchased its initial round of preferred stock. “In return, AIG must comply with stringent limitations on executive compensation for its top executives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the department didn’t realize was that it wasn’t just executives -- AIG had a massive, companywide bonus program in place. In March 2009, it handed out more than $1.7 billion in bonuses, retention payments and deferred compensation. The move generated a political firestorm, and was one of the first (of many) PR nightmares to confront the Obama administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The special inspector general overseeing TARP, Neil Barofsky, told Congress that Kashkari’s team dropped the ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Treasury didn’t know about [the bonuses] until two weeks beforehand,” he testified after \u003ca href=\"http://www.sigtarp.gov/Audit%20Reports/Extent_of_Federal_Agencies'_Oversight_of_AIG_Compensation_Varied_and_Important_Challenges_Remain_10_14_09.pdf\">releasing an audit focused on the AIG bonuses\u003c/a>. “And they didn’t know the scope of those payments. That they were going to apply not just to essential personnel, but also to nonessential. People who worked in the mail room, in the kitchen, the file room. Our audit concludes this was a failure. A failure of oversight by Treasury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love the luxury of 20/20 hindsight,” Kashkari responded during a recent appearance on KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>. “We were trying to prevent the American, and the global, economy from collapsing.” Still, he didn’t dispute the critique. “With all the luxury of six years to contemplate this, sure, we’d do lots of little things differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Thankless Task\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Kashkari says TARP got every dollar back, and turned billions in profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s actually a contested point. While repayments, interest and dividends have generated billions more in revenue than what the government paid out, TARP’s special inspector general \u003ca href=\"http://www.sigtarp.gov/Quarterly%20Reports/July_30_2014_Report_to_Congress.pdf\">argues the government is still owed about $40 billion in principal\u003c/a>. Kashkari disputes that figure, pointing to \u003ca href=\"http://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/financial-stability/reports/Pages/TARP-Tracker.aspx\">the Treasury Department’s official accounting\u003c/a>, which backs his claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to the larger point, UC Berkeley Law Professor Steven Davidoff Solomon says the answer is pretty clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“TARP was undoubtedly a success,” said Solomon, who has written several papers on the government’s response to the financial meltdown. “The fact that we’re standing here and the banks are up, and the economy is growing -- maybe not as fast as we want [it] to -- clearly shows that TARP was a success. It stopped the financial crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was seen as rewarding the banks that helped create the crisis to begin with. That doesn’t play well in politics, which may explain why candidate Kashkari doesn’t talk about TARP a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[audio mp3=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/10/2014-10-03b-tcrmag.mp3\"][/audio]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on whom you ask in Weed, it will take many months or years for things to get back to normal -- or maybe it just won't ever be the same. On Sept. 15, a wildfire raced through the town, burning more than 140 homes, two churches, a library and a community center. Another 90 houses were damaged, along with the lumber mill that is Weed's largest private employer. Officials estimate some 750 people have been displaced in the town of not quite 3,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Screenshot-2014-10-02-22.41.55.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10342141\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Screenshot-2014-10-02-22.41.55.png\" alt=\"Weed-Locator Map\" width=\"441\" height=\"526\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 285 road miles north of San Francisco on Interstate 5, Weed greets visitors with kitschy tourist shops riffing on the town's name. \"Enjoy Weed,\" a tie-dye shirt suggests, not far from the \"I (Heart) Weed\" lighters. Postcards display the snow on nearby Mount Shasta in beautiful crepuscular pinks and purples, and a neon sign in the window of the Hi-Lo Cafe promises homemade pie to the road-weary families and bikers who stop in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around back is a motel, where waitress Gail Breshears stayed for 10 days after she lost nearly everything she owned to the blaze. Physically intact but \"emotionally fried,\" when asked how long it might take her to get back to normal, she says maybe never, then asks, \"What is normal?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment is common around town. While Tony Mazzei still has a house, a workshop burned up with all his tools inside, potentially forcing the longtime handyman into full retirement. He also lost a couple of classic cars to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I bought it brand-new when I was 18 years old --'65 GTO,\" Mazzei says. \"And my dad bought this 1950 Dodge brand-new --in 1950 -- and I restored it. So they're both gone and I can't get 'em back anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if he could replace them, Mazzei says, the cars he knew all his life are gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342259\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/StoneEntrywayWeed.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10342259\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/StoneEntrywayWeed-400x341.jpg\" alt=\"This stone entryway is all the Boles Fire left standing of this home in Weed. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/StoneEntrywayWeed-400x341.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/StoneEntrywayWeed-800x683.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/StoneEntrywayWeed.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stone entryway is all the Boles Fire left standing of this home in Weed. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weed has received an outpouring of help, including clothing, household goods and tools from around the country. At the Weed Church of Christ, volunteer Kenneth Shaffer says they've given out all manner of supplies (they ran out of wheelbarrows) along with dozens of heavy boxes of food and toiletries sent from Nashville, Tennessee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While folks in Weed say they're grateful, in some ways managing so much generosity has rippled into its own set of problems. At a meeting of about 40 resident in a church basement, officials said they'd received more donated pajamas and sweaters than they knew what to do with. Mayor Bob Hall described it as enough clothing to fill two gymnasiums 8 feet high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there's the more long-term problem of housing. Among the hundreds of people who've been displaced, some are in a hotel while others stay with friends or family. City Administrator Ron Stock says officials are looking into places with room for trailers, where a few residents may end up spending the winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">How long will it take you to get back to normal, I asked a resident who'd lost her home. Her reply: 'What is normal?'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A couple of factors make rebuilding homes complicated. For one, many were built in the old logging town as company homes when asbestos and lead paint were commonplace. Cleanup is too hazardous to leave to volunteers, and in some cases could require removing even the burned home's foundation and a layer of earth to make sure no toxic heavy metals are left behind. Stock says the cost to haul out so much waste is on the order of $4 million -- a tab the state will pick up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another problem in an area near the lumber mill, known as Angel Valley, is that the old houses were tiny, often around 900 square feet, and on tiny lots that don't mesh neatly with modern requirements for homes set back on the lot, built with garages and so on. Stock says that on the one hand, there are safety concerns with rebuilding the neighborhood as it was, with homes packed in densely, because it allows fires to easily spread. On the other hand, homeowners may receive an insurance check and find it's not enough money to rebuild a house conforming to modern standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342282\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/BurnedAppliancesWeed.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10342282\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/BurnedAppliancesWeed-400x303.jpg\" alt=\"Many homes burned by the Boles Fire were fully leveled, with only the blackened husks of metal appliances left recognizable. 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Stock, who worked through the aftermath of several hurricanes as a city administrator in Florida, says some of the displaced people might just not come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One crucial resident that's not going anywhere is the Roseburg lumber mill, which slices trees into thin ribbons that are glued together to make plywood. It's Weed's largest private employer, second only to the school system for jobs, with more than 100 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the mill was damaged in the fire, Roseburg quickly transferred about 60 employees to another facility in Oregon so they could keep working. Dozens more are hustling to get the plant back up and running -- hopefully in time for Thanksgiving.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment is common around town. While Tony Mazzei still has a house, a workshop burned up with all his tools inside, potentially forcing the longtime handyman into full retirement. He also lost a couple of classic cars to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I bought it brand-new when I was 18 years old --'65 GTO,\" Mazzei says. \"And my dad bought this 1950 Dodge brand-new --in 1950 -- and I restored it. So they're both gone and I can't get 'em back anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if he could replace them, Mazzei says, the cars he knew all his life are gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342259\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/StoneEntrywayWeed.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10342259\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/StoneEntrywayWeed-400x341.jpg\" alt=\"This stone entryway is all the Boles Fire left standing of this home in Weed. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/StoneEntrywayWeed-400x341.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/StoneEntrywayWeed-800x683.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/StoneEntrywayWeed.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stone entryway is all the Boles Fire left standing of this home in Weed. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weed has received an outpouring of help, including clothing, household goods and tools from around the country. At the Weed Church of Christ, volunteer Kenneth Shaffer says they've given out all manner of supplies (they ran out of wheelbarrows) along with dozens of heavy boxes of food and toiletries sent from Nashville, Tennessee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While folks in Weed say they're grateful, in some ways managing so much generosity has rippled into its own set of problems. At a meeting of about 40 resident in a church basement, officials said they'd received more donated pajamas and sweaters than they knew what to do with. Mayor Bob Hall described it as enough clothing to fill two gymnasiums 8 feet high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there's the more long-term problem of housing. Among the hundreds of people who've been displaced, some are in a hotel while others stay with friends or family. City Administrator Ron Stock says officials are looking into places with room for trailers, where a few residents may end up spending the winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">How long will it take you to get back to normal, I asked a resident who'd lost her home. Her reply: 'What is normal?'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A couple of factors make rebuilding homes complicated. For one, many were built in the old logging town as company homes when asbestos and lead paint were commonplace. Cleanup is too hazardous to leave to volunteers, and in some cases could require removing even the burned home's foundation and a layer of earth to make sure no toxic heavy metals are left behind. Stock says the cost to haul out so much waste is on the order of $4 million -- a tab the state will pick up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another problem in an area near the lumber mill, known as Angel Valley, is that the old houses were tiny, often around 900 square feet, and on tiny lots that don't mesh neatly with modern requirements for homes set back on the lot, built with garages and so on. Stock says that on the one hand, there are safety concerns with rebuilding the neighborhood as it was, with homes packed in densely, because it allows fires to easily spread. On the other hand, homeowners may receive an insurance check and find it's not enough money to rebuild a house conforming to modern standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342282\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/BurnedAppliancesWeed.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10342282\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/BurnedAppliancesWeed-400x303.jpg\" alt=\"Many homes burned by the Boles Fire were fully leveled, with only the blackened husks of metal appliances left recognizable. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/BurnedAppliancesWeed-400x303.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/BurnedAppliancesWeed-800x606.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/BurnedAppliancesWeed.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many homes burned by the Boles Fire were fully leveled, with only the blackened husks of metal appliances left recognizable. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other residents -- renters -- likely had little if any insurance for what they lost. Stock, who worked through the aftermath of several hurricanes as a city administrator in Florida, says some of the displaced people might just not come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One crucial resident that's not going anywhere is the Roseburg lumber mill, which slices trees into thin ribbons that are glued together to make plywood. It's Weed's largest private employer, second only to the school system for jobs, with more than 100 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the mill was damaged in the fire, Roseburg quickly transferred about 60 employees to another facility in Oregon so they could keep working. Dozens more are hustling to get the plant back up and running -- hopefully in time for Thanksgiving.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/09/2014-09-26d-tcrmag.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what do baseball, a little-known religious group and a land-use fight have in common? If you’re in \u003ca href=\"http://www.stancounty.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanislaus County\u003c/a>, the answer is: nuts. Almonds are the county’s top crop, bringing in a record-breaking $1.125 billion in gross income in 2013. Walnuts came in third (after the county’s other powerhouse, dairy).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuts aren’t just an economic powerhouse, though. They’re also key to the story of this region’s past, and future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have never before gone to a baseball game to tell a story about agriculture, but showing up at the minor league team’s game shows just how important nuts are to people around here. The team is called the Modesto Nuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modesto residents Bob DeGrasse and Tammy Krause have season tickets, in a great location. “You put your beer right on the dugout,” says DeGrasse, sporting a Nuts baseball cap and T-shirt. “And you yell, ‘Go Nuts.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s been a team in this region since the ‘40s. In 2005, when they changed affiliation from the Oakland A’s to the Colorado Rockies, fans got to vote on a new name, and Nuts won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mascots? Krause explains: “You have Wally the Walnut, Al Almond and Shelley Pistachio.” Shelley is new this season. The mascots goof around on the field between innings and pose for photos with fans, like a row of kids wearing team caps, some with the almond logo, some with the walnut logo. Seven-year-old Gino Brudnicki has made his choice based on his family’s business: “We grow almonds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10341695\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Fair5400.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10341695\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Fair5400.jpg\" alt=\"At the fair, a place to sign a petition to limit urban growth. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the fair, a place to sign a petition to limit urban growth. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the day, Shelley the Pistachio posed for pictures at a country fair just west of Modesto, in a little unincorporated farming area called Wood Colony. Over 1,500 people from all over the area showed up to play games, check out the latest nut harvesting machinery and sign petitions to support Wood Colony’s continued independence from Modesto. Not everyone agrees about the exact boundaries of Wood Colony, but in recent amendments to the Modesto general plan, the city proposed bringing about 1,000 acres of this area under its jurisdiction. That could allow commercial development on what’s now farmland. People here are adamantly opposed. Signs line roads here with slogans like “Almonds not asphalt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherry Walker lives in Modesto but came out today to support Wood Colony, “There’s generations upon generations that grew up out here, and this is the one place where the city hasn’t touched. There’s too much history here. It just needs to be left alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker actually represents a big part of that history. She’s wearing a long dress with matching cape and a prayer covering, like a sheer bonnet, over her hair. Some of the earliest founders of Wood Colony were from a religious group called Old German Baptist Brethren. They migrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in the early 1700s. “Then they went to Indiana,” says local author and historian Beachler. “Then Missouri and Kansas and Ohio and North Dakota and out to California. They came first to Whittier down in L.A.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beachler explains that around 1900, a group of German Baptists that included his grandfather came here and started farming, and planted some of the earliest nut trees. Today about a third of Wood Colony residents are, like Beachler, practicing German Baptists. “It’s a peace church, you might say. It has a lot of similarities to Amish and Mennonites, but historically they’re not connected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One difference is the use of modern technology. Here, many German Baptists don’t own TVs but they drive cars. “Oh, they use plenty of technology,” Beachler says with a laugh. “They’re good farmers. I’m not saying that boastfully.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourth-generation farmer Jake Wenger gives me a quick tour of Wood Colony’s orchards and farmhouses, which he identifies by the family names of their earliest owners. We stop to talk under a huge walnut tree, which Wenger says is California’s biggest. It’s over 100 feet tall, so wide that six people have to hold hands to reach around it. It was planted by one of Wood Colony’s earliest German Baptist founders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10341697\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Fair9400.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10341697\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Fair9400.jpg\" alt=\"Shelly Pistacio with members of the Modesto High Band at the Wood Colony Country Fair. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelly Pistacio with members of the Modesto High Band at the Wood Colony Country Fair. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The German Baptists are, for lack of a better term, California Amish,” says Wenger, who grew up around German Baptists. They’re his neighbors, and friends. “By their religious guidelines, they don’t get involved in local politics. They don’t vote. They don’t register to vote.” Many of them are showing up at City Council meetings, however, along with their allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highway 99 separates Wood Colony from Modesto. Jake Wenger and others fear what could happen if the city claims any land across the freeway. “It’s the proverbial camel’s nose in the tent,” Wenger says. “The camel sticks his nose in the tent, you better watch out because the rest of it’s coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s part of a group that wrote a Stamp Out Sprawl initiative to go on a ballot next year. They have until Oct. 1 to turn in signatures. They’re hopeful: Stanislaus County voters usually support farmland preservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re drawing that line in the sand, and they don’t want anyone to cross it,” says Modesto Mayor Garrad Marsh, who in the past initiated similar measures. “I get that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, though, he says the city needs to think about its future, expand its tax base and plan for business parks and ag industry. Modesto could gain at least 100,000 residents in the next 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We already know that we can fit extra people in our current footprint ” by increasing housing density, he says. “But it doesn’t leave us anywhere to put the jobs for those people.” Stanislaus County already has an unemployment rate over 11 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wenger resists development here, though, saying, this is prime farmland. That’s a USDA designation for some of the best agriculture soil in the world. Also, he says, the German Baptists couldn’t just relocate an entire religious community like they did in the early 1900s. He wants the city to look elsewhere. “I do agree, we can bring in manufacturing jobs. We just don’t need to do it in the best farmland in one of the oldest communities in the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby, farmer Gordon Heinrich takes me to an orchard where a mechanical shaker grabs tree trunks, rattling them so hard it looks like it’s raining almonds. Heinrich and everyone I met here pronounces the nut “amonds,” with a silent “l.” When I ask why, he tells me an old joke. “There is kind of an old farm story. That is, when we shake them off the tree, we knock the ‘L’ out of it, and that brings it to ‘amonds.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This land-use fight has shaken quiet, private Wood Colony. “When the idea of annexation first came along, it really awoke a sleeping giant, so to speak, out here,” says Heinrich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the Wood Colony country fair. Residents would rather keep to themselves, but they held this event, inviting outsiders in to celebrate rural living, and get political support. While families take horse-drawn buggy rides past almond and walnut orchards, Claudia Bowser agrees to talk to me for this story, even though she doesn’t even own a radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are families here, there’s roots here. We don’t need cement and buildings and lifeless things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that once you take away prime farmland, you can’t replace it. “The Lord already knows what the answer is. I just pray it stays this good old countryside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will, if people across the region continue to see agriculture as their identity, and vote as they have in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/californiafoodways\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Foodways\u003c/a> is made possible with support from \u003ca href=\"http://www.calhum.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Humanities\u003c/a>, a nonprofit partner of the NEH.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Seven-year-old Gino Brudnicki has made his choice based on his family’s business: “We grow almonds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10341695\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Fair5400.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10341695\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Fair5400.jpg\" alt=\"At the fair, a place to sign a petition to limit urban growth. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the fair, a place to sign a petition to limit urban growth. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the day, Shelley the Pistachio posed for pictures at a country fair just west of Modesto, in a little unincorporated farming area called Wood Colony. Over 1,500 people from all over the area showed up to play games, check out the latest nut harvesting machinery and sign petitions to support Wood Colony’s continued independence from Modesto. Not everyone agrees about the exact boundaries of Wood Colony, but in recent amendments to the Modesto general plan, the city proposed bringing about 1,000 acres of this area under its jurisdiction. That could allow commercial development on what’s now farmland. People here are adamantly opposed. Signs line roads here with slogans like “Almonds not asphalt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherry Walker lives in Modesto but came out today to support Wood Colony, “There’s generations upon generations that grew up out here, and this is the one place where the city hasn’t touched. There’s too much history here. It just needs to be left alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker actually represents a big part of that history. She’s wearing a long dress with matching cape and a prayer covering, like a sheer bonnet, over her hair. Some of the earliest founders of Wood Colony were from a religious group called Old German Baptist Brethren. They migrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in the early 1700s. “Then they went to Indiana,” says local author and historian Beachler. “Then Missouri and Kansas and Ohio and North Dakota and out to California. They came first to Whittier down in L.A.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beachler explains that around 1900, a group of German Baptists that included his grandfather came here and started farming, and planted some of the earliest nut trees. Today about a third of Wood Colony residents are, like Beachler, practicing German Baptists. “It’s a peace church, you might say. It has a lot of similarities to Amish and Mennonites, but historically they’re not connected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One difference is the use of modern technology. Here, many German Baptists don’t own TVs but they drive cars. “Oh, they use plenty of technology,” Beachler says with a laugh. “They’re good farmers. I’m not saying that boastfully.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourth-generation farmer Jake Wenger gives me a quick tour of Wood Colony’s orchards and farmhouses, which he identifies by the family names of their earliest owners. We stop to talk under a huge walnut tree, which Wenger says is California’s biggest. It’s over 100 feet tall, so wide that six people have to hold hands to reach around it. It was planted by one of Wood Colony’s earliest German Baptist founders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10341697\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Fair9400.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10341697\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Fair9400.jpg\" alt=\"Shelly Pistacio with members of the Modesto High Band at the Wood Colony Country Fair. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelly Pistacio with members of the Modesto High Band at the Wood Colony Country Fair. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The German Baptists are, for lack of a better term, California Amish,” says Wenger, who grew up around German Baptists. They’re his neighbors, and friends. “By their religious guidelines, they don’t get involved in local politics. They don’t vote. They don’t register to vote.” Many of them are showing up at City Council meetings, however, along with their allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highway 99 separates Wood Colony from Modesto. Jake Wenger and others fear what could happen if the city claims any land across the freeway. “It’s the proverbial camel’s nose in the tent,” Wenger says. “The camel sticks his nose in the tent, you better watch out because the rest of it’s coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s part of a group that wrote a Stamp Out Sprawl initiative to go on a ballot next year. They have until Oct. 1 to turn in signatures. They’re hopeful: Stanislaus County voters usually support farmland preservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re drawing that line in the sand, and they don’t want anyone to cross it,” says Modesto Mayor Garrad Marsh, who in the past initiated similar measures. “I get that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, though, he says the city needs to think about its future, expand its tax base and plan for business parks and ag industry. Modesto could gain at least 100,000 residents in the next 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We already know that we can fit extra people in our current footprint ” by increasing housing density, he says. “But it doesn’t leave us anywhere to put the jobs for those people.” Stanislaus County already has an unemployment rate over 11 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wenger resists development here, though, saying, this is prime farmland. That’s a USDA designation for some of the best agriculture soil in the world. Also, he says, the German Baptists couldn’t just relocate an entire religious community like they did in the early 1900s. He wants the city to look elsewhere. “I do agree, we can bring in manufacturing jobs. We just don’t need to do it in the best farmland in one of the oldest communities in the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby, farmer Gordon Heinrich takes me to an orchard where a mechanical shaker grabs tree trunks, rattling them so hard it looks like it’s raining almonds. Heinrich and everyone I met here pronounces the nut “amonds,” with a silent “l.” When I ask why, he tells me an old joke. “There is kind of an old farm story. That is, when we shake them off the tree, we knock the ‘L’ out of it, and that brings it to ‘amonds.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This land-use fight has shaken quiet, private Wood Colony. “When the idea of annexation first came along, it really awoke a sleeping giant, so to speak, out here,” says Heinrich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the Wood Colony country fair. Residents would rather keep to themselves, but they held this event, inviting outsiders in to celebrate rural living, and get political support. While families take horse-drawn buggy rides past almond and walnut orchards, Claudia Bowser agrees to talk to me for this story, even though she doesn’t even own a radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are families here, there’s roots here. We don’t need cement and buildings and lifeless things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that once you take away prime farmland, you can’t replace it. “The Lord already knows what the answer is. I just pray it stays this good old countryside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will, if people across the region continue to see agriculture as their identity, and vote as they have in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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With unions on a decades-long downslide, \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Service Employees International Union\u003c/a> President Mary Kay Henry saw a chance to connect with disgruntled workers at companies like McDonald's and Jack in the Box and change the public conversation around stagnant wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What union they become a part of or what membership they have is sort of secondary to the first job, which is to make sure they win $15 and a union,” said Henry. The union has spent a reported $10 million on the campaign, which has spread from New York to Chicago, Detroit and the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If San Francisco and Oakland can raise their minimum wage and there can still be job growth and small business growth, it shows that what the right wing is saying is wrong. This is not a job killer. This is a job creator,” Henry added.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">How a president's remarks and a campaign by fast-food workers has struck a chord in the Bay Area.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Over the last two years, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu1021.org/politics/raise-the-bay/\">“Raise the Bay”\u003c/a> regional effort has recruited and trained dozens of fast-food employees to tell their stories in order to change public perceptions of who they are and what their lives are like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance: workers like KFC employee Shonda Roberts, with two daughters in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was probably working (at KFC) six months, and an organizer happened to come in and had a petition there to up the pay — minimum wage $15 — and I signed it [and] went to a meeting,\" Roberts recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then they flew me out to Detroit maybe six months later for a conference. And when I saw 1,500 young adults, all fast-food workers just standing in solidarity, I was hooked. It was like a drug,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Obama mentioned the minimum wage in his \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/sotu\" target=\"_blank\">2014 State of the Union address\u003c/a>, calling on “every mayor, governor and state legislator in America\" to take on the issue. UC Berkeley economist Ken Jacobs said Obama’s remarks were a coup for ongoing local efforts in Bay Area communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has really changed the debate.” said Jacobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose was ahead of the wave of Bay Area minimum-wage campaigns, with voters approving \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/election2012/2012/09/26/in-san-jose-voters-ponder-raising-minimum-wage-by-25-percent/\" target=\"_blank\">a raise to $10 an hour\u003c/a> (and future increases) in 2012. Earlier this year, both \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/06/east-bay-minimum+wage-conversation-spreads/\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-minimum-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley\u003c/a> moved to raise minimum wages. And this fall, voters in San Francisco and Oakland will consider ballot initiatives that would raise wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some local chambers of commerce and many business owners have argued against the hefty minimum-wage increases, saying that increased costs for employers will lead to layoffs and hurt workers, not help them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael LeBlanc, founder and principal of \u003ca href=\"http://www.picanrestaurant.com/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">downtown Oakland's Picán restaurant\u003c/a>, voiced those very concerns when he appeared before the Oakland City Council in July to testify against a campaign to raise the city's minimum wage by more than 35 percent. That proposal, placed on Oakland's November ballot through a petition drive led by a community group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.liftupoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Lift Up Oakland\u003c/a>, would hike minimum pay from $9 to $12.25 an hour, effective next March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the minimum wage increases in the form that Lift Up Oakland has it, I will lose eight or nine people, and I don’t have a choice about that,” LeBlanc told the council as it considered an alternate proposal for a more gradual increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council voted down the alternative, which would have raised wages to $12.25 next October and $13.50 in 2018. 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Officials from the city of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityoflancasterca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lancaster\u003c/a> claim that number grows by the day because of an alleged migration of train-hopping homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To curb this apparent surge of homelessness, the city aims to shutter the sole commuter train station linking Lancaster to L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekday morning in Lancaster, about two dozen young people, senior citizens and neatly dressed professionals disembark from one of just two trains that arrive from Los Angeles each morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Lancaster’s chief of public safety, Lee D’Errico, \u003ca href=\"http://www.metrolinktrains.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metrolink\u003c/a> commuter trains also ferry dozens of homeless people a week to the city. 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He referred all inquiries to City Manager Mark Bozigian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose (of the survey) was to ascertain general information regarding point of origin and need for services for Metrolink riders arriving at the Lancaster Metrolink station,” said Bozigian in a written response to a series of emailed questions from The California Report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bozigian suggested that in fact some individuals counted in the survey might not have actually been homeless or seeking services in Lancaster, only “likely” doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During one survey day, it was observed that 67 individuals who arrived via Metrolink were likely homeless and/or arriving for the purpose of receiving social services,” said Bozigian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No written report on the results of the survey was ever submitted to, or apparently requested by, the City Council. Yet it is being cited by Mayor Rex Parris and other officials as justification to either shut down or move the Lancaster Metrolink station about 10 miles to the south. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out 67 homeless people a day being shipped from downtown to us is, uh. I, I mean, isn’t it about time we quit being victims of downtown Los Angeles?” said Parris during an August council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lancaster Metrolink station is used by some 400 L.A.-bound commuters a day, including Dominic Bongiovanni, a Vietnam War veteran with a bushy beard and long silver hair who gets around with the help of a motorized wheelchair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bongiovanni uses Metrolink several times a week to get to and from doctor appointments in West L.A. He usually catches the first train out of Lancaster at 3:58 AM to get to those appointments on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now you wanna move the station somewhere else? 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Service providers in the region try to funnel those seeking assistance through a coordinated intake center in Lancaster. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the local branch of the organization Mental Health America, the number of people coming through the center is fairly stable — roughly 300 to 400 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small fraction are from outside the region, says MHA’s director, Judy Cooperberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A very, very small percentage,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of people we serve are indigenous to the Antelope Valley. I do not believe that we have 67 people a day coming from L.A.,” says Cooperberg, contradicting the findings of Lancaster’s recent street survey. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lancaster’s vice mayor, Marvin Crist, says it doesn’t matter if it’s 67 people a day or just one a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Say it’s one a day. 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Parris says shuttering the station, or moving it south nearly 10 miles to the border of Palmdale, would help shield downtown from the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have to get 10 miles without transportation to whatever services are there, you are less likely to make the trip in the first place,” says Perris, speaking after this week’s Lancaster City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Better, he says, the problem move somewhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Better it goes any place but Lancaster. I have 146,000 people and I will protect them, no matter what the consequences elsewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vote to close the transit station would also require an environmental review, public hearings and the approval of Metrolink’s board of directors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Parris says he won’t wait for approval. If the City Council votes to close the station, he’ll have it fenced off immediately.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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