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Its opening was delayed due to the pandemic, neighbors’ fears over traffic, and figuring out \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/17/nx-s1-5498756/novel-methods-allow-hiking-among-the-dairy-cows-at-the-cotoni-coast-dairies-national-monument\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">how to keep a herd of nearly 100 cows that graze there away from hikers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and bikers.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California voters\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053201/california-voters-divided-on-newsoms-plan-to-redraw-congressional-districts\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will decide this November\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> whether to redraw the state’s congressional lines to help Democrats pick up seats in the House of Representatives. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The California parole board \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/state-parole-board-denies-erik-menendez-a-shot-at-freedom\">has denied parole for Erik Menendez\u003c/a>, one of the brothers convicted of killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/17/nx-s1-5498756/novel-methods-allow-hiking-among-the-dairy-cows-at-the-cotoni-coast-dairies-national-monument\">\u003cstrong>Central Coast National Monument Uses Technology To Keep Herding Cows Safe\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cotoni-Coast Dairies \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/announcement/blm-welcomes-public-celebrate-grand-opening-cotoni-coast-dairies\">opened this month\u003c/a> in Santa Cruz County. The new national monument extends from the steep slopes of the Santa Cruz Mountains to the marine coastal terraces overlooking the Pacific Ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Obama designated nearly 6,000 acres along the central coast before leaving office. But its opening was delayed due to the pandemic, neighbors’ fears over traffic, and figuring out how to keep a herd of nearly 100 cows that graze there away from hikers and bikers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of Zachary Ormsby’s mandate is for the the Bureau of Land Management to preserve the history of the area. “We’re legally obligated to conserve, protect and restore the values that are associated with this property, ranching being one of those things,” he said. But also to keep the cows off the trails and out of restoration areas, without miles of ugly and expensive fencing. And that’s why each cow is wearing a two pound black collar with a small solar panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These collars are the latest bovine smart device, from a company called Halter. The collar system sends the cows’ coordinates to a GPS satellite, which beams it back to an app on a phone in a rancher’s pocket. The rancher draws boundaries around where they want the cow to go. When a cow goes the wrong way, the collar beeps.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053140/california-lawmakers-pass-redistricting-plan-now-it-heads-to-voters\">\u003cstrong>California Lawmakers Pass Redistricting Plan. Now It Heads To Voters\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A dramatic plan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052376/here-is-how-democrats-plan-to-redraw-californias-congressional-map\">to reshape California’s congressional districts\u003c/a> to favor Democrats will appear before voters this November, after state lawmakers voted Thursday to place the redistricting proposal on the ballot. The votes in the state Assembly and Senate capped a frenetic week of debate on the map, as lawmakers faced a deadline to call the special election on the proposal, which will appear as Proposition 50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nov. 4 vote is now set to be the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052064/newsom-calls-for-special-election-to-redraw-californias-congressional-maps\">marquee event\u003c/a> in a nationwide showdown between Democratic and Republican states over political district lines that could help determine control of Congress in 2026. “When all things are equal, when we’re all playing by the same set of rules, there’s no question that the Republican Party will be the minority party in the House of Representatives next year,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a signing ceremony late Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly approved the measure going before voters, Assembly Constitutional Amendment 8, on a 57-20 vote. Assemblymember Jasmeet Bains, who is running for Congress in a competitive Central Valley seat, was the only Democrat to vote against the plan. Two other Democrats, Dawn Addis of Morro Bay and Alex Lee of San José, did not vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Senate, the redistricting measure was placed on the ballot on a 30-8 party-line vote. Republicans in both houses assailed the plan as a reckless escalation of partisan warfare. “You move forward fighting fire with fire, what happens? You burn it all down,” Republican Assembly Leader James Gallagher said. “And in this case, it affects our most fundamental American principle: representation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The November election will cost in the “low hundreds of millions of dollars,” according to a legislative staff analysis. In 2021, the state allocated nearly $280 million to counties and the Secretary of State’s office to run a special election on the recall of Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/state-parole-board-denies-erik-menendez-a-shot-at-freedom\">\u003cstrong>Erik Menendez Denied Shot At Freedom By California Parole Board\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A California state board Thursday denied parole for Erik Menendez, who has been in prison for more than three decades for the 1989 shotgun slayings of his parents in their Beverly Hills home. A separate parole hearing for older brother Lyle Menendez, 57, is set for Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision was a devastating blow to Menendez, 54, who along with supporters has mounted a campaign for freedom for himself and his brother over the past couple of years. After their arrests, the brothers maintained the killings were motivated by years of sexual abuse by their father, a wealthy businessman and former music executive. Prosecutors argued the brothers’ motivation was greed because they stood to inherit their father’s multi-million dollar estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While explaining the reasons behind the denial, Board of Parole Hearings Commissioner Robert Barton talked about the murders, and said the fatal shooting of the Menendez’s mother showed him to be “devoid of human compassion” at the time. The commissioner also noted some of Menendez’s other actions later, including serious violations of prison rules — like getting caught with a cellphone. “While we give great weight to youth offender factors, your continued willingness to commit crimes and violate prison rules,” weighed against Menendez, Barton said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nov. 4 vote is now set to be the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052064/newsom-calls-for-special-election-to-redraw-californias-congressional-maps\">marquee event\u003c/a> in a nationwide showdown between Democratic and Republican states over political district lines that could help determine control of Congress in 2026. “When all things are equal, when we’re all playing by the same set of rules, there’s no question that the Republican Party will be the minority party in the House of Representatives next year,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a signing ceremony late Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly approved the measure going before voters, Assembly Constitutional Amendment 8, on a 57-20 vote. Assemblymember Jasmeet Bains, who is running for Congress in a competitive Central Valley seat, was the only Democrat to vote against the plan. Two other Democrats, Dawn Addis of Morro Bay and Alex Lee of San José, did not vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Senate, the redistricting measure was placed on the ballot on a 30-8 party-line vote. Republicans in both houses assailed the plan as a reckless escalation of partisan warfare. “You move forward fighting fire with fire, what happens? You burn it all down,” Republican Assembly Leader James Gallagher said. “And in this case, it affects our most fundamental American principle: representation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The November election will cost in the “low hundreds of millions of dollars,” according to a legislative staff analysis. In 2021, the state allocated nearly $280 million to counties and the Secretary of State’s office to run a special election on the recall of Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/state-parole-board-denies-erik-menendez-a-shot-at-freedom\">\u003cstrong>Erik Menendez Denied Shot At Freedom By California Parole Board\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A California state board Thursday denied parole for Erik Menendez, who has been in prison for more than three decades for the 1989 shotgun slayings of his parents in their Beverly Hills home. A separate parole hearing for older brother Lyle Menendez, 57, is set for Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision was a devastating blow to Menendez, 54, who along with supporters has mounted a campaign for freedom for himself and his brother over the past couple of years. After their arrests, the brothers maintained the killings were motivated by years of sexual abuse by their father, a wealthy businessman and former music executive. Prosecutors argued the brothers’ motivation was greed because they stood to inherit their father’s multi-million dollar estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While explaining the reasons behind the denial, Board of Parole Hearings Commissioner Robert Barton talked about the murders, and said the fatal shooting of the Menendez’s mother showed him to be “devoid of human compassion” at the time. The commissioner also noted some of Menendez’s other actions later, including serious violations of prison rules — like getting caught with a cellphone. “While we give great weight to youth offender factors, your continued willingness to commit crimes and violate prison rules,” weighed against Menendez, Barton said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Thursday, August 21, 2025…\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Diego County’s jail system is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/08/12/sprawling-class-action-lawsuit-over-county-jails-safety-nears-trial-as-judge-refuses-to-dismiss-claims/\">facing new scrutiny in a class action lawsuit\u003c/a> that challenges nearly every aspect of daily operations. The case centers on years of reported neglect inside the jails, where at least 250 people have died since 2006. A hearing had been set for Thursday, on whether evidence from two recent jailhouse deaths can be used in the case, but the judge canceled it, saying he already has enough information to make a ruling.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The California Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article311779314.html\">has ruled against state Republicans,\u003c/a> who were attempting to slow down Governor Newsom’s redistricting efforts. The state legislature is expected to approve the proposal on Thursday, after which Newsom will call for a special election on November 4. That gives local election offices less than three months to prepare.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Former Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/crowley-la-fire-chief-mayor-bass-b715f5294a6dffe80def244fb2361a87\">has filed a legal claim\u003c/a>, alleging Mayor Karen Bass smeared her conduct and decision-making after she was fired.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Class Action Lawsuit Scrutinizes Daily Operations In San Diego’s Jail System \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Diego County’s jail system is facing new scrutiny in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/08/12/sprawling-class-action-lawsuit-over-county-jails-safety-nears-trial-as-judge-refuses-to-dismiss-claims/\">a class action lawsuit\u003c/a> that challenges nearly every aspect of daily operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case centers on years of reported neglect inside the jails, where at least 250 people have died since 2006. A hearing had been set for Thursday. The judge in the case was scheduled to determine if evidence from two recent jailhouse deaths would have been permissible in the lawsuit. But the judge canceled it, saying he already has enough information to make a ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Davis is a reporter with the San Diego Union Tribune who has been covering the jail system for years. “There were two recent deaths and immediately after both deaths, an attorney for the plaintiffs came down to San Diego to get witness statements. And what these men described was pretty horrific. Corey Dean, who died on July 13th, he was crying for help for days. He was covered in feces and he was basically ignored. Karim Talib, who died on July 28th, he was refusing food, refusing medications. He wore diapers. No one was changing his diapers. My colleague Jeff McDonald and I, we’ve been working together on stories on these deaths. The word we kept turning to in describing these witness statements, declarations, is gruesome,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has made some reforms, but Davis said these recent deaths were so alarming and so egregious, that it suggests there’s a culture that needs to be fixed. It’s unclear when the trial might begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>CA Legislature Poised To Pass Redistricting Plan \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The California Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by Republican lawmakers to delay the redistricting process playing out in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans had argued that the quickly drawn up redistricting plan had not been published long enough to meet public-notice requirements in the state constitution. But the court said Republican lawmakers “have failed to meet their burden of establishing a basis for relief at this time under the California Constitution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California voting officials are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/08/special-election-redistricting-how/\">scrambling behind the scenes\u003c/a> to prepare for the special election Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/gavin-newsom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> wants this November on his proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/08/california-redistricting-things-to-know/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">redraw the state’s congressional districts\u003c/a>. But to do so, Newsom needs voters to approve a ballot initiative in an off-year special election that the state has yet to officially approve and schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats want the proposed California maps to offset President Donald Trump and Republicans’ efforts to stack the next congressional election in the GOP’s favor by squeezing more Republican seats out of red states like Texas, Florida and Missouri. Newsom only \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/08/find-out-if-your-vote-could-be-affected-by-newsoms-redistricting-plans/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released his proposed maps\u003c/a> late last week, and state lawmakers — who just returned from a month-long summer recess — are staring down a hard deadline of Friday to greenlight the ballot language before voters in time for a Nov. 4 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"Page-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/crowley-la-fire-chief-mayor-bass-b715f5294a6dffe80def244fb2361a87\">\u003cstrong>Ex-LA Fire Chief Alleges Mayor Orchestrated Smear Campaign After Her Ouster\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles’ former fire chief filed a legal claim Wednesday against the city, alleging that \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-fire-chief-146e4421e4bac52dadca6164040eff39\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">her ouster\u003c/a>\u003c/span> by Mayor Karen Bass was followed by an orchestrated effort to smear her conduct and decision-making during the most destructive wildfire in LA history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Chief Kristin Crowley’s dismissal a month after January’s Palisades Fire was followed by finger-pointing between her and City Hall over the blaze’s devastation and the fire department’s funding. In March, Crowley \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-wildfire-mayor-karen-bass-firefighters-ad56f6f47991e90b5ebde2b890e3699e\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">lost an appeal\u003c/a>\u003c/span> to the City Council to win back her job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowley’s legal claim this week alleges that Bass led “a campaign of misinformation, defamation, and retaliation” to protect the mayor’s political reputation following the fire. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans had argued that the quickly drawn up redistricting plan had not been published long enough to meet public-notice requirements in the state constitution. But the court said Republican lawmakers “have failed to meet their burden of establishing a basis for relief at this time under the California Constitution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California voting officials are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/08/special-election-redistricting-how/\">scrambling behind the scenes\u003c/a> to prepare for the special election Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/gavin-newsom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> wants this November on his proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/08/california-redistricting-things-to-know/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">redraw the state’s congressional districts\u003c/a>. But to do so, Newsom needs voters to approve a ballot initiative in an off-year special election that the state has yet to officially approve and schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats want the proposed California maps to offset President Donald Trump and Republicans’ efforts to stack the next congressional election in the GOP’s favor by squeezing more Republican seats out of red states like Texas, Florida and Missouri. Newsom only \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/08/find-out-if-your-vote-could-be-affected-by-newsoms-redistricting-plans/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released his proposed maps\u003c/a> late last week, and state lawmakers — who just returned from a month-long summer recess — are staring down a hard deadline of Friday to greenlight the ballot language before voters in time for a Nov. 4 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"Page-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/crowley-la-fire-chief-mayor-bass-b715f5294a6dffe80def244fb2361a87\">\u003cstrong>Ex-LA Fire Chief Alleges Mayor Orchestrated Smear Campaign After Her Ouster\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles’ former fire chief filed a legal claim Wednesday against the city, alleging that \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-fire-chief-146e4421e4bac52dadca6164040eff39\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">her ouster\u003c/a>\u003c/span> by Mayor Karen Bass was followed by an orchestrated effort to smear her conduct and decision-making during the most destructive wildfire in LA history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Chief Kristin Crowley’s dismissal a month after January’s Palisades Fire was followed by finger-pointing between her and City Hall over the blaze’s devastation and the fire department’s funding. In March, Crowley \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-wildfire-mayor-karen-bass-firefighters-ad56f6f47991e90b5ebde2b890e3699e\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">lost an appeal\u003c/a>\u003c/span> to the City Council to win back her job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowley’s legal claim this week alleges that Bass led “a campaign of misinformation, defamation, and retaliation” to protect the mayor’s political reputation following the fire. The mayor’s office said Wednesday that it would not comment on “an ongoing personnel claim.” A message seeking comment was also sent to the LA City Attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bass \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-fire-chief-146e4421e4bac52dadca6164040eff39\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">fired Crowley\u003c/a>\u003c/span> on Feb. 21, six weeks after the LA fire started. She praised Crowley in the firefighting effort’s early going, but she said she later learned that an additional 1,000 firefighters could have been deployed on the day the blaze ignited. Furthermore, she said Crowley rebuffed a request to prepare a report on the fires that is a critical part of investigations into what happened and why. Crowley’s legal filing disputes both those claims.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/08/19/advocates-organize-patrols-to-protect-against-ice-actions-near-san-diego-schools\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">group of volunteers in San Diego\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is trying to ease some of the stress.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the Inland Empire, two nurses accused of trying to stop immigration agents from arresting a man at a surgery center \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2025-08-19/ontario-nurses-arrested-for-allegedly-blocking-immigration-arrest-have-felony-charges-dropped\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">have pleaded not guilty\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to misdemeanor assault.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/la-oc-weather-forecast-heatwave\">\u003cstrong>Extreme Heat And Fire Weather Arrives In Southern California\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Extreme heat is expected to bear down on Southern California starting Wednesday in what meteorologists are calling the most significant heat wave of the summer. For the rest of the week, temperatures are expected to be 10 to 15 degrees hotter than normal across the region, prompting warnings from public health officials to take precautions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the rest of the state, inland areas could hit triple digits in the coming days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ariel Cohen, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service said thunderstorms are also potentially on the horizon late this week into the weekend. That could cool things down, but it also raises the risk of local flooding and fires sparked by dry lightning. “We can get explosive fire behavior if a fire forms in a very hot, unstable environment,” Cohen said. “So once a fire takes off, it pretty much develops a [weather] system of its own and can grow explosively and rapidly, even if the winds aren’t that strong.” In anticipation of the fire risk, Gov. 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Written in both English and Spanish, the fliers tell people what to do if U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents try to arrest immigrants near schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rene Zambrano, a Lincoln High School teacher and member of the San Diego immigrant advocacy group Unión del Barrio, recruited a few students to distribute fliers Tuesday morning while he spoke to concerned parents dropping off their kids. “Let me give you some information, we’re doing some awareness against ICE,” Zambrano told a dad driving a mini van. “We want to tell the community that it’s safe to come to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unión del Barrio and another local group, the Association of Raza Educators, trained approximately 100 teachers over the summer break. This comes as demand for know-your-rights information is high — especially after ICE agents detained parents near schools in \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/08/06/immigration-agents-arrest-parent-outside-chula-vista-elementary-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Chula Vista\u003c/a> and \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/08/15/san-diego-unified-responds-to-ice-arrest-outside-linda-vista-elementary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Linda Vista\u003c/a> earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to community concern over recent ICE actions, Unión del Barrio and Association of Raza Educators are launching “teacher patrols” throughout San Diego. The patrols involve volunteers driving around campuses looking for undercover ICE agents and teachers welcoming students outside of schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/08/19/advocates-organize-patrols-to-protect-against-ice-actions-near-san-diego-schools\">\u003cstrong>Ontario Nurses Arrested For Allegedly Blocking Immigration Arrest Have Felony Charges Dropped\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last month, two nurses were arrested by federal officials for allegedly blocking an immigration arrest at a surgery center in Ontario. On Tuesday, both nurses pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several nurses at the Ontario Advanced Surgery Center can be \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrest-california-surgery-center-c827038f1a40227dc05ab1c28b048035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>seen on video\u003c/u>\u003c/a> asking immigration agents if they had a warrant for Honduran gardener Denis Guillen-Solis, who they were trying to arrest. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rene Zambrano, a Lincoln High School teacher and member of the San Diego immigrant advocacy group Unión del Barrio, recruited a few students to distribute fliers Tuesday morning while he spoke to concerned parents dropping off their kids. “Let me give you some information, we’re doing some awareness against ICE,” Zambrano told a dad driving a mini van. “We want to tell the community that it’s safe to come to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unión del Barrio and another local group, the Association of Raza Educators, trained approximately 100 teachers over the summer break. This comes as demand for know-your-rights information is high — especially after ICE agents detained parents near schools in \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/08/06/immigration-agents-arrest-parent-outside-chula-vista-elementary-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Chula Vista\u003c/a> and \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/08/15/san-diego-unified-responds-to-ice-arrest-outside-linda-vista-elementary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Linda Vista\u003c/a> earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to community concern over recent ICE actions, Unión del Barrio and Association of Raza Educators are launching “teacher patrols” throughout San Diego. The patrols involve volunteers driving around campuses looking for undercover ICE agents and teachers welcoming students outside of schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/08/19/advocates-organize-patrols-to-protect-against-ice-actions-near-san-diego-schools\">\u003cstrong>Ontario Nurses Arrested For Allegedly Blocking Immigration Arrest Have Felony Charges Dropped\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last month, two nurses were arrested by federal officials for allegedly blocking an immigration arrest at a surgery center in Ontario. On Tuesday, both nurses pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several nurses at the Ontario Advanced Surgery Center can be \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrest-california-surgery-center-c827038f1a40227dc05ab1c28b048035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>seen on video\u003c/u>\u003c/a> asking immigration agents if they had a warrant for Honduran gardener Denis Guillen-Solis, who they were trying to arrest. Jose de Jesus Ortega and Danielle Davila, both nurses at the center, were \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2025-07-25/nurses-at-ontario-surgical-clinic-charged-in-alleged-ice-arrest-obstruction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>arrested\u003c/u>\u003c/a> on July 25 and 26 for trying to hold back the agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/two-staffers-ontario-surgery-center-charged-federal-complaint-alleging-they-assaulted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu> press release\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli shared that the nurses were arrested for assaulting an agent, intimidation and conspiracy. The official complaint shared to members of the media shows that Ortega and Davila are being charged with a single misdemeanor assault.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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By the numbers, sugar beet and sugar cane farming together account for roughly 2% of the total crop value produced by the region’s powerful agriculture industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some elected leaders are holding onto hopes that they can keep the industry alive. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a Wednesday night in July, the normally quiet Glen Park branch of the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-public-library\"> San Francisco Public Library\u003c/a> hummed with the sounds of clacking sewing machines, upbeat music and people chatting. But no librarians were shushing, because for a few hours, the library had been officially transformed into a clothing repair clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mollie Agahi stood at the front of the line of people waiting to be matched with an expert clothing mender. She brought with her a half-completed yellow dress she hoped to turn into a nightgown, but the process was slow-going without a sewing machine at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, that wasn’t a problem for Christine Haynes, who greeted Agahi cheerfully and got to work with her tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just going to secure it with the machine,” Haynes said. “It’s going to be lovely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haynes is one of the five sewing experts paid to work at these \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/events/2025/08/16/workshop-fix-it-clinic-clothing-repair\">Fix-It Clinics\u003c/a>, which happen once a month at library branches around San Francisco. The clinics are run by a partnership between \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfenvironment.org/\">SF Environment\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/\">San Francisco Public Library\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.scrap-sf.org/\">SCRAP\u003c/a>, an SF-based nonprofit that promotes creative reuse. Since the clinics launched in 2023, 235 articles of clothing have been repaired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048751\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-18-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048751\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-18-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-18-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-18-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-18-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mira Musank works with a participant to repair her sweater during a Fix-It Clinic Clothing Repair workshop at the Glen Park Branch Library in San Francisco on July 16, 2025. During the workshop, teachers from SCRAP offer hands-on fixes and mending tips. SCRAP is a nonprofit creative reuse center that provides arts and environmental education using donated materials. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Danielle Grant, SCRAP’s Program Director, said the purpose of the clinics is to “inspire people to keep their clothes in their closets longer, to get the most wear out of their clothes that they can and to rethink their relationship to buying things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clinics are first-come, first-served and free to attend. Participants also don’t need to know anything about sewing — a fact that Grant said makes the workshops extra accessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely have fans,” Grant said. “There are people who show up every month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the items repaired in July included a cozy pajama shirt with a hole in it, a multicolored tutu dress with a broken zipper and a sentimental seat cushion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mei Zhang brought a pair of her favorite jeans that were starting to wear out in the seat.[aside postID=arts_13975661 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231108-TheLab-48-BL_2000-1020x680.jpg']“I’ve tried repairing them myself by sewing over the edges, but they’re still starting to wear,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it weren’t for the Fix-It Clinic, Zhang said she probably would have “cried a little bit, held on to them for years and then thrown them out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those jeans would have been part of the 11 thousand tons of textiles that wind up in SF’s landfill every year, according to a spokesperson for SF Environment. While this is only 4% of the total landfill waste, even this small amount of textile waste can be dangerous. State and \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenationshealth.org/content/55/3/1.1\">global studies\u003c/a> show that synthetic fibers from clothing dumped in landfills leak microplastics into soil and water systems, and release harmful greenhouse gases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why removing and reducing textiles from the landfill is the city’s “top priority,” according to Freddy Coronado, who helps run the Fix-It Clinics as SF Environment’s Residential Zero Waste Assistant Coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-19-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048752\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sewing expert Tria Connell works to patch a hole in a jacket during a Fix-It Clinic Clothing Repair workshop at the Glen Park Branch Library in San Francisco on July 16, 2025. 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Liquid hydrocarbon spewed from a leaky pipe in the crude unit and ignited, sending smoke plumes into the air that could be seen across the Bay. Nearby residents struggled to breathe and reported headaches, chest pains and itchy eyes. More than 15,000 people sought medical help. For Luna Angulo, then in middle school, it was an awakening. “As someone who is 12 and you see the sky suddenly turn black, you’re like — the city is on fire,” Angulo, now 25, said. “What is this about? What is going on?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron later \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2017/2017-62.pdf\">agreed\u003c/a> to upgrade the refinery, which was first established in 1902, and pay more than $1 million in fines. The company also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665999/chevron-richmond-move-to-settle-lawsuit-over-2012-refinery-fire-that-sickened-thousands\">settled a lawsuit\u003c/a> with the city of Richmond for $5 million. 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Gavin Newsom and state legislators are weighing another renewal of cap-and-trade, which could change the way AB 617 is funded. Environmental justice advocates view the negotiations as a chance to strengthen the program and deliver on the promise of clean air in California’s most polluted neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"entry-title \">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2025/08/trump-ucla-research-grants/\">\u003cstrong>Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration To Restore Hundreds Of UCLA Research Grants\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore a portion of the 800 federal science research grants that it suspended at UCLA last month, delivering a major setback to efforts to force the university into a $1 billion settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California district court judge Rita F. 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Those grants and others \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/06/health-research-california/#:~:text=UC%20researchers%20may%20get%20science%2C%20environmental%20grants%20back\">were terminated\u003c/a> over alleged Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion violations following several Trump executive orders in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lin’s order to restore the suspended grants came in response to a\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/08/research-grants-california/\"> court filing lawyers for the UC researchers submitted\u003c/a> after 300 National Science Foundation Grants and 500 National Institutes of Health grants at UCLA were \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/07/ucla/\">suspended\u003c/a>. The suspensions \u003ca href=\"https://chancellor.ucla.edu/messages/update-on-protecting-our-research-mission\">froze $584 million\u003c/a>. The lawyers aren’t acting on behalf of the UC system, though some are employed at the UC. It is not yet clear if all 300 suspended National Science Foundation grants are to be restored under Lin’s latest order. A lawyer for the researchers, Claudia Polsky, said all 300 should be restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"entry-title \">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/08/california-governors-race-toni-atkins/\">\u003cstrong>This Candidate For California Governor Has A Potential Conflict Of Interest In Her Own Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If former state Senate leader Toni Atkins is elected governor next year, she would oversee a state contract that puts money in her own pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following a directive from Gov. 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Nearly half of the major clients last year at LeSar’s companies employed lobbyists to influence government policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atkins declined an interview request from CalMatters to discuss how she would handle conflicts of interest as governor. She did not say she would take any specific steps to insulate herself from LeSar’s business dealings or make any changes to their current arrangement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/health-and-medicine/2025-08-07/redding-fire-fees-service\">\u003cstrong>A Call To Redding Fire May Now Cost You\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Redding Fire Department has begun charging a $489 fee for lift assists, non-emergency calls for when someone has fallen but doesn’t need to go to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials said the department receives about 1,200 such calls each year. Sometimes people even call when they need help getting to the restroom, Deputy Chief Jay Sumerlin said. “Calls are becoming so frequent that when we have a true emergency — let’s say a shooting, a stabbing or let’s say a baby not breathing — I may not have a fire engine in place anymore,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Redding City Council approved the fee in 2023 to \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2024-03-05/yreka-seeks-funding-support-for-ailing-volunteer-fire-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">offset costs\u003c/a> and dissuade unnecessary calls. Sumerlin said the fire department began gradually rolling out the policy this year. So far, Sumerlin said, about 500 people have received bills.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Environmental justice advocates view the negotiations as a chance to strengthen the program and deliver on the promise of clean air in California’s most polluted neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"entry-title \">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2025/08/trump-ucla-research-grants/\">\u003cstrong>Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration To Restore Hundreds Of UCLA Research Grants\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore a portion of the 800 federal science research grants that it suspended at UCLA last month, delivering a major setback to efforts to force the university into a $1 billion settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California district court judge Rita F. 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Those grants and others \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/06/health-research-california/#:~:text=UC%20researchers%20may%20get%20science%2C%20environmental%20grants%20back\">were terminated\u003c/a> over alleged Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion violations following several Trump executive orders in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lin’s order to restore the suspended grants came in response to a\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/08/research-grants-california/\"> court filing lawyers for the UC researchers submitted\u003c/a> after 300 National Science Foundation Grants and 500 National Institutes of Health grants at UCLA were \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/07/ucla/\">suspended\u003c/a>. The suspensions \u003ca href=\"https://chancellor.ucla.edu/messages/update-on-protecting-our-research-mission\">froze $584 million\u003c/a>. The lawyers aren’t acting on behalf of the UC system, though some are employed at the UC. It is not yet clear if all 300 suspended National Science Foundation grants are to be restored under Lin’s latest order. A lawyer for the researchers, Claudia Polsky, said all 300 should be restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"entry-title \">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/08/california-governors-race-toni-atkins/\">\u003cstrong>This Candidate For California Governor Has A Potential Conflict Of Interest In Her Own Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If former state Senate leader Toni Atkins is elected governor next year, she would oversee a state contract that puts money in her own pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following a directive from Gov. 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Nearly half of the major clients last year at LeSar’s companies employed lobbyists to influence government policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atkins declined an interview request from CalMatters to discuss how she would handle conflicts of interest as governor. She did not say she would take any specific steps to insulate herself from LeSar’s business dealings or make any changes to their current arrangement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/health-and-medicine/2025-08-07/redding-fire-fees-service\">\u003cstrong>A Call To Redding Fire May Now Cost You\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Redding Fire Department has begun charging a $489 fee for lift assists, non-emergency calls for when someone has fallen but doesn’t need to go to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials said the department receives about 1,200 such calls each year. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of The California Report Magazine’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/resilience\">series about resilient Californians\u003c/a>, and what lessons they may have for the rest of us.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanice Robinson grew up in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/richmond\">Richmond\u003c/a>, where she first met her future husband, Joe “Fatter” Blacknell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t even like my husband growing up,” she recalled. “I thought that he was just like a very obnoxious, flamboyant person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, while Blacknell was incarcerated and serving multiple life sentences, their lives converged again — this time bound by the shared grief over losing loved ones. Their marriage, carried across prison walls and sustained through letters and short visits, has led Robinson to question the boundaries society draws around love and redemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, Robinson released her memoir — \u003ca href=\"https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-gangsters-scholar-love-behind-bars-shanice-nicole-robinson/22508568\">\u003cem>The Gangster’s Scholar: Love Behind Bars\u003c/em>\u003c/a> — which details her experience and practical insight around stigmas surrounding prison culture and the critical role families play in the rehabilitation process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An educator, author and mother, Robinson earned her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from San Francisco State University while raising two children and navigating unstable housing, financial strain and a long-distance marriage with an incarcerated spouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250806-SHANICEROBINSONRESILIENCE_00295_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051423\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250806-SHANICEROBINSONRESILIENCE_00295_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250806-SHANICEROBINSONRESILIENCE_00295_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250806-SHANICEROBINSONRESILIENCE_00295_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250806-SHANICEROBINSONRESILIENCE_00295_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos of Joe ‘Fatter’ Blacknell (left) and Shanice Robinson (right) hang on Robinson’s wall in Richmond on August 6, 2025. Shanice Robinson, who is a visiting assistant professor at San Francisco State University, a teacher for incarcerated people and an author of “Gangster’s Scholar: Love Behind Bars”, works to advocate for those affected by the prison system. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, as Senior Director of Culture and Social Justice at SF State, she teaches in university classrooms and inside correctional facilities. Her work focuses on dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline and amplifying the voices of Black students and incarcerated people — a mission shaped as much by her scholarship as by the life she leads at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson spoke with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californiareportmagazine\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a>’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/vrancano\">Vanessa Rancaño\u003c/a> as part of our series on resilience. 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I’m an individual, but now that I’m married to him, I feel like I live in the shadow of his headline — I live the shadow of his life sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I feel it’s unfair to me to not be able to be who I truly am as a full person. And that’s part of who I am, being married to this man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also hard to try to be there and support him while I feel my character is being assassinated just for loving this person.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On resilience as part of the Black experience\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a Black person, we are born with a bull’s-eye on our back. We often have to code-switch and shift our identities just to coexist and adapt to what the mainstream society says we have to be.[aside postID=news_12040453 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250509-JOHN-POWELL-MD-02-KQED-3-1020x680.jpg']I would say resilience to me is not about the absence of struggle, it’s having the audacity to dream beyond it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding hope in the most unlikely of places, I think that that’s super important. To be able to teach within the carceral system, I utilize my lived experience that’s rooted in love, rooted in loss, but also rooted in resilience to empower other people looking for that sense of hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I actually got the idea to do that through my husband. 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I think it’s super cool that he is trying to use himself as a resource to say, “don’t do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051421\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250806-SHANICEROBINSONRESILIENCE_00212_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051421\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250806-SHANICEROBINSONRESILIENCE_00212_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250806-SHANICEROBINSONRESILIENCE_00212_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250806-SHANICEROBINSONRESILIENCE_00212_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250806-SHANICEROBINSONRESILIENCE_00212_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shanice Robinson points to childhood photos of her and her husband, Joe ‘Fatter’ Blacknell, who is incarcerated, in the book she wrote, “Gangster’s Scholar: Love Behind Bars, in her Richmond bedroom on August 6, 2025.” \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On how to love from behind bars\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I would encourage people to focus on things that are tangible. While you can’t be Superman or Superwoman to change the circumstances of individuals, speak life into them through positive affirmations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Write nice letters for them so they can hold it near and dear to them, so when they’re thinking of you, they can pull out that letter, they can put out that card or look at those pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Me and my husband, we have matching necklaces with our pictures in a locket. And so when we’re together, he has the other half of the heart. I have his face, he has mine. We put it together, and that way, we still have a piece of each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t give up hope, pray, because there’s always light at the end of the tunnel. There’s always new laws, there’s always organizations that are trying to help people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Tuesday, August 12, 2025…\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the first time in eight years, Republican Congressman Doug LaMalfa held an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mynspr.org/news/2025-08-11/lamalfa-faces-loud-crowd-at-first-chico-town-hall-in-8-years\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">in-person town hall\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for his constituents in Chico on Monday. And he was met by plenty of boos and jeering from the crowd.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The second day of testimony begins Tuesday morning in California’s challenge to President Donald Trump’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051797/california-argues-trumps-use-of-troops-in-l-a-violated-federal-law\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">deployment of thousands of National Guard troops\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and US Marines to Los Angeles earlier this summer\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As students and families in Los Angeles prepare to go back to school this week, local leaders are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/lausd-preparing-school-increased-immigration-enforcement-actions\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reaffirming their support for immigrant communities\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in light of ongoing concerns over ICE raids.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A former Orange County supervisor has been ordered \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/former-orange-county-supervisor-andrew-do-is-ordered-to-pay-restitution-over-corruption-scheme\">to pay the county back,\u003c/a> for his role in illegally redirecting millions of dollars in contracts for bribes.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.mynspr.org/news/2025-08-11/lamalfa-faces-loud-crowd-at-first-chico-town-hall-in-8-years\">\u003cstrong>LaMalfa Faces Loud Crowd At First Chico Town Hall In 8 Years\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. Congressman Doug LaMalfa struggled to speak over a raucous crowd at Chico’s Elks Lodge on Monday. The meeting came amid Gov. Gavin Newsom’s push to potentially redraw California’s congressional districts — changes that could affect LaMalfa’s seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was LaMalfa’s first in-person town hall in Chico since 2017. More than 500 people packed the banquet hall, often yelling over the Republican congressman’s remarks. Attendees waved red or green construction paper to signal disapproval or support and at times broke into chants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questions during the 90-minute meeting ranged from wildfire recovery and veterans’ healthcare to LaMalfa’s support for Israel amid the crisis in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Healthcare drew some of the strongest pushback. Critics cited LaMalfa’s support for President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” saying it would cut Medicaid funding and threaten rural hospitals. LaMalfa disagreed, pointing to a multi-billion-dollar rural hospital fund in the bill. He denied cuts to care and said “the focus has been on illegal immigrants on that program.” He said the bill attempts to serve “people that should be eligible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051797/california-argues-trumps-use-of-troops-in-l-a-violated-federal-law\">\u003cstrong>California Argues Trump’s Use Of Troops In LA Violated Federal Law\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for California began presenting their case on Monday, that President Donald Trump’s deployment of federalized California National Guard troops and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles earlier this summer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043314/california-to-sue-trump-for-sending-national-guard-troops-into-la-after-ice-protests\">violated federal law\u003c/a> that prohibits the military from performing police functions on U.S. soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump called up the National Guard following civil unrest, as his administration began mass deportations and raids across Los Angeles and other cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through Attorney General Rob Bonta, Gov. 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But the district announced additional steps this week, on the heels of protests by teachers and others \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://abc7.com/post/teachers-call-lausd-keep-students-safe-immigration-raids/17412980/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>calling for stronger protections\u003c/u>\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>New bus routes to serve students whose families may feel uncomfortable walking or driving them to school.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On the first day of school, the district will dispatch 1,000 staff members from its central office to provide more information and support to families at school sites in communities frequently targeted in immigration raids.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Local law enforcement collaborations. For example, Vernon Mayor Leticia Lopez said the local police force would respond to calls for service at the school on behalf of the Los Angeles School Police Department so those officers can focus on other campuses within the district.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A “rapid communication task force” headed by a former L.A. school police chief to spread information between school sites and law enforcement agencies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The distribution of information packets to students in \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26047978-we-are-one-family-preparedness-care-package/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>English\u003c/u>\u003c/a> and \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26047979-we-are-one-family-preparedness-care-package-spanish-lausd/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>Spanish\u003c/u>\u003c/a> about how to interact with immigration agents, create a plan to care for their child in an emergency and get resources.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/former-orange-county-supervisor-andrew-do-is-ordered-to-pay-restitution-over-corruption-scheme\">\u003cstrong>Ex-Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do Ordered To Pay Thousands In Restitution \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do was ordered Monday to pay $878,230.80\u003cb> \u003c/b>in restitution for his involvement in a bribery scheme that saw millions in taxpayer dollars diverted from feeding needy seniors, leading authorities to label him a “Robin Hood in reverse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/questions-about-former-orange-county-supervisor-andrew-do-restitution-hearing\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">had asked the judge\u003c/a> to order Do to pay back the roughly $878,000 amount, while \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/news/andrew-do-10-million\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>Orange County was seeking\u003c/u>\u003c/a> the return of millions more. Kevin Dunn, an attorney for Orange County, had asked the judge for the higher amount “to restore the full measure of the damage to the county.” The judge ultimately sided with prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do did not attend Monday’s hearing. His attorney told the court Do was preparing to \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/news/politics/andrew-do-sentencing-orange-county-supervisor\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">turn himself in\u003c/a> by Friday to begin serving a five-year federal prison term.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Armando Herrera got out of drug treatment last year, he returned to the streets of\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\"> San Francisco\u003c/a> — still unhoused, but in a better place than he’d been in years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’d kicked his addiction to alcohol and meth, regained a sense of confidence and reconnected with his kids. Ten months away from the chaos of street life had given him something like stability. But back outside, he found the ground had shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before rehab, he could set up his tent in one spot and leave it there for weeks. Now, the rules of survival had changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t leave [your tent],” he said. “The first time, they give you a warning. The second time, they give you a ticket. The third time you go to jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So these days, he camps near an industrial building with two others, but never for very long. They arrive late, set up after dark and break down again before sunrise in a daily cycle of, as he puts it, “Go and come back, go and come back, go and come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250701-GRANTSPASS-03-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046792\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250701-GRANTSPASS-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250701-GRANTSPASS-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250701-GRANTSPASS-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250701-GRANTSPASS-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armando Herrera Vargas (left) talks with a friend at The Gubbio Project in San Francisco on July 1, 2025, with his belongings nearby. The project provides a safe place for unhoused people to rest during the day inside local churches. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That routine has kept Herrera out of jail, but it hasn’t \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/housing\">gotten him off the street\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade into homelessness, he’s navigating a new and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046259\">more aggressive era of street enforcement\u003c/a> in San Francisco, one shaped by last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">U.S. Supreme Court ruling\u003c/a> giving cities broad authority to punish people for sleeping outside, even when there are no shelter beds available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, some 50 cities statewide have passed or strengthened anti-camping ordinances, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5257640\">May report\u003c/a> from UC Berkeley. San Francisco has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/nx-s1-5094930/supreme-court-homeless-camps-san-francisco\">leaned into a tougher stance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since July of last year, the city conducted at least 471 encampment sweeps and placed over 900 people into shelters. Meanwhile, police arrested more than 1,100 people for “lodging without permission,” essentially public camping, and the city’s district attorney \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/Public-Safety/District-Attorney-Cases-Prosecuted/dcjk-vw8q/data_preview\">filed charges\u003c/a> in just over 250 of those cases. So far, about 100 \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/Public-Safety/District-Attorney-Case-Resolutions/ynfy-z5kt/data_preview\">have been resolved\u003c/a>, most through diversion programs that allow people to avoid a criminal record if they meet certain conditions.[aside postID=news_12050701 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-08-BL-KQED.jpg']Those efforts have reshaped the streets and changed the lives of unhoused residents like Herrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera has a warm, slightly weary demeanor, with a smile that reveals straight white teeth and deep creases around his brown eyes. He’s 53 and has lived in San Francisco for three decades. He said he moved here from Mexico City and married an American citizen. He had three kids, a home and a furniture restoration business. Then it all unraveled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been kinda like chaos for the last 15 years,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The details and timeline of his story are a little murky. He said after the 2008 financial crisis, his business failed, then he worked for someone else in the furniture business until a job injury ended that, too. He said his wife died, and he lost contact with his kids. His disability benefits provided enough income to pay for a place to live or for food and essentials, but not both. In 2014, he lost his home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a while, he got by in cheap hotels, selling what he had until there was nothing left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when I started seeing people putting tents everywhere,” he said. “I was like, ‘Well, might as well do the same,’ since I really got no place to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man experiencing homelessness packs up his belongings in anticipation of an encampment sweep by San Francisco’s Department of Public Works around Showplace Square on Aug. 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He camped with others for safety and a sense of belonging. “Being homeless and then being alone, you just feel like you don’t belong,” he said. “That’s when depression comes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, he was arrested for possessing a stolen bike — something he said he bought off the street. From jail, he entered a diversion program, which led him to rehab. That’s where he was when the Supreme Court handed down its decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Mayor London Breed was among the first in the state to begin enforcing a crackdown on public camping, vowing to make people sleeping outside “so uncomfortable on the streets of San Francisco that they have to take our offer [of shelter]” in part by authorizing police to issue citations, which could lead to misdemeanors.[aside postID=news_12050263 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-ShelterFamilies-09-BL_qed.jpg']Back outside, Herrera found fewer tents and fewer familiar faces. “All the people that I knew back then, they’re gone,” he said. “I don’t know if it’s because they have housing now … they just totally disappear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep from getting ticketed, Herrera learned to stay mobile. He got a storage unit and bought an electric scooter, lashing a city garbage can to it so he could haul his supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to carry all the stuff everywhere you go,” he said. “It’s a pain in the butt being in the street and not being comfortable and not being in a place where you can lay your head and take a nap.” He said it’s exhausting to be around people constantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all the ways the new era has made Herrera’s life harder, he said there are some upsides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crackdown on encampments has changed the way housed residents treat him. In the past, when he had a messy camp near businesses, he said owners dumped water on his tent, and once, he suspects, even set fire to it. “They were always calling the cops,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that he moves his tent daily, he said some of those same business owners smile at him. “They do treat me differently,” he said. “They always say hi.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250617-GRANTSPASSDECISIONANNI-03-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046789\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250617-GRANTSPASSDECISIONANNI-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250617-GRANTSPASSDECISIONANNI-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250617-GRANTSPASSDECISIONANNI-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250617-GRANTSPASSDECISIONANNI-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathy Vaughn, a tenant organizer and peer counselor with Tenderloin Housing Clinic, stands near her apartment in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco on June 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the parts of the city hardest hit by homelessness, business owners and residents have long said encampments make their lives miserable — driving away customers and forcing them to dodge syringes and human waste on the sidewalk. Some say things have improved since the sweeps ramped up. Others say not much has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Kathy Vaughn, a Tenderloin resident, the difference is personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just felt like nobody gave a damn,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before, she had to walk in the street, dodging cars, to avoid the tents that stretched from her doorway to the corner store. “It was like literally a nightmare to try to get through this neighborhood,” she said.[aside postID=news_12049612 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-05-BL-KQED.jpg']Vaughn was homeless herself once, and said she has empathy for unhoused people, but she supports the city’s more aggressive approach. “I love my neighborhood. I love the people,” she said. “I wanna see it even better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera said he didn’t like the old status quo either. He hated feeling like a nuisance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s better for both of us. I never thought it was a good thing,” he said of setting up camp in front of businesses and apartment buildings. “I did it because I needed it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he may be keeping a lower profile now and making life easier for business owners and housed residents, he’s still homeless. He said he wants to work. He had a job with the Salvation Army for a few months, and eventually hopes to get back to restoring furniture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need a place I can stay so I can go on with my life,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recently got a break: his social worker told him some housing had finally opened up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like ‘No, I can’t believe it!’ I almost started crying,” he said. “I gave her a big hug.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera had few details about the offer at the time, but was expecting to move in within the next few weeks. It’s not clear if that happened. He hasn’t answered his phone since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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