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"content": "\u003cp>In 2011, Vikas Dhurka made a stupid mistake. The playwright and tech industry worker fell asleep in the Lufthansa business lounge at Frankfurt Airport — with his phone, wallet and all his travel documents sitting on the table next to him. When he woke up, they were all gone. What followed was a misadventure so dramatic, Dhurka decided to transform his experience into a new play, \u003cem>Airport Insecurity\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/01/18/first-100-days-art-in-the-age-of-trump/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12667846\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/100Days_300x300z-1.jpg\" alt=\"100Days_300x300z\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/100Days_300x300z-1.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/100Days_300x300z-1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/100Days_300x300z-1-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/100Days_300x300z-1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/100Days_300x300z-1-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/100Days_300x300z-1-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/100Days_300x300z-1-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/100Days_300x300z-1-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/100Days_300x300z-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the Silicon Valley-based Naatak theater company didn’t originally intend the play to have political consequences, artistic director Sujit Saraf says it now speaks to a visceral fear people have about their ability to travel in to and out of the United States. “Once you start coming for people for weird reasons which have to do with their race or religion or ethnic background, at some point, no one is safe,” Saraf says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A travel nightmare\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Dhurka is an Indian citizen, working in the United States on a green card as the senior director of product marketing at \u003ca href=\"https://www.pixelworks.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixelworks\u003c/a>, a semiconductor company. At the time of his misadventure, Dhurka had lived and worked in Silicon Valley for more than a decade. But without the documents proving he belonged in the U.S., he was told to book a flight to India and prepare for a long wait — up to two months. You can just imagine the phone call to his heavily pregnant wife in Fremont, about to give birth to their first child, alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12812407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12812407\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24353_i-cMnN3xb-XL-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Priya Kumar, played by Devika Ashok, waits impatiently by the phone as her husband struggles to get back home in Airport Insecurity, produced by the Santa Clara-based theater company Naatak.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24353_i-cMnN3xb-XL-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24353_i-cMnN3xb-XL-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24353_i-cMnN3xb-XL-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24353_i-cMnN3xb-XL-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24353_i-cMnN3xb-XL-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24353_i-cMnN3xb-XL-qut.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24353_i-cMnN3xb-XL-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24353_i-cMnN3xb-XL-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24353_i-cMnN3xb-XL-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Priya Kumar, played by Devika Ashok, waits impatiently by the phone as her husband struggles to get back home in ‘Airport Insecurity,’ produced by the Santa Clara-based theater company Naatak. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Sharma Podila)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, after 48 harrowing hours in Frankfurt, a friendly agent from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security helped Dhurka make it back in time for the birth of his baby boy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, with President Trump’s administration targeting a growing list of people, as well as the \u003ca href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/05/technology/trump-h1b-visas-executive-order/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H-1B visa program\u003c/a> tech companies use to employ thousands of Indians, the Indian community in the San Francisco Bay Area is on edge. “A document becomes your identity in a land that you kinda don’t belong in,” Dhurka says. “And once that piece of paper goes away, you’re a nobody!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/309428405″ 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\u003ch3>Silicon Valley theater takes stronger political edge\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Current events have made Naatak’s play feel politically prescient. But the \u003ca href=\"https://thepear.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pear Theatre\u003c/a> in Mountain View was looking for something overtly political when it scheduled Arthur Miller’s \u003cem>A View From the Bridge\u003c/em> last November, during the run-up to the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the below 1987 interview with the BBC, Arthur Miller describes the context of the Italian community depicted in the play, including a large number of illegal immigrants. “They felt themselves separated from the vast majority of Americans,” Miller says, “by language, by background, and on the waterfront, by the kind of work they did.” But their compatriots were starving in Italy. “America was all there was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45bMF3rKAh8]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A View From the Bridge\u003c/em> tells the story of Eddie, who provides safe haven to two illegal immigrants related to his wife until one takes a shine to his niece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director Ray Renati loves the way the themes in this classic reverberate with present-day politics, and not just on the issue of immigration. “Eddie’s a bully,” Renati says. “No one dares to go against anything that Eddie says, or he will make sure that you pay. Donald Trump does the same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003cem>A View From the Bridge\u003c/em>, Arthur Miller’s politically astute storytelling feels as compelling today as it was in 1955, when the play was written.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a similar vein, Ayad Ahktar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003cem>Disgraced\u003c/em> feels ripped from the headlines. Though it was written long before Trump’s proposed Muslim ban, the drama bristles with rage and despair, as the progressive, liberal, well-to-do Muslim-American character at the play’s center buckles under the weight of prejudice. It’s not an accident \u003cem>Disgraced\u003c/em> is one of the country’s most produced plays, according to American Theatre Magazine’s annual \u003ca href=\"http://www.americantheatre.org/2015/09/16/the-top-10-most-produced-plays-of-the-2015-16-season/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Top 10 List\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12812600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12812600\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24355_Disgraced-Prod-1-qut-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"A Manhattan dinner party starts off in a celebratory mood, before the conversation devolves into tribal politics, in Disgraced, finishing a run at the San Jose Stage Company.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24355_Disgraced-Prod-1-qut-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24355_Disgraced-Prod-1-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24355_Disgraced-Prod-1-qut-768x431.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24355_Disgraced-Prod-1-qut-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24355_Disgraced-Prod-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24355_Disgraced-Prod-1-qut-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24355_Disgraced-Prod-1-qut-960x539.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24355_Disgraced-Prod-1-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24355_Disgraced-Prod-1-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS24355_Disgraced-Prod-1-qut-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Manhattan dinner party starts off in a celebratory mood, before the conversation devolves into tribal politics, in Disgraced, finishing a run at the San Jose Stage Company. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Dave Lepori)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Disgraced\u003c/em> is currently finishing its run at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thestage.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose Stage Company\u003c/a>, where artistic director Randall King says American culture is at a critical boiling point, and the theater, because it’s nimble and visceral, is well-equipped to foster an enlightened political discussion. “We have to say something,” King says. “We have to do something. I don’t think I’ve felt this sense of urgency, ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Naatak’s ‘Airport Insecurity’ runs through Saturday, Mar. 4, 2017 at the Cubberley Theatre in Palo Alto. More info \u003ca href=\"http://www.naatak.com/buy-tickets/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘A View From the Bridge’ runs through Sunday, Apr. 2, 2017 at the Pear Theatre in Mountain View. More info \u003ca href=\"https://thepear.org/boxoffice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Disgraced’ runs through Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017 at The Stage in San Jose. More info \u003ca href=\"https://www.thestage.org/tickets/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>SAN MATEO — Little surprises Lynda Sutherland, who has been a licensed vocational nurse for 35 years at San Mateo Medical Center. But in the past few years, Sutherland said, she’s been surprised by what’s missing: the patients who used to return again and again to the public hospital for the same ailments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re just not coming back,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spurred by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), medical centers like this one have overhauled the way they deliver care in an effort to keep patients healthier and out of hospital beds. They have connected newly insured patients with primary care doctors in outpatient clinics, helped them manage chronic diseases and tried to reduce their reliance on emergency rooms for routine care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans pledging to repeal Obamacare, such hospitals fear the gains they have made could be lost or diminished. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of a new podcast series, \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/american-suburb/id1287748328?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“American Suburb,” from KQED\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jim Harbaugh, the head coach of University of Michigan football and the former San Francisco 49ers coach, stepped onto the Antioch High School football field last fall, everyone knew he was there for Najee Harris -- the nation’s No. 1 high school recruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd had come to see him, too. Harris and the team have notched up a winning record, inspiring many in the community to turn out for games: the old-timers from the team’s past glory days and the many newcomers who have moved into Antioch in recent years, seeking a better life in this Bay Area suburb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen a lot of people that have come to these games the last couple of years that I haven’t seen at Antioch games for 20 years,” said Frank Mercado, 63, who played football for Antioch High. \"It helps that Najee Harris is here. He’s brought a lot of people in and it’s been really good for the town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327611\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11327611 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee-backfield-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Najee Harris, the country's No. 1 high school football recruit, broke the city's all-time single game rushing record in 2015 with 396 yards.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee-backfield-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee-backfield-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee-backfield-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee-backfield-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee-backfield-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee-backfield-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee-backfield-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee-backfield-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee-backfield-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Najee Harris, the country's No. 1 high school football recruit, broke the city's all-time single-game rushing record in 2015 with 396 yards. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The team has become a rallying point for Antioch, which has struggled over the years as it was transformed from a working-class town into the diverse bedroom community it is today. Cities like Antioch have been some of the \u003ca href=\"http://urbanhabitat.org/sites/default/files/UH%20Policy%20Brief2016.pdf\">fastest-growing places\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, with gentrification in places like San Francisco and Oakland pushing people to leave, and they’ve had challenges handling the population boom and the newcomers who have moved into town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From Sleepy Town to Sprawling Suburb\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the changes began in Antioch in the late 1990s, with the waves of new people, many of them minorities, arriving in the small, mostly white community. The city's population went from 62,195 in 1990 to 102,745 in 2010, according to \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/prevention/pdf/Health-Indicators-and-Environmental-Factors-Related-to-Obesity-2013.pdf\">census data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some longtime residents welcomed the newcomers; others didn’t. Problems that accompanied the community’s growth -- including violent crime, which rose \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2008/01/29/violent-crime-in-antioch-up-31-percent/\">31 percent\u003c/a> in 2007, and poverty -- led some longtime residents to place the blame on the newcomers, causing rifts and fissures to surface along racial and socioeconomic lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was natural that as the city experienced growing pains, some older residents blamed their new neighbors, said Antioch Police Chief Allan Cantando.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If people are coming in that look different, and people perceive it as worse, then the correlation is, well it’s them, that’s what’s causing it,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, these tensions boiled over in the mid-2000s: A mosque was set on fire, a mixed-race youth was beaten up and robbed at a football game, a group of black teenagers was expelled from school after a melee with police at a gas station near school, and women living in Section 8 housing (homes for lower-income individuals) accused city officials of trying to push them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of “Quality of Life” forums hosted by Antioch leaders over several years to address the problems revealed the depth of the divisions, with one man recounting how he’d received several letters telling him: “You all haven’t been in this house for two weeks and it looks like a dump. ... Just load up the U-Haul and go back to Richmond or Oakland. You don’t belong in Antioch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things have gotten better in Antioch since then: The city, hit hard by the nationwide recession, is emerging from it. Antioch High is performing better as a school. And some believe the racial tensions have improved, that people have learned to talk to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And one thing that’s part of the mix is the Antioch High football team -- with the help of Najee Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harris: Antioch Migrant\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris in many ways is emblematic of the newcomers: He bounced around the Bay Area before ending up in Antioch, nicknamed “Rivertown” for its location near the mouth of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327610\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee_before-game-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Najee Harris gets taped up before the homecoming game against Liberty High School.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee_before-game-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee_before-game-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee_before-game-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee_before-game-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee_before-game-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee_before-game-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee_before-game-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee_before-game-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee_before-game-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Najee Harris gets taped up before the homecoming game against Liberty High School. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When asked where he’s lived the longest, Harris said, “Antioch. Four years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris lived with his brother, sister and mom, who moved the family to one of the roughest parts of Antioch because it was cheap. It’s a short walk to the high school, which has at times been associated with the poorer part of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Najee said his favorite thing about Antioch is the people, including those who live in his neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hood people -- like the drug dealers and stuff -- they always come to me and say, ‘Man, I’m hearing a lot of stuff about you. Whatever you do, man, just hopefully you make it out of here and represent us,’ ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are the longtime residents -- the old football players and coaches -- who are coming out to the games and who tell Harris they appreciate what he’s doing for the school and city. Some of them are reliving their glory days, being transported back in time to when football was huge in Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d have people crying to me. It’s weird,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris has helped to bridge a gap between older residents and those newcomers like him -- and that’s momentum Antioch High Principal Louie Rocha would like to build on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Principal's Mission: The Best Days Are Yet To Come\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the city was going through its growing pains, Rocha kept a mantra: The best days of Antioch High are still ahead -- a tough sell in a community experiencing a lot of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growth in population and emerging cultures in Antioch have been hard on both longtime residents who feel like they’ve lost part of their town’s identity, and on those moving into these suburban communities searching for a place to belong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that probably was most disturbing for me living in the community was the perception by many that the best days of Antioch High School were in the past,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327609\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2802-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Louie Rocha graduated from Antioch High School in 1979 and became principal of the school in 2006.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2802-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2802-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2802-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2802-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2802-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2802-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2802-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2802-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2802-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louie Rocha graduated from Antioch High School in 1979 and became principal of the school in 2006. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Rocha took over the school in 2006, the community was grappling with problems on many fronts: the racial tensions were surfacing at the “Quality of Life” forums; the city was heading into the recession and was about to be hit hard with foreclosures; and \u003ca href=\"http://confrontingsuburbanpoverty.org/the-communities/east-contra-costa-co-san-francisco/#sthash.96iiHLb5.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poverty was already on the rise\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school was suffering badly, too. Antioch High hadn’t had any major repairs since opening at its current location in 1954. The school had many needs: new science and computer labs, a cafeteria and sports facilities, including a new football field -- a modern overhaul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the district put a $56 million school bond measure on the ballot. Though it was the middle of the recession, the town rallied behind it in the November general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was almost a fatalistic viewpoint,” said Rocha, who saw the measure as a test of what the school meant to Antioch. “The stakes were so high. If we hadn’t passed that bond measure I don’t know what we were going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first project funded was the new football field. The year it officially opened, 2015, was when Harris hit his stride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Friday Night Lights: It’s Game Night\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris led the Panthers to an undefeated regular season record that year -- one last achieved when Rocha played on the team in 1979. It was enough to bring people from across the city out to the games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Najee has really brought football back to Antioch,” said Gayle Autentico, a former Antioch High cheerleader who graduated in 1956. “It’s brought people out who probably didn’t go for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327612\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327612\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2569-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Randy and Gayle Autentico dated while at Antioch High School. Randy was a quarterback. Gail was a cheerleader. Both are pictured in their original sweaters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2569-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2569-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2569-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2569-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2569-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2569-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2569-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2569-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2569-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randy and Gayle Autentico dated while at Antioch High School. Randy was a quarterback. Gail was a cheerleader. Both are pictured in their original sweaters. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Gayle and her husband, Randy Autentico -- a former Antioch High quarterback -- joined their classmates at a football game for their 60\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> reunion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the night lights, the yellow-and-black Panther colors shone bright against the verdant artificial grass. The school kept the old bleachers but put a fresh coat of paint on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch High has been able to keep that traditional feel, and Rocha has tried to make his school a place for everybody. It seems like it’s working, offering new and old residents a shared pride to coalesce around in a way that's been difficult to do otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Antioch is becoming a better place, especially with football,” said Briana Davis, a senior and Antioch High cheerleader. “I think football is really bringing Antioch together as a community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Najee Harris graduated early and left Antioch to play football at the University of Alabama. Some wonder whether people will continue showing up to the games next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rocha said his real pride isn’t what happens on the field. It’s the students being active off the field who are helping him try to ensure that the best days of Antioch High are still ahead.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of a new podcast series, \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/american-suburb/id1287748328?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“American Suburb,” from KQED\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jim Harbaugh, the head coach of University of Michigan football and the former San Francisco 49ers coach, stepped onto the Antioch High School football field last fall, everyone knew he was there for Najee Harris -- the nation’s No. 1 high school recruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd had come to see him, too. Harris and the team have notched up a winning record, inspiring many in the community to turn out for games: the old-timers from the team’s past glory days and the many newcomers who have moved into Antioch in recent years, seeking a better life in this Bay Area suburb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen a lot of people that have come to these games the last couple of years that I haven’t seen at Antioch games for 20 years,” said Frank Mercado, 63, who played football for Antioch High. \"It helps that Najee Harris is here. He’s brought a lot of people in and it’s been really good for the town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327611\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11327611 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee-backfield-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Najee Harris, the country's No. 1 high school football recruit, broke the city's all-time single game rushing record in 2015 with 396 yards.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee-backfield-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee-backfield-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee-backfield-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee-backfield-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee-backfield-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee-backfield-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee-backfield-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee-backfield-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee-backfield-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Najee Harris, the country's No. 1 high school football recruit, broke the city's all-time single-game rushing record in 2015 with 396 yards. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The team has become a rallying point for Antioch, which has struggled over the years as it was transformed from a working-class town into the diverse bedroom community it is today. Cities like Antioch have been some of the \u003ca href=\"http://urbanhabitat.org/sites/default/files/UH%20Policy%20Brief2016.pdf\">fastest-growing places\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, with gentrification in places like San Francisco and Oakland pushing people to leave, and they’ve had challenges handling the population boom and the newcomers who have moved into town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From Sleepy Town to Sprawling Suburb\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the changes began in Antioch in the late 1990s, with the waves of new people, many of them minorities, arriving in the small, mostly white community. The city's population went from 62,195 in 1990 to 102,745 in 2010, according to \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/prevention/pdf/Health-Indicators-and-Environmental-Factors-Related-to-Obesity-2013.pdf\">census data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some longtime residents welcomed the newcomers; others didn’t. Problems that accompanied the community’s growth -- including violent crime, which rose \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2008/01/29/violent-crime-in-antioch-up-31-percent/\">31 percent\u003c/a> in 2007, and poverty -- led some longtime residents to place the blame on the newcomers, causing rifts and fissures to surface along racial and socioeconomic lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was natural that as the city experienced growing pains, some older residents blamed their new neighbors, said Antioch Police Chief Allan Cantando.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If people are coming in that look different, and people perceive it as worse, then the correlation is, well it’s them, that’s what’s causing it,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, these tensions boiled over in the mid-2000s: A mosque was set on fire, a mixed-race youth was beaten up and robbed at a football game, a group of black teenagers was expelled from school after a melee with police at a gas station near school, and women living in Section 8 housing (homes for lower-income individuals) accused city officials of trying to push them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of “Quality of Life” forums hosted by Antioch leaders over several years to address the problems revealed the depth of the divisions, with one man recounting how he’d received several letters telling him: “You all haven’t been in this house for two weeks and it looks like a dump. ... Just load up the U-Haul and go back to Richmond or Oakland. You don’t belong in Antioch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things have gotten better in Antioch since then: The city, hit hard by the nationwide recession, is emerging from it. Antioch High is performing better as a school. And some believe the racial tensions have improved, that people have learned to talk to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And one thing that’s part of the mix is the Antioch High football team -- with the help of Najee Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harris: Antioch Migrant\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris in many ways is emblematic of the newcomers: He bounced around the Bay Area before ending up in Antioch, nicknamed “Rivertown” for its location near the mouth of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327610\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee_before-game-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Najee Harris gets taped up before the homecoming game against Liberty High School.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee_before-game-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee_before-game-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee_before-game-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee_before-game-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee_before-game-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee_before-game-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee_before-game-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee_before-game-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/najee_before-game-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Najee Harris gets taped up before the homecoming game against Liberty High School. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When asked where he’s lived the longest, Harris said, “Antioch. Four years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris lived with his brother, sister and mom, who moved the family to one of the roughest parts of Antioch because it was cheap. It’s a short walk to the high school, which has at times been associated with the poorer part of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Najee said his favorite thing about Antioch is the people, including those who live in his neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hood people -- like the drug dealers and stuff -- they always come to me and say, ‘Man, I’m hearing a lot of stuff about you. Whatever you do, man, just hopefully you make it out of here and represent us,’ ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are the longtime residents -- the old football players and coaches -- who are coming out to the games and who tell Harris they appreciate what he’s doing for the school and city. Some of them are reliving their glory days, being transported back in time to when football was huge in Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d have people crying to me. It’s weird,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris has helped to bridge a gap between older residents and those newcomers like him -- and that’s momentum Antioch High Principal Louie Rocha would like to build on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Principal's Mission: The Best Days Are Yet To Come\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the city was going through its growing pains, Rocha kept a mantra: The best days of Antioch High are still ahead -- a tough sell in a community experiencing a lot of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growth in population and emerging cultures in Antioch have been hard on both longtime residents who feel like they’ve lost part of their town’s identity, and on those moving into these suburban communities searching for a place to belong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that probably was most disturbing for me living in the community was the perception by many that the best days of Antioch High School were in the past,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327609\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2802-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Louie Rocha graduated from Antioch High School in 1979 and became principal of the school in 2006.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2802-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2802-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2802-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2802-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2802-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2802-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2802-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2802-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2802-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louie Rocha graduated from Antioch High School in 1979 and became principal of the school in 2006. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Rocha took over the school in 2006, the community was grappling with problems on many fronts: the racial tensions were surfacing at the “Quality of Life” forums; the city was heading into the recession and was about to be hit hard with foreclosures; and \u003ca href=\"http://confrontingsuburbanpoverty.org/the-communities/east-contra-costa-co-san-francisco/#sthash.96iiHLb5.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poverty was already on the rise\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school was suffering badly, too. Antioch High hadn’t had any major repairs since opening at its current location in 1954. The school had many needs: new science and computer labs, a cafeteria and sports facilities, including a new football field -- a modern overhaul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the district put a $56 million school bond measure on the ballot. Though it was the middle of the recession, the town rallied behind it in the November general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was almost a fatalistic viewpoint,” said Rocha, who saw the measure as a test of what the school meant to Antioch. “The stakes were so high. If we hadn’t passed that bond measure I don’t know what we were going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first project funded was the new football field. The year it officially opened, 2015, was when Harris hit his stride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Friday Night Lights: It’s Game Night\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris led the Panthers to an undefeated regular season record that year -- one last achieved when Rocha played on the team in 1979. It was enough to bring people from across the city out to the games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Najee has really brought football back to Antioch,” said Gayle Autentico, a former Antioch High cheerleader who graduated in 1956. “It’s brought people out who probably didn’t go for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327612\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327612\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2569-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Randy and Gayle Autentico dated while at Antioch High School. Randy was a quarterback. Gail was a cheerleader. Both are pictured in their original sweaters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2569-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2569-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2569-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2569-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2569-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2569-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2569-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2569-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_2569-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randy and Gayle Autentico dated while at Antioch High School. Randy was a quarterback. Gail was a cheerleader. Both are pictured in their original sweaters. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Gayle and her husband, Randy Autentico -- a former Antioch High quarterback -- joined their classmates at a football game for their 60\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> reunion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the night lights, the yellow-and-black Panther colors shone bright against the verdant artificial grass. The school kept the old bleachers but put a fresh coat of paint on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch High has been able to keep that traditional feel, and Rocha has tried to make his school a place for everybody. It seems like it’s working, offering new and old residents a shared pride to coalesce around in a way that's been difficult to do otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Antioch is becoming a better place, especially with football,” said Briana Davis, a senior and Antioch High cheerleader. “I think football is really bringing Antioch together as a community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Najee Harris graduated early and left Antioch to play football at the University of Alabama. Some wonder whether people will continue showing up to the games next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Case 7682299: Aug. 1, 2010. A mother gives her toddler three homeopathic pills to relieve her teething pain. Within minutes, the baby stops breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My daughter had a seizure, lost consciousness, and stopped breathing about 30 minutes after I gave her three Hyland’s Teething Tablets,” the mother later told the Food and Drug Administration. “She had to receive mouth-to-mouth CPR to resume breathing and was brought to the hospital.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hylands.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Hyland’s\u003c/a>, promotes “safe, effective, and natural health solutions” that appeal to parents seeking alternative treatments. But the agency would soon hear much more about Hyland’s teething products. Staff at the FDA would come to consider Case 7682299 one of the luckier outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_341968\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-341968 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A review of FDA records shows that some babies who were given Hyland’s teething products had repeated seizures, became delirious or turned blue and died. \" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-150x150.jpg 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A review of FDA records shows that some babies who were given Hyland’s teething products had repeated seizures, became delirious or turned blue and died. \u003ccite>(Photo from FDA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A review of FDA records obtained by STAT under the Freedom of Information Act paints a far grimmer picture: Babies who were given Hyland’s teething products turned blue and died. Babies had repeated seizures. Babies became delirious. Babies were airlifted to the hospital, where emergency room staff tried to figure out what had caused their legs and arms to start twitching.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a 10-year period, from 2006 to 2016, the FDA collected reports of “adverse events” in more than 370 children who had used Hyland’s homeopathic teething tablets or gel, a similar product that is applied directly to a baby’s gums. Agency records show eight cases in which babies were reported to have died after taking Hyland’s products, though the FDA says the question of whether those products caused the deaths is still under review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The agency is also investigating two other deaths tied to teething remedies but declined to confirm the manufacturer of the products or provide the case reports.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following an \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm523468.htm\" target=\"_blank\">FDA warning in September\u003c/a>, Hyland’s said that it \u003ca href=\"https://www.hylands.com/hylands-discontinues-teething-tablets-and-gels\" target=\"_blank\">would no longer manufacture\u003c/a> the teething products. But they remained on some store shelves for months, and are still available on the internet. They likely continue to be used in homes nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hyland’s, a 114-year-old private company based in Los Angeles, is the nation’s largest homeopathic business. It insists its products are safe and says the FDA has failed to show there is a scientific link between them and infant seizures or other complications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That doesn’t mean that children don’t have a sensitivity to a product. There is a lot of sensitivity on kids’ parts and we have to watch carefully,” said a spokeswoman, Mary Borneman. “It’s not something that condemns the entire product line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind each of the FDA case numbers are angry and, in some cases, heartbroken parents. But a STAT examination — and the first detailed look at the case reports — also raises questions over the response of regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took four years until the FDA pushed Hyland’s to reformulate its remedies, in 2010. In the seven years since then, there has been a steady stream of reports of adverse events tied to Hyland’s homeopathic teething products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The FDA could bring the hammer down on them,” said Sarah Sorscher, an attorney for the nonprofit Public Citizen Health Research Group. “But it doesn’t. At the point where you have infants being hospitalized and deaths reported, it’s simply not acceptable for the agency to delay in taking action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An FDA spokeswoman defended the agency’s handling of the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is important to note that while adverse event reports give us some information about a product and serious injuries or deaths related to use of a particular product, they often indicate situations that require additional analysis and do not constitute conclusive evidence of a problem with the product,” the spokeswoman, Lyndsay Meyer, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the FDA’s difficulty in proving Hyland’s products harmed children, some doctors had no doubt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In case 462749, dated Sept. 15, 2011, a physician sent Hyland’s a handwritten note, stating his patient, a 5-month-old girl, was unresponsive for 45 minutes after taking its teething tablets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am sure this was not an allergic reaction,” he wrote. “I would like you to report it, find a contact at the FDA, so we can start an investigation and pull this dangerous, unregulated product from the shelves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One mother wrote the company to say her son’s pupils dilated “like marbles with big black eyes.” Another described seizures her daughter continued to have after taking the tablets and told the company, “I hate hate hate u for this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_342003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-342003 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"homeophathadverse\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adverse event report on Hyland' teething tablets, sent to FDA. \u003ccite>(Photo by STAT)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Industry Giant in a Giant Industry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hyland’s and its parent company, Standard Homeopathy Co., are considered major players in the homeopathic market. CEO \u003ca href=\"https://www.hylands.com/meet-the-team/jay-borneman\" target=\"_blank\">John P. Borneman\u003c/a> comes from a family that has been in the business for generations, and is president of the industry group that publishes the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia, a compendium that serves as the bible of the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company sells dozens of products for pain relief, stress, sleep problems, allergies, flu, and other maladies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with all homeopathic treatments, Hyland’s products are based on a theory that patients can benefit from highly diluted natural substances that, in their original form, might make people sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite a lack of scientific evidence that homeopathic remedies work, they are ubiquitous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeopathy has become a multibillion-dollar industry. Its products are big sellers around the world, and popular with adherents from Cher to Prince Charles. The industry also has political clout: It has been able to exempt itself from many rules proposed by Congress and the FDA over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike pharmaceutical company-produced drugs, homeopathic products don’t have to prove that they are effective at treating anything in particular before going on the market. It is left to the FDA’s drug division to determine whether they are unsafe after they are on the market — a difficult task since the adverse event reports are generally considered to represent only a fraction of the actual incidents and may lack sufficient information to allow for thorough investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I’m working in the emergency room and I have a family that comes in with a seizing infant, I may not have the wherewithal to get the history of homeopathic use,” said Dr. Edward W. Boyer, a toxicologist in Harvard Medical School’s emergency medicine department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, parents assume that products described as natural remedies, as is the case with Hyland’s tablets and gels, could not possibly result in complications, and never mention their use to a doctor. Without sufficient evidence of a problem, the FDA lacks what it needs to use the enforcement tools it does have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Karinna Talbott, a 26-year-old mother in Colorado Springs, the fact that Hyland’s teething products were labeled “natural” made her lower her guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When our fourth kiddo comes around and starts teething at three months, we were like, ‘OK, what can we do to give him some relief?’” Talbott said. “Someone told us about the teething tablets and we thought, ‘give them a try.' ’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after her son began taking the tablets, she said, his hands began twitching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t correlate it to the teething tablets,” Talbott said. “And his symptoms got worse, went to his arms and his feet. Sometimes they all happened together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talbott said her doctor was at first uncertain as to the cause. But when they stopped giving him the tablets, the seizures also stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The neurologist said, maybe he was a little sensitive to the products in the teething tablet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Deadly nightshade’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In investigating Hyland’s teething products, the FDA focused on an ingredient known as atropa belladonna, an herb known colloquially as “deadly nightshade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In diluted form, the substance is not expected to pose any health risk. In 2010, however, FDA inspectors who examined Hyland’s facilities criticized the company for substandard manufacturing practices and found inconsistent levels of atropa belladonna in its products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency issued a public warning, noting “reports of serious adverse events in children taking this product that are consistent with belladonna toxicity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also noted that “infants are very susceptible to the neurotoxicity of drugs” because of how the body distributes and responds to drugs, and noted that “absorption of belladonna from the skin and mouth was fairly rapid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company voluntarily took the products off shelves and agreed to reformulate them, although it insisted they were safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt it was the right thing to do so that parents didn’t have to be concerned about the product,” said Borneman, the spokeswoman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the number of serious adverse events tied by the FDA to the products kept climbing. Some pediatricians and neurologists concluded the tablets and gels were the cause. Many parents wrote to the FDA, accusingly, asking why the pills were still on the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My son had 3 of Hyland’s Teething Tablets,” a mother told FDA on Feb. 13, 2012, noting that the product appeared to have caused several seizures. “I am shocked at the popularity of this product, which is growing, and the lack of knowledge among parents, as well as the lack of warnings on the labels. Parents desperately need to be warned about this product if it is going to stay on the shelves!!!! Please do something!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2016, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm523468.htm\" target=\"_blank\">FDA announced\u003c/a> that it was investigating more adverse events reports and recommended that consumers stop using Hyland’s and other homeopathic teething products and dispose of any in their possession. Some stores, including Target and CVS, which sold Hyland’s and other homeopathic teething products, pulled them in response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA also asked Hyland’s to recall its products again. But this time Hyland’s stood its ground, and the agency has no authority to enforce a recall of homeopathic products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borneman said the company’s “pharmacovigilance program,” a product safety review system launched after 2010, offers proof that the treatments are safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homeopathic medicine has a very large margin of safety,” she said. “Our testing ensures there’s not too much belladonna in any bottle” of tablets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the company decided to stop manufacturing the teething tablets. In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.hylands.com/hylands-discontinues-teething-tablets-and-gels\" target=\"_blank\">open letter to customers\u003c/a>, Hyland’s said the FDA warning had “created confusion among parents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Putting you in a position of having to choose who to trust in the face of contradictory information is burdensome and undermines the FDA,” the company said, while insisting Hyland’s products, “including those you already have, are safe for use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several weeks ago, on Jan. 27, the FDA \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm538684.htm\" target=\"_blank\">issued another warning\u003c/a>, saying that laboratory analysis of Hyland’s teething tablets found levels of belladonna “sometimes far exceeding the amount claimed on the label.” The agency warned consumers not to use the products and to seek medical care immediately if their child has seizures, difficulty breathing, lethargy, muscle weakness, or other problems after using homeopathic teething products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA also said there was no evidence that they actually worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_342006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-342006 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathicevent.jpg\" alt=\"homeopathicevent\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathicevent.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathicevent-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathicevent-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathicevent-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathicevent-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Report sent to FDA by a physician. \u003ccite>(Photo by STAT)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cracks in the FDA’s Authority\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With concerns about toxic levels of belladonna, and the sheer number of cases of adverse events, some critics — and parents — say the FDA should have moved faster in the case of Hyland’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they also acknowledge that the episode underlines the cracks in the agency’s regulatory power when it comes to homeopathic products. There is no set mathematical formula or official standard that spells out how many sick or deceased children must be reported before the FDA seizes a company’s inventory or levies fines or shuts it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the fact that homeopathic products are generally highly diluted has kept them on the FDA’s back burner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s low on their priority list,” said Dr. Aaron S. Kesselheim, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1513393#t=article\" target=\"_blank\">coauthored a paper\u003c/a> in the New England Journal of Medicine last year on the subject. “FDA for a long time just kind of deferred on homeopathic products because they are mostly inert and so diluted. The harm comes from people wasting their money, or diverting them from things that do work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of some of Hyland’s products, however, Kesselheim believes that the toxic levels of belladonna show a substantial safety problem, putting a responsibility on FDA to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One problem the FDA has in doing so is a matter of staffing: The agency has a medical officer review each report from manufacturers, but it doesn’t have someone who can routinely follow up with the patient, the patient’s family, or physician for missing records necessary to take a serious enforcement action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it fair to criticize FDA for the time lag between 2010 and now?” says Patricia Zettler, a former FDA counsel and associate law professor at Georgia State University. “I think the agency is in a tough position, with these kinds of products and with adverse event reports in general. They are not necessarily a perfect indication of something happening with a drug.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That said,” Zettler added, “it does sound like this is a product the agency was concerned about. It’s tough to parse out whether two reports of seizures should have been enough, or three or 10. There’s a balance the agency has to strike between acting quickly on safety information and not overreacting to something that may not actually be caused by the product.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Citizen’s Sorscher said criminal cases take years to pursue, so the FDA would much prefer voluntary compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have a mechanism to say, ‘this ingredient is unsafe, nobody should sell it,’” she said. “It might be time for Congress to give FDA a standard and say, you can issue a regulation saying no one can make it anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outraged by the standoff between FDA and Hyland’s, Connecticut Democratic Representative Rosa DeLauro \u003ca href=\"https://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/delauro-introduces-bill-give-fda-mandatory-recall-authority-over-drugs\" target=\"_blank\">introduced a bill last week\u003c/a> called the Recall Unsafe Drugs Act. The proposal would give the FDA mandatory recall authority over homeopathic products and drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hyland’s refusal to recall its teething tablets, despite numerous health and safety warnings from the FDA, is downright shameful,” DeLauro said, adding that the company “is choosing instead to prioritize the company’s profits and reputation before the safety of our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As it stands the FDA would have to go through an arduous legal process to take action against manufacturers such as Hyland’s. This is unacceptable and threatens the health and safety of American families.’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the parents of Case 10723317, any action would come too late. A mother reported that on July 9, 2014, her 9-month-old daughter died after being given two teething tablets, crushed, for the first time. She gave her infant the tablets, then a bottle, and then left her to sleep. When she checked on her 45 minutes later, she was dead in her crib, beside a puddle of vomit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five months later, after reading online reports suggesting babies may experience seizures after taking belladonna, she contacted Hyland’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Customer did not request a refund or replacement,” noted the Hyland’s staffer who filed the report with the FDA. Hyland’s also noted that it was not able to test the bottle, because the customer threw it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due to the limited information provided by the reporter no further investigation is possible at this time of this incident,” the company concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ike Swetlitz contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/21/hylands-homeopathic-teething-fda/\" target=\"_blank\">story\u003c/a> was originally published by STAT, an online publication of Boston Globe Media that covers health, medicine, and scientific discovery.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Case 7682299: Aug. 1, 2010. A mother gives her toddler three homeopathic pills to relieve her teething pain. Within minutes, the baby stops breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My daughter had a seizure, lost consciousness, and stopped breathing about 30 minutes after I gave her three Hyland’s Teething Tablets,” the mother later told the Food and Drug Administration. “She had to receive mouth-to-mouth CPR to resume breathing and was brought to the hospital.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hylands.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Hyland’s\u003c/a>, promotes “safe, effective, and natural health solutions” that appeal to parents seeking alternative treatments. But the agency would soon hear much more about Hyland’s teething products. Staff at the FDA would come to consider Case 7682299 one of the luckier outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_341968\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-341968 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A review of FDA records shows that some babies who were given Hyland’s teething products had repeated seizures, became delirious or turned blue and died. \" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic-150x150.jpg 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathic.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A review of FDA records shows that some babies who were given Hyland’s teething products had repeated seizures, became delirious or turned blue and died. \u003ccite>(Photo from FDA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A review of FDA records obtained by STAT under the Freedom of Information Act paints a far grimmer picture: Babies who were given Hyland’s teething products turned blue and died. Babies had repeated seizures. Babies became delirious. Babies were airlifted to the hospital, where emergency room staff tried to figure out what had caused their legs and arms to start twitching.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a 10-year period, from 2006 to 2016, the FDA collected reports of “adverse events” in more than 370 children who had used Hyland’s homeopathic teething tablets or gel, a similar product that is applied directly to a baby’s gums. Agency records show eight cases in which babies were reported to have died after taking Hyland’s products, though the FDA says the question of whether those products caused the deaths is still under review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The agency is also investigating two other deaths tied to teething remedies but declined to confirm the manufacturer of the products or provide the case reports.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following an \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm523468.htm\" target=\"_blank\">FDA warning in September\u003c/a>, Hyland’s said that it \u003ca href=\"https://www.hylands.com/hylands-discontinues-teething-tablets-and-gels\" target=\"_blank\">would no longer manufacture\u003c/a> the teething products. But they remained on some store shelves for months, and are still available on the internet. They likely continue to be used in homes nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hyland’s, a 114-year-old private company based in Los Angeles, is the nation’s largest homeopathic business. It insists its products are safe and says the FDA has failed to show there is a scientific link between them and infant seizures or other complications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That doesn’t mean that children don’t have a sensitivity to a product. There is a lot of sensitivity on kids’ parts and we have to watch carefully,” said a spokeswoman, Mary Borneman. “It’s not something that condemns the entire product line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind each of the FDA case numbers are angry and, in some cases, heartbroken parents. But a STAT examination — and the first detailed look at the case reports — also raises questions over the response of regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took four years until the FDA pushed Hyland’s to reformulate its remedies, in 2010. In the seven years since then, there has been a steady stream of reports of adverse events tied to Hyland’s homeopathic teething products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The FDA could bring the hammer down on them,” said Sarah Sorscher, an attorney for the nonprofit Public Citizen Health Research Group. “But it doesn’t. At the point where you have infants being hospitalized and deaths reported, it’s simply not acceptable for the agency to delay in taking action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An FDA spokeswoman defended the agency’s handling of the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is important to note that while adverse event reports give us some information about a product and serious injuries or deaths related to use of a particular product, they often indicate situations that require additional analysis and do not constitute conclusive evidence of a problem with the product,” the spokeswoman, Lyndsay Meyer, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the FDA’s difficulty in proving Hyland’s products harmed children, some doctors had no doubt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In case 462749, dated Sept. 15, 2011, a physician sent Hyland’s a handwritten note, stating his patient, a 5-month-old girl, was unresponsive for 45 minutes after taking its teething tablets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am sure this was not an allergic reaction,” he wrote. “I would like you to report it, find a contact at the FDA, so we can start an investigation and pull this dangerous, unregulated product from the shelves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One mother wrote the company to say her son’s pupils dilated “like marbles with big black eyes.” Another described seizures her daughter continued to have after taking the tablets and told the company, “I hate hate hate u for this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_342003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-342003 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"homeophathadverse\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeophathadverse-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adverse event report on Hyland' teething tablets, sent to FDA. \u003ccite>(Photo by STAT)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Industry Giant in a Giant Industry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hyland’s and its parent company, Standard Homeopathy Co., are considered major players in the homeopathic market. CEO \u003ca href=\"https://www.hylands.com/meet-the-team/jay-borneman\" target=\"_blank\">John P. Borneman\u003c/a> comes from a family that has been in the business for generations, and is president of the industry group that publishes the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia, a compendium that serves as the bible of the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company sells dozens of products for pain relief, stress, sleep problems, allergies, flu, and other maladies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with all homeopathic treatments, Hyland’s products are based on a theory that patients can benefit from highly diluted natural substances that, in their original form, might make people sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite a lack of scientific evidence that homeopathic remedies work, they are ubiquitous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeopathy has become a multibillion-dollar industry. Its products are big sellers around the world, and popular with adherents from Cher to Prince Charles. The industry also has political clout: It has been able to exempt itself from many rules proposed by Congress and the FDA over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike pharmaceutical company-produced drugs, homeopathic products don’t have to prove that they are effective at treating anything in particular before going on the market. It is left to the FDA’s drug division to determine whether they are unsafe after they are on the market — a difficult task since the adverse event reports are generally considered to represent only a fraction of the actual incidents and may lack sufficient information to allow for thorough investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I’m working in the emergency room and I have a family that comes in with a seizing infant, I may not have the wherewithal to get the history of homeopathic use,” said Dr. Edward W. Boyer, a toxicologist in Harvard Medical School’s emergency medicine department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, parents assume that products described as natural remedies, as is the case with Hyland’s tablets and gels, could not possibly result in complications, and never mention their use to a doctor. Without sufficient evidence of a problem, the FDA lacks what it needs to use the enforcement tools it does have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Karinna Talbott, a 26-year-old mother in Colorado Springs, the fact that Hyland’s teething products were labeled “natural” made her lower her guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When our fourth kiddo comes around and starts teething at three months, we were like, ‘OK, what can we do to give him some relief?’” Talbott said. “Someone told us about the teething tablets and we thought, ‘give them a try.' ’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after her son began taking the tablets, she said, his hands began twitching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t correlate it to the teething tablets,” Talbott said. “And his symptoms got worse, went to his arms and his feet. Sometimes they all happened together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talbott said her doctor was at first uncertain as to the cause. But when they stopped giving him the tablets, the seizures also stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The neurologist said, maybe he was a little sensitive to the products in the teething tablet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Deadly nightshade’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In investigating Hyland’s teething products, the FDA focused on an ingredient known as atropa belladonna, an herb known colloquially as “deadly nightshade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In diluted form, the substance is not expected to pose any health risk. In 2010, however, FDA inspectors who examined Hyland’s facilities criticized the company for substandard manufacturing practices and found inconsistent levels of atropa belladonna in its products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency issued a public warning, noting “reports of serious adverse events in children taking this product that are consistent with belladonna toxicity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also noted that “infants are very susceptible to the neurotoxicity of drugs” because of how the body distributes and responds to drugs, and noted that “absorption of belladonna from the skin and mouth was fairly rapid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company voluntarily took the products off shelves and agreed to reformulate them, although it insisted they were safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt it was the right thing to do so that parents didn’t have to be concerned about the product,” said Borneman, the spokeswoman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the number of serious adverse events tied by the FDA to the products kept climbing. Some pediatricians and neurologists concluded the tablets and gels were the cause. Many parents wrote to the FDA, accusingly, asking why the pills were still on the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My son had 3 of Hyland’s Teething Tablets,” a mother told FDA on Feb. 13, 2012, noting that the product appeared to have caused several seizures. “I am shocked at the popularity of this product, which is growing, and the lack of knowledge among parents, as well as the lack of warnings on the labels. Parents desperately need to be warned about this product if it is going to stay on the shelves!!!! Please do something!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2016, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm523468.htm\" target=\"_blank\">FDA announced\u003c/a> that it was investigating more adverse events reports and recommended that consumers stop using Hyland’s and other homeopathic teething products and dispose of any in their possession. Some stores, including Target and CVS, which sold Hyland’s and other homeopathic teething products, pulled them in response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA also asked Hyland’s to recall its products again. But this time Hyland’s stood its ground, and the agency has no authority to enforce a recall of homeopathic products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borneman said the company’s “pharmacovigilance program,” a product safety review system launched after 2010, offers proof that the treatments are safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homeopathic medicine has a very large margin of safety,” she said. “Our testing ensures there’s not too much belladonna in any bottle” of tablets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the company decided to stop manufacturing the teething tablets. In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.hylands.com/hylands-discontinues-teething-tablets-and-gels\" target=\"_blank\">open letter to customers\u003c/a>, Hyland’s said the FDA warning had “created confusion among parents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Putting you in a position of having to choose who to trust in the face of contradictory information is burdensome and undermines the FDA,” the company said, while insisting Hyland’s products, “including those you already have, are safe for use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several weeks ago, on Jan. 27, the FDA \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm538684.htm\" target=\"_blank\">issued another warning\u003c/a>, saying that laboratory analysis of Hyland’s teething tablets found levels of belladonna “sometimes far exceeding the amount claimed on the label.” The agency warned consumers not to use the products and to seek medical care immediately if their child has seizures, difficulty breathing, lethargy, muscle weakness, or other problems after using homeopathic teething products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA also said there was no evidence that they actually worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_342006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-342006 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathicevent.jpg\" alt=\"homeopathicevent\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathicevent.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathicevent-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathicevent-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathicevent-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/homeopathicevent-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Report sent to FDA by a physician. \u003ccite>(Photo by STAT)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cracks in the FDA’s Authority\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With concerns about toxic levels of belladonna, and the sheer number of cases of adverse events, some critics — and parents — say the FDA should have moved faster in the case of Hyland’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they also acknowledge that the episode underlines the cracks in the agency’s regulatory power when it comes to homeopathic products. There is no set mathematical formula or official standard that spells out how many sick or deceased children must be reported before the FDA seizes a company’s inventory or levies fines or shuts it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the fact that homeopathic products are generally highly diluted has kept them on the FDA’s back burner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s low on their priority list,” said Dr. Aaron S. Kesselheim, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1513393#t=article\" target=\"_blank\">coauthored a paper\u003c/a> in the New England Journal of Medicine last year on the subject. “FDA for a long time just kind of deferred on homeopathic products because they are mostly inert and so diluted. The harm comes from people wasting their money, or diverting them from things that do work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of some of Hyland’s products, however, Kesselheim believes that the toxic levels of belladonna show a substantial safety problem, putting a responsibility on FDA to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One problem the FDA has in doing so is a matter of staffing: The agency has a medical officer review each report from manufacturers, but it doesn’t have someone who can routinely follow up with the patient, the patient’s family, or physician for missing records necessary to take a serious enforcement action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it fair to criticize FDA for the time lag between 2010 and now?” says Patricia Zettler, a former FDA counsel and associate law professor at Georgia State University. “I think the agency is in a tough position, with these kinds of products and with adverse event reports in general. They are not necessarily a perfect indication of something happening with a drug.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That said,” Zettler added, “it does sound like this is a product the agency was concerned about. It’s tough to parse out whether two reports of seizures should have been enough, or three or 10. There’s a balance the agency has to strike between acting quickly on safety information and not overreacting to something that may not actually be caused by the product.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Citizen’s Sorscher said criminal cases take years to pursue, so the FDA would much prefer voluntary compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have a mechanism to say, ‘this ingredient is unsafe, nobody should sell it,’” she said. “It might be time for Congress to give FDA a standard and say, you can issue a regulation saying no one can make it anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outraged by the standoff between FDA and Hyland’s, Connecticut Democratic Representative Rosa DeLauro \u003ca href=\"https://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/delauro-introduces-bill-give-fda-mandatory-recall-authority-over-drugs\" target=\"_blank\">introduced a bill last week\u003c/a> called the Recall Unsafe Drugs Act. The proposal would give the FDA mandatory recall authority over homeopathic products and drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hyland’s refusal to recall its teething tablets, despite numerous health and safety warnings from the FDA, is downright shameful,” DeLauro said, adding that the company “is choosing instead to prioritize the company’s profits and reputation before the safety of our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As it stands the FDA would have to go through an arduous legal process to take action against manufacturers such as Hyland’s. This is unacceptable and threatens the health and safety of American families.’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the parents of Case 10723317, any action would come too late. A mother reported that on July 9, 2014, her 9-month-old daughter died after being given two teething tablets, crushed, for the first time. She gave her infant the tablets, then a bottle, and then left her to sleep. When she checked on her 45 minutes later, she was dead in her crib, beside a puddle of vomit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five months later, after reading online reports suggesting babies may experience seizures after taking belladonna, she contacted Hyland’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Customer did not request a refund or replacement,” noted the Hyland’s staffer who filed the report with the FDA. Hyland’s also noted that it was not able to test the bottle, because the customer threw it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due to the limited information provided by the reporter no further investigation is possible at this time of this incident,” the company concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ike Swetlitz contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles, residential streets dead-end at oil refineries. Diesel trucks crawl through, carrying containers from nearby ports. Longtime resident Magali Sanchez Hall says the pollution from all that \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/02/02/68616/is-california-climate-law-worsening-pollution-in-c/\">has taken a toll\u003c/a>, right on the street where she lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that live here, the mother died of cancer,” she says, pointing to a modest one-story home. “The people that live here, three people died of cancer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s own research finds people in Wilmington are about twice as likely to get cancer as the average person in greater Los Angeles. That’s mostly due to diesel fumes, but also the toxic chemicals that mix with the greenhouse gas emissions of refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez Hall wipes her finger across the hood of a car and holds it up. “Black dust,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”O2acFWnir4mdzUZBjXuzRErsmrU7ZwAq”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given all this, you might think Sanchez Hall would be excited about California’s so-called cap-and-trade program, which aims to get polluting companies, like the refineries here, to reduce emissions. But she and others say the state’s signature climate change program is failing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first heard about cap and trade, I couldn’t conceive how pollution had become a commodity to profit from,” says Alicia Rivera of Communities for a Better Environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the program, California sets an overall cap on carbon emissions. In order to meet it, companies have three choices: cut their emissions directly; buy and sell permits that allow them to keep emitting; or make up for their emissions by reducing emissions somewhere else. That last option is called an “offset,” and environmental justice activists like Rivera hate it the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t care if they have a project for tree planting elsewhere,” she says. “When are they going to reduce pollution here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study finds that emissions in places like Wilmington actually increased during the first two years of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s cap-and-trade system faces other challenges, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Lawsuit-not-Trump-threatens-California-s-10631542.php\">a lawsuit\u003c/a> by the California Chamber of Commerce, which alleges the program is an illegal tax unless it garners two-thirds approval in the Legislature. Gov. Jerry Brown is urging lawmakers to give that approval, and extend cap and trade beyond 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”EOfUcfyunfr8WCwnoIoFzCTbD1QnOhid”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some lawmakers are sympathetic to the environmental justice position. And some advocates \u003ca href=\"https://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/ejac/meetings/01182017/20170112ca_ej_declaration_on_carbon_pricing_reform.pdf\">recently declared\u003c/a> they will “fight at every turn” efforts to extend cap and trade, and push instead for something that guarantees direct emissions reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who run the cap-and-trade program say they are listening, and acting. “It’s probably premature to try to judge the program’s total effectiveness at this point because it hasn’t been in effect very long,” says Dave Clegern of the California Air Resources Board. But he says the board is proposing that refineries cut their emissions by 20 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the state says it also wants to keep cap and trade, which a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3553\">legislative report \u003c/a>deemed the “likely most cost-effective” approach to reducing greenhouse gases. Clegern says auctioning off carbon credits also generates a lot of money, and by law, half of it must benefit people living in disadvantaged communities. “What we have basically is a balancing act,” he says, “where we need to be able to keep the economy alive, [and] keep public health improving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s Air Resources Board will consider whether and how to amend its cap-and-trade program in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Wilmington, some are losing patience. Longtime resident Magali Sanchez Hall says the polluted air affects even her smallest daily decisions, like where to work out. “I try to come to exercise here at this park,” she says, driving down her street. “But it just feels weird to be exercising and breathing all this, you know? It’s just weird.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2017 Southern California Public Radio. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpcc.org/\">Southern California Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When the first \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/14/photos-oroville-spillway-problems-evacuees-and-flooding/\">alarms went out\u003c/a> earlier this month that Oroville Dam’s emergency spillway might collapse, a “small city” sprang up almost overnight on the hillsides flanking the imperiled dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wartime metaphors also came to mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is on the scale of a battlefield,” said Eric See, a public information officer with the state’s Department of Water Resources, who says he’s never seen anything like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See gave Cal Fire, the state agency more accustomed to tackling wildfires, much of the credit for the rapid mobilization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They came in and set up overnight,” says See, with everything from food trucks and generators, to telephone connections, to portable showers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1431363\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1431363\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328.jpg\" alt=\"A cacophony of heavy equipment and helicopters continues around the clock above Oroville Dam, just steps from surrounding homes.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cacophony of heavy equipment and helicopters continues around the clock above Oroville Dam, just steps from surrounding homes. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of this is supporting nearly 500 people on scene, including a hundred construction workers, give or take, who’ve been doing the grunt work 24-7 to make the critical repairs to the crippled spillway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a hillside staging area above the south end of Oroville dam, huge yellow dump trucks full of rocks rumble in with their loads, one right behind another, while in the air above, Blackhawk helicopters swoop in, lifting 4,000-pound bags of stone and gravel like raptors grabbing mice from a field. So rapid is the cycle of ferrying fill material across the dam to the spillway, that two helicopters often arrive for new loads within a minute of each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The helicopters are some of the same ones that spend summers dropping buckets of water on wildfires. The work is pretty similar, according to Evan Welsch, a mechanic with Red Bluff-based P.J. Helicopters, except now instead of water buckets, they’re hauling bags of gravel and sand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1431615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1431615\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Blackhawk helicopters buzzed back and forth across the dam, carrying 4,000-pound sacks of rock and gravel.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1377\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-800x574.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-768x551.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-1020x732.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-1180x846.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-960x689.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-375x269.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-520x373.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackhawk helicopters buzzed back and forth across the dam, carrying 4,000-pound sacks of rock and gravel. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The choppers have been placing those “super-sacks.” as they’re called, into huge gashes carved out when Oroville’s lake waters topped the emergency spillway two weeks ago, and tore down the earthen slope into the Feather River below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the bags have big rocks, some of ‘em have sand, some have gravel,” says Mike Starcher, whose quarry, Sierra Silica, has been supplying much of the material. “It just depends on where the geologists want to layer ‘em in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like See, Starcher, whose company has been part-owner of Sierra Silica for 15 years, also says he’s never seen anything like this deployment — 2000 bags and counting, just from his operation. And each one had to be filled and transported by workers who knew they could be risking their lives by remaining at quarries just down river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some tough folks in this town,” says Starcher. He shrugs off the scant amount of sleep he’s had, saying “there are guys out here who have gone 30 hours on end without any.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1431609\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1431609 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited.jpeg\" alt=\"When most people evacuated Oroville, Reggie Gaston stayed behind in the flood zone to work on repairing the spillway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-240x180.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-375x281.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-520x390.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When most people evacuated Oroville, Reggie Gaston stayed behind in the flood zone to work on repairing the spillway. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of them is Reggie Gaston, who was zipping around on a forklift, lining up sacks where choppers could snatch them up. When Gaston’s wife and four kids were evacuated to high ground, he stayed behind, knowing the work he was doing could save his town from catastrophe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, they were pretty worried,” he admits. “They wanted me to come home and I said, ‘I can’t.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gaston says there was no pressure to stay on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bosses were concerned,” he recalls. “They said family comes first, but if you feel like they’re safe, we can use some help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1431360\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1431360\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321.jpg\" alt=\"At one point, contractors were dumping 40 truckloads per hour into the eroded emergency spillway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1504\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-768x578.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-1920x1444.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-1180x887.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-960x722.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-375x282.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-520x391.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At one point, contractors were dumping 40 truckloads per hour into the eroded emergency spillway. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the peak of the frenzy last week, crews were pouring fill material into the ravaged spillway at the rate of 40 truckloads an hour. Though 100,000 cubic yards of rock, sand and gravel had gone into shoring up the spillway by Tuesday evening of this week (picture 100,000 pickup trucks lined up), it’s a job that is still far from finished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now we’re fighting the winter, fighting the rain, fighting the water,” says Gaston. “Hopefully by summertime or spring the rain has died down enough and dam has dropped down enough where they can actually fix the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Starcher, he had to miss spending Valentines Day with his two girls, Claire and Catherine, whom he calls “Beeps.” So he took a can of red spray paint to two of the giant white bags of gravel and made them a valentine selfie; big red heart on one, their names on the other. His valentine will become part of the new, reinforced spillway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaston, who’s spent most of his 30 years as an Oroville resident, never thought the nearly 800-foot-high dam looming above them would end up menacing his family and neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not really,” he admits. “But I have to say it is a man-made item. Man-made items do fall—and they do fail.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a hillside staging area above the south end of Oroville dam, huge yellow dump trucks full of rocks rumble in with their loads, one right behind another, while in the air above, Blackhawk helicopters swoop in, lifting 4,000-pound bags of stone and gravel like raptors grabbing mice from a field. So rapid is the cycle of ferrying fill material across the dam to the spillway, that two helicopters often arrive for new loads within a minute of each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The helicopters are some of the same ones that spend summers dropping buckets of water on wildfires. The work is pretty similar, according to Evan Welsch, a mechanic with Red Bluff-based P.J. Helicopters, except now instead of water buckets, they’re hauling bags of gravel and sand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1431615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1431615\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Blackhawk helicopters buzzed back and forth across the dam, carrying 4,000-pound sacks of rock and gravel.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1377\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-800x574.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-768x551.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-1020x732.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-1180x846.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-960x689.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-375x269.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-520x373.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackhawk helicopters buzzed back and forth across the dam, carrying 4,000-pound sacks of rock and gravel. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The choppers have been placing those “super-sacks.” as they’re called, into huge gashes carved out when Oroville’s lake waters topped the emergency spillway two weeks ago, and tore down the earthen slope into the Feather River below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the bags have big rocks, some of ‘em have sand, some have gravel,” says Mike Starcher, whose quarry, Sierra Silica, has been supplying much of the material. “It just depends on where the geologists want to layer ‘em in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like See, Starcher, whose company has been part-owner of Sierra Silica for 15 years, also says he’s never seen anything like this deployment — 2000 bags and counting, just from his operation. And each one had to be filled and transported by workers who knew they could be risking their lives by remaining at quarries just down river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some tough folks in this town,” says Starcher. He shrugs off the scant amount of sleep he’s had, saying “there are guys out here who have gone 30 hours on end without any.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1431609\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1431609 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited.jpeg\" alt=\"When most people evacuated Oroville, Reggie Gaston stayed behind in the flood zone to work on repairing the spillway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-240x180.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-375x281.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-520x390.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When most people evacuated Oroville, Reggie Gaston stayed behind in the flood zone to work on repairing the spillway. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of them is Reggie Gaston, who was zipping around on a forklift, lining up sacks where choppers could snatch them up. When Gaston’s wife and four kids were evacuated to high ground, he stayed behind, knowing the work he was doing could save his town from catastrophe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, they were pretty worried,” he admits. “They wanted me to come home and I said, ‘I can’t.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gaston says there was no pressure to stay on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bosses were concerned,” he recalls. “They said family comes first, but if you feel like they’re safe, we can use some help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1431360\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1431360\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321.jpg\" alt=\"At one point, contractors were dumping 40 truckloads per hour into the eroded emergency spillway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1504\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-768x578.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-1920x1444.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-1180x887.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-960x722.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-375x282.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-520x391.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At one point, contractors were dumping 40 truckloads per hour into the eroded emergency spillway. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the peak of the frenzy last week, crews were pouring fill material into the ravaged spillway at the rate of 40 truckloads an hour. Though 100,000 cubic yards of rock, sand and gravel had gone into shoring up the spillway by Tuesday evening of this week (picture 100,000 pickup trucks lined up), it’s a job that is still far from finished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now we’re fighting the winter, fighting the rain, fighting the water,” says Gaston. “Hopefully by summertime or spring the rain has died down enough and dam has dropped down enough where they can actually fix the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Starcher, he had to miss spending Valentines Day with his two girls, Claire and Catherine, whom he calls “Beeps.” So he took a can of red spray paint to two of the giant white bags of gravel and made them a valentine selfie; big red heart on one, their names on the other. His valentine will become part of the new, reinforced spillway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaston, who’s spent most of his 30 years as an Oroville resident, never thought the nearly 800-foot-high dam looming above them would end up menacing his family and neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not really,” he admits. “But I have to say it is a man-made item. Man-made items do fall—and they do fail.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Thursday, March 2, 3:45 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who should take over police shooting cases was the subject of mass rumor in San Francisco's criminal justice community during the second half of 2016. The Police Department was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/12/federal-review-of-sfpd-finds-major-faults-in-every-area-assessed/\" target=\"_blank\">under siege\u003c/a> for its handling of several high-profile police shooting cases and was without a permanent chief after \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Suhr resigned\u003c/a> following the fatal officer-involved shooting of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/s-f-police-shoot-kill-woman-after-confrontation-in-bayview/\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Williams\u003c/a> in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final determination came in September, when the mayor \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-DA-s-office-to-take-lead-in-investigating-9223676.php\" target=\"_blank\">approved funding\u003c/a> for a new Independent Investigations Bureau in the district attorney's office, which would take the lead in officer-involved shooting and in-custody death investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more than five months later, that still hasn't happened. The last step toward implementation -- finalizing a memorandum of understanding between the DA's office and the Police Department -- has become the subject of negotiations with the Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s important in order to maintain public trust. And when police investigate themselves, even if they did everything correctly, the public is going to have less faith in the outcome,\" DA spokesman Max Szabo said. \"We are eagerly waiting for [negotiations] to be completed in order to sign the MOU and move forward and make this important change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://civilgrandjury.sfgov.org/2015_2016/2015-16_CGJ_Final_Report_Transparent_Investigations_Fatal_SFPD_Shootings_7_6_2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Criticism\u003c/a> over how the city handles police shooting cases hasn't landed only with the Police Department. The DA's office \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-prosecutors-haven-t-made-a-decision-in-a-10816464.php\" target=\"_blank\">hasn't issued a charging decision\u003c/a> in a fatal police shooting -- the final phase in the investigation -- in about two years. Advocates around the shooting death of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\">Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/a> plan to mark the two-year anniversary of his death this Sunday, with no charging decision yet made.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"EqNCsIPPggWObDjA6EEpmSmXtBfMTaLg\"]\u003cbr>\nThat decision is coming in \"weeks, not months,\" Szabo said, but the DA's office has several times indicated that case would soon be finished in the two years since plainclothes officers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">shot Perez Lopez six times from behind\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Szabo said implementing the new Independent Investigations Bureau is \"essential\" in shortening the time it takes to issue a charging decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Until recently, we did not have the resources to handle these immensely difficult cases,\" he said. \"Prosecutors would be taken from other details who did not have experience and expertise in these types of complex investigations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Officers Association attorney Gregg Adam said negotiations over the issue are scheduled to start next week, and the union hasn't seen specifics of the new protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My client has some concept that the DA is going to take over these investigations, but the practical, how it’s going to work, we really don’t have any idea,\" Adam said. \"In 4½ months, the city hasn’t been able to produce much of anything by way of information for us to have any real idea as to how this is going to be handled, what the procedures are going to be, how it’s going to affect existing practices with how investigations occur, how it’s going to affect discipline. We’ve got a whole host of questions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An SFPD spokesman said \"the department is engaged in ongoing discussions with various entities\" over the new protocols, which were drafted in \"late 2016.\" The Police Department declined to provide a copy of the draft memorandum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department and District Attorney's Office were still discussing the work of the DA's new unit as of Feb. 28, according to the city's Department of Human resources, which typically conducts labor negotiations on behalf of city departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the two departments reach an agreement that impacts the working conditions of POA members, meet and confer with POA will be necessary, but that hasn’t happened yet,\" Department of Human Resources Chief of Policy Susan Gard wrote in an emailed response. She added that meet and confer with the union representing DA investigators was completed earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To retired ACLU attorney John Crew, who currently advocates for police accountability in San Francisco, forcing that agreement into negotiations is a tried-and-true tactic the union has used to stall police reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think this is predictable because this is what the POA has been doing,\" he said. \"They have been extremely expansive in claiming they have the legal right to meet and confer on issues that they have no right to meet and confer on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He referenced two recent major SFPD policy changes that dragged on for months in the black hole of negotiations with the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was no way that the body-camera policy needed to be stalled for six months. Same with use-of-force policy,\" Crew said. \"This is a political strategy to slow down and delay.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union and city \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/31/san-francisco-reaches-agreement-with-police-union-on-body-cameras/\" target=\"_blank\">reached agreement\u003c/a> on the body-camera policy, but the city \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/21/s-f-police-union-announces-breakdown-in-use-of-force-negotiations/\" target=\"_blank\">declared an impasse\u003c/a> in negotiations over the department's \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/23/s-f-police-commission-approves-new-use-of-force-rules-union-has-sticking-points/\" target=\"_blank\">new use-of-force rules\u003c/a>, and immediately implemented them. The union sued, hoping to force the city to enter arbitration over the new policy's prohibition on the carotid -- or sleeper hold -- restraint, shooting at moving cars and the Police Commission's refusal to consider arming officers with Taser stun guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That civil case is ongoing, and it's scheduled for a hearing on Monday, Feb. 27.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Advocates around the shooting death of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward/\" target=\"_blank\">Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/a> plan to mark the two-year anniversary of his death this Sunday, with no charging decision yet made.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThat decision is coming in \"weeks, not months,\" Szabo said, but the DA's office has several times indicated that case would soon be finished in the two years since plainclothes officers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">shot Perez Lopez six times from behind\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Szabo said implementing the new Independent Investigations Bureau is \"essential\" in shortening the time it takes to issue a charging decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Until recently, we did not have the resources to handle these immensely difficult cases,\" he said. \"Prosecutors would be taken from other details who did not have experience and expertise in these types of complex investigations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Officers Association attorney Gregg Adam said negotiations over the issue are scheduled to start next week, and the union hasn't seen specifics of the new protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My client has some concept that the DA is going to take over these investigations, but the practical, how it’s going to work, we really don’t have any idea,\" Adam said. \"In 4½ months, the city hasn’t been able to produce much of anything by way of information for us to have any real idea as to how this is going to be handled, what the procedures are going to be, how it’s going to affect existing practices with how investigations occur, how it’s going to affect discipline. We’ve got a whole host of questions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An SFPD spokesman said \"the department is engaged in ongoing discussions with various entities\" over the new protocols, which were drafted in \"late 2016.\" The Police Department declined to provide a copy of the draft memorandum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department and District Attorney's Office were still discussing the work of the DA's new unit as of Feb. 28, according to the city's Department of Human resources, which typically conducts labor negotiations on behalf of city departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the two departments reach an agreement that impacts the working conditions of POA members, meet and confer with POA will be necessary, but that hasn’t happened yet,\" Department of Human Resources Chief of Policy Susan Gard wrote in an emailed response. She added that meet and confer with the union representing DA investigators was completed earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To retired ACLU attorney John Crew, who currently advocates for police accountability in San Francisco, forcing that agreement into negotiations is a tried-and-true tactic the union has used to stall police reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think this is predictable because this is what the POA has been doing,\" he said. \"They have been extremely expansive in claiming they have the legal right to meet and confer on issues that they have no right to meet and confer on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He referenced two recent major SFPD policy changes that dragged on for months in the black hole of negotiations with the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was no way that the body-camera policy needed to be stalled for six months. Same with use-of-force policy,\" Crew said. \"This is a political strategy to slow down and delay.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union and city \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/31/san-francisco-reaches-agreement-with-police-union-on-body-cameras/\" target=\"_blank\">reached agreement\u003c/a> on the body-camera policy, but the city \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/21/s-f-police-union-announces-breakdown-in-use-of-force-negotiations/\" target=\"_blank\">declared an impasse\u003c/a> in negotiations over the department's \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/23/s-f-police-commission-approves-new-use-of-force-rules-union-has-sticking-points/\" target=\"_blank\">new use-of-force rules\u003c/a>, and immediately implemented them. 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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown is calling on the state to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/docs/2.24.17_Finance_Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">invest more than $400 million\u003c/a> in flood control and emergency response. The governor's move on Friday comes after heavy storms damaged a spillway at \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/12/photos-oroville-dam-spillway-trouble-and-evacuation/\" target=\"_blank\">Oroville Dam\u003c/a> earlier this month, forcing the evacuation of more than 100,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of this fiscal year, $50 million for immediate flood prevention will be redirected to the general fund. Brown is also requesting the Legislature approve spending more than $380 million from the \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1,_Water_Bond_(2014)\" target=\"_blank\">water bond\u003c/a> voters approved in 2014. That money would go to various flood control projects over the coming two fiscal years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown says, overall, California has $187 billion worth of infrastructure needs that it must start addressing right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the roof is leaking, if you don’t fix it, it will cost more later. So yeah, it’s serious, but I wouldn’t panic,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11332277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11332277\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24249_Main_Rainbow-qut-800x600-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The damaged main Oroville Dam spillway next to the resultant severely eroded hillside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24249_Main_Rainbow-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24249_Main_Rainbow-qut-800x600-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24249_Main_Rainbow-qut-800x600-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24249_Main_Rainbow-qut-800x600-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24249_Main_Rainbow-qut-800x600-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The damaged main Oroville Dam spillway next to the resultant severely eroded hillside. \u003ccite>(William Croyle/California Dept. of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/docs/2.24.17_Infrastructure_Letters.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">sent a letter to President Trump\u003c/a> listing 10 high-priority infrastructure projects he hopes the White House can assist with. But Brown acknowledges the state's currently tense relationship with the administration presents some challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to, I think, walk a very thoughtful line here seeking help that we need, but also calling attention to those things that we object to and fighting vigorously when required,\" Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California may have recently gotten a glimpse of what its contentious relationship with the federal government could cost the state. Last week, federal transportation officials said they're delaying a \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/17/feds-delay-caltrain-electrification-money/\" target=\"_blank\">$647 million grant\u003c/a> that would have helped electrify Caltrain between San Jose and San Francisco. Brown called the project a no-brainer and questioned the motives behind the delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're not for that, you're really not for infrastructure,\" he said. \"The only thing you can say for that is it's scoring political points by politicians that know better and should do better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to more spending for flood prevention, Brown also wants more detailed inspections of dam structures and legislation requiring emergency action plans for state-regulated dams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration's Department of Finance estimates that damages from storms throughout the state in January and February, including the Oroville Dam, will cost California more than $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tech workers and advocates have used many different tactics in their effort to get the industry to diversify. They \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@triketora/where-are-the-numbers-cb997a57252#.ksc08smjf\" target=\"_blank\">crowdsourced\u003c/a> diversity numbers to find out just how many black, Latino and women employees the tech companies had. They’ve published first-person accounts about being sexually harassed or marginalized in the workplace, which has pushed management to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/21/under-fire-for-gender-discrimination-uber-hires-eric-holder/\" target=\"_blank\">address the issue of culture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11332167\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11332167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/apple-execs-800-800x1094.jpg\" alt=\"A snapshot of Apple executives from Apple.com.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1094\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/apple-execs-800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/apple-execs-800-160x219.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/apple-execs-800-240x328.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/apple-execs-800-375x513.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/apple-execs-800-520x711.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A snapshot of Apple executives from Apple.com. \u003ccite>(Apple.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A small group of Apple investors is pushing another strategy: \u003ca href=\"http://investor.apple.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1193125-16-422528&cik=320193#D79474DDEF14A_HTM_TOC79474_36\" target=\"_blank\">a shareholder proposal\u003c/a> that requests the company diversify its senior management and board of directors. They’re taking their case to shareholders at a meeting next week despite the fact that Apple has asked voters to reject the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To launch a shareholder proposal, you need to own at least $2,000 of a company’s stock (or 1 percent of the company, depending on which costs less). Tony Maldonado owns at least that much stock in Apple. The investor wouldn’t tell me exactly how much, but for the second year in a row, he’s submitted this proposal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shareholders request that board of directors adopt an accelerated recruitment policy requiring Apple Inc., the company, to increase the diversity of senior management and its board of directors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maldonado says his proposal isn’t about social justice. It’s about business. He claims that the lack of diversity on the executive team and board puts Apple’s business at risk in the long run. Especially as Apple looks for its \u003ca href=\"http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/26/12289832/apple-iphone-sales-q3-2016\" target=\"_blank\">next big hit beyond the iPhone\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/309221748\" 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>“Their customers are a wide, diverse group globally. Set aside the social issue portion and look at it just from a business perspective,” Maldonado said. “It makes common sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, to make products that attract diverse global customers, Apple’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/\" target=\"_blank\">executive team\u003c/a> needs to be more diverse and global, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maldonado says he got the idea for the proposal when he was surfing company websites with his son. They went to the website of Apple, which Maldonado said is one of his favorite companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we were looking at their executive-level directory, and he just made a quick comment, ‘Hmmm, quite white’ ” Maldonado said. “That shocked me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Maldonado had never really noticed it before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then I did more research, and I noticed in nearly 40 years, Apple has hardly promoted anyone of color to the C-suite,” Maldonado said. “Blacks, Latinos and Asians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maldonado is willing to concede that the talent pool for engineering jobs might be shallow when it comes to blacks and Latinos. But he notes senior managers also oversee marketing, human resources, operations, legal and communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Apple needs to be more honest with itself,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple didn’t return a request for comment. But in a filing with the \u003ca href=\"http://investor.apple.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1193125-16-422528&cik=320193#D79474DDEF14A_HTM_TOC79474_36\" target=\"_blank\">Securities and Exchange Commission\u003c/a>, the board advised shareholders to vote against the proposal. Apple says it has already embarked on a \u003ca href=\"http://www.apple.com/diversity/\" target=\"_blank\">broad effort to address diversity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat Miguel Tomaino, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.zevin.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Zevin Asset Management\u003c/a> in Boston, agrees that Apple has tried to grow the pipeline for diverse talent. Zevin invests in socially responsible companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Zevin signed on to the shareholder proposal this year because those diversity initiatives haven’t changed the composition of Apple’s upper ranks, Tomaino said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the proposal passes, it’s still up to Apple to decide on how to diversify. Tomaino has some suggestions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, its peers have taken a lot of steps in that direction,” Tomaino said. \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/18/13681738/microsoft-diversity-goals-executive-bonuses-women-in-tech\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft announced\u003c/a> last year that a portion of its CEO Satya Nadella's compensation would be tied to Microsoft’s own diversity performance targets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diversifying the tech sector is something \u003ca href=\"http://www.kaporcapital.com/who-we-are/ellen-pao/\" target=\"_blank\">Ellen Pao\u003c/a> has thought a lot about. She’s the chief diversity and inclusion officer at \u003ca href=\"http://www.kaporcapital.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Kapor Capital\u003c/a>, which invests in and advocates for startups led by people of color. Her gender discrimination suit against a Silicon Valley venture capital firm resulted in a high-profile trial in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple’s diversity numbers aren’t that different from other established tech companies like Google and Facebook. Pao says one reason for the lack of diversity at those companies is because they started in an era when a \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/\" target=\"_blank\">premium was put on friends\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole concept was starting with your friends in college or the friends you’ve known forever that you really trust, and going out and bringing more and more of your friends who look like you,” Pao said. “And that was successful. And for a set of companies it was extremely successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pao says these companies understand the need to diversify but they are \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-09/facebook-s-hiring-process-hinders-its-effort-to-create-a-diverse-workforce\" target=\"_blank\">reluctant to mess with the formula.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tony Maldonado, the investor who made the proposal, is playing the long game. While his proposal didn’t pass last year, it did get “yes” votes from 5 percent of the shareholders, which was enough to introduce the proposal again. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Tech workers and advocates have used many different tactics in their effort to get the industry to diversify. They \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@triketora/where-are-the-numbers-cb997a57252#.ksc08smjf\" target=\"_blank\">crowdsourced\u003c/a> diversity numbers to find out just how many black, Latino and women employees the tech companies had. They’ve published first-person accounts about being sexually harassed or marginalized in the workplace, which has pushed management to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/21/under-fire-for-gender-discrimination-uber-hires-eric-holder/\" target=\"_blank\">address the issue of culture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11332167\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11332167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/apple-execs-800-800x1094.jpg\" alt=\"A snapshot of Apple executives from Apple.com.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1094\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/apple-execs-800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/apple-execs-800-160x219.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/apple-execs-800-240x328.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/apple-execs-800-375x513.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/apple-execs-800-520x711.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A snapshot of Apple executives from Apple.com. \u003ccite>(Apple.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A small group of Apple investors is pushing another strategy: \u003ca href=\"http://investor.apple.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1193125-16-422528&cik=320193#D79474DDEF14A_HTM_TOC79474_36\" target=\"_blank\">a shareholder proposal\u003c/a> that requests the company diversify its senior management and board of directors. They’re taking their case to shareholders at a meeting next week despite the fact that Apple has asked voters to reject the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To launch a shareholder proposal, you need to own at least $2,000 of a company’s stock (or 1 percent of the company, depending on which costs less). Tony Maldonado owns at least that much stock in Apple. The investor wouldn’t tell me exactly how much, but for the second year in a row, he’s submitted this proposal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shareholders request that board of directors adopt an accelerated recruitment policy requiring Apple Inc., the company, to increase the diversity of senior management and its board of directors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maldonado says his proposal isn’t about social justice. It’s about business. He claims that the lack of diversity on the executive team and board puts Apple’s business at risk in the long run. Especially as Apple looks for its \u003ca href=\"http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/26/12289832/apple-iphone-sales-q3-2016\" target=\"_blank\">next big hit beyond the iPhone\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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