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Latinos have been known for reusing everything from margarine containers to clothing to broken items, all of which can be repaired or reassembled into something else.[aside postID=news_12087163 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260611-KONDAWORLDCUP00428_TV-KQED.jpg']I witnessed this growing up with my mother, who sews, and my father, who knew carpentry. 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From the time that she was in kindergarten, she knew she wanted to be a clothing designer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia’s love of thrifting came from “just not having money,” she said. “Growing up, we would go to charity shops and get secondhand clothing, or I’d get a lot of hand-me-downs from my sister or my mom or family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She learned to sew in high school so she could apply to a fashion program for college, and made her dress for senior prom. At FIT, she specialized in intimate apparel and learned how to make garments by hand, use natural dyes and make use of what’s known as dead stock — excess fabric left over from clothing factories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwmdENkEvJg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of her graduation from FIT was supposed to entail a final fashion show, attended by potential employers. The event was canceled because of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had imagined trying to get a job out of college as an entry-level designer for a fashion brand, but those opportunities dissipated during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That led her to social media and upcycling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first started out my business, my intention was to upcycle and sell pieces. But I was doing that, and I was pricing things very affordably,” she said. “So I was underpaying myself. It just wasn’t a sustainable business model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She mostly makes dresses for herself as opposed to making them for customers, because dresses seem to offer the biggest wow factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260710_KONDALATINAFASHIONUPCYCLER_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260710_KONDALATINAFASHIONUPCYCLER_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260710_KONDALATINAFASHIONUPCYCLER_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260710_KONDALATINAFASHIONUPCYCLER_GC-1-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracy Garcia’s work station in Oakland on July 10, 2026. 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That is more than double what she might be earning as a low-level designer at a major fashion brand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really happy with the way things turned out, because if that never happened, I wouldn’t be where I am today,” she said. “It pushed me to start my own business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Garcia and her fiancé moved to the Bay Area in late 2024, she set up her studio in the second bedroom of their apartment.[aside postID=arts_13991309 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/Christian-Vela-soundcheck-5.jpg']Her creative process starts with finding reclaimed fabrics, usually at thrift stores like Savers in Alameda, one of her local favorites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent visit to her studio, she showed me some of her favorite pieces, including a two-toned light and medium blue halter beach dress, a sleeveless number from a beaded shirt she found in Europe, a cocktail dress made from Mexican National Team soccer jerseys and an off-white lace gown with a Mandarin collar that she plans to wear for her engagement photo shoot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never look at the item itself,” Garcia said. “I always look at that fabric if I like the print, if I like the fiber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m always drawn to floral prints, bright colors. 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There is still a bench sitting outside my parents’ house that my dad fashioned out of a discarded diving board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado said that in Latine communities, “you have to make everything extend because you don’t have a lot of money and you also live in a collective, collaborative kind of community where whatever else you have, you give to other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more common among people that are working class or are poor, both in the U.S. and in Mexico.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rasquache, born out of necessity and struggle, now confronts a world where regular items are cheap and disposable and fast fashion clothes are filling up landfills — a particular concern for Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Hurtado if Latinos are beginning to lose our Rasquachismo as it becomes easier and cheaper to access various goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado responded that cultural practices are not always transmitted linearly from one generation, and younger generations can choose to carry on those practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090678\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260710_KONDALATINAFASHIONUPCYCLER_GC-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260710_KONDALATINAFASHIONUPCYCLER_GC-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260710_KONDALATINAFASHIONUPCYCLER_GC-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260710_KONDALATINAFASHIONUPCYCLER_GC-17-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracy Garcia, fashion designer and influencer, sews a piece of fabric at her studio in Oakland on July 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Garcia, for example, is making a conscious choice to reject fast fashion and promote sustainability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You may not loop back all the way to the origins of these practices,” Hurtado said. “But you end up modifying those practices and keeping some of the essence of them.”\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia, whose parents immigrated from Oaxaca, Mexico, grew up in Paso Robles. 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The event was canceled because of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had imagined trying to get a job out of college as an entry-level designer for a fashion brand, but those opportunities dissipated during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That led her to social media and upcycling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first started out my business, my intention was to upcycle and sell pieces. But I was doing that, and I was pricing things very affordably,” she said. “So I was underpaying myself. It just wasn’t a sustainable business model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She mostly makes dresses for herself as opposed to making them for customers, because dresses seem to offer the biggest wow factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260710_KONDALATINAFASHIONUPCYCLER_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260710_KONDALATINAFASHIONUPCYCLER_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260710_KONDALATINAFASHIONUPCYCLER_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260710_KONDALATINAFASHIONUPCYCLER_GC-1-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracy Garcia’s work station in Oakland on July 10, 2026. 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"content": "\u003cp>After years of negotiations and delays, Oakland leaders approved a deal to sell the city’s 50% stake in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-coliseum\">Coliseum complex\u003c/a> on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city council voted 6-1 in favor of the $125 million sale, which they say will bring jobs and economic growth, as well as arts and entertainment investment to the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like to say Oakland has never won a sports deal … but I truly feel like we won this deal,” City Council President Kevin Jenkins said during a press conference celebrating the vote. “We get a bad rep for losing three sports teams. So we are making a transition into a music city, where acts of all kinds want to come and perform in our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the terms approved Monday, Oakland agreed to sell its stake to the Oakland Acquisition Company, an affiliate of the African American Sports and Entertainment Group, for a lump sum of $110 million. The parties also agreed to additional payments adding up to $15 million in closing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 112-acre complex is being sold as two parcels: a smaller 9-acre plot that includes the Oakland Arena, and a larger 103-acre area, which includes the Coliseum Stadium and surrounding lots. As part of the deal, OAC is expected to sell the Arena parcel to venue management company Oak View Group, founded by entertainment mogul Irving Azoff, for $100 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concurrent sale of the parcels is set to close as soon as September, and no later than January 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11742428\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/coliseumcomplexa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1408\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/coliseumcomplexa.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/coliseumcomplexa-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/coliseumcomplexa-800x587.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/coliseumcomplexa-1020x748.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/coliseumcomplexa-1200x880.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oracle Arena, left, and the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Negotiating the sale of the Coliseum has been a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048852/after-months-oakland-coliseum-sale-is-finally-up-for-key-vote-heres-what-to-know\">long and complicated process,\u003c/a> requiring both the city and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022106/alameda-county-moves-closer-to-oakland-coliseum-sale-final-vote-expected-in-30-days\">Alameda County\u003c/a> to come to separate agreements with OAC to sell their halves of the stake in the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azoff, a former record executive and former CEO of Ticketmaster, joined city officials in Oakland Monday morning, vowing to attract more music and bigger shows to the arena by investing in the building and improving the fan experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a rescue mission in itself; it’s just an opportunity to take what I consider to be a B experience and make it an A-plus experience,” Azoff said. “The fan experience at the arena is going to be second to none.”[aside postID=news_12090467 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Sitara-Credit-Oakland-Zoo.jpg']Azoff’s group has done similar revitalization projects at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, and CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Oak View Group plans to invest tens of millions to upgrade facilities at the arena and bring in locally run businesses to support concessions and amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our opportunity is to respect what works, invest in what could be better, invest in the community and bring our unique artist relationships, both as a management company and as OVG, to get to the next chapter of this great building,” Azoff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city will also receive 6% of revenue from future event ticket sales at both the arena and stadium, as long as it’s functioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Rowena Brown, who will be leading the city and buyers’ work to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003025/east-oakland-students-share-bold-vision-for-coliseum-revamp-with-new-owners\">reinvest in East Oakland\u003c/a>, said the city hopes to use that revenue to build up the surrounding area, including a major, struggling business corridor, which connects the Coliseum to the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is our hope that we can use that to help revitalize the Hegenberger Corridor, as well as help uplift East Oakland that has been underserved for so long,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006784\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006784\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-17KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-17KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-17KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-17KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-17KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-17KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-17KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Packed stands at the Oakland Coliseum for the A’s last home game on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Oakland will have to wait longer — and risk uncertainty — before the stadium parcel is paid for in full. OAC agreed to pay $60 million for the city’s interest in the larger parcel within the next seven years. The company has already made a $5 million deposit on the sale, which will be subtracted from that balance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a special city council meeting Monday, council members asked what would happen if the acquisition group fails to make scheduled payments, or reneges on the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City finance director Bradley Johnson said in the worst case, the city would retain the deed to the land — and save up to $42 million in maintenance costs over seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland currently spends about $6 million a year to keep the Coliseum running, which it will no longer be responsible for when the deal closes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s money, if this deal is signed and we transfer ownership, that can continue to flow back to the city of Oakland that we can use to keep our core city services going,” Councilmember Janani Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Ken Houston, whose district includes the complex, said the deal agreed to Monday makes “lemonade out of lemons,” after years of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036060/oakland-pushes-coliseum-sale-next-year-delaying-funds-again\">delays\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006211/sad-devastated-bittersweet-oakland-as-fans-process-feelings-during-teams-final-week-of-home-games\">departures\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008329/oakland-coliseum-sales-new-deal-draws-council-members-ire-over-lack-of-transparency\">controversy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, then Mayor Sheng Thao included \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992883/oakland-city-council-passes-budget-amid-concerns-over-pending-coliseum-sale\">revenue from the presumed Coliseum sale\u003c/a> in the city’s annual budget — money that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009486/oaklands-finances-significant-risk-report-warns-coliseum-sale-raises-questions\">did not end up materializing\u003c/a> within the year, and later required \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">drastic service cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12081852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12081852\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-05_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-05_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-05_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-05_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao holds a press conference at Oakland City Hall on June 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thao was recalled that November, following her involvement in an FBI fraud and bribery investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three major sports teams that used to play at the stadium or arena, including the Golden State Warriors, Raiders and Athletics, have all departed Oakland in the last decade. Last week, the Oakland Roots, a professional soccer club that’s played at the Oakland Coliseum for the last two years, announced that they would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12090471/oakland-roots-to-leave-coliseum-begin-search-for-new-permanent-home\">leave the venue this fall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Barbara Lee, who was elected to replace Thao, said it was a “good news day” for Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This deal … really paves the way to create jobs and economic development, economic activity, specifically in underserved areas in East Oakland and deep East Oakland,” Lee said. “These investments are long overdue, and our community deserves this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After years of negotiations and delays, Oakland leaders approved a deal to sell the city’s 50% stake in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-coliseum\">Coliseum complex\u003c/a> on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city council voted 6-1 in favor of the $125 million sale, which they say will bring jobs and economic growth, as well as arts and entertainment investment to the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like to say Oakland has never won a sports deal … but I truly feel like we won this deal,” City Council President Kevin Jenkins said during a press conference celebrating the vote. “We get a bad rep for losing three sports teams. So we are making a transition into a music city, where acts of all kinds want to come and perform in our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the terms approved Monday, Oakland agreed to sell its stake to the Oakland Acquisition Company, an affiliate of the African American Sports and Entertainment Group, for a lump sum of $110 million. The parties also agreed to additional payments adding up to $15 million in closing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 112-acre complex is being sold as two parcels: a smaller 9-acre plot that includes the Oakland Arena, and a larger 103-acre area, which includes the Coliseum Stadium and surrounding lots. As part of the deal, OAC is expected to sell the Arena parcel to venue management company Oak View Group, founded by entertainment mogul Irving Azoff, for $100 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concurrent sale of the parcels is set to close as soon as September, and no later than January 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11742428\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/coliseumcomplexa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1408\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/coliseumcomplexa.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/coliseumcomplexa-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/coliseumcomplexa-800x587.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/coliseumcomplexa-1020x748.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/coliseumcomplexa-1200x880.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oracle Arena, left, and the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Negotiating the sale of the Coliseum has been a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048852/after-months-oakland-coliseum-sale-is-finally-up-for-key-vote-heres-what-to-know\">long and complicated process,\u003c/a> requiring both the city and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022106/alameda-county-moves-closer-to-oakland-coliseum-sale-final-vote-expected-in-30-days\">Alameda County\u003c/a> to come to separate agreements with OAC to sell their halves of the stake in the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azoff, a former record executive and former CEO of Ticketmaster, joined city officials in Oakland Monday morning, vowing to attract more music and bigger shows to the arena by investing in the building and improving the fan experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a rescue mission in itself; it’s just an opportunity to take what I consider to be a B experience and make it an A-plus experience,” Azoff said. “The fan experience at the arena is going to be second to none.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Azoff’s group has done similar revitalization projects at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, and CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Oak View Group plans to invest tens of millions to upgrade facilities at the arena and bring in locally run businesses to support concessions and amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our opportunity is to respect what works, invest in what could be better, invest in the community and bring our unique artist relationships, both as a management company and as OVG, to get to the next chapter of this great building,” Azoff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city will also receive 6% of revenue from future event ticket sales at both the arena and stadium, as long as it’s functioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Rowena Brown, who will be leading the city and buyers’ work to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003025/east-oakland-students-share-bold-vision-for-coliseum-revamp-with-new-owners\">reinvest in East Oakland\u003c/a>, said the city hopes to use that revenue to build up the surrounding area, including a major, struggling business corridor, which connects the Coliseum to the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is our hope that we can use that to help revitalize the Hegenberger Corridor, as well as help uplift East Oakland that has been underserved for so long,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006784\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006784\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-17KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-17KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-17KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-17KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-17KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-17KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-17KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Packed stands at the Oakland Coliseum for the A’s last home game on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Oakland will have to wait longer — and risk uncertainty — before the stadium parcel is paid for in full. OAC agreed to pay $60 million for the city’s interest in the larger parcel within the next seven years. The company has already made a $5 million deposit on the sale, which will be subtracted from that balance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a special city council meeting Monday, council members asked what would happen if the acquisition group fails to make scheduled payments, or reneges on the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City finance director Bradley Johnson said in the worst case, the city would retain the deed to the land — and save up to $42 million in maintenance costs over seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland currently spends about $6 million a year to keep the Coliseum running, which it will no longer be responsible for when the deal closes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s money, if this deal is signed and we transfer ownership, that can continue to flow back to the city of Oakland that we can use to keep our core city services going,” Councilmember Janani Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Ken Houston, whose district includes the complex, said the deal agreed to Monday makes “lemonade out of lemons,” after years of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036060/oakland-pushes-coliseum-sale-next-year-delaying-funds-again\">delays\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006211/sad-devastated-bittersweet-oakland-as-fans-process-feelings-during-teams-final-week-of-home-games\">departures\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008329/oakland-coliseum-sales-new-deal-draws-council-members-ire-over-lack-of-transparency\">controversy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, then Mayor Sheng Thao included \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992883/oakland-city-council-passes-budget-amid-concerns-over-pending-coliseum-sale\">revenue from the presumed Coliseum sale\u003c/a> in the city’s annual budget — money that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009486/oaklands-finances-significant-risk-report-warns-coliseum-sale-raises-questions\">did not end up materializing\u003c/a> within the year, and later required \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">drastic service cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12081852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12081852\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-05_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-05_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-05_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-05_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao holds a press conference at Oakland City Hall on June 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thao was recalled that November, following her involvement in an FBI fraud and bribery investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three major sports teams that used to play at the stadium or arena, including the Golden State Warriors, Raiders and Athletics, have all departed Oakland in the last decade. 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"content": "\u003cp>A week before the U.S. men’s national soccer team \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088896/world-cup-tickets-us-mens-national-soccer-team-bay-area-july-1-bosnia-herzegovina-levis-stadium\">faced off against\u003c/a> Bosnia and Herzegovina in Santa Clara, dozens of seats in the highest section of\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/levis-stadium\"> Levi’s Stadium\u003c/a> were going for between $3,000 and $4,000 across different resale sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day before the match, however, prices dropped significantly. Seats in the same back rows were offered for less than $2,000. The cost to see the most dominant USMNT in a generation had cratered in a matter of days — why? The answer has to do with speculators, third-party sales and FIFA’s complicated ticket-selling rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides treating fans to magnificent performances by some of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/06/22/nx-s1-5866649/2026-world-cup-fifa-lionel-messi-argentina-scoring-record\">sport’s greatest stars\u003c/a>, this year’s FIFA World Cup drew plenty of controversy over the cost of going to see a game. Months before the tournament began, tickets for some matches were already \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/sports/soccer/colombia-portugal-world-cup-6c1f318b\">more expensive\u003c/a> than going to the Super Bowl. Fans who wanted to save money and buy a ticket as early as possible had to navigate an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcur.org/sports/2026-04-16/world-cup-tickets-fifa-prices\">incredibly complicated process\u003c/a> on FIFA’s official ticketing platform, where prices also shifted \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/05/28/nx-s1-5836514/2026-world-cup-fifa-ticket-prices\">based on demand\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the tournament drew closer, some fans skipped FIFA’s platform entirely. A month before the June 25 Australia vs. Paraguay match at Levi’s Stadium, Marin County resident Lei Cai said the official site was no longer offering tickets for the game. “I wanted to buy a ticket directly from FIFA, but when that wasn’t possible, our only option was resale sites,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who bought tickets on resale websites — including Ticketmaster, StubHub and SeatGeek — were required to pay the vendor first on the site, and then claim their ticket on the FIFA platform. Cai paid for two tickets on StubHub, she said, but when she logged into the FIFA portal, “that’s when I found out there’s no tickets to claim.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087142\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260610-BayAreaStadiumTour-51-BL_KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260610-BayAreaStadiumTour-51-BL_KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260610-BayAreaStadiumTour-51-BL_KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260610-BayAreaStadiumTour-51-BL_KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Bay Area Stadium, temporarily renamed from Levi’s Stadium for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, in Santa Clara on June 10, 2026, where six tournament matches will be played. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After calling StubHub multiple times for weeks, she was eventually informed by the company that the person who listed the seats online never actually made the tickets available to her. Only after KQED contacted StubHub requesting comment on Cai’s situation did StubHub reach out to her directly to offer two new, free tickets to the same match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cai is not alone. Soccer fans nationwide who paid for tickets on resale sites have been left empty-handed\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/world-cup-ticket-problems-stubhub-fifa-21c31f5cc33012e7f4619d4bff3b44a1\"> by vendors\u003c/a> — sometimes even hours before the game. Some economists and consumer advocates say that what happened to fans like Cai — along with the dramatic swings in prices, like what happened ahead of the U.S. game against Bosnia — shows there are major flaws in how the ticketing system works for major sporting events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scalpers have helped ricochet ticket prices for major musical events like Taylor Swift’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/pro/taylor-swift-eras-tour-fans-biggest-ticket-scalper/\">Eras Tour\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/oasis-reunion-tickets-controversy-explained-1235094425/\">comeback of Oasis\u003c/a>. But the market set up by FIFA and resale sites for this year’s soccer tournament may have helped speculation get a lot worse this time around — where very enthusiastic fans all over North America have already spent millions of dollars and shattered the tournament’s all-time attendance record.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An age-old problem\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tickets for big cultural and athletic events easily attract the attention of speculators because they’re what economists call “perishable goods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think of going to a bakery. A loaf of bread freshly baked that morning may be sold at $10. The bakery may also offer bread baked the previous day, but at a much lower price. But you most certainly won’t see bread baked a week or a month before — that’s no longer good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The same thing is true for game tickets,” said Steve Tadelis, professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, who has studied online ticket markets for years. “They’re worth practically zero after the game begins.” (In the case of the World Cup, that’s true an hour before the game begins. According to FIFA rules, if someone doesn’t claim their ticket an hour before a match begins, they can no longer use it to get into the stadium.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089715\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260701-WORLDCUPUSALEVIS-41-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260701-WORLDCUPUSALEVIS-41-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260701-WORLDCUPUSALEVIS-41-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260701-WORLDCUPUSALEVIS-41-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans leave the FIFA World Cup game between the USA and Bosnia and Herzegovina at the San Francisco Bay Area Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on July 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The World Cup’s knockout stage can be especially attractive for speculators, Tadelis said. Speculators may have bought tickets for quarter-final or semi-final matches when fans had no confirmed information about which teams were advancing, but can then offer tickets at much higher prices if they see a popular team advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while speculators may have good instincts on how soccer fans may behave, they can still make mistakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A seller may hope to sell a ticket for $3,000 a few weeks before a knockout-round game, assuming that enthusiasm among soccer lovers will keep growing with time. But the match is now just a couple of days away, and no one has snatched up the ticket. “They may be happy now to get a thousand or maybe even a few hundred dollars, because now they’re really worried that they’re going to be stuck with that ticket,” Tadelis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There may be early excitement that overshoots the real demand,” he said. “Sellers will panic and try to all sell at the same time. And then prices are going to plummet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many USMNT fans were hyped that their team advanced to the knockout stage, their enthusiasm perhaps didn’t match the prices that resale vendors were offering. The bubble quickly burst.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who moves the market?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Price data alone, however, can’t confirm that a market has been entirely taken over by speculation, Tadelis said. Fans may learn new information that changes their feelings about their team — a star player previously blocked from playing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/07/06/nx-s1-5883791/fifas-red-card-reversal-fair-play-or-political-interference\">by a penalty\u003c/a> suddenly gets the green light to come back, perhaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re looking for real clues — are people actually buying and picking up tickets, or are the same tickets getting resold over and over?” he said, adding that the latter case would suggest speculation. But if prices spike and then sellers suddenly cancel on buyers — like what happened to Cai from Marin County — “that’s another red flag that probably these are speculative sellers that never had the tickets to begin with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12089714 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260701-WORLDCUPUSALEVIS-36-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260701-WORLDCUPUSALEVIS-36-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260701-WORLDCUPUSALEVIS-36-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260701-WORLDCUPUSALEVIS-36-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans fill the stands at the FIFA World Cup game between the USA and Bosnia and Herzegovina at the San Francisco Bay Area Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on July 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vendors “ghosting” ticket buyers has become a serious problem, said Scott Friedman, co-founder of the consulting group Ticket Talk Network, based in Cleveland, Ohio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s talked to people from all over the globe who’ve saved up thousands of dollars to travel to a game hosted in North America, but once here, they don’t get anything from the vendor online and usually no replacement from sites like StubHub. “As a marketplace for the biggest live events, if a seller doesn’t fill that order, you’ve got to fill it,” he said. “It’s just a common courtesy to the fan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>StubHub previously told KQED in a statement that the ticketing problems fans have experienced this World Cup “are largely transfer problems, not ticket problems.”[aside postID=news_12076503 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_1406.jpg']The company said that FIFA’s ticketing system, including a new app launched right before the tournament began, “has had significant performance issues that have affected transfers across all resale platforms.” According to StubHub’s rules for sellers, it’s OK for someone “to list tickets you own but don’t have in your possession yet … as long as you’re absolutely certain you will have them on the date you give us when listing the tickets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FIFA, for its part, told KQED it has “no visibility over, or control of, secondary market ticket transactions carried out on third-party platforms,” and it rejects “any suggestion that the functional issues being experienced by users of third-party platforms” are the result of its ticketing infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But reining in speculation will require transparency from both FIFA and resale sites, Tadelis said. This means consumers should have access to information “like recent prices, how much inventory there is to really help people understand what’s going on in the market,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FIFA offered tickets through staggered releases, where consumers in the initial stages did not even know which teams were playing in any of the games — or even in which rows they would be sitting. Tadelis pointed out that the official FIFA resale platform also charged fees to both buyers and sellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These create real opportunities to bet on price swings, and that’s especially true when fans can’t tell how much inventory FIFA is still holding back,” he said. “That opacity is what’s turning buying a ticket into basically a forecasting exercise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for consumer advocates like Friedman, that also means having lawmakers require that resale sites confirm vendors actually have the tickets they’re offering. “It doesn’t matter if it’s the FIFA World Cup, the Super Bowl, or any live event that happens,” he said. “When you buy a ticket, it needs to be delivered instantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A week before the U.S. men’s national soccer team \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088896/world-cup-tickets-us-mens-national-soccer-team-bay-area-july-1-bosnia-herzegovina-levis-stadium\">faced off against\u003c/a> Bosnia and Herzegovina in Santa Clara, dozens of seats in the highest section of\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/levis-stadium\"> Levi’s Stadium\u003c/a> were going for between $3,000 and $4,000 across different resale sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day before the match, however, prices dropped significantly. Seats in the same back rows were offered for less than $2,000. The cost to see the most dominant USMNT in a generation had cratered in a matter of days — why? The answer has to do with speculators, third-party sales and FIFA’s complicated ticket-selling rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides treating fans to magnificent performances by some of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/06/22/nx-s1-5866649/2026-world-cup-fifa-lionel-messi-argentina-scoring-record\">sport’s greatest stars\u003c/a>, this year’s FIFA World Cup drew plenty of controversy over the cost of going to see a game. Months before the tournament began, tickets for some matches were already \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/sports/soccer/colombia-portugal-world-cup-6c1f318b\">more expensive\u003c/a> than going to the Super Bowl. Fans who wanted to save money and buy a ticket as early as possible had to navigate an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcur.org/sports/2026-04-16/world-cup-tickets-fifa-prices\">incredibly complicated process\u003c/a> on FIFA’s official ticketing platform, where prices also shifted \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/05/28/nx-s1-5836514/2026-world-cup-fifa-ticket-prices\">based on demand\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the tournament drew closer, some fans skipped FIFA’s platform entirely. A month before the June 25 Australia vs. Paraguay match at Levi’s Stadium, Marin County resident Lei Cai said the official site was no longer offering tickets for the game. “I wanted to buy a ticket directly from FIFA, but when that wasn’t possible, our only option was resale sites,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who bought tickets on resale websites — including Ticketmaster, StubHub and SeatGeek — were required to pay the vendor first on the site, and then claim their ticket on the FIFA platform. Cai paid for two tickets on StubHub, she said, but when she logged into the FIFA portal, “that’s when I found out there’s no tickets to claim.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087142\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260610-BayAreaStadiumTour-51-BL_KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260610-BayAreaStadiumTour-51-BL_KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260610-BayAreaStadiumTour-51-BL_KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260610-BayAreaStadiumTour-51-BL_KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Bay Area Stadium, temporarily renamed from Levi’s Stadium for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, in Santa Clara on June 10, 2026, where six tournament matches will be played. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After calling StubHub multiple times for weeks, she was eventually informed by the company that the person who listed the seats online never actually made the tickets available to her. Only after KQED contacted StubHub requesting comment on Cai’s situation did StubHub reach out to her directly to offer two new, free tickets to the same match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cai is not alone. Soccer fans nationwide who paid for tickets on resale sites have been left empty-handed\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/world-cup-ticket-problems-stubhub-fifa-21c31f5cc33012e7f4619d4bff3b44a1\"> by vendors\u003c/a> — sometimes even hours before the game. Some economists and consumer advocates say that what happened to fans like Cai — along with the dramatic swings in prices, like what happened ahead of the U.S. game against Bosnia — shows there are major flaws in how the ticketing system works for major sporting events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scalpers have helped ricochet ticket prices for major musical events like Taylor Swift’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/pro/taylor-swift-eras-tour-fans-biggest-ticket-scalper/\">Eras Tour\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/oasis-reunion-tickets-controversy-explained-1235094425/\">comeback of Oasis\u003c/a>. But the market set up by FIFA and resale sites for this year’s soccer tournament may have helped speculation get a lot worse this time around — where very enthusiastic fans all over North America have already spent millions of dollars and shattered the tournament’s all-time attendance record.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An age-old problem\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tickets for big cultural and athletic events easily attract the attention of speculators because they’re what economists call “perishable goods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think of going to a bakery. A loaf of bread freshly baked that morning may be sold at $10. The bakery may also offer bread baked the previous day, but at a much lower price. But you most certainly won’t see bread baked a week or a month before — that’s no longer good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The same thing is true for game tickets,” said Steve Tadelis, professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, who has studied online ticket markets for years. “They’re worth practically zero after the game begins.” (In the case of the World Cup, that’s true an hour before the game begins. According to FIFA rules, if someone doesn’t claim their ticket an hour before a match begins, they can no longer use it to get into the stadium.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089715\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260701-WORLDCUPUSALEVIS-41-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260701-WORLDCUPUSALEVIS-41-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260701-WORLDCUPUSALEVIS-41-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260701-WORLDCUPUSALEVIS-41-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans leave the FIFA World Cup game between the USA and Bosnia and Herzegovina at the San Francisco Bay Area Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on July 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The World Cup’s knockout stage can be especially attractive for speculators, Tadelis said. Speculators may have bought tickets for quarter-final or semi-final matches when fans had no confirmed information about which teams were advancing, but can then offer tickets at much higher prices if they see a popular team advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while speculators may have good instincts on how soccer fans may behave, they can still make mistakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A seller may hope to sell a ticket for $3,000 a few weeks before a knockout-round game, assuming that enthusiasm among soccer lovers will keep growing with time. But the match is now just a couple of days away, and no one has snatched up the ticket. “They may be happy now to get a thousand or maybe even a few hundred dollars, because now they’re really worried that they’re going to be stuck with that ticket,” Tadelis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There may be early excitement that overshoots the real demand,” he said. “Sellers will panic and try to all sell at the same time. And then prices are going to plummet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many USMNT fans were hyped that their team advanced to the knockout stage, their enthusiasm perhaps didn’t match the prices that resale vendors were offering. The bubble quickly burst.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who moves the market?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Price data alone, however, can’t confirm that a market has been entirely taken over by speculation, Tadelis said. Fans may learn new information that changes their feelings about their team — a star player previously blocked from playing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/07/06/nx-s1-5883791/fifas-red-card-reversal-fair-play-or-political-interference\">by a penalty\u003c/a> suddenly gets the green light to come back, perhaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re looking for real clues — are people actually buying and picking up tickets, or are the same tickets getting resold over and over?” he said, adding that the latter case would suggest speculation. 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That’s as the company offers a 20% cumulative raise over the five-year term, which union members say isn’t worth the trade-off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers say the company has engaged in bad faith bargaining in the process. Kendra Sparks, an ILWU Local 6 worker for almost 30 years, said the union met with the company on the day the strike started, but wasn’t able to come to a last-minute deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just basically slapped down like, ‘This is what we’re proposing and take it or leave it,’ basically,” Sparks said.[aside postID=news_12061054 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CHSugarCrockettGetty.jpg']Though the move toward more negotiation talks this week is a good sign, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know it’s not business as usual for them, so hopefully the pressure of increased attention on the situation will help,” Sparks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dockworkers are also claiming foul over the company taking some of its operations over to the Levin Richmond Terminal at the beginning of this month, unloading raw sugar in the same area that things like coal and oil are unloaded. C&H workers from ILWU Local 10 who usually unload the sugar are not crossing the picket line, so the company shifted operations to a different terminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move raised health concerns among union members and, for Contra Costa County District 1 Supervisor John Gioia, it diminished “the power of the workers” during negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of focusing on alternate ways to deliver the sugar, [the company should] focus on reaching an agreement with the workers so that the sugar ships from the Philippines go to Crockett and not to a coal facility in Richmond,” Gioia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gioia said that the county health department reached out to state and federal officials about the company unloading at the Richmond terminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area-air-quality-management-district\">Bay Area Air District\u003c/a> inspected the location on Thursday, and said in a statement that it found no visible emissions from sugar or coal handling operations and documented no violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087608\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/CoalOaklandGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1306\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/CoalOaklandGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/CoalOaklandGetty-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/CoalOaklandGetty-1536x1003.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A train loaded with coal approaches the Levin-Richmond Terminal in Richmond, California, on July 23, 2015. \u003ccite>(Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A C&H spokesperson said that it’s “common practice for raw sugar logistics globally to be handled via bulk ships and bulk terminals similar to how it is being handled at the Levin Terminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once it has been processed in our refinery, we assure the quality of our finished sugar,” C&H said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though C&H says that raw sugar is not a food product, well, you could’ve fooled me because it is,” said Michael Villeggiante, president of Local 10. “It’s being mixed with a lot of toxic materials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show the ship carrying the sugar, known as the Tai Herald, was in Richmond for about eight and a half days. 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A \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/708410/rise-young-men-religiosity-realigns-gender-gaps.aspx\">recent poll from Gallup\u003c/a> signaled that attitudes on religion among young men may be shifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll found that 42% of men under 30 said religion was “very important” in their lives in 2024-25, a 14% jump from 2022-23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260607-GenZCatholics-JY-06_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260607-GenZCatholics-JY-06_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260607-GenZCatholics-JY-06_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260607-GenZCatholics-JY-06_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karthik Bala clasps his hands together and bows his head in prayer during Corpus Christi Sunday Mass at St. Dominic’s Catholic Church in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, June 7, 2026. Bala recently converted to Catholicism and was baptized this year. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The sharp increase represented a high point for men in that age group over the last quarter century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over that same period, Gallup found that the share of women under 30 who said religion is “very important” stayed relatively flat, at 29%.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A religious ‘vibe shift,’ not a revival\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ryan Burge, a religion and politics expert at Washington University in St. Louis, said the Gallup poll points to what he calls a “vibe shift,” as the mood about religion among young men appears to be growing more positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That shift is happening against the backdrop of a growing openness among some to sharing about their faith on social media, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/trends/2026/04/02/catholicism-gen-z/\">subcultures like “theo bros”\u003c/a> and influencers like \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncronline.org/culture/looksmaxxing-catholicism-and-new-discipline-body\">Braden Peters, also known as Clavicular, praising Catholicism.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on other measures of how religious a person is – like how often they go to church or whether they identify with a particular religion – he said the best evidence still shows declining interest among men under 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090398\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-08_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-08_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-08_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-08_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, surrounded by clergy, prepares to baptize people during the Easter Vigil at Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco on Saturday, April 4, 2026. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So it’s really like the vibes toward religion have gotten a lot more positive, while the actual behaviors of religion haven’t changed that much,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Burge noted there has been a real shift in who is going to church. For decades, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2016/03/22/the-gender-gap-in-religion-around-the-world/\">women have been more religious than men\u003c/a>, especially Christian women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The data seems to indicate that the gender gap…is probably closed among Gen Z, and that a young Gen Z man is probably as religious as a Gen Z woman of the same age,” Burge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he noted, the shift isn’t because young men are returning to church: “It’s that women are leaving faster.”[aside postID=news_12087567 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250102_ArchdioceseSF_GC-6.jpg']Karthik Bala, a 29-year-old former atheist and recent Catholic convert who lives in Cupertino, said the church’s structure could be a factor that deters young women from Catholicism, acknowledging that some women believe the denomination is patriarchal and oppressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would make sense to me that women would try to find alternative forms of spirituality and men have less of those problems with the church,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young people belonging to Gen Z are, overall, \u003ca href=\"https://apnorc.org/projects/younger-generations-stand-out-on-identity-acceptance-and-progressive-policies/\">more socially and politically progressive\u003c/a> than older generations, but young women are growing \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/649826/exploring-young-women-leftward-expansion.aspx\">more politically liberal\u003c/a> than young men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Grace, a 23-year-old nondenominational Christian, attends the University of San Francisco, where the majority of her friends are Catholic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grace said she appreciates and admires her peers’ faith, but disagrees with some Catholic practices, like limiting roles in the clergy to men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My pastor that I speak to, my closest pastor that I mentor from, she is a woman,” Grace said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s an anointing, if it’s a calling that a person does have, regardless of gender, it should be followed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A surge in Catholic converts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In recent years, Catholic dioceses across the country have \u003ca href=\"https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/americas-new-catholics-by-the-numbers\">reported a surge in adults joining the church\u003c/a>, a group known as converts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the Archdiocese of San Francisco saw about 700 converts this year, up 6% from 2025, and a doubling of converts since 2021. The Diocese of San Jose reported an 8% rise in converts, from 600 in 2025 to 650 this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up, I thought religion would be dead by the time I was 30,” Bala, the recent Catholic convert from Cupertino, said. “I think there [were] a lot of implicit values and cultures and way of life that kind of carried millennials and all the generations before them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090399\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-03_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-03_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-03_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-03_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catholics illuminated by candlelight attend the Easter Vigil at Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco on Saturday, April 4, 2026. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bala attends Mass around the Bay Area at least four times a week, sometimes driving an hour to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After baptism, I feel this supernatural help or grace, and I’m a super chaotic person,” Bala said. “I just feel so much peace and hope and strength imparted to me and that was something that I kind of got in bursts in all my other spiritual seekings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in a Hindu family, Bala said he always felt a disconnect, and lived his life as an atheist until 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I became very open to the idea that it’s not just atoms, that there is like some kind of God that can at least hear our prayers,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renewed interest in Catholicism comes after decades of decline. Since the 1950s, church attendance for U.S. Catholics has been on \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/232226/church-attendance-among-catholics-resumes-downward-slide.aspx\">a downward slide\u003c/a>. And some have openly \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/247571/catholics-question-membership-amid-scandal.aspx\">questioned their ties to the church\u003c/a> amid the clergy sexual abuse scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area this year, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland and the Archdiocese of San Francisco have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12080965/jury-awards-16-million-to-man-abused-by-east-bay-priest-as-a-child\">ordered to pay millions of dollars\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12087567/san-francisco-archdiocese-to-pay-sex-abuse-victims-395-million\">to settle claims of child sexual abuse\u003c/a> by clergy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090400\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090400\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-05_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-05_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-05_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-05_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deacon Thomas Kramer, left, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, center, and Deacon David Bernstein, right, sit during the Easter Vigil at Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco on Saturday, April 4, 2026. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The settlements have been celebrated by representatives of survivors as steps toward justice and accountability, while the deepening financial strain on dioceses has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/oakland-catholic-diocese-east-bay-churches-closing-22232941.php\">led to the church closures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Father Michael Liliedahl, a priest at St. Stephen’s in San Francisco, which primarily serves the Catholic community at San Francisco State University, said a change in culture and demographics in the Bay Area has also contributed to church closings. He said that when St. Stephen’s was built in 1950, it was originally a school, and families who attended the school raised money to build a church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You had a lot of Irish and Italian first-generation immigrants who attended Mass and attended church at a higher percentage than a lot of people do now, and so we built the churches to satisfy that demographic in that population,” Liliedahl said. “And part of it is, San Francisco is such an expensive place to raise a family that we don’t have as many families as we did that many years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What is all this for?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Converts noted that everyone’s journey to faith is deeply personal, with some asking age-old questions about life and others struggling with realities that felt very specific to 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyler Sharp, a 22-year-old recent graduate of San Francisco State, converted to Catholicism in 2025 and attends St. Stephen’s. “I wanted to search for answers,” Sharp said. “And I think one of the biggest questions of humanity is, ‘Why are we here? Is there meaning in life?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephen Staten, the youth group member at St. Dominic’s in San Francisco, suggested the shifting feelings about religion could be, in part, a reaction to the 2000s, when he said it was considered cool and edgy to be an atheist, particularly online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090405\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-12_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-12_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karthik Bala looks at Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone before getting baptized at the Easter Vigil at Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco on Saturday, April 4, 2026. Bala, who grew up Atheist, explored multiple religions and eventually landed on Catholicism. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People were seeing culturally in the West, people had an idea that was extremely relativistic and people didn’t really have a sense of meaning,” Staten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bala echoed that, pointing to a strange mix of broad individual freedom and deep uncertainty felt by those in his generation that’s leading some back to religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is…a natural longing to just be like, ‘What are we doing here?’” Bala said. “What is all this for?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the midst of that uncertainty, Sharp, who first attended Catholic Mass in his sophomore year at San Francisco State, said the stability of faith is one of the things he values most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many things in life can come and go. Your family, your friends, your relationships, your career, your sports, your school,” Sharp said. “They’re all temporary in some sense. But God is not temporary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephen Staten, a member of the group since 2017, said he’s seen a shift too, thinking back to 20 years ago when he said going to church was not as popular among men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not really sure why, but it just became a thing where if you’re into religion, it’s not really a masculine thing, or it’s kind of like a weak thing,” Staten said. A \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/708410/rise-young-men-religiosity-realigns-gender-gaps.aspx\">recent poll from Gallup\u003c/a> signaled that attitudes on religion among young men may be shifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll found that 42% of men under 30 said religion was “very important” in their lives in 2024-25, a 14% jump from 2022-23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260607-GenZCatholics-JY-06_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260607-GenZCatholics-JY-06_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260607-GenZCatholics-JY-06_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260607-GenZCatholics-JY-06_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karthik Bala clasps his hands together and bows his head in prayer during Corpus Christi Sunday Mass at St. Dominic’s Catholic Church in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, June 7, 2026. Bala recently converted to Catholicism and was baptized this year. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The sharp increase represented a high point for men in that age group over the last quarter century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over that same period, Gallup found that the share of women under 30 who said religion is “very important” stayed relatively flat, at 29%.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A religious ‘vibe shift,’ not a revival\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ryan Burge, a religion and politics expert at Washington University in St. Louis, said the Gallup poll points to what he calls a “vibe shift,” as the mood about religion among young men appears to be growing more positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That shift is happening against the backdrop of a growing openness among some to sharing about their faith on social media, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/trends/2026/04/02/catholicism-gen-z/\">subcultures like “theo bros”\u003c/a> and influencers like \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncronline.org/culture/looksmaxxing-catholicism-and-new-discipline-body\">Braden Peters, also known as Clavicular, praising Catholicism.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on other measures of how religious a person is – like how often they go to church or whether they identify with a particular religion – he said the best evidence still shows declining interest among men under 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090398\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-08_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-08_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-08_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-08_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, surrounded by clergy, prepares to baptize people during the Easter Vigil at Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco on Saturday, April 4, 2026. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So it’s really like the vibes toward religion have gotten a lot more positive, while the actual behaviors of religion haven’t changed that much,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Burge noted there has been a real shift in who is going to church. For decades, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2016/03/22/the-gender-gap-in-religion-around-the-world/\">women have been more religious than men\u003c/a>, especially Christian women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The data seems to indicate that the gender gap…is probably closed among Gen Z, and that a young Gen Z man is probably as religious as a Gen Z woman of the same age,” Burge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he noted, the shift isn’t because young men are returning to church: “It’s that women are leaving faster.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Karthik Bala, a 29-year-old former atheist and recent Catholic convert who lives in Cupertino, said the church’s structure could be a factor that deters young women from Catholicism, acknowledging that some women believe the denomination is patriarchal and oppressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would make sense to me that women would try to find alternative forms of spirituality and men have less of those problems with the church,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young people belonging to Gen Z are, overall, \u003ca href=\"https://apnorc.org/projects/younger-generations-stand-out-on-identity-acceptance-and-progressive-policies/\">more socially and politically progressive\u003c/a> than older generations, but young women are growing \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/649826/exploring-young-women-leftward-expansion.aspx\">more politically liberal\u003c/a> than young men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Grace, a 23-year-old nondenominational Christian, attends the University of San Francisco, where the majority of her friends are Catholic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grace said she appreciates and admires her peers’ faith, but disagrees with some Catholic practices, like limiting roles in the clergy to men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My pastor that I speak to, my closest pastor that I mentor from, she is a woman,” Grace said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s an anointing, if it’s a calling that a person does have, regardless of gender, it should be followed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A surge in Catholic converts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In recent years, Catholic dioceses across the country have \u003ca href=\"https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/americas-new-catholics-by-the-numbers\">reported a surge in adults joining the church\u003c/a>, a group known as converts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the Archdiocese of San Francisco saw about 700 converts this year, up 6% from 2025, and a doubling of converts since 2021. The Diocese of San Jose reported an 8% rise in converts, from 600 in 2025 to 650 this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up, I thought religion would be dead by the time I was 30,” Bala, the recent Catholic convert from Cupertino, said. “I think there [were] a lot of implicit values and cultures and way of life that kind of carried millennials and all the generations before them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090399\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-03_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-03_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-03_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-03_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catholics illuminated by candlelight attend the Easter Vigil at Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco on Saturday, April 4, 2026. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bala attends Mass around the Bay Area at least four times a week, sometimes driving an hour to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After baptism, I feel this supernatural help or grace, and I’m a super chaotic person,” Bala said. “I just feel so much peace and hope and strength imparted to me and that was something that I kind of got in bursts in all my other spiritual seekings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in a Hindu family, Bala said he always felt a disconnect, and lived his life as an atheist until 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I became very open to the idea that it’s not just atoms, that there is like some kind of God that can at least hear our prayers,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renewed interest in Catholicism comes after decades of decline. Since the 1950s, church attendance for U.S. Catholics has been on \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/232226/church-attendance-among-catholics-resumes-downward-slide.aspx\">a downward slide\u003c/a>. And some have openly \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/247571/catholics-question-membership-amid-scandal.aspx\">questioned their ties to the church\u003c/a> amid the clergy sexual abuse scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area this year, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland and the Archdiocese of San Francisco have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12080965/jury-awards-16-million-to-man-abused-by-east-bay-priest-as-a-child\">ordered to pay millions of dollars\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12087567/san-francisco-archdiocese-to-pay-sex-abuse-victims-395-million\">to settle claims of child sexual abuse\u003c/a> by clergy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090400\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090400\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-05_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-05_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-05_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-05_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deacon Thomas Kramer, left, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, center, and Deacon David Bernstein, right, sit during the Easter Vigil at Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco on Saturday, April 4, 2026. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The settlements have been celebrated by representatives of survivors as steps toward justice and accountability, while the deepening financial strain on dioceses has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/oakland-catholic-diocese-east-bay-churches-closing-22232941.php\">led to the church closures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Father Michael Liliedahl, a priest at St. Stephen’s in San Francisco, which primarily serves the Catholic community at San Francisco State University, said a change in culture and demographics in the Bay Area has also contributed to church closings. He said that when St. Stephen’s was built in 1950, it was originally a school, and families who attended the school raised money to build a church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You had a lot of Irish and Italian first-generation immigrants who attended Mass and attended church at a higher percentage than a lot of people do now, and so we built the churches to satisfy that demographic in that population,” Liliedahl said. “And part of it is, San Francisco is such an expensive place to raise a family that we don’t have as many families as we did that many years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What is all this for?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Converts noted that everyone’s journey to faith is deeply personal, with some asking age-old questions about life and others struggling with realities that felt very specific to 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyler Sharp, a 22-year-old recent graduate of San Francisco State, converted to Catholicism in 2025 and attends St. Stephen’s. “I wanted to search for answers,” Sharp said. “And I think one of the biggest questions of humanity is, ‘Why are we here? Is there meaning in life?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephen Staten, the youth group member at St. Dominic’s in San Francisco, suggested the shifting feelings about religion could be, in part, a reaction to the 2000s, when he said it was considered cool and edgy to be an atheist, particularly online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090405\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-12_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260404-EasterBaptisms-JY-12_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karthik Bala looks at Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone before getting baptized at the Easter Vigil at Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco on Saturday, April 4, 2026. Bala, who grew up Atheist, explored multiple religions and eventually landed on Catholicism. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People were seeing culturally in the West, people had an idea that was extremely relativistic and people didn’t really have a sense of meaning,” Staten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bala echoed that, pointing to a strange mix of broad individual freedom and deep uncertainty felt by those in his generation that’s leading some back to religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is…a natural longing to just be like, ‘What are we doing here?’” Bala said. “What is all this for?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the midst of that uncertainty, Sharp, who first attended Catholic Mass in his sophomore year at San Francisco State, said the stability of faith is one of the things he values most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many things in life can come and go. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Babette Papineau enrolled at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/marin-county\">College of Marin\u003c/a> in the spring of 2023, she hoped to become a naturalist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 34-year-old mother of two took an environmental science class with professor Joe Mueller and quickly came to see him as an environmental hero and an expert in the field she hoped to enter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I put him on a pedestal,” Papineau said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 2024, Papineau said she reached out to Mueller for guidance after deciding to pursue the college’s natural history certificate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papineau and Mueller formed a professional and later, romantic relationship. They dated on and off until last summer, when Papineau filed a Title IX complaint against Mueller, alleging that he coerced her into a relationship and engaged in unwanted and inappropriate sexual conduct with her while she was his student and relied on him for mentorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papineau’s complaint is one of several accounts that reveal a broader pattern in the college’s natural history program. Interviews with multiple current and former College of Marin students, along with Title IX investigative records reviewed by KQED, describe what former students said was a decadeslong pattern in which Mueller blurred professional boundaries with students, played favorites in class and intimidated students he disliked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students said Mueller used mentorship, favoritism and control over required coursework in ways that altered their education, shaped their career decisions and created fear inside the department.[aside postID=news_12086091 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/CA-Teacher-Discipline-Holly.jpg']College of Marin commissioned workplace investigation law firm Van Dermyden Makus to conduct a third-party evidentiary review of Papineau’s complaint. After a closed-door hearing in May, a third-party consultant found sufficient evidence to support multiple violations of the school’s sexual harassment policy and one violation of its sexual assault policy, according to documents reviewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller was placed on immediate leave on Thursday, according to a summary of remedies from the district. It said it planned to “initiate” his termination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the findings report, which was delivered to the school’s Title IX coordinator June 29, Mueller was previously found in violation of college harassment policies on two prior occasions since 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, the school found that Mueller “exercised extremely poor judgement and unprofessional conduct and placed the District at risk of serious liability by engaging in sexual relationships with students … and taking students to a store with sexually-based items” during an overnight field trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the findings report, which was delivered to the school’s Title IX coordinator on June 29 and reviewed by KQED, investigators found that the college had previously found Mueller to have violated its harassment policies on two prior occasions since 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller initially declined to comment on the details of the investigation but later provided a written statement disputing many of the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following multiple requests to Mueller for comment, several current and former students contacted KQED to express support for the professor and describe positive experiences with him as an instructor and mentor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mentorship and power\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mueller told investigators that he noticed Papineau’s talent as a writer in his spring 2023 course and later invited her and several classmates to give a presentation on the environmental impact of grass lawns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two remained in touch through email, discussing environmental issues and Papineau’s move to Fairfax, the small North Bay town where Mueller lived. Mueller later told investigators their friendship developed in summer 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papineau said she initially viewed Mueller as a mentor. She began working on a website for the natural history program at his request and later spoke on his behalf at a local Board of Supervisors meeting. The two also began hiking together and communicating more frequently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085022\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-MARINPROFESSOR00111_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-MARINPROFESSOR00111_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-MARINPROFESSOR00111_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-MARINPROFESSOR00111_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">College of Marin in Kentfield on May 22, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was very excited thinking, ‘Wow, this professor who was such an inspiration to me seems to be offering me mentorship, which was like a dream come true,’” Papineau told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papineau said the relationship became romantic during a hike in summer 2024 when Mueller kissed her. She said the relationship was consensual at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was a little conflicted about it because I was like, ‘He is my hero, and so if he wants something more, I have to at least give that a try,’” Papineau said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The relationship changed after class resumed in fall 2024, Papineau said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She enrolled in Mueller’s ecology class, the first of several classes she would take from him while they were romantically involved. At the time, College of Marin discouraged, but did not prohibit, relationships between instructors and students.[aside postID=news_12087201 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/CollegeGraduationGetty.jpg']In November 2025, the Marin Community College District \u003ca href=\"https://policies.marin.edu/sites/default/files/AP3430-ProhibitionofHarassment.pdf\">revised its harassment policy\u003c/a> to prohibit most relationships between students and employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Such relationships present an inherent imbalance of power and carry a significant risk of exploitation, compromising the integrity of the educational environment,” the policy states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college did not respond to questions about what prompted the change. Spokesperson Nicole Cruz said it was campus policy not to comment on specific student or employment matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“College of Marin is committed to providing an academic and work environment free of unlawful discrimination on the basis of sex, including sexual harassment under Title IX,” she said via email. “College of Marin has a robust and thorough process for investigating complaints of unlawful discrimination … Further, College of Marin strictly prohibits retaliation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller told investigators that Papineau initiated most of their contact and frequently shared details about her personal life. At one point, he said she told him she’d broken up with her boyfriend and moved out of his residence, according to the investigators’ report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Mueller said: “In my 35 years of teaching, I have never, not once, asked a woman out on a date or accepted an invitation to go out on a date that was currently enrolled in one of my classes.” He said in two instances, in 2024 and 1998, women that he “was in well-established relationships with” wanted to take his classes and he could not prohibit them from enrolling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papineau was first Mueller’s student in the spring of 2023 and told Mueller in May 2024, before they began dating, that she planned to take his course that fall, according to emails viewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A pattern of favoritism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before Papineau filed her complaint, other students said they had already come to view Mueller as a professor who rewarded favored students and marginalized others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lily Wales enrolled in Mueller’s environmental science course in fall 2024 during their first semester at College of Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller was “sort of legendary” on campus, according to Wales. But he was also known for being harsh with students, while singling out some — including Wales — as favorites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would pull me aside after class and tell me how good I was doing and say that he had a lot of connections in the biology world,” Wales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088073\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088073\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/JoeMueller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/JoeMueller.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/JoeMueller-160x92.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">College of Marin biology professor Joe Mueller on a ridge overlooking Home Bay, part of Drake’s Estero on Jan. 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Cy Musiker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wales, who was 17 at the time, said Mueller complimented them, offered networking opportunities and invited them on hikes, which they declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Wales said the attention was validating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was pretty young, and so I was really naive,” Wales said. “I was like, ‘It’s so great that so early on there’s somebody in the field that really wants to help me.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around midterms, however, they became uncomfortable with the attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When students were working on group projects, Wales said Mueller critiqued other groups while praising theirs without closely examining the work. Wales said they didn’t study well for the midterm exam and answered multiple questions incorrectly, but were awarded a perfect score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a moment where I was like, ‘I feel like there’s something going on and I don’t want it to get to a point of there being a relationship that’s being formed,’” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after, Wales said they stopped attending Mueller’s class and had avoided taking any of his others throughout their time at College of Marin. Mueller reached out to Wales to express his concern after they had missed a few weeks of class, according to an email viewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The cost of staying in good standing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Walker Newell took about five classes with Mueller during his first few years at College of Marin. He alleges that the professor gave preferential treatment to young, pretty women, while treating others harshly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s definitely people who get weeded out of the classroom that essentially [are] people that Joe doesn’t want in the classroom,” Newell told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newell recalled that Mueller would often pause mid-lecture to make comments about a student who had an accommodation allowing them to take notes on a laptop. According to Newell, Mueller suggested that the student’s typing distracted classmates and slowed the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085021\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-MARINPROFESSOR00067_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-MARINPROFESSOR00067_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-MARINPROFESSOR00067_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-MARINPROFESSOR00067_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">College of Marin in Kentfield on May 22, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another former student and college employee, who requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation, similarly said Mueller was often uncooperative with accommodations and singled students out in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller said that he tries to discourage students from typing notes and asks those who do to speak with him about the benefits of handwriting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t disparage them; somebody might take it that way,” Mueller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller described himself as a dedicated teacher and said he would never intentionally treat students unfairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newell said Mueller liked to be seen as “all-knowing” and “grand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, Newell said, he benefited from Mueller’s favor, and it felt good to be praised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re on his side, it’s great. You get questions wrong on a test, and they get marked right,” Newell said. “But then, after a while, you just can’t see that happen to other people and just feel OK.”[aside postID=news_12084071 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260518-SCU_Sutter-med-school-02-KQED.jpg']That dynamic, Newell said, created an environment in which students understood there were advantages to remaining in Mueller’s good graces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newell also described an incident during a two-week field course along the West Coast in 2022. According to Newell, Mueller offered to waive the cost of the trip if he helped transport equipment and assist with camp setup and breakdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they returned, though, Newell alleges that Mueller charged him hundreds of dollars, saying that he owed him for the cost of the trip, minus a small hourly wage for his work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller said in an email that Newell had been unable to complete the work he promised to do, that the two reached a compromise and that Mueller paid half of the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He got a damn good deal because I cared,” Mueller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newell said Mueller repeatedly singled out a middle-aged female student during the trip. After several students stopped at a coffee shop without permission, Newell said Mueller focused his criticism on the woman and berated her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was bawling, and she was like, ‘I’m leaving,’” Newell said. “It was just hard to see a grown woman just full on crying and sobbing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone later reported Mueller’s conduct on the trip, and Newell said he was interviewed as part of an investigation. It remains unclear what conclusions the college reached or whether Mueller faced disciplinary action. College of Marin did not respond to questions about the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When the relationship changed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Between spring of 2024 and summer 2025, Papineau and Mueller exchanged dozens of emails reviewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papineau wrote about kissing and being with Mueller, and said she had dreams of them marrying and living together with her daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papineau also expressed concerns about Mueller’s reactions to her interactions with male classmates and said she felt pressured to manage his emotions. She said that during his fall ecology class, she sat near the edge of the room and focused her attention almost exclusively on him because she worried about upsetting him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12088108 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260527-MarinCollegeProfessor-JY-05_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260527-MarinCollegeProfessor-JY-05_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260527-MarinCollegeProfessor-JY-05_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260527-MarinCollegeProfessor-JY-05_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Babette Papineau stands for a portrait in her home in Fairfax, California, on Wednesday, May 27, 2026. Papineau is a student at the College of Marin and filed a Title IX complaint against her professor, Joe Mueller, after she said he coerced her into a relationship. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After she said she had learned that Mueller previously dated former students, Papineau wrote to him in an email that she “felt almost like I was an insect caught in [his] web.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another email, Mueller acknowledged previous relationships with former students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[W]hen I was first teaching, I didn’t realize how dating former students could lead to problems,” he wrote. “It was certainly not of a predatory nature, as back then I was very shy and only dated women that pursued me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papineau said she threatened to end their relationship in fall 2024. She alleges that Mueller warned that doing so would jeopardize her future in the natural history program. Mueller teaches several courses required for the natural history certificate, including some that other instructors do not offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The story became: ‘Think about your future, think about your career. If we are not together, you cannot carry on in this department,’” Papineau said.[aside postID=news_12084624 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-21-at-10.21.25%E2%80%AFAM.jpeg']“Education, for me, it’s given me purpose. So the threat of that being taken away was absolutely not something I was OK with. And so I stayed in that with Joe [Mueller],” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In emails, Mueller expressed frustration about the couple’s lack of physical intimacy and questioned whether Papineau’s feelings for him were fading. Papineau said that after she told Mueller she didn’t want to be intimate because of past trauma, he paid for therapy and expected updates about her sessions and whether she felt closer to being comfortable having sex with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also sent what he called “everlasting love assignments” — quiz-style questionnaires about their relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you could travel anywhere in the world with me, where would you go? What would we do? … Remember, due to the nature of the exercise, you must include love in at least one answer,” one of the quizzes stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we were together in physical presence, you could tell that I wasn’t comfortable,” Papineau said. “So part of my job was to make up for that in writing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papineau said she became increasingly dependent on Mueller. He paid her for work on the book project and contributed more than $11,000 toward her rent, according to copies of checks reviewed by KQED. He also paid more than $2,000 toward therapy expenses, according to images of transaction records reviewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two continued dating until spring 2025. Even after they broke up, they remained in contact and continued collaborating on a book project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papineau said she ultimately filed her Title IX complaint after learning that other students had similar experiences. What she initially viewed as mentorship had become the foundation of a complaint that raised broader questions about power, favoritism and influence within the college’s natural history program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Students who walked away\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In March 2025, Papineau confided in another professor in the geology department, who later confirmed the conversation to Title IX investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the investigative report, the professor, who co-taught multiple classes with Mueller, said other students had raised concerns about Mueller’s fairness. The professor also recalled a female student asking in 2017 whether anyone else taught one of Mueller’s classes because she wanted to avoid taking a course with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some students, avoiding Mueller was difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12085020 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-MARINPROFESSOR00007_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-MARINPROFESSOR00007_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-MARINPROFESSOR00007_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-MARINPROFESSOR00007_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A directional sign at College of Marin in Kentfield on May 22, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The difficult thing for a lot of students is that [Mueller] is the only teacher that teaches [environmental science] and, I think, three of his other classes,” Wales said. “If you need any of the classes that he teaches, there’s no other option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Wales stopped attending Mueller’s class in fall 2024, they allege that they received an F that temporarily placed them on academic probation. They later petitioned to have the grade removed from their record. Wales said the four-year university they hope to transfer to does not require Mueller’s course — a factor in their decision to apply there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newell also altered his plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of pursuing College of Marin’s natural history certificate, which required additional classes taught only by Mueller, he switched to biology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papineau changed her major to philosophy and said she no longer believed a future in natural history was feasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taken together, the students described a program in which one professor’s influence extended beyond the classroom and shaped decisions about majors, certificates, careers and whether students remained in the field at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did meet people frequently who were like, ‘Be careful around Joe,’” Papineau said. “But I didn’t believe that for a long time until I saw it for myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>College of Marin commissioned workplace investigation law firm Van Dermyden Makus to conduct a third-party evidentiary review of Papineau’s complaint. After a closed-door hearing in May, a third-party consultant found sufficient evidence to support multiple violations of the school’s sexual harassment policy and one violation of its sexual assault policy, according to documents reviewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller was placed on immediate leave on Thursday, according to a summary of remedies from the district. It said it planned to “initiate” his termination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the findings report, which was delivered to the school’s Title IX coordinator June 29, Mueller was previously found in violation of college harassment policies on two prior occasions since 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, the school found that Mueller “exercised extremely poor judgement and unprofessional conduct and placed the District at risk of serious liability by engaging in sexual relationships with students … and taking students to a store with sexually-based items” during an overnight field trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the findings report, which was delivered to the school’s Title IX coordinator on June 29 and reviewed by KQED, investigators found that the college had previously found Mueller to have violated its harassment policies on two prior occasions since 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller initially declined to comment on the details of the investigation but later provided a written statement disputing many of the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following multiple requests to Mueller for comment, several current and former students contacted KQED to express support for the professor and describe positive experiences with him as an instructor and mentor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mentorship and power\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mueller told investigators that he noticed Papineau’s talent as a writer in his spring 2023 course and later invited her and several classmates to give a presentation on the environmental impact of grass lawns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two remained in touch through email, discussing environmental issues and Papineau’s move to Fairfax, the small North Bay town where Mueller lived. Mueller later told investigators their friendship developed in summer 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papineau said she initially viewed Mueller as a mentor. She began working on a website for the natural history program at his request and later spoke on his behalf at a local Board of Supervisors meeting. The two also began hiking together and communicating more frequently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085022\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-MARINPROFESSOR00111_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-MARINPROFESSOR00111_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-MARINPROFESSOR00111_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-MARINPROFESSOR00111_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">College of Marin in Kentfield on May 22, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was very excited thinking, ‘Wow, this professor who was such an inspiration to me seems to be offering me mentorship, which was like a dream come true,’” Papineau told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papineau said the relationship became romantic during a hike in summer 2024 when Mueller kissed her. She said the relationship was consensual at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was a little conflicted about it because I was like, ‘He is my hero, and so if he wants something more, I have to at least give that a try,’” Papineau said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The relationship changed after class resumed in fall 2024, Papineau said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She enrolled in Mueller’s ecology class, the first of several classes she would take from him while they were romantically involved. At the time, College of Marin discouraged, but did not prohibit, relationships between instructors and students.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In November 2025, the Marin Community College District \u003ca href=\"https://policies.marin.edu/sites/default/files/AP3430-ProhibitionofHarassment.pdf\">revised its harassment policy\u003c/a> to prohibit most relationships between students and employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Such relationships present an inherent imbalance of power and carry a significant risk of exploitation, compromising the integrity of the educational environment,” the policy states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college did not respond to questions about what prompted the change. Spokesperson Nicole Cruz said it was campus policy not to comment on specific student or employment matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“College of Marin is committed to providing an academic and work environment free of unlawful discrimination on the basis of sex, including sexual harassment under Title IX,” she said via email. “College of Marin has a robust and thorough process for investigating complaints of unlawful discrimination … Further, College of Marin strictly prohibits retaliation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller told investigators that Papineau initiated most of their contact and frequently shared details about her personal life. At one point, he said she told him she’d broken up with her boyfriend and moved out of his residence, according to the investigators’ report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Mueller said: “In my 35 years of teaching, I have never, not once, asked a woman out on a date or accepted an invitation to go out on a date that was currently enrolled in one of my classes.” He said in two instances, in 2024 and 1998, women that he “was in well-established relationships with” wanted to take his classes and he could not prohibit them from enrolling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papineau was first Mueller’s student in the spring of 2023 and told Mueller in May 2024, before they began dating, that she planned to take his course that fall, according to emails viewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A pattern of favoritism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before Papineau filed her complaint, other students said they had already come to view Mueller as a professor who rewarded favored students and marginalized others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lily Wales enrolled in Mueller’s environmental science course in fall 2024 during their first semester at College of Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller was “sort of legendary” on campus, according to Wales. But he was also known for being harsh with students, while singling out some — including Wales — as favorites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would pull me aside after class and tell me how good I was doing and say that he had a lot of connections in the biology world,” Wales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088073\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088073\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/JoeMueller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/JoeMueller.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/JoeMueller-160x92.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">College of Marin biology professor Joe Mueller on a ridge overlooking Home Bay, part of Drake’s Estero on Jan. 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Cy Musiker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wales, who was 17 at the time, said Mueller complimented them, offered networking opportunities and invited them on hikes, which they declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Wales said the attention was validating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was pretty young, and so I was really naive,” Wales said. “I was like, ‘It’s so great that so early on there’s somebody in the field that really wants to help me.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around midterms, however, they became uncomfortable with the attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When students were working on group projects, Wales said Mueller critiqued other groups while praising theirs without closely examining the work. Wales said they didn’t study well for the midterm exam and answered multiple questions incorrectly, but were awarded a perfect score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a moment where I was like, ‘I feel like there’s something going on and I don’t want it to get to a point of there being a relationship that’s being formed,’” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after, Wales said they stopped attending Mueller’s class and had avoided taking any of his others throughout their time at College of Marin. Mueller reached out to Wales to express his concern after they had missed a few weeks of class, according to an email viewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The cost of staying in good standing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Walker Newell took about five classes with Mueller during his first few years at College of Marin. He alleges that the professor gave preferential treatment to young, pretty women, while treating others harshly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s definitely people who get weeded out of the classroom that essentially [are] people that Joe doesn’t want in the classroom,” Newell told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newell recalled that Mueller would often pause mid-lecture to make comments about a student who had an accommodation allowing them to take notes on a laptop. According to Newell, Mueller suggested that the student’s typing distracted classmates and slowed the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085021\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-MARINPROFESSOR00067_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-MARINPROFESSOR00067_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-MARINPROFESSOR00067_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-MARINPROFESSOR00067_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">College of Marin in Kentfield on May 22, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another former student and college employee, who requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation, similarly said Mueller was often uncooperative with accommodations and singled students out in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller said that he tries to discourage students from typing notes and asks those who do to speak with him about the benefits of handwriting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t disparage them; somebody might take it that way,” Mueller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller described himself as a dedicated teacher and said he would never intentionally treat students unfairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newell said Mueller liked to be seen as “all-knowing” and “grand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, Newell said, he benefited from Mueller’s favor, and it felt good to be praised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re on his side, it’s great. 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They’ve never seen water flow outside of something other than a hose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Zoo said it will post updates of Sitara’s acclimation on social media and would be initiating a program designed “to help her build trust and resilience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090499\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Tiger-Transfer-Credit-Oakland-Zoo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Tiger-Transfer-Credit-Oakland-Zoo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Tiger-Transfer-Credit-Oakland-Zoo-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Tiger-Transfer-Credit-Oakland-Zoo-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff transports a new female tiger to the Oakland Zoo. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Oakland Zoo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sitara appears mostly healthy, apart from some lameness in her left hind leg, but she will also undergo a medical exam to identify any underlying conditions, according to the zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minier said that while the Oakland Zoo remains committed to animal rescue and rehabilitation, it also hopes to raise awareness that helps bring an end to wildlife exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really are looking forward to a day where the U.S. has the regulations that don’t allow for these exploitative and neglectful practices,” he said. “Don’t pay to play with wildlife, and don’t support businesses that profit from direct contact with wild animals. Ticket that’s purchased for a cub petting session or posed wildlife photo creates the demand for more breeding and more exploitation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/emanoukian\">\u003cem>Elize Manoukian\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Sitara, whose name has Hindi origins, meaning star, is still getting used to her new home, Minier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s exploratory and “happy-go-lucky” and loves to explore the zoo’s pools, waterfall, grass and vegetation, but Minier said she can also get spooked easily and has issues trusting the care team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something bangs, or there’s an object that scares her, and there’s a very obvious trauma response,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the 20 or so years Oakland Zoo has hosted rescued big cats, about a dozen have lived in its habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minier said many of these animals had spent most of their previous lives in small, concrete enclosures and had to be taught about the natural world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes they don’t feel like dirt can support them because they’ve always been on concrete,” Minier said. “[We have to teach them] that grass tickling their toes is okay. They’ve never seen water flow outside of something other than a hose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Zoo said it will post updates of Sitara’s acclimation on social media and would be initiating a program designed “to help her build trust and resilience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090499\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Tiger-Transfer-Credit-Oakland-Zoo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Tiger-Transfer-Credit-Oakland-Zoo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Tiger-Transfer-Credit-Oakland-Zoo-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Tiger-Transfer-Credit-Oakland-Zoo-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff transports a new female tiger to the Oakland Zoo. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Oakland Zoo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sitara appears mostly healthy, apart from some lameness in her left hind leg, but she will also undergo a medical exam to identify any underlying conditions, according to the zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minier said that while the Oakland Zoo remains committed to animal rescue and rehabilitation, it also hopes to raise awareness that helps bring an end to wildlife exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really are looking forward to a day where the U.S. has the regulations that don’t allow for these exploitative and neglectful practices,” he said. “Don’t pay to play with wildlife, and don’t support businesses that profit from direct contact with wild animals. Ticket that’s purchased for a cub petting session or posed wildlife photo creates the demand for more breeding and more exploitation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/emanoukian\">\u003cem>Elize Manoukian\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the days since the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12089915/sf-supe-to-launch-inquiry-on-waymos-july-fourth-traffic-meltdown\">traffic meltdown\u003c/a> that followed San Francisco’s special Fourth of July fireworks display, city leaders have pledged to analyze what went wrong and learn from their mistakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some government departments and city residents have pointed to another one of the event’s major planning oversights: a severe lack of toilets to serve the over 100,000 people that the city estimated went to its northeastern end for the fireworks spectacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ The restrooms just did not seem well-planned. It was so disorganized,” said Declan Galli, a resident of the city’s Ingleside neighborhood. Galli said he waited in line for two hours at the city’s Little Marina Green Picnic Area to use a bathroom on Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galli was one of many who decided to take their chances on San Francisco’s notoriously foggy Fourth of July to see what he hoped would be a fun show: the city planned to launch fireworks from the Golden Gate Bridge instead of its usual location on Fisherman’s Wharf in honor of America’s 250th anniversary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But upon arriving at the Marina Green, he was met with a different kind of spectacle. Galli described long bathroom lines snaking down Marina Boulevard and law enforcement officials attempting to control the significant queue of people waiting to use the facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galli said he saw children and adults in significant discomfort because of how long they had been waiting to use the restroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12090531 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2284156727.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2284156727.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2284156727-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2284156727-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gather and cook food at Torpedo Wharf on Saturday, July 4, 2026, in San Francisco. For the third time in history, San Francisco will fire fireworks off the Golden Gate Bridge in celebration of America’s 250th birthday. \u003ccite>(Florence Shen/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ My one friend was basically doing the potty dance because they were like, ‘I have to pee so bad, like so, so bad,’” Galli said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I definitely saw a few kids that said they needed to pee bad, and people were nice enough to let them in, but it would be really hard if you had kids at that event because there were very few bathrooms,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galli estimated there were between five and 10 portable restrooms available for public use where he waited at Little Marina Green. Eventually, he said, Recreation and Parks Department staff opened up the permanent bathrooms there, in an attempt to ease the significant lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite arriving two hours before the show began, he said he spent so long waiting in line that he missed the first five minutes of the 15-minute show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once we started missing the fireworks, that was disappointing for sure,” Galli said.[aside postID=news_12089915 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/IMG_0075-1.jpg']He said that the experience left him feeling like there was no unified communication or planning for the major city event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When questioned about how many temporary toilets were made available for the event, Charles Lutvak, spokesperson for Mayor Daniel Lurie, referred inquiries to the city’s Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Providing restrooms along the waterfront was a citywide effort, including properties under the jurisdiction of Rec and Parks, the Port of San Francisco and the National Park Service, according to Daniel Montes, communications manager for Rec and Parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montes said Rec and Parks provided 30 portable toilets and 12 permanent ones at the Marina Green, based on previous large-scale events such as Fleet Week, but said, “demand at this citywide event clearly exceeded available restroom capacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that long restroom lines are frustrating, and this experience will help inform our planning when coordinating future events of this scale,” Montes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Port of San Francisco did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, there were 127 toilets made available for public use for the Fourth of July show, according to Joshua Winchell, chief of communications and special park uses for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winchell said the park arranged for 60 portable toilets to complement its 27 permanent ones, and the city provided an additional 40 portable toilets. He also said the park saw “unprecedented visitation driven by the city’s historic fireworks display.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090569\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/FourthofJulySFGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/FourthofJulySFGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/FourthofJulySFGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/FourthofJulySFGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spectators save their spot to watch fireworks displayed from the Golden Gate Bridge on July 4, 2026, in Sausalito, California. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said that the 127 toilets were “far short” of what was needed to support the attendees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will work with the City of San Francisco and our other partners to ensure that enough bathrooms and other resources required for enjoyable park visits will be in place for future large-scale events, such as Fleet Week,” Winchell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of restrooms provided falls drastically short of industry standards for events, according to Vivienne Errington-Barnes, CEO and founder of the San Francisco-headquartered event planning company Shift + Alt Events — which she said has organized events with as many as 300,000 attendees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a simple, hard and fast rule for bathrooms. It’s industry-wide and global. One bathroom per 65 people, and one bathroom per 50 people if they’re drinking alcohol,” Errington-Barnes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the GGNRA’s estimate of toilets provided for the event and the city’s estimate for total attendance, there was one restroom for every 787 people in attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090571\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/FourthofJulySFGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/FourthofJulySFGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/FourthofJulySFGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/FourthofJulySFGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fireworks are displayed from the Golden Gate Bridge on July 4, 2026, in Sausalito, California. This year’s fireworks were displayed from the Golden Gate Bridge for the third time in the bridge’s history to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Errington-Barnes said that not having an appropriate number of restrooms can force people to publicly urinate and put pregnant and elderly people, as well as children and their parents, in difficult, embarrassing situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like it wasn’t planned,” Errington-Barnes said. “ Either they didn’t know how many people were coming, or they had somebody produce it that just didn’t understand that there is a very hard and fast rule.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galli said large events in San Francisco like the Fourth of July can be “really fun,” but said he’d like to see better planning and communication, like a map of where bathrooms will be, for future city events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, whose district includes the Marina, is calling for a hearing in September to ensure that this year’s annual Fleet Week celebration, set to take place in the same area in October, has a “robust operational plan to ensure success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hearing will include planning for bathroom access, according to Jack Hebb, Sherrill’s communications director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He said that the experience left him feeling like there was no unified communication or planning for the major city event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When questioned about how many temporary toilets were made available for the event, Charles Lutvak, spokesperson for Mayor Daniel Lurie, referred inquiries to the city’s Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Providing restrooms along the waterfront was a citywide effort, including properties under the jurisdiction of Rec and Parks, the Port of San Francisco and the National Park Service, according to Daniel Montes, communications manager for Rec and Parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montes said Rec and Parks provided 30 portable toilets and 12 permanent ones at the Marina Green, based on previous large-scale events such as Fleet Week, but said, “demand at this citywide event clearly exceeded available restroom capacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that long restroom lines are frustrating, and this experience will help inform our planning when coordinating future events of this scale,” Montes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Port of San Francisco did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, there were 127 toilets made available for public use for the Fourth of July show, according to Joshua Winchell, chief of communications and special park uses for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winchell said the park arranged for 60 portable toilets to complement its 27 permanent ones, and the city provided an additional 40 portable toilets. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We want to make sure that from beginning to end that we can control our game days and make sure that they are fun and exciting for our community,” Barenz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the short term, Barenz said the Roots and Soul are considering multiple options for the 2027 season, including installing bleachers at their Alameda training site or building a pop-up field in the parking lot of the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Roots \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023859/oakland-roots-soul-want-to-play-in-the-coliseum-for-years-to-come\">abandoned a plan\u003c/a> to construct a temporary stadium in the Coliseum’s adjacent Malibu lot last year, saying at the time that they hoped to remain in the site’s existing stadium as they worked to build a dedicated facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The club has been pursuing a permanent home since its inaugural season in 2019, when it hosted home matches at nearby Laney College. In 2023, the Roots moved to Cal State East Bay’s Hayward campus, where they played until the move to the Coliseum last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the Roots have been eyeing Howard Terminal, a former shipping container terminal owned by the Port of Oakland, for a waterfront stadium, and said it’s working to secure an exclusive negotiating agreement with the port to create a “world-class” waterfront venue there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also exploring the potential to build a stadium at the Coliseum site, though that option is likely complicated by the now yearslong negotiations between stakeholders and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048852/after-months-oakland-coliseum-sale-is-finally-up-for-key-vote-heres-what-to-know\">African American Sports and Entertainment Group\u003c/a>, the development group in the process of purchasing the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032650\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032650\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250322_Roots_12993.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250322_Roots_12993.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250322_Roots_12993-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250322_Roots_12993-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250322_Roots_12993-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250322_Roots_12993-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250322_Roots_12993-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Roots forward EJ Johnson (22) battles between San Antonio FC midfielder Almir de Jesús Soto (18) and defender Mitchell Taintor (3) at the Oakland Coliseum on March 22, 2025, in Oakland, California. This was the first Roots game played in the storied stadium. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though the Roots’ departure could mean the end of Oakland sports at the Coliseum for now, AASEG has said it’s open to hosting athletic teams in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barenz said she hopes Oaklanders will come out to one of the team’s final seven games in the stadium, beginning July 25 against the Sacramento Republic FC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it is possible these will be the last sporting event at the building of the Coliseum,” she said. “We wanted to make sure that we gave our fans plenty of notice … so they would have lots of opportunity to come out and celebrate our games there and bid farewell to that storied venue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ninathorsen\">\u003cem>Nina Thorsen\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief Derrick Lew offered new information about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12089373/san-francisco-supervisors-demand-answers-after-pride-weekend-police-raid\">arrests, use of force and surveillance\u003c/a> during San Francisco’s Pride Weekend on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a dozen transgender residents and their allies packed San Francisco’s Police Commission meeting on Wednesday night to demand accountability for what they described as a violent, militarized police response to two events in late June. That included the June 26 Trans March, which ended in arrests near Turk and Taylor streets, blocks from the site of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria uprising; and an unpermitted block party the next night in the South of Market neighborhood, known as the Stud Alley party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Video of both \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaEvoG-RX3M/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">spread widely online\u003c/a>, leading District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder to file a \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/65023928e628bd272e752a09/t/6a431dd60898a511080e40e1/1782783446423/LOI+into+SFPD+re_+pride.pdf\">letter of inquiry\u003c/a> demanding the department, Mayor Daniel Lurie and other officials explain what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One after another, speakers told the commission they had come to celebrate — and instead watched officers wade into crowds with batons and rifles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no reasonable world where armed police officers should be allowed to instigate violence by charging into an unarmed crowd of thousands,” one speaker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A trans resident named Leah said people were shoved and handled aggressively, some left with bruises, and that one person reported a concussion. Another speaker, who said she had fled political persecution in Russia, told the commission the officers reminded her of what she had left behind: “people who have been sanctioned by the state to protect us, [who] attack us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090418\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090418\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/A64A3904.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/A64A3904.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/A64A3904-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/A64A3904-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds participated in a march for Trans Rights in San Francisco, California, on June 26, 2026. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kane C Andrade)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several framed the response as a betrayal of the city’s reputation as a refuge. “If trans people cannot feel safe in this city in San Francisco, what message does that send to the rest of the country?” Leah said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Derrick Lew, appearing before the commission during his regular report, pushed back on what he called misperceptions about the operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco Police Department supports the LGBTQ community full stop,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trans March arrests, he added, “were not targeted at the transgender community” but at “a few people amongst thousands of peaceful participants who chose to break the law” — conduct he said would have drawn arrests “at any event.”[aside postID=news_12089373 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg']Lew said the proximity to Compton’s Cafeteria was not chosen “to demean, offend or disrespect,” but was simply where suspects were encountered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the chief’s account, around 7 p.m., officers saw several people using paint-filled, Super Soaker-style water guns to spray buildings, vehicles and security cameras along the route. A police drone tracked two suspects to Turk and Taylor, Lew said, and captured footage of them stuffing the water guns into a paper bag and stripping off outer clothing and face coverings to “blend back into” the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When officers moved in, he said, a crowd of roughly 300 surrounded them, linked arms, chanted “let them go” and threw glass bottles; one person climbed onto a patrol car and another pried open its door to try to free the detained suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What began as “targeted enforcement,” Lew said, “evolved into a crowd management situation” after officers met interference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He reported six arrests at the march, on charges that included felony vandalism with a hate-crime enhancement, conspiracy, resisting arrest and battery on an officer, and more than 20 acts of vandalism, mostly to security and license-plate-reader Flock cameras. In an earlier statement to KQED, SFPD reported five Trans March arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Stud Alley Pride Weekend party the following night, Lew said, a crowd that grew past 100 blocked Kissling Street with boulders and later built barricades on Washburn Street out of wood, traffic cones and plumbing pipe, spray-painting anti-police graffiti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090481\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/DSC8280-scaled-e1783705450346.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Department officers form a line on Turk Street in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood during the Trans March on June 26, 2026. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Deja Whitney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officers declared an unlawful assembly and made 20 arrests, mostly for unlawful assembly and resisting or delaying an officer, he said; two officers suffered minor injuries, and a group slashed the tires of two Waymo vehicles. In the past, the party, a six-year SoMa tradition, had been monitored rather than shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sharpest exchange of the night came over use of force. In response to questions from Commission Vice President Kevin Benedicto, Lew confirmed there were eight uses of force at the Trans March and one at the block party — but said he did not have details on what those incidents entailed — drawing repeated criticism from the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve clearly and carefully, meticulously tracked instances of vandalism at the Trans March,” one speaker said, “but it’s extremely troubling that you can’t seem to cite even one use of force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others said the count did not match what they witnessed. One commenter described seeing an officer knock a woman to the ground beside her; another said she encountered an older woman, jeans torn and bleeding, who had been pushed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090480\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/DSC8302-scaled-e1783705687955.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police and protesters look at one another during the Trans March on June 26, 2026, near the intersection of Turk and Taylor streets in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Deja Whitney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several returned to the same question: why officers moved into a dense crowd to arrest suspects already identified by drone, rather than making arrests later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who put property over human life and health?” asked one Mission District resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others questioned the use of drones, and Flock automated license-plate cameras at LGBTQ events, citing reports that such data has been shared with agencies in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Fleshman, a District 5 resident, told the commission that cameras funded by a single tech billionaire — in reference to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/san-francisco-gets-invasive-billionaire-bought-surveillance-hq\">Ripple founder Chris Larsen\u003c/a>, whose $9.4 million gift funded a new crime investigations center — had spread across the city, and that “the people of San Francisco don’t want a surveillance state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Police Accountability said it is auditing SFPD’s use of surveillance and license-plate readers, an inquiry it opened in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12090478 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/DSC8343-scaled-e1783706096233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators and police officers clash during the Trans March on June 26, 2026, near the intersection of Turk and Taylor streets in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Deja Whitney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not everyone objected to police at community celebrations. San Francisco police have long had a heavy presence during Pride, including marching in the main parade — something that has drawn objection from many in the LGBTQ community in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917710/sfpd-officers-to-march-in-pride-amid-complicated-feelings-uniform-compromise\">recent years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A retired police officer said officers had helped make a recent Juneteenth celebration a success, and Commissioner Mattie Scott pushed for a prevention-focused approach, with community “ambassadors” and strategic planning ahead of large events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioners Benedicto and Cindy Elias asked that Fielder’s letter and the department’s response be posted publicly and agendized for a future meeting, and pressed Lew on holding a town hall of the kind SFPD convenes after officer-involved shootings. 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A police drone tracked two suspects to Turk and Taylor, Lew said, and captured footage of them stuffing the water guns into a paper bag and stripping off outer clothing and face coverings to “blend back into” the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When officers moved in, he said, a crowd of roughly 300 surrounded them, linked arms, chanted “let them go” and threw glass bottles; one person climbed onto a patrol car and another pried open its door to try to free the detained suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What began as “targeted enforcement,” Lew said, “evolved into a crowd management situation” after officers met interference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He reported six arrests at the march, on charges that included felony vandalism with a hate-crime enhancement, conspiracy, resisting arrest and battery on an officer, and more than 20 acts of vandalism, mostly to security and license-plate-reader Flock cameras. 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