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"content": "\u003cp>Sean MacDonald’s shift as a Palo Alto fire captain starts at 8 a.m. By 4 a.m. he’s out the door and on the road. It’s 147 miles from his home in Roseville — northeast of Sacramento — to the fire station. Leave any later, and he risks getting stuck in traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The drive stinks, no easy way about it,” he said, but “that’s the price you pay to have a job in the Bay Area and raise a family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing sky-high housing costs in the cities they serve, long commutes have become the norm among MacDonald’s fellow firefighters. “We’ve got guys living in Shingle Springs, Rocklin, Citrus Heights, Grass Valley,” he said, ticking off a dozen places over 100 miles from Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the younger firefighters live closer to Palo Alto, but they share apartments to save on rent. And even then, MacDonald said, “what they’re paying in rent is more than what I’m paying on a mortgage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing prices here are so, so expensive,” agreed firefighter Matt Goglio, who makes a 105-mile journey from Oakdale, past Modesto. “We’re basically being driven out of the area just due to the wages and the housing costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just firefighters who are being priced out by Silicon Valley’s cost of living. As the Peninsula struggles to house a rapidly growing population, many people — especially the middle-class public servants and low-wage workers who keep the region running smoothly — have been moving away to more affordable places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet since their jobs are still back on the Peninsula, these workers are spending more time behind the wheel — at least an hour each way for over 200,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rising Rents\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The booming tech economy has drawn more workers to Silicon Valley, but housing construction hasn’t kept pace. Between 2010 and 2014, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties gained around 167,000 new jobs, but added only 22,000 additional housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10922735 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1.png\" alt=\"1\" width=\"1040\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1.png 1040w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1-400x198.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1-800x396.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1-960x475.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1-1038x515.png 1038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1040px) 100vw, 1040px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This imbalance between jobs and housing is even worse at the local level. The region’s jobs tend to be clustered in affluent cities such as Palo Alto, Mountain View and Santa Clara, which don’t have nearly enough homes for their workforces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922753\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/2.png\" alt=\"2\" width=\"1174\" height=\"980\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/2.png 1174w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/2-400x334.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/2-800x668.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/2-960x801.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1174px) 100vw, 1174px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The amount of housing being built is so small, compared to the growth in demand that it is causing the region to become much more unaffordable,” said Dave Vautin, a planner for the regional \u003ca href=\"http://mtc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metropolitan Transportation Commission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more people jockeying for a home near work, rents have climbed across the Peninsula — especially in the cities with the worst worker-to-housing imbalances:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922754\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3.png\" alt=\"3\" width=\"1396\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3.png 1396w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3-400x231.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3-800x461.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3-1180x680.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3-960x554.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1396px) 100vw, 1396px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Moving Away\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Priced out of these expensive mid-Peninsula cities, Silicon Valley workers have been moving to places with more affordable living costs. Within Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, the population grew faster between 2010 and 2014 in areas with lower median rents and household incomes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922755\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4.png\" alt=\"4\" width=\"1271\" height=\"896\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4.png 1271w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4-400x282.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4-800x564.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4-1180x832.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4-960x677.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1271px) 100vw, 1271px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922756\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.21.32-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-04-07 at 11.21.32 AM\" width=\"1021\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.21.32-AM.png 1021w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.21.32-AM-400x249.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.21.32-AM-800x498.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.21.32-AM-960x597.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down at the south end of Santa Clara County, for example, Gilroy — where the median household income was $81,056 — grew 10 percent over that time period. In Menlo Park, where the average household made $115,650, the population dropped by about 100 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many workers are moving even further out, to the East Bay or beyond, noted Matt Regan, a regional planning expert at the business-backed \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacouncil.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Area Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You only have to drive on (Interstate) 580 at 4:30 in the morning and just look at the headlights coming over the Altamont Pass,” he said, “to know that that’s where we’re building our affordable housing, on the other side of the hill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Disparate Commutes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This growth in places far from core Peninsula cities has driven up commute times, since more workers are traveling longer distances on increasingly congested roads. Between 2010 and 2014, the proportion of workers who spent an hour or more getting to their jobs jumped from 10 to nearly 15 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vautin noted that there’s an important income disparity in those commute times. The highly paid technical and business services workers who live in Silicon Valley have relatively short commute times, since they typically work nearby. It’s middle- and lower-income workers — teachers and firefighters, security guards at tech campuses, waiters at restaurants — who have been priced out of the Peninsula and are spending much more time in traffic:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922757\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5.png\" alt=\"5\" width=\"1430\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5.png 1430w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5-400x131.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5-800x263.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5-1180x388.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5-960x316.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1430px) 100vw, 1430px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the local level, the disparity is even more apparent. Expensive job centers such as Mountain View and Menlo Park have the highest proportion of workers who travel for an hour or more, yet have some of the lowest shares of residents with long commutes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922758\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6.png\" alt=\"6\" width=\"1320\" height=\"885\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6.png 1320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6-400x268.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6-800x536.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6-1180x791.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6-960x644.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1320px) 100vw, 1320px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922759\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.23.24-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-04-07 at 11.23.24 AM\" width=\"1026\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.23.24-AM.png 1026w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.23.24-AM-400x248.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.23.24-AM-800x495.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.23.24-AM-960x594.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1026px) 100vw, 1026px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can afford to live in Silicon Valley, you’re actually in pretty good shape when it comes to commuting,” said Vautin. “It’s the folks who can’t afford it and thus have to live really far away that are suffering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stemming the Sprawl\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Policy experts argue that the key to bringing commute times under control is to address the underlying housing shortage. By building higher-density apartment buildings and townhouses near worksites and along public transit corridors, planners hope to house more workers on the Peninsula and reduce the need to commute from outlying areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of dense housing can be a hard sell in suburban Silicon Valley, where residents often fight new construction they fear will worsen traffic and change the character of their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as a project proponent arrives at City Hall with a multifamily development idea, the pitchforks are sharpened and the flaming torches are lit,” said Regan. Because of such opposition, many attempts to build new housing have been scaled down or abandoned altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there are signs the worsening housing crunch is making residents more amenable to growth. Voters in Mountain View elected a pro-housing majority to the City Council in 2014, community groups in several Peninsula cities are organizing to support new development, and Redwood City is building a cluster of tall new office and apartment buildings near its downtown Caltrain station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, how much Silicon Valley cities are willing to grow will affect everything from the region’s carbon footprint, to whether it can retain teachers, to whether firefighters like Goglio will be around in a disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Bay Area traditionally has not been the fastest-growing region in the state,” said Vautin, and so it has been ill-prepared for the influx of new arrivals. “This is the critical issue of the decade here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Updated to correctly identify firefighters Sean MacDonald and Matt Goglio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Data Sources\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Data on household incomes, population growth, housing units and commute times come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. To ensure sufficiently large sample sizes in small places like East Palo Alto, most numbers are five-year rolling averages — an estimate for 2013, for example, will be the average of responses from 2009 through 2013. This means that changes over time are likely under-estimated, and may in fact be higher than the numbers shown here.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rent data are from the Zillow Rent Index, a measure of the median asking rent for multifamily apartments.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Sean MacDonald’s shift as a Palo Alto fire captain starts at 8 a.m. By 4 a.m. he’s out the door and on the road. It’s 147 miles from his home in Roseville — northeast of Sacramento — to the fire station. Leave any later, and he risks getting stuck in traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The drive stinks, no easy way about it,” he said, but “that’s the price you pay to have a job in the Bay Area and raise a family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing sky-high housing costs in the cities they serve, long commutes have become the norm among MacDonald’s fellow firefighters. “We’ve got guys living in Shingle Springs, Rocklin, Citrus Heights, Grass Valley,” he said, ticking off a dozen places over 100 miles from Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the younger firefighters live closer to Palo Alto, but they share apartments to save on rent. And even then, MacDonald said, “what they’re paying in rent is more than what I’m paying on a mortgage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing prices here are so, so expensive,” agreed firefighter Matt Goglio, who makes a 105-mile journey from Oakdale, past Modesto. “We’re basically being driven out of the area just due to the wages and the housing costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just firefighters who are being priced out by Silicon Valley’s cost of living. As the Peninsula struggles to house a rapidly growing population, many people — especially the middle-class public servants and low-wage workers who keep the region running smoothly — have been moving away to more affordable places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet since their jobs are still back on the Peninsula, these workers are spending more time behind the wheel — at least an hour each way for over 200,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rising Rents\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The booming tech economy has drawn more workers to Silicon Valley, but housing construction hasn’t kept pace. Between 2010 and 2014, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties gained around 167,000 new jobs, but added only 22,000 additional housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10922735 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1.png\" alt=\"1\" width=\"1040\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1.png 1040w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1-400x198.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1-800x396.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1-960x475.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/1-1038x515.png 1038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1040px) 100vw, 1040px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This imbalance between jobs and housing is even worse at the local level. The region’s jobs tend to be clustered in affluent cities such as Palo Alto, Mountain View and Santa Clara, which don’t have nearly enough homes for their workforces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922753\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/2.png\" alt=\"2\" width=\"1174\" height=\"980\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/2.png 1174w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/2-400x334.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/2-800x668.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/2-960x801.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1174px) 100vw, 1174px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The amount of housing being built is so small, compared to the growth in demand that it is causing the region to become much more unaffordable,” said Dave Vautin, a planner for the regional \u003ca href=\"http://mtc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metropolitan Transportation Commission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more people jockeying for a home near work, rents have climbed across the Peninsula — especially in the cities with the worst worker-to-housing imbalances:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922754\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3.png\" alt=\"3\" width=\"1396\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3.png 1396w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3-400x231.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3-800x461.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3-1180x680.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/3-960x554.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1396px) 100vw, 1396px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Moving Away\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Priced out of these expensive mid-Peninsula cities, Silicon Valley workers have been moving to places with more affordable living costs. Within Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, the population grew faster between 2010 and 2014 in areas with lower median rents and household incomes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922755\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4.png\" alt=\"4\" width=\"1271\" height=\"896\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4.png 1271w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4-400x282.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4-800x564.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4-1180x832.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/4-960x677.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1271px) 100vw, 1271px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922756\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.21.32-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-04-07 at 11.21.32 AM\" width=\"1021\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.21.32-AM.png 1021w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.21.32-AM-400x249.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.21.32-AM-800x498.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.21.32-AM-960x597.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down at the south end of Santa Clara County, for example, Gilroy — where the median household income was $81,056 — grew 10 percent over that time period. In Menlo Park, where the average household made $115,650, the population dropped by about 100 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many workers are moving even further out, to the East Bay or beyond, noted Matt Regan, a regional planning expert at the business-backed \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacouncil.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Area Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You only have to drive on (Interstate) 580 at 4:30 in the morning and just look at the headlights coming over the Altamont Pass,” he said, “to know that that’s where we’re building our affordable housing, on the other side of the hill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Disparate Commutes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This growth in places far from core Peninsula cities has driven up commute times, since more workers are traveling longer distances on increasingly congested roads. Between 2010 and 2014, the proportion of workers who spent an hour or more getting to their jobs jumped from 10 to nearly 15 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vautin noted that there’s an important income disparity in those commute times. The highly paid technical and business services workers who live in Silicon Valley have relatively short commute times, since they typically work nearby. It’s middle- and lower-income workers — teachers and firefighters, security guards at tech campuses, waiters at restaurants — who have been priced out of the Peninsula and are spending much more time in traffic:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922757\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5.png\" alt=\"5\" width=\"1430\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5.png 1430w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5-400x131.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5-800x263.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5-1180x388.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/5-960x316.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1430px) 100vw, 1430px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the local level, the disparity is even more apparent. Expensive job centers such as Mountain View and Menlo Park have the highest proportion of workers who travel for an hour or more, yet have some of the lowest shares of residents with long commutes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922758\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6.png\" alt=\"6\" width=\"1320\" height=\"885\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6.png 1320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6-400x268.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6-800x536.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6-1180x791.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/6-960x644.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1320px) 100vw, 1320px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10922759\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.23.24-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-04-07 at 11.23.24 AM\" width=\"1026\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.23.24-AM.png 1026w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.23.24-AM-400x248.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.23.24-AM-800x495.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-07-at-11.23.24-AM-960x594.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1026px) 100vw, 1026px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can afford to live in Silicon Valley, you’re actually in pretty good shape when it comes to commuting,” said Vautin. “It’s the folks who can’t afford it and thus have to live really far away that are suffering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stemming the Sprawl\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Policy experts argue that the key to bringing commute times under control is to address the underlying housing shortage. By building higher-density apartment buildings and townhouses near worksites and along public transit corridors, planners hope to house more workers on the Peninsula and reduce the need to commute from outlying areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of dense housing can be a hard sell in suburban Silicon Valley, where residents often fight new construction they fear will worsen traffic and change the character of their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as a project proponent arrives at City Hall with a multifamily development idea, the pitchforks are sharpened and the flaming torches are lit,” said Regan. Because of such opposition, many attempts to build new housing have been scaled down or abandoned altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there are signs the worsening housing crunch is making residents more amenable to growth. Voters in Mountain View elected a pro-housing majority to the City Council in 2014, community groups in several Peninsula cities are organizing to support new development, and Redwood City is building a cluster of tall new office and apartment buildings near its downtown Caltrain station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, how much Silicon Valley cities are willing to grow will affect everything from the region’s carbon footprint, to whether it can retain teachers, to whether firefighters like Goglio will be around in a disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Bay Area traditionally has not been the fastest-growing region in the state,” said Vautin, and so it has been ill-prepared for the influx of new arrivals. “This is the critical issue of the decade here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Updated to correctly identify firefighters Sean MacDonald and Matt Goglio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Data Sources\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Data on household incomes, population growth, housing units and commute times come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. 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"content": "\u003cp>California was the first state in the country to regulate ride services, but 2½ years later, the head of the California Public Utilities Commission is questioning whether his agency is the right one for the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The real question is: Should we be doing this?\" CPUC President Michael Picker said in a recent interview with KQED, echoing comments he made at two legislative hearings in Sacramento last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a very, very, very frustrating job, and I expect it will only slowly get better,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-20160301-htmlstory.html#4580\" target=\"_blank\">he told a state Senate committee\u003c/a> that no other state agency wanted to regulate ride services, he said he was pointing out \"that this didn't seem to be something that was well-suited to the modern role of the CPUC.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picker's remarks come at a time when the CPUC is \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201602090900\" target=\"_blank\">under scrutiny\u003c/a> on several fronts. The commission was scheduled to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/17/cpuc-regulators-still-hashing-out-more-rules-for-uber-and-lyft\" target=\"_blank\">vote on a new round of ride-service rules Thursday\u003c/a>, but delayed the vote until April 21. It is also currently considering whether to require fingerprint background checks for Uber and Lyft drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Safety Concerns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In cities across the country, Uber and Lyft have been fighting efforts to require more stringent background checks, insisting that their current methods are sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most major American cities have been regulating taxicabs for decades. But as reports surface in cities about passenger safety problems with the ride services, some are making a move to craft their own regulations, such as fingerprinting Uber and Lyft drivers, said Dave Sutton, the head of \u003ca href=\"http://www.whosdrivingyou.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Who's Driving You\u003c/a>, an organization representing the taxi, limousine and paratransit industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Uber is pushing at the state level to basically preempt that local control, and avoid things like fingerprint background checks, which they believe slows their business development down,\" Sutton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti and two city councilmen, Paul Krekorian and Herb Wesson, recently sent a letter to the CPUC asking the agency to allow the city to do a fingerprint background check pilot program. Current CPUC regulations do not require fingerprint background checks, which are required for taxicab drivers in many large cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/25/state-regulators-deny-l-a-s-request-to-fingerprint-uber-lyft-drivers\" target=\"_blank\">Their request was denied\u003c/a> by CPUC Commissioner Liane Randolph, who said she wanted to first consider whether fingerprint background checks should be required by the CPUC. She wrote that she hoped to provide some direction on the issue by this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Enforcement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hometown of Uber and Lyft, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency would like to enforce state ride-service regulations, since the CPUC doesn't seem to have the ability to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t imagine that would be too controversial, given that the rules are already in place,\" said Kate Toran, head of the SFMTA's taxi division. “We’re not talking about establishing new rules, although I’d be happy to do that as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA currently has seven taxi investigators, and the agency would theoretically hire more to enforce state rules on ride services. The penalties and other details about how the program would work haven't been discussed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some estimates have put the number of ride-service vehicles in San Francisco at 20,000, although it's hard to peg an exact number. Both Uber and Lyft are protective of their trip data, which might indicate how all those ride-service cars are impacting transit, congestion and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cities vs. States\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since California first adopted its ride-service rules in 2013, 29 states and 40 cities have enacted regulations, according to an Uber spokeswoman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber officials have argued that rather than deal with a patchwork of local regulations, they prefer a uniform statewide policy. Some trips, they say, may also cross over several jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, whether the CPUC even has the authority to regulate Uber and Lyft at the state level is a question currently being argued in federal court, where San Francisco-based\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/flywheel-taxi-sues-state-says-cities-should-regulate-uber-lyft/\" target=\"_blank\"> Flywheel Taxi has sued the agency\u003c/a>, contending ride services should be regulated by cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crux of Flywheel's argument that cities have regulatory authority is its contention that ride services are not \"prearranged\" but are rather \"on-demand,\" like taxicabs, which can be hailed on the streets, and are overseen by local agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This lawsuit is intended to make sure everyone gets to compete, while playing by the same rules,\" said Flywheel's president, Hansu Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC's lawyers recently moved to dismiss the suit, arguing that the agency does have authority under the Public Utilities Code. They say that was blessed by the Legislature when it \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a14/news-room/press-releases/bonilla-s-groundbreaking-bill-defining-insurance-coverage-for-uber-and-lyft-signed-by-governor\" target=\"_blank\">passed a bill by Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla\u003c/a> clarifying insurance coverage and \"ensuring oversight\" of ride services by the CPUC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CPUC Reform\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers, meanwhile, are considering another round of legislation to reform the CPUC, and to enact tougher rules on ride services. One bill, by Assemblyman Ben Hueso, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article70089442.html\" target=\"_blank\">passed its first committee test\u003c/a> Tuesday. It calls on the CPUC to oversee prices, do more stringent background checks and look into how ride services can better serve people with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A reform measure, proposed as a constitutional amendment, would give the Legislature the authority to break up the CPUC. Some lawmakers say the agency is stretched too thin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2014 report by the state auditor, the CPUC's Transportation Enforcement Branch has 45 staffers overseeing ride services, limousines, charter buses, airport shuttles, moving companies, light-rail public transit, railroads and ferries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some consumer advocates, though, aren't so sure the regulation of ride services should be taken away from the CPUC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's never good when a regulator doesn't want to regulate an industry that they regulate,\" said Jamie Court, head of Consumer Watchdog. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California was the first state in the country to regulate ride services, but 2½ years later, the head of the California Public Utilities Commission is questioning whether his agency is the right one for the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The real question is: Should we be doing this?\" CPUC President Michael Picker said in a recent interview with KQED, echoing comments he made at two legislative hearings in Sacramento last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a very, very, very frustrating job, and I expect it will only slowly get better,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-20160301-htmlstory.html#4580\" target=\"_blank\">he told a state Senate committee\u003c/a> that no other state agency wanted to regulate ride services, he said he was pointing out \"that this didn't seem to be something that was well-suited to the modern role of the CPUC.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picker's remarks come at a time when the CPUC is \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201602090900\" target=\"_blank\">under scrutiny\u003c/a> on several fronts. The commission was scheduled to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/17/cpuc-regulators-still-hashing-out-more-rules-for-uber-and-lyft\" target=\"_blank\">vote on a new round of ride-service rules Thursday\u003c/a>, but delayed the vote until April 21. It is also currently considering whether to require fingerprint background checks for Uber and Lyft drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Safety Concerns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In cities across the country, Uber and Lyft have been fighting efforts to require more stringent background checks, insisting that their current methods are sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most major American cities have been regulating taxicabs for decades. But as reports surface in cities about passenger safety problems with the ride services, some are making a move to craft their own regulations, such as fingerprinting Uber and Lyft drivers, said Dave Sutton, the head of \u003ca href=\"http://www.whosdrivingyou.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Who's Driving You\u003c/a>, an organization representing the taxi, limousine and paratransit industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Uber is pushing at the state level to basically preempt that local control, and avoid things like fingerprint background checks, which they believe slows their business development down,\" Sutton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti and two city councilmen, Paul Krekorian and Herb Wesson, recently sent a letter to the CPUC asking the agency to allow the city to do a fingerprint background check pilot program. Current CPUC regulations do not require fingerprint background checks, which are required for taxicab drivers in many large cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/25/state-regulators-deny-l-a-s-request-to-fingerprint-uber-lyft-drivers\" target=\"_blank\">Their request was denied\u003c/a> by CPUC Commissioner Liane Randolph, who said she wanted to first consider whether fingerprint background checks should be required by the CPUC. She wrote that she hoped to provide some direction on the issue by this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Enforcement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hometown of Uber and Lyft, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency would like to enforce state ride-service regulations, since the CPUC doesn't seem to have the ability to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t imagine that would be too controversial, given that the rules are already in place,\" said Kate Toran, head of the SFMTA's taxi division. “We’re not talking about establishing new rules, although I’d be happy to do that as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA currently has seven taxi investigators, and the agency would theoretically hire more to enforce state rules on ride services. The penalties and other details about how the program would work haven't been discussed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some estimates have put the number of ride-service vehicles in San Francisco at 20,000, although it's hard to peg an exact number. Both Uber and Lyft are protective of their trip data, which might indicate how all those ride-service cars are impacting transit, congestion and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cities vs. States\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since California first adopted its ride-service rules in 2013, 29 states and 40 cities have enacted regulations, according to an Uber spokeswoman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber officials have argued that rather than deal with a patchwork of local regulations, they prefer a uniform statewide policy. Some trips, they say, may also cross over several jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, whether the CPUC even has the authority to regulate Uber and Lyft at the state level is a question currently being argued in federal court, where San Francisco-based\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/flywheel-taxi-sues-state-says-cities-should-regulate-uber-lyft/\" target=\"_blank\"> Flywheel Taxi has sued the agency\u003c/a>, contending ride services should be regulated by cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crux of Flywheel's argument that cities have regulatory authority is its contention that ride services are not \"prearranged\" but are rather \"on-demand,\" like taxicabs, which can be hailed on the streets, and are overseen by local agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This lawsuit is intended to make sure everyone gets to compete, while playing by the same rules,\" said Flywheel's president, Hansu Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC's lawyers recently moved to dismiss the suit, arguing that the agency does have authority under the Public Utilities Code. They say that was blessed by the Legislature when it \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a14/news-room/press-releases/bonilla-s-groundbreaking-bill-defining-insurance-coverage-for-uber-and-lyft-signed-by-governor\" target=\"_blank\">passed a bill by Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla\u003c/a> clarifying insurance coverage and \"ensuring oversight\" of ride services by the CPUC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CPUC Reform\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers, meanwhile, are considering another round of legislation to reform the CPUC, and to enact tougher rules on ride services. One bill, by Assemblyman Ben Hueso, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article70089442.html\" target=\"_blank\">passed its first committee test\u003c/a> Tuesday. 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On Friday, the startup disclosed that it was changing the audience for its product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In response to obvious market demand and the advice of their investors,\" its website said, \"Lioness has announced that they will be pivoting their core product and introducing the world's first smart cat toy with the same name as before ... \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company says the device vibrates at multiple speeds, which creates the illusion of moving, and tracks physiological patterns to learn more about a user's likes, dislikes and \"things it doesn't know how to tell you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve heard one too many stories about kitties becoming easily bored with cat toys,” CEO Liz Klinger said on the \u003ca href=\"https://lioness.io/exciting-news\" target=\"_blank\">Lioness \u003c/a>website. “We created this toy to make sure that cats will always be mentally and emotionally stimulated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked Klinger what kind of feedback the company has received about the announcement, she said, \"We've gotten largely positive reactions so far. \u003ca href=\"http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/1/11340654/april-fools-day-jokes-pranks-online-2016-good-bad#comments\" target=\"_blank\">The Verge\u003c/a> ranked us third-best April Fools' joke and said we 'fall on the right side of cheeky word play.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland on the eve of April Fools' Day, Andre Iguodala and some of his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/31/warriors-quest-for-73-within-reach-after-another-amazing-win\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors\u003c/a> teammates pulled a joke on Festus Ezeli that was every bit as intricate as any of their game moves. They made it appear that he'd suddenly been cut from the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check it out on YouTube: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHMh0H546lY]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's ESPN'S take: \"Of course, this stunt by Andre Iguodala -- with the apparent help of Golden State Warriors teammates, a driver and radio hosts Brian Murphy and Paul McCaffrey of the \"Murph & Mac\" show -- brings up an important question: Could the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls have pulled this prank off?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, Ezeli told a gaggle of reporters, \"It was a very well put together prank. I thought it was good. Everybody everywhere saw it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But another April Fools' joke, vastly more sweeping in scale, was not received quite as well. In fact, most people were furious. On Thursday, Google introduced a supposed new feature this way: \"Today, Gmail is making it easier to have the last word on any email with Mic Drop. Simply reply to any email using the new 'Send + Mic Drop' button. Everyone will get your message, but that's the last you'll ever hear about it. Yes, even if folks try to respond, you won't see it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, after the joke was widely acknowledged as a disaster, Google issued an apology: \"Well, it looks like we pranked ourselves this year. ? Due to a bug, the Mic Drop feature inadvertently caused more headaches than laughs. We’re truly sorry. The feature has been turned off. If you are still seeing it, please reload your Gmail page.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, one of Yahoo's content partners \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-yahoo-prank-themselves-on-april-fools-day-1459540071\" target=\"_blank\">published a story \u003c/a>saying that all of Trader Joe’s grocery stores -- more than 450 -- were closing in 2017. 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"content": "\u003cp>UPDATE: Steve Julian died on April 24, 2016. KPCC published a lovely tribute \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/04/24/58999/steve-julian-longtime-voice-of-kpcc-s-morning-edit/\">here\u003c/a>. His wife, Felicia Friesema, wrote on the blog she's been maintaining during his last months, \"He left this world surrounded by love, in the comfort of the home we made together, in his own bed.\" Our hearts go out to Felicia in this time of grief. We trust this story provided some measure of comfort for her when it first went up on April 1, 2016. We hope that others who encounter this story now, after Steve's death, share our profound love and compassion for those who suffer from devastating diseases, as well as those who care for them, all the way through to the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"My experience on social media is that it has always been a connecting fiber. 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She's head of marketing for \u003ca href=\"http://foothilltransit.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foothill Transit\u003c/a>. Steve Julian is one of a handful of trusted voices helping Angelenos navigate the freeways every day, as morning anchor for KPCC-FM. In his off hours, he writes \u003ca href=\"https://stevejulian.wordpress.com/resume/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plays\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he was having trouble navigating his way through a sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Technically, all tumors are operable,\" Felicia explains. \"The question that comes into play is: What are you willing to sacrifice in order to get it out? The position and location of his tumor is such that you would have to completely destroy a lot of healthy brain tissue in order to remove it. You would be creating a situation of paralysis, major cognitive dysfunction, irreversible brain damage, and ultimately for possibly very little reward. There’s no way of skirting around it: I was looking at his death.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10916469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 526px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10916469\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18926_28415_1471890202083_544618_n-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Julian and Felicia Friesema in happier times.\" width=\"526\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18926_28415_1471890202083_544618_n-qut.jpg 526w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18926_28415_1471890202083_544618_n-qut-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Julian and Felicia Friesema in happier times. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Felicia Friesema)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around Thanksgiving last year, Steve was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer at the age of 57. They decided not to try to stretch his last months with chemo and radiation therapy. Steve has less time than he might have, but he can eat what he wants, sleep with their dogs, and squeeze the last juice out of the days that remain with Felicia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's taking time off from work, thanks to a compassionate boss. In the 20 or more hours a day that Steve now sleeps, Felicia takes care of everything else: the meals, the housekeeping, the medicine, insurance and the emotional management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, friends and family are helping. Larry Mantle, Steve's dearest pal, comes over for company and a wee dram of whiskey. Friends have delivered dozens of lasagnas to the doorstep and whipped out their credit cards to cover what insurance doesn't. But at the end of the day, Felicia is alone. And every morning, there's a little bit less of Steve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout alignright\">\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/14/LITDApodcastlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-in-the-digital-age/id1037051180?mt=2\">Subscribe in iTunes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don't miss an episode of 'Love in the Digital Age'\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch3>Reaching Out Online\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It was a few months in when I noticed Felicia's journal on \u003ca href=\"http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/stevejulian/journal/view/id/56f6a61ba689b47372c967f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caring Bridge\u003c/a>. She had me at \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/stevejulian/journal/view/id/565ec52eab28b93a26d70415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hello\u003c/a>.\" The same was true for my \"Love in the Digital Age\" co-producer Polly Stryker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We recognized a kindred spirit: someone else in the special club of those who have lost or who are losing a close loved one. We had to fly down to Los Angeles and meet this woman who wrote so deeply, thoughtfully, and with such compassion, about a journey no one chooses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I know that this is treacherous ground we walk on and that time is of the essence. We wake up to the juxtaposition of joy in another day together and terror at what may come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no detailed prognosis yet. But we do know that there is no outcome we like. And I have never been so scared. But I have also never been so completely full of love for him.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>That was Dec. 2, 2015. At that point, Steve could still help Felicia craft a communique to friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I miss being at work and in the studio. I miss being with all the people I love at KPCC. I’m still good at traffic. We chose UCLA for the surgery and treatment and navigating to the westside can be tricky. The tumor can take away what I had for dinner, but not my memory of the traffic jams I've sat in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am sad. I feel the unfairness of all of this. But I also feel the love for my wife, which grows every day as she balances the technical work of our affairs with the emotional work of our daily life. Like making sure I eat three solid meals. And I mean really solid. Four, sometimes. She tells me I'm loved about a hundred times a day -- I remember a few of them. Larry [Mantle, host of \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Air Talk\u003c/a>], my brother in all but blood, is a rock for both of us and has been by our side from diagnosis until now.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Many people facing down the gun barrel of something this awful retreat into family. But Felicia reached out from the beginning to friends online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We kind of had to,\" she explains. \"We’ve kind of got a unique and peculiar situation. I mean, Steve’s a very popular radio host in a very large market. He’s also incredibly involved in the theater community here. He also used to be a cop. So, you have these seemingly disparate communities that he’s connected to. That’s thousands of people: his most intimate friends all the way down to the casual listener.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the peace and quiet of their home on the hill, when Steve is sleeping, Felicia can write about all the medical details it would be exhausting to repeat to people in one individual conversation after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felicia is also using the blog to process what's happening in her world, \"to take this jumbled puzzle piece of post-it notes and ideas and thoughts and put them together into something that is like 'Oh! Okay.' Usually, I don’t know when I’m going to conclude until I start writing, and by the end of it, I’m like, 'Oh, that’s my “aha” moment. Okay. Alright.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Facebook, for a smaller, closer audience, Felicia shares bite-sized missives from her daily journey: proof the bees in the backyard are making \"So. Much. Honey.\"; the desperate wish MRI machines played Brian Eno instead of frightening clicks and buzzing; rage against the insurance company; pride in yet another crazy beautiful meal made for Steve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10916471\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10916471\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18924_12915065_10209620722699730_2121111238_o-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Felicia's not your regular home cook. She studied at the Ecole de Cuisine in Pasadena. A friend did a story on Munchies about the food she makes for Steve.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18924_12915065_10209620722699730_2121111238_o-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18924_12915065_10209620722699730_2121111238_o-qut-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18924_12915065_10209620722699730_2121111238_o-qut.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia's not your regular home cook. She studied at the Ecole de Cuisine in Pasadena. A friend did a story on \u003ca href=\"https://munchies.vice.com/en/articles/how-to-enjoy-every-bite-with-stage-four-brain-cancer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Munchies \u003c/a>about the food she makes for Steve. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Felicia Friesema)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And then there are the jokes. If anything, staring down death has heightened their sense of humor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Fun with brain cancer:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve: Jen!\u003cbr>\nMe: Yeah babe (knowing full well he was calling for me)\u003cbr>\nSteve: Oh I'm sorry. I just called you Jen.\u003cspan class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u003cbr>\nMe: Yeah I know babe. It's ok. What's up?\u003cbr>\nSteve: (tells me some stuff he needs)\u003cbr>\nMe: No problem. By the way, (smiling) I'd like to know who the hell Jen is.\u003cbr>\nSteve: (chuckles) So would I!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The love has come pouring in from a wide variety of corners. By Jan. 4, Felicia reported that more than 100 people had made deliveries, run errands or have completed tasks around the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve’s had a\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/2015/12/17/45619/help-kpcc-s-steve-julian-by-eating-a-sandwich/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> sandwich named after him\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/waxpaperco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wax Paper\u003c/a>, a local sandwich shop with a thing for public radio. Friends have \u003ca href=\"http://theworthyadversary.com/3933-dying-and-living\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blogged about Steve\u003c/a>. Local Morning Edition hosts across the country recorded their \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2_kbXF8hqc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">well wishes\u003c/a> on YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People, Felicia says, \"are grateful for being included, or grateful just to know that Steve’s okay for now. Or they’re grateful for an opportunity to help. I’d been crying so hard just a few days ago. I just couldn’t stop. I was so sad and so dejected. And at the end of the day, my status update on Facebook was, 'There just aren’t enough tissues in the box.' So, the next day, what arrives on my doorstep, but a case of Kleenex? And the message was, 'We know that this isn’t enough, but hopefully it helps.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10916518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10916518\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18951_12509907_10209043469708766_6711914423749049661_n-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Julian of KPCC in Los Angeles gets a studio named after him, and a great, big hug from President and CEO Bill Davis.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18951_12509907_10209043469708766_6711914423749049661_n-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18951_12509907_10209043469708766_6711914423749049661_n-qut-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18951_12509907_10209043469708766_6711914423749049661_n-qut.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18951_12509907_10209043469708766_6711914423749049661_n-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18951_12509907_10209043469708766_6711914423749049661_n-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18951_12509907_10209043469708766_6711914423749049661_n-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18951_12509907_10209043469708766_6711914423749049661_n-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18951_12509907_10209043469708766_6711914423749049661_n-qut-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Julian of KPCC in Los Angeles gets a studio named after him, and a great, big hug from President and CEO Bill Davis. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Felicia Friesema)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"One of the things we’ve been focusing on,\" Felicia says, \"is making sure that every day is about some kind of pleasure; some kind of happy moment, some laugh, something in there that actually makes the day not a routine of care-giving.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felicia sighs. \"You know, something that reminds us that there are all these wonderful pieces to life and that living it doesn’t stop with a cancer diagnosis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What remains online from this journey is a whole lot more than the testament to the love people have for Steve and Felicia. It's a social network, in the best sense, that will be there for Felicia, waiting to engage and respond any time she wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10916470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10916470 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18925_IMG_6925-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18925_IMG_6925-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18925_IMG_6925-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18925_IMG_6925-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18925_IMG_6925-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18925_IMG_6925-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"I’m very, very happy with the way that life has turned out. Where it would have gone, who knows?\" says Steve. \"I don’t care what we would have done together ...\" \"As long as we were together,\" says Felicia, finishing his sentence. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This podcast features music by Glenn Gould (Toccata in D Major), Windy & Carl (Balance (Trembling)), Labradford (Wien), Aix Em Klemm (3x2 (Exit)) and Yo La Tengo (Green Arrow). Special thanks to the California Report's LA Bureau Chief Steven Cuevas for his production support.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>UPDATE: Steve Julian died on April 24, 2016. KPCC published a lovely tribute \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/04/24/58999/steve-julian-longtime-voice-of-kpcc-s-morning-edit/\">here\u003c/a>. His wife, Felicia Friesema, wrote on the blog she's been maintaining during his last months, \"He left this world surrounded by love, in the comfort of the home we made together, in his own bed.\" Our hearts go out to Felicia in this time of grief. We trust this story provided some measure of comfort for her when it first went up on April 1, 2016. We hope that others who encounter this story now, after Steve's death, share our profound love and compassion for those who suffer from devastating diseases, as well as those who care for them, all the way through to the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"My experience on social media is that it has always been a connecting fiber. I think that, like anything, you get out of it what you put into it.\" -- Felicia Friesema\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felicia had seen the signs of brain cancer before. Her husband Steve Julian wasn't just forgetting his keys on the kitchen counter or having another of the myriad brain farts we often associate with middle age. He'd stop in the middle of a sentence, like he'd just hit a brick wall, and that was that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn’t that kind of gradual onset that Alzheimer’s is. It didn’t sound or feel like dementia. This was so sudden -- and it was very eerily similar to what happened to my aunt, my tia Gloria,\" Felicia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, it was her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, they've built a cozy life together in a sweet, spacious home overlooking the 110 freeway in Highland Park. She's head of marketing for \u003ca href=\"http://foothilltransit.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foothill Transit\u003c/a>. Steve Julian is one of a handful of trusted voices helping Angelenos navigate the freeways every day, as morning anchor for KPCC-FM. In his off hours, he writes \u003ca href=\"https://stevejulian.wordpress.com/resume/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plays\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he was having trouble navigating his way through a sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Technically, all tumors are operable,\" Felicia explains. \"The question that comes into play is: What are you willing to sacrifice in order to get it out? The position and location of his tumor is such that you would have to completely destroy a lot of healthy brain tissue in order to remove it. You would be creating a situation of paralysis, major cognitive dysfunction, irreversible brain damage, and ultimately for possibly very little reward. There’s no way of skirting around it: I was looking at his death.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10916469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 526px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10916469\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18926_28415_1471890202083_544618_n-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Julian and Felicia Friesema in happier times.\" width=\"526\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18926_28415_1471890202083_544618_n-qut.jpg 526w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18926_28415_1471890202083_544618_n-qut-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Julian and Felicia Friesema in happier times. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Felicia Friesema)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around Thanksgiving last year, Steve was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer at the age of 57. They decided not to try to stretch his last months with chemo and radiation therapy. Steve has less time than he might have, but he can eat what he wants, sleep with their dogs, and squeeze the last juice out of the days that remain with Felicia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's taking time off from work, thanks to a compassionate boss. In the 20 or more hours a day that Steve now sleeps, Felicia takes care of everything else: the meals, the housekeeping, the medicine, insurance and the emotional management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, friends and family are helping. Larry Mantle, Steve's dearest pal, comes over for company and a wee dram of whiskey. Friends have delivered dozens of lasagnas to the doorstep and whipped out their credit cards to cover what insurance doesn't. But at the end of the day, Felicia is alone. And every morning, there's a little bit less of Steve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout alignright\">\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/14/LITDApodcastlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-in-the-digital-age/id1037051180?mt=2\">Subscribe in iTunes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don't miss an episode of 'Love in the Digital Age'\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch3>Reaching Out Online\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It was a few months in when I noticed Felicia's journal on \u003ca href=\"http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/stevejulian/journal/view/id/56f6a61ba689b47372c967f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caring Bridge\u003c/a>. She had me at \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/stevejulian/journal/view/id/565ec52eab28b93a26d70415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hello\u003c/a>.\" The same was true for my \"Love in the Digital Age\" co-producer Polly Stryker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We recognized a kindred spirit: someone else in the special club of those who have lost or who are losing a close loved one. We had to fly down to Los Angeles and meet this woman who wrote so deeply, thoughtfully, and with such compassion, about a journey no one chooses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I know that this is treacherous ground we walk on and that time is of the essence. We wake up to the juxtaposition of joy in another day together and terror at what may come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no detailed prognosis yet. But we do know that there is no outcome we like. And I have never been so scared. But I have also never been so completely full of love for him.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>That was Dec. 2, 2015. At that point, Steve could still help Felicia craft a communique to friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I miss being at work and in the studio. I miss being with all the people I love at KPCC. I’m still good at traffic. We chose UCLA for the surgery and treatment and navigating to the westside can be tricky. The tumor can take away what I had for dinner, but not my memory of the traffic jams I've sat in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am sad. I feel the unfairness of all of this. But I also feel the love for my wife, which grows every day as she balances the technical work of our affairs with the emotional work of our daily life. Like making sure I eat three solid meals. And I mean really solid. Four, sometimes. She tells me I'm loved about a hundred times a day -- I remember a few of them. Larry [Mantle, host of \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Air Talk\u003c/a>], my brother in all but blood, is a rock for both of us and has been by our side from diagnosis until now.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Many people facing down the gun barrel of something this awful retreat into family. But Felicia reached out from the beginning to friends online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We kind of had to,\" she explains. \"We’ve kind of got a unique and peculiar situation. I mean, Steve’s a very popular radio host in a very large market. He’s also incredibly involved in the theater community here. He also used to be a cop. So, you have these seemingly disparate communities that he’s connected to. That’s thousands of people: his most intimate friends all the way down to the casual listener.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the peace and quiet of their home on the hill, when Steve is sleeping, Felicia can write about all the medical details it would be exhausting to repeat to people in one individual conversation after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felicia is also using the blog to process what's happening in her world, \"to take this jumbled puzzle piece of post-it notes and ideas and thoughts and put them together into something that is like 'Oh! Okay.' Usually, I don’t know when I’m going to conclude until I start writing, and by the end of it, I’m like, 'Oh, that’s my “aha” moment. Okay. Alright.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Facebook, for a smaller, closer audience, Felicia shares bite-sized missives from her daily journey: proof the bees in the backyard are making \"So. Much. Honey.\"; the desperate wish MRI machines played Brian Eno instead of frightening clicks and buzzing; rage against the insurance company; pride in yet another crazy beautiful meal made for Steve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10916471\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10916471\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18924_12915065_10209620722699730_2121111238_o-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Felicia's not your regular home cook. She studied at the Ecole de Cuisine in Pasadena. A friend did a story on Munchies about the food she makes for Steve.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18924_12915065_10209620722699730_2121111238_o-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18924_12915065_10209620722699730_2121111238_o-qut-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS18924_12915065_10209620722699730_2121111238_o-qut.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia's not your regular home cook. She studied at the Ecole de Cuisine in Pasadena. A friend did a story on \u003ca href=\"https://munchies.vice.com/en/articles/how-to-enjoy-every-bite-with-stage-four-brain-cancer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Munchies \u003c/a>about the food she makes for Steve. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Felicia Friesema)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And then there are the jokes. 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Local Morning Edition hosts across the country recorded their \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2_kbXF8hqc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">well wishes\u003c/a> on YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People, Felicia says, \"are grateful for being included, or grateful just to know that Steve’s okay for now. Or they’re grateful for an opportunity to help. I’d been crying so hard just a few days ago. I just couldn’t stop. I was so sad and so dejected. And at the end of the day, my status update on Facebook was, 'There just aren’t enough tissues in the box.' So, the next day, what arrives on my doorstep, but a case of Kleenex? 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"content": "\u003cp>Jane Modine leaves Goodwill’s flagship San Francisco store at 12\u003csup>th \u003c/sup>and Mission streets with her arms full of clothing. Today’s shopping trip was a success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found these fabulous black Hunter rainboots,” she says. “I’m going to Texas next Monday and look what I found: an American flag shirt! I love this place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/255092671″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modine is one of legions of Goodwill fans who dig through dusty shelves and bins for a bargain. They have helped turn Goodwill into a \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/top-charities/list/#tab:rank\">$5 billion global powerhouse\u003c/a>. But as the store is looking to compete in the online world, it’s selling way more than kitschy collectibles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down in the basement of the San Francisco warehouse, Jalisa James is listing a classy-looking pair of sunglasses for auction on shopgoodwill.com. The large and wealthy donor population in the San Francisco Bay Area has led to some amazing finds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905409\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10905409\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Janique-Lee-with-necklace-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Goodwill employee Janique Lee holds up a Tiffany necklace she just listed online for sale.\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Janique-Lee-with-necklace-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Janique-Lee-with-necklace-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Janique-Lee-with-necklace.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Janique-Lee-with-necklace-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Janique-Lee-with-necklace-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goodwill employee Janique Lee holds up a Tiffany necklace she just listed online for sale. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I got some pretty good Gucci and Prada purses, shoes … people would be like, ‘This is coming to Goodwill?’ ” said James.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A German tea set recently brought in $1,000. A Ming dynasty urn sold for over $3,000. \u003ca href=\"http://sfgoodwill.org/\">Goodwill of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin counties\u003c/a> makes more than 10 percent of its sales through online auctions — that’s more than $400,000 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Identifying Treasure\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Up on the main warehouse floor, Dario Saurez, senior director of e-commerce, is examining a donation. It looks sort of like a wicker sculpture in the shape of a tree, but he’s not so sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just by looking at it, we know this is interesting, this is cool, this is rare, this is unique. And yet I don’t know what it is,” says Suarez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10905414 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/collectibles-and-laptop-1920x1081.jpg\" alt=\"Goodwill is sorting through its donations in order to maximize revenue. Increasingly wealthy bay area donors mean lots of treasure.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/collectibles-and-laptop-1920x1081.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/collectibles-and-laptop-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/collectibles-and-laptop-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/collectibles-and-laptop-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/collectibles-and-laptop-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goodwill is sorting through its donations in order to maximize revenue. Increasingly, wealthy Bay Area donors mean lots of treasure. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says some of the top sellers are predictable, like jewelry and rare coins. Then you have the not so obvious items, like Legos, which they sell in 10-pound bags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We strive to have a 90 percent sell-through, but Legos have 100 percent sell-through. 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Ryan Smith, technology services director for the site, says more than 100 Goodwill regions around the globe post items there. About 125,000 items are listed at any given time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the items are sold in an auction format, where buyers place bids during a period of time, and the highest bidder wins the item.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more people you can get to look at an interesting item online, the more people want to buy that item, and so the price of that item would go up as the market would demand it,” explained Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Goodwills look at their donations very preciously. They’re charged with getting the most revenue out of those items as they can to help fund their missions and forward their objectives,” he added, referring to the organization’s job training and placement services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘[Goodwills are] charged with getting the most revenue out of those items as they can to help fund their missions and forward their objectives.’ \u003ccite>Ryan Smith, technology services director for Orange County Goodwill\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But for shoppers like Jane Modine — who travels from Oakland twice a month to visit the Goodwill at 12\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> and Mission streets — there’s something about being in the actual store. She had no idea Goodwill sold online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a feel shopper. 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And yet I don’t know what it is,” says Suarez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10905414 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/collectibles-and-laptop-1920x1081.jpg\" alt=\"Goodwill is sorting through its donations in order to maximize revenue. 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