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Jerry Brown dismissed the campaign as “barely a fart,” according to the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/02/jerry-brown-calls-texas-gov-rick-perrys-ad-barely-a-fart.html\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the newspaper went on to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/02/06/5170449/fewer-californians-leaving-state.html\">report\u003c/a> that more Californians move to Texas than go the other direction — about 21,000 more in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for all the business owners and millionaires among our readers who might be on the verge of joining that migration, we thought we’d offer a quick statistical comparison.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taxes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less taxation is Perry’s central claim for Texas, and according to the \u003ca href=\"http://taxfoundation.org/article/state-and-local-tax-burdens-all-states-one-year-1977-2010\">Tax Foundation\u003c/a>, the figures bear out his argument. The foundation says that Californians paid an average of $4,935 in state and local taxes in 2010, while Texans paid $3,205.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dividing total taxes by total income for the whole state, the foundation found that California had the fourth highest “tax burden” in the country, at 11.2 percent while Texas came in 45th with 7.9 percent. If anything the scale is likely to have tipped more in Texas’ favor since the passage of Proposition 30 last year increased taxes in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88547\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 215px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/07/which-is-better-california-or-texas/flag_of_texas-wikimedia/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88547\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88547\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/Flag_of_Texas-wikimedia.png\" alt=\"Flag of Texas (Wikimedia Commons)\" width=\"215\" height=\"142\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Texas (Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Income\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, if you make more money, higher taxes might not bother you so much. Californians had a per capita income of $43,919, while Texans made $39,536, using the foundation’s figures. After paying our higher taxes, Californians were left with $38,984 while Texans had $36,331. (These per capita income figures differ from those of the U.S. Census Bureau, but the general ratio is the same.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which state looks better by income may depend on whether you’re an employer or an employee. Perry, of course, is more interested in the perspective of employers who might like the opportunity of hiring cheap labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Employment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might be harder to find employees in Texas, though. 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In California, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://nces.ed.gov/programs/stateprofiles/sresult.asp?mode=full&displaycat=1&s1=06\">National Center for Education Statistics\u003c/a>, 23 percent of eighth graders scored at or above proficient in math on the National Assessment of Education Progress, compared to 36 percent of Texas eighth graders. For reading, 21 percent of California eighth-graders were at or above proficient compared to 28 percent of Texas eighth graders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Californian colleges and universities awarded 12 degrees or certificates for every thousand people in 2009-2010 and 2010-2011, compared to 9 degrees or certificates per thousand in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no point relocating to another state if your employees can’t find a place to live. According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.trulia.com/\">Trulia.com,\u003c/a> the median sales price of a home in California is $452,000, compared to only $144,900 in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your employees won’t do you any good if they’re too sick to come to work. It’s hard to come up with an overall statistic for health, but life expectancy at birth might be the closest proxy. The figure is 80.4 years in California and 78.3 years in Texas, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.statehealthfacts.org/comparetable.jsp?ind=125&cat=3\">Kaiser Family Foundation\u003c/a>. Healthcare coverage is slightly better in California as well. In Texas, 24 percent of the people are uninsured, compared to 20 percent in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Environment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The environment plays a role in attracting good employees and keeping them healthy. \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/16/environment-energy-vermont-biz-beltway-cx_bw_mm_1017greenstates_2.html\">Forbes\u003c/a> in 2007 ranked California as the 14th greenest state in the nation, and gave Texas a rank of 34. The publication based its ranking on such factors as energy consumption and pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crime\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll want your business safe from crime in its new location. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0308.pdf\">Census Bureau\u003c/a> reported 473.4 violent crimes and 2,728.2 property crimes per 100,000 people in California, compared to 491.4 violent crimes and 4,017.2 property crimes in Texas for the year 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Else?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We could go on, but everyone has different reasons for choosing where to live or locate a business. What factors would you consider in making a move?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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The foundation says that Californians paid an average of $4,935 in state and local taxes in 2010, while Texans paid $3,205.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dividing total taxes by total income for the whole state, the foundation found that California had the fourth highest “tax burden” in the country, at 11.2 percent while Texas came in 45th with 7.9 percent. If anything the scale is likely to have tipped more in Texas’ favor since the passage of Proposition 30 last year increased taxes in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88547\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 215px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/07/which-is-better-california-or-texas/flag_of_texas-wikimedia/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88547\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88547\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/Flag_of_Texas-wikimedia.png\" alt=\"Flag of Texas (Wikimedia Commons)\" width=\"215\" height=\"142\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Texas (Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Income\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, if you make more money, higher taxes might not bother you so much. Californians had a per capita income of $43,919, while Texans made $39,536, using the foundation’s figures. After paying our higher taxes, Californians were left with $38,984 while Texans had $36,331. (These per capita income figures differ from those of the U.S. Census Bureau, but the general ratio is the same.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which state looks better by income may depend on whether you’re an employer or an employee. Perry, of course, is more interested in the perspective of employers who might like the opportunity of hiring cheap labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Employment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might be harder to find employees in Texas, though. Unemployment there is 6.1 percent, compared to 9.8 percent in California, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/lau/\">Bureau of Labor Statistics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Education\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88548\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/07/which-is-better-california-or-texas/flag_of_california-svg/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88548\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88548\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/Flag_of_California.svg_.png\" alt=\"Flag of California (Wikimedia Commons)\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of California (Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The quality of the employee matters as well as the availability. In California, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://nces.ed.gov/programs/stateprofiles/sresult.asp?mode=full&displaycat=1&s1=06\">National Center for Education Statistics\u003c/a>, 23 percent of eighth graders scored at or above proficient in math on the National Assessment of Education Progress, compared to 36 percent of Texas eighth graders. For reading, 21 percent of California eighth-graders were at or above proficient compared to 28 percent of Texas eighth graders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Californian colleges and universities awarded 12 degrees or certificates for every thousand people in 2009-2010 and 2010-2011, compared to 9 degrees or certificates per thousand in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no point relocating to another state if your employees can’t find a place to live. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Sam Harnett\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even from outside on the street I could hear the screams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After braving the morning rush of the financial district, I had arrived to cover the first day of \u003ca href=\"//devbootcamp.com/%E2%80%9D\">Dev Bootcamp\u003c/a>, an intensive web development course held in a nondescript building not too far from Chinatown. That’s where the screams -- well, more like cheers, really -- were coming from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88357\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/06/dev-bootcamp/devbootcamp/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88357\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-88357\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/DevBootcamp-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy Dev Bootcamp\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy Dev Bootcamp\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program claims to transform, in nine short weeks, normal people into programmers. Price: $12,000. I hoped to be out of there and onto my next assignment before the coding got too heavy and the morning coffee wore off. But the very point of these bootcamps is that no one slips into the background and the energy remains at a constant boil. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus after my Dev Bootcamp contact caught me slinking away from the 18 cheering participants, he soon had me walking through the rows, slapping their hands. Soon we went into forced mingling and touchy-feely ice breaking. A loud burst of “Gangnam Style” signified it was time to form a circle and engage in intimate AA-style personal introductions. Here I linked arms with the would-be devs and discussed in earnest the most embarrassing moment of my life. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Looking for a new career\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the students sitting around the circle resembled the stereotypical programming geek that still sometimes crop up in movies or TV shows. No coke-bottle classes or pallid skin, and not even the remotest sign of anti-social behavior. Even those with a computer science background were witty, enterprising and self-deprecating. Everyone in the circle talked about startups and areas of interest as if at an NGO round table discussion on how to save the world. How could web development reform the justice system? Could it change how we get our food? What about education reform? Linguistic analysis?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>The focus of the camp is to develop basic programming capacity while refining “soft skills” like teamwork and self-reflection\u003c/strong>.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The students come from a broad mix of backgrounds. One is a Spanish ophthalmologist, another a Ph.D student in Japanese literature. A smattering of young college grads are also in the mix. These aren't slackers with dim employment prospects; they’re overachievers, with varying reasons for signing on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted to work for a small company doing something that I loved, something that I was interested in,\" said Brayden Cleary. \"With my major, what I learned in college, I didn't have an in at any of those companies – no marketable skills. I am doing this so that I have a fundamental understanding of programming technology ... \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eno Compton, the Japanese literature Ph.D., said he likes the educational approach. \"As I came close to finishing my doctorate ... it became clear that there is something really wrong with the university system now. To me, Dev Bootcamp is ... this tremendous new beginning for education ... that isn't [biased] towards what kind of degree you have, or did you get good grades. None of that. It's all about really loving something and wanting to learn it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are all bright, determined people, dead set on making the jump to a new career. But can they really become programmers in just nine weeks?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Beyond just programming chops\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dev Bootcamp curriculum centers around \u003ca href=\"//www.google.com/search?q=ruby+on+rails%E2%80%9D\">Ruby on Rails\u003c/a>, a versatile web development language. But as the founder, Shereef Bishay, explains, the language doesn't really matter. The focus of the camp is to develop basic programming capacity while refining “soft skills” like teamwork and self-reflection. That includes sessions on counseling, yoga and something on the F word. It's hard to imagine Bill Gates or Steve Jobs gave these topics much thought as they built their empires. But times have changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/03/dev-bootcamp/\" target=\"_blank\">Dev Bootcamp transforming education\u003c/a> (TechCrunch) \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And the truth is, programming itself has changed, too. Computer languages have evolved to be less code-intensive and more intuitive than what self-schooled programmers once punched out on hulking mainframes in the basements of universities, or on astronomically expensive home computers. Programmers who once had to write thousands of lines of code to complete a task can now do the same thing in minutes with Ruby on Rails or Python.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These innovations have dropped the technical bar significantly for an entry-level web developer. You still need to have the problem-solving skills of a programmer, but you don't have to memorize massive tomes of language rules or churn out lines of immaculate C++. According to recruiter Lisa Hall, what companies are putting a priority on when they look for developers are motivation, drive, creative thinking, team orientation and learning ability. These qualities, says Hall, are now prized more than pure programming power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall works at VonChurch, an agency that specializes in hiring for the digital entertainment industry. She’s currently working with two recent grads from a program similar to Dev Bootcamp based in New York. Neither had any previous experience in programming, but now that they've graduated, tech companies have come calling with offers of a job interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall says companies still need great hardcore programmers with the kind of deep background developed at four-year college computer science programs. But to meet current demand, there just aren't enough of those to go around. So the tech industry is hungry for progammers with even basic qualifications. The rewards can be great. 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Linguistic analysis?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>The focus of the camp is to develop basic programming capacity while refining “soft skills” like teamwork and self-reflection\u003c/strong>.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The students come from a broad mix of backgrounds. One is a Spanish ophthalmologist, another a Ph.D student in Japanese literature. A smattering of young college grads are also in the mix. These aren't slackers with dim employment prospects; they’re overachievers, with varying reasons for signing on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted to work for a small company doing something that I loved, something that I was interested in,\" said Brayden Cleary. \"With my major, what I learned in college, I didn't have an in at any of those companies – no marketable skills. 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But as the founder, Shereef Bishay, explains, the language doesn't really matter. The focus of the camp is to develop basic programming capacity while refining “soft skills” like teamwork and self-reflection. That includes sessions on counseling, yoga and something on the F word. It's hard to imagine Bill Gates or Steve Jobs gave these topics much thought as they built their empires. But times have changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/03/dev-bootcamp/\" target=\"_blank\">Dev Bootcamp transforming education\u003c/a> (TechCrunch) \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And the truth is, programming itself has changed, too. Computer languages have evolved to be less code-intensive and more intuitive than what self-schooled programmers once punched out on hulking mainframes in the basements of universities, or on astronomically expensive home computers. 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"content": "\u003cp>Think of it like a mushroom. Up near the top, there’s a big, fat cap of Baby Boomers; down below, the stem is struggling to hold up under the weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88392\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/06/californias-baby-boomers-on-track-to-overwhelm-states-younger-working-adults/ex2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88392\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-88392 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/Ex2-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"Ex2\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">See those big bars in the middle? See the little bars to the left? (Courtesy USC)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>USC’ Dowell Myers says The Day of Demographic Reckoning has come upon us. We share his thoughts because he's the lead researcher on a recently released report from the University of Southern California and the Lucile Packard Foundation, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.usc.edu/schools/price/research/popdynamics/pdf/2013_Myers_Californias-Diminishing-Children.pdf\">California's Diminishing Resource: Children\u003c/a>.\" Myers and his team analyzed data from the 2010 census and the American Community Survey to conclude that we're coming up on a rather large problem, economically speaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been sneaking up on us gradually, and it has finally arrived,\" Myers told \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201302060850/b\">The California Report\u003c/a>. \"The oldest Baby Boomer turned 65 last year, and now 18 years of Baby Boomers are going to cross that line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1970, children made up more than one-third of California's population. By 2030, they're expected to account for just one-fifth. 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He would prefer a California population of, oh, around 20 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is, the people are already here, the people who are weighing us down, like myself: Baby Boomers. We’re not going away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pool of retirees at any given time relies on the pool of working adults to pay the taxes that support the social safety net - and to buy the houses of Baby Boomers planning to finance their retirement in Palm Springs with the proceeds. If there aren’t enough buyers to keep real estate prices stratospheric, Myers says, “It isn’t going to look pretty for anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why is that a problem?” I asked him. After all, for Gen X and Yers who can hang on for a few years, a catastrophic drop in real estate prices might prove a real windfall. (Making a calendar note to myself here for 2023: buy home in choice neighborhood.) But then Myers and his cohort wouldn't be able to finance their retirement in Palm Springs. He might show up at my door wanting to move in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might think we could reasonably expect to offset the demographic gap with in-migration. I have a friend in New Jersey who's thinking of doing it within the next five years. Between Silicon Valley, Hollywood, organic salad greens, shale oil and who knows what New New Economic Driver drives the economy a decade from now, surely we’ll draw enough new talent to come out on top?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not likely, Myers says. It would take an awful lot of people coming here sooner rather than later to offset the dropping birthrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88391\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/06/californias-baby-boomers-on-track-to-overwhelm-states-younger-working-adults/ex1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88391\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-88391\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/Ex1-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Ex1\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The trend lines don't show us growing the population. (Courtesy USC)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ixnay on the Baby Bump strategy. Ixnay on the Import Our Workforce strategy. Final pitch: make Baby Boomers keep working. As it is, many Californians are already working in some capacity past 55 or 65 or whatever we used to think of as the Typical Retirement Date. There again, Myers is dour on the aggregate possibilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“You can only flex it a little bit,” he says. By 75, most people are ready to throw in the towel, if they haven’t already.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So what does Myers suggest? He recommends we immediately restore our commitment to educating our children as if they were going to be the workforce of the future, as opposed to potential prison inmates. Budget troubles or no, Myers calls the cuts to education in California penny wise and pound foolish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The bulk of our workforce, our projections show, are going to be homegrown Californians. We sure better put them all to work at really high capacity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means more Californians need to get college degrees. Myers is \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv5fihvbnh0&list=PL79EE48CBF0B345A8\">not alone\u003c/a> in that assessment. Those who look to the far horizon warn California will require more people with bachelors degrees than we are producing at present. Otherwise, we have a huge group of people in no position to support themselves, let alone anybody else.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In 1990, I bought \u003cem>1984\u003c/em> at Adobe Books, and I don’t think a three-day period has gone by since that I haven’t thought about that novel. I've actually picked up a lot of great books at Adobe over the years, but substantially fewer the last five or six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86353\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/Adobe_Again-13.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-86353\" title=\"Adobe_Again-13\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/Adobe_Again-13-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adobe bookstore owner Andrew McKinley (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A job, a kid. Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HBO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the core of the problem for Adobe, the not-buying-books thing. For almost 25 years, it’s stood on 16th Street off Valencia in San Francisco as a repository of the printed word, holding steady in a part of the city still called the Mission but which is beginning to look a little like Tribeca with taquerias. Now Adobe is facing a 50 percent or so rent hike that owner Andrew McKinley says he can’t pay. So the bookstore’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Adobe-Books/111859948834325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">supporters\u003c/a> are trying to turn it into a collective, with a soon to-be-launched \u003ca href=\"http://www.indiegogo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indiegogo\u003c/a> campaign. McKinley very much wants the co-op effort to succeed, even though he would no longer be running the show. In regard to this, he is philosophical though not particularly happy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s a possibility the store will turn into a cooperative,\" he told me. \"It will be a different store if that happens, with a new business model: new books, remaindered books, T-shirts, artwork.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He finds his predicament ironic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was always waiting for things to get better in the neighborhood, because it was sketchy when I opened. But now it’s funny to be pushed out by economic forces. We never expected this, but in retrospect we had 25 good years. They’ve been the best years of my life.\" \u003c!--more-->Last Wednesday night, Adobe fans gathered to drum up support for the transformation of the store and listen to local authors \u003ca href=\"http://therumpus.net/sections/blogs/stephen-elliott-blogs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stephen Elliott\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.rebeccasolnit.com/infinitecity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebecca Solnit\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/michelle.tea.12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michelle Tea\u003c/a> give readings related to the place and talk about how much they love it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adobe looked spiffed up for the event. Not the most practical place to browse in terms of physical access: The shelves, which have the excessively worn look of the starter furniture you threw out when you got your first real job, are usually and literally overflowing with books that crowd already-narrow aisles. It's not a masterpiece of \u003cem>feng shui -- \u003c/em> more like \u003cem>Das Boot\u003c/em> with a Fiction section. And I wouldn't say the most careful attention has been paid to the categorization scheme. You're as likely to find a pile of paperback thrillers sitting atop a space ostensibly devoted to, say, European history, as you are to find them in their native section.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Start stocking up on memories of what used to be.\u003c/strong>--Rebecca Solnit\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But Adobe never did give the impression it was overly interested in maximizing commerce. It's a definite take-it-or-leave-it type enterprise. At one point, the books were organized by color, the perfect arrangement for those in the mood to read something with a red cover. Then there are the people who regularly hang out on the couches in the middle of the store, snoring or mumbling to no one in particular. Encountering these folks can lead to the momentary impression you’ve stumbled upon break time at a particularly ineffective AA meeting. While a lot of business owners will do whatever they can to ward off the homeless or the overtly destitute, the bar for admittance at Adobe in terms of ability to actually pay for something is non-existent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve always enjoyed having all types of people,\" McKinley said. \"It’s one of the most diverse neighborhoods, probably in America. The mix of young and old, rich and poor, homeless and yupster. We’ve been very proud of that. We like to be all-welcoming. We cherish bohemians, and some of the best bohemians are the most down-and-out people. But we could use more wealthy customers at this point.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By all public accounts, and many private ones too, McKinley is a proprietor to admire. I don’t know him personally, but he did give me three dollars in trade once for a Françoise Sagan novel, turning it over in his hands before we sealed the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Françoise Sagan,\" he had said, downright wistful. \"I wish I could offer you more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It stuck in my mind, I guess, because it was the first and only time I’ve ever heard that particular sentiment coming from someone who actually meant it. And also because it seemed to pack into one pregnant exchange so many unpleasant developments for the bookstore lover of today. \"I wish I could offer you more,” might as well have been, \"It’s really too bad people don't buy these things like they used to.\" With the subtext that as far as an appreciation of Françoise Sagan goes, well, that and $3.50 will buy you a local latte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Solnit, Rebecca's brother, was at the reading. \"His primary logic is not trying to make a buck,\" he said of McKinley. \"It’s harder and harder to find spaces where you can do that in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actually, I have always wondered how a places like Adobe do make a buck, even when they made more of them. Some of these tomes look like they’ve been sent straight from central casting to populate a cultural institution that has turned a blind eye to mass tastes. \u003cem>New Looks at Italian Opera\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Secret Diary of Harold Ickes\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Listening to Catnip\u003c/em>. I assume the \u003cem>Harry Potter\u003c/em> books are somewhere, but there were about a hundred people in the store Wednesday, creating too many cul de sacs to look for much that wasn't already staring you in the face. Gloomy types may experience a small wave of depression from perusing titles like \u003cem>Birds of the Great Basin\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Year of the Kangaroo\u003c/em>. Someone once labored long and hard over \u003cem>The Year of the Kangaroo\u003c/em>. But who will read it now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or know it even exists if Adobe bites the dust?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, waiting somewhere among the warren of shelves, you can usually find something up your alley. For that and other reasons, the Adobe community is upset and forlorn about the constellation of circumstances that have conspired to put the bookstore in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It should probably be said around now that not everyone feels the same way -- I know plenty of people who not only like what's happening in the neighborhood, but who don't particularly rue the fact that one day Steve Guttenberg may be remembered more than Johannes Gutenberg. 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A friend of mine in her 20s who came to the event confessed she has bought, over the past several years exactly one printed volume. \u003cem>One.\u003c/em> Everything else has been purchased electronically in the comfort of her own home -- or wherever else she happened to be when she got the itch to read something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has happened to many bookstores,\" said Andrew McKinley. \"If you’d been in San Francisco 30 years ago, there were 40 or 50 used bookstores. Now there might be five or six.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are actually a \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=used+bookstore&find_loc=San+Francisco%2C+CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">few more than that\u003c/a>, but the \u003ca href=\"http://sfappeal.com/news/2011/02/two-sf-borders-bookstores-closing-union-square-clearance-sale-begins-friday.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trajectory\u003c/a> is really \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Stacey-s-Bookstore-closing-down-in-S-F-3177640.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not looking good\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bookstores. Why is it that whenever another one tanks, I go a little nuts? Because I've spent literally hundreds of hours getting lost in these dusty places of possibility, which are often mistaken for repositories of obsolescence? Or is it because one can choose to view the very existence of a book as predicated on an act of generosity? Of, even, communion? Read me! says \u003cem>New Looks at Italian Opera. \u003c/em>Check me out! exhorts \u003cem>Listening to Catnip\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>1984.\u003c/em> I'd never read it. But a chance glimpse in the \"recommended\" section at Adobe in 1990, and I've never really looked at anything the same way since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope Adobe makes it, in whatever form. “In 10 or 20 years,\" said Rebecca Solnit, \"you guys are gonna be like, 'Oh, you moved here after Adobe books? I remember Andrew’s old Adobe books.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Start stocking up on memories of what used to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In 1990, I bought \u003cem>1984\u003c/em> at Adobe Books, and I don’t think a three-day period has gone by since that I haven’t thought about that novel. I've actually picked up a lot of great books at Adobe over the years, but substantially fewer the last five or six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86353\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/Adobe_Again-13.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-86353\" title=\"Adobe_Again-13\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/Adobe_Again-13-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adobe bookstore owner Andrew McKinley (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A job, a kid. Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HBO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the core of the problem for Adobe, the not-buying-books thing. For almost 25 years, it’s stood on 16th Street off Valencia in San Francisco as a repository of the printed word, holding steady in a part of the city still called the Mission but which is beginning to look a little like Tribeca with taquerias. Now Adobe is facing a 50 percent or so rent hike that owner Andrew McKinley says he can’t pay. So the bookstore’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Adobe-Books/111859948834325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">supporters\u003c/a> are trying to turn it into a collective, with a soon to-be-launched \u003ca href=\"http://www.indiegogo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indiegogo\u003c/a> campaign. McKinley very much wants the co-op effort to succeed, even though he would no longer be running the show. In regard to this, he is philosophical though not particularly happy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s a possibility the store will turn into a cooperative,\" he told me. \"It will be a different store if that happens, with a new business model: new books, remaindered books, T-shirts, artwork.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He finds his predicament ironic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was always waiting for things to get better in the neighborhood, because it was sketchy when I opened. But now it’s funny to be pushed out by economic forces. We never expected this, but in retrospect we had 25 good years. They’ve been the best years of my life.\" \u003c!--more-->Last Wednesday night, Adobe fans gathered to drum up support for the transformation of the store and listen to local authors \u003ca href=\"http://therumpus.net/sections/blogs/stephen-elliott-blogs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stephen Elliott\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.rebeccasolnit.com/infinitecity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebecca Solnit\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/michelle.tea.12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michelle Tea\u003c/a> give readings related to the place and talk about how much they love it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adobe looked spiffed up for the event. Not the most practical place to browse in terms of physical access: The shelves, which have the excessively worn look of the starter furniture you threw out when you got your first real job, are usually and literally overflowing with books that crowd already-narrow aisles. It's not a masterpiece of \u003cem>feng shui -- \u003c/em> more like \u003cem>Das Boot\u003c/em> with a Fiction section. And I wouldn't say the most careful attention has been paid to the categorization scheme. You're as likely to find a pile of paperback thrillers sitting atop a space ostensibly devoted to, say, European history, as you are to find them in their native section.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Start stocking up on memories of what used to be.\u003c/strong>--Rebecca Solnit\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But Adobe never did give the impression it was overly interested in maximizing commerce. It's a definite take-it-or-leave-it type enterprise. At one point, the books were organized by color, the perfect arrangement for those in the mood to read something with a red cover. Then there are the people who regularly hang out on the couches in the middle of the store, snoring or mumbling to no one in particular. Encountering these folks can lead to the momentary impression you’ve stumbled upon break time at a particularly ineffective AA meeting. While a lot of business owners will do whatever they can to ward off the homeless or the overtly destitute, the bar for admittance at Adobe in terms of ability to actually pay for something is non-existent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve always enjoyed having all types of people,\" McKinley said. \"It’s one of the most diverse neighborhoods, probably in America. The mix of young and old, rich and poor, homeless and yupster. We’ve been very proud of that. We like to be all-welcoming. We cherish bohemians, and some of the best bohemians are the most down-and-out people. But we could use more wealthy customers at this point.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By all public accounts, and many private ones too, McKinley is a proprietor to admire. I don’t know him personally, but he did give me three dollars in trade once for a Françoise Sagan novel, turning it over in his hands before we sealed the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Françoise Sagan,\" he had said, downright wistful. \"I wish I could offer you more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It stuck in my mind, I guess, because it was the first and only time I’ve ever heard that particular sentiment coming from someone who actually meant it. And also because it seemed to pack into one pregnant exchange so many unpleasant developments for the bookstore lover of today. \"I wish I could offer you more,” might as well have been, \"It’s really too bad people don't buy these things like they used to.\" With the subtext that as far as an appreciation of Françoise Sagan goes, well, that and $3.50 will buy you a local latte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Solnit, Rebecca's brother, was at the reading. \"His primary logic is not trying to make a buck,\" he said of McKinley. \"It’s harder and harder to find spaces where you can do that in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actually, I have always wondered how a places like Adobe do make a buck, even when they made more of them. Some of these tomes look like they’ve been sent straight from central casting to populate a cultural institution that has turned a blind eye to mass tastes. \u003cem>New Looks at Italian Opera\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Secret Diary of Harold Ickes\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Listening to Catnip\u003c/em>. I assume the \u003cem>Harry Potter\u003c/em> books are somewhere, but there were about a hundred people in the store Wednesday, creating too many cul de sacs to look for much that wasn't already staring you in the face. Gloomy types may experience a small wave of depression from perusing titles like \u003cem>Birds of the Great Basin\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Year of the Kangaroo\u003c/em>. Someone once labored long and hard over \u003cem>The Year of the Kangaroo\u003c/em>. But who will read it now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or know it even exists if Adobe bites the dust?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, waiting somewhere among the warren of shelves, you can usually find something up your alley. For that and other reasons, the Adobe community is upset and forlorn about the constellation of circumstances that have conspired to put the bookstore in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It should probably be said around now that not everyone feels the same way -- I know plenty of people who not only like what's happening in the neighborhood, but who don't particularly rue the fact that one day Steve Guttenberg may be remembered more than Johannes Gutenberg. But at Adobe on Wednesday, there was a surplus of clarity among the faithful: They don't like e-readers, they don't like Amazon, and they don't like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/restaurants/article/Freeze-sought-on-Valencia-Street-restaurants-4122936.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dozens of upscale new restaurants\u003c/a> and stores that have changed the character of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a mall,\" said longtime Adobe patron Wade, of the new and improved area now often referred to as Valencia Corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex, 20-something, has eschewed electronic reading. \"It’s the aesthetic experience of a book. I love a book with a beautiful cover; I love the way a book smells; I love the weight of a book. All books look the same on a reader. I want character, I want history, I want the inscriptions of people who owned the book before me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're trying to convince us that books are obsolete,\" said Rebecca Solnit. \"But I challenge you to show me an app that’s going to last 200 years, and it’s just as readable as it was in 1789.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe so. But let's face it: It's not the handwriting on the wall troubling the bookstores of San Francisco, it's the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-19/amazon-com-says-kindle-electronic-book-sales-surpass-printed-format.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pixels\u003c/a>. A friend of mine in her 20s who came to the event confessed she has bought, over the past several years exactly one printed volume. \u003cem>One.\u003c/em> Everything else has been purchased electronically in the comfort of her own home -- or wherever else she happened to be when she got the itch to read something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has happened to many bookstores,\" said Andrew McKinley. \"If you’d been in San Francisco 30 years ago, there were 40 or 50 used bookstores. Now there might be five or six.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are actually a \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=used+bookstore&find_loc=San+Francisco%2C+CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">few more than that\u003c/a>, but the \u003ca href=\"http://sfappeal.com/news/2011/02/two-sf-borders-bookstores-closing-union-square-clearance-sale-begins-friday.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trajectory\u003c/a> is really \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Stacey-s-Bookstore-closing-down-in-S-F-3177640.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not looking good\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bookstores. Why is it that whenever another one tanks, I go a little nuts? Because I've spent literally hundreds of hours getting lost in these dusty places of possibility, which are often mistaken for repositories of obsolescence? Or is it because one can choose to view the very existence of a book as predicated on an act of generosity? 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"content": "\u003cp>The Maloof family, the majority owners of the Sacramento Kings basketball team, have \u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8864092/sacramento-kings-owners-reach-agreement-seattle-group-buy-team-sources-say\">struck a deal\u003c/a> to sell the team to a group that would move it to Seattle. But Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson says his city won't give up so easily. The NBA must approve any deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86503\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/21/owners-agree-to-sell-kings-basketball-team-to-seattle-group/los-angeles-lakers-v-sacramento-kings/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-86503\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-86503\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/Sacramento-Kings-Sign-0428-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Fans have campaigned to keep the Kings basketball team in Sacramento. (Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans have campaigned to keep the Kings basketball team in Sacramento. (Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who was a three-time All Star in his 12 years in the NBA, told \u003ca href=\"http://natomas.news10.net/news/news/109860-sacramento-kings-playtowin-campaign-gets-19m-down-payment\">a press conference\u003c/a> Tuesday afternoon that he has commitments from \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/city-beat/2013/01/investors-to-give-1-million-each-to-buy-sacramento-kings.html\">19 local investors\u003c/a> to put in a million dollars apiece to buy the team and keep it in the state capital. (After the press conference, Ryan Lillis of the Sacramento Bee tweeted that Johnson has secured a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Ryan_Lillis/status/293873493727137792\" target=\"_blank\">twentieth investor\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>$20 million's a drop in the basket against the $340 million that the Maloofs have been offered by the Seattle group, but Johnson says he has at least one big-money investor – he refers to them as “whales” – who will be firmed up in the next week or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/23/5134027/sacramento-mayor-johnson-discloses.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sacramento Bee reported Wednesday\u003c/a> that the \"whales\" might be Ron Burkle, a billionaire who is co-owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey club, and Mark Mastrov, the founder of the 24 Hour Fitness chain. Both have previously expressed an interest in the team. The Bee says they would not only buy the Kings, but also be involved in financing a new arena. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Ham writes about the Kings for NBA.com and the blog \u003ca href=\"http://www.cowbellkingdom.com/\">Cowbell Kingdom\u003c/a>, and co-produced a film about the team and its famously loyal fan base called “\u003ca href=\"http://smallmarketbigheart.com/\">Small Market, Big Heart.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor’s office was working on this long before the Seattle news came out,” he said after the press conference. “This has always been a possibility, that the Maloofs would decide to sell. I think that Sacramento and the mayor himself thought the Maloof family would have enough respect for all of the support and financial backing that this community has given them, to at least make Sacramento part of the conversation. Instead, they completely circumvented the mayor and just went straight to Seattle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seattle’s old NBA franchise, the SuperSonics, was bought by Oklahoma City investors in 2008 and became the Oklahoma City Thunder. Sonics fans have been longing for a new basketball team ever since. Ham says while Sacramento’s the 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> largest TV market in the U.S. and Seattle’s the 12\u003csup>th \u003c/sup>largest, it isn’t a slam dunk that Seattle would be a better venue for the NBA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at the Seattle market, they have professional baseball, football, and soccer, and they may end up with a professional hockey team. That’s a lot of major league sports to not just divert fans, but support from the business community. In Sacramento, [the Kings] are the only game in town, and it’s always been that way. In the history of the two franchises, Sacramento had better attendance than Seattle in almost every season that the two teams existed at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the effort to keep the Kings \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=226217\" target=\"_blank\">gained an unlikely champion\u003c/a> on Tuesday. State Senate President pro tem Darrell Steinberg sent a letter to the state’s department of general services, suggesting that if the move to Seattle goes through, California might want to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sactownroyalty.com/2013/1/22/3903864/fight-to-keep-kings-in-sacramento-gets-political\">re-evaluate its purchase\u003c/a> of Microsoft products and services. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is one of the principals of the Seattle group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some less well-known fans have made a \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZYfVc2uoUGU\">music video\u003c/a> in support of the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NBA makes the final decision, and they've said they will listen to both cities. Presentations will likely take place in March.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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