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"content": "\u003cp>You may have seen recent news of a survey finding that 27 percent of California youth ages 12 to 17 are \"gender nonconforming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Gender nonconforming is not a synonym for transgender. Rather it typically refers to a much greater number of people who defy stereotypes of their sex. This term can include tomboys, for example.'\u003ccite>Kristina Olson, University of Washington.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That sounds pretty high. I might even put the word \"whopping\" before \"27 percent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I have to say, I've been covering the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2017/04/24/boy-girl-both-neither-a-new-generation-overthrows-gender/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gender story\u003c/a> for more than a year, and when I saw the headlines, I wasn't \u003cem>quite\u003c/em> sure what gender nonconforming meant. Gender terminology, like gender itself these days, can be fairly fluid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So here is the exact question that was asked of California adolescents:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A person’s appearance, style, dress, or the way they walk or talk may affect how people describe them. How do you think other people at school would describe you? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Very feminine\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mostly feminine\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equally feminine and masculine\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mostly masculine\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Very masculine\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This is a measure of what gender researchers call \"gender expression,\" or the way individuals manifest what you might call the trappings of masculinity and femininity: clothes, hair, makeup, posture. As some of the UCLA researchers involved in the survey put it, those who are \"seen as resisting dominant expectations around gender expression\" are considered gender nonconforming.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There’s been an assumption that gender nonconforming people are gay or lesbian, but that’s not the case. It’s a stereotype.”\u003ccite>Alison Gill, Advocates for Youth\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>You might think that someone who is gender nonconforming is necessarily transgender. But that is not the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“ ‘Gender nonconforming' \" is not a synonym for transgender,” says Kristina Olson, d\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">irector of the TransYouth Project at the University of Washington. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“R\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ather it typically refers to a much greater number of people who defy stereotypes of their sex. This term can include tomboys, for example\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people may also confound gender nonconformity with being lesbian, gay or bisexual. 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The telephone survey covers dozens of health topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHIS has been going strong since 2001, but this was the first time a question on either youth gender identity or gender expression had been included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why now?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'A lot of bullying is around expression and not sexuality. A gay boy who is considered totally masculine is considered fine by his peers. But nonconforming people are getting bullied.' \u003ccite>Phil Hammack, University of California, Santa Cruz\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Researchers at UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research and The Williams Institute, which conducts research on sexual orientation and gender identity law, said in a health policy \u003ca href=\"http://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/publications/Documents/PDF/2017/gncadolescents-factsheet-dec2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fact sheet\u003c/a> that levels of gender conformity are \"known to be a particularly salient factor in the safety and well-being of youth. Yet, data about gender nonconforming youth remain rare.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question was asked of 1,594 adolescents, ages 12 to 17, across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were two categories for respondents coded as gender nonconforming. One was \"highly gender nonconforming\" and the other was \"androgynous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Male respondents who answered \"very feminine\" or \"mostly feminine,\" and female respondents who answered \"very masculine\" or \"mostly masculine,\" were categorized as \"highly gender nonconforming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who answered \"equally feminine and masculine\" were coded as “androgynous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The androgynous outnumbered those who were highly gender nonconforming by more than 3 to 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Total nonconforming youth came out to 27 percent of all the adolescents queried. That \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">would equate to 796,000 gender nonconforming youth in the state of California today.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The margin of error was about 6 percent, so that number could be substantially greater or fewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California and Gender\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combined surveys asking the same question in L.A., San Diego, Chicago and Florida’s Broward County provide a larger population of 9,265 youth, and that data shows high health risks associated with gender nonconformity. For example, GNC males were between two and three times more likely to attempt suicide than conforming males, and for females the rate was 1 1/2 times greater for those who were GNC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the California survey showed nonconforming youth reporting more than twice the level of severe psychological distress as their conforming peers, it showed no statistically significant difference when it came to suicidal ideation and suicide attempts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why the big difference related to suicide between nonconforming and conforming youth in the larger sample, and hardly any in the Californian-only data?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California researchers speculated that the state's social environment may be contributing to better mental health outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(H)igher levels of social acceptance and the presence of protective policies in California may impact rates of victimization and bullying, which, in turn, may confer some protection for gender minority youth in the state,\" reads the fact sheet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Next Frontier\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Hammack is a professor of psychology and researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who specializes in sexual and gender identity. 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Like hundreds of other families in Southern California, their house burned in the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/thomas-fire/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Fire\u003c/a>, which has scorched an area larger than New York City and is on the verge of becoming the largest fire in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I'll Never Get That Back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the family evacuated to Allie's father's house about 20 miles away, they thought they'd be coming right back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We lost everything,\" Allie says. \"We had an overnight bag, we had the monitors, my son's teddy bear that he's attached at the hip to, thank God.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her husband, Matt, would usually be working right now — he's been a firefighter for over a decade, battling wildfires like the one that took their house. 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But she says the magnitude of the loss makes it hard to crack a smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wish this happened when we didn't have kids,\" she says. \"Because there is stuff I can never replace for [Jace]. Little things like his first curl, his first piece of hair, his baby footprints. Stuff like that. I'll never get that back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One piece of Christmas magic amid the rubble: Allie found the family safe, burned to a crisp. But a container inside it survived. Allie was just 18 when her mother died, leaving behind her jewelry, with a letter for each piece representing a milestone that they would not be able to celebrate together. Allie still has that precious jewelry container, and in it her mother's pearls that she opened on her wedding day, seven years after her mother's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/leila-1-edit_custom-59b04020ccff842dd2b47d6f61e8f6704c1793a1-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy and Jay Blomquist stand outside the Local Assistance Center in Ventura, with their twins, Alexander and Olivia. The family wears masks to protect themselves from the ash and smoke in the air from the Thomas Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638838\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy and Jay Blomquist stand outside the Local Assistance Center in Ventura, with their twins, Alexander and Olivia. The family wears masks to protect themselves from the ash and smoke in the air from the Thomas Fire. \u003ccite>(Leila Fadel/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Necessities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city of Ventura has set up a range of services to help families displaced by the Thomas Fire. There's a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofventura.ca.gov/1254/Thomas-Fire-Information\">website \u003c/a>with information about evacuations, boil water orders and air quality. A Local Assistance Center is open seven days a week to help fire victims who have lost everything get their affairs in order. The recent disaster looms over the assistance center; the hillside behind the building is scorched. Inside, fire victims move from table to table, replacing burned licenses and asking about insurance, aid and when their neighborhood might be open again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Single mom Wendy Hellstrom heads inside, feeling nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"whUY7LwG6YioppOdroZM63ZjzMPDFUpk\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I asked my family for Christmas gifts of food and gas cards, so we can afford food,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hellstrom is out of work for the next month because of the haze of smoke in the air. She's an athletic coach and her work is outside. Without a paycheck, she can't afford her rent this month, let alone buy Christmas presents for her two kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had a meeting with my kids two days ago, I sat down and met with them,\" she says. \"I told them, just understand that I'm not going to be able to get you anything but you're going to get some gifts from our family members. And be patient and be a little bit more non-complaining and whining because mom's stressed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Making a New Plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the Local Assistance Center's parking lot, the Blomquist family gets out of their truck. They're all wearing pink gas masks to protect from the smoke and ash in the air. The night before the fire, the family was making Christmas cookies. The gifts were nestled under the tree. Since they evacuated, they've changed hotels four times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We left with nothing — the dogs, the kids,\" says Nancy Blomquist, motioning to her 10-year-old twins. \"They grabbed a few things and my daughter was like, 'Can we grab the Christmas presents?' My husband said, 'Come on, we're going to be right back.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"H1qIugJkdBjyJGZeBaxkbEYetQsJKiOm\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, the alarm system started going haywire and she and her husband, Jay, knew the house was lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just a stairway to nowhere now. It's gone,\" Nancy Blomquist says. \"We haven't been able to go see it so we can't make peace with it. So we've been buying the toiletries, essentials.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The twins, Alexander and Olivia, are very clear about the new Christmas plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to buy everything again,\" Alexander says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah, we're going to re-buy the gifts,\" Olivia adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their mother nods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the first year they bought for each other with their own money. We went back and rebought everything to make it look exactly the same,\" Nancy Blomquist says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We went and bought a little tree for the hotel and we're sprucing it up,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not the Christmas they had planned, but it's the best they can do this year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=After+A+Wildfire%2C+Making+A+Holiday+Among+The+Ashes&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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A \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/ekbladfamilythomasfire\">GoFundMe page\u003c/a> set up by a friend has raised more than $50,000 — and the company where Allie works in marketing is matching the donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allie is grateful and a bit embarrassed by all the help, she says. Even though the kids' Christmas gifts are gone, they will get presents from donated toys. But she says the magnitude of the loss makes it hard to crack a smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wish this happened when we didn't have kids,\" she says. \"Because there is stuff I can never replace for [Jace]. Little things like his first curl, his first piece of hair, his baby footprints. Stuff like that. I'll never get that back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One piece of Christmas magic amid the rubble: Allie found the family safe, burned to a crisp. But a container inside it survived. Allie was just 18 when her mother died, leaving behind her jewelry, with a letter for each piece representing a milestone that they would not be able to celebrate together. Allie still has that precious jewelry container, and in it her mother's pearls that she opened on her wedding day, seven years after her mother's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/leila-1-edit_custom-59b04020ccff842dd2b47d6f61e8f6704c1793a1-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy and Jay Blomquist stand outside the Local Assistance Center in Ventura, with their twins, Alexander and Olivia. The family wears masks to protect themselves from the ash and smoke in the air from the Thomas Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638838\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy and Jay Blomquist stand outside the Local Assistance Center in Ventura, with their twins, Alexander and Olivia. The family wears masks to protect themselves from the ash and smoke in the air from the Thomas Fire. \u003ccite>(Leila Fadel/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Necessities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city of Ventura has set up a range of services to help families displaced by the Thomas Fire. There's a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofventura.ca.gov/1254/Thomas-Fire-Information\">website \u003c/a>with information about evacuations, boil water orders and air quality. A Local Assistance Center is open seven days a week to help fire victims who have lost everything get their affairs in order. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:30 p.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>March Fong Eu, who broke barriers as a Chinese-American and woman in Bay Area and California politics, has died at the age of 95.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Times was \u003ca href=\"http://beta.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-march-fong-eu-20171222-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first with the news\u003c/a> Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Times notes in the lede of its obituary that Eu came “to voter attention … with her populist campaign to ban pay toilets from public buildings.” After being elected in 1966 to represent the East Bay in the state Assembly, the Times said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Eu quickly made a name for herself by taking up the issue of coin-locked toilets, saying that forcing women to fumble for pocket change was discriminatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make her point, she staged a publicity stunt in 1969 in which she bashed a toilet lock with a sledgehammer (and accidentally smashed the toilet also).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Eu was ridiculed by her male colleagues in the Legislature over the pay-toilet issue, in 1974, the same year that Gov. Ronald Reagan signed a bill banning pay toilets in public buildings, she used the issue in her bid to become secretary of state and collected a record 3.4 million votes. Four years later, she topped that by 600,000 votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not too bad for a lady born behind a Chinese laundry,” she told a Times reporter in 1979.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Steve_Glazer/status/944343631606956032\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eu was born March 29, 1922, in the back of a laundry in the Stanislaus County town of Oakdale, northeast of Modesto. Eu — originally March Kong — was the youngest of four children born to Yuen Kong and Shiu Shee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her parents moved the family to Richmond, where they established another hand laundry. Eu recalled the family continued to live behind the laundry and that the family’s relative poverty gave her “a very strong drive to succeed and also to do some good and help others who may find\u003cbr>\nthemselves in the same situation that I found myself in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not to say that my childhood was unhappy,” she told \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/marchfongachiev00eueurich\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an oral history interviewer in the 1970s\u003c/a>. “It was was just that I had wished that the circumstances were different so that my parents would have a better life than to have to work seven days a week, morning, noon, and night, washing and ironing clothes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eu attended attended elementary and high school in Richmond, where she earned nearly straight A’s, then moved with her family to Gilroy. She attended Salinas Junior College for a year before going on to UC Berkeley, where in 1943 she earned a bachelor’s of science degree in dentistry. She went on to earn a master’s degree in education from Mills College and a doctorate in education from Stanford. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of her three siblings also went on to graduate from college — one with a chemistry degree, another with a degree in pharmacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eu, who married a fellow dentistry student and was known at the start of her political career as March K. Fong, won three terms on the Alameda County Board of Education before running for the Assembly in 1966. In \u003ca href=\"http://news.lib.berkeley.edu/2016/06/08/from-the-archives-march-fong-eu-pioneering-woman-in-california-politics/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 1978 oral history interview\u003c/a> with UC Berkeley, she recalled that Nicholas Petris, a state senator and veteran of East Bay Democratic politics, endorsed someone else in the party primary: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“When you’re pressed to endorse candidates, sometimes you ultimately make a decision as to the one that?s going to win, more than the person you prefer. Maybe he just felt that it couldn’t happen that I would win: There was only one woman in the legislature; women just did not get elected. And a Chinese woman at that.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Eu won the primary without Petris’ endorsement, then went on to win the first of her four Assembly terms. She was only the second woman elected to the Legislature and also the state’s first Asian-American lawmaker. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eu, by this time divorced and remarried to \u003ca href=\"http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-08-02/news/8702260221_1_henry-eu-state-march-fong-eu-california-secretary\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">businessman Henry Eu\u003c/a>, was elected secretary of state in 1974, the first woman elected to the office and the first Chinese-American to hold a constitutional office in California. Among the accomplishments she later cited were introduction of mail-in voter registration, internet reporting of election results and consolidation of the secretary of state’s divisions in one complex in Sacramento. She won election a record five times before resigning when President Bill Clinton named her ambassador to the Pacific nation of Micronesia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She ran again for secretary of state in 2002, but lost in the Democratic primary to San Franciscan Kevin Shelley. Eu’s adopted son, Matt Fong, was elected state treasurer in 1994. Fong, a Republican, lost his 1998 bid to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer. He died in 2011. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Gov. Jerry Brown called March Fong Eu “a pioneering woman who helped open doors to public service for more women and Asian Americans. On behalf of all Californians, Anne and I express our deep condolences to March’s family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secretary of State Alex Padilla called Eu “a true trailblazer … a champion of transparency and the ballot box.” Padilla’s office said Saturday that the agency’s headquarters in Sacramento will be renamed for Eu. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 1973 speech titled “\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/23/march-fong-eu-the-self-sufficient-woman/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Self-Sufficient Woman\u003c/a>,” then-Assemblymember Eu reflected on her place in the Legislature and what the future might hold for women in politics and society. A brief excerpt:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Maybe if some men had to bear and rear unwanted babies themselves, they would understand better our resentment of laws relating to our reproductive systems. Maybe if some men let their wives involuntarily control their income, they would understand better our resentment of present discriminatory statutes directed toward women as a class. And maybe if some men were raped, and, in pursuit of justice, they found that they had to reveal humiliating information about their past lives — maybe then they would understand the anger of women who feel they are doubly wronged by rapists and the laws concerning rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I guess what I am saying is that I believe it is about time that some men need to do some honest rethinking about their perspective and prejudices.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Eu is survived by her daughter Suyin Stein of Sebastopol (husband Jim), four grandchildren (Alaric and Melody Stein and Jade Fong and Matthew Fong, Jr.) as well as numerous nieces and nephews. 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Eu recalled the family continued to live behind the laundry and that the family’s relative poverty gave her “a very strong drive to succeed and also to do some good and help others who may find\u003cbr>\nthemselves in the same situation that I found myself in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not to say that my childhood was unhappy,” she told \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/marchfongachiev00eueurich\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an oral history interviewer in the 1970s\u003c/a>. “It was was just that I had wished that the circumstances were different so that my parents would have a better life than to have to work seven days a week, morning, noon, and night, washing and ironing clothes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eu attended attended elementary and high school in Richmond, where she earned nearly straight A’s, then moved with her family to Gilroy. She attended Salinas Junior College for a year before going on to UC Berkeley, where in 1943 she earned a bachelor’s of science degree in dentistry. She went on to earn a master’s degree in education from Mills College and a doctorate in education from Stanford. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of her three siblings also went on to graduate from college — one with a chemistry degree, another with a degree in pharmacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eu, who married a fellow dentistry student and was known at the start of her political career as March K. Fong, won three terms on the Alameda County Board of Education before running for the Assembly in 1966. In \u003ca href=\"http://news.lib.berkeley.edu/2016/06/08/from-the-archives-march-fong-eu-pioneering-woman-in-california-politics/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 1978 oral history interview\u003c/a> with UC Berkeley, she recalled that Nicholas Petris, a state senator and veteran of East Bay Democratic politics, endorsed someone else in the party primary: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“When you’re pressed to endorse candidates, sometimes you ultimately make a decision as to the one that?s going to win, more than the person you prefer. Maybe he just felt that it couldn’t happen that I would win: There was only one woman in the legislature; women just did not get elected. And a Chinese woman at that.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Eu won the primary without Petris’ endorsement, then went on to win the first of her four Assembly terms. She was only the second woman elected to the Legislature and also the state’s first Asian-American lawmaker. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eu, by this time divorced and remarried to \u003ca href=\"http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-08-02/news/8702260221_1_henry-eu-state-march-fong-eu-california-secretary\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">businessman Henry Eu\u003c/a>, was elected secretary of state in 1974, the first woman elected to the office and the first Chinese-American to hold a constitutional office in California. Among the accomplishments she later cited were introduction of mail-in voter registration, internet reporting of election results and consolidation of the secretary of state’s divisions in one complex in Sacramento. She won election a record five times before resigning when President Bill Clinton named her ambassador to the Pacific nation of Micronesia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She ran again for secretary of state in 2002, but lost in the Democratic primary to San Franciscan Kevin Shelley. Eu’s adopted son, Matt Fong, was elected state treasurer in 1994. Fong, a Republican, lost his 1998 bid to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer. He died in 2011. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Gov. Jerry Brown called March Fong Eu “a pioneering woman who helped open doors to public service for more women and Asian Americans. On behalf of all Californians, Anne and I express our deep condolences to March’s family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secretary of State Alex Padilla called Eu “a true trailblazer … a champion of transparency and the ballot box.” Padilla’s office said Saturday that the agency’s headquarters in Sacramento will be renamed for Eu. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 1973 speech titled “\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/23/march-fong-eu-the-self-sufficient-woman/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Self-Sufficient Woman\u003c/a>,” then-Assemblymember Eu reflected on her place in the Legislature and what the future might hold for women in politics and society. A brief excerpt:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Maybe if some men had to bear and rear unwanted babies themselves, they would understand better our resentment of laws relating to our reproductive systems. 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"content": "\u003cp>Chadwick the African Lion gets up slowly from a late-morning nap in a spot of warm sunshine that has become somewhat of a rarity in these often smoke-filled days here at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sbzoo.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Barbara Zoo.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a very majestic older lion,” Dr. Julie Barnes, director of animal care and health at the Santa Barbara Zoo, tells a visitor. “He’s 19 years old, so he is definitely geriatric at this time. But he is very beloved here by the people who work at the zoo and by our visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/12/SBZooEvacsOneill171222.mp3\" title=\"Keeping the Santa Barbara Zoo Safe From Fire\" program=\"KQED News\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Chadwich-Credit-SheriHoriszny-1-e1513977223284.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thick-maned lion is among 500 residents of the zoo. Officials have been on standby for their evacuation, should flames from the massive \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Fire\u003c/a> get close to the zoo, which happened once already since the fire began on Dec. 4. Zoo officials have had their hands full, keeping the animals safe, even as evacuations have been lifted for the massive Thomas Fire still burning in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Good job, buddy,” Chadwick’s handler, Kristen Wieners, says as she lures the big cat up to the fence with a toot of a training whistle and the promise of a meaty reward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chadwick shakes off sleep and slowly approaches the fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is how a 19-year-old lion moves,” she says as she hands him a reward of raw meat stuffed into a cardboard paper towel tube. 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Chadwick and the zoo’s leopards, including a breeding pair of Amur leopards -- the rarest big cats in the world -- must be tranquilized before handlers can load them into sturdy steel evacuation crates lined up along the back side of the zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes says attracting big cats to the cage mesh allows keepers to inject them by hand rather than by dart gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes the process very calm, very quick,” Barnes says. “Very low stress on the animals and then they just go to sleep, within about 10 to 15 minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of efficiency is needed for a successful evacuation, especially at a zoo like this with about 150 species that would need capturing before they can be crated and carted to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes says you can’t wait until the flames are in your backyard to prepare for something like this. And so, during this fire, they took quick action, focusing first on evacuating their endangered California condors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We moved our condors down to the Los Angeles Zoo,” Barnes says. \"They’re one of our priority species -- they’re highly endangered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And along for the ride were a few other vultures who Barnes says can be \"tricky to trap.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So once we actually got our hands on them, we just decided to move them out as well,” Barnes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Handlers also led two visiting reindeer -- Lightning and Holiday -- into horse trailers. They’ve headed home for the holidays. An infant anteater who needs round-the-clock bottle feeding is now bunking at the Fresno Zoo, about four hours north of here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the evacuees-in-waiting: several fennec foxes, a rambunctious baby gibbon and her foster mother, two silverback Western lowland gorillas, Asian small-clawed otters, golden lion tamarins and a rather petite Chinese alligator who, it turns out, is pretty easy to capture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They usually just throw a towel over her head so she can’t see them, and they just jump on her,” Barnes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639049\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11639049\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-1180x1475.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-960x1200.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-240x300.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-375x469.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-520x650.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Barbara Zoo elephants \u003ccite>(Sheri Horiszny/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a different story, however, for the zoo’s two 46-year-old Asian elephants. Barnes says they suffer from age-related joint disease, and unlike circus elephants who routinely travel the country, these elderly pachyderms are not crate-trained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To move them into crates is very stressful for them,” Barnes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their best chance of survival, she says, is to leave them in place. Their exhibit includes concrete housing that would provide protection. What’s more, she says, firefighters have staged vehicles around the zoo to defend it if necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same goes for the zoo’s five giraffes. Evacuating them would be a tall order, requiring a special truck and a carefully mapped out getaway route as giraffes can’t fit under freeway overpasses or under low-hanging power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Barnes says, the zoo’s flock of 50 fragile flamingos would probably stay put as they’re easily injured and catching them can be a bit like herding cats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the fire burned in the hills above Santa Barbara, Barnes considered it safest to keep most of the animals in their nighttime holding pens for easy evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well-behaved Chadwick being among the exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, with evacuation orders lifted for humans in the county, zoo officials have proclaimed all their animal residents free to again roam their outdoor exhibits -- much to the pleasure of zoo visitors.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chadwick shakes off sleep and slowly approaches the fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is how a 19-year-old lion moves,” she says as she hands him a reward of raw meat stuffed into a cardboard paper towel tube. The lion grabs it and chews it between his giant paws, like a dog gnawing rawhide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639051\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11639051\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-giraffe-calf-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A giraffe calf at the Santa Barbara Zoo. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Santa Barbara Zoo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cardboard tube acts like “an extra source of fiber,” in Chadwick’s diet, says Wieners: “Every time they come over (to the fence) we want to reinforce the cats and tell them it’s a really good thing to come over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The threat of wildfire has made that especially true. Chadwick and the zoo’s leopards, including a breeding pair of Amur leopards -- the rarest big cats in the world -- must be tranquilized before handlers can load them into sturdy steel evacuation crates lined up along the back side of the zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes says attracting big cats to the cage mesh allows keepers to inject them by hand rather than by dart gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes the process very calm, very quick,” Barnes says. “Very low stress on the animals and then they just go to sleep, within about 10 to 15 minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of efficiency is needed for a successful evacuation, especially at a zoo like this with about 150 species that would need capturing before they can be crated and carted to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes says you can’t wait until the flames are in your backyard to prepare for something like this. And so, during this fire, they took quick action, focusing first on evacuating their endangered California condors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We moved our condors down to the Los Angeles Zoo,” Barnes says. \"They’re one of our priority species -- they’re highly endangered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And along for the ride were a few other vultures who Barnes says can be \"tricky to trap.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So once we actually got our hands on them, we just decided to move them out as well,” Barnes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Handlers also led two visiting reindeer -- Lightning and Holiday -- into horse trailers. They’ve headed home for the holidays. An infant anteater who needs round-the-clock bottle feeding is now bunking at the Fresno Zoo, about four hours north of here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the evacuees-in-waiting: several fennec foxes, a rambunctious baby gibbon and her foster mother, two silverback Western lowland gorillas, Asian small-clawed otters, golden lion tamarins and a rather petite Chinese alligator who, it turns out, is pretty easy to capture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They usually just throw a towel over her head so she can’t see them, and they just jump on her,” Barnes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639049\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11639049\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-1180x1475.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-960x1200.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-240x300.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-375x469.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny-520x650.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/SB-Zoo-Elephants-credit-Sheri-Horiszny.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Barbara Zoo elephants \u003ccite>(Sheri Horiszny/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a different story, however, for the zoo’s two 46-year-old Asian elephants. Barnes says they suffer from age-related joint disease, and unlike circus elephants who routinely travel the country, these elderly pachyderms are not crate-trained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To move them into crates is very stressful for them,” Barnes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their best chance of survival, she says, is to leave them in place. Their exhibit includes concrete housing that would provide protection. What’s more, she says, firefighters have staged vehicles around the zoo to defend it if necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same goes for the zoo’s five giraffes. Evacuating them would be a tall order, requiring a special truck and a carefully mapped out getaway route as giraffes can’t fit under freeway overpasses or under low-hanging power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Barnes says, the zoo’s flock of 50 fragile flamingos would probably stay put as they’re easily injured and catching them can be a bit like herding cats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the fire burned in the hills above Santa Barbara, Barnes considered it safest to keep most of the animals in their nighttime holding pens for easy evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well-behaved Chadwick being among the exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, with evacuation orders lifted for humans in the county, zoo officials have proclaimed all their animal residents free to again roam their outdoor exhibits -- much to the pleasure of zoo visitors.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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But he offered to get additional items to craft homemade bombs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agent asked Jameson to make a video or written statement \"for the brothers,\" according to the affidavit, and Jameson responded later that day, \"It is written.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Jameson allegedly sent the agent photographs and a map of the Pier 39 area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affidavit says an FBI employee mistakenly called Jameson's cellphone later that day from an identifiable, Washington, D.C., phone number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After Jameson answered in apparent Arabic language, the FBI employee immediately terminated the call,\" the affidavit says. \"Shortly afterwards, Jameson called the 202 telephone number, which resolves to a voice mail identifying the name (but not employing agency) of [the] user of the 202 telephone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later on Monday, Jameson appeared to try to back out of the plot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jameson told [the undercover agent], 'I also don't think I can do this after all. I've reconsidered,' \" according to the affidavit. \"'In Sha Allah one day I can. But I can't.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI served a search warrant at Jameson's Modesto home on Wednesday, where agents recovered two rifles, a handgun and ammunition, as well as a will allegedly executed by Jameson in November and the letter an undercover agent asked him to write.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You all have brought this upon yourselves,\" the letter allegedly states. \"We have penetrated and infiltrated your disgusting country. These Acts will continue until the Lions of Islam overtake you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charge of attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for California's Eastern District, which is prosecuting the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach someone at Jameson's home were unsuccessful. 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Both doctors accused the sheriff of trying to influence their investigations and their findings.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=”bOdZUxQlMlohk29U0cR9RThS81lBRF45″]\u003cbr>\nIn over 100 pages of memos, email and letters obtained by KQED, the doctors detailed dozens of incidents they say support those claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/04/autopsy-doctors-sheriff-overrode-death-findings-to-protect-law-enforcement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED reported\u003c/a> the allegations that the sheriff “routinely” interfered in investigations of people who died at the hands of officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In memos attached to an Oct. 1 letter to the medical director of San Joaquin General Hospital, the doctors wrote that Moore also prevented them from visiting crime scenes, failed to notify them of other cases they were legally obligated to investigate and canceled forensic tests without their knowledge or consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A person who does not have a license to practice medicine in the State of California should not be involved in the medical evaluation of a case and provision of a medical opinion,” Parson and Omalu wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Moore denied the allegations in a written statement on Dec. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been questions recently about whether I have interfered with forensic investigations. That has never happened,” Moore wrote. “I would never try to influence or change the opinions of Dr Omalu or any pathologist working on a case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu — whose discovery of a deadly brain disease in professional football players was depicted in the 2015 movie “Concussion” — said he accepted a job with San Joaquin County a decade ago to raise the standards of death investigations in a medically underserved community. But in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4322057-Letter-of-Resignation-Bennet-Omalu-MD-2017-12-05.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resignation letter\u003c/a>, Omalu wrote that he was met with resistance from the start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638942\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11638942 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Forensic pathologist and neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu participates in a briefing sponsored by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) on Capitol Hill on January 12, 2016 in Washington, DC.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forensic pathologist and neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu participates in a briefing sponsored by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) on Capitol Hill on Jan, 12, 2016, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Pete Marovich/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I first experienced this with Sheriff Steve Moore when he prevented me from attending crime scenes which detectives from police departments of other cities may have wanted me to attend, or scenes I wanted to attend, especially on complicated and/or unusual cases,” Omalu wrote. “I believed this interference would stop the longer I stayed in the office and exhibited the highest and exemplary standards of practice. Unfortunately, it did not stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preventing Forensic Pathologists From Examining Crime Scenes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerns over the lack of participation of a forensic pathologist prompted a San Joaquin County prosecutor to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4335112-2013-Deputy-DA-Letter-Re-People-v-Dawson-McGehee.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">write a letter\u003c/a> to the sheriff in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that in writing this letter it brings to your attention how the failure to have the Forensic Pathologist come to the scene can have an affect (sic) on the prosecution of some cases,” Deputy District Attorney Sherri Adams wrote, referencing the Oct. 30, 2011, \u003ca href=\"http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1733295.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">murder of Kathleen McGehee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGehee was discovered stabbed to death in her Manteca home on Oct. 31 of that year, a day when both her son Dawson McGehee and a daughter were in and out of the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Dr. Omalu’s ability to perform forensic pathological analysis to ascertain the time of death was significantly impaired.’\u003ccite>Sherri Adams,\u003cbr>\nSan Joaquin County Deputy District Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The lead investigator asked for Omalu to examine the body at the house. The sheriff’s office refused to send Omalu, and never told him about the request, according to Adams’ letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day later, Omalu performed an autopsy on McGehee in the morgue, but because of the delay and the refrigeration of the body, “Dr. Omalu’s ability to perform forensic pathological analysis to ascertain the time of death was significantly impaired,” Adams wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney charged Dawson McGehee with murder. During the trial, Adams wrote, the defense argued that the victim was alive on Oct. 31 and that someone other than her son could have killed her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were members of the jury that entertained this theory as a reasonable possibility based on the evidence,” Adams wrote to Moore. “Thankfully the jury in this case was able to render a verdict of guilt; however, the date and time of death was a real source of debate during the five days of jury deliberations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams said she never received a response to her letter and doesn’t know why the sheriff denied the request for Omalu to visit the crime scene. But, she said, she believes changes were made after that. In 2013, Adams prosecuted another homicide — and in that case, Omalu went to the crime scene, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4335341-Sheriff-Moore-17-12-21-response-to-DA-Letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written statement\u003c/a> Thursday that his office is “in the process of reviewing” Adams’ 2013 letter, and that the general practice is to send pathologists to crime scenes once they’ve been requested by the investigating agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This case is more than six years old,” Moore wrote, “and staff assigned to the Coroner’s Office at that time have either retired, rotated out, or are no longer working at the Sheriff’s Office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Canceling Doctors’ Orders for Tests\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forensic pathologists Omalu and Parson also documented a number of times when they say the sheriff overrode their requests for additional tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu cited a case where the decomposed remains of Lisa Ann Valdez, who had been missing for months, were found on June 8, 2016, also in Manteca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valdez’s body showed evidence of toxic levels of amphetamine, but Omalu could not rule out other causes because the head and neck of her body were missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘A person who does not have a license to practice medicine in the State of California should not be involved in the medical evaluation of a case and provision of a medical opinion.’\u003ccite>Dr. Bennet Omalu,\u003cbr>\nSan Joaquin County Chief Forensic Pathologist (Resigned)\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I had to determine if she had been killed by someone or if she died as a result of some type of accident,” Omalu wrote in a memo sent to the county medical director on Oct. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu recounted that he ordered an anthropological autopsy that might provide further evidence. But months later, when he asked for that report, a sheriff’s deputy told him that his request for laboratory analysis was “overruled” and “the skeleton was released to the family and cremated,” according to the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An incomplete autopsy undermines, and does not pass the reasonable degree of medical certainty threshold and standard,” Omalu wrote on his autopsy report. “I cannot provide an opinion in regard to the mechanisms of death and causes of death in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter to the medical director of San Joaquin General Hospital, Omalu wrote, “A person who does not have a license to practice medicine in the State of California should not be involved in the medical evaluation of a case and provision of a medical opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both doctors wrote that the sheriff’s decision to cancel lab work amounted to the illegal practice of medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Calls for Independent Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin County District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar said she was aware of the allegations before the doctors resigned and had launched an investigation “several weeks” ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SJCDA/posts/1702461886467144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dec. 12 post\u003c/a> on the DA’s Facebook page stated: “San Joaquin County Pathologists Dr. Bennet Omalu and Susan Parson have made our office aware of concerns in the operations of their office, and requested the District Attorney to investigate. The investigation has been initiated and is ongoing. When the investigation is complete, this office will review the facts as presented and make the appropriate decisions at that time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11633436\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11633436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Joaquin County District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar with investigation files for the 2008 death of Daniel Lee Humprheys, who was tased to death by a CHP officer. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some residents want an independent agency outside the county to investigate the allegations against Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know how they could possibly investigate the sheriff’s office regarding these cases because they’re the ones that also handled all of the officer-involved cases” said Barbara Steward, a Stockton resident whose ex-husband, Daniel Humphreys, died in 2008 after being \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/11/the-officer-tased-him-31-times-the-sheriff-called-his-death-an-accident/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tased 31 times\u003c/a> by a California Highway Patrol officer. “I’m not sure how they can be impartial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In notes sent to county officials this month, Omalu accused the sheriff of withholding a report generated by the Taser weapon the officer used. When DA Verber Salazar — then a deputy prosecutor — shared the Taser report with Omalu two years later, showing Humphreys was shocked for 2½ minutes, Omalu changed his findings in the case from accidental death to a homicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steward, who was married to Humphreys for 13 years and had two daughters with him, was working for the sheriff when he died. She and Humphreys had divorced and she had remarried. Steward retired this year.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=”2oHRBJZiMQWzdSwmcHquN077ZRk3oV9q”]\u003cbr>\nShe said that after the doctors’ allegations surfaced, she felt free to finally reveal what she knew about the night her ex-husband died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He (Moore) was aware of that case very early on when it was unfolding on scene,” Steward said. “As soon as that information (from the Taser) was downloaded — which is a pretty instant thing — I’m sure he was made aware of what that was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said an apparent lack of follow-up on that case by the district attorney’s office still bothers her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Steward wants the attorney general of California or some other independent agency to investigate the allegations against Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it needs to be handled by someone higher up,” Steward said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement this week, a spokesperson for Attorney General Xavier Becerra wrote, “To protect its integrity, we can’t comment on, even to confirm or deny, a potential or ongoing investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allegations Fuel Calls For Independent Medical Examiner\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the allegations against the sheriff, a growing number of physicians — including the California Medical Association — have urged the county Board of Supervisors to create a medical examiner’s office run by physicians, who would determine both the cause and manner of suspicious deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin County, like the majority of counties in California, established a sheriff-coroner system for investigating sudden, violent or suspicious deaths, and all deaths involving law enforcement. Typically the coroner, who is also the elected sheriff, hires a forensic pathologist to conduct autopsies and determine the medical causes of death, such as a heart attack or blunt-force trauma. Then the sheriff determines the manner of death: accidental, suicide, homicide, natural or undetermined — based on the autopsy findings and the investigatory findings of law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the system say having an elected official determine the manner of death presents a conflict of interest, and creates a perception, real or not, that political pressure affected the outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the public comment period at a Dec. 12 county Board of Supervisors meeting, Dr. Grant Mellor of the San Joaquin County Medical Society urged supervisors to take immediate action to protect the independence of forensic pathologists performing autopsies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is gaining national — as well as international — attention,” said Dr. Kwabena Adubofour at the same meeting, referring to reports and editorials in The Washington Post and texts he said he’d received from colleagues in London asking, “What’s going on in San Joaquin County?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DA Verber Salazar also urged the board to create a separate medical examiner’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors Chair Chuck Winn said he’s waiting for the county counsel to investigate the allegations and determine if any laws were violated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winn said it would be “irresponsible” to make decisions until the board has all the facts gathered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly we want to make sure that everybody has an opportunity to provide their input or side as to as to what’s occurred and maybe what needs to be done in the future,” he said. “I think it’s a little early to make any decisions as to what we’re going to do until we have a chance to evaluate what the costs or the consequences the reorganization would entail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, for example, voted last year to restore the independence of medical examiners following allegations that the sheriff had interfered with death investigations by withholding evidence and pressuring forensic pathologists to change their findings. The shift resulted in an annual $800,000 increase to the county budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore said he “would fully support separation” if the Board of Supervisors and the people of San Joaquin County want it.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Moore denied the allegations in a written statement on Dec. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been questions recently about whether I have interfered with forensic investigations. That has never happened,” Moore wrote. “I would never try to influence or change the opinions of Dr Omalu or any pathologist working on a case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu — whose discovery of a deadly brain disease in professional football players was depicted in the 2015 movie “Concussion” — said he accepted a job with San Joaquin County a decade ago to raise the standards of death investigations in a medically underserved community. But in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4322057-Letter-of-Resignation-Bennet-Omalu-MD-2017-12-05.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resignation letter\u003c/a>, Omalu wrote that he was met with resistance from the start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638942\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11638942 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Forensic pathologist and neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu participates in a briefing sponsored by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) on Capitol Hill on January 12, 2016 in Washington, DC.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forensic pathologist and neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu participates in a briefing sponsored by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) on Capitol Hill on Jan, 12, 2016, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Pete Marovich/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I first experienced this with Sheriff Steve Moore when he prevented me from attending crime scenes which detectives from police departments of other cities may have wanted me to attend, or scenes I wanted to attend, especially on complicated and/or unusual cases,” Omalu wrote. “I believed this interference would stop the longer I stayed in the office and exhibited the highest and exemplary standards of practice. Unfortunately, it did not stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preventing Forensic Pathologists From Examining Crime Scenes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerns over the lack of participation of a forensic pathologist prompted a San Joaquin County prosecutor to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4335112-2013-Deputy-DA-Letter-Re-People-v-Dawson-McGehee.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">write a letter\u003c/a> to the sheriff in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that in writing this letter it brings to your attention how the failure to have the Forensic Pathologist come to the scene can have an affect (sic) on the prosecution of some cases,” Deputy District Attorney Sherri Adams wrote, referencing the Oct. 30, 2011, \u003ca href=\"http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1733295.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">murder of Kathleen McGehee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGehee was discovered stabbed to death in her Manteca home on Oct. 31 of that year, a day when both her son Dawson McGehee and a daughter were in and out of the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Dr. Omalu’s ability to perform forensic pathological analysis to ascertain the time of death was significantly impaired.’\u003ccite>Sherri Adams,\u003cbr>\nSan Joaquin County Deputy District Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The lead investigator asked for Omalu to examine the body at the house. The sheriff’s office refused to send Omalu, and never told him about the request, according to Adams’ letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day later, Omalu performed an autopsy on McGehee in the morgue, but because of the delay and the refrigeration of the body, “Dr. Omalu’s ability to perform forensic pathological analysis to ascertain the time of death was significantly impaired,” Adams wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney charged Dawson McGehee with murder. During the trial, Adams wrote, the defense argued that the victim was alive on Oct. 31 and that someone other than her son could have killed her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were members of the jury that entertained this theory as a reasonable possibility based on the evidence,” Adams wrote to Moore. “Thankfully the jury in this case was able to render a verdict of guilt; however, the date and time of death was a real source of debate during the five days of jury deliberations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams said she never received a response to her letter and doesn’t know why the sheriff denied the request for Omalu to visit the crime scene. But, she said, she believes changes were made after that. In 2013, Adams prosecuted another homicide — and in that case, Omalu went to the crime scene, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4335341-Sheriff-Moore-17-12-21-response-to-DA-Letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written statement\u003c/a> Thursday that his office is “in the process of reviewing” Adams’ 2013 letter, and that the general practice is to send pathologists to crime scenes once they’ve been requested by the investigating agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This case is more than six years old,” Moore wrote, “and staff assigned to the Coroner’s Office at that time have either retired, rotated out, or are no longer working at the Sheriff’s Office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Canceling Doctors’ Orders for Tests\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forensic pathologists Omalu and Parson also documented a number of times when they say the sheriff overrode their requests for additional tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu cited a case where the decomposed remains of Lisa Ann Valdez, who had been missing for months, were found on June 8, 2016, also in Manteca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valdez’s body showed evidence of toxic levels of amphetamine, but Omalu could not rule out other causes because the head and neck of her body were missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘A person who does not have a license to practice medicine in the State of California should not be involved in the medical evaluation of a case and provision of a medical opinion.’\u003ccite>Dr. Bennet Omalu,\u003cbr>\nSan Joaquin County Chief Forensic Pathologist (Resigned)\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I had to determine if she had been killed by someone or if she died as a result of some type of accident,” Omalu wrote in a memo sent to the county medical director on Oct. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu recounted that he ordered an anthropological autopsy that might provide further evidence. But months later, when he asked for that report, a sheriff’s deputy told him that his request for laboratory analysis was “overruled” and “the skeleton was released to the family and cremated,” according to the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An incomplete autopsy undermines, and does not pass the reasonable degree of medical certainty threshold and standard,” Omalu wrote on his autopsy report. “I cannot provide an opinion in regard to the mechanisms of death and causes of death in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter to the medical director of San Joaquin General Hospital, Omalu wrote, “A person who does not have a license to practice medicine in the State of California should not be involved in the medical evaluation of a case and provision of a medical opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both doctors wrote that the sheriff’s decision to cancel lab work amounted to the illegal practice of medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Calls for Independent Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin County District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar said she was aware of the allegations before the doctors resigned and had launched an investigation “several weeks” ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SJCDA/posts/1702461886467144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dec. 12 post\u003c/a> on the DA’s Facebook page stated: “San Joaquin County Pathologists Dr. Bennet Omalu and Susan Parson have made our office aware of concerns in the operations of their office, and requested the District Attorney to investigate. The investigation has been initiated and is ongoing. When the investigation is complete, this office will review the facts as presented and make the appropriate decisions at that time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11633436\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11633436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Joaquin County District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar with investigation files for the 2008 death of Daniel Lee Humprheys, who was tased to death by a CHP officer. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some residents want an independent agency outside the county to investigate the allegations against Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know how they could possibly investigate the sheriff’s office regarding these cases because they’re the ones that also handled all of the officer-involved cases” said Barbara Steward, a Stockton resident whose ex-husband, Daniel Humphreys, died in 2008 after being \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/11/the-officer-tased-him-31-times-the-sheriff-called-his-death-an-accident/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tased 31 times\u003c/a> by a California Highway Patrol officer. “I’m not sure how they can be impartial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In notes sent to county officials this month, Omalu accused the sheriff of withholding a report generated by the Taser weapon the officer used. When DA Verber Salazar — then a deputy prosecutor — shared the Taser report with Omalu two years later, showing Humphreys was shocked for 2½ minutes, Omalu changed his findings in the case from accidental death to a homicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steward, who was married to Humphreys for 13 years and had two daughters with him, was working for the sheriff when he died. She and Humphreys had divorced and she had remarried. Steward retired this year.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nShe said that after the doctors’ allegations surfaced, she felt free to finally reveal what she knew about the night her ex-husband died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He (Moore) was aware of that case very early on when it was unfolding on scene,” Steward said. “As soon as that information (from the Taser) was downloaded — which is a pretty instant thing — I’m sure he was made aware of what that was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said an apparent lack of follow-up on that case by the district attorney’s office still bothers her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Steward wants the attorney general of California or some other independent agency to investigate the allegations against Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it needs to be handled by someone higher up,” Steward said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement this week, a spokesperson for Attorney General Xavier Becerra wrote, “To protect its integrity, we can’t comment on, even to confirm or deny, a potential or ongoing investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allegations Fuel Calls For Independent Medical Examiner\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the allegations against the sheriff, a growing number of physicians — including the California Medical Association — have urged the county Board of Supervisors to create a medical examiner’s office run by physicians, who would determine both the cause and manner of suspicious deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin County, like the majority of counties in California, established a sheriff-coroner system for investigating sudden, violent or suspicious deaths, and all deaths involving law enforcement. Typically the coroner, who is also the elected sheriff, hires a forensic pathologist to conduct autopsies and determine the medical causes of death, such as a heart attack or blunt-force trauma. Then the sheriff determines the manner of death: accidental, suicide, homicide, natural or undetermined — based on the autopsy findings and the investigatory findings of law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the system say having an elected official determine the manner of death presents a conflict of interest, and creates a perception, real or not, that political pressure affected the outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the public comment period at a Dec. 12 county Board of Supervisors meeting, Dr. Grant Mellor of the San Joaquin County Medical Society urged supervisors to take immediate action to protect the independence of forensic pathologists performing autopsies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is gaining national — as well as international — attention,” said Dr. Kwabena Adubofour at the same meeting, referring to reports and editorials in The Washington Post and texts he said he’d received from colleagues in London asking, “What’s going on in San Joaquin County?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DA Verber Salazar also urged the board to create a separate medical examiner’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors Chair Chuck Winn said he’s waiting for the county counsel to investigate the allegations and determine if any laws were violated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winn said it would be “irresponsible” to make decisions until the board has all the facts gathered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly we want to make sure that everybody has an opportunity to provide their input or side as to as to what’s occurred and maybe what needs to be done in the future,” he said. “I think it’s a little early to make any decisions as to what we’re going to do until we have a chance to evaluate what the costs or the consequences the reorganization would entail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, for example, voted last year to restore the independence of medical examiners following allegations that the sheriff had interfered with death investigations by withholding evidence and pressuring forensic pathologists to change their findings. The shift resulted in an annual $800,000 increase to the county budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/29/brown-democrats-unveil-revenue-plan-for-roads-bridges-transit/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 1\u003c/a> — which most of you might know, shorthand form, as our brand-new gasoline tax increase — was promoted earlier this year by \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/29/brown-democrats-unveil-revenue-plan-for-roads-bridges-transit/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gov. Jerry Brown and its Democratic backers\u003c/a> as a key to restoring the state’s transportation infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill — now law — includes a 12-cent-a-gallon increase in the state’s levy on gasoline, a 20-cent-a-gallon increase on diesel fuel, a new fee for electric vehicles and other levies designed to generate about $5 billion a year for the next decade. That revenue, something like $52 billion over 10 years, would go to fixing streets, highways and bridges and to supporting transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just one Republican in the Legislature voted for SB 1, and the tax hikes were nearly instantly targeted by a pair of repeal campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those two efforts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/california-assemblyman-travis-allen-files-ballot-initiative-to-repeal-california-gas-tax-increase-300452235.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched by\u003c/a> GOP Assemblyman Travis Allen of Huntington Beach, would kill SB 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/17-0033%20%28Gas%20and%20Car%20Tax%29_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The second\u003c/a>, by Sacramento attorney \u003ca href=\"http://www.mcgeorge.edu/Thomas_Hiltachk.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Hiltachk\u003c/a>, would repeal SB 1 and amend the California Constitution to require a statewide vote on any future fuel tax or vehicle fee increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given Californians’ historic resentment of gas and car taxes — Gov. Gray Davis was \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2017/04/18/car-tax-zapped-gray-davis-but-new-ones-wont-touch-brown/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recalled in 2003\u003c/a> in part because of a sharp increase in vehicle fees — it’s not hard to imagine a call for repeal finding a receptive audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4335375/UC-Berkeley-IGS-Poll-Gas-Tax-Repeal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a poll\u003c/a> released Friday by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies confirms that suspicion. (The full survey is \u003ca href=\"#igsrepealpoll\">embedded below\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll conducted earlier this month found 52 percent of likely voters contacted in the survey favor the repeal effort, while 43 percent oppose the repeal. The undecideds are an unusually low 5 percent. The poll contacted 1,000 registered voters, of whom 672 were deemed likely voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That gap may not sound like a lot, but UC Berkeley IGS pollster Mark DiCamillo said both sides appear to be entrenched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sentiments are pretty hard, and I think that would make it a little more difficult to change voters’ minds in a campaign,” DiCamillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the poll results suggest that the biggest factor in voters’ support for SB 1 repeal is the perception that gas prices in California are just too high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you’re basically adding a tax onto something that voters already believe is high compared to other places,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey found a typically big split between Republican and Democratic voters. Some 81 percent of GOP voters in the survey said they supported repeal, while 60 percent of Democrats said they were against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But DiCamillo said the position of independent voters is telling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can always tell which way the wind is blowing in California politics by looking at the nonpartisan or ‘no party preference’ voters,” he said. “And on this particular issue, nonpartisans favor repeal, 56 percent to 39 percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An overwhelming majority of survey participants appeared to agree with SB 1’s central rationale — that California’s transportation infrastructure is in lousy shape. Forty-one percent of respondents said the state’s roads and highway are in fair condition, with another 37 percent calling their condition poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those voters also were strongly in favor of repeal: 53 percent who think the roads are just in fair shape support killing the new taxes and fees, along with 52 percent of those who say the roads are in poor condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the state’s regions, only the Bay Area appears to oppose a repeal, with 60 percent of poll respondents saying they’d vote against it and 34 percent supporting the idea. DiCamillo said that’s a reflection of widely held progressive or liberal views here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So people understand you’d be paying a little more for gas, but there’s this higher importance attached to ‘the greater good,’ ” DiCamillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DiCamillo said the overall results suggest that, with Gov. 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Palmer noted that the state could be on the hook for the entire $3.1 billion that Washington had been providing if California is required to maintain most of its current coverage, or the federal government could agree to pay half, as it does for regular Medi-Cal patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/f50abe23-4352-450a-84a0-68027585a343?src=embed\" title=\"Chidren's Health Insurance\" width=\"800\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The worst-case scenario is that the kids still stay in Medi-Cal and we do the 50/50 match,” said Democratic state Sen. Ed Hernandez of Azusa, chairman of the Senate \u003ca href=\"http://shea.senate.ca.gov/\">Committee\u003c/a> on Health. “I believe we need to make sure these children are insured. 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"content": "\u003cp>Proponents of legal cannabis are definitely ready to celebrate this New Year’s. Starting Jan. 1, adult lovers of the plant will be able to start buying it in licensed retail outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can count among them Steve DeAngelo. He has long been a pioneer in the cannabis industry, though he couldn’t have guessed how things would turn out when he bought his first “nickel bag” of weed at age 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I rolled it into six joints. I sold each joint for a dollar,” he recalled. “I made $1 profit, a 20 percent margin on that transaction. I did it again until I could buy a whole ounce of cannabis. The ounces turned into pounds and the pounds turned into … well … lots bigger quantities than that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/12/WattHarborside2way.mp3\" title=\"Harborside's Cannabis Pioneer Primed for New Customers\" program=\"KQED News\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS25526_GettyImages-542220918-qut.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeAngelo is now the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.shopharborside.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harborside\u003c/a> — one of the Bay Area’s largest medical cannabis dispensaries, with facilities in Oakland and San Jose. He’s also co-founder and president of \u003ca href=\"https://arcviewgroup.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The ArcView Group\u003c/a>, a cannabis investment network. A year ago, shortly after California voters passed \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_64,_Marijuana_Legalization_(2016)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 64\u003c/a> and legalized recreational marijuana use for adults, ArcView and \u003ca href=\"https://newfrontierdata.com/annualreport2017/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Frontier Data\u003c/a> estimated California’s legal marijuana market would reach $7.6 billion by 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vibe at Harborside’s facility on Oakland’s Embarcadero is a cross between nature museum and Apple Store. Its storeroom is big and open, with lots of light, lots of wood and lots of plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With his signature braided ponytails, DeAngelo chats up what he calls “my phenomenal, super knowledgeable, ultra-friendly, smiling staff,” as well as the security crew outside that makes sure nobody enters without a medical marijuana card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been open for 11 years and not one incident,” DeAngelo said. He explained that security has been important because marijuana has been a cash business. Cannabis is still illegal under federal law and there are restrictions on the use of credit cards. “We have a high-value product. We have a lot of people coming in and out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Come Jan. 1, that medical marijuana card won’t really be necessary for entry here. Only an ID proving you’re 21 years old will be required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be a day of joy and celebration for millions and millions of people,” DeAngelo said. “Every single dispensary in the state of California that is able to serve adults is going to have lines around the block because there is a huge pent-up desire among people to be able to purchase cannabis legally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harborside is preparing for this significant change. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.shopharborside.com/adult-use-regs.html\">FAQ page\u003c/a> tells visitors to its site that on Jan. 1, the Oakland location will be open at 6 a.m., with the first 100 in line receiving gifts and prizes. DeAngelo talked about a “try-it-before-you-buy-it” offer he’s ready to make to “customers,” whom until now he has called “patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as an industry insider, DeAngelo knows of other oncoming changes he believes many people — and local governments — aren’t ready for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This change is going to be pretty traumatic and disruptive for the existing cannabis industry,” he warned. “There are a lot of new requirements that many people, especially small growers, aren’t really even aware of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/29/confusion-coming-with-state-marijuana-regulations/\">confusion\u003c/a> will surround licenses for growers, distributors and sellers, he said. DeAngelo pointed out that before sellers or dispensaries can apply for a state license to serve adult users, they must have a license issued from their local jurisdiction, and many local jurisdictions haven’t issued those licenses yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We estimate that only 30 percent of jurisdictions are going to be ready to allow adults to come into dispensaries legally on Jan. 1,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A significant change the cannabis consumer should brace for: taxes. Since California is legalizing marijuana, it’s natural the state will take its cut. The state levy will be 15 percent, but local governments are piling on, too. Medical cannabis patients will be able to get some \u003ca href=\"https://www.boe.ca.gov/news/2016/92-16-G.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exemptions\u003c/a> from sales taxes, but they will need a medical marijuana identification card issued by the California Department of Public Health, not just a doctor’s note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harborside is currently offering discounts on products and doesn’t fail to point this out. One of the first banners on its website admonishes customers to “STOCK UP BEFORE TAXES GO UP.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Cypress Grove’s heroine embodies characteristics that could describe the American artisan cheese industry as a whole: scrappy, innovative and unapologetically indebted to European tastes and know-how — condensing themes that emerged through anthropological research I conducted across the United States for my book, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520270183\">The Life of Cheese\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWqH0SXhEEM\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Back to the Land, Making Cheese\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mary Keehn acquired her first goats in 1970, wanting to feed fresh goat’s milk to her first daughter, whom she was herself then weaning. For years, Keehn and her family lived as self-sufficiently as possible. Overwhelmed with more goat’s milk than her human companions could or were willing to drink, she began experimenting in her kitchen and learned to make fresh cheese, or chèvre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A friend who was opening a restaurant told Keehn, now a divorced mother of four, “If you start a [licensed] cheese factory, I’ll buy your cheese.” And in 1983 – without any official training, apprenticeship or business experience beyond selling her goats’ breed stock – Keehn launched \u003ca href=\"http://www.cypressgrovecheese.com/cheese/\">Cypress Grove\u003c/a>. For nine years, prior to the trip to France and subsequent introduction of Humboldt Fog, Cypress Grove sold fresh chèvre and fromage blanc, cheeses more wholesome than gourmet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11636911\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11636911\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-800x1205.jpg\" alt=\"Cheesemaker Mary Keehn with displays a new wheel of Humboldt Fog\" width=\"800\" height=\"1205\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-800x1205.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-160x241.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-960x1446.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-240x361.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-375x565.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-520x783.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Keehn with a new wheel of Humboldt Fog. \u003ccite>(\u003ca class=\"source\" href=\"http://www.cypressgrovecheese.com/resources/press-kit.html\">Cyprus Grove\u003c/a>, \u003ca class=\"license\" href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/\">CC BY-ND\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Keehn was one of a number of Americans involved in the back-to-the-land movement who, in the early ‘80s, began making cheese by hand for commercial sale. Located in the Northern California coastal town of Arcata, Keehn grew Cypress Grove into a successful business with national distribution and name recognition that employs over 40 workers — a far cry from its modest origins. In 2010, Keehn sold the company to the Swiss corporation Emmi, although her daily involvement continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s cheese lovers can drive (or internet browse) along the \u003ca href=\"http://cheesetrail.org/trail-map/\">California Cheese Trail\u003c/a>, stretching from Crescent City near the Oregon border south to Los Angeles. It leads to artisan micro-dairies as well as Kraft Foods subsidiaries. Created in 2010 by a Marin County dairy farmer’s daughter on the model of wine-tasting maps, the California Cheese Trail today features 72 cheese-making operations. Nationwide, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cheesesociety.org/events-education/state-of-the-industry/\">American Cheese Society\u003c/a> counts more than 900 artisan and specialty cheese operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflective of the state’s cultural diversity, the variety in California cheese-making is neither new nor unique to the state. But it is indicative of how \u003ca href=\"https://www.crcpress.com/Edible-Identities-Food-as-Cultural-Heritage/Brulotte-Giovine/p/book/9781138634947\">food-making traditions\u003c/a> in the United States are often animated by personal narratives of innovation rather than, as in Europe, adherence to customary tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2000, the number of California’s artisan cheese producers has grown exponentially. But while hippie goat ladies have been celebrated as cheese-making pioneers, they are not without precedent. The California dream of a century earlier saw a similar flourishing of cheese-making activity in port cities up and down the Pacific Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11636909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11636909\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"Wooden ships in Yerba Buena Cove during the Gold Rush\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-960x644.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj-520x349.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-harbor-file-20171211-9451-okw1jj.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco harbor at Yerba Buena Cove was so busy during the Gold Rush that ships could wait days to unload. \u003ccite>(\u003ca class=\"source\" href=\"http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004664511/\">Sterling C. McIntyre, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division\u003c/a>, \u003ca class=\"license\" href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\">CC BY\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Gold Rush Roots for New Cheese Markets\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinfrenchcheese.com/\">Marin French Cheese Company\u003c/a>, in Petaluma, claims to be the oldest continuously operating cheese factory in the United States. In 1865, with Lincoln in the White House and the Civil War coming to an end, Marin French (originally Thompson Brothers Cheese Co.) got its start when Jefferson Thompson, a dairy farmer, recognized an emergent market niche in the nearby port town of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The now late Jim Boyce, who purchased Marin French in 1998 from Thompson’s descendants, related the company’s history to me in the course of my \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520270183\">own research\u003c/a>. During the California Gold Rush between 1849 and 1855, European stevedores who sailed into what’s now called San Francisco Bay delivering goods to support the mining enterprises got “caught up in the fever” themselves. Many abandoned ship to seek their own fortunes mining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”pLoLFtwm5fsrIYlBEcX55QktUsEQitJ7″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the gold rush went bust, workers returned to the bay to make a living at the dockyards. As Boyce said to me, “Now, in any workman’s bar or inn… the beer gives them hydration and carbohydrate but no protein,” so “typically in a workman’s bar there’s a jar of pickled eggs or something like that – pig knuckles, sausage.” But in the Bay Area at that time agriculture had yet to be fully developed. “There weren’t any eggs,” Boyce explained, as there were no commercial hen farms. So according to Boyce, enterprising dairy farmer Jefferson Thompson said to himself:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a moment of marketing brilliance, ‘I wonder if they’d eat cheese, instead?’ So he starts making these little cheeses, three-ounce cheeses, more or less. And he hauls them off to the docks, and they put them on the table in a bowl, and they were an immediate hit! Why? Because these are European stevedores: They knew cheese! They ate it breakfast, lunch and dinner. And that was the origin of the company.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/_Te1OHOtLk\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>With New Migrants Come New Tastes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Mary Keehn’s Humboldt Fog exemplifies personal insight and passion, Jefferson Thompson’s Breakfast Cheese (now Marin French’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinfrenchcheese.com/history/petite-breakfast/\">Petite Breakfast\u003c/a>) celebrates the generation of new markets. It’s a reminder that the California dream of entrepreneurial reinvention requires not only creative genius but also the appreciative taste of willing consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Gold Rush brought European deckhands eager to eat soft-ripened cheeses. Marin French was at the ready, hand-ladling Camembert. In the late-20th century, hippie eaters of “health foods” gave way to American Europhiles who valued a diversity of distinctive tastes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here it is worth remembering that California, nearly all the up way to present-day Arcata, was until 1848 part of Mexico. Cross-cutting immigrant histories have long underwritten the California dream – and they still do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”d3blJDeOmYFfOdRITs15FBp2XS67fV77″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Cheese Trail declares \u003ca href=\"http://ariza-cheese.com/\">Ariza Cheese\u003c/a>, established in 1970, to be “the oldest artisan Mexican cheese-maker in Southern California.” It specializes in Salvadoran cheeses in addition to crumbly Mexican Cotija. You will find Ariza just off Alondra Blvd. in the city of Paramont, east of Compton in L.A. County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, four of the company’s long-term employees — immigrants from Mexico and El Salvador — \u003ca href=\"https://laopinion.com/2015/02/01/ariza-la-adquisicion-de-un-sueno/\">purchased\u003c/a> the company with the aid of \u003ca href=\"http://www.concernedcapital.org/\">Concerned Capital\u003c/a>, a social benefit corporation that invests in low- to moderate-income communities by helping to transfer business ownership to workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://counter.theconversation.com/content/79469/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic\" alt=\"The Conversation\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">In 21st-century narratives of new beginnings are echoes of earlier immigrant worlds. Dreams upon dreams – while consumers continue to savor California cheeses with wide-ranging inspirations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article originally appeared in \u003ca href=\"http://theconversation.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation\u003c/a>, an online publication that features academics writing about their research and ideas for the public. KQED and The Conversation are partners in the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Dream\u003c/a> project, a collaboration looking at the Golden State’s promise, whether we are achieving it, and the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California dream\u003c/a> is about moving west (or, as in Keehn’s case, farther north, to Humboldt County from Sonoma) to start anew, seeking not so much to get rich quick as to envision and inhabit a new identity. Cypress Grove’s heroine embodies characteristics that could describe the American artisan cheese industry as a whole: scrappy, innovative and unapologetically indebted to European tastes and know-how — condensing themes that emerged through anthropological research I conducted across the United States for my book, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520270183\">The Life of Cheese\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vWqH0SXhEEM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vWqH0SXhEEM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>Back to the Land, Making Cheese\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mary Keehn acquired her first goats in 1970, wanting to feed fresh goat’s milk to her first daughter, whom she was herself then weaning. For years, Keehn and her family lived as self-sufficiently as possible. Overwhelmed with more goat’s milk than her human companions could or were willing to drink, she began experimenting in her kitchen and learned to make fresh cheese, or chèvre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A friend who was opening a restaurant told Keehn, now a divorced mother of four, “If you start a [licensed] cheese factory, I’ll buy your cheese.” And in 1983 – without any official training, apprenticeship or business experience beyond selling her goats’ breed stock – Keehn launched \u003ca href=\"http://www.cypressgrovecheese.com/cheese/\">Cypress Grove\u003c/a>. For nine years, prior to the trip to France and subsequent introduction of Humboldt Fog, Cypress Grove sold fresh chèvre and fromage blanc, cheeses more wholesome than gourmet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11636911\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11636911\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-800x1205.jpg\" alt=\"Cheesemaker Mary Keehn with displays a new wheel of Humboldt Fog\" width=\"800\" height=\"1205\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-800x1205.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-160x241.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-960x1446.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-240x361.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-375x565.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh-520x783.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/cheese-lady-file-20171211-9383-5vvabh.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Keehn with a new wheel of Humboldt Fog. \u003ccite>(\u003ca class=\"source\" href=\"http://www.cypressgrovecheese.com/resources/press-kit.html\">Cyprus Grove\u003c/a>, \u003ca class=\"license\" href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/\">CC BY-ND\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Keehn was one of a number of Americans involved in the back-to-the-land movement who, in the early ‘80s, began making cheese by hand for commercial sale. Located in the Northern California coastal town of Arcata, Keehn grew Cypress Grove into a successful business with national distribution and name recognition that employs over 40 workers — a far cry from its modest origins. In 2010, Keehn sold the company to the Swiss corporation Emmi, although her daily involvement continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s cheese lovers can drive (or internet browse) along the \u003ca href=\"http://cheesetrail.org/trail-map/\">California Cheese Trail\u003c/a>, stretching from Crescent City near the Oregon border south to Los Angeles. It leads to artisan micro-dairies as well as Kraft Foods subsidiaries. Created in 2010 by a Marin County dairy farmer’s daughter on the model of wine-tasting maps, the California Cheese Trail today features 72 cheese-making operations. Nationwide, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cheesesociety.org/events-education/state-of-the-industry/\">American Cheese Society\u003c/a> counts more than 900 artisan and specialty cheese operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflective of the state’s cultural diversity, the variety in California cheese-making is neither new nor unique to the state. But it is indicative of how \u003ca href=\"https://www.crcpress.com/Edible-Identities-Food-as-Cultural-Heritage/Brulotte-Giovine/p/book/9781138634947\">food-making traditions\u003c/a> in the United States are often animated by personal narratives of innovation rather than, as in Europe, adherence to customary tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2000, the number of California’s artisan cheese producers has grown exponentially. But while hippie goat ladies have been celebrated as cheese-making pioneers, they are not without precedent. 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