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In fact, he was born and raised in Idaho -- in a rural area called New Sweden. All four of his grandparents, and much of the surrounding community, emigrated from Sweden in the late 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We grew potatoes, of course, in Idaho,” says Erickson. “We had all the animals, dairy, beef, and we raised other crops, grains, alfalfa and that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He moved to California and did well, becoming a surgeon at the Fort Miley veterans hospital. 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And then living here where I’ve got the ocean, the bay, the mountain ... I don’t know, I couldn’t be more blessed.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The California Department of Motor Vehicles does not appear to have had an adequate disaster recovery system in place before a \u003ca href=\"http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2016/10/26/dmv-outage-california/\">computer meltdown\u003c/a> wiped out most operations for several days, two information technology experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outage began Monday and, at its peak, two-thirds of the DMV's 188 offices around the state were unable to process driver's license or vehicle registration matters. By late Thursday, six offices still had limited services available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on limited information the DMV provided in response to questions submitted by The Associated Press, the experts said it appears the DMV's technology infrastructure falls short of the best industry practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, they said, the DMV should have a plan to recover from a catastrophic failure that involves distinct computer systems that are physically separated with independent power supplies. That way, if one data center — or even one section of a data center — overheats or experiences a power surge, backup systems aren't affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California DMV ran primary and backup systems side by side in the same hardware cabinet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If their definition of disaster recovery is having primary and backup systems in the same hardware chassis, that's grotesque,\" said Richard Fichera, a vice president of \u003ca href=\"https://www.forrester.com/home/0,6092,1-0,FF.html\">Forrester Research \u003c/a>who advises large companies on servers, storage and data centers. \"That is completely inadequate for a critical statewide agency like the DMV.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DMV said Friday that three offices were still experiencing problems but it expected all to return to normal operations by the end of the day. The department says its systems were not hacked or targeted and it did not lose customer data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DMV officials have said the outage was triggered by the failure of hard drives in both primary and backup systems at one of its two server facilities, but have not said what caused them to fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DMV's system was designed to withstand failures in the primary or the backup system but not both, said Jaime Garza, a DMV spokesman. The ability to recover from a disaster was degraded because the systems in two separate locations were used simultaneously, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The computer system has redundancy,\" Garza said. \"Unfortunately, with the loss of several hard disks in a short time period, that redundancy was lost.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maintaining primary and backup drives within the same physical location and even the same equipment cabinet is \"insane,\" said Stuart Lipoff, president of IP Action Partners, a technology consultant based in Newton, Massachusetts, who reviewed the DMV's explanation of the failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's inexcusable that the entire system would come down,\" Lipoff said. \"They were not observing what are good practices and good guidelines that I think any modern IT department would practice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outage forced DMV customers to wait out the troubles. Some said their lives were put on hold while they waited to replace stolen identification cards or renew vehicle registrations on the verge of expiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DMV officials say the department may waive late fees for customers affected by the outage. They'll have to fill out a form or write a letter explaining why they're late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles, said the DMV's computer issue is unlikely to have put personal information at risk, but is unsettling nonetheless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is an agency that starts with a very skeptical public,\" Gatto said. \"This is way beyond the typical frustrations that people expect from the DMV.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DMV's issue illustrates ongoing concerns about disjointed state cyber security protocols, he said. He advocates for agencies to make government contracts \"more accessible\" to Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>AP writer Alison Noon contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It approves big-ticket items like BART's new fleet of rail cars and has the final word on the district's labor contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who makes the call on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/bart-passengers-riding-in-harmony-with-bart-bicyclists-mostly/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bikes on BART\u003c/a>? \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Relief-at-last-BART-may-reopen-bathrooms-closed-9137675.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Closed station restrooms\u003c/a>? Banning \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/14/bart-board-oks-penalties-for-seat-hogs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seat hogs\u003c/a>? Contracts to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/27/at-barts-16th-mission-station-the-rapture-is-nigh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fix station escalators\u003c/a>? BART \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/blog/five-years-later-barts-cell-service-shutdown-still-wakeup-call\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">police policy and oversight\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Answer: Board, board, board, board and board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But let me ask: If you're one of the 2 million registered voters in the three BART counties -- Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco -- who's your representative on the BART board? My incredibly unscientific poll -- asking about a dozen people at a BART event whether they could identify the director for their district -- drew only shrugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">2016 BART Races and Candidate Websites\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 1 (Central Contra Costa County)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Gail Murray*\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.gailmurrayforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gailmurrayforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Debora Allen\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://deboraallen.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deboraallen.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 3 (Alameda and Contra Costa)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Rebecca Saltzman*\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.rebeccaforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rebeccaforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ken Chew\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.electkenchew.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">electkenchew.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Worth Freeman\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://makebartworthit.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">makebartworthit.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Varun Paul\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://paul4bart.weebly.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paul4bart.weebly.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 5 (Southern Alameda)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>John McPartland*\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://mcpartlandforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mcpartlandforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jennifer Hosterman\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.jenniferforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jenniferforbart.com/\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 7 (W. Contra Costa and Alameda, E. San Francisco)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Zakhary Mallett*\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.mallettforbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mallettforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Roland Emerson\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RBEmerson3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">facebook.com/RBEmerson3\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Will Roscoe\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.roscoeforbart.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roscoeforbart.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lateefah Simon\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.lateefahforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lateefahforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 9 (Central San Francisco)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Gwyneth Borden\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.bordenforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bordenforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bevan Dufty\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.bevandufty.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bevandufty.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Michael Petrelis\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/PetrelisFiles/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">facebook.com/PetrelisFiles\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>*\u003cem>Incumbent\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If you don't know who your director is, by the way, that's not all on you. Your local news outlets, maybe even the one you're checking out right now, could probably pay more consistent attention to what's going on with all the stuff the board does. (Who's your board member? Take a look at \u003ca href=\"#bartmap\">the map\u003c/a> at the bottom of this post.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of familiarity appears to be reflected in how people vote, or simply don't vote at all, in BART board races. In 2012 and 2014, for instance, about one in four people who cast ballots refrained from voting for anyone in the BART contests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>his year, voters will fill five of the nine BART board seats. Those five contests, along with \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/2010101856855/measure-rr-asks-bay-area-voters-to-approve-3-5-billion-for-bart-improvements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Measure RR\u003c/a>, the agency's $3.5 billion infrastructure bond, could have a profound impact on the transit system's future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the 2016 campaigns for both the board seats and the bond measure have become, to a large extent, a referendum on both the current frayed state of the system and the 2013 strikes that twice shut down service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to the state of the system: Any frequent rider can tell you that BART, which last fiscal year recorded an average of 433,000 weekday passenger trips compared to 345,000 five years ago, is overcrowded. Rush-hour trains are so packed that they often leave riders behind at its most heavily used Oakland and San Francisco stations. And those stations are more jammed than they've ever been. Average weekday exits at San Francisco's Embarcadero station, BART's busiest, have risen from 35,603 in fiscal 2010-11 to 47,643 in 2015-16, an increase of 34 percent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any rider can tell you that breakdowns are just one all-too-common feature of the BART experience. Among other frequent BART complaints:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Some stations and trains are dirty -- \"filthy\" is \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22bart%22%20%22filthy%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a frequently used adjective\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/tickets/calculator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fares\u003c/a> are high, ranging from $1.95 one way on short hops to $7.75 for the longest run on the system, Pittsburg/Bay Point to Millbrae. (We're excluding the premium passengers pay to ride to San Francisco International Airport. Also note: youth and senior fares are a fraction of that cost, ranging from 70 cents to $2.90 one way).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Crime on the system is an issue that gained attention after a fatal shooting last January on a train in West Oakland. That incident led to the disclosure that virtually all the \"security cameras\" on BART trains are decoys, not the real thing.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s to the hangover from the 2013 strikes: BART critics, notably state Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, and East Bay Times columnist Daniel Borenstein, argue that the agency's board and management caved in when they settled the labor dispute with worker unions -- an agreement that included a 15.8 percent wage increase. They also criticize a four-year contract extension negotiated earlier this year as too costly and doing nothing to head off future work stoppages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That critique has expanded, with Glazer blasting the board as irresponsible and \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/11060910/lawmakers-opposition-sparks-debate-over-bart-bond-measure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">urging voters\u003c/a> to replace three of the four incumbents who are standing for re-election next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289028132&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer is backing up the talk with cash, with campaign finance reports through Thursday showing his state Senate re-election committee has donated a total of $24,000 to three board candidates: District 7 Director Zakhary Mallett, who was the only board member to vote against the labor contracts, and challengers Debora Allen and Jennifer Hosterman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://deboraallen.com/about_debora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Allen\u003c/a> is a certified public accountant, entrepreneur and business consultant who ran as a Republican in an unsuccessful bid earlier this year for the state Assembly. She's running against \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/bart_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 1 \u003c/a>incumbent \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/about/bod/bodMembersDetail_01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gail Murray\u003c/a>, a transportation industry consultant who is trying for her fourth term on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jenniferforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hosterman\u003c/a> is a lawyer, real estate agent and former mayor of Pleasanton. She's running against \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/bart_5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 5\u003c/a> incumbent \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/about/bod/bodMembersDetail_05\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John McPartland\u003c/a>, a retired Army colonel, chief officer for the Oakland Fire Department and BART safety specialist, who is seeking his third term on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The two other board seats to be filled are in \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/bart_3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 3\u003c/a>, in which incumbent Rebecca Saltzman is running against former Moraga City Councilman Ken Chew and two other challengers, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/bart_9.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 9\u003c/a>, a seat vacated by BART Board President Tom Radulovich. Bevan Dufty, a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and former chief of the city's homeless initiatives, is running against Gwyneth Borden, a member of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board, and longtime community activist Michael Petrelis.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>ll the races may be competitive -- it's hard to tell without \u003ca href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FiveThirtyEight\u003c/a> breaking down the numbers. But the race that could say the most about the future of BART and its board is the above-mentioned District 7, where contract critic Zakhary Mallett, now finishing his first term on the board, is facing off with three others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three challengers are Oakland residents: Roland Emerson, who \u003ca href=\"https://acgreens.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/roland_emerson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">describes himself\u003c/a> in a Green Party questionnaire as \"a working-class BART rider\" who wants to correct BART's decline; Will Roscoe, an engineer whose \u003ca href=\"http://www.roscoeforbart.org/updates/why-is-a-new-paradigm-needed-for-bart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blueprint for BART\u003c/a> would essentially scrap train service in favor of developing a far-flung regional network of self-driving electric buses; and Lateefah Simon, a 2003 MacArthur \u003ca href=\"https://www.macfound.org/fellows/720/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"genius grant\" recipient\u003c/a> and politically well-connected social justice campaigner who currently serves on the California State University Board of Trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the main contest here -- as illustrated both by some high-profile endorsements and campaign fundraising -- is between Mallett (pronounced ma-LAY) and Simon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 29-year-old Mallett, who holds a master's degree in city planning from UC Berkeley and drives for Uber as he works to start up a business as a transportation consultant, has won the endorsements of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Chronicle-recommends-Re-elect-Mallett-for-BART-9972747.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/09/21/editorial-bart-needs-allen-mallett-hosterman-chew-east-bay-times/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Times\u003c/a>. Both praise him for standing against the district's labor contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon, 39, is president of Oakland's \u003ca href=\"http://akonadi.org/akonadi/mission-values/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Akonadi Foundation\u003c/a>, an organization founded by major Democratic Party donors \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/Obama-s-Piedmont-backers-an-emerging-force-3726863.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan\u003c/a> that focuses its philanthropy on racial justice initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon's career working in social justice organizations has yielded a collection of big-name endorsements, including state Attorney General Kamala Harris and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That backing is matched by fundraising that, while small potatoes in a state where donors have shoved \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/politics-and-government/11138545/donors-pour-record-450-million-into-california-initiatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mountains of cash\u003c/a> into statewide initiative campaigns, is unusually robust for a typically low-key, and low-dollar, transit board race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, Simon's campaign had reported raising about $240,000. Most of the money has come in more than 1,000 individual donations, the campaign says, many of them in the $10 to $50 range. Campaign reports detail hundreds of larger donations from contributors including Olis Simmons, head of East Oakland's \u003ca href=\"http://www.youthuprising.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youth UpRising\u003c/a>, BART board member Nick Josefowitz and Silicon Valley philanthropist \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/tech-philanthropy/2013/9/12/meet-cari-tuna-the-woman-giving-away-dustin-moskovitzs-faceb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cari Tuna\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon has also gotten major donations in the last month from two groups sponsored by the Service Employees International Union Local 1021, one of BART's unions, and progressive community groups. The Richmond Working Families committee has donated $23,000 in cash and in-kind support like canvassing; a parallel committee, Oakland Working Families, has contributed $16,000 to Simon's campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign finance records show Mallett has raised just over $62,000 to date. His biggest donor: Steve Glazer's campaign committee, which has given him $9,000 so far -- $8,000 of that in two contributions last week. San Ramon's United Contractors Association PAC has kicked in $8,000. Republic Urban Properties, which is developing \u003ca href=\"http://www.republicfamilyofcompanies.com/developments/development-detail/republic-millbrae-bart/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a residential and commercial project\u003c/a> at BART's Millbrae Station, has donated $5,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallett's other major donors are BART contractors, including Taber Construction, which has given $3,000 in this election cycle, and East Bay engineering contractor Kal Krishnan and his firm, which together have donated $3,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>allett says that high among his priorities if he's re-elected to the board will be pursuing a BART expansion from Richmond up along the Interstate 80 corridor to San Pablo, Pinole and Hercules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11144266\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11144266 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-1020x705.jpg\" alt=\"BART District 7 Director Zakhary Mallett at MacArthur station.\" width=\"640\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-1020x705.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-1920x1327.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-1180x815.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-960x663.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-240x166.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-375x259.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-520x359.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART District 7 Director Zakhary Mallett at MacArthur Station. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That idea \"has moved further in the last two years than in the 20 years prior,\" Mallett said in an interview at MacArthur BART. He also champions in-fill development projects at MacArthur and down the line at BART's West Oakland Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his main concern, he says, is finance -- and that leads directly to discussion of the agency's labor contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Labor costs are out of control and unreasonable,\" Mallett says. \"The sorts of benefits we give our workforce from the top to the bottom are not heard of in most environments, and the work rules are woefully deficient.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallett says workers are not paying enough into their pensions and criticizes contract provisions that guarantee what he calls \"nominal\" rates -- currently $137 a month -- for family medical coverage. Among the work rules he wants changed is one \u003ca href=\"https://www.mallettforbart.com/accomplishments-priorities/financially-responsible/costly-bart-contract-provisions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he says\u003c/a> allows BART train operators to work just 4½ hours in an eight-hour workday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallett also wants to get rid of \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2013/08/01/barts-free-ride-program-among-bay-areas-most-generous/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a policy\u003c/a> that gives BART workers free rides for life -- and extends the benefit to their spouses and to children up to the age of 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think workers having free rides while they're working at BART is one thing,\" Mallett said. \"But for it to be extended to as many family members as it is and to continue after retirement are the two big sores that I have\" with the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallett implicitly endorses Glazer's call for a new group of BART directors who will address the contract issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People need to take interest in this election cycle and put into BART leadership those who they feel will be fiscally responsible,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>imon's campaign focuses on her daily experience as a legally blind single mom who's completely reliant on BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11144269\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/simon.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/simon-1020x1596.jpg\" alt=\"BART board candidate Lateefah Simon, outside Oakland's 12th Street station. \" width=\"400\" height=\"682\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11144269\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART board candidate Lateefah Simon, outside Oakland's 12th Street station. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I'm running for my life,\" she says. \"If the BART system doesn't work, guess what? I can't bring my kid to school. And there are tens of thousands of other disabled folks in the Bay Area, elderly folks, children and families who are actually relying on this system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon's \u003ca href=\"https://www.lateefahforbart.com/issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">program for fixing BART\u003c/a> starts with making the agency's finances more transparent to the public and making the system more affordable and accessible. But she says she feels that the focus on BART's labor costs and union contracts is divisive and counterproductive, and that BART management and labor unions have made progress in building a more cooperative relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I won't throw workers under the bus,\" Simon says. \"I'll have a sophisticated conversation about how we work with labor and develop really good relationships with labor instead of pushing the media to have a visceral reaction to the very difficult work labor and management are doing to create some peace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon takes issue with a view voiced explicitly by the East Bay Times that she's labor's \"chosen candidate,\" on the ballot with a mission to unseat Mallett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Anybody who knows my career knows I've never been bought or bossed by anybody,\" she says. \"The $500 million labor cost of a $1.8 billion budget -- of course we need to look at that line by line every single year in partnership with labor, in partnership with real workers, in partnership with fiscal experts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon adds she won't accept contributions from BART contractors and would like to restrict contributions from those who bid on work for the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What riders deserve and what they need is a pretty pure voice,\" she says. \"I want to partner with real stakeholders and not just folks who are interested in contracts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here's one thing that Simon and Mallett pretty much agree on: Measure RR, the $3.5 billion BART bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallett says that while he agrees with those who have expressed concerns about BART's \"historic financial mismanagement,\" the need for money to help revamp the system's infrastructure is a separate issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to reinvest in BART, period,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon gives Measure RR an unqualified endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need the public to invest again in the transit system, to make it safer, to make it reliable and to make it faster,\" she says. \"This is an opportunity, but when we pass this measure, what I want to happen is to regain the public's trust again. That means we have to spend it well -- they have to see new cars, they have to see a habitual fixing up of the system every single day. ... We have to think about continuous care for our system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1Rr1dKRdePfUMMDPIr6PniD7USw0\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Tuesday 7:05 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he BART Board of Directors is probably the most influential elected body in the Bay Area that most people seem to know nearly nothing about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine members of the BART board play a huge part in the lives of the hundreds of thousands of individual passengers who ride BART each weekday as well as the legions who drive to work on highways that would be near permanent gridlock, were it not for the regional rapid transit system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board makes decisions that affect riders in large and small ways. It signs off on the agency's budget -- $1.8 billion in the current fiscal year. It approves big-ticket items like BART's new fleet of rail cars and has the final word on the district's labor contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who makes the call on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/bart-passengers-riding-in-harmony-with-bart-bicyclists-mostly/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bikes on BART\u003c/a>? \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Relief-at-last-BART-may-reopen-bathrooms-closed-9137675.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Closed station restrooms\u003c/a>? Banning \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/14/bart-board-oks-penalties-for-seat-hogs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seat hogs\u003c/a>? Contracts to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/27/at-barts-16th-mission-station-the-rapture-is-nigh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fix station escalators\u003c/a>? BART \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/blog/five-years-later-barts-cell-service-shutdown-still-wakeup-call\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">police policy and oversight\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Answer: Board, board, board, board and board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But let me ask: If you're one of the 2 million registered voters in the three BART counties -- Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco -- who's your representative on the BART board? My incredibly unscientific poll -- asking about a dozen people at a BART event whether they could identify the director for their district -- drew only shrugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">2016 BART Races and Candidate Websites\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 1 (Central Contra Costa County)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Gail Murray*\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.gailmurrayforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gailmurrayforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Debora Allen\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://deboraallen.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deboraallen.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 3 (Alameda and Contra Costa)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Rebecca Saltzman*\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.rebeccaforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rebeccaforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ken Chew\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.electkenchew.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">electkenchew.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Worth Freeman\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://makebartworthit.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">makebartworthit.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Varun Paul\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://paul4bart.weebly.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paul4bart.weebly.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 5 (Southern Alameda)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>John McPartland*\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://mcpartlandforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mcpartlandforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jennifer Hosterman\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.jenniferforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jenniferforbart.com/\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 7 (W. Contra Costa and Alameda, E. San Francisco)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Zakhary Mallett*\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.mallettforbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mallettforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Roland Emerson\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RBEmerson3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">facebook.com/RBEmerson3\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Will Roscoe\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.roscoeforbart.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roscoeforbart.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lateefah Simon\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.lateefahforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lateefahforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 9 (Central San Francisco)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Gwyneth Borden\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.bordenforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bordenforbart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bevan Dufty\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.bevandufty.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bevandufty.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Michael Petrelis\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/PetrelisFiles/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">facebook.com/PetrelisFiles\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>*\u003cem>Incumbent\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If you don't know who your director is, by the way, that's not all on you. Your local news outlets, maybe even the one you're checking out right now, could probably pay more consistent attention to what's going on with all the stuff the board does. (Who's your board member? Take a look at \u003ca href=\"#bartmap\">the map\u003c/a> at the bottom of this post.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of familiarity appears to be reflected in how people vote, or simply don't vote at all, in BART board races. In 2012 and 2014, for instance, about one in four people who cast ballots refrained from voting for anyone in the BART contests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>his year, voters will fill five of the nine BART board seats. Those five contests, along with \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/2010101856855/measure-rr-asks-bay-area-voters-to-approve-3-5-billion-for-bart-improvements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Measure RR\u003c/a>, the agency's $3.5 billion infrastructure bond, could have a profound impact on the transit system's future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the 2016 campaigns for both the board seats and the bond measure have become, to a large extent, a referendum on both the current frayed state of the system and the 2013 strikes that twice shut down service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to the state of the system: Any frequent rider can tell you that BART, which last fiscal year recorded an average of 433,000 weekday passenger trips compared to 345,000 five years ago, is overcrowded. Rush-hour trains are so packed that they often leave riders behind at its most heavily used Oakland and San Francisco stations. And those stations are more jammed than they've ever been. Average weekday exits at San Francisco's Embarcadero station, BART's busiest, have risen from 35,603 in fiscal 2010-11 to 47,643 in 2015-16, an increase of 34 percent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any rider can tell you that breakdowns are just one all-too-common feature of the BART experience. Among other frequent BART complaints:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Some stations and trains are dirty -- \"filthy\" is \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22bart%22%20%22filthy%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a frequently used adjective\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/tickets/calculator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fares\u003c/a> are high, ranging from $1.95 one way on short hops to $7.75 for the longest run on the system, Pittsburg/Bay Point to Millbrae. (We're excluding the premium passengers pay to ride to San Francisco International Airport. Also note: youth and senior fares are a fraction of that cost, ranging from 70 cents to $2.90 one way).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Crime on the system is an issue that gained attention after a fatal shooting last January on a train in West Oakland. That incident led to the disclosure that virtually all the \"security cameras\" on BART trains are decoys, not the real thing.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s to the hangover from the 2013 strikes: BART critics, notably state Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, and East Bay Times columnist Daniel Borenstein, argue that the agency's board and management caved in when they settled the labor dispute with worker unions -- an agreement that included a 15.8 percent wage increase. They also criticize a four-year contract extension negotiated earlier this year as too costly and doing nothing to head off future work stoppages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That critique has expanded, with Glazer blasting the board as irresponsible and \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/11060910/lawmakers-opposition-sparks-debate-over-bart-bond-measure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">urging voters\u003c/a> to replace three of the four incumbents who are standing for re-election next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289028132&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer is backing up the talk with cash, with campaign finance reports through Thursday showing his state Senate re-election committee has donated a total of $24,000 to three board candidates: District 7 Director Zakhary Mallett, who was the only board member to vote against the labor contracts, and challengers Debora Allen and Jennifer Hosterman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://deboraallen.com/about_debora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Allen\u003c/a> is a certified public accountant, entrepreneur and business consultant who ran as a Republican in an unsuccessful bid earlier this year for the state Assembly. She's running against \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/bart_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 1 \u003c/a>incumbent \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/about/bod/bodMembersDetail_01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gail Murray\u003c/a>, a transportation industry consultant who is trying for her fourth term on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jenniferforbart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hosterman\u003c/a> is a lawyer, real estate agent and former mayor of Pleasanton. She's running against \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/bart_5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 5\u003c/a> incumbent \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/about/bod/bodMembersDetail_05\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John McPartland\u003c/a>, a retired Army colonel, chief officer for the Oakland Fire Department and BART safety specialist, who is seeking his third term on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The two other board seats to be filled are in \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/bart_3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 3\u003c/a>, in which incumbent Rebecca Saltzman is running against former Moraga City Councilman Ken Chew and two other challengers, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/bart_9.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 9\u003c/a>, a seat vacated by BART Board President Tom Radulovich. Bevan Dufty, a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and former chief of the city's homeless initiatives, is running against Gwyneth Borden, a member of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board, and longtime community activist Michael Petrelis.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>ll the races may be competitive -- it's hard to tell without \u003ca href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FiveThirtyEight\u003c/a> breaking down the numbers. But the race that could say the most about the future of BART and its board is the above-mentioned District 7, where contract critic Zakhary Mallett, now finishing his first term on the board, is facing off with three others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three challengers are Oakland residents: Roland Emerson, who \u003ca href=\"https://acgreens.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/roland_emerson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">describes himself\u003c/a> in a Green Party questionnaire as \"a working-class BART rider\" who wants to correct BART's decline; Will Roscoe, an engineer whose \u003ca href=\"http://www.roscoeforbart.org/updates/why-is-a-new-paradigm-needed-for-bart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blueprint for BART\u003c/a> would essentially scrap train service in favor of developing a far-flung regional network of self-driving electric buses; and Lateefah Simon, a 2003 MacArthur \u003ca href=\"https://www.macfound.org/fellows/720/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"genius grant\" recipient\u003c/a> and politically well-connected social justice campaigner who currently serves on the California State University Board of Trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the main contest here -- as illustrated both by some high-profile endorsements and campaign fundraising -- is between Mallett (pronounced ma-LAY) and Simon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 29-year-old Mallett, who holds a master's degree in city planning from UC Berkeley and drives for Uber as he works to start up a business as a transportation consultant, has won the endorsements of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Chronicle-recommends-Re-elect-Mallett-for-BART-9972747.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/09/21/editorial-bart-needs-allen-mallett-hosterman-chew-east-bay-times/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Times\u003c/a>. Both praise him for standing against the district's labor contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon, 39, is president of Oakland's \u003ca href=\"http://akonadi.org/akonadi/mission-values/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Akonadi Foundation\u003c/a>, an organization founded by major Democratic Party donors \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/Obama-s-Piedmont-backers-an-emerging-force-3726863.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan\u003c/a> that focuses its philanthropy on racial justice initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon's career working in social justice organizations has yielded a collection of big-name endorsements, including state Attorney General Kamala Harris and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That backing is matched by fundraising that, while small potatoes in a state where donors have shoved \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/politics-and-government/11138545/donors-pour-record-450-million-into-california-initiatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mountains of cash\u003c/a> into statewide initiative campaigns, is unusually robust for a typically low-key, and low-dollar, transit board race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, Simon's campaign had reported raising about $240,000. Most of the money has come in more than 1,000 individual donations, the campaign says, many of them in the $10 to $50 range. Campaign reports detail hundreds of larger donations from contributors including Olis Simmons, head of East Oakland's \u003ca href=\"http://www.youthuprising.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youth UpRising\u003c/a>, BART board member Nick Josefowitz and Silicon Valley philanthropist \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/tech-philanthropy/2013/9/12/meet-cari-tuna-the-woman-giving-away-dustin-moskovitzs-faceb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cari Tuna\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon has also gotten major donations in the last month from two groups sponsored by the Service Employees International Union Local 1021, one of BART's unions, and progressive community groups. The Richmond Working Families committee has donated $23,000 in cash and in-kind support like canvassing; a parallel committee, Oakland Working Families, has contributed $16,000 to Simon's campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign finance records show Mallett has raised just over $62,000 to date. His biggest donor: Steve Glazer's campaign committee, which has given him $9,000 so far -- $8,000 of that in two contributions last week. San Ramon's United Contractors Association PAC has kicked in $8,000. Republic Urban Properties, which is developing \u003ca href=\"http://www.republicfamilyofcompanies.com/developments/development-detail/republic-millbrae-bart/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a residential and commercial project\u003c/a> at BART's Millbrae Station, has donated $5,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallett's other major donors are BART contractors, including Taber Construction, which has given $3,000 in this election cycle, and East Bay engineering contractor Kal Krishnan and his firm, which together have donated $3,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>allett says that high among his priorities if he's re-elected to the board will be pursuing a BART expansion from Richmond up along the Interstate 80 corridor to San Pablo, Pinole and Hercules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11144266\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11144266 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-1020x705.jpg\" alt=\"BART District 7 Director Zakhary Mallett at MacArthur station.\" width=\"640\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-1020x705.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-1920x1327.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-1180x815.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-960x663.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-240x166.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-375x259.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/mallett-520x359.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART District 7 Director Zakhary Mallett at MacArthur Station. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That idea \"has moved further in the last two years than in the 20 years prior,\" Mallett said in an interview at MacArthur BART. He also champions in-fill development projects at MacArthur and down the line at BART's West Oakland Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his main concern, he says, is finance -- and that leads directly to discussion of the agency's labor contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Labor costs are out of control and unreasonable,\" Mallett says. \"The sorts of benefits we give our workforce from the top to the bottom are not heard of in most environments, and the work rules are woefully deficient.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallett says workers are not paying enough into their pensions and criticizes contract provisions that guarantee what he calls \"nominal\" rates -- currently $137 a month -- for family medical coverage. Among the work rules he wants changed is one \u003ca href=\"https://www.mallettforbart.com/accomplishments-priorities/financially-responsible/costly-bart-contract-provisions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he says\u003c/a> allows BART train operators to work just 4½ hours in an eight-hour workday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallett also wants to get rid of \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2013/08/01/barts-free-ride-program-among-bay-areas-most-generous/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a policy\u003c/a> that gives BART workers free rides for life -- and extends the benefit to their spouses and to children up to the age of 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think workers having free rides while they're working at BART is one thing,\" Mallett said. \"But for it to be extended to as many family members as it is and to continue after retirement are the two big sores that I have\" with the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallett implicitly endorses Glazer's call for a new group of BART directors who will address the contract issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People need to take interest in this election cycle and put into BART leadership those who they feel will be fiscally responsible,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>imon's campaign focuses on her daily experience as a legally blind single mom who's completely reliant on BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11144269\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/simon.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/simon-1020x1596.jpg\" alt=\"BART board candidate Lateefah Simon, outside Oakland's 12th Street station. \" width=\"400\" height=\"682\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11144269\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART board candidate Lateefah Simon, outside Oakland's 12th Street station. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I'm running for my life,\" she says. \"If the BART system doesn't work, guess what? I can't bring my kid to school. And there are tens of thousands of other disabled folks in the Bay Area, elderly folks, children and families who are actually relying on this system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon's \u003ca href=\"https://www.lateefahforbart.com/issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">program for fixing BART\u003c/a> starts with making the agency's finances more transparent to the public and making the system more affordable and accessible. But she says she feels that the focus on BART's labor costs and union contracts is divisive and counterproductive, and that BART management and labor unions have made progress in building a more cooperative relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I won't throw workers under the bus,\" Simon says. \"I'll have a sophisticated conversation about how we work with labor and develop really good relationships with labor instead of pushing the media to have a visceral reaction to the very difficult work labor and management are doing to create some peace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon takes issue with a view voiced explicitly by the East Bay Times that she's labor's \"chosen candidate,\" on the ballot with a mission to unseat Mallett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Anybody who knows my career knows I've never been bought or bossed by anybody,\" she says. \"The $500 million labor cost of a $1.8 billion budget -- of course we need to look at that line by line every single year in partnership with labor, in partnership with real workers, in partnership with fiscal experts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon adds she won't accept contributions from BART contractors and would like to restrict contributions from those who bid on work for the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What riders deserve and what they need is a pretty pure voice,\" she says. \"I want to partner with real stakeholders and not just folks who are interested in contracts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here's one thing that Simon and Mallett pretty much agree on: Measure RR, the $3.5 billion BART bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallett says that while he agrees with those who have expressed concerns about BART's \"historic financial mismanagement,\" the need for money to help revamp the system's infrastructure is a separate issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to reinvest in BART, period,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon gives Measure RR an unqualified endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need the public to invest again in the transit system, to make it safer, to make it reliable and to make it faster,\" she says. \"This is an opportunity, but when we pass this measure, what I want to happen is to regain the public's trust again. That means we have to spend it well -- they have to see new cars, they have to see a habitual fixing up of the system every single day. ... We have to think about continuous care for our system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>PALM SPRINGS — A maintenance crew had slowed down traffic on Interstate 10 through the night, and the work had gone on for hours without problems. Then a tour bus returning to Los Angeles from a casino trip slammed into the back of a semi. Passengers who were asleep on the bus woke up to loud screams and the sound of crushing metal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gambling jaunt ended in one of the deadliest wrecks in California history with 13 people killed and 31 others injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities said the bus was going much faster than the truck, causing it to plow about 15 feet into the truck on I-10 just north of the desert resort town of Palm Springs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can see it was a substantial impact,\" California Highway Patrol Border Division Chief Jim Abele said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not known if alcohol, drugs or fatigue played a role in the crash, but the bus was inspected in April and had no mechanical issues, Abele said. The bus driver was killed, and the truck driver received minor injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bus was coming from Red Earth Casino in the desert town of Thermal and was about 35 miles into its 135-mile trip back to Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP officers had been slowing traffic to allow utility workers to string wires across the freeway, Abele said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'People Screaming for Help'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passengers told officials that most people were asleep when the crash occurred shortly after 5 a.m. Abele said it appeared the 1996 bus didn't have seat belts and likely didn't have a data recorder that would reveal how fast the bus was traveling and whether the driver braked before impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was awakened by the sounds of people screaming for help,\" passenger Ana Car, 61, told the Los Angeles Times. \"I noticed a heavy-set woman lying in the center aisle to my right yelling, 'My legs! 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Four remained in critical condition Sunday evening, two were transferred to other hospitals for continuing treatment and the rest were treated and released, hospital officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many suffered facial injuries, a telltale sign they were not wearing seat belts, said Dr. Ricard Townsend, a trauma surgeon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seemed as though most of the victims were unrestrained and were therefore flown through the air and ended up sustaining facial trauma,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other hospitals received patients with minor injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tour bus company, USA Holiday, has one vehicle and one driver, according to federal regulators. A call to the company was not immediately returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Family-Run Bus Firm\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company says on social media that it has more than 25 years of experience traveling to casinos in Southern California. It posts about quick turnaround trips leaving the Los Angeles area to casinos in the Southern California desert area and Las Vegas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bus owner's neighbor said she'd often see a tour bus with the sign \"USA Holiday\" parked on the street in front of his apartment in a working-class neighborhood in Alhambra, about 7 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonia Anderson said the family who lived there — a man, woman and their college student son — had lived in the apartment for about 17 years. She said the father generally drove the bus and his wife and son would sometimes travel on the bus with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson described them as a kind, close-knit family. \"All three of them are hard-working people. Good people. 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"content": "\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIihzODbaOc&w=800&h=450]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:45 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Caltrans just made it official: The agency will open the final segment of \u003ca href=\"http://baybridgeinfo.org/path\" target=\"_blank\">the Bay Bridge Trail\u003c/a>, the cycling and pedestrian path from Oakland to Yerba Buena Island, around noon on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The path will be open to a landing area at the island end of the bridge. 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"content": "\u003cp>Early Sunday morning, San Francisco International Airport switched its air traffic control operations to a new tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rising up between terminals 1 and 2, the new tower stands 221 feet tall -- and offers controllers a 650-square-foot work area with unobstructed 235-degree views of the airport’s runways and taxiways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/288698183\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In unveiling the new tower last week, federal aviation authorities, local airport officials and air traffic controllers hailed it as an iconic design and the result of unprecedented collaboration between federal and local interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tower cost just over $150 million to design and build. 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San Francisco was looking for a tower that would reflect the city, its unique culture and everything that San Francisco has to offer,” Huerta told KQED. “I think we've accomplished both of those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11133897\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11133897\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_4857-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"FAA chief Michael Huerta in the new tower.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_4857-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_4857-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_4857-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_4857-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_4857-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FAA chief Michael Huerta in the new tower. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Airport and federal aviation officials said the new tower was necessary because the old one, which was 32 years old, did not meet current seismic standards and couldn’t be retrofitted practically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frederick Naujoks, local president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association and a seven-year veteran at SFO, said the controllers had a lot of input into the new tower’s design and the placement of important equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of equipment that we started to get installed in the old tower but that this [new] tower is designed for,” Naujoks said, pointing to ground surveillance radar as an example. “It’s laid out much more ergonomically to where you can use the equipment and still look out the windows at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11134055\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11134055\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_4865-800x600.jpg\" alt=\" Frederick Naujoks, local president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association and a seven-year veteran at SFO\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_4865-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_4865-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_4865-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_4865-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_4865-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frederick Naujoks, local president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association and a seven-year veteran at SFO. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And the look out the window itself is a lot better, Naujoks added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to make this such that the tower controller -- the one talking to the planes as they are landing and departing -- had to move as little as possible, so they could see as much as possible from one position,” Naujoks told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since it’s located between Terminals 1 and 2, travelers can pass by the base of the tower -- and maybe take a photo of it shooting straight up through ceiling windows -- without being able to access the tower itself. 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