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That is part of the problem,\" says Jim Gallagher, General Manager at Garden Court Antiques, which is currently on the first floor of 2 Henry Adams St. \"Everyone has been sort of paralyzed and we realized that we need to speak up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rumors Proved True\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rumors began circulating months ago and several companies started to get worried as the property owner stopped renewing leases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Country Floor, which has been on the first floor for 21 years, tried to renew their long-term lease several months ago, but were told (without being given a reason) that they could only sign a month-to-month lease, says Jeanne Reynolds, showroom manager at Country Floors. They were also told they couldn't remodel after hiring an expensive architect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They weren't telling us the truth about anything. They were telling different people different things. 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Gallagher fears that moving the business will result in less foot traffic and business overflow from other business in the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are a community of folks and part of how we have survived is because of what we draw in for one another,\" Gallagher says. \"If we are all spread out, we don't have critical mass.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallagher adds that one of the important things to keep in mind are the blue-collar workers who rely on the businesses in 2 Henry Adams St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Supervisor Malia Cohen is preparing legislation that could change the historic landmark designation loophole, mandating that even historic buildings can't fully convert to office space. 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On average, people in the Bay Area are making a lot of money (too bad so much goes to keeping a roof over our heads).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, in its \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#00-0000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest numbers on employment and wages throughout the United States\u003c/a>, says average wages throughout the region are generally much higher than the national average of $22.33 an hour. The South Bay average is $34.45 an hour, which is 54 percent above the national average; in the San Francisco area, it’s $32.41, which is 45 percent higher than the U.S. mean; and in the East Bay, it’s $28.70, or 28.5 percent higher than the all-American average. Those newly released stats are all from May 2013, by the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the “we sure make a lot of money hereabouts” headline, the bureau’s numbers render a sharp statistical snapshot of the technology workforce and its economic impact in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, note that while tech workers are well paid, they’re not the highest-paid folks in the region. According to the bureau’s report, that distinction belongs in the Bay Area and nationwide to medical professionals: Psychiatrists, anesthesiologists, surgeons, obstetricians and gynecologists, orthodontists and oral-maxillofacial surgeons are at or near the top of the money list in every California metro area, with average yearly wages topping $200,000. 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In the area the bureau calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_41940.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara\u003c/a> (actually comprised of Santa Clara and San Benito counties), those in “Office and Administrative Support Positions,” a category ranging from bill collectors to gaming-cage workers, outnumber tech workers roughly 122,000 to 97,000. In the San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City area (corresponding to Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties), the tech worker population is outnumbered by those working in office support, sales, food services, financial services and management occupations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why does tech employment have such an outsize impact here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau’s statistics suggest it’s a combination of that high concentration of tech workers here combined with the wages the industry pays. In Silicon Valley, tech workers make up about four times the share of the workforce than they do nationwide — about 10.5 percent versus 2.8 percent across the entire U.S. labor pool. In the San Francisco region, 6.8 percent of workers are in tech occupations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the pay? Perhaps reflecting and partially feeding the unhappy reality of Bay Area property prices, tech wages here are the highest in the country. In Silicon Valley, the BLS says the mean annual tech wage is $115,870, the equivalent of $55.71 an hour. In San Francisco, the figures are $103,780 and $49.89. Those salaries are ahead of every other tech hub in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A glance at the other end of the wage spectrum also provides some concrete evidence of the have/have-not divide that’s led to our regional uneasiness over high real estate prices, Google buses and wealth inequality in general. 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That can be very uncertain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s Unknown About the Monterey Formation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why the uncertainty around the Monterey Shale? It has to do with the lack of information about the rock formation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Monterey has already been incredibly productive in California. It’s been the source of most oil production in the state over the last century. The rock layer covers 1,700 square miles and can be several thousand feet thick in places. It was created millions of years ago, when dead microorganisms piled up on the bottom of an ancient sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17668\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 311px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/05/NatGasSchematic2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-17668\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/05/NatGasSchematic2.jpg\" alt=\"Conventional drilling taps into reservoirs where oil and gas has pooled underground. Unconventional drilling goes deeper into the rock layers that generate oil.\" width=\"311\" height=\"376\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conventional drilling taps into reservoirs where oil and gas has pooled underground. 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There were plenty of conventional reservoirs to develop. But as the technology has improved and production in older reservoirs has declined, oil producers have started looking deeper, down to the Monterey Shale source rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is the Oil Still There?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Dakota has seen a massive oil boom in the source rock of its Bakken formation, due in large part to hydraulic fracturing. Fracking opened up source rock that was considered beyond reach just a few decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question in the Monterey Shale is whether the source rock still holds lots of oil. California’s abundant seismic activity could have forced much of the oil to migrate out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are very effective mechanisms that allow oil to be expelled from the source rock,” says Gautier. “Whereas up in the Bakken, the oil was generated 100 million years ago and has been sitting like a dead lump since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”087bded8a228f2ed2d9be0d52ba4272a”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of these unknowns, many believe there’s huge uncertainty about the amount of oil that can be recovered in the Monterey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just don’t know,” says Gautier. “One of the possibilities is that most of the recoverable oil has already been expelled and migrated. So what’s left behind is residual oil that won’t really yield significant production. That isn’t to say there isn’t a whole lot of oil in the Monterey or even that there isn’t a lot of oil remaining in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USGS is working on its own estimate of recoverable oil in the Monterey, expected early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seismically warped rock layers in California could also make it challenging to use the same fracking techniques that have been so effective in North Dakota. Oil wells are drilled horizontally for miles sometimes along a layer of rock. California’s roller-coaster rock layers could make horizontal drilling a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oil companies are still in the early stages of drilling exploratory wells in the source rock. Until more of that data are available, the jury is still out on the Monterey Shale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact of the matter is there’ve only been a handful of wells that even intended to test the idea,” says Gautier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What the Industry Is Saying\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the lackluster new estimate, the oil industry says the number has little effect on their efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘Whether there are 15 billion barrels or 600 million barrels… it’s still a lot of oil.’\u003ccite>— Susan Hersberger, Aera Energy\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The oil is still there,” says Catherine Reheis-Boyd of the Western States Petroleum Association, an industry group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a matter of technology and it’s a matter of the skill and experience and innovative spirit that we really believe the men and women of the petroleum industry possess,” she says. “And they will solve the puzzle and they will improve production rates from the Monterey Shale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several oil companies say their exploratory wells are getting them closer to the answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Preliminary data from our first exploration wells tells us the oil is there,” says Susan Hersberger of \u003ca href=\"http://aeraenergy.com/\">Aera Energy\u003c/a>, one of the largest oil production companies in California. “But this data has also confirmed that the Monterey Shale has some characteristics that warrant further study and testing, so that we might unlock its potential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Similar to the decades-long exploration of the Bakken, the Monterey exploration process will also be a long and complex journey,” she says. “Whether there are 15 billion barrels or 600 million barrels or something in between, it’s still a lot of oil. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS8926_Drought_JoshC-4394-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-136660\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS8926_Drought_JoshC-4394-lpr-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"A field near Los Banos, in the San Joaquin Valley. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A field near Los Banos, in the San Joaquin Valley. (Josh Cassidy/KQED) \u003ccite>((Josh Cassidy/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moody's Investors Service, one of the agencies that issues ratings for public agency bonds, has some good drought-related news to share. So far, \u003ca href=\"http://media.bizj.us/view/img/2725581/moodys-ca-drought-agriculture-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Moody's says, the drought has not had a \"material adverse impact\" on state or local governments\u003c/a>, and it's not expected to adversely affect their credit. Translation: If you're a bondholder, you don't have to worry about getting paid. If you're a local official wanting to float bonds, the drought shouldn't get in your way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moody's also says — no surprise here — that the financial impact of the drought will be felt most heavily in the state's agricultural centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By this time, most of us city dwellers have heard about the drought's impact on California's farms, farmers and farm communities. After three years of below-normal rainfall and a nearly nonexistent snowpack this year, many farmers won't get water from state and federal sources this year and hundreds of thousands of acres will go unplanted. Just Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://watershed.ucdavis.edu/files/biblio/Preliminary_2014_drought_economic_impacts-05192014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">UC Davis came out with a report\u003c/a> saying the drought will have $1.67 billion impact, directly and indirectly. The study says the equivalent of 14,500 jobs will be lost, along with $555 million in household wages and $853 million in gross domestic product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are big numbers. What do they mean for the state as a whole?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statistics/\" target=\"_blank\">state Department of Food and Agriculture says\u003c/a> California farms and ranches raked in $42.6 billion in 2012. The federal Bureau of Economic Analysis says agriculture's contribution to the state's gross domestic product is roughly $30.2 billion. That makes us the No. 1 state in the nation for farm receipts. Beyond that, it's well known that California is an essential producer of many crops — grapes, almonds and citrus, for instance. And the state's agricultural sector has reminded us often during the deepening drought just how important farms are to the rest of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Moody's is concerned about revenue streams and creditworthiness and long-term impacts. It casts a cold eye not only on the drought's impact on the state's farm counties so far but also on on the relative economic importance of agriculture in the California economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Says Moody's:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The state’s agricultural industry is a modestly sized component of the state’s overall economy, thereby limiting its overall impact on the state. The current drought is also not likely to materially reduce revenues for most cities and counties, even those with agricultural concentration.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Although California is one of the country’s largest agricultural regions and accounts for substantial, if not entire, portions of certain crops, the current drought will not weigh heavily on the state’s economy because agriculture comprises just a small proportion of the state’s total economy\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Wait. \u003cem>Agriculture's \"a modestly sized\" part of the state's economy?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How could that be? I asked several co-workers to guess what share of the state's gross domestic product comes from agriculture. The range ran from 20 to 80 percent. My guess would have been about one-third.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which means none of us thought hard enough about the question, because Moody's points out that agriculture accounts for just 1.5 percent — yes, one-point-five percent — of the state's GDP. What's easy to forget about California is that by itself it's one of the world's largest economies, with a 2012 GDP just north of $2 trillion, and is driven by sectors like technology, construction and health care. So, from Moody's point of view, our farm water problem and its effect on the bigger economy and government revenue is just not that big a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moody's also says that even in the state's most important farm centers, the drought's economic and revenue impact will be less than devastating. That's because most of the general revenues for local governments and districts come from property and sales taxes, which Moody's says are unlikely to take a major hit in the near term. The sales tax impact will be limited in farm counties, Moody's notes, because of long-entrenched economic factors:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In part due to the lower wages and seasonality of agricultural jobs, the state’s agriculturally concentrated counties tend to have high unemployment and poverty rates and lower, average wealth levels, even in the absence of a drought. This third year of drought is unlikely to change the long-term economic outlook for these counties. It will, however, place additional economic pressure on these areas until water supplies return to normal levels\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>One other eye-opening set of stats from the Moody's report: Even though farm counties have a high proportion of agricultural workers — 28 percent of the workforce in Monterey County, for instance — those workers account for a small share of total wages and salaries — in Monterey County, just 7 percent. That's a pattern that's repeated in the state's other big farm counties, too, where large sectors of the workforce are laboring for a meager share of overall income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last: Moody's notes that if the drought continues, all bets are off:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Our analysis in this report reflects the drought to date. If drought conditions continue for another year or two at the same severity, the state’s agriculturally concentrated regions will be highly challenged financially and economically. A persisting drought would make it increasingly difficult for farmers to utilize short-term measures to address water supply issues and could lead to significantly larger losses in farm income and employment. For a city or county with a large agricultural base, a prolonged drought could lead to material revenue losses.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/govbrown-640.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-135960\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/govbrown-640.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Few politicians — especially Democrats — eye an extra $2.5 billion as suspiciously as Gov. Jerry Brown. That’s the amount California revenue estimates have increased since Brown introduced his initial budget in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Brown rolled out his revised $156 billion spending plan Tuesday, he spent the bulk of the press conference pushing back against calls to further hike state spending and restore programs cut during the recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, you say we ought to do more,” Brown said at one point. “Well, to do more you need to have to take it from some other program — from the courts, from the university, from roads, from something — or you have to get more taxes. There is no other way around it. And I invite everybody to scrutinize. If you can find more cookies in the jar, hallelujah.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has made fiscal restraint \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/21/draft-state-of-the-state-address/\" target=\"_blank\">his main theme\u003c/a> in this election-year budget. He wants to spend $11 billion paying off debt and rewrite laws governing \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/11/125893/gov-brown-rainy-dawy-fund\" target=\"_blank\">how much money the state sets aside in a rainy day fund\u003c/a> to use during deficit years. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/governor-jerry-brown-reaches-deal-with-legislature-on-budget-reserve\" target=\"_blank\">The governor recently won support\u003c/a> from all four legislative caucuses for that plan, which will be put on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'A Huge Social Commitment'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One social safety-net program does see a major boost in Brown’s budget. He’s proposing a $1.2 billion increase for the state’s Medi-Cal health care program, compared with January. The money is needed, he said, because \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/12/10/will-you-qualify-for-medi-cal-under-obamacare/\" target=\"_blank\">as the health care program expands alongside the federal Affordable Care Act\u003c/a>, far more people are signing up for coverage than the state estimated. Brown said more than 11 million people will be enrolled in Medi-Cal this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thirty percent of the people of California are now getting health coverage under our Medi-Cal program,\" Brown said. \"That is a huge social commitment on the part of the taxpayers of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the federal government is picking up the tab for newly eligible Medi-Cal recipients, the state has to pay half the cost for new enrollees who would have qualified under the old guidelines. So far this year, 300,000 more people have signed up than state officials initially counted on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/149529757&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when labor, health access groups and fellow Democrats ask Brown why he isn’t more committed to restoring social services programs for the poor, this is what he points to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>This\u003c/em> is the social program. When you say we’ve got to help the least among us, this is what this program …. This is not going to the middle class. It’s not going to the rich. It’s going to those who are struggling the most,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown dismisses the idea of restoring one recession-era cut that doctors say would go a long way toward improving the growing health care system. In 2011,\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/01/09/long-fought-medi-cal-provider-rate-cuts-take-effect/\" target=\"_blank\"> lawmakers cut Medi-Cal reimbursement rates for doctors by 10 percent.\u003c/a> Those cuts went into effect earlier this year. Richard Thorp, the president of the California Medical Association, says many providers may stop seeing Medi-Cal-insured patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s overhead costs and employee costs, and just running the business costs,” Thorp said. “So when you’re getting paid significantly less than it costs to actually keep your business open, there’s a certain amount of that where you can’t just continue to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Plan for Pensions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Brown has made paying off debt a top priority throughout his term, he had avoided dealing with a looming $75 billion hole in the state’s teacher retirement fund. Brown finally unveiled a specific plan Tuesday. He wants to pump $450 million into the fund this year and keep increasing that total down the line. Republican Senate leader Bob Huff welcomed the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_24998205/californias-wall-debt-is-only-slice-its-liability\" target=\"_blank\">We’ve got $340 billion in unfunded liabilities\u003c/a>. CalSTRS is particularly upside down. So having a plan that recognizes that and addresses that is very important,” Huff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s proposal commits an additional $73 million in general fund money to CalSTRS (California State Teachers' Retirement System) this year. It would increase contributions from teachers and school districts, too. Teachers’ contributions would eventually grow to 10.25 percent of their pay, while school districts would kick in a bit less than 20 percent of their payroll totals. 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And I flag down three friendly-looking teenage girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re hovering around a smartphone — not a flip phone. And I ask Rezina Gerba what kinds of things she likes to do with it. She gives me the universal look for “duh” and explains, “Like everybody else, I send text messages with it. I make calls. I listen to music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask the girls to play me a song. They take out “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1JPKLa-Ofc&feature=kp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drunk in Love\u003c/a>” by Beyonce. It’s the exact same song I’ve been playing — on repeat — since I left San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that moment it hits me: While the cabs of Dakar are more beat-up than the ones back home, the cabbies are texting-while-driving. While the wireless signal is way more shoddy, the kids are downloading songs whenever they’re connected. Our appetite for digital life is basically the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cell Phone Alley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I turn the corner into a dingy, cluttered alley. It’s the gray market for mobile phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the entrance peddlers are selling diamond-studded iPhone cases, right by a classy statue of a busty woman on a bike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140914\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/DemeCellPhoneAlley.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/DemeCellPhoneAlley-400x514.jpg\" alt=\"Tidjane Deme, the head of Google's office in Dakar, buys the latest Samsung Galaxy in this gray market because it's not yet being imported through official channels. (Aarti Shahani/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"514\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140914\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tidjane Deme, the head of Google’s office in Dakar, buys the latest Samsung Galaxy in this gray market because it’s not yet being imported through official channels. (Aarti Shahani/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This looks nothing like the Apple Store. But the narrow stalls, squished side by side, are stocked with the latest phones. They’re not all coming in through official channels. Vendors here fly to Europe, pack suitcases and bring them back. There’s also a lot of Chinese knockoffs that go for 70 bucks US — about what a teacher here makes every week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vendor Aziz Abdou Salam Sy has had his stall for years. He tries to hustle me. We all know technology loses value as soon as you buy it. But smartphones are so hot, he says, they make a great investment — just like gold!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have extra cash and you don’t want to burn through it, you can buy a phone and store your money that way,” Sy says. “Then if you need cash, you can always sell it again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Silicon Valley on a Humanitarian Mission?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mobile explosion in sub-Saharan Africa came as a surprise. In the 1990s, Western aid groups talked about communal computing — village cyber cafes where businessmen could work by day and village children could Web-surf by night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now nearly \u003ca href=\"http://www.gsmamobileeconomyafrica.com/Sub-Saharan%20Africa_ME_Report_English_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one in three\u003c/a> people has a mobile phone, and smartphones are a lot cheaper than desktops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ethan Zuckerman, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://civic.mit.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MIT Center for Civic Media\u003c/a>, says, “If you’re an aspirant to the middle class, one of the first things you’re going to do is move from a dumb phone to smartphone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley has noticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Zuckerberg isn’t just the CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook.com\u003c/a>. He’s also the founder of \u003ca href=\"http://internet.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internet.org\u003c/a> — a nonprofit he started last year to spread the Internet around the world. He describes the mission as a humanitarian one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean here we use things like Facebook to share news and catch up with our friends,” he recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8N3wGjiPYg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told CNN\u003c/a>. “But there, they’re going to use it to decide what kind of government they want, get access to health care for the first time ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not every tech titan buys his philanthropic intent. Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder who funds African health and education initiatives, has said of the Internet campaign: “\u003ca href=\"http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/dacd1f84-41bf-11e3-b064-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2jXaraByW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As a priority? It’s a joke\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://profiles.ucsf.edu/eric.goosby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Eric Goosby\u003c/a>, a public health expert at UCSF, is less critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy that they’re rising up and saying how are they relevant to this burden of disease on the planet,” he says. “”But I’m prepared to say they’re not going to get anywhere without aligning it with knowledgeable people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goosby has been on hundreds of missions to Africa. He welcomes all hands on deck. And even if the motivation is commercial too, that’s OK. But, he says, the digital superhighway doesn’t bypass the need for real roads, real schools and real experts on the ground. “The connectivity doesn’t replace the interaction with a person at a moment of crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Google Guy: Let’s Leapfrog\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question now is not if Africans will use mobile more, but how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google has a tiny outpost in Senegal. Tidjane Deme is the head of it. After studying abroad and running a failed startup, he returned to his native Dakar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early days of this office, he’d call his colleagues in Mountain View and they’d kind of hang up on him. ‘”Hmmm you say you’re from Dakar. We have an office there? Let me check,” Deme recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140916\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/SyCellAlley.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/SyCellAlley-400x538.jpg\" alt=\"Longtime vendor Aziz Abdou Salam Sy says Africa's growing middle class loves their phones; and he has creative sales pitches. (Aarti Shahani/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"538\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140916\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime vendor Aziz Abdou Salam Sy says Africa’s growing middle class loves their phones; and he has creative sales pitches. (Aarti Shahani/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Silicon Valley, tech companies have gated campuses. Here, IBM and HP are in the same downtown office building. The scene is so small, they’re literally next-door neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deme shuts the door, sits on a giant beanbag chair, and lays out his theory about mobile growth. In sub-Saharan Africa, \u003ca href=\"http://www.unicef.org/french/adolescence/files/ADAP_Learning_Series-5_Africas_Young_Urbanites.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most young people live in cities\u003c/a> now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are really cosmopolitan. They’re watching premiere league soccer games or the last Beyonce clip,” he says, “but they’re also watching comedy, film TV series made by a local creator. So they really consume an interesting mix of local and international content. And Internet should not just be about half of their life. It should be about all of their life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means they need way more local content — especially video content. When Deme compares the written word — typed or SMS texted — versus the video form, “I know without doubt that video form will win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given illiteracy in Africa, visual makes more sense. And also, much like the rest of the world, Africans like to see themselves online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This will require much better \u003ca href=\"https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Regulatory-Market/Documents/IIC_Africa_Final-en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broadband connection\u003c/a>, not just 2G and 3G signals. So the mobile operators have to step up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are more likely to leapfrog in the digital age if we go straight for high-quality Internet bandwidth rather than if we go and build crappy Internet as we have crappy roads,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google data show there’s pent-up demand. So Deme says, each company investing in mobile stands to cash in big time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His theory has a provocative edge. I ask him if it’s unethical to push an Internet connectivity strategy in which people who do not have clean drinking water are paying for digital life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says without pause, “We should definitely not be telling people you’re too poor to get the benefits of Internet. I think that would be ethically wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Local YouTube Celebrities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing number of local artists agree with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the stars of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLaem52jXY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journal Rapp\u003c/a> — an edgy news show that’s kind of like the “Daily Show,” except they rap the news. They’re capitalizing on the mobile economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years and years, host Xuman Mactarfal says, he’d see corrupt politicians squandering tax money. “They’re buying luxury cars. And without even hiding. All of that was on TV. 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(Chris Weeks/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Chris Weeks/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has filed two lawsuits against property owners who allegedly broke the law by converting residential apartments into high-priced commercial lodging for tourists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suits, filed Wednesday, represent the latest volley in the uproar over the deepening housing shortage in the city and the proliferation of short-term rentals all over town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two sets of landlords — who own property in Pacific Heights and North Beach — relied on online platforms such as Airbnb, HomeAway and VRBO to market their units. The defendants in both cases had evicted long-term residents from their apartments under the state's Ellis Act, which permits some landlords to do so if they want to get out of the rental market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of the evicted tenants were disabled, according to San Francisco Superior Court and Rent Board records cited in the pleadings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the midst of a housing crisis of historic proportions, illegal short-term rental conversions of our scarce residential housing stock risks becoming a major contributing factor,” Herrera said yesterday in a statement. “The cases I’ve filed today target two egregious offenders. … Today’s cases are the first among several housing-related matters under investigation by my office, and we intend to crack down hard on unlawful conduct that’s exacerbating — and in many cases profiting from — San Francisco’s alarming lack of affordable housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owners violated San Francisco housing and zoning laws as well as the state's unfair competition law, according to Herrera. The suit is seeking thousands of dollars in penalties, and also injunctions that would put a stop to the short-term rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emphasizing that the conversion of residential units to tourist hotels has significantly contributed to the city's housing shortage, the suit cited short-term rentals advertised on April 10: 6,225 on Airbnb, 1,413 on VRBO, 1,351 on HomeAway and 511 on FlipKey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit notes that San Francisco's Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Ordinance covers about 172,000 rental units and \"should mitigate the effects of such an explosive housing market\" by capping annual rent hikes and allowing evictions only in limited circumstances. Instead, the units are being threatened by owners eager to cash in on short-term vacation rentals, the suit says, jeopardizing the character of San Francisco neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the lawsuit, Valerie and Darren Lee bought property at 3073-3075 Clay St. in 2004 and invoked the Ellis Act the following year to evict tenants from both residential units. One house was described on vacation websites as an “exquisitely renovated home, in prime Pacific Heights.” The Lees charged their guests between $395 and $595 each night for a minimum three-night stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By doing this, they ignored the city's conditional use process, which has requirements that include obtaining a permit for rentals shorter than 30 days. The Lees were repeatedly cited for their illegal use of the property, paying more than $8,000 in penalties — and they now owe the city more than $39,000. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Lance Knobel\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/04/22/berkeley-mayor-proposes-east-bay-minimum-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/restaurant.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-133578\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/restaurant-640x421.png\" alt=\"The speed of adoption of an increased minimum wage has faced pushback from some restaurateurs in Berkeley. (Postcard PR/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The speed of adoption of an increased minimum wage has faced pushback from some restaurateurs in Berkeley. (Postcard PR/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates today proposed that a number of East Bay cities, including Berkeley, join together to enact a regional minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates’ proposal comes little more than a week before the Berkeley City Council holds a special meeting on a citywide minimum wage on May 1. Richmond has already had the first reading of a minimum wage ordinance, and a minimum wage initiative for the November ballot is being circulated in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"I don't want to put our businesses at a disadvantage with regard to neighboring communities.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“There were two major principles in putting this together,” Bates said. “I don’t want to put our businesses at a disadvantage with regard to neighboring communities. It makes sense for everyone to have the same wage. The second thing is that Oakland is the largest city and the city that determines the fate of what the rest of us have to go along with. People tell me that (the Oakland measure) is going to qualify and it’s going to pass. The rest of us ought to tee off that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Oakland measure, the minimum wage would rise to $12.25 in May next year, from the state minimum of $9, a 36 percent increase. That rate would then be adjusted annually to keep up with the local consumer price index.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates’ proposed regional minimum wage would provide a more gradual path to Oakland’s goals. He proposes an 11.6 percent increase this November to $10.04, followed by another 11.6 percent increase in April, 2015 to $11.20, followed by an 11.9 percent increase in April, 2016 to reach $12.25. Following that, the rate would be adjusted annually with the CPI (consumer price index).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133580\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/bates.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-133580\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/bates-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Bates: “Berkeley needs to be with Oakland.” (Emilie Raguso/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bates: “Berkeley needs to be with Oakland.” (Emilie Raguso/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The proposal from the Berkeley Commission on Labor, which forms the basis for the City Council’s meeting next week, calls for a $10.74 minimum wage this year for businesses with fewer than 50 employees and nonprofits (as well as a medical benefit requirement), and an annual CPI adjustment. From 2016, $0.55 is added to the CPI adjustment, until the rate reaches the Berkeley Living Wage, which is currently $13.34 per hour, according to the commission. For “corporate franchises” or businesses with over 50 employees, the commission recommends a minimum wage increase to the Berkeley Living Wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some restaurant owners in Berkeley have been vocal in opposing the labor commission plan, arguing that it raises the rate too rapidly for their businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The restaurant people will think the regional plan goes too fast, and the people that are supporting the labor commission will think it’s a sell out,” Bates said. “So maybe it’s the perfect position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates sent the proposal to all elected councilmembers in Oakland, Richmond, Emeryville, Albany and El Cerrito. He said he had discussed the proposal with three Oakland City Council members and one in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reception from all of them is that they liked the idea of a regional minimum wage,” Bates said. “They all agree that’s the ideal. The question is how do we achieve that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley needs to be with Oakland,” Bates said. “I believe this $12.25 is going to happen. We’ve just done it in a smarter way. I think it’s a fair proposal, but if no one else joins us, at least we’ll be connected with Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates said there are other examples of East Bay cities working together. He pointed to the East Bay Public Safety Corridor, the East Bay Green Corridor, the East Bay Arts Corridor and a regional sports complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The logical thing is to work together with our neighbors,” he said. “All of those are things I started. 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