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(In transit agency argot, the train was a \"10-car consist.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/16/we-promise-not-another-word-on-new-bart-cars-except-for-this/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one glitch was reported\u003c/a> during the run, when train doors failed to open at the downtown Berkeley station. BART attributed that hiccup to a problem with trackside equipment, not with the cars themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC's approval applies only to the 10 cars involved in the test run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission's action has now prompted BART to prepare to put a train with those 10 approved cars into service in the coming days, agency spokeswoman Alicia Trost said in an email Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART says Montreal-based manufacturer Bombardier has delivered another 10 cars, but the CPUC said that, \"given the experience on the first group of cars,\" it will require the next 10-car group to undergo a test run identical to the one conducted last week. Cars received in the future are expected to be subjected to a more streamlined approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART first asked the CPUC to grant a safety certification for the new cars on Oct. 30. But commission inspectors withheld the approval after the 10-car pilot train suffered \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/08/bart-faces-new-delay-in-rolling-out-fleet-of-the-future/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two significant failures\u003c/a> during a test run in early November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, a system that was supposed to help the onboard control computer keep track of the train's length failed. That caused the train to go into a safe mode and operate as if it were a three-car train instead of the 10-car train it actually was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so the trailing seven cars were essentially drones — the doors wouldn’t open and the train operator wasn’t able to control those cars,” BART spokesman Jim Allison said in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate hardware problem also prevented doors from opening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delays caused by those issues added to a long series of delays that have slowed introduction of the new fleet long past its planned late 2016 debut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART intends to buy 775 of the cars from Bombardier, at a total cost of about $2.6 billion, to replace its current fleet. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 5:02 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Los Angeles Times \u003c/em>has given prominent coverage to recent revelations of sexual harassment of women by prominent men, particularly in entertainment and media. Yet a review by NPR finds that the newspaper's own CEO and publisher, Ross Levinsohn, has been a defendant in two sexual harassment lawsuits and that his conduct in work settings over the past two decades has been called into question repeatedly by female colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story is based on a review of court documents, financial filings and fresh interviews with 26 former colleagues and associates. Taken in concert, they suggest a pattern of questionable behavior and questionable decisions on the job. The portrait that repeatedly emerges is one of a frat-boy executive, catapulting ever higher, even as he creates corporate climates that alienated some of the people who worked for and with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the accusations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Levinsohn was sued in separate sexual harassment lawsuits as an executive at two different corporations. By his own sworn testimony, Levinsohn admitted to rating the relative \"hotness\" of his female colleagues in office banter as a vice president at a digital media company. He also testified that he speculated about whether a woman who worked for him there was a stripper on the side.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Two witnesses say they were shocked to see Levinsohn aggressively kissing and pressing himself against a woman at a glitzy music industry dinner in plain view of his subordinates and his clients. Levinsohn was married at the time.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Levinsohn once told an executive for the \u003cem>Hollywood Reporter \u003c/em>he would not stay at the publication's lunch honoring the entertainment business's most influential fashion stylists because he would have to be surrounded by gays — using a vulgar epithet for them, according to the executive.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Almost all people interviewed declined to be quoted by name, citing concerns for their careers given Levinsohn's current perch atop the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>. It is one of the most important newspapers in the country and is the most influential media organization in California, the capital of the world's entertainment industry. His behavior, as described by those who worked with him, raises questions about how effectively he can lead the paper as it covers the #MeToo movement and such widespread harassment revelations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinsohn did not respond on the record to detailed questions emailed to him and a \u003cem>Times \u003c/em>spokeswoman setting out the chief allegations raised in this story. In a telephone call he initiated Wednesday with NPR's CEO, Jarl Mohn, Levinsohn called those allegations \"lies\" and said he would retain legal counsel if he felt NPR had disparaged him. NPR sent detailed questions to Tronc's chief executive and public affairs staffers early Wednesday morning. The crisis management strategist Charles Sipkins issued a statement on Thursday afternoon on behalf of Tronc -- parent company of the \u003cem>L.A. Times\u003c/em> -- saying Levinsohn had been placed under investigation by the corporation after the story was posted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This week, we became aware of allegations that Ross Levinsohn acted inappropriately. We are immediately launching an investigation so that we have a better understanding of what's occurred,\" the statement read. \"At Tronc, we expect all employees to act in a way that supports a culture of diversity and inclusion. We will take appropriate action to address any behavior that falls short of these expectations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sipkins said Tronc had not suspended Levinsohn. Other media executives who have been investigated, suspended or terminated after being accused of sexual misconduct include Michael Oreskes, NPR's former top news editor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday afternoon, the organizing committee of the journalists in the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> newsroom pushing for a union there called for Levinsohn to be fired immediately, based on NPR's findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/578612534/578957015\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in August, top officials at Tronc wanted new leadership to run its crown jewel. They fired a slew of top executives at the newspaper and hired Levinsohn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinsohn has held prominent jobs at some of the nation's most notable media and digital media companies over the past generation, including CBS, the early search engine Alta Vista, News Corp. and Yahoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"xtj6Uu7JNuZ6aW4mdfdk90FjHr4clg90\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tronc CEO Justin Dearborn called Levinsohn \"a visionary and innovative leader\" in August while naming him to the top job at the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>. Levinsohn is invariably described as an affable and charismatic presence, seen as a consummate salesman by advertising clients and corporate mentors. And he was a familiar figure at Tronc, which had already paid his firm hundreds of thousands of dollars for strategic advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, federal regulators will reveal the results of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/01/02/575168274/los-angeles-times-newsroom-employees-to-vote-on-unionizing\">unionization drive\u003c/a> in the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> newsroom — a drive fueled in part by profound doubts over Levinsohn's commitment to quality journalism and ability to lead the paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an executive at the search engine company Alta Vista in 2001, Levinsohn gave testimony in a sexual harassment and sexual discrimination case in which he had been sued, along with other defendants. Levinsohn conceded under oath that he had assessed the \"hotness\" and bodies of female subordinates; Levinsohn also testified that he had discussed whether a female subordinate was working as a stripper on the side and that he engaged in speculation about whether she had slept with a co-worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Alta Vista employee Christine Fox had sued the company and several executives, including Levinsohn. She alleged she had failed to receive a significant raise to move from Massachusetts to the Bay Area, where the cost of living was far higher, and that there was a hostile work environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"gWLFAneKFhvhkLw6n38bPzfcEyiKDxzC\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another former Alta Vista executive, Celia Francis, testified in the case that she had warned two top executives about the culture Levinsohn had created when she left the company. \"Ross was creating a frat house environment,\" Francis testified at the time. \"His behavior was inappropriate. ... I wanted to let them know they should do something about it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his deposition, Levinsohn testified that he thought Fox's complaint was \"ludicrous,\" given her own behavior. Fox's lawyers argued that Alta Vista's attorneys made such wide-ranging inquiries into her romantic and dating life in defending the case that Fox's attorneys asked the judge to limit such queries to people named in the suit. (Christine Fox could not be reached for comment.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his testimony, Levinsohn said any sexually charged banter he participated in took place at a distance from female employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessie Dennen, who was Alta Vista's recruitment and hiring chief at that time, contradicts Levinsohn's testimony. Dennen tells NPR that Levinsohn directly participated in conversations speculating about Fox's sexual partners in staff meetings, right in front of Dennen and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ross created a definite frat boys' club,\" Dennen says now. \"They openly would rate women. I remember feeling uncomfortable. I would roll my eyes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennen testified in defense of the company at the time but tells NPR that she regrets failing to object in those meetings and regrets not supporting Fox's claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't appreciate how Alta Vista was trying to slut-shame Chris,\" Dennen tells NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox's sexual harassment lawsuit against Levinsohn and others at the company was settled in August 2002, five days before going to trial. The size of the payment to settle the case was not made public, though filings in the Santa Clara County courthouse state she had asked for $750,000 to settle it and that Alta Vista had offered $100,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alta Vista crumbled under challenge from other newer search engines, including Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinsohn moved on to other major gigs at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Consistently, Levinsohn's colleagues — admirers and detractors — describe him as a good-time guy, someone happy to party as a way to smooth the path to deals. He advocated that Rupert Murdoch acquire the social media platform MySpace — which News Corp. did in 2005, for $580 million. MySpace was all but vaporized by Facebook. Murdoch sold the social media platform in 2011 for $35 million, calling it \"a huge mistake,\" but blamed himself for the failure of the investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2006, Levinsohn, by then a senior vice president for News Corp., was a defendant in a lawsuit against the company and various Fox executives (Fox Sports and other parts of Murdoch's entertainment and television empire were still under the News Corp. umbrella at that time). The video producer who filed the suit claimed she had been sexually harassed in the workplace by her boss, a subordinate of Levinsohn's. She alleged that when she asked Levinsohn for a promotion, he pointed to a Fox Sports sideline reporter, a former pinup model, as a template for success, saying she \"learned how to work her way to the top.\" The producer suing the company also alleged that sexual harassment was rife in the workplace culture under Levinsohn and other executives there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit was withdrawn by the plaintiff, Amber Tribble, in December 2006, a month after Levinsohn left News Corp. She filed a second case making the same allegations against Levinsohn and others in June 2007. It was fully settled by News Corp. and Fox in April 2008, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinsohn joined Yahoo as a senior executive over ad sales in North America in 2010. His tenure was marked by a swift ascent, including, in 2012, an eight-week stint as interim CEO. Levinsohn had pushed for greater creation of content, with an emphasis on video, winning the loyalty of much of his media team, former Yahoo colleagues say. Levinsohn was so confident that he would be named CEO permanently that he quietly hired a cadre of senior executives — only to find that the board named Google executive Marissa Mayer to the job the following week. That's according to two associates with direct knowledge of his plans at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other factors nettled his colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a half-dozen former Yahoo colleagues, Levinsohn's approach to selling ads — a huge component of his job — involved throwing parties to entertain. In 2011, Levinsohn arranged the lease of a boat by Yahoo off the coast of southern France to entertain business partners and clients at the Cannes Lions Creativity Festival. Paid models mingled with participants as they downed drinks while the yacht made small loops in the Mediterranean Sea, according to three former Yahoo executives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One attendee from another company recalled that she got onboard, having been invited by Levinsohn to talk business. She told NPR she got off the boat as quickly as possible, saying she shouldn't have to strike deals in a setting where men were gawking at bikini-clad women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told NPR that she told Levinsohn they could make appointments to do business at a more conventional setting. Levinsohn seemed to consider the event a success and later boasted to associates about how he got to host the actor Robert Redford at the Cannes Festival that weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinsohn had pushed for new acquisitions, among them a digital advertising network called 5to1 that he had helped to found. Yahoo purchased it in 2011 for $28 million from his partner at the firm, James Heckman, who had previously worked at News Corp. with him and joined Yahoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That summer, Yahoo paid for a vacation home in the Hamptons for Levinsohn and Heckman to entertain clients. On more than one occasion, police intervened to shut down parties that generated so much noise they caused disruptions for neighbors, according to two former Yahoo officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"wW08RTkj1y9qSOVovREwLTX59erVO4Uv\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Yahoo, Levinsohn set up shop working on various ventures, including one with Heckman called Scout Media, for which he served as executive chairman. Scout went bankrupt and both men were named as defendants in an ongoing shareholder lawsuit filed last year in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinsohn landed at Guggenheim Partners, then controlling owner of the \u003cem>Hollywood Reporter\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Billboard \u003c/em>magazine, among other properties. He was given the firm's media portfolio to oversee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two incidents stood out for those who witnessed them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinsohn arrived late at a March 2013 luncheon held by the \u003cem>Hollywood Reporter\u003c/em> on the rooftop of the SoHo House in West Hollywood. Stars such as Naomi Watts and Zoe Saldana mixed with top Hollywood fashion stylists. The affair was sponsored by the upscale designer line Jimmy Choo. Levinsohn couldn't get out quickly enough. He told an executive for the \u003cem>Hollywood Reporter \u003c/em>why he would have to leave early: \"As my buddy said, why would I hang out with a bunch of ladies and fags?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The executive that afternoon called the human resources department of the magazine's parent company to describe the incident and told associates what had happened. Two of those associates shared the episode with NPR, and the executive confirmed that sequence of events with NPR as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months later, in May 2013, sister publication \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em> held a dinner and party the night before the \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em> Music Awards in Las Vegas. Guggenheim Partners staged the dinner, sponsored by Samsung, at the Hakkasan restaurant and nightclub in the MGM Grand Hotel. The Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Miguel mixed with guests over drinks; the Scottish star DJ Calvin Harris staged an EDM set at the nightclub afterward. And, according to two eyewitnesses who attended the event, Levinsohn aggressively kissed a woman, his hands ranging over her body, in open sight of others present, including his own employees. (NPR also spoke to someone to whom one of the witnesses described the episode within 24 hours.) Levinsohn's then-wife arrived in Las Vegas the next day, according to attendees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The physical contact appeared reciprocated to the witnesses; no one has alleged the contact was nonconsensual. But the two witnesses said they believed it to be inappropriate and unprofessional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for the holding company of the two magazines had no comment on either incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not clear how much Tronc knew of the allegations against Levinsohn in the sexual harassment lawsuits or of the accounts of his behavior at Yahoo and at Guggenheim over the entertainment magazines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinsohn was well-known to Michael Ferro, the chairman and controlling owner of Tronc, as well as others at the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"xoI97nBwKuk4lKAc9trgzDqBhedjyewI\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinsohn had joined the board of directors of its corporate predecessor, Tribune, in 2012 and remains on the board of Tribune Media, the television and entertainment part of the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tronc also paid Levinsohn's consulting firm WAYD $600,000 over 2016 and 2017 for strategic advice about, among other things, the future of the\u003cem> Los Angeles Times.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levisohn has received a generous package to join the paper full time. According to corporate filings, Levinsohn's contract guarantees him pay and bonuses totalling $1 million a year and a cash bonus of $1 million. He was awarded stock currently worth $7.2 million and options to acquire shares worth millions more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a third element: Levinsohn is also eligible for additional incentive pay of up to 10 percent of the gross revenue Tronc receives from licensing the \u003cem>L.A. Times\u003c/em> content and brand or for syndication of its content internationally. Industry analyst Ken Doctor \u003ca href=\"https://www.thestreet.com/story/14281722/1/how-golden-is-ross-levinsohn-s-new-parachute.html\">called that language \"odd,\"\u003c/a> saying it was \"treating Levinsohn's work there almost as if he were an outside consultant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinsohn is once more turning to old friends to help run the paper. He has installed Mickie Rosen, a former top deputy at Yahoo, as the paper's president. And the newspaper's new editor-in-chief is Lewis D'Vorkin, a former editor-in-chief at \u003cem>Forbes \u003c/em>magazine who worked at the \u003cem>Wall Street Journal,\u003c/em> the \u003cem>New York Times \u003c/em>and AOL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinsohn declared that he wanted the newspaper to own coverage of Hollywood, and it has sought to remain competitive on stories about sexual harassment allegations against prominent men in entertainment and media. The \u003cem>L.A. Times\u003c/em> broke stories about allegations of sexual assault by director James Toback and instances of alleged misconduct by actor James Franco, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D'Vorkin and Levinsohn upset many reporters in the newsroom last fall by failing to defend the paper's coverage publicly after meeting with Disney executives who condemned its stories documenting financial windfalls the company received from the City of Anaheim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D'Vorkin was also the founder of a digital news and commentary site called True/Slant, which paid prominent writers to contribute pieces while offering incentives based on how much traffic they generated. And other figures could pay the site to post articles there promoting their expertise or their products. Levinsohn's venture firm Fuse Capital was an investor in True/Slant and he served on its board until it was sold to \u003cem>Forbes,\u003c/em> which adopted a similar model featuring paid staffers, unpaid contributors and those who were paying for exposure on the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Levinsohn participated \u003ca href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4138426-tronc-trnc-presents-needham-and-co-20th-annual-growth-conference-slideshow\">in a presentation to investors\u003c/a> in which he appeared to anticipate the adoption of a related \"contributor\" model for the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times \u003c/em>and other Tronc properties: \"The approach allows us to be less dependent on the newsroom transformation as we pursue other growth opportunities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some at the \u003cem>L.A. Times\u003c/em> have questioned whether the paper's leadership is looking out for itself or the news. The paper's historic headquarters downtown no longer belongs to the paper or Tronc but to its former corporate sibling, Tribune Media. Levinsohn joined peers on the old Tribune Co. board in voting to give away the newspaper assets to the new television company. Last summer, Tribune Media sold the \u003cem>L.A. Times \u003c/em>printing plant for $120 million to a California developer and the downtown headquarters for $105 million to a Canadian developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to six \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> journalists, the union drive has been propelled in part by related concerns over the commitment of the paper's leadership to its journalism and its financial soundness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After this story was first posted, the organizing committee for the newsroom union released a statement for Levinsohn to resign or be fired immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are appalled by the findings in the NPR story,\" the statement reads. \"A man who sexually harasses women, engages in 'slut-shaming' and refers to gay men as 'fags' is not fit to lead our newspaper. Tronc and its board of directors must be held accountable for their failure to properly vet Levinsohn for one of the most important positions at the company and in American journalism.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union demanded an independent investigation to examine the process by which Levinsohn was hired and whether he acted inappropriately toward colleagues at the newspaper during his tenure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The journalists declined to be identified, saying they feared retribution for public criticism. Several noted they did not have union protections. Federal regulators plan to announce the result of the vote over whether a union will be recognized at the \u003cem>L.A. Times\u003c/em> on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinsohn did not respond on the record to detailed questions emailed to him and a \u003cem>Times \u003c/em>spokeswoman setting out the chief allegations raised in this story. In a telephone call he initiated Wednesday with NPR's CEO, Jarl Mohn, Levinsohn called those allegations \"lies\" and said he would retain legal counsel if he felt NPR had disparaged him. NPR sent detailed questions to Tronc's chief executive and public affairs staffers early Wednesday morning. The crisis management strategist Charles Sipkins issued a statement on Thursday afternoon on behalf of Tronc -- parent company of the \u003cem>L.A. Times\u003c/em> -- saying Levinsohn had been placed under investigation by the corporation after the story was posted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This week, we became aware of allegations that Ross Levinsohn acted inappropriately. We are immediately launching an investigation so that we have a better understanding of what's occurred,\" the statement read. \"At Tronc, we expect all employees to act in a way that supports a culture of diversity and inclusion. We will take appropriate action to address any behavior that falls short of these expectations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sipkins said Tronc had not suspended Levinsohn. Other media executives who have been investigated, suspended or terminated after being accused of sexual misconduct include Michael Oreskes, NPR's former top news editor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday afternoon, the organizing committee of the journalists in the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> newsroom pushing for a union there called for Levinsohn to be fired immediately, based on NPR's findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/578612534/578957015\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in August, top officials at Tronc wanted new leadership to run its crown jewel. They fired a slew of top executives at the newspaper and hired Levinsohn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinsohn has held prominent jobs at some of the nation's most notable media and digital media companies over the past generation, including CBS, the early search engine Alta Vista, News Corp. and Yahoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tronc CEO Justin Dearborn called Levinsohn \"a visionary and innovative leader\" in August while naming him to the top job at the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>. Levinsohn is invariably described as an affable and charismatic presence, seen as a consummate salesman by advertising clients and corporate mentors. And he was a familiar figure at Tronc, which had already paid his firm hundreds of thousands of dollars for strategic advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, federal regulators will reveal the results of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/01/02/575168274/los-angeles-times-newsroom-employees-to-vote-on-unionizing\">unionization drive\u003c/a> in the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> newsroom — a drive fueled in part by profound doubts over Levinsohn's commitment to quality journalism and ability to lead the paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an executive at the search engine company Alta Vista in 2001, Levinsohn gave testimony in a sexual harassment and sexual discrimination case in which he had been sued, along with other defendants. Levinsohn conceded under oath that he had assessed the \"hotness\" and bodies of female subordinates; Levinsohn also testified that he had discussed whether a female subordinate was working as a stripper on the side and that he engaged in speculation about whether she had slept with a co-worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Alta Vista employee Christine Fox had sued the company and several executives, including Levinsohn. She alleged she had failed to receive a significant raise to move from Massachusetts to the Bay Area, where the cost of living was far higher, and that there was a hostile work environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another former Alta Vista executive, Celia Francis, testified in the case that she had warned two top executives about the culture Levinsohn had created when she left the company. \"Ross was creating a frat house environment,\" Francis testified at the time. \"His behavior was inappropriate. ... I wanted to let them know they should do something about it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his deposition, Levinsohn testified that he thought Fox's complaint was \"ludicrous,\" given her own behavior. Fox's lawyers argued that Alta Vista's attorneys made such wide-ranging inquiries into her romantic and dating life in defending the case that Fox's attorneys asked the judge to limit such queries to people named in the suit. (Christine Fox could not be reached for comment.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his testimony, Levinsohn said any sexually charged banter he participated in took place at a distance from female employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessie Dennen, who was Alta Vista's recruitment and hiring chief at that time, contradicts Levinsohn's testimony. Dennen tells NPR that Levinsohn directly participated in conversations speculating about Fox's sexual partners in staff meetings, right in front of Dennen and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ross created a definite frat boys' club,\" Dennen says now. \"They openly would rate women. I remember feeling uncomfortable. I would roll my eyes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennen testified in defense of the company at the time but tells NPR that she regrets failing to object in those meetings and regrets not supporting Fox's claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't appreciate how Alta Vista was trying to slut-shame Chris,\" Dennen tells NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox's sexual harassment lawsuit against Levinsohn and others at the company was settled in August 2002, five days before going to trial. The size of the payment to settle the case was not made public, though filings in the Santa Clara County courthouse state she had asked for $750,000 to settle it and that Alta Vista had offered $100,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alta Vista crumbled under challenge from other newer search engines, including Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinsohn moved on to other major gigs at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Consistently, Levinsohn's colleagues — admirers and detractors — describe him as a good-time guy, someone happy to party as a way to smooth the path to deals. He advocated that Rupert Murdoch acquire the social media platform MySpace — which News Corp. did in 2005, for $580 million. MySpace was all but vaporized by Facebook. Murdoch sold the social media platform in 2011 for $35 million, calling it \"a huge mistake,\" but blamed himself for the failure of the investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2006, Levinsohn, by then a senior vice president for News Corp., was a defendant in a lawsuit against the company and various Fox executives (Fox Sports and other parts of Murdoch's entertainment and television empire were still under the News Corp. umbrella at that time). The video producer who filed the suit claimed she had been sexually harassed in the workplace by her boss, a subordinate of Levinsohn's. She alleged that when she asked Levinsohn for a promotion, he pointed to a Fox Sports sideline reporter, a former pinup model, as a template for success, saying she \"learned how to work her way to the top.\" The producer suing the company also alleged that sexual harassment was rife in the workplace culture under Levinsohn and other executives there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit was withdrawn by the plaintiff, Amber Tribble, in December 2006, a month after Levinsohn left News Corp. She filed a second case making the same allegations against Levinsohn and others in June 2007. It was fully settled by News Corp. and Fox in April 2008, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinsohn joined Yahoo as a senior executive over ad sales in North America in 2010. His tenure was marked by a swift ascent, including, in 2012, an eight-week stint as interim CEO. Levinsohn had pushed for greater creation of content, with an emphasis on video, winning the loyalty of much of his media team, former Yahoo colleagues say. Levinsohn was so confident that he would be named CEO permanently that he quietly hired a cadre of senior executives — only to find that the board named Google executive Marissa Mayer to the job the following week. That's according to two associates with direct knowledge of his plans at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other factors nettled his colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a half-dozen former Yahoo colleagues, Levinsohn's approach to selling ads — a huge component of his job — involved throwing parties to entertain. In 2011, Levinsohn arranged the lease of a boat by Yahoo off the coast of southern France to entertain business partners and clients at the Cannes Lions Creativity Festival. Paid models mingled with participants as they downed drinks while the yacht made small loops in the Mediterranean Sea, according to three former Yahoo executives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One attendee from another company recalled that she got onboard, having been invited by Levinsohn to talk business. She told NPR she got off the boat as quickly as possible, saying she shouldn't have to strike deals in a setting where men were gawking at bikini-clad women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told NPR that she told Levinsohn they could make appointments to do business at a more conventional setting. Levinsohn seemed to consider the event a success and later boasted to associates about how he got to host the actor Robert Redford at the Cannes Festival that weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinsohn had pushed for new acquisitions, among them a digital advertising network called 5to1 that he had helped to found. Yahoo purchased it in 2011 for $28 million from his partner at the firm, James Heckman, who had previously worked at News Corp. with him and joined Yahoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That summer, Yahoo paid for a vacation home in the Hamptons for Levinsohn and Heckman to entertain clients. On more than one occasion, police intervened to shut down parties that generated so much noise they caused disruptions for neighbors, according to two former Yahoo officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Yahoo, Levinsohn set up shop working on various ventures, including one with Heckman called Scout Media, for which he served as executive chairman. Scout went bankrupt and both men were named as defendants in an ongoing shareholder lawsuit filed last year in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinsohn landed at Guggenheim Partners, then controlling owner of the \u003cem>Hollywood Reporter\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Billboard \u003c/em>magazine, among other properties. He was given the firm's media portfolio to oversee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two incidents stood out for those who witnessed them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinsohn arrived late at a March 2013 luncheon held by the \u003cem>Hollywood Reporter\u003c/em> on the rooftop of the SoHo House in West Hollywood. Stars such as Naomi Watts and Zoe Saldana mixed with top Hollywood fashion stylists. The affair was sponsored by the upscale designer line Jimmy Choo. Levinsohn couldn't get out quickly enough. He told an executive for the \u003cem>Hollywood Reporter \u003c/em>why he would have to leave early: \"As my buddy said, why would I hang out with a bunch of ladies and fags?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The executive that afternoon called the human resources department of the magazine's parent company to describe the incident and told associates what had happened. Two of those associates shared the episode with NPR, and the executive confirmed that sequence of events with NPR as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months later, in May 2013, sister publication \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em> held a dinner and party the night before the \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em> Music Awards in Las Vegas. Guggenheim Partners staged the dinner, sponsored by Samsung, at the Hakkasan restaurant and nightclub in the MGM Grand Hotel. The Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Miguel mixed with guests over drinks; the Scottish star DJ Calvin Harris staged an EDM set at the nightclub afterward. And, according to two eyewitnesses who attended the event, Levinsohn aggressively kissed a woman, his hands ranging over her body, in open sight of others present, including his own employees. (NPR also spoke to someone to whom one of the witnesses described the episode within 24 hours.) Levinsohn's then-wife arrived in Las Vegas the next day, according to attendees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The physical contact appeared reciprocated to the witnesses; no one has alleged the contact was nonconsensual. But the two witnesses said they believed it to be inappropriate and unprofessional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for the holding company of the two magazines had no comment on either incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not clear how much Tronc knew of the allegations against Levinsohn in the sexual harassment lawsuits or of the accounts of his behavior at Yahoo and at Guggenheim over the entertainment magazines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinsohn was well-known to Michael Ferro, the chairman and controlling owner of Tronc, as well as others at the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinsohn had joined the board of directors of its corporate predecessor, Tribune, in 2012 and remains on the board of Tribune Media, the television and entertainment part of the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tronc also paid Levinsohn's consulting firm WAYD $600,000 over 2016 and 2017 for strategic advice about, among other things, the future of the\u003cem> Los Angeles Times.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levisohn has received a generous package to join the paper full time. 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"disqusTitle": "Dreamers From Rep. Kevin McCarthy's District Call On the GOP To Step Up",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update, Jan 18, 2018, 1:30 p.m.:\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>According to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), seven members of the immigrant rights group were arrested on Thursday while pressing Rep. Kevin McCarthy to support the DREAM Act in his office at the Capitol in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five of the members arrested were immigrant youth. They were representing more than 200,000 undocumented immigrant youth living in California who risk losing their DACA protection from arrest, detention, and deportation. The two other members arrested were CHIRLA's Executive Director Angelica Salas and Civic Engagement Director, Diana Colin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update, Jan 17, 2018, 3:45 p.m.: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>The Department of Justice is appealing a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/10/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-trumps-decision-to-end-daca/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">court ruling that blocked\u003c/a> the Trump administration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department says it will take “the rare step” later this week of filing a petition asking the Supreme Court to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have also filed a notice of appeal to the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update, Jan. 10, 2018, 4:42 p.m.: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>A federal judge with the \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4345906/1-9-18-DACA-Opinion.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California\u003c/a> blocked President Trump’s phased-in termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, DACA, pending the outcome of legal challenges. Judge William Alsup wrote that DACA recipients would suffer “irreparable harm” as they lose DACA protections. It’s unclear how federal officials will handle DACA renewal applications they rejected for failing to meet an Oct. 5 deadline. A Department of Justice statement said the department will defend the termination, calling DACA an “unlawful circumvention of Congress,” and a White House statement called on Congress to find a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> Luis Galvan, 20, enjoyed a moment of triumph in late October when he boarded a plane for the first time and flew to Indianapolis to receive his Future Farmers of America degree, a prestigious certificate of achievement in the world of agriculture. Galvan was proud that all his grueling work with livestock and crops had paid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his euphoria was short-lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Galvan got home he tore open an envelope waiting for him from the Department of Homeland Security. It was crushing news. He had submitted his application to renew a vital work permit for young immigrants known as “Dreamers” in plenty of time, along with a renewal fee. He received a notice back that there was a snafu over a $495 scholarship check he had submitted to pay the fee, and he promptly followed instructions to correct that. But now, this second, final notice told him his application was rejected for being late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Galvan can’t appeal the rejection, his work permit is set to expire Jan. 15. That would jeopardize his job tutoring junior high kids. It would affect his studies at college. It could even lead to him being deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What a bucket of cold water,” Galvan said, during a late-night interview in Porterville, the small California farm city where he grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surrounded by a sea of orchards—including oranges now flooding U.S. markets—Porterville sits in California’s vast Central Valley. Considered one of the world’s most productive agribusiness regions, the valley depends on immigrant labor. And among those who represent the region in Congress are multiple Republican lawmakers, not least of them Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the powerful GOP majority leader whose district includes Porterville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work permit Galvan holds stems from his status as a recipient of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/us/us-to-stop-deporting-some-illegal-immigrants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DACA\u003c/a>, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program whose fate rests, in no small part, in McCarthy’s hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former President Barack Obama created DACA in 2012 to allow undocumented young people brought to the United States as children to stay legally, conditionally, until, Obama said he hoped, Congress came up with a solution to help them. Nicknamed Dreamers, this population has no sure path to legal residency, no matter how long they’ve been here or how much they accomplish. DACA has temporarily protected them from deportation and allowed them to obtain work permits. On Sept. 5 though, President Donald Trump announced that he was pulling the plug on DACA, arguing in a statement that Obama lacked authority to create the program and that policy should be “fair to American families, students, taxpayers and jobseekers.” Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders added that unemployed Americans could possibly assume DACA recipients’ jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642514\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 380px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11642514\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers2.jpeg\" alt=\"Leydy Rangel, 22, and Eloisa Torres, 18, undocumented DACA recipients from Bakersfield, work up enthusiasm before trying to speak to House members in Washington, D.C. about a proposal to let them earn permanent legal status. \" width=\"380\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers2.jpeg 380w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers2-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers2-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers2-375x250.jpeg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leydy Rangel, 22, and Eloisa Torres, 18, undocumented DACA recipients from Bakersfield, work up enthusiasm before trying to speak to House members in Washington, D.C. about a proposal to let them earn permanent legal status. \u003ccite>(Susan Ferriss/Center for Public Integrity)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly 800,000 DACA recipients were suddenly plunged into uncertainty. Dreamers whose work permits were soon to expire were given a chance to apply, one last time, for two-year renewals by Oct. 5. Many missed the tight deadline or had applications they say were denied unfairly. If nothing changes, after March, all DACA recipients will begin to lose permits in waves as each card expires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation remains up in the air. Despite his harsh rhetoric claiming Dreamers occupy Americans’ jobs, Trump too challenged Congress to come up with a legislative fix with “heart” to help Dreamers before the March deadline. A flurry of negotiations to pass such a bill collapsed just prior to the holiday break. GOP leaders now say Congress will take up DACA again this month, as part of broader debate over Trump’s demands for more border wall investments and cuts in family-based immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the politics are complicated, and they’re especially complicated here in California, home to at least a quarter of Dreamers. Most polling, from ABC to Fox News, shows that 60 to upwards of 80 percent of Americans think Dreamers should get a chance to stay and become legalized. In and around Porterville, Dreamers and their backers angrily question why McCarthy and fellow congressmen from California’s Central Valley aren’t vigorously pushing for a legislative fix — pronto — because so many Dreamers’ lives hang in the balance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarthy declined an interview but in careful language has backed crafting a DACA fix as long as it’s coupled with more investments in border security measures. He said in a statement that he supported Trump’s position and that Congress is working on a “lawful solution to this problem.” It’s clear to everyone that McCarthy is not publicly leading a passionate charge to defend Dreamers. But the raw politics of both Washington and his district are hardly demanding that he do so — at least not right now. McCarthy won his last two elections with 75 percent and 69 percent of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>Differing perspectives\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>On the ground in McCarthy’s district, however, where Latinos are 41 percent of the total population and 27 percent of those eligible to vote, feelings can also get more than a little raw. The 52-year-old congressman, a lifelong Bakersfield resident, represents most of Tulare County, where Porterville is located, and the majority of California’s sprawling Kern County. Kern is peppered with oil rigs that produce more oil than Oklahoma. The county is also home to military-industrial-complex interests. Kern’s formidable agribusiness production, consisting of grapes, fruit trees, scores of other crops and milk, made it the number one farm county in the nation in 2016 at $7.19 billion in value. Tulare’s farm production value was $6.37 billion. The state, as a whole, is by far the nation’s biggest dairy-producing state, while also producing almost half the nation’s fruits, nuts and vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11642517\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.48.45-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"897\" height=\"1100\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.48.45-PM.png 897w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.48.45-PM-160x196.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.48.45-PM-800x981.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.48.45-PM-240x294.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.48.45-PM-375x460.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.48.45-PM-520x638.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 897px) 100vw, 897px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those stats form the basis for part of the passion here. After all, advocates for Dreamers argue California supplies a massive quantity of the food Americans consume. And agribusiness has acknowledged for a long time that immigrants, many of them undocumented and the parents of Dreamers, are essential to creating this bounty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve complained to McCarthy’s office: What about the Dreamers?” said John Duran, 67, a Republican in Porterville who is of Mexican descent but not an immigrant. “He needs to be doing more. But because he’s Republican he’s got to follow their agenda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no exact numbers, but McCarthy’s 23rd Congressional District is home to an estimated 7,900 young people who fit the profile of those eligible to have signed up for DACA, according to analysis of Census Bureau data by the University of Southern California. Adjacent GOP districts have as many or even more of these young people, who were eligible to sign up for DACA once they reached 16, if they had lived here since at least June 15, 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duran, a former correctional officer who’s active in local politics, said he’s generally pro-Trump and is strongly opposed to government “giveaways.” But he winces at some of the rhetoric around immigrants that’s voiced by the president and his supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even here, where it’s plain to the eye who does a lot of hard labor, Duran said, “some people seem to have the idea that illegal immigrants don’t do anything but crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duran says he was stunned not long ago when a non-Hispanic woman spoke out at a public forum about allowing Dreamers to serve in the military to earn legal status and citizenship. “She came up to me and said if they want to get citizenship, they should serve for 20 years,” he said. “That just doesn’t make sense to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only Congress can change immigration law to open up a path that doesn’t exist now, a reality that runs contrary to misconceptions that there’s a line anyone wishing to immigrate can get into and just patiently wait a turn. A bipartisan bill introduced this past July, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dream Act of 2017\u003c/a>, would create a years-long path to permanent residency and citizenship for eligible young people who’ve been here at least four years prior to enactment of such legislation. But that bill did not advance. Versions of the Dream Act in Congress go back to 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the details, though, some DACA recipients here say they’d just like to hear McCarthy defend them more vigorously — and act with speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porterville Dreamer Marco Reyes, 20, who works as a cashier and studies at Porterville College, a community college, said: “If I talked to McCarthy I’d ask him what he’s doing behind the scenes that nobody else is doing. He must be doing something. Are you going to surprise us later, hopefully with something that’s not bad? Because with politicians you never know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>American Dream at Stake\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>As Republicans bore down on passing tax reform, GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky told Fox News shortly before the holiday break that “we have plenty of time” to act on DACA to meet Trump’s March deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Galvan said: “I can’t wait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with nerves on edge, he’s got to attend classes at the local College of the Sequoias — in preparation for transfer to a four-year university — and report for as long as he can to his job tutoring 7th and 8th graders. The kids remind him of himself, when he was growing up poor but struggling to hold onto dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After I got DACA, I went crazy,” Galvan said, explaining the sense of liberation it gave him. “I joined every club I could. I’ve really tried to do my best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a long road. Galvan arrived from Mexico at five, and now he’s 20. As he was growing up, employers continued to hire people with little fear of getting penalized for “knowingly,” as the law says, hiring undocumented workers. Farm groups have long admitted that authentic-looking fake documents immigrants buy are part and parcel of how California’s factories in the fields stay open. Galvan’s dad has worked for the same agricultural employer for 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an early December pro-DACA rally in Porterville, population 60,000, agitated locals channeled their anger about the treatment of undocumented workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These people live in the shadows and break their backs so that the people of America can eat!” Rosa Salmeron, a California State University, Fresno, student of social work shouted through a bullhorn. “We’re not shadows. We are people!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salmeron, 37, patted Galvan’s shoulder as he took the bullhorn at a rally in Veteran’s Park to tell the crowd about his dilemma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salmeron, whose parents fled El Salvador during its civil war, is a naturalized U.S. citizen and grateful, she said, for the 1986 amnesty that Congress and President Ronald Reagan crafted that allowed her and her parents a chance to legalize and then go on to become citizens. Her family members live and have businesses in McCarthy’s district, in Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These people are not representing us,” she told the crowd of several dozen. She urged people to register to vote and oust local Republicans from Congress if they don’t do more for Dreamers. “The American Dream is at stake!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kevin McCarthy is my representative and it upsets me that he won’t meet to talk about this,” added Daniel Peñaloza, 24, who runs an office in Porterville set up by the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights based in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peñaloza has organized pro-DACA rallies not only outside McCarthy’s offices, but also at the offices of neighboring congressmen \u003ca href=\"https://valadao.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. David Valadao\u003c/a>, R-Hanford, of the 21st District, and \u003ca href=\"https://nunes.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Devin Nunes\u003c/a>, R-Tulare, of the 22nd District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao, the son of Portuguese immigrants, is a dairy farmer. He doesn’t have the clout that McCarthy wields, but he’s ventured where many other Republicans won’t go. He was one of three Republicans in the House who co-sponsored a failed 2013 comprehensive immigration reform package that would put undocumented workers on an earned path to legal status, a green card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao is also one of two GOP congressmen from California who signed up to co-sponsor the Dream Act of 2017. The other co-sponsor is \u003ca href=\"https://denham.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Jeff Denham\u003c/a>, R-Turlock, whose 10th Congressional District also includes farm country to the north of Fresno. Both also signed a Dec. 5 letter with \u003ca href=\"https://newhouse.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/34-house-republicans-urge-daca-fix-end-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">32 other GOP legislators\u003c/a> urging Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., to put the Dream Act of 2017 on the floor for a vote. Ryan declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we approach the March deadline,” Valadao said in a statement, “it is more critical than ever that Congress immediately act to repair our broken immigration system and provide DACA recipients with the certainty they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewhispanic.org/interactives/mapping-the-latino-electorate-by-congressional-district/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pew Research Center\u003c/a>, almost 76 percent of Valadao’s district is Latino, and more than 39 percent of the population eligible to vote is Latino — the highest percentage among California’s 14 Republican districts in the House. Democrats hold the rest of California’s 53 House seats. Despite his pro-immigrant record, Democrats consider Valadao vulnerable in the next election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Washington, D.C., McCarthy’s communications director, Matt Sparks, addressed complaints that his boss seemed indifferent to Dreamers and would not meet with constituents unhappy that he isn’t publicly elevating their cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sparks said pro-DACA rallies have been disruptive at district offices, and interrupted other constituents’ business. He said field staff in California attend town meetings regularly, and listen respectfully to complaints aired in that setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He provided a statement from McCarthy: “President Trump was right to correct President Obama’s executive overreach by calling on Congress to find a solution for the children of illegal immigrants who came to this country through no fault of their own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarthy had previously told CNBC that “I don’t think this country is going to move these individuals out.” In the same interview, he acknowledged, to a point, his district’s dependence on immigrant workers. “I come from an agricultural community and I know you need a guest-worker program,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sparks said DACA isn’t the only immigration-related issue that constituents bring up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some district residents want to know about possible reforms Congress might initiate to broaden an existing guest-worker program for agriculture. Some want to talk about “chain migration,” a pejorative word coined by immigration-restriction activists to describe how immigrants, once citizens, can petition to sponsor certain relatives, including siblings and parents, to immigrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When there’s consensus around an immigration reform plan,” Sparks said, “then I think something will happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sparks also said that McCarthy’s office was open to learning more about Luis Galvan’s work permit snafu to see if staff could help.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Agribusiness view\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Grimmway Farms in Kern County is the world’s largest grower of carrots. Its owners, prominent local donors to McCarthy, declined to comment on DACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Beatris Sanders, the executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://kerncfb.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kern County Farm Bureau\u003c/a>, said that immigration issues “hit us really hard here in Kern. It’s a priority for us to have a working system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642532\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 380px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11642532\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers3.jpeg\" alt=\"Workers harvest oranges in groves that fill the congressional district of Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield.\" width=\"380\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers3.jpeg 380w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers3-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers3-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers3-375x250.jpeg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers harvest oranges in groves that fill the congressional district of Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield. \u003ccite>( Susan Feriss/Center for Public Integrity)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said the bureau maintains “open dialogue” with McCarthy but has no official position on DACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think anyone should penalize anyone because of something beyond their control,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also expressed sympathy for Luis Galvan when she heard his story: “I know there are many, many stories like this out there,” Sanders said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kern County Republican Party declined to comment on DACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Porterville, Republican activist Susan Queen, who is a “100 percent Trump fan,” said she doesn’t think the DACA recipients, or Dreamers, should be removed from the country, and she doesn’t think Trump does either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously I have sympathy for the kids,” said Queen, 68, a member of the California Federation of Republican Women of Southeastern Tulare County. “I think there should be some sort of way to make them legal here,” she said, “but I don’t know about citizens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad was a judge,” Queen explained, “and I don’t like rewarding anything illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Dreamers are allowed to gain legal status, she said, perhaps they shouldn’t be allowed to bring in other family members later. It makes her mad, she said, to think about an old friend in Germany who wanted to live and work in the United States and couldn’t seem to ever get a visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Queen’s family raised animals and had groves she picked oranges from as a kid, but she’s not in the farm business and her children didn’t work in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Central Valley citrus grower Manuel Cunha, who is no liberal when it comes to business regulations he considers excessive, is a longtime proponent of legalizing undocumented farmworkers who have been here for years. The director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.niseifarmersleague.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nisei Farmers League\u003c/a> in Fresno, north of Bakersfield, he knows McCarthy well and has raised money for McCarthy and other prominent Republicans. “I’ve fundraised so much that we probably could have paid for immigration reform many times over,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642534\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 380px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11642534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers4.jpeg\" alt=\"Workers earn $21 for each orange bin they fill in a grove that sits in Kern County.\" width=\"380\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers4.jpeg 380w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers4-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers4-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers4-375x250.jpeg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers earn $21 for each orange bin they fill in a grove that sits in Kern County. \u003ccite>(Susan Ferriss/Center for Public Integrity)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve given up on some of our political people,” he said in exasperation. “The people who say the climate is not right for immigration, or it’s not the right time. Oh, but come to our fundraiser.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he was in Washington, D.C., recently to visit with members of Congress and staff and talk about undocumented immigrant workers, DACA and the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our rural communities are made up of thousands of these folks,” Cunha said. “They’re in school or working, and they have one parent in the fields, or in the packing houses,” Cunha said, “and maybe another is in construction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How simple it would be to do a DACA reform,” Cunha said. “You’ve vetted all of them already.” The current crop of young DACA recipients have already been checked for criminal records, fingerprinted, and paid into getting work permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Come on, Kevin, let’s get it done,” Cunha said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the uncertainty, kids have come into his office sobbing, he said, because they couldn’t renew their permits, or they’re terrified about what’s next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Bakersfield, the characterization of their parents as lawbreakers, or invaders, upsets Dreamers Eloisa Torres, 18, and Leydy Rangel, 22. Both traveled to Washington, D.C, this fall twice on trips sponsored by the \u003ca href=\"http://ufw.org/\">United Farm Workers\u003c/a> union so they could tell their stories to staff and members of Congress who’d listen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your parents struggle,” said Torres, who wasn’t even two years old when she arrived. “They’ve told me, ‘Become something.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her father was often away to accept work he was offered in construction, or in agricultural fields. She didn’t ask her parents for money to start college this year at California State University, Bakersfield. She collected cans to recycle to make initial payments, and was relieved when tuition fees dropped because of state aid. She’s thinking about becoming a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rangel, who grew up migrating from the Coachella Valley up through Bakersfield and beyond, picked grapes and pruned vines in the state’s vast vineyards as a child. In high school she convinced her parents to leave her alone in Coachella so she could stay and finish high school there and apply to college. She recently graduated from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every night, she worries about her parents getting deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642537\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 380px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11642537\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers5.jpg\" alt=\"Undocumented DACA recipient Ivan Gonzalez, 22, an 800 meters state high school champion, attended the University of California, Berkeley.\" width=\"380\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers5.jpg 380w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers5-160x238.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers5-240x357.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers5-375x559.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Undocumented DACA recipient Ivan Gonzalez, 22, an 800 meters state high school champion, attended the University of California, Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy of Ivan Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another DACA recipient in Bakersfield, Ivan Gonzalez, now 22, managed to cap off his undocumented childhood by running his way to becoming the 800 meters state champion in high school. He won a full scholarship to the University of California at Berkeley. “People didn’t care about my citizenship status when I was running track,” said Gonzalez, whose choice to attend Berkeley was featured in local news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s back in Bakersfield after graduation and is working at Youth 2 Leaders Education Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He counsels parents and kids on available options for college scholarships. California legislators, over the years, have gradually passed legislation to first allow undocumented students to attend state colleges and pay in-state tuition rather than out-of-state fees. Later legislation was passed to allow students to receive state aid, not federal, to help pay for tuition. Private scholarships are out there as well. “There are people who think we don’t belong here while eating what my people are picking,” he said. He tells families to keep kids in school, no matter what happens to DACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, Gonzalez also participates in citizenship workshops to help immigrants with legal permanent residency prepare for testing. “You don’t know how much I wish I were in your position,” he jokes with aspiring citizens he helps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Luis Galvan, there’s no time to waste. He’s in a race to avoid having his DACA work permit expire. He’s talked to a lawyer, and to \u003ca href=\"https://missionassetfund.org/daca-renewal-scholarships/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mission Asset Fund\u003c/a>, a nonprofit group in San Francisco that provided him the scholarship to pay his renewal fee. Tara Robinson, the fund’s chief development officer, said the fund issued more than 5,000 checks to DACA recipients and the majority were cashed by Homeland Security. A small number weren’t accepted, which Robinson said could have been due to a Homeland Security error. When Galvan received word from the department to resubmit his application and a new payment, he bought a money order and Mission Asset Fund later reimbursed him. Then the rejection notice arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, the first few days after that I couldn’t sleep,” he said. “My mom was crying most of the time. It’s hard. I just try holding it in.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update, Jan. 10, 2018, 4:42 p.m.: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>A federal judge with the \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4345906/1-9-18-DACA-Opinion.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California\u003c/a> blocked President Trump’s phased-in termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, DACA, pending the outcome of legal challenges. Judge William Alsup wrote that DACA recipients would suffer “irreparable harm” as they lose DACA protections. It’s unclear how federal officials will handle DACA renewal applications they rejected for failing to meet an Oct. 5 deadline. A Department of Justice statement said the department will defend the termination, calling DACA an “unlawful circumvention of Congress,” and a White House statement called on Congress to find a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> Luis Galvan, 20, enjoyed a moment of triumph in late October when he boarded a plane for the first time and flew to Indianapolis to receive his Future Farmers of America degree, a prestigious certificate of achievement in the world of agriculture. Galvan was proud that all his grueling work with livestock and crops had paid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his euphoria was short-lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Galvan got home he tore open an envelope waiting for him from the Department of Homeland Security. It was crushing news. He had submitted his application to renew a vital work permit for young immigrants known as “Dreamers” in plenty of time, along with a renewal fee. He received a notice back that there was a snafu over a $495 scholarship check he had submitted to pay the fee, and he promptly followed instructions to correct that. But now, this second, final notice told him his application was rejected for being late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Galvan can’t appeal the rejection, his work permit is set to expire Jan. 15. That would jeopardize his job tutoring junior high kids. It would affect his studies at college. It could even lead to him being deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What a bucket of cold water,” Galvan said, during a late-night interview in Porterville, the small California farm city where he grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surrounded by a sea of orchards—including oranges now flooding U.S. markets—Porterville sits in California’s vast Central Valley. Considered one of the world’s most productive agribusiness regions, the valley depends on immigrant labor. And among those who represent the region in Congress are multiple Republican lawmakers, not least of them Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the powerful GOP majority leader whose district includes Porterville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work permit Galvan holds stems from his status as a recipient of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/us/us-to-stop-deporting-some-illegal-immigrants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DACA\u003c/a>, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program whose fate rests, in no small part, in McCarthy’s hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former President Barack Obama created DACA in 2012 to allow undocumented young people brought to the United States as children to stay legally, conditionally, until, Obama said he hoped, Congress came up with a solution to help them. Nicknamed Dreamers, this population has no sure path to legal residency, no matter how long they’ve been here or how much they accomplish. DACA has temporarily protected them from deportation and allowed them to obtain work permits. On Sept. 5 though, President Donald Trump announced that he was pulling the plug on DACA, arguing in a statement that Obama lacked authority to create the program and that policy should be “fair to American families, students, taxpayers and jobseekers.” Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders added that unemployed Americans could possibly assume DACA recipients’ jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642514\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 380px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11642514\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers2.jpeg\" alt=\"Leydy Rangel, 22, and Eloisa Torres, 18, undocumented DACA recipients from Bakersfield, work up enthusiasm before trying to speak to House members in Washington, D.C. about a proposal to let them earn permanent legal status. \" width=\"380\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers2.jpeg 380w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers2-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers2-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers2-375x250.jpeg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leydy Rangel, 22, and Eloisa Torres, 18, undocumented DACA recipients from Bakersfield, work up enthusiasm before trying to speak to House members in Washington, D.C. about a proposal to let them earn permanent legal status. \u003ccite>(Susan Ferriss/Center for Public Integrity)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly 800,000 DACA recipients were suddenly plunged into uncertainty. Dreamers whose work permits were soon to expire were given a chance to apply, one last time, for two-year renewals by Oct. 5. Many missed the tight deadline or had applications they say were denied unfairly. If nothing changes, after March, all DACA recipients will begin to lose permits in waves as each card expires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation remains up in the air. Despite his harsh rhetoric claiming Dreamers occupy Americans’ jobs, Trump too challenged Congress to come up with a legislative fix with “heart” to help Dreamers before the March deadline. A flurry of negotiations to pass such a bill collapsed just prior to the holiday break. GOP leaders now say Congress will take up DACA again this month, as part of broader debate over Trump’s demands for more border wall investments and cuts in family-based immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the politics are complicated, and they’re especially complicated here in California, home to at least a quarter of Dreamers. Most polling, from ABC to Fox News, shows that 60 to upwards of 80 percent of Americans think Dreamers should get a chance to stay and become legalized. In and around Porterville, Dreamers and their backers angrily question why McCarthy and fellow congressmen from California’s Central Valley aren’t vigorously pushing for a legislative fix — pronto — because so many Dreamers’ lives hang in the balance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarthy declined an interview but in careful language has backed crafting a DACA fix as long as it’s coupled with more investments in border security measures. He said in a statement that he supported Trump’s position and that Congress is working on a “lawful solution to this problem.” It’s clear to everyone that McCarthy is not publicly leading a passionate charge to defend Dreamers. But the raw politics of both Washington and his district are hardly demanding that he do so — at least not right now. McCarthy won his last two elections with 75 percent and 69 percent of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>Differing perspectives\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>On the ground in McCarthy’s district, however, where Latinos are 41 percent of the total population and 27 percent of those eligible to vote, feelings can also get more than a little raw. The 52-year-old congressman, a lifelong Bakersfield resident, represents most of Tulare County, where Porterville is located, and the majority of California’s sprawling Kern County. Kern is peppered with oil rigs that produce more oil than Oklahoma. The county is also home to military-industrial-complex interests. Kern’s formidable agribusiness production, consisting of grapes, fruit trees, scores of other crops and milk, made it the number one farm county in the nation in 2016 at $7.19 billion in value. Tulare’s farm production value was $6.37 billion. The state, as a whole, is by far the nation’s biggest dairy-producing state, while also producing almost half the nation’s fruits, nuts and vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11642517\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.48.45-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"897\" height=\"1100\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.48.45-PM.png 897w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.48.45-PM-160x196.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.48.45-PM-800x981.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.48.45-PM-240x294.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.48.45-PM-375x460.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.48.45-PM-520x638.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 897px) 100vw, 897px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those stats form the basis for part of the passion here. After all, advocates for Dreamers argue California supplies a massive quantity of the food Americans consume. And agribusiness has acknowledged for a long time that immigrants, many of them undocumented and the parents of Dreamers, are essential to creating this bounty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve complained to McCarthy’s office: What about the Dreamers?” said John Duran, 67, a Republican in Porterville who is of Mexican descent but not an immigrant. “He needs to be doing more. But because he’s Republican he’s got to follow their agenda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no exact numbers, but McCarthy’s 23rd Congressional District is home to an estimated 7,900 young people who fit the profile of those eligible to have signed up for DACA, according to analysis of Census Bureau data by the University of Southern California. Adjacent GOP districts have as many or even more of these young people, who were eligible to sign up for DACA once they reached 16, if they had lived here since at least June 15, 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duran, a former correctional officer who’s active in local politics, said he’s generally pro-Trump and is strongly opposed to government “giveaways.” But he winces at some of the rhetoric around immigrants that’s voiced by the president and his supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even here, where it’s plain to the eye who does a lot of hard labor, Duran said, “some people seem to have the idea that illegal immigrants don’t do anything but crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duran says he was stunned not long ago when a non-Hispanic woman spoke out at a public forum about allowing Dreamers to serve in the military to earn legal status and citizenship. “She came up to me and said if they want to get citizenship, they should serve for 20 years,” he said. “That just doesn’t make sense to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only Congress can change immigration law to open up a path that doesn’t exist now, a reality that runs contrary to misconceptions that there’s a line anyone wishing to immigrate can get into and just patiently wait a turn. A bipartisan bill introduced this past July, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dream Act of 2017\u003c/a>, would create a years-long path to permanent residency and citizenship for eligible young people who’ve been here at least four years prior to enactment of such legislation. But that bill did not advance. Versions of the Dream Act in Congress go back to 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the details, though, some DACA recipients here say they’d just like to hear McCarthy defend them more vigorously — and act with speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porterville Dreamer Marco Reyes, 20, who works as a cashier and studies at Porterville College, a community college, said: “If I talked to McCarthy I’d ask him what he’s doing behind the scenes that nobody else is doing. He must be doing something. Are you going to surprise us later, hopefully with something that’s not bad? Because with politicians you never know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>American Dream at Stake\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>As Republicans bore down on passing tax reform, GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky told Fox News shortly before the holiday break that “we have plenty of time” to act on DACA to meet Trump’s March deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Galvan said: “I can’t wait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with nerves on edge, he’s got to attend classes at the local College of the Sequoias — in preparation for transfer to a four-year university — and report for as long as he can to his job tutoring 7th and 8th graders. The kids remind him of himself, when he was growing up poor but struggling to hold onto dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After I got DACA, I went crazy,” Galvan said, explaining the sense of liberation it gave him. “I joined every club I could. I’ve really tried to do my best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a long road. Galvan arrived from Mexico at five, and now he’s 20. As he was growing up, employers continued to hire people with little fear of getting penalized for “knowingly,” as the law says, hiring undocumented workers. Farm groups have long admitted that authentic-looking fake documents immigrants buy are part and parcel of how California’s factories in the fields stay open. Galvan’s dad has worked for the same agricultural employer for 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an early December pro-DACA rally in Porterville, population 60,000, agitated locals channeled their anger about the treatment of undocumented workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These people live in the shadows and break their backs so that the people of America can eat!” Rosa Salmeron, a California State University, Fresno, student of social work shouted through a bullhorn. “We’re not shadows. We are people!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salmeron, 37, patted Galvan’s shoulder as he took the bullhorn at a rally in Veteran’s Park to tell the crowd about his dilemma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salmeron, whose parents fled El Salvador during its civil war, is a naturalized U.S. citizen and grateful, she said, for the 1986 amnesty that Congress and President Ronald Reagan crafted that allowed her and her parents a chance to legalize and then go on to become citizens. Her family members live and have businesses in McCarthy’s district, in Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These people are not representing us,” she told the crowd of several dozen. She urged people to register to vote and oust local Republicans from Congress if they don’t do more for Dreamers. “The American Dream is at stake!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kevin McCarthy is my representative and it upsets me that he won’t meet to talk about this,” added Daniel Peñaloza, 24, who runs an office in Porterville set up by the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights based in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peñaloza has organized pro-DACA rallies not only outside McCarthy’s offices, but also at the offices of neighboring congressmen \u003ca href=\"https://valadao.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. David Valadao\u003c/a>, R-Hanford, of the 21st District, and \u003ca href=\"https://nunes.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Devin Nunes\u003c/a>, R-Tulare, of the 22nd District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao, the son of Portuguese immigrants, is a dairy farmer. He doesn’t have the clout that McCarthy wields, but he’s ventured where many other Republicans won’t go. He was one of three Republicans in the House who co-sponsored a failed 2013 comprehensive immigration reform package that would put undocumented workers on an earned path to legal status, a green card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao is also one of two GOP congressmen from California who signed up to co-sponsor the Dream Act of 2017. The other co-sponsor is \u003ca href=\"https://denham.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Jeff Denham\u003c/a>, R-Turlock, whose 10th Congressional District also includes farm country to the north of Fresno. Both also signed a Dec. 5 letter with \u003ca href=\"https://newhouse.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/34-house-republicans-urge-daca-fix-end-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">32 other GOP legislators\u003c/a> urging Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., to put the Dream Act of 2017 on the floor for a vote. Ryan declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we approach the March deadline,” Valadao said in a statement, “it is more critical than ever that Congress immediately act to repair our broken immigration system and provide DACA recipients with the certainty they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewhispanic.org/interactives/mapping-the-latino-electorate-by-congressional-district/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pew Research Center\u003c/a>, almost 76 percent of Valadao’s district is Latino, and more than 39 percent of the population eligible to vote is Latino — the highest percentage among California’s 14 Republican districts in the House. Democrats hold the rest of California’s 53 House seats. Despite his pro-immigrant record, Democrats consider Valadao vulnerable in the next election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Washington, D.C., McCarthy’s communications director, Matt Sparks, addressed complaints that his boss seemed indifferent to Dreamers and would not meet with constituents unhappy that he isn’t publicly elevating their cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sparks said pro-DACA rallies have been disruptive at district offices, and interrupted other constituents’ business. He said field staff in California attend town meetings regularly, and listen respectfully to complaints aired in that setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He provided a statement from McCarthy: “President Trump was right to correct President Obama’s executive overreach by calling on Congress to find a solution for the children of illegal immigrants who came to this country through no fault of their own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarthy had previously told CNBC that “I don’t think this country is going to move these individuals out.” In the same interview, he acknowledged, to a point, his district’s dependence on immigrant workers. “I come from an agricultural community and I know you need a guest-worker program,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sparks said DACA isn’t the only immigration-related issue that constituents bring up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some district residents want to know about possible reforms Congress might initiate to broaden an existing guest-worker program for agriculture. Some want to talk about “chain migration,” a pejorative word coined by immigration-restriction activists to describe how immigrants, once citizens, can petition to sponsor certain relatives, including siblings and parents, to immigrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When there’s consensus around an immigration reform plan,” Sparks said, “then I think something will happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sparks also said that McCarthy’s office was open to learning more about Luis Galvan’s work permit snafu to see if staff could help.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Agribusiness view\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Grimmway Farms in Kern County is the world’s largest grower of carrots. Its owners, prominent local donors to McCarthy, declined to comment on DACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Beatris Sanders, the executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://kerncfb.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kern County Farm Bureau\u003c/a>, said that immigration issues “hit us really hard here in Kern. It’s a priority for us to have a working system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642532\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 380px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11642532\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers3.jpeg\" alt=\"Workers harvest oranges in groves that fill the congressional district of Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield.\" width=\"380\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers3.jpeg 380w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers3-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers3-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers3-375x250.jpeg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers harvest oranges in groves that fill the congressional district of Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield. \u003ccite>( Susan Feriss/Center for Public Integrity)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said the bureau maintains “open dialogue” with McCarthy but has no official position on DACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think anyone should penalize anyone because of something beyond their control,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also expressed sympathy for Luis Galvan when she heard his story: “I know there are many, many stories like this out there,” Sanders said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kern County Republican Party declined to comment on DACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Porterville, Republican activist Susan Queen, who is a “100 percent Trump fan,” said she doesn’t think the DACA recipients, or Dreamers, should be removed from the country, and she doesn’t think Trump does either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously I have sympathy for the kids,” said Queen, 68, a member of the California Federation of Republican Women of Southeastern Tulare County. “I think there should be some sort of way to make them legal here,” she said, “but I don’t know about citizens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad was a judge,” Queen explained, “and I don’t like rewarding anything illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Dreamers are allowed to gain legal status, she said, perhaps they shouldn’t be allowed to bring in other family members later. It makes her mad, she said, to think about an old friend in Germany who wanted to live and work in the United States and couldn’t seem to ever get a visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Queen’s family raised animals and had groves she picked oranges from as a kid, but she’s not in the farm business and her children didn’t work in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Central Valley citrus grower Manuel Cunha, who is no liberal when it comes to business regulations he considers excessive, is a longtime proponent of legalizing undocumented farmworkers who have been here for years. The director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.niseifarmersleague.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nisei Farmers League\u003c/a> in Fresno, north of Bakersfield, he knows McCarthy well and has raised money for McCarthy and other prominent Republicans. “I’ve fundraised so much that we probably could have paid for immigration reform many times over,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642534\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 380px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11642534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers4.jpeg\" alt=\"Workers earn $21 for each orange bin they fill in a grove that sits in Kern County.\" width=\"380\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers4.jpeg 380w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers4-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers4-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers4-375x250.jpeg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers earn $21 for each orange bin they fill in a grove that sits in Kern County. \u003ccite>(Susan Ferriss/Center for Public Integrity)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve given up on some of our political people,” he said in exasperation. “The people who say the climate is not right for immigration, or it’s not the right time. Oh, but come to our fundraiser.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he was in Washington, D.C., recently to visit with members of Congress and staff and talk about undocumented immigrant workers, DACA and the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our rural communities are made up of thousands of these folks,” Cunha said. “They’re in school or working, and they have one parent in the fields, or in the packing houses,” Cunha said, “and maybe another is in construction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How simple it would be to do a DACA reform,” Cunha said. “You’ve vetted all of them already.” The current crop of young DACA recipients have already been checked for criminal records, fingerprinted, and paid into getting work permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Come on, Kevin, let’s get it done,” Cunha said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the uncertainty, kids have come into his office sobbing, he said, because they couldn’t renew their permits, or they’re terrified about what’s next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Bakersfield, the characterization of their parents as lawbreakers, or invaders, upsets Dreamers Eloisa Torres, 18, and Leydy Rangel, 22. Both traveled to Washington, D.C, this fall twice on trips sponsored by the \u003ca href=\"http://ufw.org/\">United Farm Workers\u003c/a> union so they could tell their stories to staff and members of Congress who’d listen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your parents struggle,” said Torres, who wasn’t even two years old when she arrived. “They’ve told me, ‘Become something.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her father was often away to accept work he was offered in construction, or in agricultural fields. She didn’t ask her parents for money to start college this year at California State University, Bakersfield. She collected cans to recycle to make initial payments, and was relieved when tuition fees dropped because of state aid. She’s thinking about becoming a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rangel, who grew up migrating from the Coachella Valley up through Bakersfield and beyond, picked grapes and pruned vines in the state’s vast vineyards as a child. In high school she convinced her parents to leave her alone in Coachella so she could stay and finish high school there and apply to college. She recently graduated from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every night, she worries about her parents getting deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642537\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 380px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11642537\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers5.jpg\" alt=\"Undocumented DACA recipient Ivan Gonzalez, 22, an 800 meters state high school champion, attended the University of California, Berkeley.\" width=\"380\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers5.jpg 380w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers5-160x238.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers5-240x357.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/dreamers5-375x559.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Undocumented DACA recipient Ivan Gonzalez, 22, an 800 meters state high school champion, attended the University of California, Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy of Ivan Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another DACA recipient in Bakersfield, Ivan Gonzalez, now 22, managed to cap off his undocumented childhood by running his way to becoming the 800 meters state champion in high school. He won a full scholarship to the University of California at Berkeley. “People didn’t care about my citizenship status when I was running track,” said Gonzalez, whose choice to attend Berkeley was featured in local news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s back in Bakersfield after graduation and is working at Youth 2 Leaders Education Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He counsels parents and kids on available options for college scholarships. California legislators, over the years, have gradually passed legislation to first allow undocumented students to attend state colleges and pay in-state tuition rather than out-of-state fees. Later legislation was passed to allow students to receive state aid, not federal, to help pay for tuition. Private scholarships are out there as well. “There are people who think we don’t belong here while eating what my people are picking,” he said. He tells families to keep kids in school, no matter what happens to DACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, Gonzalez also participates in citizenship workshops to help immigrants with legal permanent residency prepare for testing. “You don’t know how much I wish I were in your position,” he jokes with aspiring citizens he helps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Luis Galvan, there’s no time to waste. He’s in a race to avoid having his DACA work permit expire. He’s talked to a lawyer, and to \u003ca href=\"https://missionassetfund.org/daca-renewal-scholarships/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mission Asset Fund\u003c/a>, a nonprofit group in San Francisco that provided him the scholarship to pay his renewal fee. Tara Robinson, the fund’s chief development officer, said the fund issued more than 5,000 checks to DACA recipients and the majority were cashed by Homeland Security. A small number weren’t accepted, which Robinson said could have been due to a Homeland Security error. When Galvan received word from the department to resubmit his application and a new payment, he bought a money order and Mission Asset Fund later reimbursed him. Then the rejection notice arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A suit filed Wednesday by the city of Oroville accuses the California Department of Water Resources of a long pattern of recklessness and corruption that ultimately led to last February's near-catastrophe at the nation's tallest dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The action filed on behalf of the city in Butte County Superior Court in Chico seeks unspecified damages from DWR for allegedly failing to maintain the massive concrete spillway and other facilities in a safe condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4353141-City-of-Oroville-v-California-Department-of.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The complaint\u003c/a> (\u003ca href=\"#orovillesuit\">embedded below\u003c/a>) also includes new accusations, including DWR's alleged tolerance of \"a toxic culture and hostile work environment at Oroville Dam\" that impacted workers there and undermined the facility's maintenance and safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 188,000 people were told to leave communities along the Feather River last February after the failure of Oroville Dam’s main spillway and the subsequent rapid deterioration of the adjacent emergency spillway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing findings from both \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4349374/Independent-Forensic-Team-Report-Final-01-05-18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an official team of forensic experts\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/18/report-design-building-and-upkeep-flaws-led-to-oroville-spillway-failure/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an outside group of analysts\u003c/a> led by Robert Bea, a professor emeritus of civil engineering at UC Berkeley, the suit says the spillway crisis \"was caused by decades of mismanagement and intentional lack of maintenance\" by DWR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency's management was \"a den of improper conduct, and management went so far as to fabricate required reports,\" the suit says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2018/01/OrovilleSuitBrekke180118.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/DK_oro_spillway_damage-4474_02_27_2017-1920x1280.jpg\" Title=\"Oroville Suit Alleges DWR Corruption, Recklessness Led to Spillway Crisis\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the allegations in the suit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>That DWR's maintenance of the spillway, in particular, was long known to be inadequate. Among other things, the suit alleges that agency officials \"would mark projects or tasks as complete when they had not even been started, and reports were filed indicating that they were done.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>That DWR has attempted to cover up evidence of its poor management of the dam and of safety problems there by destroying evidence at the shattered concrete spillway and redacting reports on the structure and the effort to rebuild it.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>That department leadership has deferred to the demands of the State Water Contractors -- more than two dozen water agencies who pay for operations and maintenance at Oroville and other State Water Project facilities -- to put off maintenance and safety studies at the dam.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>That DWR attempted to silence employees who voiced concerns about operations at Oroville.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>That DWR maintained two sets of books in an attempt to conceal its true costs and spending.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>That two Oroville Dam supervisors -- both specifically named in the complaint -- engaged in a range of improper or illegal conduct, including theft, purchase of substandard supplies and cronyism in awarding overtime.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>That women and minority workers at the Oroville site were subject to sexual and racial harassment that was known to supervisors and went unpunished. 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The city of Oroville is one of hundreds of parties that last year filed nearly 500 claims worth an estimated $1.2 billion against the state for losses reportedly suffered during the spillway crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of last week, the Department of General Services, which administers the state’s Government Claims program, had rejected every one of the more than 350 claims it had reviewed. That includes the Oroville claim, which was turned down last July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who want to pursue their claims, filing suit is the next step. Lawyers for several clients who submitted large claims last year have said they intend to file lawsuits sometime this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the potential suits is one for a Butte County farming operation that said it \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/03/farmers-file-15-million-claim-for-damages-during-oroville-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lost 27 acres of walnut orchards \u003c/a>to erosion as a result of the spillway emergency and subsequent water release decisions made by the Department of Water Resources. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Acres of mud and debris continue to make travel in and out of the Santa Barbara area a big challenge. So commuters are relying on some old-fashioned transportation alternates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It usually takes Mitchell Guzman about 40 minutes to get from Ventura to his job in Montecito. But today, with the area’s main commuter lifeline -- the 101 Freeway -- and other major roads damaged and swamped with muck, it will take more than twice that by boat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two whale watching companies, \u003ca href=\"http://islandpackers.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Island Packers Cruises\u003c/a> in Ventura and \u003ca href=\"http://condorexpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Condor Express\u003c/a> in Santa Barbara, are running special commuter ferries between the Ventura and Santa Barbara harbors at a cost of $32 per trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11642392\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/ferry-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/ferry-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/ferry-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/ferry-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/ferry.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/ferry-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/ferry-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/ferry-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/ferry-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/ferry-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Island Packers is one of two sightseeing companies ferrying commuters between the Ventura and Santa Barbara harbors. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t go to work at all last week,” explains Guzman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s his first day back at work as a full-time in-home caregiver. His wife, also a caregiver, has been looking after their elderly client in Montecito since the storm and landslides struck. She’ll rotate out when Guzman arrives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the upper deck of the ferry, Bill Pintard is passing the time talking to an old friend about all the news about the landslide; about friends and acquaintances who got hurt or perished in the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my first day since the floods to go back to Santa Barbara because we couldn’t get through,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pintard lives on the eastern edge of Montecito. He’s headed to Santa Barbara for some business meetings, and then to see a friend in the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And he got washed down to Highway 101 and he broke his back. His father didn’t survive. He survived,” says Pintard. “This whole thing is really sobering and it’s really hit every one of us to our very gut, to our very heart and soul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11642393\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/SURLINER-1-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/SURLINER-1-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/SURLINER-1-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/SURLINER-1-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/SURLINER-1-1180x824.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/SURLINER-1-960x670.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/SURLINER-1-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/SURLINER-1-375x262.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/SURLINER-1-520x363.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/SURLINER-1.jpg 1743w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Amtrak Pacific Surfliner is operating more (and longer) commuter trains along the Santa Barbara-Ventura coast while the 101 Freeway and other major roadways are closed due to storm and mudslide damage. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The temporary commuter ferries aren’t as packed as they were last week now that \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacificsurfliner.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner\u003c/a> is back in service. Amtrak is running extra trains along the Santa Barbara-Ventura coast at about half the cost of the sightseeing boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Surfliner slowly chugs along the tracks through Montecito, you can spot Caltrans and U.S. Army Corp of Engineers crews still clearing mud, boulders and tree limbs from a miles-long stretch of the 101. Officials hope to have the freeway reopened sometime next week.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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