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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For several weeks, a red pay phone sat outside a tattoo parlor in San Francisco’s Mission District — with a sign reading ‘Call a Republican.’ If you picked it up, a blue pay phone with the sign ‘Call a Democrat’ in the conservative city of Abilene, Texas would ring.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This project, created by a company called Matter Neuroscience, aimed to connect Americans from vastly different backgrounds via the old-fashioned phone. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073446/what-happens-when-democrats-in-san-francisco-call-up-republicans-in-texas-its-pretty-cordial\">What Happens When Democrats in San Francisco Call Up Republicans in Texas? It’s Pretty Cordial | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC5345988675\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. For weeks outside of a tattoo shop in San Francisco’s Mission District, an old school payphone painted red could be heard ringing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hello? Hey, this is Chris calling from San Francisco. Who am I speaking with?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On top of the payphone was a sign inviting people walking by to ‘Call a Republican.’ The phone connected to a nearly identical phone booth in Abilene, Texas, except for the sign that read ‘Call a Democrat.’ And it’s all part of a social experiment called The Party Line.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Goldhirsh: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And so it was sort of a social experiment to see what would people choose, common ground or conflict. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Studies show that most American voters are pretty pessimistic that we can overcome our country’s deep political divides. So today, we’re gonna talk with KQED reporter Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman about this social experiment and listen in on conversations between residents of San Francisco and Abilene, Texas. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So the payphone is a project of Matter Neuroscience. That’s a tech startup in Boulder, Colorado.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman is a reporter for KQED. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And their mission is basically just to try to help people live more emotionally balanced lives. One example of that is that they’re in clinical trials at Stanford right now, trying to help people with depression who aren’t responding to traditional treatments. But they also do these sort of like side quest projects. For instance, one was they prototype this six pound phone case to prevent people from doom scrolling. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So basically the phone case was so heavy that it was just physically impossible to sit there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah, to do the infinite scroll on your phone. But the common thread here with the payphone is that they’re trying to get people away from habits that are bad for our emotional health. So the idea with this payphone is how can we get people to connect in a way that’s emotionally positive and healthy for our brains?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How does the payphone work exactly? So there’s one in San Francisco and then another elsewhere in the country?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Basically, Matter Neuroscience bought two payphones on Facebook Marketplace, ripped out their guts, and outfitted them with SIM cards that basically turned them into cell phones. And they put one in San Francisco, and they put another in Abilene, Texas. So the idea was to connect two very politically different parts of our country. So San Francisco voted heavily for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. Abilene, Texas voted heavily for Donald Trump. Both cities are over 100,000 residents, so that was sort of the thinking of connecting America’s most, you know, I’m saying this in air quotes, most conservative city and most liberal city. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Audio from outside the payphone:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Is anybody picking up? No. Oh, darn. That’s too bad. It might take a while. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And so what happens is if you pick up the phone in San Francisco, it rings the phone in Texas. And the phone in Texas is located outside a bookstore in Abilene. Same thing, if you pick up the phone in Texas, it’ll ring the payphone in San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And you just wait basically for someone to pick up on the other side.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes, you pick it up, it calls, and then it rings on the other side. And I was standing outside the payphone for a while and there were times when it was ringing and nobody picked up. There were other times when people walked by and they decided to pick it up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I’m so curious about the conversations that you heard folks having and also who was interested and engaging with this payphone. I know you met a woman named Maria out there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, so Maria Gonzalez is a lifelong San Franciscan, lives pretty close to the payphone, and she was walking by, heard a ring, and decided to pick it up. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Maria Gonzalez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oh my gosh, really? Where? Where are you at? Oh, you just told me where you’re at. Yeah. You need to get out here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She ended up finding a Democrat in Texas or the person who called was a Democrat wanting to sort of commiserate about you know politics and say oh you know I want to be where you are essentially.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Maria Gonzalez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was nice to speak to somebody and we had similar ways of looking at life and so, you know, I mean every time you pick up the phone it’s going to be a different experience. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She told me that the conversation that she had reminded her of sort of her own difficulties in her family speaking with the family members who are supporters of President Trump. She said her uncle is a quote Trumpster and that she tries to maintain a relationship with him but it’s hard. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Maria Gonzalez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So we have these discussions every time we speak, you know, and I love my uncle, I just don’t, we just don’t agree in our political views. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is something that I think a lot of people feel is that it can be difficult to talk about politics when people have different views.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Maria Gonzalez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think that we need something like this for sure. I was born and raised in San Francisco, so I grew up around a lot of different people with different ethnicities, going to different people’s houses and having food with them and experiencing their life. And I think that’s the best way that you can open up your mind if you live amongst people that are different from you. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another man named Stephen Albert said that his twin sister is a Trump supporter and that he was put on this earth to cancel out her vote. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So we’re gonna play and listen to a snippet from a phone call between a 46 year old man in San Francisco and it turns out a 46-year-old woman in Abilene, Texas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hello, I’m Steve. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Okay. Hi, Steve.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What’s up? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nothing much. Just looking for books. Classic books.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well this says ‘Call a Republican.’ Are you a Republican? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes, I am.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> You are?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yes, probably an independent I would say as I’ve got older independent Are you, what are you? Are you a Republican? Are you a Democrat? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oh god, I don’t, I don’t I mean I live in San Francisco, you know.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So yeah, so you’re liberal, that’s fine. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m pretty liberal. Okay. Yeah Yeah, I… do you see the world as crazy as I do? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I do, worse and worse every day. It’s getting worse every day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">See we have so much in common.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I know, we do.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I love this clip so much because I feel like it’s so awkward in the beginning. They’re like, are you a liberal? I am a liberal. And then you feel this like sigh of relief when they both agree that the world is crazy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, they’re sort of tiptoeing around each other at the beginning, like being like, is this okay? And then they both like say like, yeah, I’m willing to have a conversation with you. And I thought it was interesting that the woman was like, you know, I am kind of Republican, but I’m kind of an independent. You know, there’s some of that nuance that you might not get in an online conversation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like I’m out here in the middle of the day and I’m about to have a delicious tuna salad sandwich and you’re shopping for books and neither of us are at work. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, I’m a stay-at-home mom, so I don’t work. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You’re a stay at home mom? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes, with four kids. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Four kids?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oh my God, how old are you? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m 46. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m also 46. I have no kids. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You have no kids… Hey, you’re living the life then, let me tell you.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am living the live. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m tied down forever. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oh, but you love it, right?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I do love it. I do. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re also having the AI here, did you know that? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>I did not know that. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, so they’re building a huge AI center here. It’s one of the biggest in the, I guess in the world is coming, or they’ve already been building it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A data center?\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, that’s right. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is that a positive impact? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, I would say there’s a lot more traffic. There’s a lotta more traffic\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it probably, what, takes a lot of energy and water to run a place like that. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oh yeah, it’s going to be very interesting when it’s all done, what happens. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, it’s probably not being done for our benefit, is it?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">No, probably not.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, I love that they’re like learning from each other in this conversation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, and having, finding a commonality again, like San Francisco, we sort of live in the shadow of AI, and then right down there on Main Street, Texas, you’ve also got AI’s influence coming. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And you can hear her bringing it up because she knows that. She knows that him living in San Francisco is like, yeah, you live in AI capital of the world and it’s here too. Okay, and here’s another conversation between, as it turns out, two progressives. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hello? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hello. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oh my gosh, Texas, and hell yeah. What’s it like over there? I’m a little scared for you guys. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, it’s OK. You’re in California? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oh my god, I always wanted to go there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I mean, it’s amazing. What can I say, queer? Quite queer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, okay, so I have to tell you, I’m not a Republican.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Okay, okay, okay. I was testing. That was a test. The queer thing was a task. I knew instantly when you said you wanted to go to San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, well, I have a trans, I have a trans child, so, yeah. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course, of course. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have to say it quietly. I have say it really quietly.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, yeah, I’d imagine, I would imagine. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oh my god, I just love their energy. They’re just like, they just sound like two girls on the phone.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s all gonna be okay, it’s all going to be okay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">No, it’s all going to be okay. There’s so many amazing people in the world all across, no matter what state you’re in. The people of Texas, there’s some great hard-working people in Texas that you are ready to do the work to really turn some stuff around. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s right. We’re going to get there. We are going to go there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">No, and I believe in you.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it’s like, it’s very fun. It’s a very odd situation when you’re put on the phone with a stranger and tasked with having a conversation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, it’s like that element of surprise that’s kind of fun. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like mystery box.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah right. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think another thing that you’re hearing is like, not everyone in Abilene is a Republican and not everyone in San Francisco is a Democrat. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m glad I got to hear you. This is so beautiful. I don’t even know exactly what this phone thing is, but I, I, this is awesome. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s awesome. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I talked to the bookstore owner in Texas and she said, yeah, a lot of the Democrats and Abilene have been like coming out of the woodwork and seeking out this payphone trying to find like-minded people, which could be sort of a little more challenging there. And in the same way, she said she’s picked up calls where San Francisco Republicans are calling looking to talk to like-minded folk. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I mean, did you pick up the phone and try to talk to anyone? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, I did. And you know, I have my journalist hat on, so people are like, well, are you a Republican or a Democrat? I’m like, I’m sort of a journalist. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m a journalist.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m not really supposed to have a political view when I’m working, but I did experience that same feeling of like, you’re a person in Texas and I grew up in San Francisco, I’ve lived here almost my whole life. I’ve never been to Texas. What’s that like? 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Like, did it work? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So the payphones were up for a month and they recorded around 200 conversations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Goldhirsh: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What ended up happening was quite beautiful and quite affirming. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I spoke to Ben Goldhirsh, he’s a co-founder of Matter Neuroscience, and he said listening to these conversations has been incredibly meaningful for him. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Goldhirsh: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whatever the human topic is that allows us to actually connect, that’s what people gravitate towards. And people also gravitated away from kind of broad brushstrokes, like, oh, I’m a Republican, but don’t think that all of my positions are all on the right. 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So when we get offline, we get on the phone or talk to somebody in person, it can be beneficial for us as humans and we can sort of break down some of these barriers that we might construct that prevent us from relating to each other. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Goldhirsh: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think if you pulled an alien that was looking at America from, you know, a million miles away who was just digesting our news and our social media, and you said, hey, like, evaluate how far apart these people are, I think it would be reasonable to set a pretty wide delta. And I think when that alien listens to these conversations, they’ll be like, a lot of these are buds. These folks are all buds. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So they took the payphones down on Wednesday, right? Wednesday of last week. Do they plan to do this again? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Matter Neuroscience told me that they’re looking at other applications for the payphones that could have similar benefits for different populations. One idea is a senior center and a college campus to sort of unite people across generations. And the other idea is to go international with it. Unite people from different countries.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Did you feel like it worked on you? I mean, like the purpose of this payphone. Are you convinced? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One question I have about this project is that, you know, there were around 200 conversations. This is a drop in the bucket compared to how many billions of people use social media every day. And this project was literally based on a payphone, like a piece of tech that does not exist anymore largely. It’s definitely going against the prevailing headwinds of how we’re communicating and how we are. The methods we’re increasingly turning to to get information out. But there is a lot of research to say that like social connection is good for us. And I did feel, I felt good when I talked to the payphone and it felt good to listen to people talking and it feel good to listened to these conversations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah and especially I feel like in this like world where we’re presumably more connected than ever with social media and stuff but actually like sometimes you just need to pick up the phone and talk to someone. 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Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild. American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California Local. And I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, thank you so much for listening. Talk to you next time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. For weeks outside of a tattoo shop in San Francisco’s Mission District, an old school payphone painted red could be heard ringing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hello? Hey, this is Chris calling from San Francisco. Who am I speaking with?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On top of the payphone was a sign inviting people walking by to ‘Call a Republican.’ The phone connected to a nearly identical phone booth in Abilene, Texas, except for the sign that read ‘Call a Democrat.’ And it’s all part of a social experiment called The Party Line.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Goldhirsh: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And so it was sort of a social experiment to see what would people choose, common ground or conflict. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Studies show that most American voters are pretty pessimistic that we can overcome our country’s deep political divides. So today, we’re gonna talk with KQED reporter Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman about this social experiment and listen in on conversations between residents of San Francisco and Abilene, Texas. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So the payphone is a project of Matter Neuroscience. That’s a tech startup in Boulder, Colorado.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman is a reporter for KQED. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And their mission is basically just to try to help people live more emotionally balanced lives. One example of that is that they’re in clinical trials at Stanford right now, trying to help people with depression who aren’t responding to traditional treatments. But they also do these sort of like side quest projects. For instance, one was they prototype this six pound phone case to prevent people from doom scrolling. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So basically the phone case was so heavy that it was just physically impossible to sit there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah, to do the infinite scroll on your phone. But the common thread here with the payphone is that they’re trying to get people away from habits that are bad for our emotional health. So the idea with this payphone is how can we get people to connect in a way that’s emotionally positive and healthy for our brains?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How does the payphone work exactly? So there’s one in San Francisco and then another elsewhere in the country?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Basically, Matter Neuroscience bought two payphones on Facebook Marketplace, ripped out their guts, and outfitted them with SIM cards that basically turned them into cell phones. And they put one in San Francisco, and they put another in Abilene, Texas. So the idea was to connect two very politically different parts of our country. So San Francisco voted heavily for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. Abilene, Texas voted heavily for Donald Trump. Both cities are over 100,000 residents, so that was sort of the thinking of connecting America’s most, you know, I’m saying this in air quotes, most conservative city and most liberal city. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Audio from outside the payphone:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Is anybody picking up? No. Oh, darn. 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It’s getting worse every day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">See we have so much in common.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I know, we do.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I love this clip so much because I feel like it’s so awkward in the beginning. They’re like, are you a liberal? I am a liberal. And then you feel this like sigh of relief when they both agree that the world is crazy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, they’re sort of tiptoeing around each other at the beginning, like being like, is this okay? And then they both like say like, yeah, I’m willing to have a conversation with you. And I thought it was interesting that the woman was like, you know, I am kind of Republican, but I’m kind of an independent. 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I have no kids. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You have no kids… Hey, you’re living the life then, let me tell you.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am living the live. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m tied down forever. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oh, but you love it, right?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I do love it. I do. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re also having the AI here, did you know that? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>I did not know that. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, so they’re building a huge AI center here. It’s one of the biggest in the, I guess in the world is coming, or they’ve already been building it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A data center?\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, that’s right. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is that a positive impact? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, I would say there’s a lot more traffic. There’s a lotta more traffic\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it probably, what, takes a lot of energy and water to run a place like that. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oh yeah, it’s going to be very interesting when it’s all done, what happens. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steve: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, it’s probably not being done for our benefit, is it?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">No, probably not.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, I love that they’re like learning from each other in this conversation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, and having, finding a commonality again, like San Francisco, we sort of live in the shadow of AI, and then right down there on Main Street, Texas, you’ve also got AI’s influence coming. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And you can hear her bringing it up because she knows that. She knows that him living in San Francisco is like, yeah, you live in AI capital of the world and it’s here too. Okay, and here’s another conversation between, as it turns out, two progressives. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hello? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hello. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oh my gosh, Texas, and hell yeah. What’s it like over there? I’m a little scared for you guys. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, it’s OK. You’re in California? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oh my god, I always wanted to go there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I mean, it’s amazing. What can I say, queer? Quite queer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, okay, so I have to tell you, I’m not a Republican.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Okay, okay, okay. I was testing. That was a test. The queer thing was a task. I knew instantly when you said you wanted to go to San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, well, I have a trans, I have a trans child, so, yeah. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course, of course. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have to say it quietly. I have say it really quietly.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, yeah, I’d imagine, I would imagine. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oh my god, I just love their energy. They’re just like, they just sound like two girls on the phone.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s all gonna be okay, it’s all going to be okay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">No, it’s all going to be okay. There’s so many amazing people in the world all across, no matter what state you’re in. The people of Texas, there’s some great hard-working people in Texas that you are ready to do the work to really turn some stuff around. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s right. We’re going to get there. We are going to go there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">No, and I believe in you.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it’s like, it’s very fun. It’s a very odd situation when you’re put on the phone with a stranger and tasked with having a conversation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, it’s like that element of surprise that’s kind of fun. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like mystery box.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah right. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think another thing that you’re hearing is like, not everyone in Abilene is a Republican and not everyone in San Francisco is a Democrat. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m glad I got to hear you. This is so beautiful. I don’t even know exactly what this phone thing is, but I, I, this is awesome. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Unidentified Caller 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s awesome. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I talked to the bookstore owner in Texas and she said, yeah, a lot of the Democrats and Abilene have been like coming out of the woodwork and seeking out this payphone trying to find like-minded people, which could be sort of a little more challenging there. And in the same way, she said she’s picked up calls where San Francisco Republicans are calling looking to talk to like-minded folk. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I mean, did you pick up the phone and try to talk to anyone? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, I did. And you know, I have my journalist hat on, so people are like, well, are you a Republican or a Democrat? I’m like, I’m sort of a journalist. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m a journalist.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m not really supposed to have a political view when I’m working, but I did experience that same feeling of like, you’re a person in Texas and I grew up in San Francisco, I’ve lived here almost my whole life. I’ve never been to Texas. What’s that like? Like we’re part of the same country. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I do wonder, Azul, just like after hearing some of these phone calls, I’m sure there were many, many more that we haven’t listened to, but do the folks who put this payphone out there, do they think that it did what it was supposed to do? Like, did it work? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So the payphones were up for a month and they recorded around 200 conversations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Goldhirsh: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What ended up happening was quite beautiful and quite affirming. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I spoke to Ben Goldhirsh, he’s a co-founder of Matter Neuroscience, and he said listening to these conversations has been incredibly meaningful for him. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Goldhirsh: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whatever the human topic is that allows us to actually connect, that’s what people gravitate towards. And people also gravitated away from kind of broad brushstrokes, like, oh, I’m a Republican, but don’t think that all of my positions are all on the right. I also believe in X and Y on the left side. I think people really pronounced the nuanced reality of their existence. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, small sample size. Can we draw major conclusions from these conversations? I can’t say, but to him, I think it is proof that when people take the time to connect in a healthier way, there can be positive benefits. So when we get offline, we get on the phone or talk to somebody in person, it can be beneficial for us as humans and we can sort of break down some of these barriers that we might construct that prevent us from relating to each other. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ben Goldhirsh: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think if you pulled an alien that was looking at America from, you know, a million miles away who was just digesting our news and our social media, and you said, hey, like, evaluate how far apart these people are, I think it would be reasonable to set a pretty wide delta. And I think when that alien listens to these conversations, they’ll be like, a lot of these are buds. These folks are all buds. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So they took the payphones down on Wednesday, right? Wednesday of last week. Do they plan to do this again? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Matter Neuroscience told me that they’re looking at other applications for the payphones that could have similar benefits for different populations. One idea is a senior center and a college campus to sort of unite people across generations. And the other idea is to go international with it. Unite people from different countries.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Did you feel like it worked on you? I mean, like the purpose of this payphone. Are you convinced? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One question I have about this project is that, you know, there were around 200 conversations. This is a drop in the bucket compared to how many billions of people use social media every day. And this project was literally based on a payphone, like a piece of tech that does not exist anymore largely. It’s definitely going against the prevailing headwinds of how we’re communicating and how we are. The methods we’re increasingly turning to to get information out. But there is a lot of research to say that like social connection is good for us. And I did feel, I felt good when I talked to the payphone and it felt good to listen to people talking and it feel good to listened to these conversations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah and especially I feel like in this like world where we’re presumably more connected than ever with social media and stuff but actually like sometimes you just need to pick up the phone and talk to someone. 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"content": "\u003cp>Six women among those \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073933/treacherous-sierra-nevada-storm-delays-recovery-of-9-presumed-avalanche-victims\">killed in an avalanche\u003c/a> in Tahoe’s backcountry this week were a group of “mothers, wives and friends, all of whom connected through the love of the outdoors,” their families said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a statement from their families released Thursday evening, the victims were:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Danielle Keatley of Marin County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Kate Morse of Marin County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Kate Vitt of Marin County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Caroline Sekar of San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Carrie Atkin, a Truckee-Tahoe area resident\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Liz Clabaugh of Boise, Idaho\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Two of the women, Clabaugh and Sekar, were sisters, according to reporting from \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/us/tahoe-avalanche-victims-sisters.html\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which also reported that Vitt was a mother of students who attend elementary school in the Kentfield School District in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom told reporters at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFeGnIbhhPE\">public transportation event\u003c/a> on Thursday that some of those from Marin County who were involved in the avalanche were family friends, calling the incident tragic. Newsom said he had previously spent time at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073933/treacherous-sierra-nevada-storm-delays-recovery-of-9-presumed-avalanche-victims\">the Frog Lake huts\u003c/a> where the victims had stayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, Larkspur Mayor Stephanie Andre expressed her condolences for the loss of Keatley, who founded Keatley Wines with her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CaliforniaSnowAP1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CaliforniaSnowAP1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CaliforniaSnowAP1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CaliforniaSnowAP1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow comes down on pine trees during a storm on Feb. 18, 2026, in Placer County, California. \u003ccite>(Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The pair were frequently seen supporting local organizations and sharing their namesake wines at community events,” Andre wrote. “Danielle Keatley was a radiant, beautiful soul. She was warm, kind and exuded a special quality that drew people to her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The families’ statement called the six women “passionate, skilled skiers who cherished time together in the mountains” and said they were experienced, trained and fully equipped to be on the trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are heartbroken and are doing our best to care for one another and our families in the way we know these women would have wanted,” the families’ statement reads.[aside postID=science_2000137 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1482972333-1020x678.jpg']For the community of Truckee, which sits at the base of Donner Summit near where the avalanche occurred, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073690/8-skiers-confirmed-dead-1-still-missing-after-tahoe-avalanche-heres-what-we-know\">news of the deadly avalanche\u003c/a> has been traumatizing, Mayor Anna Klovstad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With just over 17,000 residents, the small mountain town is full of outdoor enthusiasts and recreators, many of whom regularly go into the Castle Peak wilderness, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see Castle Peak from most of Truckee,” Klovstad said. “That’s also where many of us play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tremendous efforts from local search-and-rescue crews and the community support she’s seen so far have been heartening, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A community vigil is planned for 6 p.m. Sunday in downtown Truckee, and a community grief support listening session is scheduled for Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Sierra College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An interfaith service is also set to take place at the Church of the Mountains on Monday at 5:30 p.m., and will be followed by drop-in support hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost immediately, members of the community reached out offering their support and wanted to know how they could help,” Klovstad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For the community of Truckee, which sits at the base of Donner Summit near where the avalanche occurred, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073690/8-skiers-confirmed-dead-1-still-missing-after-tahoe-avalanche-heres-what-we-know\">news of the deadly avalanche\u003c/a> has been traumatizing, Mayor Anna Klovstad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With just over 17,000 residents, the small mountain town is full of outdoor enthusiasts and recreators, many of whom regularly go into the Castle Peak wilderness, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see Castle Peak from most of Truckee,” Klovstad said. “That’s also where many of us play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tremendous efforts from local search-and-rescue crews and the community support she’s seen so far have been heartening, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A community vigil is planned for 6 p.m. Sunday in downtown Truckee, and a community grief support listening session is scheduled for Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Sierra College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An interfaith service is also set to take place at the Church of the Mountains on Monday at 5:30 p.m., and will be followed by drop-in support hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost immediately, members of the community reached out offering their support and wanted to know how they could help,” Klovstad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For the last month, Chris Pyper and his partner, a fellow \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kaiser-permanente\">Kaiser Permanente\u003c/a> physician assistant, have gone without paychecks while walking picket lines outside the nonprofit health care giant’s facilities in Oakland, Santa Clara and south Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple is surviving on savings, but they’re not sure how much longer they can forgo both of their incomes and still pay the mortgage for the Oakland home they recently bought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of pressure,” said Pyper, 39, as rain drenched him and dozens of picketers outside Kaiser’s Oakland Medical Center this week. “It’s a sacrifice. Hoping that this is going to produce a good contract. And I’m willing to stay out as long as we need to get a fair contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an estimated tens of thousands of Kaiser health care employees stretch \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071014/kaiser-strike-sees-thousands-walk-out-in-california-this-time-with-no-end-in-sight\">their open-ended strike\u003c/a> in California and Hawaii into a fourth week, several told KQED they worry about how they’ll afford rent, student loan payments, child care expenses and other bills if the union and employer fail to reach a deal soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their union, which led two much shorter walkouts at Kaiser last fall, is not offering financial assistance for the nurses, physician assistants, physical therapists, pharmacists and others relinquishing wages to strike. Some said they are dipping into retirement accounts, increasing credit card debt or considering part-time jobs elsewhere to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, even with dwindling or depleted savings accounts, the strikers said they remain determined to hold the line for their livelihoods and job improvements they hope will benefit patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073902\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS00295_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS00295_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS00295_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS00295_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Baird, a nurse midwife from Kaiser Oakland, poses for a portrait while on strike at the picket line outside Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Feb. 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am constantly in this state of low-grade panic,” said Michelle Baird, a nurse midwife who has delivered babies and cared for mothers since 2015 at Kaiser facilities in Oakland, Berkeley and Pinole. “I really am good at not sounding or looking panicked because the work I do needs calmness, but I don’t feel calm at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A self-described pessimist, the 53-year-old steeled herself early for the possibility that Kaiser could take months to make significant concessions in bargaining. In preparation, Baird worked as many shifts as she could before she and up to 31,000 health care professionals walked off their jobs on Jan. 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Baird said her household in Berkeley has already canceled subscriptions, stopped online shopping and quit eating out at restaurants. She hopes she won’t have to borrow against her daughter’s college fund and is looking for a job that she could add to her schedule, even after the walkout ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Really, it’s just tightening the belt, pinching pennies and worrying a lot,” said Baird, who added that her top priorities have been ensuring fair pay and keeping affordable health care benefits when she eventually retires.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘They’ve forgotten the health care workers’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The employees want Kaiser, the nation’s largest private nonprofit health care organization, to invest more revenues in its workforce and allow more worker input on staffing and scheduling, which they said would decrease wait times for patients and improve care. The company has largely dismissed claims of chronic understaffing or deteriorating services, and it said anything more than its offer for a 21.5% wage increase over four years would be unsustainable and force it to increase premiums for customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser, which has expanded operations to eight states and the District of Columbia, made a net income of \u003ca href=\"https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/news/press-release-archive/kaiser-permanente-risant-health-report-2025-financial-results\">$9.3 billion\u003c/a> last year, driven largely by investment gains, and nearly $13 billion in 2024, while holding reserves estimated at $66 billion or more. The Oakland-based company contends its reserves should pay for pensions, building maintenance and other long-term financial commitments, as well as serve as a rainy day fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073904\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS00420_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS00420_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS00420_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS00420_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Pyper (left), a physician assistant from Kaiser San Leandro, marches while on strike outside Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Feb. 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But employees on the picket line doubt that argument. Pyper, who works in the orthopedic surgery department in San Leandro, said Kaiser has pushed hard to cut the retirement, health care and other benefits of newer union members like himself, leaving him no choice but to strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kaiser is sitting on a lot of money they’ve made over the past few years,” said Pyper, who is paying monthly for student loans. “They’re expanding in the other states, and it just kind of feels like they’ve forgotten the health care workers who are doing a lot of the patient care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Kaiser said its employees “deserve a fair contract that reflects their value.” The company, which stopped bargaining on a long-standing national contract including big-ticket issues such as across-the-board wage increases, said it’s making progress with the smaller, local units forming the United Nurses Association of California/Union of Healthcare Professionals.[aside postID=news_12073839 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/038_KQED_KaiserStrikeOakland_08192022_qed-2.jpg']“Once we reach agreement at each of these respective local tables on the open issues from the national table, we will be ready to close each agreement and get the contracts signed,” Kaiser’s statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser has asked a federal court to declare it is not obligated to negotiate a national deal with UNAC/UHCP. The company argues that the union broke contractual commitments to work collaboratively, including by \u003ca href=\"https://www.unacuhcp.org/news/profits-over-patients-new-report-details-kaisers-financial-practices-and-patient-harm/\">issuing a report\u003c/a> last month alleging that Kaiser prioritizes profits over patient care and invests in private prison companies that run immigration detention centers. Kaiser also said the union withheld information it needed to reduce disruptions to patient care during the current strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UNAC/UHCP has called Kaiser’s move to walk away from months of national bargaining unlawful, and it opposes the company’s proposal to shift all of its bargaining to dozens of local units. Executive secretary Elizabeth Hawkins said the union is considering its options to resolve issues related to staffing levels, workflow and patient access that have left some Kaiser patients waiting months to get specialty medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been looking at multiple avenues to settle this strike,” said Hawkins, a former registered nurse at Kaiser for 31 years. “It’s a very fluid, dynamic process that we’re going through. And right now, I’m not prepared to speculate on how this is going to unfold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, Kaiser \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073484/kaiser-workers-say-patients-deserve-better-mental-health-care-after-31m-settlement\">agreed to pay\u003c/a> $31 million to resolve \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ebsa/ebsa20260210\">federal investigations\u003c/a> over long wait times and other problems for millions of California patients seeking mental health and substance use care. The deal comes two years after the company settled with the state for $200 million over similar issues. Kaiser therapists in Northern California with a separate union are about to finish voting on whether to authorize a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073839/kaiser-therapists-take-key-step-toward-1-day-strike\">one-day strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Problems mount as strike persists\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, pressure is growing on Kaiser and UNAC/UHCP to compromise as the current walkout drags on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser said more employees are crossing picket lines and returning to work, including more than 40% of nurses and pharmacists across striking locations. Hawkins called those figures inflated, adding that most members plan to keep withholding their labor as long as necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser, which is likely spending millions of dollars on contingency workers to help cover staffing shortages left by striking workers, faces criticism from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072837/kaiser-strike-delays-surgeries-disrupts-care-as-more-workers-walk-off-jobs\">patients reporting delayed\u003c/a> surgeries and treatments due to the labor conflict. Physicians and other employees continuing to work inside hospitals and clinics have also been left picking up the slack for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073905\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS01145_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS01145_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS01145_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS01145_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers on strike at the picket line outside Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Feb. 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maggie Burtch, a nurse midwife in Antioch and Walnut Creek, said that in addition to the financial stress her family faces to pay for their mortgage and child care, she’s concerned the long walkout will strain her relationships with obstetrics physicians and other co-workers who are not on strike and continue to attend to patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been really tough on our OB team, who also have kids at home, and I hear they’re working double the hours that they normally work to cover us, and that doesn’t feel great,” said Burtch, 41, the mother of two young children. “So I’m really worried about what that’s going to feel like when we reenter. What are the vibes going to be? I’m worried it’s going to feel different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Burtch believes walking off her job was the right choice. She’s been frustrated by the pace of negotiations and disappointed by what she described as Kaiser’s hard-line stance during the strike and negotiations with midwives, who unionized to maintain their benefits.[aside postID=news_12072837 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020926_KAISERSTRIKE_8137B-KQED.jpg']\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>It’s really made me rethink whether or not this is the place that I want to continue to work, even though I love what I do,” said Burtch, who lives in Oakland. “But it’s hard to work a job where you just feel so undervalued.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being away from patients also pains Brianca Hutchins, a pediatric occupational therapist who helps rehabilitate children with disabilities and special needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 32-year-old, who often refers to her patients as “kiddos,” said wait times for patients at Kaiser are a top concern. She has been stretched thin trying to see up to 11 patients with complex medical histories per shift, and communicate with their families and providers to follow up on their care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are drowning time-wise,” said Hutchins of her team at Kaiser San José. “We really want support with workload and staffing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all this time on picket lines, she appreciates getting to know other workers from different departments on strike, sharing camaraderie and mutual support. But her stress is ramping up, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sleeping. My anxiety is through the roof,” Hutchins said. “Now that we’re in week four, the guilt for leaving my patients is in full swing. And then money-wise, I finally looked at my bank account and cried.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Some said they are dipping into retirement accounts, increasing credit card debt or considering part-time jobs elsewhere to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, even with dwindling or depleted savings accounts, the strikers said they remain determined to hold the line for their livelihoods and job improvements they hope will benefit patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073902\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS00295_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS00295_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS00295_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS00295_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Baird, a nurse midwife from Kaiser Oakland, poses for a portrait while on strike at the picket line outside Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Feb. 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am constantly in this state of low-grade panic,” said Michelle Baird, a nurse midwife who has delivered babies and cared for mothers since 2015 at Kaiser facilities in Oakland, Berkeley and Pinole. “I really am good at not sounding or looking panicked because the work I do needs calmness, but I don’t feel calm at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A self-described pessimist, the 53-year-old steeled herself early for the possibility that Kaiser could take months to make significant concessions in bargaining. In preparation, Baird worked as many shifts as she could before she and up to 31,000 health care professionals walked off their jobs on Jan. 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Baird said her household in Berkeley has already canceled subscriptions, stopped online shopping and quit eating out at restaurants. She hopes she won’t have to borrow against her daughter’s college fund and is looking for a job that she could add to her schedule, even after the walkout ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Really, it’s just tightening the belt, pinching pennies and worrying a lot,” said Baird, who added that her top priorities have been ensuring fair pay and keeping affordable health care benefits when she eventually retires.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘They’ve forgotten the health care workers’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The employees want Kaiser, the nation’s largest private nonprofit health care organization, to invest more revenues in its workforce and allow more worker input on staffing and scheduling, which they said would decrease wait times for patients and improve care. The company has largely dismissed claims of chronic understaffing or deteriorating services, and it said anything more than its offer for a 21.5% wage increase over four years would be unsustainable and force it to increase premiums for customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser, which has expanded operations to eight states and the District of Columbia, made a net income of \u003ca href=\"https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/news/press-release-archive/kaiser-permanente-risant-health-report-2025-financial-results\">$9.3 billion\u003c/a> last year, driven largely by investment gains, and nearly $13 billion in 2024, while holding reserves estimated at $66 billion or more. The Oakland-based company contends its reserves should pay for pensions, building maintenance and other long-term financial commitments, as well as serve as a rainy day fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073904\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS00420_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS00420_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS00420_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS00420_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Pyper (left), a physician assistant from Kaiser San Leandro, marches while on strike outside Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Feb. 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But employees on the picket line doubt that argument. Pyper, who works in the orthopedic surgery department in San Leandro, said Kaiser has pushed hard to cut the retirement, health care and other benefits of newer union members like himself, leaving him no choice but to strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kaiser is sitting on a lot of money they’ve made over the past few years,” said Pyper, who is paying monthly for student loans. “They’re expanding in the other states, and it just kind of feels like they’ve forgotten the health care workers who are doing a lot of the patient care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Kaiser said its employees “deserve a fair contract that reflects their value.” The company, which stopped bargaining on a long-standing national contract including big-ticket issues such as across-the-board wage increases, said it’s making progress with the smaller, local units forming the United Nurses Association of California/Union of Healthcare Professionals.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Once we reach agreement at each of these respective local tables on the open issues from the national table, we will be ready to close each agreement and get the contracts signed,” Kaiser’s statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser has asked a federal court to declare it is not obligated to negotiate a national deal with UNAC/UHCP. The company argues that the union broke contractual commitments to work collaboratively, including by \u003ca href=\"https://www.unacuhcp.org/news/profits-over-patients-new-report-details-kaisers-financial-practices-and-patient-harm/\">issuing a report\u003c/a> last month alleging that Kaiser prioritizes profits over patient care and invests in private prison companies that run immigration detention centers. Kaiser also said the union withheld information it needed to reduce disruptions to patient care during the current strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UNAC/UHCP has called Kaiser’s move to walk away from months of national bargaining unlawful, and it opposes the company’s proposal to shift all of its bargaining to dozens of local units. Executive secretary Elizabeth Hawkins said the union is considering its options to resolve issues related to staffing levels, workflow and patient access that have left some Kaiser patients waiting months to get specialty medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been looking at multiple avenues to settle this strike,” said Hawkins, a former registered nurse at Kaiser for 31 years. “It’s a very fluid, dynamic process that we’re going through. 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Kaiser therapists in Northern California with a separate union are about to finish voting on whether to authorize a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073839/kaiser-therapists-take-key-step-toward-1-day-strike\">one-day strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Problems mount as strike persists\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, pressure is growing on Kaiser and UNAC/UHCP to compromise as the current walkout drags on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser said more employees are crossing picket lines and returning to work, including more than 40% of nurses and pharmacists across striking locations. Hawkins called those figures inflated, adding that most members plan to keep withholding their labor as long as necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser, which is likely spending millions of dollars on contingency workers to help cover staffing shortages left by striking workers, faces criticism from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072837/kaiser-strike-delays-surgeries-disrupts-care-as-more-workers-walk-off-jobs\">patients reporting delayed\u003c/a> surgeries and treatments due to the labor conflict. Physicians and other employees continuing to work inside hospitals and clinics have also been left picking up the slack for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073905\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS01145_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS01145_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS01145_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS01145_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers on strike at the picket line outside Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Feb. 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maggie Burtch, a nurse midwife in Antioch and Walnut Creek, said that in addition to the financial stress her family faces to pay for their mortgage and child care, she’s concerned the long walkout will strain her relationships with obstetrics physicians and other co-workers who are not on strike and continue to attend to patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been really tough on our OB team, who also have kids at home, and I hear they’re working double the hours that they normally work to cover us, and that doesn’t feel great,” said Burtch, 41, the mother of two young children. “So I’m really worried about what that’s going to feel like when we reenter. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>City officials also did not comment on whether security protocols will change as a result of the break-in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is footage inside City Hall from security cameras that are being reviewed by law enforcement as part of this investigation,” said Sam Singer, the spokesperson for the Oakland police union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singer said City Hall was mostly empty over the holiday weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the theft of a high-ranking official’s vehicle is rare, it’s not the first time that government leaders in Oakland have fallen victim to car break-ins and property theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Mayor Sheng Thao’s car was broken into in 2023 while she was attending a documentary premiere at Grand Lake Theater. The break-in was believed to have been part of a string of auto burglaries that evening near Lake Merritt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that same year, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price had a work laptop stolen from her security team’s SUV while it was parked in front of the Family Justice Center in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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He noted his office has already eliminated non-mandated work, and warned that further cuts will harm legal defense services provided to residents who cannot afford an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Balance between the two offices is critical to ensure fairness,” Silver said. “Both offices need appropriate funding to ensure a healthy criminal legal process.”[aside postID=news_12073534 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/251117-STANFORDTRIAL-JG-2_qed.jpg']The County Executive’s Office, however, said that no formal budget recommendations for fiscal year 2026-2027 have been finalized. Per the county’s annual process, official proposals will be released by the County Executive on May 1, with the Board of Supervisors set to adopt a final budget by June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/measure-a\">voter-approved sales tax Measure A\u003c/a>, which is expected to generate $330 million annually starting in April, the county is still projecting a $470 million deficit for the upcoming fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hospital system and every General Fund department is being asked to make difficult reductions,” Williams said in a statement. “The fact remains that the largest share of our General Fund resources goes to public safety functions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen said his office would be among those hit hard. Without the $19 million, he said prosecutors could no longer pursue misdemeanor cases — including drunk driving, domestic violence and sexual assault cases in which victims are uncooperative. 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"content": "\u003cp>Despite gray skies and heavy showers, San Francisco families were all smiles as they headed to school for the first time in more than a week on Wednesday morning, following the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073441/san-franciscos-teachers-strike-has-ended-what-comes-next\">public school district’s teachers strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Jean Parker Elementary School in Chinatown, crossing guards waved at parents rushing their students through the front gates, and teachers and students enthusiastically greeted each other as they gathered in the courtyard for a morning assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nital Timbadia said her daughter, who’s in first grade, was excited to be back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She wanted to be with her friends, with her teachers. She loves her school,” Timbadia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her daughter told KQED she was sad to stay home last week while schools were closed and couldn’t wait to return to her classroom. She said she’s most looking forward to “doing new things and learning new things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072848\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, center, speaks during a press conference at Mission High School on Feb. 9, 2026. Teachers went on strike for the first time in nearly 50 years. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She is among nearly 50,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-unified-school-district\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> students who will be back to just that this week after the city’s first school strike in nearly 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072729/san-francisco-teachers-walk-out-in-first-strike-in-nearly-50-years\">walkout shuttered 111 campuses\u003c/a> and lasted four days before \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073306/sfusd-teachers-strike-no-end-in-sight-health-care-battle\">coming to an end early Friday\u003c/a> morning ahead of a long holiday weekend, after the district and United Educators of San Francisco signed a tentative agreement on a new two-year contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal will fully fund health care coverage for educators with dependents and significantly raise wages for paraeducators.[aside postID=news_12073441 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-52-BL_qed.jpg']It was reached after nearly a year of negotiations and a week of major disruptions to the city’s school system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad they gave the teachers what they deserve,” said Timbadia, who said she and her daughter walked Jean Parker’s picket lines each morning of the strike. “I wish it was resolved earlier, because teachers and students, they all suffer. 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Yick Wo was one of more than a dozen campuses that could have been affected by the closures and mergers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Egley said, “I do feel like the district was unreasonable in a few things where they were refusing to bend,” adding that she also brought her daughter to walk picket lines with teachers last week. “I just want the teachers and the educators and everybody to get paid more, to get paid what they’re worth, and to feel secure and safe both financially and physically, and emotionally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Backpacks hang in the hallway at Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Throughout the week, her daughter had been able to attend all-day programming through the Salesian Boys and Girls Club, which runs Yick Wo’s after-school care program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the strike, the city and district worked with the Boys and Girls Club and other community organizations that run those programs to expand services for students who were already enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Egley said her daughter was happy to be back to regular school drop-off on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She loves coming to Yick Wo,” Egley said. “She loves the school. She loves hanging out with her friends, and she loves learning. The district was great about putting out independent study things and we do have, like, the little workbooks, but she also just likes being in class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And it wasn’t just the students who were excited: “Thank God,” Donald Tucker said after dropping off his daughter at Yick Wo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d also attended the all-day programming through the Boys and Girls Club — with the exception of her birthday, when Tucker said she had gotten to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all kids were so lucky. Lidia Rojas said that when her son was out of school last week, she brought him along to her classes at City College. “Sometimes he [came] with me and takes my classes, too,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She wanted to be with her friends, with her teachers. She loves her school,” Timbadia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her daughter told KQED she was sad to stay home last week while schools were closed and couldn’t wait to return to her classroom. She said she’s most looking forward to “doing new things and learning new things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072848\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20260209_SFUSDSTRIKE_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, center, speaks during a press conference at Mission High School on Feb. 9, 2026. Teachers went on strike for the first time in nearly 50 years. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She is among nearly 50,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-unified-school-district\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> students who will be back to just that this week after the city’s first school strike in nearly 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072729/san-francisco-teachers-walk-out-in-first-strike-in-nearly-50-years\">walkout shuttered 111 campuses\u003c/a> and lasted four days before \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073306/sfusd-teachers-strike-no-end-in-sight-health-care-battle\">coming to an end early Friday\u003c/a> morning ahead of a long holiday weekend, after the district and United Educators of San Francisco signed a tentative agreement on a new two-year contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal will fully fund health care coverage for educators with dependents and significantly raise wages for paraeducators.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It was reached after nearly a year of negotiations and a week of major disruptions to the city’s school system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad they gave the teachers what they deserve,” said Timbadia, who said she and her daughter walked Jean Parker’s picket lines each morning of the strike. “I wish it was resolved earlier, because teachers and students, they all suffer. Parents suffer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad it got resolved as fast as it could, but I wish they could have been in school and [teachers] didn’t have to fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At both Jean Parker and nearby Yick Wo Alternative Elementary in North Beach, parents’ support for teachers was strong — as it was during the strike, when thousands joined picket lines and rallies across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jean Parker parent Alejandro, who declined to give his last name, said he was happy that the union had gotten a deal, but he was left with “more questions than answers with the school district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the biggest concern I have is that the budgeting from the district still is quite opaque in my opinion,” he told KQED, adding that he felt that annual cuts in SFUSD “aren’t really occurring where they should.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070473\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-53-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-53-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-53-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-53-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A classroom at Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alejandro pointed to Superintendent Maria Su’s salary, which is $385,000 a year, and drew criticism from some during the teachers’ contract negotiations. “That’s five credentialed classroom teachers,” he said. “I would rather have five credentialed classroom teachers than have her keep her job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yick Wo parent Juliana Egley said she was feeling more trusting of the district than she was a little over a year ago, when Su was appointed in October 2024 after embattled Superintendent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">Matt Wayne resigned\u003c/a> amid a botched plan to close some schools. Yick Wo was one of more than a dozen campuses that could have been affected by the closures and mergers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Egley said, “I do feel like the district was unreasonable in a few things where they were refusing to bend,” adding that she also brought her daughter to walk picket lines with teachers last week. “I just want the teachers and the educators and everybody to get paid more, to get paid what they’re worth, and to feel secure and safe both financially and physically, and emotionally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Backpacks hang in the hallway at Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Throughout the week, her daughter had been able to attend all-day programming through the Salesian Boys and Girls Club, which runs Yick Wo’s after-school care program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the strike, the city and district worked with the Boys and Girls Club and other community organizations that run those programs to expand services for students who were already enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Egley said her daughter was happy to be back to regular school drop-off on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She loves coming to Yick Wo,” Egley said. “She loves the school. She loves hanging out with her friends, and she loves learning. The district was great about putting out independent study things and we do have, like, the little workbooks, but she also just likes being in class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-SFUSDSUPERINTENDENT-54-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And it wasn’t just the students who were excited: “Thank God,” Donald Tucker said after dropping off his daughter at Yick Wo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d also attended the all-day programming through the Boys and Girls Club — with the exception of her birthday, when Tucker said she had gotten to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all kids were so lucky. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> Mayor Daniel Lurie has given a green light to the city’s latest pilot program tackling outdoor drug use, signing legislation on Tuesday allowing a new sobering center to operate in the South of Market neighborhood beginning this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rapid Enforcement, Support, Evaluation and Triage, or RESET, Center will be used as an alternative to jail, where police can drop off people who are publicly intoxicated. It arrives on top of several initiatives Lurie’s administration is taking around drug use and law enforcement, but also comes as staff in the City Attorney’s office have warned the facility could be a liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility could carry a “very high legal risk,” \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-sobering-center-daniel-lurie-city-attorney/\">\u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>\u003c/a> first reported, because the center could be seen as an unlicensed detention facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lurie is not deterred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The RESET Center allows our officers to arrest those engaged in public drug use at a speed and volume we have never seen before,” Lurie said during a press conference at City Hall on Tuesday. “If you use drugs on our streets, we will arrest you. But with this new resource, we will also give those suffering from addiction a real chance to choose recovery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Sheriff’s Office plans to oversee the $14 million pilot program with help from the Department of Public Health. The Sheriff’s Office will contract with Connections Health Solutions, a health company, to run the facility slated to open at 444 Sixth St., next to the Hall of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1998px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053476\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/475371681_qed-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1998\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/475371681_qed-2.jpg 1998w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/475371681_qed-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/475371681_qed-2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1998px) 100vw, 1998px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco police car sits parked in front of the Hall of Justice on Feb. 27, 2014, in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea is intended to offer police a faster means of moving arrestees off the street and resuming their patrols, without waiting through a lengthy booking process. People who are arrested can go to RESET to sober up and leave, or go to jail to be booked and charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But questions around the facility’s legality stem from its nontraditional format. The site itself is not considered a jail or detention center; however, it’s also not a voluntary drop-in site. People who are brought there after being arrested are free to leave after they sober up, officials said, but if they leave sooner than that, they could be arrested again outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials said they plan to first focus on arresting people who are publicly intoxicated in the SoMa neighborhood and bring them to the 25-bed RESET center, where a nurse and other behavioral health staff will be on site 24-7.[aside postID=news_12069417 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1.jpg']Sheriff Paul Miyamoto disputed the idea that the center is legally risky during the press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are doing is absolutely legal. We’re taking people off the street, taking them into custody for public intoxication,” Miyamoto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Dorsey, a self-identified recovering drug addict whose district includes SoMa, called the RESET Center “the single most important policy shift in San Francisco since the advent of the fentanyl crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know I’m not alone in the recovery community in believing that nothing San Francisco has done over the years to tolerate public drug use has helped anyone — not our neighborhoods, not our businesses, and, most of all, not anyone on the street struggling with a fentanyl addiction,” he said Tuesday. “I’m convinced [the RESET Center] will improve street conditions, diminish drug-driven lawlessness and save lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone in City Hall is on board with the plan. Supervisors Jackie Fielder and Connie Chan voted against moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RESET is just the latest in a series of programs and initiatives Lurie’s administration has launched since taking office, with varying success, as part of his Breaking the Cycle initiative. Many of those have increased law enforcement’s role in responding to drug crises. The city has also consolidated its street response teams under one department and completely cut off some street-level harm reduction programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026723\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026723 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An outdoor triage center in a parking lot on Stevenson Street on Feb. 11, 2025. At the site, individuals who were arrested would get dropped off by police so they could either get treatment, take a bus out of town or go to jail. The center, operated as a 30-day pilot program, also offered resources and food to individuals. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A year ago, the mayor opened a triage center on Sixth Street, which is known as a hot spot for street-level drug challenges. However, the pilot program there ultimately wound down after little use from law enforcement as an additional drop-off site for arrestees, although some drop-in guests told KQED they enjoyed the site’s free coffee and chairs to rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, the city also opened a drop-in stabilization center in the Tenderloin at 822 Geary St. That facility is still operating and has shown greater success at connecting people struggling with addiction to immediate care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too long, San Franciscans have been told that we must choose between clean, safe neighborhoods and compassion for those struggling on our streets,” Lurie said. “The RESET Center is a health-focused facility designed to care for publicly intoxicated individuals by moving them off the street and into a safe, controlled environment. It provides hope by giving individuals a chance to sober up and be connected to treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> Mayor Daniel Lurie has given a green light to the city’s latest pilot program tackling outdoor drug use, signing legislation on Tuesday allowing a new sobering center to operate in the South of Market neighborhood beginning this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rapid Enforcement, Support, Evaluation and Triage, or RESET, Center will be used as an alternative to jail, where police can drop off people who are publicly intoxicated. It arrives on top of several initiatives Lurie’s administration is taking around drug use and law enforcement, but also comes as staff in the City Attorney’s office have warned the facility could be a liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility could carry a “very high legal risk,” \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-sobering-center-daniel-lurie-city-attorney/\">\u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>\u003c/a> first reported, because the center could be seen as an unlicensed detention facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lurie is not deterred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The RESET Center allows our officers to arrest those engaged in public drug use at a speed and volume we have never seen before,” Lurie said during a press conference at City Hall on Tuesday. “If you use drugs on our streets, we will arrest you. But with this new resource, we will also give those suffering from addiction a real chance to choose recovery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Sheriff’s Office plans to oversee the $14 million pilot program with help from the Department of Public Health. The Sheriff’s Office will contract with Connections Health Solutions, a health company, to run the facility slated to open at 444 Sixth St., next to the Hall of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1998px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053476\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/475371681_qed-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1998\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/475371681_qed-2.jpg 1998w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/475371681_qed-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/475371681_qed-2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1998px) 100vw, 1998px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco police car sits parked in front of the Hall of Justice on Feb. 27, 2014, in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea is intended to offer police a faster means of moving arrestees off the street and resuming their patrols, without waiting through a lengthy booking process. People who are arrested can go to RESET to sober up and leave, or go to jail to be booked and charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But questions around the facility’s legality stem from its nontraditional format. The site itself is not considered a jail or detention center; however, it’s also not a voluntary drop-in site. People who are brought there after being arrested are free to leave after they sober up, officials said, but if they leave sooner than that, they could be arrested again outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials said they plan to first focus on arresting people who are publicly intoxicated in the SoMa neighborhood and bring them to the 25-bed RESET center, where a nurse and other behavioral health staff will be on site 24-7.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Sheriff Paul Miyamoto disputed the idea that the center is legally risky during the press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are doing is absolutely legal. We’re taking people off the street, taking them into custody for public intoxication,” Miyamoto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Dorsey, a self-identified recovering drug addict whose district includes SoMa, called the RESET Center “the single most important policy shift in San Francisco since the advent of the fentanyl crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know I’m not alone in the recovery community in believing that nothing San Francisco has done over the years to tolerate public drug use has helped anyone — not our neighborhoods, not our businesses, and, most of all, not anyone on the street struggling with a fentanyl addiction,” he said Tuesday. “I’m convinced [the RESET Center] will improve street conditions, diminish drug-driven lawlessness and save lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone in City Hall is on board with the plan. Supervisors Jackie Fielder and Connie Chan voted against moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RESET is just the latest in a series of programs and initiatives Lurie’s administration has launched since taking office, with varying success, as part of his Breaking the Cycle initiative. Many of those have increased law enforcement’s role in responding to drug crises. The city has also consolidated its street response teams under one department and completely cut off some street-level harm reduction programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026723\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026723 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An outdoor triage center in a parking lot on Stevenson Street on Feb. 11, 2025. At the site, individuals who were arrested would get dropped off by police so they could either get treatment, take a bus out of town or go to jail. The center, operated as a 30-day pilot program, also offered resources and food to individuals. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A year ago, the mayor opened a triage center on Sixth Street, which is known as a hot spot for street-level drug challenges. However, the pilot program there ultimately wound down after little use from law enforcement as an additional drop-off site for arrestees, although some drop-in guests told KQED they enjoyed the site’s free coffee and chairs to rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, the city also opened a drop-in stabilization center in the Tenderloin at 822 Geary St. That facility is still operating and has shown greater success at connecting people struggling with addiction to immediate care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too long, San Franciscans have been told that we must choose between clean, safe neighborhoods and compassion for those struggling on our streets,” Lurie said. “The RESET Center is a health-focused facility designed to care for publicly intoxicated individuals by moving them off the street and into a safe, controlled environment. It provides hope by giving individuals a chance to sober up and be connected to treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s a particularly festive February this year. Following Valentine’s Day and Lunar New Year, Wednesday brings the first day of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ramadan\">Ramadan\u003c/a>: the holy month in which Muslims in the Bay Area and across the world abstain from food and drink, from sunrise to sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, observers on the West Coast will be fasting for around 12 to 13 hours a day. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.islamicfinder.org/ramadan-calendar/5391959/san-francisco-ramadan-calendar/\">Islamic Finder\u003c/a>, on the first day of Ramadan in San Francisco, sunrise is around 5:25 a.m. and sunset is around 5:53 p.m. Remember that exact timing will change depending on the day or your city, and daylight saving time will be kicking in on March 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.anera.org/blog/what-is-zakat/\">charity\u003c/a> and spiritual reflection, many Muslims across the Bay Area will also be scoping out the best spots to break their fast in the evening with friends and family. Keep reading for restaurants and events that are hosting Iftar specials — and in some cases, pre-dawn Suhoor meals — this Ramadan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(And if you’re reading this, wondering how to wish someone a happy Ramadan, you can tell them “Ramadan Mubarak” — or Ramadan Kareem. You may also see different spellings of Ramadan, including Ramzan, Ramazan and Ramadhan.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which community groups are offering Iftar events?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Local community groups and mosques are also hosting their own special Iftars, many of which may require a ticket for entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a regularly updated list, you can check out this community \u003ca href=\"https://ramadaninbayarea.com/\">calendar\u003c/a>, keeping track of Ramadan events in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ssaniya_/status/2023796192455647267?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Feb. 18: \u003ca href=\"https://partiful.com/e/6yMVDDs5RYQbT0KaKW7V\">Iftar with Amal Collective\u003c/a> (waitlisted)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Feb. 20: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DUyh5iBlXOC/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">Arab Youth Organizing Iftar about Sundan\u003c/a>, for youth up to age 22.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Feb. 21: \u003ca href=\"https://partiful.com/e/0K52xHUiJ5EKqcBV5x2J\">Community Iftar hosted by Palestinian Youth Movement and Tech for Palestine\u003c/a> (tickets start at $15)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Feb. 27: \u003ca href=\"https://support.anera.org/a/bayarea-2026\">Interfaith Iftar hosted by Anera\u003c/a> at Amoura Restaurant (tickets $60)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>March 1: \u003ca href=\"https://partiful.com/e/X6o2jR1NeWB3ELTnzorS\">An Iftar in Sudan\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>March 5: \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-annual-community-iftar-event-at-city-college-of-san-francisco-tickets-1982235031339?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Iftar at the City College of San Francisco\u003c/a> (free)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>March 5: \u003ca href=\"https://www.muppies.org/e/sfiftar26/\">Iftar for Muslim professionals\u003c/a> (tickets $35 to $40)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>March 6: \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ramadan-collections-tour-arabic-calligraphy-and-font-development-tickets-1980494460244?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Arabic Calligraphy and Font Development\u003c/a> with Iftar snacks at Letterform Archive (waitlisted)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>East Bay\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Feb. 22: \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/averroes-high-school-ramadan-community-iftar-tickets-1980744301526?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Averroes High School Iftar\u003c/a>, Newark (tickets start at $39.19)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Feb. 27: \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/muslim-dems-friends-iftar-tickets-1980353408354?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Muslim Dems Iftar\u003c/a> at Mehran Restaurant, Newark (tickets start at $25)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>March 1: \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hhrd-bay-area-grand-iftar-tickets-1979542080651?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Helping Hand for Relief and Development Iftar\u003c/a>, Newark (tickets start at at $55.20)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>March 3: \u003ca href=\"https://partiful.com/e/VEQEyj0GuU8nnM9MeKrF\">Journey Iftar Potluck\u003c/a>, San Ramon (donation-based)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>South Bay\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Feb. 28: \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ramadan-iftar-dinner-228-at-500p-tickets-1983296099021?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Ramadan Iftar Dinner\u003c/a> hosted by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at the Baitul Baseer Mosque, Milpitas (free)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>March 1: \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/interfaith-iftar-dinner-tickets-1980507909471?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Interfaith Iftar Dinner\u003c/a> at St Mark’s Episcopal Church, Palo Alto (free)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Which restaurants are offering Iftar in the Bay Area?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Of course, you can break your fast at \u003cem>any \u003c/em>restaurant of your choosing. But here are some choice spots that host Iftar dinners, buffets and specials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of publication, several restaurants are still figuring out their adjusted hours and specials for the month. Here’s a list compiled from both the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DU92pGBEVqu/?img_index=1\">Halal Food Reviewer\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.halalfest.com/\">HalalFest.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/theportofperiperifremont/reel/DUv6zxDEiC-/\">Port of Peri-Peri\u003c/a>, San Francisco (also Fremont and San José)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nob Hill Pizza and Shawarma, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Halal City, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Piccolo Italia, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mustafio’s Pizza, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jamra Pizzeria & Grill, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Paris Pizza & Grill, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Falafel City, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Karhai House, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lahore Karahi By Alhamra, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/maiwand_village/reel/DUZmzoXkYXm/?hl=en\">Maiwand Village\u003c/a>, Newark\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/523southernhalal/reel/DUoiZp_kkH0/?hl=en\">523 Southern Halal BBQ\u003c/a>, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DU4a0D3kTuN/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">Jaji\u003c/a>, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DU2RPMfEXUN/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">Iraklis\u003c/a>, Santa Clara\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thechaicocafe/?hl=en\">Chai & Co, \u003c/a>Concord\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.safarbykarimi.com/\">Safar by Karimi\u003c/a>, Cupertino\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ijavacafe.com/\">iJAVA Halal California Bistro\u003c/a>, San José\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://charminarsunnyvale.com/\">Charminar Restaurant\u003c/a>, Sunnyvale and Fremont\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aryasteakhouse.com/\">Arya Steakhouse\u003c/a>, Palo Alto\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Falafel Fremont, Fremont\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>BBQ Sizzle, Fremont\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mirchi, Fremont\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Wayback Burger, Milpitas\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Kabab Fusion, Fremont\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bismillah Restaurant, Fremont\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Chick n Go, Fremont\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Deccan Morsel, Fremont\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Maya Halal Taqueria, Oakland and Union City\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>World Famous Hotboys, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Halal Burgers and More, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gabriella’s Pizza, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Zoco, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Halal Guys, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Recommendations by KQED staffers (that often have Iftar specials) include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://beitrimasf.com/\">Beit Rima\u003c/a>, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oldmandarinislamic.com/\">Old Mandarin Islamic Restaurant\u003c/a>, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/zzoulcafesf/\">Z Zoul Cafe\u003c/a>, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://kinarafusion.com/\">Kinara Fusion Kitchen\u003c/a>, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/maiwand_village/reel/DUZmzoXkYXm/?hl=en\">Maiwand Village\u003c/a>, Newark\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://mehranbayarea.net/\">Mehran Restaurant & Catering\u003c/a>, Newark\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ysghalal/\">Yee Shaans Grubb\u003c/a>, Fremont\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C4q5IQCPIaF/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">Yafar Hummus\u003c/a>, Dublin, Tracy, Livermore and Lodi\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://greensngrills.com/\">Green N Grills\u003c/a>, Union City\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/nahitabakery/?hl=en\">Nahita Bakery\u003c/a>, Sunnyvale\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/kabul-darbar-concord\">Kabul Darbar\u003c/a>, Concord\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.karimirestaurant.com/\">Karimi Restaurant\u003c/a>, San José\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For more options, you can also check out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.halalfest.com/map\">This interactive map created by HalalFest\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/bayareahalalfoodies/\">Bay Area Halal Foodies Facebook group\u003c/a>: With almost 50,000 members, it’s one of the best places to keep your eyes on. (See their \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/bayareahalalfoodies/permalink/1835251513827863\">Iftar catering and buffet listings\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/bayareahalalfoodies/permalink/1835271140492567\"> their Suhoor lists\u003c/a> too.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>This community-built list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/collection/18PU8RS-7nPWquEO2NhF2Q/Halal-SF-Bay-Area\">halal spots in the Bay Area on Yelp\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>This list of Bay Area halal restaurants open for Suhoor by Shazad Shafi at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DU92pGBEVqu/?img_index=1\">The Halal Food Reviewer\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Are there any spots offering Suhoor in the Bay Area?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s a little harder for restaurants to cater for Suhoor, the pre-dawn meal, but there are several late-night festivals marking the occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest one is on March 7, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.halalfest.com/\">Halalfest\u003c/a> brings back its popular \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/suhoorfest/?hl=en\">SuhoorFest\u003c/a> at the NewPark Mall in Newark. In past years, the festival has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13972704/suhoor-fest-ramadan-san-jose-halal-food-festival-2025\">run from 11 p.m. up until 5 a.m. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/RamadanGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/RamadanGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/RamadanGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/RamadanGetty2-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crescent moon sets behind a transmission tower over the San Francisco Bay, ahead of Eid al-Fitr as seen from Foster City, California, on April 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over at UC Berkeley, another \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DUoey73Ew1k/\">“Suhoor Fest,”\u003c/a> organized by the UC Berkeley Pakistani Student Association and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/halalbitesbazaar/\">Halal Bites and Bazaar\u003c/a>, will take place on Feb. 27, starting at 11:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José will host \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DU2XCL9lY9o/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">the Suffa Suhoor Fest\u003c/a> on Feb. 28, from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m — and another \u003ca href=\"https://ramadaninbayarea.com/event/suhoor-fest\">Suhoor festival hosted at the city’s Silver Creek Muslim Community Center\u003c/a> until 4 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And of course, there is \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/p1nkmttr/status/1127383378771238913?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">the grand teenage tradition\u003c/a> of going to your local IHOP. Their 24-hour locations include \u003ca href=\"https://restaurants.ihop.com/en-us/ca/daly-city/breakfast-2398-junipero-serra-blvd-1709?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=google_my_business&utm_term=1709&utm_content=website\">Daly City\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://restaurants.ihop.com/en-us/ca/south-san-francisco/breakfast-316-s-airport-blvd-648?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=google_my_business&utm_term=648&utm_content=website\">South San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What about late-night cafes?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Perhaps you’re someone who also finds late-night cafes a helpful refuge during the strange sleep schedule that often comes with Ramadan. Luckily, the Bay Area is home to a host of coffee and tea spots that welcome night owls and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030278/things-to-do-bay-area-alcohol-free-evening\">Muslim communities \u003c/a>alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The many coffeehouses and chai options in the Bay Area, taking inspiration from traditions across the world, include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://delahcoffee.com/locations/\">Delah’s Coffee\u003c/a> has two locations in San Francisco, one in Oakland and one in Berkeley. Most locations are open until 11 p.m. on the weekends.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sanaahousecafe.com/\">Sana’a Cafe\u003c/a> has several locations across the Bay, including San Francisco and Oakland. For Ramadan, some will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sanaacafe.lakeforest/p/DUq2CxqkvZp/\">open until 1 a.m\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.elaichico.com/\">elaichi co.\u003c/a> in Berkeley, usually open until 10 or 11 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.qamariacoffee.com/cafes\">Qamaria\u003c/a> in Fremont, usually open until 12 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.toasttab.com/local/order/haraz-coffee-franklin-street-san-francisco-ca-1452-franklin-st/r-a7051549-b323-4a1a-9ebd-2a423e082a55\">Haraz Coffee House\u003c/a> in San Francisco, open until 11 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mohkahouse/?hl=en\">Mohka House\u003c/a> in Oakland, open until 7:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/heyma-yemeni-coffee-berkeley#location-and-hours\">Heyma Yemeni Coffee\u003c/a> in Berkeley, open until 11 p.m. or 12 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s a particularly festive February this year. Following Valentine’s Day and Lunar New Year, Wednesday brings the first day of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ramadan\">Ramadan\u003c/a>: the holy month in which Muslims in the Bay Area and across the world abstain from food and drink, from sunrise to sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, observers on the West Coast will be fasting for around 12 to 13 hours a day. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.islamicfinder.org/ramadan-calendar/5391959/san-francisco-ramadan-calendar/\">Islamic Finder\u003c/a>, on the first day of Ramadan in San Francisco, sunrise is around 5:25 a.m. and sunset is around 5:53 p.m. Remember that exact timing will change depending on the day or your city, and daylight saving time will be kicking in on March 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.anera.org/blog/what-is-zakat/\">charity\u003c/a> and spiritual reflection, many Muslims across the Bay Area will also be scoping out the best spots to break their fast in the evening with friends and family. Keep reading for restaurants and events that are hosting Iftar specials — and in some cases, pre-dawn Suhoor meals — this Ramadan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But here are some choice spots that host Iftar dinners, buffets and specials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of publication, several restaurants are still figuring out their adjusted hours and specials for the month. 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(See their \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/bayareahalalfoodies/permalink/1835251513827863\">Iftar catering and buffet listings\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/bayareahalalfoodies/permalink/1835271140492567\"> their Suhoor lists\u003c/a> too.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>This community-built list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/collection/18PU8RS-7nPWquEO2NhF2Q/Halal-SF-Bay-Area\">halal spots in the Bay Area on Yelp\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>This list of Bay Area halal restaurants open for Suhoor by Shazad Shafi at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DU92pGBEVqu/?img_index=1\">The Halal Food Reviewer\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Are there any spots offering Suhoor in the Bay Area?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s a little harder for restaurants to cater for Suhoor, the pre-dawn meal, but there are several late-night festivals marking the occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest one is on March 7, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.halalfest.com/\">Halalfest\u003c/a> brings back its popular \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/suhoorfest/?hl=en\">SuhoorFest\u003c/a> at the NewPark Mall in Newark. 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Their 24-hour locations include \u003ca href=\"https://restaurants.ihop.com/en-us/ca/daly-city/breakfast-2398-junipero-serra-blvd-1709?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=google_my_business&utm_term=1709&utm_content=website\">Daly City\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://restaurants.ihop.com/en-us/ca/south-san-francisco/breakfast-316-s-airport-blvd-648?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=google_my_business&utm_term=648&utm_content=website\">South San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What about late-night cafes?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Perhaps you’re someone who also finds late-night cafes a helpful refuge during the strange sleep schedule that often comes with Ramadan. Luckily, the Bay Area is home to a host of coffee and tea spots that welcome night owls and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030278/things-to-do-bay-area-alcohol-free-evening\">Muslim communities \u003c/a>alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The many coffeehouses and chai options in the Bay Area, taking inspiration from traditions across the world, include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://delahcoffee.com/locations/\">Delah’s Coffee\u003c/a> has two locations in San Francisco, one in Oakland and one in Berkeley. Most locations are open until 11 p.m. on the weekends.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sanaahousecafe.com/\">Sana’a Cafe\u003c/a> has several locations across the Bay, including San Francisco and Oakland. 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