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"content": "\u003cp>Steve O’Neal lives with his three kids and wife in Bolinas, on the ocean, just north of San Francisco. It’s his dream location to raise a family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re next to this progressive, urban city,” O’Neal said. “Yet we’re in the middle of a nature park.” But there’s one big problem: all the empty homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neal’s neighborhood is filled with vacant houses. Out of the roughly 350 homes, he estimates only 20 or 30 have someone living in them on most weekdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It’s like the aliens have come and abducted everybody except for a couple of houses.’\u003ccite>Steve O’Neal\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s like the aliens have come and abducted everybody except for a couple of houses,” O’Neal said. “Stinson has really become a short-term rental community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stinson Beach and Bolinas have always been popular vacation destinations, but O’Neal says now with services like Homeaway, VRBO and Airbnb, there are more short-term vacation rentals than ever before. 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Other local governments have turned to outside companies, like Host Compliance, to gather data on the short-term vacation rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Stinson Beach and Bolinas, Steve O’Neal took the job on himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neal used to live in San Francisco. He made money in real estate and with a telecom business during the dot-com boom. After traveling and living around the world, he and his wife decided Bolinas was the most ideal place to raise his kids. But when he moved here a year ago, he discovered one problem: The number of families was dwindling rapidly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2476px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-05-at-2.59.34-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11723646 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-05-at-2.59.34-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2476\" height=\"1072\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-05-at-2.59.34-PM.png 2476w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-05-at-2.59.34-PM-160x69.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-05-at-2.59.34-PM-800x346.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-05-at-2.59.34-PM-1020x442.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-05-at-2.59.34-PM-1200x520.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-05-at-2.59.34-PM-1920x831.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2476px) 100vw, 2476px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stinson Beach vacation rentals listed on Airbnb.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are now just 85 kids in the area’s one K-8 elementary school. As recently as 2000, there was double that number. You can also see the decline in residents at the post office. There used to be a waiting list for P.O. boxes. Now 200 of the 700 boxes are empty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neal worries the towns are entering death spiral territory, where some families leave not because the school is bad or the housing unaffordable. To quantify the number and effect of short-term rentals, O’Neal had to become a detective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first place he visits is Google Earth. He looks at pictures of houses and tries to match them with online listings. He then confirms the addresses by driving by the places himself. Finally, he checks public records to see if the owners are local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When O’Neal finished gathering all his data, he found that 130 homes were being rented by people who didn’t live in the community. That is substantial he said, considering there’s only 1,000 households in all of Bolinas and Stinson, according to the most recent U.S. census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neal said he has no problem with people renting out a room or in-law for extra income. 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"content": "\u003cp>Russians hack Ukraine’s electricity network, turning lights off and on at will, rendering the country’s best tech hands helpless to intervene. North Korea takes over the controls of a South Korean nuclear power plant. Snipers with high-velocity rifles unleash a fusillade on a transmission station near San Jose, inflicting $15 million in damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the plot of the latest spy novel. Rather, it’s small sampling of actual attacks, the kind of sabotage against vulnerable energy systems that can cut off power with the click of a mouse and bring officials to their knees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say energy grids are the new front in cyber-terrorism. Although the wildfires that periodically dominate the news are a serious threat to California’s power supply, cyber-invaders are an around-the clock danger, trying to penetrate grid security every minute of every day. An all-hands-on-deck battle is being waged against them, and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-electricity-grid-modernization-efforts-cost/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the network\u003c/a> that serves nearly 40 million people’s homes, industries and public-safety agencies depends on a successful defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should the grid be hijacked, the entire state could be held hostage, experts say. Can the state prevent what one utility executive likened to “a hostile takeover?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Never has California’s aging electricity infrastructure been more vulnerable, even as the government plans to rely on it more completely with 5 million electric cars and, eventually, to fully operate the world’s fifth-largest economy. Moreover, fire and sophisticated hacking aren’t the only risks to the consistent flow of electrical power: The grid can also be undone by California’s formidable natural forces—wind, earthquakes, floods—and the most humble of creatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gnawing squirrels have brought \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/squirrels-trading-new-york-stock-exchange/398108/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stock trading\u003c/a> to a halt more than once by chewing electricity lines and disrupting NASDAQ computers. Rodents also interrupted some \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/03/07/81407/but-is-it-squirrel-proof-lax-and-dwp-s-120-million/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">operations\u003c/a> at Los Angeles International Airport on Thanksgiving Day in 2015, briefly stopping elevators, baggage screening and other functions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A widespread, sustained power outage is frightening to contemplate, with the tools we use to navigate our lives taken from us: no lights, telephone service or charging capacity; no heating or cooling; no computers, working gas pumps or ATMs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article225293965.html/video-embed\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Think of the internet as a weapon of mass destruction,” says former news anchor Ted Koppel, whose book “Lights Out” explores threats to U.S. electricity grids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scale of the challenge to keep the lights on was drawn in sharp relief in November at Stanford University, where experts gathered to peer into the energy future. Hint–it’s murky and potentially dark, including ransom schemes and even grid attacks intended to sow chaos ahead of terrorist ground assaults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our adversaries are advancing at a rapid clip,” said Sue Gordon, principal deputy director of national intelligence, the federal government’s leading cybersecurity agency and a \u003ca href=\"https://gef.stanford.edu/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conference\u003c/a> participant. “Within a few years Russia and China will have the ability to conduct on-demand, localized disruption of service, including of control systems in multiple sectors, simultaneously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s vulnerable electricity infrastructure has the attention of lawmakers in Sacramento. Some have faulted the oversight of safety procedures at power companies, a displeasure that has brought new scrutiny to the Public Utilities Commission, which regulates those businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state law\u003c/a> requires utilities to undertake broader, more aggressive planning for reducing fire risks associated with utility equipment, though regulators say they have neither funding nor technology to comprehensively monitor even the measures companies already have in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the state operates two entities tasked with analyzing and addressing potential hacking threats, particularly to critical infrastructure such as power stations and the dams where hydroelectric power is generated, and coordinating their efforts with utility companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723585\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723585\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS15557_BUDGET_13-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS15557_BUDGET_13-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS15557_BUDGET_13-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS15557_BUDGET_13-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS15557_BUDGET_13-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS15557_BUDGET_13-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Bob Hertzberg (D-Los Angeles) speaks during debate at the Capitol on June 15, 2015. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, state Senator Bob Hertzberg, who has an extensive background in the power sector, worries that California is underprepared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unbelievable, oh my God; there are so many things that can go wrong,” said the Democrat from Van Nuys, who authored a law last year pinpointing threats to the grid from electromagnetic attacks. “Security is a big deal, and it’s become a big deal because we rely on electricity for everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Independent System Operator, the private company that is the state’s grid overlord, is obsessed with security. A spokeswoman said it has significantly increased investment in cybersecurity in recent years and regularly conducts internal testing. It even relocated its fortress-like facility to cocoon its operations against harm—sited on high ground, away from known seismic faults, close (but not too close) to Sacramento and a highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like every utility and power company in the state, the grid operator has marauders at its cyber-gate every minute of every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are always being attacked,” said Mark Rothleder, a CAISO vice president, gazing down at the gymnasium-sized control room where electricity supply and demand are constantly monitored. “We have mechanisms in place ... but it’s constantly changing. It’s a constantly evolving threat we have to defend against.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security managers universally seem to adopt a “security through obscurity” approach, not wishing to discuss specific strategies other than to say they are in place. In addition, the state’s largest investor-owned utilities—Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric—all have specific departments to defend against cyber-incursions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/81ffb848-5f9f-47d8-9445-bb8965ab6e41?src=embed\" title=\"Type \" width=\"924\" height=\"588\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attacks can come from an unknown source, anywhere in the world. Some hackers gain access to a host system and do nothing more than hide in the figurative bushes, getting to know the lay of the cyber-land and biding time. Malware lurks in dark corners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can take three to six months to detect a computer breach, according to David Goeckeler, Executive Vice President of San Jose-based CISCO, the computer networking giant with cybersecurity expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as often, hackers bang on the digital front door, on the off-chance it will be mistakenly opened. Goeckeler, speaking at the Stanford energy forum, said saboteurs attempt to hack CISCO’s systems 20 billion times a day. Yes, billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such threats have become a priority for the federal government. California utilities participate with those of other states in federal exercises such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nerc.com/pa/CI/CIPOutreach/GridEX/GridEx%20IV%20Public%20Lessons%20Learned%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GridEx\u003c/a>, a war game that simulates grid attacks and coordinates potential responses with local and state emergency agencies, law enforcement, the Department of Defense and telecommunications and banking firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723630\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723630\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/grid-part-2-PHOTO-2-800x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"574\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zoraya Griffin.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At SDG&E, which has 3.6 million electricity customers, “there’s always some type of an intrusion attempt daily,” said Zoraya Griffin, the company’s emergency operations manager. “It’s not a matter of if we have them, but how many.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to threats that are difficult to see, such as those posed by hackers, some vulnerabilities are literally before our eyes. Aging equipment. Poorly maintained circuits and other key equipment. Miles of wires surrounded by overgrown vegetation and tinder-dry trees that can ignite in a flash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s response to the issue has been accelerated by the wildfire threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials have ordered utilities to “harden” their equipment with such measures as replacing wooden power poles with metal or composite ones, swathing lines in more robust insulation and wrapping other equipment in metal or other fire-resistant material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Public Utilities Commission is awaiting companies’ specific fire-mitigation \u003ca href=\"http://cpuc.ca.gov/SB901/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plans\u003c/a>, due in early February. Those reports are to detail how the utilities will construct, maintain and operate their equipment to minimize its risk of causing catastrophic blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work will carry a sobering price tag. For example, a federal judge has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/23/688058715/pg-e-says-federal-judge-s-safety-plan-is-infeasible-and-too-expensive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed\u003c/a> that PG&E inspect its entire transmission system–including nearly 100,000 miles of power lines–and make its equipment more fire-safe. The utility balked, saying the work would cost $150 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But why expose equipment and circuits to fire danger in the first place? Money. It makes the most financial sense for utilities to traverse California’s steep mountain passes and broad deserts by erecting power towers that march with giant steps across those vast landscapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although companies tend to locate power lines underground in new housing tracts, relocating above-ground lines under the earth is expensive–as much as $3 million a mile. In addition, digging new trenches in established neighborhoods and congested areas typically meets local resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723631\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS33931_111318_AW_CampFire_18-qut-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"PG&E subcontractors walk along Skyway to assess vegetation at risk for catching fire on November 13, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS33931_111318_AW_CampFire_18-qut-800x522.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS33931_111318_AW_CampFire_18-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS33931_111318_AW_CampFire_18-qut-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS33931_111318_AW_CampFire_18-qut-1200x783.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS33931_111318_AW_CampFire_18-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E subcontractors walk along Skyway to assess vegetation at risk for catching fire on November 13, 2018. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Utilities have stepped up their resiliency efforts, clearing brush and cutting trees, installing cameras to monitor far-flung equipment and focusing more on the potential of weather to cause problems. But one company, San Diego Gas & Electric, is ahead of the pack in elevating weather forecasting to a high priority, investing billions of dollars to respond to threats from nature..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s first line of defense begins 20 feet up on power poles, with compact but complex remote weather stations. The utility has the state’s most extensive weather-monitoring network, with 177 stations across 4,000 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every 10 minutes the stations beam real-time information about temperature, humidity and wind speed and direction to a command center in San Diego. The \u003ca href=\"https://sdgeweather.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data\u003c/a> is also available to the public on the company’s website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In conditions of high wildfire risk—excessive heat or wind, for example—the information is folded into twice-daily emails shared with the state firefighting agency and local responders. The weather forecast is also included in a separate email dispatched every morning at 6:30 a.m. to company leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remote-controlled cameras provide a picture of what’s happening not only with the company’s equipment but also with the surrounding landscape. Trouble can be spotted more quickly, crews can be better positioned and power shutoffs can occur earlier when necessary. Control of the cameras can be handed off to fire officials during emergencies. In a revenge-of-the-nerds moment, meteorologists and fire forecasters now have a seat at the company table alongside the brass and the engineers when emergencies arise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Understanding the weather enables decision making,” said Chris Arends, who manages the utility’s meteorology program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Nahai is the former head of another company, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest municipal utility in the United States. 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Rodents also interrupted some \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/03/07/81407/but-is-it-squirrel-proof-lax-and-dwp-s-120-million/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">operations\u003c/a> at Los Angeles International Airport on Thanksgiving Day in 2015, briefly stopping elevators, baggage screening and other functions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A widespread, sustained power outage is frightening to contemplate, with the tools we use to navigate our lives taken from us: no lights, telephone service or charging capacity; no heating or cooling; no computers, working gas pumps or ATMs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article225293965.html/video-embed\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Think of the internet as a weapon of mass destruction,” says former news anchor Ted Koppel, whose book “Lights Out” explores threats to U.S. electricity grids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scale of the challenge to keep the lights on was drawn in sharp relief in November at Stanford University, where experts gathered to peer into the energy future. Hint–it’s murky and potentially dark, including ransom schemes and even grid attacks intended to sow chaos ahead of terrorist ground assaults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our adversaries are advancing at a rapid clip,” said Sue Gordon, principal deputy director of national intelligence, the federal government’s leading cybersecurity agency and a \u003ca href=\"https://gef.stanford.edu/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conference\u003c/a> participant. “Within a few years Russia and China will have the ability to conduct on-demand, localized disruption of service, including of control systems in multiple sectors, simultaneously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s vulnerable electricity infrastructure has the attention of lawmakers in Sacramento. Some have faulted the oversight of safety procedures at power companies, a displeasure that has brought new scrutiny to the Public Utilities Commission, which regulates those businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state law\u003c/a> requires utilities to undertake broader, more aggressive planning for reducing fire risks associated with utility equipment, though regulators say they have neither funding nor technology to comprehensively monitor even the measures companies already have in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the state operates two entities tasked with analyzing and addressing potential hacking threats, particularly to critical infrastructure such as power stations and the dams where hydroelectric power is generated, and coordinating their efforts with utility companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723585\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723585\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS15557_BUDGET_13-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS15557_BUDGET_13-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS15557_BUDGET_13-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS15557_BUDGET_13-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS15557_BUDGET_13-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS15557_BUDGET_13-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Bob Hertzberg (D-Los Angeles) speaks during debate at the Capitol on June 15, 2015. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, state Senator Bob Hertzberg, who has an extensive background in the power sector, worries that California is underprepared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unbelievable, oh my God; there are so many things that can go wrong,” said the Democrat from Van Nuys, who authored a law last year pinpointing threats to the grid from electromagnetic attacks. “Security is a big deal, and it’s become a big deal because we rely on electricity for everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Independent System Operator, the private company that is the state’s grid overlord, is obsessed with security. A spokeswoman said it has significantly increased investment in cybersecurity in recent years and regularly conducts internal testing. It even relocated its fortress-like facility to cocoon its operations against harm—sited on high ground, away from known seismic faults, close (but not too close) to Sacramento and a highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like every utility and power company in the state, the grid operator has marauders at its cyber-gate every minute of every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are always being attacked,” said Mark Rothleder, a CAISO vice president, gazing down at the gymnasium-sized control room where electricity supply and demand are constantly monitored. “We have mechanisms in place ... but it’s constantly changing. It’s a constantly evolving threat we have to defend against.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security managers universally seem to adopt a “security through obscurity” approach, not wishing to discuss specific strategies other than to say they are in place. In addition, the state’s largest investor-owned utilities—Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric—all have specific departments to defend against cyber-incursions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/81ffb848-5f9f-47d8-9445-bb8965ab6e41?src=embed\" title=\"Type \" width=\"924\" height=\"588\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attacks can come from an unknown source, anywhere in the world. Some hackers gain access to a host system and do nothing more than hide in the figurative bushes, getting to know the lay of the cyber-land and biding time. Malware lurks in dark corners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can take three to six months to detect a computer breach, according to David Goeckeler, Executive Vice President of San Jose-based CISCO, the computer networking giant with cybersecurity expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as often, hackers bang on the digital front door, on the off-chance it will be mistakenly opened. Goeckeler, speaking at the Stanford energy forum, said saboteurs attempt to hack CISCO’s systems 20 billion times a day. Yes, billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such threats have become a priority for the federal government. California utilities participate with those of other states in federal exercises such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nerc.com/pa/CI/CIPOutreach/GridEX/GridEx%20IV%20Public%20Lessons%20Learned%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GridEx\u003c/a>, a war game that simulates grid attacks and coordinates potential responses with local and state emergency agencies, law enforcement, the Department of Defense and telecommunications and banking firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723630\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723630\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/grid-part-2-PHOTO-2-800x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"574\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zoraya Griffin.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At SDG&E, which has 3.6 million electricity customers, “there’s always some type of an intrusion attempt daily,” said Zoraya Griffin, the company’s emergency operations manager. “It’s not a matter of if we have them, but how many.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to threats that are difficult to see, such as those posed by hackers, some vulnerabilities are literally before our eyes. Aging equipment. Poorly maintained circuits and other key equipment. Miles of wires surrounded by overgrown vegetation and tinder-dry trees that can ignite in a flash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s response to the issue has been accelerated by the wildfire threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials have ordered utilities to “harden” their equipment with such measures as replacing wooden power poles with metal or composite ones, swathing lines in more robust insulation and wrapping other equipment in metal or other fire-resistant material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Public Utilities Commission is awaiting companies’ specific fire-mitigation \u003ca href=\"http://cpuc.ca.gov/SB901/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plans\u003c/a>, due in early February. Those reports are to detail how the utilities will construct, maintain and operate their equipment to minimize its risk of causing catastrophic blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work will carry a sobering price tag. For example, a federal judge has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/23/688058715/pg-e-says-federal-judge-s-safety-plan-is-infeasible-and-too-expensive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed\u003c/a> that PG&E inspect its entire transmission system–including nearly 100,000 miles of power lines–and make its equipment more fire-safe. The utility balked, saying the work would cost $150 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But why expose equipment and circuits to fire danger in the first place? Money. It makes the most financial sense for utilities to traverse California’s steep mountain passes and broad deserts by erecting power towers that march with giant steps across those vast landscapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although companies tend to locate power lines underground in new housing tracts, relocating above-ground lines under the earth is expensive–as much as $3 million a mile. In addition, digging new trenches in established neighborhoods and congested areas typically meets local resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723631\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS33931_111318_AW_CampFire_18-qut-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"PG&E subcontractors walk along Skyway to assess vegetation at risk for catching fire on November 13, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS33931_111318_AW_CampFire_18-qut-800x522.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS33931_111318_AW_CampFire_18-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS33931_111318_AW_CampFire_18-qut-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS33931_111318_AW_CampFire_18-qut-1200x783.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS33931_111318_AW_CampFire_18-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E subcontractors walk along Skyway to assess vegetation at risk for catching fire on November 13, 2018. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Utilities have stepped up their resiliency efforts, clearing brush and cutting trees, installing cameras to monitor far-flung equipment and focusing more on the potential of weather to cause problems. But one company, San Diego Gas & Electric, is ahead of the pack in elevating weather forecasting to a high priority, investing billions of dollars to respond to threats from nature..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s first line of defense begins 20 feet up on power poles, with compact but complex remote weather stations. The utility has the state’s most extensive weather-monitoring network, with 177 stations across 4,000 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every 10 minutes the stations beam real-time information about temperature, humidity and wind speed and direction to a command center in San Diego. The \u003ca href=\"https://sdgeweather.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data\u003c/a> is also available to the public on the company’s website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In conditions of high wildfire risk—excessive heat or wind, for example—the information is folded into twice-daily emails shared with the state firefighting agency and local responders. The weather forecast is also included in a separate email dispatched every morning at 6:30 a.m. to company leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remote-controlled cameras provide a picture of what’s happening not only with the company’s equipment but also with the surrounding landscape. Trouble can be spotted more quickly, crews can be better positioned and power shutoffs can occur earlier when necessary. Control of the cameras can be handed off to fire officials during emergencies. In a revenge-of-the-nerds moment, meteorologists and fire forecasters now have a seat at the company table alongside the brass and the engineers when emergencies arise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Understanding the weather enables decision making,” said Chris Arends, who manages the utility’s meteorology program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Nahai is the former head of another company, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest municipal utility in the United States. 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Providing that the City Council approves them, 11 proposed developments promise to add 1,144 apartments to San Jose’s housing inventory.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719212/despite-strong-opposition-bay-area-officials-endorse-ambitious-regional-affordable-housing-plan\">Despite Opposition, Bay Area Officials Endorse Ambitious Affordable Housing Plan\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719212/despite-strong-opposition-bay-area-officials-endorse-ambitious-regional-affordable-housing-plan\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS9650_9303339141_3f3db8e6d2_o-e1544831315188-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Roughly half of the funding comes from loan repayments from previous affordable housing projects; the other half from inclusionary housing fees that market rate developers are required to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All those are going to be low-, very low-, or extremely low-income units,” said San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, who anticipates trying to get voters to pass an affordable housing bond again in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We came very close in the last election to passing a half a billion dollar bond,” he said. \u003ca href=\"https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/92418/Web02.222611/#/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sixty-four percent was close\u003c/a>, but not the two thirds required to pass that bond last November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if all the affordable housing announced today gets built, San Jose will still be just 20 percent of the way to meeting its goal of 10,000 affordable units by 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very challenging crisis we’re in, and it’s going to take many years to get out of it,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo has talked personally with Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has made housing one of his top priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m thrilled that we’ve got a governor who gets it about the challenge about the magnitude of the crisis and about the need to go big, if we’re going to be able to tackle this problem in a significant way,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers, nurses, firefighters — even some tech workers — struggle to find affordable housing in San Jose, despite the fact it has a bigger geographic footprint than most cities in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723329\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723329\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35112_IMG_4514-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, who's still in a body brace after an SUV hit him while he was cycling in the city January 1, 2019. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35112_IMG_4514-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35112_IMG_4514-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35112_IMG_4514-qut-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35112_IMG_4514-qut-1200x901.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35112_IMG_4514-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, who’s still in a body brace after an SUV hit him while he was cycling in the city January 1, 2019. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the Committee to House the Bay Area, a group promoting a \u003ca title=\"Read the CASA plan\" href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/CASA_Compact.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">regional plan\u003c/a> to address the crisis, this region has added 722,000 jobs since 2010, but only created 106,000 new units of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I’m the first to recognize what we have is a multibillion dollar problem, and $10 million here and there isn’t going to solve it, but every bit helps.’\u003ccite> San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Liccardo is also looking to philanthropic and corporate support, like the recent pledge from the \u003ca href=\"https://chanzuckerberg.com/story/a-new-housing-partnership-for-the-bays-future/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chan Zuckerberg Initiative\u003c/a>. The Partnership for the Bay’s Future — which the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is starting in conjunction with the \u003ca href=\"https://sff.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Foundation\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fordfoundation.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ford Foundation\u003c/a> and other groups — will seek to bolster affordable housing through a new $500 million investment fund. Facebook and Genentech are among the companies making contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though some may criticize Silicon Valley tech and biotech companies for only recently starting to spend big to help solve a problem they helped create, Liccardo said, “The more the merrier. I’m the first to recognize what we have is a multibillion dollar problem, and $10 million here and there isn’t going to solve it, but every bit helps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the affordable housing is destined for downtown San Jose along transit corridors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we have today is a testament to many years of very bad planning,” Liccardo said. “We’re now tasked with retrofitting this city that has really been built for automobiles into a city built for people.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>It took eight years for Lenore Estrada to grow her business, \u003ca href=\"https://www.threebabesbakeshop.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Three Babes Bakeshop\u003c/a>, to 19 employees and $1 million in gross sales. To do that, she’s had to sell a lot of pies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until recently, Estrada sold many of those pies through Munchery, a meal delivery company based in San Francisco, where customers could place their orders with a smartphone app. The partnership brought in some steady income, but ended up backfiring on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11722739\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11722739 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Estrada-with-baby-e1549053653866-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Lenore Estrada baked around a thousand pies for a Munchery order at Thanksgiving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Estrada-with-baby-e1549053653866-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Estrada-with-baby-e1549053653866-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Estrada-with-baby-e1549053653866-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Estrada-with-baby-e1549053653866-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Estrada-with-baby-e1549053653866-1920x2560.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lenore Estrada baked around 1,000 pies for a Munchery order at Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Thanksgiving, Munchery put in an order for around 1,000 pies, which Estrada baked herself even though she had a 2-month-old baby at home. “I worked the graveyard shift,” Estrada said. “I left my baby at home and I would work here from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m., just keeping the ovens full.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order was worth $20,000. 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Munchery had $125 million in venture capital money, which it socked into things like pie orders and advertising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, Munchery began laying off workers. It halted service in Los Angeles, New York City and Seattle. One investor, who did not want his name used, said he saw the writing on the wall and counseled CEO James Beriker to wind the company down this past fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Beriker pushed on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, he said that additional financing fell through very suddenly. Two weeks ago, the company abruptly shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was [a] difficult decision and was extremely disappointing for all of us who worked so hard to turn the business around over the last two years,” Beriker wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/threebabesbake/status/1090288946683101184?s=11\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munchery is still in debt to a number of bakers and chefs in San Francisco, including Dandelion Chocolate, Crumble & Whisk, Hodo Soy and Petit Pot. The businesses are collectively owed over $50,000, and the owners are taking to social media to try to raise awareness about their plight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Estrada held a protest bake sale outside the San Francisco offices of Sherpa Capital, one of the VC firms that invested in Munchery. She said she has spoken to representatives of the San Francisco mayor’s office and the state Department of Justice, but sees little recourse. She said she and other small businesses are bearing the financial consequences of a failed venture capital experiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11722890\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 368px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11722890 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_4061-e1549069478644-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Lenore Estrada held a protest bake sale to bring attention to the debts that Munchery owe her and other small businesses\" width=\"368\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_4061-e1549069478644-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_4061-e1549069478644-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_4061-e1549069478644-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_4061-e1549069478644-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_4061-e1549069478644.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lenore Estrada held a protest bake sale to bring attention to the money that Munchery owes her and other small businesses. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This whole scenario does not surprise Mara Zepeda, an entrepreneur who helped begin\u003ca href=\"https://www.zebrasunite.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Zebras Unite\u003c/a>. The group advocates for more inclusive tech companies that focus on sustainability and responsibility, rather than the hyperfast growth and profit demanded by venture capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Criticizing venture capital for being too high-growth is like criticizing fire for being hot,” Zepeda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venture capital investment in the U.S. is at an all-time high, surpassing the 2000s dot-com levels for the first time. Zepeda said VC money puts pressure on companies to expand faster than may be wise in the hopes that someone will buy them up or provide more cash before the money runs out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aniyia Williams, an entrepreneur who lives in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood not far from the Three Babes Bakeshop, said she felt that pressure. Williams started a venture-backed company, Tinsel, which made ornamental headphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re trying to just move at the speed of light,” Williams said. “It always feels like, OK, you’re just that much closer to finding that next investor who’s going to be the one who writes that check that’s going to save you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, her company was pushed to the brink, but Williams said she was able to pay off all her debts — not because anyone forced her to, but because she made a personal decision to prioritize it. Tinsel is now in a bit of stasis mode while Williams tries to sort out her next move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minimizing damage to other businesses isn’t such a high priority for many venture-backed companies Williams said. “Fundraising becomes the business model, and these partners you’ve had along the way can get caught in the wake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting caught in the wake of Munchery’s failure is especially damaging for small companies like Three Babes Bakeshop. Owner Estrada said she pays herself only $30,000 a year, and her margin for survival is razor-thin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estrada said some of her customers suggested she run a GoFundMe campaign to recoup her losses, but she doesn’t want the burden to fall on friends and customers. “What we want is for the venture capitalists, the investors and board members to take responsibility and write a check for the money that we’re owed,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Losing $20,000 means Estrada won’t be able to expand this year like she had planned, and she’s going to have to scrape to continue offering health care and benefits to her employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munchery’s former CEO Beriker says he’s “personally working on potential solutions,” but by law the company must pay banks and employees before vendors like Estrada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realize just how hard this is for local businesses,” Beriker wrote in an email. “We have so appreciated our partners, large and small, and deeply regret the impact that our lack of funding and sudden decision to shut down had on their businesses and families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, a group of former employees \u003ca href=\"https://www.pymnts.com/legal/2019/munchery-sued-ex-employees-shutdown/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed a class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> against Munchery, demanding back pay and saying the company failed to give them the required 60-day advance notice of an intended layoff.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It took eight years for Lenore Estrada to grow her business, \u003ca href=\"https://www.threebabesbakeshop.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Three Babes Bakeshop\u003c/a>, to 19 employees and $1 million in gross sales. To do that, she’s had to sell a lot of pies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until recently, Estrada sold many of those pies through Munchery, a meal delivery company based in San Francisco, where customers could place their orders with a smartphone app. The partnership brought in some steady income, but ended up backfiring on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11722739\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11722739 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Estrada-with-baby-e1549053653866-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Lenore Estrada baked around a thousand pies for a Munchery order at Thanksgiving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Estrada-with-baby-e1549053653866-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Estrada-with-baby-e1549053653866-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Estrada-with-baby-e1549053653866-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Estrada-with-baby-e1549053653866-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Estrada-with-baby-e1549053653866-1920x2560.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lenore Estrada baked around 1,000 pies for a Munchery order at Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Thanksgiving, Munchery put in an order for around 1,000 pies, which Estrada baked herself even though she had a 2-month-old baby at home. “I worked the graveyard shift,” Estrada said. “I left my baby at home and I would work here from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m., just keeping the ovens full.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order was worth $20,000. Munchery, like many big wholesalers, usually paid Estrada late, but this time the check never came. In mid-January, Munchery closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estrada said no one from the company contacted her to let her know — she found out only because she’d once used Munchery as a customer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Munchery is still in debt to a number of bakers and chefs in San Francisco, including Dandelion Chocolate, Crumble & Whisk, Hodo Soy and Petit Pot. The businesses are collectively owed over $50,000, and the owners are taking to social media to try to raise awareness about their plight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Estrada held a protest bake sale outside the San Francisco offices of Sherpa Capital, one of the VC firms that invested in Munchery. She said she has spoken to representatives of the San Francisco mayor’s office and the state Department of Justice, but sees little recourse. She said she and other small businesses are bearing the financial consequences of a failed venture capital experiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11722890\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 368px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11722890 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_4061-e1549069478644-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Lenore Estrada held a protest bake sale to bring attention to the debts that Munchery owe her and other small businesses\" width=\"368\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_4061-e1549069478644-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_4061-e1549069478644-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_4061-e1549069478644-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_4061-e1549069478644-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_4061-e1549069478644.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lenore Estrada held a protest bake sale to bring attention to the money that Munchery owes her and other small businesses. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This whole scenario does not surprise Mara Zepeda, an entrepreneur who helped begin\u003ca href=\"https://www.zebrasunite.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Zebras Unite\u003c/a>. The group advocates for more inclusive tech companies that focus on sustainability and responsibility, rather than the hyperfast growth and profit demanded by venture capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Criticizing venture capital for being too high-growth is like criticizing fire for being hot,” Zepeda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venture capital investment in the U.S. is at an all-time high, surpassing the 2000s dot-com levels for the first time. Zepeda said VC money puts pressure on companies to expand faster than may be wise in the hopes that someone will buy them up or provide more cash before the money runs out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aniyia Williams, an entrepreneur who lives in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood not far from the Three Babes Bakeshop, said she felt that pressure. Williams started a venture-backed company, Tinsel, which made ornamental headphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re trying to just move at the speed of light,” Williams said. “It always feels like, OK, you’re just that much closer to finding that next investor who’s going to be the one who writes that check that’s going to save you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, her company was pushed to the brink, but Williams said she was able to pay off all her debts — not because anyone forced her to, but because she made a personal decision to prioritize it. Tinsel is now in a bit of stasis mode while Williams tries to sort out her next move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minimizing damage to other businesses isn’t such a high priority for many venture-backed companies Williams said. “Fundraising becomes the business model, and these partners you’ve had along the way can get caught in the wake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting caught in the wake of Munchery’s failure is especially damaging for small companies like Three Babes Bakeshop. 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On the plaintiffs’ side: more than 20 states, consumer groups, and companies worried those in control of Internet access will inevitably pick favorites based on how much money changes hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 18 and a half of the last 20 years, the FCC had in place rules or principles against misconduct by ISPs [Internet Service Providers],” said Pantelis Michalopoulos, representing Mozilla and the other companies in the case, in the arguments. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michalopoulos argued the FCC wrongly classified the Internet as an information service rather than a telecommunication service, using that as a rationale for not cracking down on misconduct by big Internet providers. “This is like a surrealist painting that shows a pipe and says ‘this is not a pipe,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas Johnson, the FCC’s general counsel, defended the agency’s “light-touch” regulatory approach. “The petitioners second-guess the commission’s reasonable policies and predictive judgments about how best to promote broadband deployment to all parts of the country and to protect an open Internet,” Johnson said in oral arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703895\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703895\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ajit_pai-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai speaks to members of the media after a commission meeting December 14, 2017 in Washington, D.C.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ajit_pai-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ajit_pai-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ajit_pai-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ajit_pai-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ajit_pai.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ajit_pai-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ajit_pai-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ajit_pai-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ajit_pai-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ajit_pai-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai speaks to members of the media after a commission meeting Dec. 14, 2017, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the heart of the case: whether the FCC acted properly when it overturned its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-releases-open-internet-order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Internet Order\u003c/a>. The 2015 order established rules against broadband providers from setting up “fast lanes” for some while blocking or throttling others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mozilla, developer of the Firefox web browser, joined a number of other companies and organizations to file a legal challenge shortly after the repeal took effect. In the oral arguments, Michalopoulos called the FCC’s repeal “a stab in the heart of the Communications Act,” the law that established the federal agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://law.stanford.edu/directory/ryan-singel/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan Singel\u003c/a>, a fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society was among those paying close attention to Friday’s proceedings. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The government’s argument was the FCC is the expert agency. They took a look and said, ‘We can’t see any harms that the ISPs are doing and if we just got rid of all the regulations then the ISPs are going to invest all this money and expand broadband into rural areas and speed everything up and become much more innovative,” Singel said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of the judges on the panel were appointed by the Obama administration, the other by the Reagan administration. Many expected the questioning and the eventual decision to reflect a 2-1 split.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Stanford’s Singel says it seemed to him all three judges were skeptical about the arguments put forward in defense of the FCC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a fun little moment, watching the judges maybe starting to see that the FCC had decided on the policy before they figured out the rationale for the policy,” Singel said. “That’s not how an expert agency is supposed to work. 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"content": "\u003cp>Several parts of the federal government have been shutdown for about a month now and cybersecurity professionals said government websites were becoming more vulnerable to security breaches each day the shutdown continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitors to manufacturing.gov, for instance, are finding that the site has become unusable — its information about the manufacturing sector is no longer accessible. Instead, it features this message at the top of the homepage: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>NOTICE: Due to a lapse in appropriations, Manufacturing.gov and all associated online activities will be unavailable until further notice. \u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Security certificates help keep websites secure, but last week\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the British security firm Netcraft reported that \u003ca href=\"https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2019/01/16/manufacturing-gov-and-white-house-security-suffer-under-u-s-shutdown.html\" target=\"_blank\">more than 130 certificates\u003c/a> used by U.S. government websites had expired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These certificates ensure users are actually accessing government resources and not a fraudulent website, said Dan Kaminsky, the chief scientist at the security firm White Ops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of a certificate makes it easier for a bad actor to trick users into going to a fake website. Even though there's a warning when users click on a website without an updated certificate, Kaminsky said, \"people might get used to ignoring the browser warnings\" because of the shutdown. \"Then you think you're really walking into this [web]site and you're really not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He offered a worst-case scenario: Imagine if the security certificate was down for the Social Security Administration website and a fake one was set up. Someone could go to the bogus site, enter their password and give the hackers access to their personal information.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694248/california-launches-new-effort-to-fight-election-disinformation\">California Launches New Effort to Fight Election Disinformation\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694248/california-launches-new-effort-to-fight-election-disinformation\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-962143826-b7a6b3e247c9a8e41bf0f5a0fe98ba23a0dad668-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The shutdown also meant there were fewer information technology staff on hand. For instance, around 2,000 employees — down from the usual 3,500 — are working at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, one of the government arms leading the nation's cyber defenses, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget's \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/DHS%20Procedure%20Related%20to%20a%20Lapse%20in%20Appropriations%20%2812-20-2018%29%20-%20FINAL%20..._0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">contingency plans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Ragan, a partner in the cybersecurity firm Bishop Fox, said that means a lot of important tasks may not be done, such as updating software with the latest security patches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You end up getting buried in a really big backlog of issues that you may never dig yourself out of,\" he said. \"One of those issues may have been an indicator of a compromise or a breach that may go unnoticed for months or years to come.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security researchers worried that the shutdown was like putting a red blanket in front of a bull. 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And he loved it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11695025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11695025 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-800x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-240x180.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-375x281.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-520x390.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car.png 871w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Agababian inspects a car engine. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yana Kiziryan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Edward liked meeting new people. He liked the community of other cabbies. And he loved all the driving. Whenever the family took trips, he insisted they drive instead of fly. He was a driver by nature, Yana says. He was also competitive by nature. A trait that really came out whenever he went to work at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bunch of taxi drivers at San Francisco International Airport used to play chess. Back when Edward started driving, they never had to wait that long for a fare. So they played speed games. Yana said Edward never lost. After his shifts, Edward would come home and play against Yana. To make it easier on her, he would play without his queen. Then, when she was about to lose, he’d turn the board around and play as her. No matter the odds, he’d still find a way to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving a cab was helping the family get by, but Edward wanted to ensure a secure future after he was gone. So Yana says he invested in the stock market. Twice he took a huge hit. Once in the dot-com boom. Then again in the 2008 financial crisis. His last big play was buying a taxi medallion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Safe Bet and a Retirement Plan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Uber and Lyft, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10693923/for-san-francisco-cab-drivers-once-treasured-medallions-now-a-burden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medallion was extremely desirable\u003c/a> for taxi drivers. A driver could lease the medallion to other drivers and make passive income on the medallion. Between that and driving the cab themselves, a taxi driver could make somewhere between $5,000 and $7,000 a month. Medallions were the de facto retirement plan for drivers. That’s exactly how Edward thought of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He thought if anything ever happens to me,” Yana says, “if I were to die, the family would be set. It was his insurance plan and his retirement plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco taxi medallions used to be awarded to drivers on a seniority basis. Drivers would wait on a list for their chance to get one. It could take 10 or even 15 years for your name to come up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/09/HarnettTaxiMedallionsfull.mp3\" title=\"San Francisco Made Millions Selling Taxi Medallions. Now Drivers Are Paying the Price\" program=\"KQED News\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Circle-of-drivers-e1538082779288.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 2010, amid transit budget shortfalls, then-Mayor Gavin Newsom took a page out of the New York City playbook. He encouraged the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority (Muni) to “monetize” the medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA started selling medallions for $250,000 a pop. The city needed a lender to provide low-interest loans to cab drivers, many of whom were immigrants with limited credit history. So, it turned to the San Francisco Federal Credit Union, a local institution that usually lends its money in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2010, the SFMTA has sold around 700 medallions to drivers. The credit union, which financed almost all of these medallions, estimates that the city brought in $64 million from selling them. That money helped alleviate budget deficits that had accumulated after the 2008 financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medallions were a boon for the city, but they quickly became toxic for the credit union and the drivers who bought them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Destruction of an Industry and a Way of Life\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward was one of those roughly 700 drivers who bought a medallion. He made a down payment and took out a loan with the credit union to get his in 2011. At first it was great. But then Lyft and Uber really started taking off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA did not require Lyft and Uber to buy medallions for their drivers. Unlike taxis, there was no cap on the amount of vehicles these venture-backed companies could put on the road. And they took advantage of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the SFMTA says it did not have the authority to require Uber and Lyft to purchase medallions. It categorizes the companies at TNCs (Transportation Network Companies) instead of taxi companies. TNCs are regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). The TNC classification is controversial. Taxi drivers argue the city could have pushed back harder against the CPUC and taken more of a charge in regulating Uber and Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft burned billions of dollars in venture capital to grow quickly. They put thousands and thousands of drivers on the road, which allowed them to offer cheap rides and quick pickups. The number of taxis meanwhile were capped by the medallion program, and the fare rates fixed, which ensured steady pay for the drivers. Lyft and Uber completely undercut the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft engaged in a price war to gain customers, and as the cost of their rides went down, so did driver earnings. While customers were enjoying the ability to zip cheaply around the city on low prices subsidized by investment capital, drivers for taxis, Ubers and Lyfts were making less and less and less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who bought medallions were trapped in the industry. They had to make those loan payments. So even though his earnings were plummeting, Edward kept driving. Soon he was going out on the road, logging eight, 10 or 12 hours just to break even on the loan for his medallion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Edward became increasingly restless and nervous,” Yana says. “There were months were they didn’t have quite enough to make all their bills.” Sometimes she had to chip in to help out her parents. Yana said Edward even signed up to drive Uber and Lyft, just to try and get some extra rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana started worrying about her father’s health. “He internalized everything,” Yana says, “and I am sure it did not help with his blood pressure problem, and just overall health.” But Edward kept driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Persistence and Loss\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two years ago, Yana and her whole family left for a short trip to the East Coast. Edward stayed home to drive. He went to the airport, like he did every day. There were so few fares at that point, drivers could sit for hours in their car waiting for a passenger. That’s where Edward’s friends found him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His friends at the airport right away noticed something was wrong,” Yana says. “They looked at him and he was green.” Edward said he wanted to go home. “They were like, 'no',” Yana says. “'You’re going to the hospital.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ambulance came and rushed him to the hospital. Edward’s aorta had torn. He was bleeding internally. Soon after getting to the hospital, he passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We didn’t even get to say goodbye.'\u003ccite> Yana Kiziryan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The doctor told us that when he got to the hospital, they asked him if he wanted to call his family,” Yana says, “and apparently he said, ‘I don’t want to make them nervous.’ And so we didn’t even get to say goodbye or anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Toxic Asset and Family Debt\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward was 59 when he died. Even though he was gone, the family was still burdened by the medallion debt. The loan for the medallion was outstanding and would be counted against any inheritance. The family wanted to sell the medallion to recoup their losses, but there were no buyers. The market was totally frozen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11695028\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11695028\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-800x602.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-800x602.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-1020x767.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-1200x903.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-1180x888.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-960x722.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-240x181.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-375x282.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-520x391.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3.png 1514w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Agababian's family. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yana Kiziryan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yana could not believe her family was still being plagued by this medallion that they could not get rid of it. “For a while we kept calling the SFMTA and sending them emails and trying to understand what was going to happen,” Yana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under SFMTA rules, the medallion is inoperable after its owner dies. That means the family couldn't even lease out or drive on the medallion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana said the family felt they had no options except to stop making the loan payments. So they defaulted, taking a hit on their credit score. “We’d never not paid for something when it was due,” Yana said. “It was a very uncomfortable feeling to know that you’re neglecting a payment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Frozen Market and a Slow-Moving Lawsuit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Federal Credit Union, which financed almost every one of these medallions, is relatively small, handling around just $1 billion in assets. It mostly invests locally, and the medallions seemed, at the time, like a great partnership with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Oliver is the CEO of the credit union. He said the credit union agreed to give low-interest loans to taxi drivers with limited credit history because the city assured that it would maintain the viability of the medallion market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliver says the SFMTA wrote both in its transportation code and the agreement with the credit union that it would buy back the medallions if it ended the program — if it stopped allowing medallions to be sold. \"Prohibited the retransfer,\" \u003ca href=\"http://library.amlegal.com/nxt/gateway.dll/California/transportation/divisionii/article1100regulationofmotorvehiclesforh?f=templates%24fn=default.htm%243.0%24vid=amlegal:sanfrancisco_ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is the exact language in the transportation code\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one has bought a taxi medallion since 2016. The market is totally frozen. This is the central piece of a lawsuit the San Francisco Federal Credit Union has filed against the SFMTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The credit union is arguing that the SFMTA has failed to maintain a viable market for medallions, effectively putting an end to the program. The SFMTA is arguing that it hasn't officially ended the program, and therefore doesn't have to buy back the medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit is in the discovery phase, and the credit union expects it will take until next summer for some action on the suit. That is a long way off for drivers who are struggling every month to make their loan payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the credit union wins or the city settles, it is unclear what will happen to the drivers and their individual debts. Or all the millions they have already paid into the loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Relief in Sight\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694430\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11694430\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inderjit Ghotra's family purchased six medallions. Now he's underwater on all of them. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yana's family is not alone. Over 150 families have defaulted on taxi medallions, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11651103/the-human-cost-of-uber-and-lyft-life-in-the-dying-taxi-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more taxi-driving families are defaulting every month\u003c/a>. The head of the taxi program for the SFMTA, Kate Toran, said if she could wave a magic wand, buy back the medallions and make this problem all go away, she would.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toran estimates that it would take $160 million to buy back all of the medallions. That’s probably not going to happen, she says. The SFMTA has been having meetings to discuss ways to make the taxi industry more viable. Nowhere has it discussed buying back the medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a meeting last fall, the city proposed six reforms. Things like allowing corporations to buy medallions, which the city hopes would unfreeze the market. Right now, only licensed cab drivers can buy one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cab drivers who attended the meeting were supposed to stick up post-it notes with their comments on each reform. Almost all of them said the same thing: Please buy back our medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the city decided to explore limiting the number of taxis which could pick up passengers at the airport. The hope is to help out those who spent the most on their medallions, but many drivers are upset at a plan that would divide drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since that meeting last fall, no move has been made to buy back the medallions sold to drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694428\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11694428\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxi drivers just want one thing from the city: for it to buy back their medallions. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yana’s family has struggled for years with this medallion. Her father died. The family defaulted on their loan. They lost all the money they sunk into the medallion. What Yana wants now from the city is just some accountability, some admission that the program failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is too late for her father, but she hopes something will be done for all the other families and drivers who are still on the hook for their loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Originally published Sep. 27, 2018.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">Y\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ana Kiziryan has two children. The youngest, Eddy, looks just like his grandfather, Edward Agababian. Yana’s family is Armenian. They emigrated from Baku, Azerbaijan, during the pogroms in 1991. As the Soviet Union was crumbling, Azerbaijan’s government was rounding up and killing Armenians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana’s family feared for their lives. Her dad, Edward, filed for refugee status. “We’re really lucky America took us in,” Yana says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana’s father was 32 when the family arrived in the U.S. He didn’t speak English well, but he was determined to make a middle-class life for his family. In San Francisco, he found out he could make OK money driving a taxi. So, he started driving a cab. And he loved it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11695025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11695025 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-800x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-240x180.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-375x281.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-520x390.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car.png 871w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Agababian inspects a car engine. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yana Kiziryan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Edward liked meeting new people. He liked the community of other cabbies. And he loved all the driving. Whenever the family took trips, he insisted they drive instead of fly. He was a driver by nature, Yana says. He was also competitive by nature. A trait that really came out whenever he went to work at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bunch of taxi drivers at San Francisco International Airport used to play chess. Back when Edward started driving, they never had to wait that long for a fare. So they played speed games. Yana said Edward never lost. After his shifts, Edward would come home and play against Yana. To make it easier on her, he would play without his queen. Then, when she was about to lose, he’d turn the board around and play as her. No matter the odds, he’d still find a way to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving a cab was helping the family get by, but Edward wanted to ensure a secure future after he was gone. So Yana says he invested in the stock market. Twice he took a huge hit. Once in the dot-com boom. Then again in the 2008 financial crisis. His last big play was buying a taxi medallion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Safe Bet and a Retirement Plan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Uber and Lyft, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10693923/for-san-francisco-cab-drivers-once-treasured-medallions-now-a-burden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medallion was extremely desirable\u003c/a> for taxi drivers. A driver could lease the medallion to other drivers and make passive income on the medallion. Between that and driving the cab themselves, a taxi driver could make somewhere between $5,000 and $7,000 a month. Medallions were the de facto retirement plan for drivers. That’s exactly how Edward thought of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He thought if anything ever happens to me,” Yana says, “if I were to die, the family would be set. It was his insurance plan and his retirement plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco taxi medallions used to be awarded to drivers on a seniority basis. Drivers would wait on a list for their chance to get one. It could take 10 or even 15 years for your name to come up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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That money helped alleviate budget deficits that had accumulated after the 2008 financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medallions were a boon for the city, but they quickly became toxic for the credit union and the drivers who bought them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Destruction of an Industry and a Way of Life\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward was one of those roughly 700 drivers who bought a medallion. He made a down payment and took out a loan with the credit union to get his in 2011. At first it was great. But then Lyft and Uber really started taking off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA did not require Lyft and Uber to buy medallions for their drivers. Unlike taxis, there was no cap on the amount of vehicles these venture-backed companies could put on the road. And they took advantage of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the SFMTA says it did not have the authority to require Uber and Lyft to purchase medallions. It categorizes the companies at TNCs (Transportation Network Companies) instead of taxi companies. TNCs are regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). The TNC classification is controversial. Taxi drivers argue the city could have pushed back harder against the CPUC and taken more of a charge in regulating Uber and Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft burned billions of dollars in venture capital to grow quickly. They put thousands and thousands of drivers on the road, which allowed them to offer cheap rides and quick pickups. The number of taxis meanwhile were capped by the medallion program, and the fare rates fixed, which ensured steady pay for the drivers. Lyft and Uber completely undercut the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft engaged in a price war to gain customers, and as the cost of their rides went down, so did driver earnings. While customers were enjoying the ability to zip cheaply around the city on low prices subsidized by investment capital, drivers for taxis, Ubers and Lyfts were making less and less and less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who bought medallions were trapped in the industry. They had to make those loan payments. So even though his earnings were plummeting, Edward kept driving. Soon he was going out on the road, logging eight, 10 or 12 hours just to break even on the loan for his medallion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Edward became increasingly restless and nervous,” Yana says. “There were months were they didn’t have quite enough to make all their bills.” Sometimes she had to chip in to help out her parents. Yana said Edward even signed up to drive Uber and Lyft, just to try and get some extra rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana started worrying about her father’s health. “He internalized everything,” Yana says, “and I am sure it did not help with his blood pressure problem, and just overall health.” But Edward kept driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Persistence and Loss\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two years ago, Yana and her whole family left for a short trip to the East Coast. Edward stayed home to drive. He went to the airport, like he did every day. There were so few fares at that point, drivers could sit for hours in their car waiting for a passenger. That’s where Edward’s friends found him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His friends at the airport right away noticed something was wrong,” Yana says. “They looked at him and he was green.” Edward said he wanted to go home. “They were like, 'no',” Yana says. “'You’re going to the hospital.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ambulance came and rushed him to the hospital. Edward’s aorta had torn. He was bleeding internally. Soon after getting to the hospital, he passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We didn’t even get to say goodbye.'\u003ccite> Yana Kiziryan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The doctor told us that when he got to the hospital, they asked him if he wanted to call his family,” Yana says, “and apparently he said, ‘I don’t want to make them nervous.’ And so we didn’t even get to say goodbye or anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Toxic Asset and Family Debt\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward was 59 when he died. Even though he was gone, the family was still burdened by the medallion debt. The loan for the medallion was outstanding and would be counted against any inheritance. The family wanted to sell the medallion to recoup their losses, but there were no buyers. The market was totally frozen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11695028\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11695028\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-800x602.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-800x602.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-1020x767.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-1200x903.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-1180x888.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-960x722.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-240x181.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-375x282.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-520x391.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3.png 1514w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Agababian's family. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yana Kiziryan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yana could not believe her family was still being plagued by this medallion that they could not get rid of it. “For a while we kept calling the SFMTA and sending them emails and trying to understand what was going to happen,” Yana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under SFMTA rules, the medallion is inoperable after its owner dies. That means the family couldn't even lease out or drive on the medallion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana said the family felt they had no options except to stop making the loan payments. So they defaulted, taking a hit on their credit score. “We’d never not paid for something when it was due,” Yana said. “It was a very uncomfortable feeling to know that you’re neglecting a payment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Frozen Market and a Slow-Moving Lawsuit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Federal Credit Union, which financed almost every one of these medallions, is relatively small, handling around just $1 billion in assets. It mostly invests locally, and the medallions seemed, at the time, like a great partnership with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Oliver is the CEO of the credit union. He said the credit union agreed to give low-interest loans to taxi drivers with limited credit history because the city assured that it would maintain the viability of the medallion market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliver says the SFMTA wrote both in its transportation code and the agreement with the credit union that it would buy back the medallions if it ended the program — if it stopped allowing medallions to be sold. \"Prohibited the retransfer,\" \u003ca href=\"http://library.amlegal.com/nxt/gateway.dll/California/transportation/divisionii/article1100regulationofmotorvehiclesforh?f=templates%24fn=default.htm%243.0%24vid=amlegal:sanfrancisco_ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is the exact language in the transportation code\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one has bought a taxi medallion since 2016. The market is totally frozen. This is the central piece of a lawsuit the San Francisco Federal Credit Union has filed against the SFMTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The credit union is arguing that the SFMTA has failed to maintain a viable market for medallions, effectively putting an end to the program. The SFMTA is arguing that it hasn't officially ended the program, and therefore doesn't have to buy back the medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit is in the discovery phase, and the credit union expects it will take until next summer for some action on the suit. That is a long way off for drivers who are struggling every month to make their loan payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the credit union wins or the city settles, it is unclear what will happen to the drivers and their individual debts. Or all the millions they have already paid into the loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Relief in Sight\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694430\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11694430\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inderjit Ghotra's family purchased six medallions. Now he's underwater on all of them. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yana's family is not alone. Over 150 families have defaulted on taxi medallions, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11651103/the-human-cost-of-uber-and-lyft-life-in-the-dying-taxi-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more taxi-driving families are defaulting every month\u003c/a>. The head of the taxi program for the SFMTA, Kate Toran, said if she could wave a magic wand, buy back the medallions and make this problem all go away, she would.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toran estimates that it would take $160 million to buy back all of the medallions. That’s probably not going to happen, she says. The SFMTA has been having meetings to discuss ways to make the taxi industry more viable. Nowhere has it discussed buying back the medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a meeting last fall, the city proposed six reforms. Things like allowing corporations to buy medallions, which the city hopes would unfreeze the market. Right now, only licensed cab drivers can buy one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cab drivers who attended the meeting were supposed to stick up post-it notes with their comments on each reform. Almost all of them said the same thing: Please buy back our medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the city decided to explore limiting the number of taxis which could pick up passengers at the airport. The hope is to help out those who spent the most on their medallions, but many drivers are upset at a plan that would divide drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since that meeting last fall, no move has been made to buy back the medallions sold to drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694428\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11694428\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxi drivers just want one thing from the city: for it to buy back their medallions. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yana’s family has struggled for years with this medallion. Her father died. The family defaulted on their loan. They lost all the money they sunk into the medallion. What Yana wants now from the city is just some accountability, some admission that the program failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is too late for her father, but she hopes something will be done for all the other families and drivers who are still on the hook for their loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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