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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As drivers and riders began to roll into the squat concrete structure on Lake Park Boulevard at 7 a.m., Bermudez played the role of carpool concierge and emcee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bermudez greeted other commuters like old friends, gave newbies a heads-up on how the system is supposed to work at the Lake Park location, and even introduced reporters to arriving carpoolers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just had one successful carpooler!” she said after the first of half a dozen or so carpools rolled out toward a freeway on-ramp. “We’re thrilled to be back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051486\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camille Bermudez in Oakland, near where the Casual Carpool pick-up location will be under the 580 freeway, on Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is Chuy,” she said, introducing a new acquaintance, San Ramon resident Chuy Perez, as he pulled up in an SUV. “Chuy is a casual carpooler from years before, and he just told me he’s been commuting for about 40 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez, a technician for AT&T, said he’s been perplexed that it has taken so long for the carpool to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve periodically been looking online to see what’s been going on,” he said. “I couldn’t understand why it’s taken so long to get it back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Lee, who drives from the East Bay to teach at San Francisco’s A.P. Giannini Middle School, echoed that sentiment.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Probably the last two years, occasionally I’d go: ‘Hey, is this still a thing?'” Lee told reporters, who clustered at his driver’s side window. “… So I’m crossing my fingers that this is working out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riders didn’t materialize for Perez and Lee, and both of them wound up leaving for the city solo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers who arrived a little later, however, were luckier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Reiten said he has been waiting to pick up riders for the first time since COVID-19 stay-at-home and social distancing orders ended the four-decade-old casual carpool in March 2020. He said he was drawn back by all the advantages he remembers from the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just loved that it was seemingly always available, inexpensive, often more convenient, often more comfortable than BART or a bus,” Reiten said. “It was a great way to catch up on the news, because often they would have news playing in the car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that rides in the before-times were always perfect. Reiten mentioned one particularly “uncomfortable ride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got into a car, and the woman who was driving had her bird loose in the car,” Reiten said. “When I stepped in, I saw the bird flying around. The bird cage was next to me, in the back. There was bird … mess … all over the place, and I immediately got out and said, ‘I’m not riding in this car.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051481\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars drive along the 580 freeway in Oakland on Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two Oakland residents who caught rides into the city on Tuesday morning said they see casual carpooling as something that can help build and sustain community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a really big advocate of community support and mutual aid,” Brionna Lewis, a marketing strategist, said. “I think this is a way of people helping people in ways that sometimes our government can’t support. I know they’re cutting and changing bus routes and things like that, and I feel like this is a great way for folks to step up and support each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jahan Sagafi, an attorney, said he always appreciated the efficiency and comfort of the casual carpool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also appreciated “the feeling that it was a community effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And not just a community of people who already know each other and are loyal to each other, but people who don’t know each other can pull together for that one moment and help each other out,” Sagafi said. “I think that’s very Bay Area, and that’s kind of one of the wonderful things about living in this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The parking lot under the 580 freeway where the Casual Carpool pick up location will be in Oakland on Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All told, Tuesday’s relaunch involved about half a dozen carpools — including three in which journalists rode and one more driven by organizer Camille Bermudez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that may seem like a modest result, the mode’s advocates recalled that until now, a system that once brought thousands of people to work each day was pretty much dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one’s done what Camille just managed to do,” said Greg Riessen, a traffic engineer who’s developed his own \u003ca href=\"https://rapidcarpool.com/\">carpooling app\u003c/a>. “This is a real accomplishment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bermudez said she considers the half-dozen carpools that made it to the city a success. “I’m absolutely thrilled to see the momentum picking up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she said she’ll be greeting carpoolers at the Grand Lake garage site, at 533 Lake Park Ave., every morning this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A central figure in the corruption scandal that rippled through San Francisco City Hall in 2020 is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051475/former-sf-utilities-chief-harlan-kelly-is-appealing-his-2023-corruption-case\">seeking to overturn his guilty verdict\u003c/a> based on allegations that the federal grand jury that indicted him systematically underrepresented Black citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for former San Francisco Public Utilities Commission general manager Harlan Kelly returned to the argument that Kelly’s team first raised in an appeal he lodged when he was indicted. In the case submitted to a panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday, his attorneys wrote that the court’s denial of his motion to throw out the indictment charging him with fraud “undermine[s] every aspect of the district court’s grand jury decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2021, Kelly — a Black man — was indicted by a federal grand jury,” his attorney, Steven Kalar, wrote in a brief to the court. “Not a single Black person sat on this grand jury. This fact is not surprising, because the venire [or jury pool] from which that grand jury was constituted suffered from dramatic underrepresentation of Black citizens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalar also argued that the court allowed the government to introduce “improper” evidence during trial and made mistakes in the jury’s instructions that confused their deliberative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Kelly was indicted on a bank fraud charge over allegations that he took bribes from permit expediter \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873494/sf-corruption-saga-continues-permit-expediter-walter-wong-to-repay-1-7-million\">Walter Wong\u003c/a>, who pleaded guilty and later testified against him. He was later accused of additional “honest services” fraud, and in a superseding indictment filed in 2022, he was charged with nine counts related to fraud in connection with the bribery scheme involving Wong and a separate accusation that he defrauded a loan company of more than $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly is one of more than a dozen city officials and contractors who were embroiled in a wide-ranging corruption probe that became public in 2020 with the indictment of then-Public Works Director \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923588/disgraced-former-sf-public-works-chief-mohammed-nuru-sentenced-to-7-years-for-bribery-scheme\">Mohammed Nuru\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955456\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a suit and tie and carrying a backpack walks down a sidewalk.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco public utilities chief Harlan Kelly walks out of the Philip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on July 11, 2023, during his corruption trial this week. A jury convicted Kelly. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nuru and many of those implicated pleaded guilty, but Kelly maintained his innocence through a weekslong trial in 2023 and since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955753/jury-convicts-top-sf-official-in-corruption-trial-here-are-5-takeaways\">his conviction\u003c/a> on six of the wire and bank fraud charges in 2024. He is serving a four-year prison term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, his appeal, which was first filed just days after his conviction last year, was submitted to the 9th Circuit, which said it would decide whether to overturn his conviction based on written briefs and the case’s existing record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what those briefs argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an opening brief filed in December, Kalar — who was appointed as Kelly’s attorney six months earlier when Kelly could no longer afford representation — wrote that the court first erred when it dismissed Kelly’s appeal of his 2022 indictment.[aside postID=news_12051475 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS29855_COURTHOUSE_007-qut-1180x788.jpg']Kalar said that, through an independent statistician, Kelly provided evidence that the federal grand jury that indicted him was selected from a pool of citizens that systematically underrepresented Black people, violating the Sixth Amendment, Jury Selection and Service Act, and the 5th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black citizens were underrepresented in this grand jury venire by a shocking 49% — three standard deviations away from the expected composition,” the brief said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors disagreed, arguing that the court summoned 2,000 eligible grand jurors and followed its randomized protocols for selecting the panel that heard the government’s case. They said the court’s analysis found no legally significant underrepresentation of Black jury members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a comparative disparity test showed that there was some statistically significant underrepresentation of Black people in the grand jury pool, the prosecutors said it didn’t rise to the legal bar needed to qualify in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalar called the cases the government relied on to draw that legal line “inapposite or unpersuasive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020020\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/12/GettyImages-2174968250-e1736293413905.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Hall in November 2024. \u003ccite>(James Carter-Johnson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to his objection to the verdict as a whole, Kalar also made a more pointed argument for appealing Kelly’s convictions on two counts related to “honest services” fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalar argued that during trial, the court allowed the government to introduce improper evidence related to those charges, which were based on allegations that Kelly accepted bribes, including a lavish meal and a five-star hotel stay from Wong in exchange for helping his companies get a leg up on city contract proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite objections from Kelly’s attorneys ahead of trial, the court allowed prosecutors to show evidence of San Francisco’s ethics rules and regulations in court. Kalar wrote that this should not have been permitted, since honest services fraud “cannot be based on the violation of a city or state regulation.[aside postID=news_12051261 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250303-AntiochPolice-13-BL_qed-1.jpg']“This error was compounded by instructional error,” he continued in the original appeal brief. “The court misadvised the jury on the permissible use of ‘ethics’ evidence, permitting the jury to improperly use that evidence to convict Kelly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government’s lawyers responded that no actual evidence of the ethics laws — like Statements of Economic Interest and San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance Declarations that Kelly submitted — were ever actually presented in court. Some former Public Utilities Commission workers who testified did speak to the Sunshine Ordinance and other ethics laws, but the government wrote that Kelly doesn’t seem to be objecting to anything said in testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also said that, according to the rules given to the jury in his original trial, they were only allowed to “use evidence of the defendant’s knowledge of, and compliance with city ethics rules in deciding whether the defendant knowingly violated his fiduciary duty as a public official,” not whether he committed honest services fraud more broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear when the three-judge panel reviewing Kelly’s case will decide whether to overturn all or part of his conviction. If the judges uphold his conviction, Kelly is expected to get out of prison in October 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is currently serving his term at the Federal Prison Camp in Duluth, Minnesota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/south-bay\">South Bay\u003c/a> transit officials in charge of building the $12.7 billion \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bart\">BART\u003c/a> extension through downtown San José are doubling down on a single-tunnel design for the long-delayed megaproject, despite concerns from some engineering experts that conclusions made in a newly released report may lack “validity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Managers of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, which is building the 6-mile, four-station project for BART, say their plan to dig one of the largest underground tunnels on earth to house the train tracks and its platforms 80 feet below ground is still the best option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They reaffirmed that determination on Monday, after the agency released what it called an independent cost, risk and impact analysis of a previously considered design that would use two smaller tunnels at a shallower depth — a more conventional approach to building subways in line with most of the existing BART system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This report was prepared in direct response to inquiries from our board of directors and reflects VTA’s ongoing commitment to transparency, fiscal responsibility, and thoughtful data-driven decision-making,” Carolyn Gonot, VTA’s general manager, said Monday during a press briefing on the analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Maguire, head of megaprojects for VTA, said the report highlighted a higher cost and additional time required to construct a twin-bore design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11990511 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VTA General Manager Carolyn Gonot speaks during the agency’s BART to Silicon Valley Phase II project groundbreaking event on June 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Changing the design of the BART Silicon Valley extension from its current single-bore back to a twin-bore design would increase the cost of the project by at least $600 million, and would not allow us to open the project any sooner than the 2037 date, which we are currently on track to deliver,” Maguire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the project was expected to cost $4.7 billion, with an intended completion date in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maguire said updating plans and environmental reviews for the original twin-bore blueprints that were partially completed in 2008 — when BART’s extension into Santa Clara County was first being planned — risks pushing back the project timeline even more. Building underground “boxes” to house stations around the two smaller tunnels would drive significant cost increases, he said.[aside postID=news_11990508 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-01_qut-1020x680.jpg']The single-bore option would also be less disruptive, Maguire said, and requires less tearing up of surface streets like San José’s downtown thoroughfare, Santa Clara Street — as opposed to digging to build the shallower stations, or “cut-and-cover” construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, assembled by three different teams of VTA consultants, responded to critics, transit advocates and some VTA board members who say the twin-bore design might have been dismissed too quickly in 2018 by VTA because of concerns about the impacts of cut-and-cover construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a consultant for the VTA board’s project oversight committee, tasked with reviewing the report and offering feedback, questioned the agency’s conclusions and calculations about the twin-bore model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nasri Munfah, a principal at engineering firm Gall Zeidler, told VTA managers in a written memo that the cost estimate of the twin-bore design “appears to be overinflated” due to overly conservative timelines and nonessential design additions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These results invite questions of the validity of the cost estimate,” Munfah wrote in his response to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051900\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers and machinery are seen at VTA’s West Portal construction site in San José on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Munfah wrote that the report fell short because it did “not compare the twin-bore vs the large single-bore concepts nor does it provide advantages/disadvantages of either of the two methods, or address risk assessment of either method.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barney Smits, a retired engineer who worked for BART for 25 years, told KQED the comments from Gall Zeidler are “right on target,” and said the VTA report seems “completely inaccurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They deliberately added things to the twin-bore design to make it more expensive and deliberately removed things from the single-bore design to try and make it look less expensive,” Smits said, of the VTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a response, the VTA pushed back against much of Gall Zeidler’s critiques about project schedules, saying they “appear to be opinion-based rather than analysis-based.” The agency said its teams made “conservative but reasonable” assumptions in their analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gall Zeidler needed to include more “specific examples and details” to support concerns raised about the estimated cost of stations, the agency continued, and said VTA staff “takes exception to certain statements such as ‘overinflated’ and ‘questioning the validity.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051898\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excavator operator moves material during early work on VTA’s BART to Silicon Valley Phase II Extension project at the West Portal construction site in San José on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, the VTA said it isn’t planning to do any further analysis of the twin-bore design. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The single-bore option would also be less disruptive, Maguire said, and requires less tearing up of surface streets like San José’s downtown thoroughfare, Santa Clara Street — as opposed to digging to build the shallower stations, or “cut-and-cover” construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, assembled by three different teams of VTA consultants, responded to critics, transit advocates and some VTA board members who say the twin-bore design might have been dismissed too quickly in 2018 by VTA because of concerns about the impacts of cut-and-cover construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a consultant for the VTA board’s project oversight committee, tasked with reviewing the report and offering feedback, questioned the agency’s conclusions and calculations about the twin-bore model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nasri Munfah, a principal at engineering firm Gall Zeidler, told VTA managers in a written memo that the cost estimate of the twin-bore design “appears to be overinflated” due to overly conservative timelines and nonessential design additions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These results invite questions of the validity of the cost estimate,” Munfah wrote in his response to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051900\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers and machinery are seen at VTA’s West Portal construction site in San José on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Munfah wrote that the report fell short because it did “not compare the twin-bore vs the large single-bore concepts nor does it provide advantages/disadvantages of either of the two methods, or address risk assessment of either method.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barney Smits, a retired engineer who worked for BART for 25 years, told KQED the comments from Gall Zeidler are “right on target,” and said the VTA report seems “completely inaccurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They deliberately added things to the twin-bore design to make it more expensive and deliberately removed things from the single-bore design to try and make it look less expensive,” Smits said, of the VTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a response, the VTA pushed back against much of Gall Zeidler’s critiques about project schedules, saying they “appear to be opinion-based rather than analysis-based.” The agency said its teams made “conservative but reasonable” assumptions in their analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gall Zeidler needed to include more “specific examples and details” to support concerns raised about the estimated cost of stations, the agency continued, and said VTA staff “takes exception to certain statements such as ‘overinflated’ and ‘questioning the validity.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051898\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excavator operator moves material during early work on VTA’s BART to Silicon Valley Phase II Extension project at the West Portal construction site in San José on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, the VTA said it isn’t planning to do any further analysis of the twin-bore design. 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That software cost the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044768/sf-school-district-unveils-balanced-budget-after-cutting-over-110-million-in-spending\">cash-strapped district\u003c/a> $20 million more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After careful deliberation with our teams, I am pleased to announce that we will be able to proceed with the transition to Frontline as scheduled on July 1,” Su told reporters in June. “And we’ve done all the due diligence to make sure we are going to be able to do it and not have the hiccups of last time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since July, Lara said about 150 of the union’s 500 or so members who worked over the summer have had payroll issues.[aside postID=news_12048313 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SanFranciscoK8SchoolGetty.jpg']Some teachers who worked at district-sponsored enrichment programs over the summer didn’t receive pay at all; others never had union dues deducted from their paychecks like they were supposed to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other employees were paid at the incorrect rate or had their paychecks delayed for weeks, among other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that going into the implementation of Frontline, there were going to be challenges. … with the implementation of any software and program, especially built on top of a system that we know struggled and did not work for our school district,” said Phil Kim, the president of San Francisco’s Board of Education. “The question I think that I’ve been posing to staff and making sure that the superintendent prioritizes is: ‘How fast are we able to resolve these issues?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the union has been especially disappointed by how the district is handling the problems, Lara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we raised the alarm, we were shocked at how dismissive the staff was in terms of the very real concerns,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a problem arises, everybody starts blaming each other. When we talk to the executive director of payroll … they go, ‘That’s probably an HR thing or a labor relations thing.’ So then we go over to the executive director of HR, and they’re like, ‘We raised these concerns a year ago and they didn’t include that into the system,’” he said. “Then who’s managing the system?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, the union sent a cease and desist letter to district leaders, including Su and Kim, detailing the issues employees had been dealing with since July, and informing the district it would file a state labor complaint if the issues were not resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, UESF sent that complaint to California’s Public Employment Relations Board, writing that after spending a year preparing for the transition to Frontline, “the system cannot actually do the things we need it to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UESF’s expectation is that SFUSD is paying all of our members exactly what they are owed exactly when it is owed, that our member’s benefits are fully and completely available … without delay,” the unfair-practice charge reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the district said it is working quickly to resolve any issues that arise and has created a website for employees with information and a way to report payroll concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As teachers return to their classrooms on Tuesday before the first day of school next week, union leaders plan to rally outside the district’s office, urging officials to resolve the issues quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really concerned now that 6,000 of our members are coming back, especially substitute teachers, that this is going to be a problem,” Lara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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But U.S. Border Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino, who is responsible for all immigration enforcement in California, questioned Sherman’s “loyalty to the country.” Sherman said Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ultimately approved the deployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawyers also introduced Hegseth statements to the media earlier Monday morning, when he said he was approving military deployment in D.C. and that troops “will stand with their law enforcement partners” because “we did the same thing in Los Angeles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Breyer pressed Sherman to answer if he would deploy troops to enforce “an unpopular law,” such as immigration or even tax collection, even without a threat of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absolutely,” Sherman said if the mission was aligned with Trump’s and Hegseth’s orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043454\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2219185144-scaled-e1750712672253.jpeg\" alt=\"National Guard troops stand outside the Metropolitan Detention Center on Sunday in Los Angeles. Tensions in the city remain high after the Trump administration called in the National Guard against the wishes of city leaders following two days of clashes with police during a series of immigration raids.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Guard troops stand outside the Metropolitan Detention Center on June 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State attorneys also called William B. Harrington, the Army’s deputy chief of staff for Task Force 51, which oversaw the combined 4,700 National Guard troops and Marines deployed to L.A. That was until Friday, when he was relieved of his duties “because I was coming here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrington testified that troops and leaders were instructed not to perform typical police functions, but only to protect federal property and personnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s third and final witness was Ernesto Santacruz Jr., field office director for ICE in L.A. He said the Department of Defense did not specify what they meant when they said they were deployed to “protect” federal law enforcement, but said all of his requests for military assistance in ICE enforcement were granted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santacruz was questioned about the types of operations he requested military backup, which he said were daily ICE detainments and once for protection from protestors at one of their detainment facilities. 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Patchin said that the department previously responded to multiple calls regarding Montaño that they also believed to be mental-health related.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers Nicholas Remick and Colton Stocking arrived minutes after the 911 call and, according to Patchin, waited around the corner from the home for additional personnel and less lethal weapons to arrive. He said officers are armed with tasers, but were awaiting a bean-bag round and a 40 mm sponge round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the situation appeared to escalate, the officers approached the home before those resources were available. Patchin told reporters that the department does not have enough less-lethal weapons to stock every police vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In body camera footage, the officers can be seen approaching the door, which is ajar, and announcing themselves. Within seconds, Montaño appears in the doorframe holding two knives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after, the officers discharged their guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fearing the lives of the people inside were in immediate danger, officers decided to intervene without further delay,” French said. “Within seconds, the armed subject came out from the doorway and advanced towards the officers with a knife in each of his hands. Despite repeated commands to stop, the individual continued to advance toward the officers. At that time, an officer-involved shooting occurred.”[aside postID=news_12050929 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250806-RICHMOND-POLICE-FILE-MD-01-KQED.jpg']This is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051256/richmond-officer-who-killed-armed-man-monday-has-a-record-of-police-misconduct-lawsuits-allege\">second fatal police shooting\u003c/a> that Remick has been involved in this year. In February, he was one of two officers who fatally shot Jose Mendez-Rios, 51, after he refused to cooperate with law enforcement, spurring a 30-minute standoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remick and Officer Jessica Khalil reportedly believed Mendez-Rios was wielding a knife, though the item he held was later found to be an empty sheath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following that shooting, the officers were placed on administrative leave, but Patchin told KQED that Remick returned to duty just two weeks later. He said that the department customarily puts officers on leave immediately following a shooting, and once the police chief is briefed on the circumstances, they decide whether officers can return to duty on a case-by-case basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An investigation into that shooting was turned over to the California Department of Justice since no weapon was involved. That investigation is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remick, who joined the Richmond Police Department in January 2023, is also named in two pending police brutality lawsuits. In one, he is accused of using excessive force against a man who was filming a police chase last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwesi Guss, a Richmond-based cowboy, alleged that he was recording the activity after the vehicles involved in the chase pulled to a stop in front of Joe’s Market in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that another officer, Sgt. Alexander Caine, began pushing him and telling him to move. After a bystander intervened, Caine stopped, but Remick approached Guss and “continued the assault,” according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court filings say Caine and Remick then grabbed Guss, handcuffed him, kicked his ankle to force him to the ground and placed their knees on his back and ribs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the altercation, Guss was treated for a head injury, rib bruising and lower back and rib pain during two separate emergency room visits, the complaint said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Burris, a civil rights attorney who is representing Guss, said he was not surprised Remick had been involved in another violent incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s two people dead, who otherwise shouldn’t be dead, but for his conduct,” he said. “He’s involved in two shootings and a beating. I don’t know what his overall background is, but of course, there should be some limitation on his exposure to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remick and Stocking have both been placed on leave following last week’s shooting, but Patchin on Monday defended Remick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think, again, once we’re able to fully provide the details of what occurred in that incident [Guss’s beating] and what his actions and actual involvement were in that accident, that it will paint a much clearer picture as far as why he’s remained on duty,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond Police Department and Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office are both investigating last week’s shooting. Final results of those efforts could take more than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The appeal case of one of the central figures in a sprawling \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> City Hall corruption scandal will be submitted Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harlan Kelly, the former chief of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, is seeking to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955753/jury-convicts-top-sf-official-in-corruption-trial-here-are-5-takeaways\">overturn his 2023 conviction\u003c/a> for various federal fraud and conspiracy crimes, which earned him four years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly was charged as part of a bombshell FBI investigation that shook San Francisco politics in 2020. The federal probe became public after former Public Works director Mohammed Nuru was indicted on charges that he accepted bribes in exchange for advantages in winning city contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the following years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859677/san-franciscos-unfolding-web-of-corruption-a-cartoon-interactive\">more than a dozen other city officials and contractors\u003c/a> were implicated in the scheme, including Sandra Zuniga, who previously led the Mayor’s Office Fix-It Team, and Tom Hui, the former director of the Department of Building Inspection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naomi Kelly, Harlan’s wife, also stepped down from her role as city administrator as a result of the scandal, though she did not face indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at the center of the probe was political insider and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873494/sf-corruption-saga-continues-permit-expediter-walter-wong-to-repay-1-7-million\">construction contractor Walter Wong\u003c/a>, who owned multiple companies that vied for city contracts over decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873533\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/HuiAndWong.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/HuiAndWong.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/HuiAndWong-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/HuiAndWong-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/HuiAndWong-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/HuiAndWong-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walter Wong (right) and former Department of Building Inspection Director Tom Hui at a fundraiser in Chinatown in February 2017. \u003ccite>(Anonymous courtesy photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While many of the central figures in the scheme — including Wong and Nuru — pleaded guilty to charges brought by the federal government, Kelly has maintained his innocence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a three-week trial in 2023, federal prosecutors alleged that Wong began bribing Kelly as early as 2013 by doing heavily discounted home repairs for him, such as fixing water damage and installing wine cellar shelving in his house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also alleged Wong treated Kelly’s family to five-star hotel stays and a $600 meal on a lavish trip to China in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors showed a message Kelly sent to Wong saying, “I owe you big time!!!” after the wine cellar work, and alleged that Kelly repaid Wong by helping his companies secure roles in city projects.[aside postID=news_11955753 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Kelly urged his staff to buy lights from one of Wong’s companies for downtown San Francisco’s holiday display one year and gave Wong insider information to give him a leg up on a proposal for a contract to swap city streetlights to LED bulbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his testimony, Walter’s son, Washington Wong, admitted that his father’s company used information Kelly provided to tweak its proposals and give it better chances at winning contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, prosecutors \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/federal-charges-against-former-san-francisco-puc-general-manager-expanded-include-bank\">accused Kelly\u003c/a> of conspiring with real estate investor Victor Makras to make false statements to obtain a $1.3 million loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly was ultimately found guilty of six charges: one count of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, one count of honest services wire fraud, and four counts related to bank fraud. He was acquitted of two other honest services wire fraud charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2024, he was sentenced to four years in federal prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, Kelly appealed the conviction, and on Monday, the case will be submitted to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals based on briefs from federal prosecutors and his attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court was initially slated to hear oral arguments on Monday but announced in July that it would rule based on the briefs and existing record alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1548px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11893097\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS8504_Kelly-4-2000.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a suit and tie stands behind a lectern with a projection screen on the wall behind him.\" width=\"1548\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS8504_Kelly-4-2000.jpg 1548w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS8504_Kelly-4-2000-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS8504_Kelly-4-2000-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS8504_Kelly-4-2000-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS8504_Kelly-4-2000-1536x1009.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1548px) 100vw, 1548px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Public Utilities Commission General Manager Harlan Kelly on Jan. 31, 2014. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The court is of the unanimous opinion that the facts and legal arguments are adequately presented in the briefs and record and the decisional process would not be significantly aided by oral argument,” the document said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what Kelly’s appeal strategy is. He is now represented by litigator Steven Kalar, who the court appointed in June 2024, after Kelly testified that he could no longer afford criminal defense attorney Brian Getz, who represented him in his original trial and submitted his appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalar declined KQED’s request for comment on the appeal on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Kelly’s original trial, Getz and his other attorney, Jonathan Baum, largely based their defense on discrediting Wong, whose testimony should therefore be treated with “greater caution” than other witnesses’ since he agreed to cooperate with the government in exchange for a lighter sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argued that Wong and Kelly had a friendship — hence the gifts and dinners — and cast Wong as a calculated businessman looking for city officials to bribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys also pointed out that Wong’s bribes to Kelly were different from those he gave to other city officials, like Nuru, which included envelopes of thousands of dollars in cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>On the first Saturday night in August, the sun set on the Chabot Space and Science Center in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a>, a steel-framed, futuristic campus reaching toward the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one of the entrances, a line formed. Spilling down the center’s stairs were patrons dressed head to toe in glittering silvers and golds, some in radiant fabrics that beamed like Technicolor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A passerby might have mistaken the scene for a mini Met Gala — women sashaying in golden sun-shaped crowns, men in silver suits that caught the light and scattered it in a cascade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this wasn’t the Met Gala — it was the 2025 Black Futures Ball, an annual fundraiser hosted by the East Oakland Youth Development Center. Since its founding in 1978, the EOYDC has stood as a beacon of hope and support for Oakland’s youth, offering resources in career development, wellness, college preparation and arts programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gala took place amid a rising tide of investment in East Oakland’s future — most notably, a $100 million community-led initiative known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021914/rise-east-unlocks-100-million-to-reimagine-east-oakland\">Rise East\u003c/a>, aimed at reversing generations of disinvestment. Powered by local leaders and a national funder, the effort centers Black and brown families and aims to transform a 40-block stretch of East Oakland through long-term support for housing, education and public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051410\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_01096_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_01096_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_01096_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_01096_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests dance together at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The EOYDC is part of the 40×40 Council, a coalition of community-based organizations working to improve health and quality of life in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One key EOYDC initiative is the Pathway to College and Careers Program, which helps prospective college students navigate the application process and provides financial scholarships to support their journeys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the fourth year of the Black Futures Ball, which the EOYDC hosts to celebrate those scholars and raise funds to help ensure future generations dream big.[aside postID=news_12021914 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-07-BL-672x372.jpg']On Aug. 2, the past, present and future converged at the gala with the theme Space is the Place — Visionary Dreamwork. Many donors and attendees were once EOYDC participants themselves, giving youth a glimpse of what might await them — futures already mapped among the stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selena Wilson, the EOYDC’s CEO, said the ball’s theme — while futuristic — is grounded in Oakland’s history. She said the 1974 Afrofuturist film \u003cem>Space is the Place \u003c/em>inspired her\u003cem>,\u003c/em> which starred \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931735/sun-ra-where-to-begin\">jazz legend Sun Ra\u003c/a> and was largely shot in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to lean into radical imagination,” Wilson told KQED. “Making space for joy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The theme’s double meaning, Wilson said, is about embracing ambition and breaking boundaries, while also making room to uplift and celebrate each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Jada White, a rising senior at UCLA and an EOYDC scholar, the theme takes on many meanings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051407 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Kahnetah Thomas, Shoshonie Torres, Erin Dixon, and Alexandria Rivera pose for a portrait together at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a Black student, I think I have to remind myself that my journey has a lot more obstacles than somebody else,” White, 21, said. “Me being in the same room as them is a feat within itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, White added, it’s not just about taking up space — it’s about “making sure that we’re allowing space for others like us to enter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why it’s really important to have events like this, because most of these donors are Black scholars,” White said. “They were in our shoes before, and I think that seeing that as a scholar is kind of inspiring and endearing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051388\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlene Richardson (left) and Charlette Richardson (right), also known as The LoveLove Twins, pose for a portrait at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leila Fite, an incoming freshman at Temple University, said radical imagination helped shape her future in public health. At Skyline High School, where many of the scholars attended, Fite did her senior project on Black maternal health and was connected to resources through the EOYDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got to talk to a whole bunch of Black women in very different, specific medical fields that I had never even heard of,” Fite said. “It really just opened up a whole new scope of possibilities for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the banquet hall, students shared their college plans and majors with families and donors before hearing from guest speakers. This year’s honorary guests included Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and Dolores Huerta, the labor leader and activist whose name is synonymous with the national farm workers movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051394\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee (left) and Dolores Huerta (right) pose for a photo at the Black Futures Ball banquet hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tears fell when a scholarship was announced in the memory of Marvin Boomer, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043904/oakland-watchdogs-say-chp-should-follow-opd-pursuit-policy-following-deadly-crash\">beloved Castlemont High School teacher\u003c/a> who was killed in June when he was struck by a driver fleeing from the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tears fell again when Rev. Dereca Blackmon led a libation ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called forth the ancestors “not just to remember them, but to invite them to be with us right here, right now, to bless us as we’ve carved new spaces for our children and our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also invoked “the young ones who are yet to be born, that they may call our names with pride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051392\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee walks up to the stage with a mayoral proclamation at the Black Futures Ball banquet hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lee presented the Ida Louise Jackson Award. She knew the trailblazing educator and philanthropist personally and called the moment “Sankofa” — a Ghanaian concept of reflecting on one’s history and heritage to look toward the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just know that those who had the vision are proud,” Lee told the scholars. “You all are making sure that the world survives, and you are secure in the world, for the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Huerta, now 95, made her way to the podium, the room fell silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Nicole Austin (left) helps Dolores Huerta (right) walk to the stage at the Black Futures Ball banquet hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She reminded the audience of the importance of education and awareness — especially in a time when the federal government has placed those keystone values on a chopping block. Racial and religious divisions, she said, are bolstered by withholding education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si Se Puede,” Huerta said, and the entire room bellowed back: “YES YOU CAN!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other speakers included Tajai and DJ Toure from the Oakland hip-hop collective Hieroglyphics. Tajai described “the beautiful vortex” of movements born in the Bay Area — the Black Panthers, hippies, disability rights — and the homegrown talent that Oakland has gifted the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Y’all are the people that are gonna save us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051398\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlay King hugs a friend at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the speeches and fundraising, the crowd poured onto the dance floor. Lights bounced off space helmets and NASA decals. A brilliant dome glowed overhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd, blending in a mix of silver and neon, traditional African dress and elaborate face paint, bestows upon the present an insignia, the past marrying the future. Local Black and POC artisans filled tables with jewelry, desserts and more in celebration of abundance, art and joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alyce Kareem, an incoming sophomore at Xavier University of Louisiana, has big dreams. A Skyline graduate and lifelong EOYDC participant, Kareem told KQED she wants to pursue both filmmaking and medicine — two passions she is certain can be blended into one path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00828_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00828_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00828_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00828_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Melton poses for a portrait showing off her jewelry at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These spaces push me to express myself and not put myself in a box,” Kareem said, gesturing to the flickering strobe lights and the crowd dancing near her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about her night and her time at the EOYDC, she simply said: “A dream of mine came true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the midnight fog settled over Skyline Boulevard, the Chabot Center still glowed — lights and music spilling from every door — as though the night sky itself were alive and full of stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On Aug. 2, the past, present and future converged at the gala with the theme Space is the Place — Visionary Dreamwork. Many donors and attendees were once EOYDC participants themselves, giving youth a glimpse of what might await them — futures already mapped among the stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selena Wilson, the EOYDC’s CEO, said the ball’s theme — while futuristic — is grounded in Oakland’s history. She said the 1974 Afrofuturist film \u003cem>Space is the Place \u003c/em>inspired her\u003cem>,\u003c/em> which starred \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931735/sun-ra-where-to-begin\">jazz legend Sun Ra\u003c/a> and was largely shot in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to lean into radical imagination,” Wilson told KQED. “Making space for joy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The theme’s double meaning, Wilson said, is about embracing ambition and breaking boundaries, while also making room to uplift and celebrate each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Jada White, a rising senior at UCLA and an EOYDC scholar, the theme takes on many meanings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051407 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Kahnetah Thomas, Shoshonie Torres, Erin Dixon, and Alexandria Rivera pose for a portrait together at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a Black student, I think I have to remind myself that my journey has a lot more obstacles than somebody else,” White, 21, said. “Me being in the same room as them is a feat within itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, White added, it’s not just about taking up space — it’s about “making sure that we’re allowing space for others like us to enter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why it’s really important to have events like this, because most of these donors are Black scholars,” White said. “They were in our shoes before, and I think that seeing that as a scholar is kind of inspiring and endearing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051388\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlene Richardson (left) and Charlette Richardson (right), also known as The LoveLove Twins, pose for a portrait at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leila Fite, an incoming freshman at Temple University, said radical imagination helped shape her future in public health. At Skyline High School, where many of the scholars attended, Fite did her senior project on Black maternal health and was connected to resources through the EOYDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got to talk to a whole bunch of Black women in very different, specific medical fields that I had never even heard of,” Fite said. “It really just opened up a whole new scope of possibilities for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the banquet hall, students shared their college plans and majors with families and donors before hearing from guest speakers. This year’s honorary guests included Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and Dolores Huerta, the labor leader and activist whose name is synonymous with the national farm workers movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051394\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee (left) and Dolores Huerta (right) pose for a photo at the Black Futures Ball banquet hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tears fell when a scholarship was announced in the memory of Marvin Boomer, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043904/oakland-watchdogs-say-chp-should-follow-opd-pursuit-policy-following-deadly-crash\">beloved Castlemont High School teacher\u003c/a> who was killed in June when he was struck by a driver fleeing from the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tears fell again when Rev. Dereca Blackmon led a libation ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called forth the ancestors “not just to remember them, but to invite them to be with us right here, right now, to bless us as we’ve carved new spaces for our children and our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also invoked “the young ones who are yet to be born, that they may call our names with pride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051392\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee walks up to the stage with a mayoral proclamation at the Black Futures Ball banquet hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lee presented the Ida Louise Jackson Award. She knew the trailblazing educator and philanthropist personally and called the moment “Sankofa” — a Ghanaian concept of reflecting on one’s history and heritage to look toward the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just know that those who had the vision are proud,” Lee told the scholars. “You all are making sure that the world survives, and you are secure in the world, for the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Huerta, now 95, made her way to the podium, the room fell silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Nicole Austin (left) helps Dolores Huerta (right) walk to the stage at the Black Futures Ball banquet hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She reminded the audience of the importance of education and awareness — especially in a time when the federal government has placed those keystone values on a chopping block. Racial and religious divisions, she said, are bolstered by withholding education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si Se Puede,” Huerta said, and the entire room bellowed back: “YES YOU CAN!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other speakers included Tajai and DJ Toure from the Oakland hip-hop collective Hieroglyphics. Tajai described “the beautiful vortex” of movements born in the Bay Area — the Black Panthers, hippies, disability rights — and the homegrown talent that Oakland has gifted the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Y’all are the people that are gonna save us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051398\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlay King hugs a friend at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the speeches and fundraising, the crowd poured onto the dance floor. Lights bounced off space helmets and NASA decals. A brilliant dome glowed overhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd, blending in a mix of silver and neon, traditional African dress and elaborate face paint, bestows upon the present an insignia, the past marrying the future. Local Black and POC artisans filled tables with jewelry, desserts and more in celebration of abundance, art and joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alyce Kareem, an incoming sophomore at Xavier University of Louisiana, has big dreams. A Skyline graduate and lifelong EOYDC participant, Kareem told KQED she wants to pursue both filmmaking and medicine — two passions she is certain can be blended into one path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00828_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00828_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00828_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00828_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Melton poses for a portrait showing off her jewelry at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These spaces push me to express myself and not put myself in a box,” Kareem said, gesturing to the flickering strobe lights and the crowd dancing near her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about her night and her time at the EOYDC, she simply said: “A dream of mine came true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the midnight fog settled over Skyline Boulevard, the Chabot Center still glowed — lights and music spilling from every door — as though the night sky itself were alive and full of stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On July 21, Janarden Dangi was working a dinner shift at Nepa Indian Cuisine, a restaurant near Divisadero and Fell streets in San Francisco’s Panhandle neighborhood, when he saw flashing police lights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, he joined a small crowd looking out at a gruesome scene — a crash between two pedestrians and a rider of an electric-powered vehicle — near the intersection around 11 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dangi saw a “white-haired” man lying on the pavement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was half covered by his helmet,” Dangi said. “It was really bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its initial report, San Francisco Police stated that the person, identified as Matthias Mederer, 64, was riding an e-bike at the time of the crash, which also injured two people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-MOPEDDEATH-05-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051548\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-MOPEDDEATH-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-MOPEDDEATH-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-MOPEDDEATH-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-MOPEDDEATH-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The intersection of Fell and Divisadero streets in San Francisco’s Panhandle neighborhood on Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in the days and weeks following, confusion arose: was it an e-bike, which doesn’t require a special license to operate — or something else?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following multiple fatalities caused by electric devices in San Francisco, traffic safety advocates are pointing to a need for stronger regulation and classification for electric-powered or motorized modes of transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes, said Christopher White, executive director of the San Francisco Bike Coalition, can be life or death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just want to make sure that the public has the information that is true and accurate,” White said. “That is what should be guiding policies that develop to keep people safer on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a subsequent statement to KQED on Aug. 8, SFPD again reiterated that the crash involved an e-bike.[aside postID=news_12049286 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-947735006-1020x682.jpg']The San Francisco Bike Coalition, however, said that based on eyewitness accounts and videos \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1m7mqdq/ebike_barrels_into_pedestrian_at_fell_and/\">circulating\u003c/a> online, they believe Mederer was riding a more powerful, faster vehicle, most likely an e-moped, which requires a motorcycle license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dangi also told KQED that the vehicle in question appeared to be “a modified moped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not a proper motorbike,” Dangi said. “It was modified with a big sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dangi added that the corner is often busy and that “people have to be very careful in this intersection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tragedy unfolded against the backdrop of ongoing conversations among state legislators on the prevalence of e-bikes and motorized scooters, and a possible need for increased safety laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California law, the term “e-bike” can only apply to three classes of electric bicycles with pedals that are capped at 28 miles per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White said they’re commonly confused and misreported as e-mopeds and e-motorbikes: vehicles that go way above that speed and require a motorcycle license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can propagate narratives in the minds of the public that are not true about the safety or lack of safety of different devices,” White said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White pointed to a fatal collision on Market and Sixth streets just days before the fatal accident on July 21 as a case study: an elderly pedestrian was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049286/77-year-old-pedestrian-dies-in-sf-after-being-struck-by-an-electric-scooter\">struck by an electric scooter\u003c/a> on July 18 while he crossed the intersection, later succumbing to his injuries at a local hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-MOPEDDEATH-03-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051547\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-MOPEDDEATH-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-MOPEDDEATH-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-MOPEDDEATH-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-MOPEDDEATH-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Muni bus waits at the intersection of Fell and Divisadero streets in San Francisco’s Panhandle neighborhood on Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When SFPD initially responded to the scene, it reported that the vehicle involved was a Lime e-scooter, but \u003ca href=\"https://sfbike.org/news/pedestrian-killed-at-intersection-of-market-and-6th-street/\">later\u003c/a> said it remained unclear what kind of scooter it was. Lime also confirmed that the rider was not on one of the company’s electric scooters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The distinction is significant, White said, because electric scooters have their own classification and the California DMV mandates a 15 mph limit for motorized scooters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But still, with reports on all sides unconfirmed, the gray area in how motorized devices are classified is starkly apparent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White recommended that the city develop what he called a “hierarchy of road vulnerability,” or an awareness campaign about the kinds of vehicles on streets and what dangers they pose to pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those on the streets who can cause more harm to others because of the speed or the heaviness of their vehicles or devices, bear greater responsibility,” White said. “To keep more vulnerable road users, whether that’s pedestrians, seniors, people with disabilities, safe in how they behave.”[aside postID=news_12050882 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250805_SPEED-CAMERAS-FOLO_-0003_GH-KQED.jpg']In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.calbike.org/e-bikes-on-the-agenda-for-california-legislature-in-2025/\">statement\u003c/a> posted to its website, the California Bicycle Coalition’s Jared Sanchez pointed to a greater need for “cleaning up the gray areas in e-bike classification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition, also called CalBike, said it saw promise in a bill from state Sen. Catherine Blakespear (D-San Diego), SB 455, which did not survive the Senate Appropriations Committee back in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 455 would have strengthened existing e-bike regulations, as well as penalized manufacturers who sell high-speed motorized bikes to underage riders as e-bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White echoed CalBike’s focus on the role that manufacturers play in street safety. He said that frequently, they don’t share enough information about what they’re actually selling to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would love to see greater oversight of that at the state level,” White said. “To make sure that people understand what they are buying and understand the rules of the road related to those devices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pedestrian safety advocacy group Walk SF this week released a statement that three-quarters of the 11 pedestrian fatalities so far in 2025 have been senior citizens. This followed the death of an 83-year-old hit on Aug. 2 in the city’s Ingleside neighborhood, Walk SF \u003ca href=\"https://walksf.org/news/for-reporters/press-releases/media-advisory-ocean-lee-pedestrian-death-2025/\">reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Walk SF spokesperson Marta Lindsey told KQED that the fact that most of the deaths have been senior citizens only points more to how traffic safety affects the city’s most vulnerable populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What kind of city is San Francisco when our seniors are getting hit and killed?” Lindsey said. “Investing in the changes needed on our streets to make sure everyone of every age is actually safe is a win for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">\u003cem>Carly Severn\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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