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(Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta spoke out against the rampant sexual abuse of farmworker women in the fields in a 2013 \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/rape-in-the-fields/\">film and radio series\u003c/a> that KQED collaborated on with Frontline, CIR, IRP and Univision. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I believe that the employers are in total denial, and they will often take the word of the foreman or the manager against the woman if she does come forward,” Huerta said in the documentary. “And women know this. They know that they’re not going to be heard. 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But we know we have to go out there and do all the work.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-PROP50VICTORYLAP-33-BL-KQED-7273678d.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106175\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-PROP50VICTORYLAP-33-BL-KQED-7273678d.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-PROP50VICTORYLAP-33-BL-KQED-7273678d-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-PROP50VICTORYLAP-33-BL-KQED-7273678d-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a rally alongside California Democratic Party members, labor leaders and advocates in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2026. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California leaders mourned Dolores Huerta, the indefatigable civil rights champion and farmworker advocate, praising her as a hero, giant and legend after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106881/dolores-huerta-influential-labor-leader-feminist-and-civil-rights-icon-dies-at-96\">her death on Wednesday\u003c/a> at age 96. Her family said in a statement that she died from cancer at home in Bakersfield. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta, who co-founded one of the world’s most renowned \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/120851/dolores-huerta-the-civil-rights-icon-who-showed-farmworkers-si-se-puede\">agricultural worker labor movements\u003c/a>, spent most of her life pushing for economic justice and a voice for the dispossessed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even at her advanced age, she continued to participate in marches and protests, and encouraged Latino citizens to vote, including just days ago, said Angelica Salas, who directs the Los Angeles-based nonprofit Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, and called Huerta “a mentor to thousands.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“She felt in her core that injustice had to be fought 24/7,” said Salas, adding that Huerta was a friend who supported her personally and professionally for decades. “The United States of America has lost a hero today.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11998083\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Angelica Salas and other immigrant rights activists rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 30, 2024. (Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fierce labor negotiator in a field dominated by men, Huerta helped lead large strikes and boycotts in the 1960s and 1970s with the union that became the United Farm Workers. Her labor organizing changed state laws and produced some of the nation’s first contracts to secure drinking water, sanitary toilets and other basic rights for thousands of farmworkers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta lobbied for California to become the first state to give agricultural workers the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alrb.ca.gov/forms-publications/faqs-and-guidance/fact-sheet-english/\">legal right to organize\u003c/a> and join unions in 1975, decades after the passage of a federal law that protected collective bargaining for other private-sector employees.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“During that period of time, we had so much hope, and our message was out there saying to the world that we’re here and we exist and you can’t ignore us,” Huerta told KQED in 2012. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I really do believe that the only way that we can keep our democracy, the only way that we can get justice is by having people have a sense of their power,” she said. “This is the only way we can really achieve the goals that we need to make sure that we have a society that is equal.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta, who had 11 children, coined the social-justice rallying cry “\u003ca href=\"https://ufw.org/research/history/history-si-se-puede/\">Sí se puede\u003c/a>,” translated as “Yes we can.” Former President Barack Obama, who coalesced millions of voters under the phrase during a historic 2008 presidential campaign, awarded Huerta the \u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/29/remarks-president-presidential-medal-freedom-ceremony\">Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012\u003c/a>, praising her determination and courage. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Julián Castro, who leads the San Francisco-based Latino Community Foundation, said Huerta was an American icon who changed the course of history for good through her contributions to the labor movement, inspiring young women and men to work for social change.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Dolores, for me and I know for a lot of people, has been a role model of how you can dedicate your life to serving others, to making other people’s lives better,” Castro, a former U.S. housing secretary and San Antonio mayor who ran for president in 2020, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“As heavy as our hearts are today with her passing, I believe that Dolores would want us to embrace her legacy by doing what she did, by organizing, by mobilizing, by helping to make sure that as many people, especially from the Latino community, get out and exercise their right to vote,” he said, adding that he believes Latino voters will participate in record numbers in the upcoming midterm elections on Nov. 3. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12077340\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Retrato de la activista sindical Dolores Huerta, cofundadora del sindicato United Farm Workers, con una bandera sindical en la que se lee «Viva La Causa», hacia la década de 1970. (Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta spoke out against the rampant sexual abuse of farmworker women in the fields in a 2013 \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/rape-in-the-fields/\">film and radio series\u003c/a> that KQED collaborated on with Frontline, CIR, IRP and Univision. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I believe that the employers are in total denial, and they will often take the word of the foreman or the manager against the woman if she does come forward,” Huerta said in the documentary. “And women know this. They know that they’re not going to be heard. They know that nobody’s going to be there to support them or protect them.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She stunned many by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077073/cesar-chavez-was-a-hero-to-farmworkers-now-they-confront-the-pain-of-alleged-abuse\">revealing\u003c/a> at age 95 that she herself was manipulated into sex and raped in the 1960s by the late union leader Cesar Chávez. Huerta came forward in a \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> investigation that uncovered disturbing accusations that Chávez sexually abused young girls and women for years. Huerta told the newspaper that she chose not to report the abuse partly because she feared that no one within the union would believe her. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-65-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12062675\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-65-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-65-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-65-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi speaks during a press conference after a rally in support of Proposition 50 at IBEW Local 6 in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Today, we sadly mourn the loss of Dolores Huerta, a leader in the American labor movement and a champion for civil rights who led with courage and determination,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who hosted Huerta for her 90th birthday in the U.S. Capitol, said in a statement. “Dolores was a dear friend, and we all responded to her rallying cry, ‘Sí se puede,’ which inspired generations of Americans to believe in the power of collective action.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born Dolores Clara Fernández on April 10, 1930, to Juan Fernández and Alicia Chavez Fernández, in a small mining town in northern New Mexico, Huerta moved with her mother and brothers to Stockton during the Great Depression after her parents divorced. Her mother worked two jobs, bought a boarding house and taught her daughter that she had an obligation to help others — lessons Huerta later said shaped her feminism and commitment to service. Her father was a miner, farmworker and union activist who became a state lawmaker. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta, who acquired her last name through a marriage, said her mother’s independence inspired her to become a feminist. Huerta defied teachers who \u003ca href=\"https://wams.nyhistory.org/growth-and-turmoil/growing-tensions/dolores-huerta/\">questioned her achievements\u003c/a> in school because of her skin color, and men who said she should stay home and take care of children because of her gender.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106902\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7-1536x1201.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">American labor activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), Dolores Huerta speaks on stage during a UFW rally, California, 1975 or 1976. She wears a poncho with the UFW logo. (Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1962, Huerta and Chávez co-founded the National Farmworkers Association, which would later be known as the United Farm Workers. Huerta, who served as UFW vice president until 1999, became a central strategist for the union, which thrust deplorable farm labor conditions — low pay, lack of toilets and drinking water, exposure to pesticides — into the national spotlight. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At about 5 feet tall, Huerta did not shy away from conflict. She was arrested dozens of times by police during protests. At a 1988 rally seeking to curb growers’ use of toxic pesticides, club-wielding San Francisco officers sent the then-58-year-old grandmother to the hospital with \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-16-mn-2389-story.html\">broken ribs and a ruptured spleen\u003c/a>. After public outcry, including from San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos, who visited Huerta at the hospital, the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dolores-huerta-beaten-by-police-protest-san-francisco\">settled for $825,000\u003c/a> over the incident and changed its crowd control policies. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Think of yourselves as the gardeners who are going to go out and sow the seeds of justice,” Huerta \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Notable-Alumni/Dolores-Huerta#:~:text=She%20was%20active%20in%20numerous,earning%20a%20provisional%20teaching%20credential.\">told\u003c/a> hundreds of people at San Joaquin Delta College in 2018, where she earned a provisional teaching credential as a young high school graduate, when the college was known as University of the Pacific’s Stockton College. “And those seeds are going to flower, and the spring is going to come back. But we know we have to go out there and do all the work.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-PROP50VICTORYLAP-33-BL-KQED-7273678d.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106175\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-PROP50VICTORYLAP-33-BL-KQED-7273678d.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-PROP50VICTORYLAP-33-BL-KQED-7273678d-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-PROP50VICTORYLAP-33-BL-KQED-7273678d-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a rally alongside California Democratic Party members, labor leaders and advocates in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered flags flown at half-staff in honor of Huerta. The governor and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom said the \u003ca href=\"https://archive.gov.ca.gov/archive/gov39/2013/01/23/news17905/index.html\">California Hall of Fame member\u003c/a> “fought for gender equity, workers’ rights and civil rights, paving the way for generations to come, and teaching people what was possible with determination and heart.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Dolores represented the best of us,” they said in a statement. “California — and the United States — would not be what we are today without her resolute spirit, her passion for justice and fairness, and her commitment to those overlooked and forgotten.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erik Olvera, a spokesperson for Huerta’s family, said they plan to announce a public memorial in the coming days. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>KQED’s\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/sasha-khokha\">\u003cem>Sasha Khokha\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The small North Bay community of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043295/suisun-city-proposes-annexing-most-of-california-forevers-new-city\">Suisun City\u003c/a> has a lot of problems facing it: a chronic budget deficit, empty stores on its picturesque marsh-facing waterfront and a scant supply of city staff to maintain public services, to name a few. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But all of those are dwarfed by the billionaire-backed elephant in the room: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-forever\">California Forever\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The controversial developer has loomed over election campaigns across Solano County. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://electkpatricewilliams.com/k-patrice-williams-shipbuilding-vote-california-forever/\">City Council\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://carliforsolano.com/platform\">county supervisor\u003c/a> candidates are taking stances on how they feel about the company and its plan to build homes and apartments for more than 100,000 people, retail, offices, and an advanced manufacturing center, among other ideas that could reshape the region — regardless of whether they’ll have any voting power to approve or reject the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But nowhere are the stakes higher than in Suisun City. For the past two years, the city’s leaders have been exploring whether to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059985/california-forever-clears-first-hurdle-in-suisun-city-annexation\">annex\u003c/a> some of California Forever’s land, a move that would give it authority to approve the proposed megadevelopment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would be a big change for the small town of fewer than 30,000 residents. Annexation would grow the city’s geographic boundaries by around nine times. And the next City Council and mayor will play a big role in determining not just whether annexation happens, but what kind of deal the city will get out of it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261008_SUISUNCITYCANDIDATESFORUM_GC-6-KQED-6436ee91.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105295\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261008_SUISUNCITYCANDIDATESFORUM_GC-6-KQED-6436ee91.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261008_SUISUNCITYCANDIDATESFORUM_GC-6-KQED-6436ee91-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261008_SUISUNCITYCANDIDATESFORUM_GC-6-KQED-6436ee91-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A sign reading “Protect Suisun Stop California Forever” rests on the ground during a City Council candidate forum in Suisun City on Oct. 8, 2026. 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She worries Highway 12 — the main artery running through the southern portion of Solano County — could get clogged with traffic if California Forever doesn’t properly think through its transportation infrastructure. She also worries a site of this size could require an inordinate amount of water, a scarce resource in the county. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Suisun City and Solano County are also facing other major problems without good solutions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jenalee Dawson, an incumbent candidate running for City Council, said she has heard from community members who want more housing and job opportunities, especially after major employers, including the Valero Refinery, the Anheuser-Busch Brewery and the Mare Island Dry Docks have shut down or scaled back operations at local factories. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261008_SUISUNCITYCANDIDATESFORUM_GC-20-KQED-1858d254.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261008_SUISUNCITYCANDIDATESFORUM_GC-20-KQED-1858d254.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261008_SUISUNCITYCANDIDATESFORUM_GC-20-KQED-1858d254-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261008_SUISUNCITYCANDIDATESFORUM_GC-20-KQED-1858d254-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Michael Fortney, Head of Partnerships at California Forever, attends Suisun City City Council and mayoral candidate forums in Suisun City on Oct. 8, 2026. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The small North Bay community of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043295/suisun-city-proposes-annexing-most-of-california-forevers-new-city\">Suisun City\u003c/a> has a lot of problems facing it: a chronic budget deficit, empty stores on its picturesque marsh-facing waterfront and a scant supply of city staff to maintain public services, to name a few. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But all of those are dwarfed by the billionaire-backed elephant in the room: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-forever\">California Forever\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The controversial developer has loomed over election campaigns across Solano County. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://electkpatricewilliams.com/k-patrice-williams-shipbuilding-vote-california-forever/\">City Council\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://carliforsolano.com/platform\">county supervisor\u003c/a> candidates are taking stances on how they feel about the company and its plan to build homes and apartments for more than 100,000 people, retail, offices, and an advanced manufacturing center, among other ideas that could reshape the region — regardless of whether they’ll have any voting power to approve or reject the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But nowhere are the stakes higher than in Suisun City. For the past two years, the city’s leaders have been exploring whether to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059985/california-forever-clears-first-hurdle-in-suisun-city-annexation\">annex\u003c/a> some of California Forever’s land, a move that would give it authority to approve the proposed megadevelopment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would be a big change for the small town of fewer than 30,000 residents. Annexation would grow the city’s geographic boundaries by around nine times. And the next City Council and mayor will play a big role in determining not just whether annexation happens, but what kind of deal the city will get out of it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261008_SUISUNCITYCANDIDATESFORUM_GC-6-KQED-6436ee91.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105295\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261008_SUISUNCITYCANDIDATESFORUM_GC-6-KQED-6436ee91.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261008_SUISUNCITYCANDIDATESFORUM_GC-6-KQED-6436ee91-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261008_SUISUNCITYCANDIDATESFORUM_GC-6-KQED-6436ee91-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A sign reading “Protect Suisun Stop California Forever” rests on the ground during a City Council candidate forum in Suisun City on Oct. 8, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For residents, the project is a make-or-break moment: Supporters see it as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to not just grow the city’s footprint, but bring in desperately needed tax revenue that could pull the waterfront community off a looming fiscal cliff.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opponents, however, see it as an expensive boondoggle that could drain the county’s already limited resources, siphon the region’s water supply and overshadow the city’s small-town charm.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cindy Macdonald, a Suisun City retiree, is still deciding who to vote for, but regardless of who takes office, she thinks California Forever’s development is inevitable. The company already owns the land where the project would be built, plus thousands more acres. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“What are they going to do with it? Is it going to be 400,000 more people in Solano County… or a data center?” she asked. “This particular election is pretty important all the way around.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She likes Amit Pal, a current City Council member who is running to replace Mayor Alma Hernandez, and Princess Washington, an incumbent City Council member running for reelection.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261008_SUISUNCITYCANDIDATESFORUM_GC-21-KQED-9b9df697.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105303\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261008_SUISUNCITYCANDIDATESFORUM_GC-21-KQED-9b9df697.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261008_SUISUNCITYCANDIDATESFORUM_GC-21-KQED-9b9df697-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261008_SUISUNCITYCANDIDATESFORUM_GC-21-KQED-9b9df697-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Suisun City Councilmember and mayoral candidate Amit Pal, left, speaks during a mayoral candidate forum in Suisun City on Oct. 8, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macdonald thinks they are savvy enough to negotiate a good deal with the company. Both have said they are interested in continuing to explore annexation, but remain skeptical about the project and the company.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other residents want to shake up city leadership and view California Forever’s proposed development as a major threat that could drain resources from their small town. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Katrina Garcia, a small business owner, entered the race for City Council because she felt like her concerns weren’t being heard by the city’s current leaders. In mid-July, she attended a meeting with other Suisun City residents to discuss what they might want in a community benefits agreement if leaders reached an annexation deal with California Forever. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is worried about the project’s massive size and how it could impact surrounding cities, the environment and Suisun City’s small-town vibe. Garcia wants more public meetings about the project, not just within her city but with county supervisors, too. But she said that when she kept raising those concerns, she felt supporters of the project kept pushing her aside. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“They overrode me,” she said. “[Supporters of the project said] it’s all a great thing and that there are just people that are just mad, and we can’t please them. But that’s not true.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garcia, Washington and mayoral candidate Lilia Dardon believe Suisun City’s annexation deal should ultimately be decided by city voters — an atypical move for the county’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040357/2-solano-cities-could-annex-some-california-forevers-land-heres-how\">current annexation process\u003c/a>, which gives decision-making power to a county-level regulatory agency. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael Jefferson, on the other hand, is running on a platform of shutting down all annexation talks. Earlier this year, he ran an unsuccessful attempt to recall the entire City Council over their willingness to engage the idea. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“What I heard is [there are] a lot of people that are scared, and they’re afraid of their future right now because of California Forever,” he said. “I am so happy to bring a voice to the voiceless and tell them, ‘No, you actually have someone that will actually represent your interests, who will actually help you, and will actually listen.’”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Current Mayor Alma Hernandez rejects that premise and argues that a majority of residents want the council to continue to explore annexation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a recent forum hosted by the regional coalition Solano Together, Hernandez estimated about 40% of residents had made up their minds, one way or the other: “They’re like, ‘Where’s the shovel coming?” or “No way, we don’t trust them,” she said, and the rest are undecided. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">”About 60% of the community is like, ‘Go do the homework and tell us the answers and see if it makes sense or not,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hernandez has her own concerns about the project and how it would impact the town she grew up in. She worries Highway 12 — the main artery running through the southern portion of Solano County — could get clogged with traffic if California Forever doesn’t properly think through its transportation infrastructure. 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With more than 10,500 responses to the survey, it earned more first-choice votes than the second-place and third-place options combined, according to city reports.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“By a fairly resounding margin, the community has made it clear that Plaza de San José is their preferred choice for renaming the plaza,” Councilmember Anthony Tordillos, who represents downtown, said during the meeting. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-PLAZACESAR-JG-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092783\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-PLAZACESAR-JG-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-PLAZACESAR-JG-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-PLAZACESAR-JG-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A stone stage platform at one end of Plaza de Cesar Chavez is seen in downtown San José on July 27, 2026. The platform’s engraved lettering bearing Chavez’s name has been removed. (Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I think that this is really a name that speaks to the central role that this park has played in our city’s civic history as the oldest public space in Northern California, as the site of our first State Capitol here in \u003ca href=\"https://www.library.ca.gov/california-history/previous-ca-capitals/\">California\u003c/a> and as a longtime home to one of our earlier city halls. 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Commissioner Daisy Barocio said Plaza de San José lacked “richness” and felt “very plain and safe.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Misrayn Mendoza of community group Amigos de Guadalupe, along with several others, called into the council meeting on Tuesday to suggest renaming the area Plaza de los Inmigrantes, or Immigrants Plaza, noting the city’s population is made up of more than 40% immigrants. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We cannot take the easy way out and name it just the Plaza of San José,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The community meetings and surveys yielded more than 600 suggestions for potential names from residents and organizations. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After winnowing down the choices to five options based on what was most frequently suggested, and removing options that didn’t meet the city’s existing criteria for park names, city staff shared five options in a ranked-choice voting survey. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plaza de San José was the overall leader after the survey, with Farmworkers Plaza the second preferred choice and Plaza del Pueblo the third, followed by Plaza Park and Plaza de Quetzalcoatl. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">City staff said the park renaming work will go out to bid later this year and a contract should be completed in the spring. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plaza de San José’s broad community support “will really set up this next era for the plaza well and help us get on that journey with the right foot,” Tordillos said. “And it will reaffirm that this really is a park that belongs to the people of San José and where everyone in our community is welcome.”\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than six months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a> put a plan in motion to rename the downtown park and plaza long named for Cesar Chavez, city leaders have made a choice. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The elliptical gathering space in downtown will now be known as Plaza de San José, after a unanimous vote of the City Council on Tuesday afternoon. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plaza de San José took first place in a ranked-choice survey of five naming options that was put to residents in the summer. With more than 10,500 responses to the survey, it earned more first-choice votes than the second-place and third-place options combined, according to city reports.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“By a fairly resounding margin, the community has made it clear that Plaza de San José is their preferred choice for renaming the plaza,” Councilmember Anthony Tordillos, who represents downtown, said during the meeting. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-PLAZACESAR-JG-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092783\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-PLAZACESAR-JG-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-PLAZACESAR-JG-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-PLAZACESAR-JG-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A stone stage platform at one end of Plaza de Cesar Chavez is seen in downtown San José on July 27, 2026. The platform’s engraved lettering bearing Chavez’s name has been removed. (Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I think that this is really a name that speaks to the central role that this park has played in our city’s civic history as the oldest public space in Northern California, as the site of our first State Capitol here in \u003ca href=\"https://www.library.ca.gov/california-history/previous-ca-capitals/\">California\u003c/a> and as a longtime home to one of our earlier city halls. I think it’s a name that does its part to reflect the legacy and the importance of both the Spanish and the Mexican heritage in our city’s history,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision brings to a close a monthslong process of public engagement spanning community meetings and listening sessions, surveys and voting, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12092702/san-jose-asks-for-help-renaming-plaza-de-cesar-chavez\">put into motion\u003c/a> after allegations broke that Chavez, long hailed as a unifying labor rights figure, sexually abused women and girls. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">New York Times report\u003c/a> in March revealed Chavez’s alleged abuses, including against Dolores Huerta, with whom he co-founded what would become the United Farm Workers union, prompting cities and districts up and down the state to consider renaming the streets, parks, schools and other landmarks titled to honor him. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mayor Matt Mahan said the result is a “positive outcome” and thanked city staff for doing “a very nice job of navigating an unexpected and sensitive situation” that has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077159/east-san-jose-leaders-call-for-supporting-survivors-after-cesar-chavez-allegations\">difficult for residents\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the council ultimately chose Plaza de San José because of the community voting behind it, some residents and Parks and Recreation commissioners pushed for names they said have more audible or cultural heft. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Parks and Recreation commission, after reviewing community input, earlier this month suggested the council adopt the name, Plaza del Pueblo de San José, a combination of two naming options from public surveys. Commissioner Daisy Barocio said Plaza de San José lacked “richness” and felt “very plain and safe.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Misrayn Mendoza of community group Amigos de Guadalupe, along with several others, called into the council meeting on Tuesday to suggest renaming the area Plaza de los Inmigrantes, or Immigrants Plaza, noting the city’s population is made up of more than 40% immigrants. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We cannot take the easy way out and name it just the Plaza of San José,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The community meetings and surveys yielded more than 600 suggestions for potential names from residents and organizations. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After winnowing down the choices to five options based on what was most frequently suggested, and removing options that didn’t meet the city’s existing criteria for park names, city staff shared five options in a ranked-choice voting survey. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plaza de San José was the overall leader after the survey, with Farmworkers Plaza the second preferred choice and Plaza del Pueblo the third, followed by Plaza Park and Plaza de Quetzalcoatl. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">City staff said the park renaming work will go out to bid later this year and a contract should be completed in the spring. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plaza de San José’s broad community support “will really set up this next era for the plaza well and help us get on that journey with the right foot,” Tordillos said. “And it will reaffirm that this really is a park that belongs to the people of San José and where everyone in our community is welcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A regional movement to help families afford childcare and support its littlest learners is reaching Marin County, home to \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/topics/childcare/price-by-age-care-setting-2022\">some of the highest childcare prices in the nation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If voters approve Measure P, a parcel tax that would raise about $12.5 million per year over 15 years, Marin would become the fourth Bay Area county in eight years to come up with a dedicated funding stream for childcare. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2018, San Francisco, Alameda and Sonoma counties have raised several hundred million dollars through special taxes to subsidize childcare spots for families, add more childcare facilities and increase wages for early childhood educators to help them stay in the field. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">San Francisco, for example, uses revenue from a tax on commercial buildings to cover up to $36,000 per year in childcare for low-income families. Meanwhile, Alameda County uses funds from a sales tax to boost \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055336/alameda-county-is-giving-cash-to-child-care-providers-other-bay-area-counties-are-envious\">early childhood educators\u003c/a>’ wages to at least $25 per hour. A statewide survey shows their pay often starts \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/publications/data-snapshot/california-wages-2020-to-2025/\">below the $20 state minimum wage\u003c/a> for fast-food workers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More recently, revenue from a parcel tax approved by voters in 2024 in a small San Mateo County school district is starting to flow to families and childcare providers in East Palo Alto and a section of Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103078\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Marcela Bonilla (left) works with Karen Pace, executive director of Ravenswood Early Learning, at All Five in Menlo Park on Sept. 25, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Advocates say a local fund is needed to \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/The-Economics-of-Childcare-Supply-09-14-final.pdf\">fix a broken market\u003c/a> where parents struggle to afford the full cost of childcare, yet providers barely break even. To do so, they need to keep costs down by minimizing what they spend on labor. But low wages have also led to high turnover at childcare programs, according to \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/publications/data-snapshot/california-program-profiles-2024/\">research by the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s a math problem,” said Karen Pace, executive director of Ravenswood Early Learning, a nonprofit receiving some of the parcel tax revenue from the Ravenswood City School District. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We need to charge tuition that matches what families can pay and still have a nice life, and we need to pay early childhood educators enough to live in the community and support their families and have a nice life,” she said. “There has to be other financial support.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Statewide, demand for childcare far exceeds supply. Nearly 2 million children across California are eligible for state-subsidized childcare programs, but there isn’t enough funding to meet demand, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/understanding-californias-1-8-million-gap-in-publicly-funded-child-care/\">analysis by the California Budget and Policy Center\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was the scenario in Marin County a decade ago when hundreds of low-income families couldn’t get a spot. A coalition of parents and advocates put forward a sales tax measure to augment the state’s funding and subsidize childcare for residents. But the measure didn’t pass.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since then, the cost of licensed childcare in the county went up by nearly 40%, averaging $2,315 per month in 2024, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1727976979/marinschoolsorg/mgyhudxyu1ukj6pjmyzd/2024LPCNeedsAssessment.pdf\">report by the Marin County Child Care Commission\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the high cost of living in Marin has made it tough to attract and retain childcare staff, leading to reduced capacity and long waiting lists for families, the report said. Fewer than half of children in working families had access to a licensed childcare space in Marin County, and early childhood educators who can’t afford to live there often commute from other counties.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the North Bay Children’s Center opened a new facility in Novato a year ago, the center had state and federal funding to fill a classroom and more than 80 children on a waitlist for subsidized care. But it couldn’t enroll them because it couldn’t find qualified teachers, according to Susan Gilmore, the center’s CEO.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It took us about eight months before we had the teaching team we needed to open that classroom,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shortage of childcare has rippling consequences for businesses like grocery stores and senior living facilities, said Paula Reynolds, director of strategic projects for the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“They’re so dependent on an enormous workforce showing up for work on a consistent basis,” she said. “It’s the reliability of childcare that has an impact on businesses and their ability to plan and get through their day.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But opponents of Measure P say employers, not taxpayers, should contribute to the childcare fund. The Coalition of Sensible Taxpayers has urged voters to reject the measure, warning it is among a “tsunami” of proposed taxes, bonds and fees coming before Marin County voters at a time when they’re already pinched by inflation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Affordability is at a breaking point,” the coalition said on its website. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103074\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The “Wobbly Walkers” head to the playground at All Five, an early childhood education program in Menlo Park, on Sept. 25, 2026. The nonprofit serves children from 6 weeks old until they start kindergarten, drawing families from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lucy Dilworth, a member of the coalition’s board, declined a request for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But proponents of the measure say it might be too risky to wait for another election. \u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/43/index.htm\">Proposition 43\u003c/a>, a statewide measure on this November’s ballot, would require future citizen-led ballot initiatives to secure a supermajority, or two-thirds support, to pass. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2016, voters in Marin County fell just 3 percentage points shy of meeting that supermajority threshold when it first tried to pass a childcare funding measure. But since then, a series of court decisions made it easier to pass similar citizen-led tax initiatives. But if voters approve Prop 43 this November, that may not be the case in the future. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joanne Webster, president of the North Bay Leadership Council, a public advocacy group backing the measure, said she sympathizes with people who are skeptical of new taxes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I agree that we should scrutinize every tax,” Webster said. “But we should also consider the cost of doing nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103075\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Students play at All Five, an early childhood education program in Menlo Park, on Sept. 25, 2026. The nonprofit serves children from 6 weeks old until they start kindergarten, drawing families from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said, “Ten years ago, when we tried this and needed two-thirds [of the vote to pass], it was a slim margin, and that’s a shame because we could’ve collected some $50 million since then, and we wouldn’t be in this situation we’re in now.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Coalition of Sensible Taxpayers also said the measure lacks a clear plan for how the money will be spent, but supporters argue that flexibility is part of the design. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If approved, an advisory council appointed by county supervisors will assess the biggest needs and recommend a spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s structured that way so we can be nimble and react to what’s happening in our local community with childcare, and be able to pivot if we need to lean heavily one year into [investing in the] workforce or lean more heavily into building more facilities another year,” Gilmore said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Ravenswood, the school district proposed the parcel tax to fund several priorities, including childcare, after conducting surveys and finding that it was a high priority for residents within its boundaries. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103076\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Students play in a yard at All Five, an early childhood education program in Menlo Park, on Sept. 25, 2026. The nonprofit serves children from 6 weeks old until they start kindergarten, drawing families from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voters passed the measure in 2024, and revenue from the tax began to reach the working-class community over the summer. Pace said home-based childcare providers are starting to get funding to cover tuition for families who qualify for subsidized care. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pace said her staff visits childcare programs to verify the money is directly benefiting residents.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We are being hyper vigilant and intentional about the tax fund only serving families and providers in this community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the funding also goes toward recruiting people who live in the district to become early childhood educators. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That has helped stabilize staffing at All Five, a preschool in Menlo Park, and it’s given parents like Gloria Pirir a chance to go from volunteering in the classroom to working in one.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pirir said she was inspired to become an early educator after seeing her daughter’s teachers help young kids manage their emotions and resolve conflicts. She said the teachers helped her sign up for classes, and she connected to a county program that provided tuition assistance and coaching to help her earn an associate teacher permit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Everything became possible because the teachers encouraged me. They said, ‘I know you’re a single mom, but you can do it, Gloria,’” she said. “The teachers believed in me.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>Editor’s note: A previous version of this story misstated how the parcel tax in the Ravenswood City School District gets distributed.\u003c/em> \u003cbr>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A regional movement to help families afford childcare and support its littlest learners is reaching Marin County, home to \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/topics/childcare/price-by-age-care-setting-2022\">some of the highest childcare prices in the nation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If voters approve Measure P, a parcel tax that would raise about $12.5 million per year over 15 years, Marin would become the fourth Bay Area county in eight years to come up with a dedicated funding stream for childcare. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2018, San Francisco, Alameda and Sonoma counties have raised several hundred million dollars through special taxes to subsidize childcare spots for families, add more childcare facilities and increase wages for early childhood educators to help them stay in the field. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">San Francisco, for example, uses revenue from a tax on commercial buildings to cover up to $36,000 per year in childcare for low-income families. Meanwhile, Alameda County uses funds from a sales tax to boost \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055336/alameda-county-is-giving-cash-to-child-care-providers-other-bay-area-counties-are-envious\">early childhood educators\u003c/a>’ wages to at least $25 per hour. A statewide survey shows their pay often starts \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/publications/data-snapshot/california-wages-2020-to-2025/\">below the $20 state minimum wage\u003c/a> for fast-food workers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More recently, revenue from a parcel tax approved by voters in 2024 in a small San Mateo County school district is starting to flow to families and childcare providers in East Palo Alto and a section of Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103078\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Marcela Bonilla (left) works with Karen Pace, executive director of Ravenswood Early Learning, at All Five in Menlo Park on Sept. 25, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Advocates say a local fund is needed to \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/The-Economics-of-Childcare-Supply-09-14-final.pdf\">fix a broken market\u003c/a> where parents struggle to afford the full cost of childcare, yet providers barely break even. To do so, they need to keep costs down by minimizing what they spend on labor. But low wages have also led to high turnover at childcare programs, according to \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/publications/data-snapshot/california-program-profiles-2024/\">research by the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s a math problem,” said Karen Pace, executive director of Ravenswood Early Learning, a nonprofit receiving some of the parcel tax revenue from the Ravenswood City School District. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We need to charge tuition that matches what families can pay and still have a nice life, and we need to pay early childhood educators enough to live in the community and support their families and have a nice life,” she said. “There has to be other financial support.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Statewide, demand for childcare far exceeds supply. Nearly 2 million children across California are eligible for state-subsidized childcare programs, but there isn’t enough funding to meet demand, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/understanding-californias-1-8-million-gap-in-publicly-funded-child-care/\">analysis by the California Budget and Policy Center\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was the scenario in Marin County a decade ago when hundreds of low-income families couldn’t get a spot. A coalition of parents and advocates put forward a sales tax measure to augment the state’s funding and subsidize childcare for residents. But the measure didn’t pass.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since then, the cost of licensed childcare in the county went up by nearly 40%, averaging $2,315 per month in 2024, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1727976979/marinschoolsorg/mgyhudxyu1ukj6pjmyzd/2024LPCNeedsAssessment.pdf\">report by the Marin County Child Care Commission\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the high cost of living in Marin has made it tough to attract and retain childcare staff, leading to reduced capacity and long waiting lists for families, the report said. Fewer than half of children in working families had access to a licensed childcare space in Marin County, and early childhood educators who can’t afford to live there often commute from other counties.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the North Bay Children’s Center opened a new facility in Novato a year ago, the center had state and federal funding to fill a classroom and more than 80 children on a waitlist for subsidized care. But it couldn’t enroll them because it couldn’t find qualified teachers, according to Susan Gilmore, the center’s CEO.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It took us about eight months before we had the teaching team we needed to open that classroom,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shortage of childcare has rippling consequences for businesses like grocery stores and senior living facilities, said Paula Reynolds, director of strategic projects for the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“They’re so dependent on an enormous workforce showing up for work on a consistent basis,” she said. “It’s the reliability of childcare that has an impact on businesses and their ability to plan and get through their day.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But opponents of Measure P say employers, not taxpayers, should contribute to the childcare fund. The Coalition of Sensible Taxpayers has urged voters to reject the measure, warning it is among a “tsunami” of proposed taxes, bonds and fees coming before Marin County voters at a time when they’re already pinched by inflation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Affordability is at a breaking point,” the coalition said on its website. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103074\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The “Wobbly Walkers” head to the playground at All Five, an early childhood education program in Menlo Park, on Sept. 25, 2026. The nonprofit serves children from 6 weeks old until they start kindergarten, drawing families from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lucy Dilworth, a member of the coalition’s board, declined a request for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But proponents of the measure say it might be too risky to wait for another election. \u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/43/index.htm\">Proposition 43\u003c/a>, a statewide measure on this November’s ballot, would require future citizen-led ballot initiatives to secure a supermajority, or two-thirds support, to pass. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2016, voters in Marin County fell just 3 percentage points shy of meeting that supermajority threshold when it first tried to pass a childcare funding measure. But since then, a series of court decisions made it easier to pass similar citizen-led tax initiatives. But if voters approve Prop 43 this November, that may not be the case in the future. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joanne Webster, president of the North Bay Leadership Council, a public advocacy group backing the measure, said she sympathizes with people who are skeptical of new taxes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I agree that we should scrutinize every tax,” Webster said. “But we should also consider the cost of doing nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103075\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Students play at All Five, an early childhood education program in Menlo Park, on Sept. 25, 2026. The nonprofit serves children from 6 weeks old until they start kindergarten, drawing families from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said, “Ten years ago, when we tried this and needed two-thirds [of the vote to pass], it was a slim margin, and that’s a shame because we could’ve collected some $50 million since then, and we wouldn’t be in this situation we’re in now.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Coalition of Sensible Taxpayers also said the measure lacks a clear plan for how the money will be spent, but supporters argue that flexibility is part of the design. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If approved, an advisory council appointed by county supervisors will assess the biggest needs and recommend a spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s structured that way so we can be nimble and react to what’s happening in our local community with childcare, and be able to pivot if we need to lean heavily one year into [investing in the] workforce or lean more heavily into building more facilities another year,” Gilmore said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Ravenswood, the school district proposed the parcel tax to fund several priorities, including childcare, after conducting surveys and finding that it was a high priority for residents within its boundaries. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103076\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/260925-ChildcareBallotMeasure-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Students play in a yard at All Five, an early childhood education program in Menlo Park, on Sept. 25, 2026. The nonprofit serves children from 6 weeks old until they start kindergarten, drawing families from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voters passed the measure in 2024, and revenue from the tax began to reach the working-class community over the summer. Pace said home-based childcare providers are starting to get funding to cover tuition for families who qualify for subsidized care. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pace said her staff visits childcare programs to verify the money is directly benefiting residents.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We are being hyper vigilant and intentional about the tax fund only serving families and providers in this community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the funding also goes toward recruiting people who live in the district to become early childhood educators. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That has helped stabilize staffing at All Five, a preschool in Menlo Park, and it’s given parents like Gloria Pirir a chance to go from volunteering in the classroom to working in one.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pirir said she was inspired to become an early educator after seeing her daughter’s teachers help young kids manage their emotions and resolve conflicts. She said the teachers helped her sign up for classes, and she connected to a county program that provided tuition assistance and coaching to help her earn an associate teacher permit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Everything became possible because the teachers encouraged me. They said, ‘I know you’re a single mom, but you can do it, Gloria,’” she said. “The teachers believed in me.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>Editor’s note: A previous version of this story misstated how the parcel tax in the Ravenswood City School District gets distributed.\u003c/em> \u003cbr>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After an action-packed WNBA Finals Game 5, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/golden-state-valkyries\">Golden State Valkyries\u003c/a> took care of business in Ballhalla on Monday — and are now one game away from taking home the championship title. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In what’s been a closely-balanced competition, the Valkyries carried the momentum garnered in Game 4 for a hard-fought 64-55 victory, giving them a 3-2 lead over the Atlanta Dream. It’s an incredible rebound for Golden State after a 26-point loss in Game 3. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They now return to Atlanta for Game 6 on Thursday, the first in the league’s history, after breaking free from the best-of-five format.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-30-7bfc60a7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-30-7bfc60a7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-30-7bfc60a7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-30-7bfc60a7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries center Aminata Gueye (31) and Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams (1) walk off the court after the Valkyries defeat the Atlanta Dream in game 5 of the WNBA Finals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12106568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-28-2b2df94f.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106568\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-28-2b2df94f.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-28-2b2df94f-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-28-2b2df94f-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hida Howard holds her three-year-old daughter Alaina Howard as the Golden State Valkyries play the Atlanta Dream in game 5 of the WNBA Finals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12106556\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-07-5bd59852.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106556\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-07-5bd59852.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-07-5bd59852-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-07-5bd59852-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries guard Veronica Burton (22) reacts to a call as the Golden State Valkyries play the Atlanta Dream in game 5 of the WNBA Finals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Game 5 started off with a solid first half — the Valkyries sought to get inside the paint and isolate Atlanta star Angel Reese. Players on both teams were working hard and it showed, energy appeared to dip in the second quarter, with the lowest scoring first half in WNBA finals history. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the third quarter is typically a weak one for the Valkyries, they didn’t have that problem in Game 5, where they scored 8 points in minutes, bringing an energy not seen in previous games. Center Kiah Stokes was a powerful force, shutting down Reese and picking up blocks while leading the Valks with a pair of three-pointers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the fourth quarter, tension in the stadium was amped all the way up. Fans let out a massive roar when it was announced they had two minutes left with a 14 point lead. Golden State held on throughout the night, limiting Reese to 7 points and carrying a nine point win.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fans, including Oakland-born actress Zendaya, came decked out in violet — some were also Halloween-ready, dressing in Valkyries-themed regalia. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stacey Camillo wore a helmet with painted lilac wings, a plastic sword and a full breastplate and lavender high-tops. A season ticket holder since the beginning, Camillo said she was part of the team’s “founding guard.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It was the best decision I ever made,” she said. “I’m absolutely in love with the community we’ve created here at Ballhalla.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking before the game, Camillo correctly predicted the outcome of Game 5. She said she has been following the team with watch parties during away games. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“They’re an incredible team,” Camillo said. “Of course, so are the Dream, even if they’re going to lose.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some fans traveled to Atlanta for the last two games — including Valkyries guard Hayes’ father, Renard, who told KQED after Game 4, “We want to beat them bad.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We want to send them back home with the thought in their mind, like, ‘These guys are too good for us,’” Hayes said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Others traveled from Georgia, like Sug Parker, the former high school basketball coach of the Dream’s guard Allisha Gray. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s absolutely amazing just going back and watching her grow as a player from high school, college and now in the pros and she’s in the finals?” Parker said. “It is beyond exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-6 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12106564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-22-3f9c72c4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106564\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-22-3f9c72c4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-22-3f9c72c4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-22-3f9c72c4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries forward Cecilia Zandalasini (24) cheers during the fourth quarter in game 5 of the WNBA Finals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12106562\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-19-62bfdba2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106562\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-19-62bfdba2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-19-62bfdba2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-19-62bfdba2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Golden State Valkyries bench reacts as they play the Atlanta Dream in game 5 of the WNBA Finals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12106559\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-15-1281e0ac.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-15-1281e0ac.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-15-1281e0ac-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-15-1281e0ac-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Zendaya attends game 5 of the WNBA Finals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12106557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-10-93667357.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106557\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-10-93667357.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-10-93667357-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-10-93667357-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams (1) attempts a free throw as the Golden State Valkyries play the Atlanta Dream in game 5 of the WNBA Finals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2026. 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It’s an incredible rebound for Golden State after a 26-point loss in Game 3. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They now return to Atlanta for Game 6 on Thursday, the first in the league’s history, after breaking free from the best-of-five format.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-30-7bfc60a7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-30-7bfc60a7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-30-7bfc60a7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-30-7bfc60a7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries center Aminata Gueye (31) and Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams (1) walk off the court after the Valkyries defeat the Atlanta Dream in game 5 of the WNBA Finals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2026. 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(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12106556\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-07-5bd59852.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106556\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-07-5bd59852.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-07-5bd59852-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-07-5bd59852-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries guard Veronica Burton (22) reacts to a call as the Golden State Valkyries play the Atlanta Dream in game 5 of the WNBA Finals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Game 5 started off with a solid first half — the Valkyries sought to get inside the paint and isolate Atlanta star Angel Reese. Players on both teams were working hard and it showed, energy appeared to dip in the second quarter, with the lowest scoring first half in WNBA finals history. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the third quarter is typically a weak one for the Valkyries, they didn’t have that problem in Game 5, where they scored 8 points in minutes, bringing an energy not seen in previous games. Center Kiah Stokes was a powerful force, shutting down Reese and picking up blocks while leading the Valks with a pair of three-pointers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the fourth quarter, tension in the stadium was amped all the way up. Fans let out a massive roar when it was announced they had two minutes left with a 14 point lead. Golden State held on throughout the night, limiting Reese to 7 points and carrying a nine point win.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fans, including Oakland-born actress Zendaya, came decked out in violet — some were also Halloween-ready, dressing in Valkyries-themed regalia. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stacey Camillo wore a helmet with painted lilac wings, a plastic sword and a full breastplate and lavender high-tops. A season ticket holder since the beginning, Camillo said she was part of the team’s “founding guard.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It was the best decision I ever made,” she said. “I’m absolutely in love with the community we’ve created here at Ballhalla.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking before the game, Camillo correctly predicted the outcome of Game 5. She said she has been following the team with watch parties during away games. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“They’re an incredible team,” Camillo said. “Of course, so are the Dream, even if they’re going to lose.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some fans traveled to Atlanta for the last two games — including Valkyries guard Hayes’ father, Renard, who told KQED after Game 4, “We want to beat them bad.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We want to send them back home with the thought in their mind, like, ‘These guys are too good for us,’” Hayes said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Others traveled from Georgia, like Sug Parker, the former high school basketball coach of the Dream’s guard Allisha Gray. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s absolutely amazing just going back and watching her grow as a player from high school, college and now in the pros and she’s in the finals?” Parker said. “It is beyond exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-6 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12106564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-22-3f9c72c4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106564\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-22-3f9c72c4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-22-3f9c72c4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-22-3f9c72c4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries forward Cecilia Zandalasini (24) cheers during the fourth quarter in game 5 of the WNBA Finals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12106562\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-19-62bfdba2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106562\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-19-62bfdba2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-19-62bfdba2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-19-62bfdba2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Golden State Valkyries bench reacts as they play the Atlanta Dream in game 5 of the WNBA Finals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12106559\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-15-1281e0ac.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-15-1281e0ac.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-15-1281e0ac-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-15-1281e0ac-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Zendaya attends game 5 of the WNBA Finals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12106557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-10-93667357.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106557\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-10-93667357.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-10-93667357-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261026-ValksGame5-JY-10-93667357-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams (1) attempts a free throw as the Golden State Valkyries play the Atlanta Dream in game 5 of the WNBA Finals at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Players and fans on both sides are also shaking off an embarrassing oversight surrounding the scheduling and planning around the potentially championship-clinching Game 6 — which lacked a venue until Monday morning. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced that Game 6 would tip off at State Farm Arena on Thursday at 9:30 a.m. Pacific time, as not to conflict with the Atlanta Hawks game later that evening. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Veronica Burton, who scored 13 points in Monday’s game, jokingly told fans during the post-game conference to call in sick on Thursday. 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(Samantha Kennedy/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Netanyahu, who’s been in office for much of the time since 2009, has faced increasing criticism from those in and out of Israel for his handling of the Oct. 7 attack, when Hamas killed more than 1,200 people and took 254 hostage, according to the U.S. Department of State. 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Netanyahu and \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/17/hamas-committed-numerous-crimes-against-humanity-on-oct-7-hrw\">Hamas\u003c/a> have denied the claims. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Netanyahu’s primary challenger is center-right former military chief Gadi Eisenkot.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Offir Gutelzon, co-founder of UnXeptable, said Tuesday’s election is about a “decision to save Israeli democracy.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It will decide if the country will go in the path of peace,” Gutelzon, a Palo Alto resident since 2014, said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many people disagree with Gutelzon, he acknowledges, even some of his own family.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This is part of being a democracy,” he said. “So, even many of those who are voting for change might be right-wing leaning.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gutelzon said conversations within his family are challenging, but he hopes the outcome of the election makes for a less divisive climate. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right now, he said, “The discussion is very tense.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tamar Krigle came from Humboldt County to take the 13-plus hour flight out of SFO. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While waiting for her flight, the flag of Israel over her shoulders as she talked about her vote as both a duty and commitment to the country, Krigle said what needs to change in Israel’s government is . . . “everything, everything.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The change is going to take some time, but the rehabilitation — as soon as he is removed — we will be able to breathe and start to undo the things this evil government put on our people,” Krigle said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Krigle and Braun Kamin said part of the goal of voting in the election is to strengthen the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians through peace. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gutelzon said the election also very much impacts Americans and how the two countries will interact with one another. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Netanyahu is so toxic in America. 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President Donald Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/us/politics/documents-china-2020-election-trump.html\">warned\u003c/a> that our nation’s voting systems are vulnerable to foreign interference. Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12105068/judge-blocks-dhs-from-sending-armed-agents-to-question-voters-in-search-for-noncitizens\">armed federal agents\u003c/a> are scouring state voter registrations, trying to find proof of noncitizen voters. Just last week, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/10/19/nx-s1-6007908/election-tensions-escalate-in-california-as-doj-charges-28-people-with-voting-crimes\">DOJ charged 28 people in California\u003c/a> with voting-related crimes, and claimed many “likely non-citizens” on the state’s voting rolls. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“All those developments affect the conduct of the election,” said Travis Ebbert, a supervisor with the elections department for 15 years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“What could happen, what potential law changes … what effect that will have on voters’ behavior, their turnout, their voting patterns. Will they distrust the mail? Will they use dropboxes or show up in person more? All of that goes into our planning process,” Ebbert said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/161108_ConcordPolling_bhs02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11999255\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/161108_ConcordPolling_bhs02.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/161108_ConcordPolling_bhs02-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/161108_ConcordPolling_bhs02-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/161108_ConcordPolling_bhs02-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/161108_ConcordPolling_bhs02-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A polling station in the city of Concord in 2024. 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McGee and others in her role are responsible for voter registrations, sending out vote-by-mail ballots, and verifying signatures. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/240305-MARTINEZ-VOTING-FILE-MD-04_qed-51570973.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/240305-MARTINEZ-VOTING-FILE-MD-04_qed-51570973.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/240305-MARTINEZ-VOTING-FILE-MD-04_qed-51570973-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/240305-MARTINEZ-VOTING-FILE-MD-04_qed-51570973-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A poll worker prepares mail-in ballots for sorting at the Contra Costa County Elections Operation Center in Martinez on March 5, 2024. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Of course, as a county agency, we are following the guidelines of the election code … so all we can do is relay the messages given to us and make sure the voters are fully informed of the information we have.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A big part, McGee said, of the election workers’ job starts before the votes even come in, handling tasks like answering questions from voters and offering assurances.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said she’s hearing the usual worries that they receive every year, like questions about registering, or if a ballot was received. But in recent elections, more people have also asked to come to the office and physically observe the ballot count — something available to the public. She said there’s been more interest lately, with discussion of voter fraud and stolen ballots in the news and online. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We’re here for you. We’re working for you. We want you to know what you want to know, and there’s nothing to hide,” McGee said. “You want to come in and observe? By all means, I’ll take you myself. You want to see all the steps? I’ll be happy to show you what’s going on.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Understanding election security is always important,” McGee added. “It’s paramount to our business.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the vote just over a week away, elections officials in Contra Costa County and across the country are preparing for everything — ranging from skepticism to outright legal challenges. President Donald Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/us/politics/documents-china-2020-election-trump.html\">warned\u003c/a> that our nation’s voting systems are vulnerable to foreign interference. Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12105068/judge-blocks-dhs-from-sending-armed-agents-to-question-voters-in-search-for-noncitizens\">armed federal agents\u003c/a> are scouring state voter registrations, trying to find proof of noncitizen voters. Just last week, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/10/19/nx-s1-6007908/election-tensions-escalate-in-california-as-doj-charges-28-people-with-voting-crimes\">DOJ charged 28 people in California\u003c/a> with voting-related crimes, and claimed many “likely non-citizens” on the state’s voting rolls. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“All those developments affect the conduct of the election,” said Travis Ebbert, a supervisor with the elections department for 15 years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“What could happen, what potential law changes … what effect that will have on voters’ behavior, their turnout, their voting patterns. Will they distrust the mail? Will they use dropboxes or show up in person more? All of that goes into our planning process,” Ebbert said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/161108_ConcordPolling_bhs02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11999255\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/161108_ConcordPolling_bhs02.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/161108_ConcordPolling_bhs02-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/161108_ConcordPolling_bhs02-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/161108_ConcordPolling_bhs02-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/161108_ConcordPolling_bhs02-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A polling station in the city of Concord in 2024. (Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While some Contra Costa County residents expressed worry to election workers about federal agents arresting people at polling places around Election Day, Ebbert said local law enforcement has assured them that’s not happening. They’re prepared with a contingency plan anyway, drafted with the help of local sheriffs, county council and the regional FBI coordinator. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ebbert and other election workers at the office say that they leave politics at the door, but when speaking to the public about concerns around elections integrity, that can be hard.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nena Manuel has worked elections there for two years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We are very nonpartisan, and so what we do is focus on what the election code book says, and we follow it to a T,” Manuel said. “It doesn’t matter what political party anyone affiliates with, we are going to serve you just as we would everyone else. Everyone come as you are and we will accept you and assist you and get you to vote if you are eligible.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ebbert says since 2016, officials have faced more skepticism from the public about their elections process — but more appreciation, too.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“For the last 6 to 8 years, I get ‘Thank you for your service’ like I’m a veteran or something,” said Ebbert, with a laugh. “I show up to work at a government job everyday in an office building and sit at my computer. I thought that was very strange, but I appreciate the sentiment.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manuel said when she answers the phones, she’s been told the same thing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“They are very thankful, because I think when they hear what the process is, and that you have a genuine interest in ensuring that their ballots are being processed in a safe manner, they are happy to hear that,” Manuel said. “It’s very interesting to get that kind of reaction.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McGee, who used to work for a political lobbying group, said she started working in elections to get away from politics. She noted a clear throughline in her career. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Service. It’s about service,” she said. “That is basically my mission in life, helping people. Whether it’s here in this office or outside in my private life, I’m always going to try and help someone. So it’s just lucky I get paid to do it now.” \u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After hollowing out during the pandemic, San Francisco’s office vacancy rate is hovering at around 30%. Pair that volume of empty space with an escalating housing crisis, and it’s enough to make you wonder: Could you turn those empty offices into apartments? Today, we talk with two developers about what it actually takes to make these conversion projects a reality.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-36-83ef18ec-scaled-1-496feabf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106196\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-36-83ef18ec-scaled-1-496feabf.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-36-83ef18ec-160x107-1-2eb3d543.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-36-83ef18ec-2000x1333-1-9186bac0.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-36-83ef18ec-1536x1024-1-b974c687.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-36-83ef18ec-2048x1365-1-8ce27e9d.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-36-83ef18ec-1012x674-1-d1a66efa.jpg 1012w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">150 Hayes Street, an office building which will be converted to housing, in San Francisco’s Civic Center on Oct. 9, 2026.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-18-88a8e3cb-scaled-1-155d53e8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106190\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-18-88a8e3cb-scaled-1-155d53e8.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-18-88a8e3cb-160x107-1-0723c8ea.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-18-88a8e3cb-1536x1024-1-1e3a9e6e.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-18-88a8e3cb-2000x1333-1-0637cdd1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-18-88a8e3cb-2048x1365-1-afab22d7.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-18-88a8e3cb-1012x675-1-ad3b6f7d.jpg 1012w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cubicles inside 150 Hayes Street, an office building that will be converted to housing, in San Francisco’s Civic Center on Oct. 9, 2026.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-27-aaa1487d-scaled-1-640249d2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106192\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-27-aaa1487d-scaled-1-640249d2.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-27-aaa1487d-160x107-1-66bc2db8.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-27-aaa1487d-2000x1333-1-ea0211d0.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-27-aaa1487d-1536x1024-1-528106cd.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-27-aaa1487d-2048x1365-1-0dfe48bc.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-27-aaa1487d-1012x675-1-cc299e47.jpg 1012w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cubicles inside 150 Hayes Street, an office building that will be converted to housing, in San Francisco’s Civic Center on Oct. 9, 2026.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-32-784c8ed3-scaled-1-2d7dd3cf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106195\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-32-784c8ed3-scaled-1-2d7dd3cf.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-32-784c8ed3-160x107-1-11207baf.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-32-784c8ed3-2000x1333-1-5e7c2ffe.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-32-784c8ed3-1536x1024-1-fbdd5e87.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-32-784c8ed3-2048x1365-1-7cf0881f.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-32-784c8ed3-1012x675-1-18b232b2.jpg 1012w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Moving boxes inside 150 Hayes Street, an office building that will be converted to housing, in San Francisco’s Civic Center on Oct. 9, 2026.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-16-6c376f0b-scaled-1-ddf440aa.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106189\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-16-6c376f0b-scaled-1-ddf440aa.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-16-6c376f0b-160x107-1-effea28a.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-16-6c376f0b-1536x1024-1-531d56ad.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-16-6c376f0b-2000x1333-1-3b71e733.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-16-6c376f0b-2048x1365-1-95a9080f.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261009-Office-to-apartment-building-conversions-NG-16-6c376f0b-1012x675-1-5552aff7.jpg 1012w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The view of San Francisco City Hall from inside 150 Hayes Street, an office building that will be converted to housing, in San Francisco’s Civic Center on Oct. 9, 2026.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Episode Transcript\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>This transcript is computer-generated. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. Okay, so between San Francisco’s AI-fueled rental crisis and downtown’s slow recovery from the pandemic, I feel like I’ve heard people throw this idea around. Why not house people in all those empty buildings downtown? And it’s a good question. San Francisco has an office vacancy rate of about 30%. That’s millions of square feet of empty buildings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> It seems kind of obvious that this could be a good solution. But in San Francisco, it hasn’t really happened for a couple of reasons.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Unlike other major cities like New York and Chicago, San Francisco has been slow to incentivize developers to turn offices into apartments. But some say that’s finally starting to change.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> What they’re hoping to do isn’t just to convert an office to housing. It’s kind of like a bigger project. It’s basically totally revitalizing downtown San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Today, The Bay’s producer, Gabriela Glueck, introduces us to two developers to help us understand what it actually takes to make these conversion projects happen. We’re gonna start this story on scene, downtown, in Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> How are you? Good, how are you.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Yeah, so I met up with two developers at the office building that they’re working on converting to housing right now.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jack Sylvan:\u003c/strong> Hello, my name is Jack Sylvan, I run a San Francisco based development firm called SDG.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Marc Babsin:\u003c/strong> I’m Marc Babsin. I’m president of Emerald Fund. We’re San Francisco Housing Developers, and we are at 150 Hayes that we are converting from a 1968 office building to 106 homes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> It is this six-story building in Civic Center with a green glass facade, an old school office. In its past life, the building was originally part of the California State Automobile Association campus.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jack Sylvan:\u003c/strong> This building was like a state-of-the-art place where you would bring your car\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Marc Babsin:\u003c/strong> AAA moved to the suburbs in 2018, and an office developer purchased all four buildings, and then the Great Recession happens. And they couldn’t find any office tenants. It’s kind of similar to today’s lack of tenants.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Fast forward from these AAA times, and this particular building, 150 Hayes Street, was actually sold to the Academy of Art University and Mark and Jack and their partners are now in the process of purchasing it from them.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Okay, so it sounds like it very much looks like an office building from the outside, but what about the inside? What did it look like when you walked in?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Yeah, so the inside is also very, very office building. When I got there, the building’s old owners were still in the process of moving out their stuff. So we saw desks and chairs and office supplies kinda getting carted out.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jack Sylvan:\u003c/strong> Actually there’s more activity here than we led you to believe.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> The first thing you notice when you kind of head into the lobby is just how old school it looks. Like think of like 80s patterned carpets.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Marc Babsin:\u003c/strong> It’s pretty drab and not aesthetically pleasing. It’s not a pleasant place to be.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> It almost looks like a movie set, just because nobody’s there, but there is all this kind of leftover furniture.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Marc Babsin:\u003c/strong> And it’s just a, it’s like a sea of cubicles with fluorescent lighting, drop ceiling.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Actually sounds like the movie Back Rooms to me, the way you’re describing it. Okay, so it sounds like it’s entering its maybe second, third, fourth life at this point. 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Monthly donations from everyday people just like you are the lifeblood. KQED Public Media. Just go to donate.kqed.org/podcasts. We’ll be right back. I wanna talk a little bit more about what it actually takes to do this kind of conversion, like physically, like how do they actually deal with these sort of design challenges of turning an office building into housing?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Yeah, this is really interesting. It’s kind of like a cool puzzle. And we walked around the office at 150 Hayes Street and the developers, Marc and Jack, were kind of pointing out some of the things that they were seeing as potential challenges.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Marc Babsin:\u003c/strong> Those windows are gonna come out. You see how far up that steel beam is? 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Maybe you’ve seen headlines of, you know, big AI companies signing kind of record leases with offices, just kind of giving them a ton of money to move in. And so Marc and Jack were saying that some of these building owners are kind of holding out. Like maybe that’ll happen to them. And so these offices that you think would be good candidates aren’t even up, you now, for sale right now.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jack Sylvan:\u003c/strong> It’s just not in their DNA to think about taking their office building and turning it into a place that people live. You just, you see their head kind of go, whoa. So our job is to convince them that their building could be worth more as a residential building.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Hmm. That’s very interesting. Yeah. 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Like we’re really early on to seeing if this bigger project is gonna work out.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Well, Gabriela Glueck, our producer, thank you so much. Thank you. That was The Bay’s producer, Gabriela Glueck. By the way, we’ve got pictures on our site of the building that Gabi visited for this story. You could peep them at kqed.org slash the bay. Shout out to producer Gabriela Glueck for pitching, reporting, and producing this story, I cut down and edited it, music courtesy of Audio Network and APN. If you liked this episode, please do me a quick favor right now and review the show in your podcast app. Those reviews really help other people find our show. Support for The Bay is provided in part by the Osher Production Fund. Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California Local. 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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. Okay, so between San Francisco’s AI-fueled rental crisis and downtown’s slow recovery from the pandemic, I feel like I’ve heard people throw this idea around. Why not house people in all those empty buildings downtown? And it’s a good question. San Francisco has an office vacancy rate of about 30%. That’s millions of square feet of empty buildings.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Today, The Bay’s producer, Gabriela Glueck, introduces us to two developers to help us understand what it actually takes to make these conversion projects happen. We’re gonna start this story on scene, downtown, in Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n",
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Center on Oct. 9, 2026.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Episode Transcript\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>This transcript is computer-generated. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. Okay, so between San Francisco’s AI-fueled rental crisis and downtown’s slow recovery from the pandemic, I feel like I’ve heard people throw this idea around. Why not house people in all those empty buildings downtown? And it’s a good question. San Francisco has an office vacancy rate of about 30%. That’s millions of square feet of empty buildings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> It seems kind of obvious that this could be a good solution. But in San Francisco, it hasn’t really happened for a couple of reasons.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Unlike other major cities like New York and Chicago, San Francisco has been slow to incentivize developers to turn offices into apartments. But some say that’s finally starting to change.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> What they’re hoping to do isn’t just to convert an office to housing. It’s kind of like a bigger project. It’s basically totally revitalizing downtown San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Today, The Bay’s producer, Gabriela Glueck, introduces us to two developers to help us understand what it actually takes to make these conversion projects happen. We’re gonna start this story on scene, downtown, in Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> How are you? Good, how are you.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Yeah, so I met up with two developers at the office building that they’re working on converting to housing right now.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jack Sylvan:\u003c/strong> Hello, my name is Jack Sylvan, I run a San Francisco based development firm called SDG.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Marc Babsin:\u003c/strong> I’m Marc Babsin. I’m president of Emerald Fund. We’re San Francisco Housing Developers, and we are at 150 Hayes that we are converting from a 1968 office building to 106 homes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> It is this six-story building in Civic Center with a green glass facade, an old school office. In its past life, the building was originally part of the California State Automobile Association campus.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jack Sylvan:\u003c/strong> This building was like a state-of-the-art place where you would bring your car\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Marc Babsin:\u003c/strong> AAA moved to the suburbs in 2018, and an office developer purchased all four buildings, and then the Great Recession happens. And they couldn’t find any office tenants. It’s kind of similar to today’s lack of tenants.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Fast forward from these AAA times, and this particular building, 150 Hayes Street, was actually sold to the Academy of Art University and Mark and Jack and their partners are now in the process of purchasing it from them.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Okay, so it sounds like it very much looks like an office building from the outside, but what about the inside? What did it look like when you walked in?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Yeah, so the inside is also very, very office building. When I got there, the building’s old owners were still in the process of moving out their stuff. So we saw desks and chairs and office supplies kinda getting carted out.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jack Sylvan:\u003c/strong> Actually there’s more activity here than we led you to believe.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> The first thing you notice when you kind of head into the lobby is just how old school it looks. Like think of like 80s patterned carpets.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Marc Babsin:\u003c/strong> It’s pretty drab and not aesthetically pleasing. It’s not a pleasant place to be.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> It almost looks like a movie set, just because nobody’s there, but there is all this kind of leftover furniture.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Marc Babsin:\u003c/strong> And it’s just a, it’s like a sea of cubicles with fluorescent lighting, drop ceiling.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Actually sounds like the movie Back Rooms to me, the way you’re describing it. Okay, so it sounds like it’s entering its maybe second, third, fourth life at this point. I mean, what exactly are these developers’ plan for this building?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Yeah, so, they really have a vision for it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Marc Babsin:\u003c/strong> And what we’re gonna do is we’re going to take the four office floors and make them residential. We’re going convert one of the parking floors to residential and we’re going to add another floor on the top, 106 homes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> It’s almost like you’re coming in at step three or four of development. Like you don’t have to build the whole structure. That skeleton’s already there.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Marc Babsin:\u003c/strong> The cost of conversion are less than ground up. If you ever see a frame built before the skin goes on and the drywall and the flooring and the lighting, that’s what we’re doing.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> How do you pick a good building for a conversion like this? Like is every office building a good candidate for housing?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Yeah, I was really curious about this too, just because kind of walking around as a lay person, looking at all these empty offices, you might think you could be in apartment building, you could an apartment building. But that’s really not the case. And that’s something Marc and Jack talked about a lot.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Marc Babsin:\u003c/strong> Yeah, we would walk around downtown streets, Jack and I and our partner, Tim, and just look up and say like, okay, how many sides of windows do we have here? And does it look like a building that’s like class B or C, meaning it’s not full of tenants?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> So you’re looking for a totally empty building if you can swing it. Another thing to think about is that not every office has the right bones to be an apartment building. And so the depth of the building is something that the developers talk to me a lot about.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Marc Babsin:\u003c/strong> If you have a very deep building, that means you’re so far from the windows, it’s problematic.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> The city has planning and building code requirements for what qualifies as housing. And there are requirements for how much natural light an apartment needs to have in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Yeah, I mean, I imagine you can’t just put a bed in the middle of an office building and call it housing.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> You’re exactly right. Like, you can’t just say, all right, I’m going to put some sleeping bags or some beds in here and sell it, you know, as an apartment building. So these are all things to think about in terms of changing the use of a building.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Marc Babsin:\u003c/strong> We bring through a team of the architect and the contractor and the structural engineer and the mechanical electrical plumbing engineer and analyze the building. A lot of work has gone into it just to land this one.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> We’re gonna take a quick break, but when we get back, what it literally takes to convert an office into an apartment and the policy changes that developers say finally made it possible. By the way, if you appreciate stories like this, you can help fund this kind of journalism by becoming a KQED Sustaining Member. Monthly donations from everyday people just like you are the lifeblood. KQED Public Media. Just go to donate.kqed.org/podcasts. We’ll be right back. I wanna talk a little bit more about what it actually takes to do this kind of conversion, like physically, like how do they actually deal with these sort of design challenges of turning an office building into housing?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Yeah, this is really interesting. It’s kind of like a cool puzzle. And we walked around the office at 150 Hayes Street and the developers, Marc and Jack, were kind of pointing out some of the things that they were seeing as potential challenges.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Marc Babsin:\u003c/strong> Those windows are gonna come out. You see how far up that steel beam is? So our windows are going to go all the way up there, 11 feet.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> The question of natural light is a really big deal, like how much can you get in a building?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Marc Babsin:\u003c/strong> Because windows are pretty important to apartments, people want to have light that come in.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> What the developers basically told me is that when you have a skeleton of an old building, there are design constraints, right? Cause you already have basically a shape there that you’re filling up. So sometimes it can be hard to meet some of these code requirements for what qualifies as housing, like the open space requirement, for example. And then because we live in an earthquake prone place, you might have to do some kind of seismic upgrades if you’re switching a building use from commercial to housing.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jack Sylvan:\u003c/strong> And so that’s another driver of costs here.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Another thing I was kind of curious about and I think comes to a lot of people’s mind is like plumbing. You know, how you make every unit have a bathroom. And they said that’s actually not that hard to add plumbing after the fact. And so those are some of the things that we talked about.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> I mean, yeah, it sounds like a pretty great idea. Why isn’t this happening as often as it maybe seems like it should then?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Yeah, this is the, you know, billion dollar question.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Marc Babsin:\u003c/strong> Well, it always comes down to the math. So what is it cost to build the building, and then what is worth when it’s done? We haven’t found a building where the numbers line up since 2016.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> They said for a really long time, there haven’t been policy incentives that help developers kind of get around the high construction costs in order to build housing here. And then another big thing I thought was really interesting is Marc and Jack were kind of telling me that building owners aren’t as willing to sell their vacant office buildings because of the AI boom. Maybe you’ve seen headlines of, you know, big AI companies signing kind of record leases with offices, just kind of giving them a ton of money to move in. And so Marc and Jack were saying that some of these building owners are kind of holding out. Like maybe that’ll happen to them. And so these offices that you think would be good candidates aren’t even up, you now, for sale right now.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jack Sylvan:\u003c/strong> It’s just not in their DNA to think about taking their office building and turning it into a place that people live. You just, you see their head kind of go, whoa. So our job is to convince them that their building could be worth more as a residential building.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Hmm. That’s very interesting. Yeah. I mean it seems like a really good time to maybe figure out how to lower the barriers to making this kind of thing happen. So you mentioned earlier that the city has actually been kind of turning a page on this and trying to incentivize more developers to do these kinds of conversions. I means what is the city doing to make it easier to convert more office buildings into housing?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> So the city in collaboration with developers like Marc and Jack has already made some changes to try and incentivize more developers to do these conversions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jack Sylvan:\u003c/strong> The first thing that the city did was adjust a bunch of the planning code, that it’s a building that’s already there, like we shouldn’t overcomplicate things with planning code that is intended to be oriented around building a new building ground up. And then there were the three tools that are more financial.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> This includes waiving taxes when a property is sold. And then in Mayor Daniel Lurie’s Downtown Revitalization Financing District, developers can get some refunds on property taxes on these converted buildings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Marc Babsin:\u003c/strong> And then the big one was no affordable housing requirement. The city decided that, hey, we want to get these office to residential projects to be financially feasible. So the biggest lever was reducing the affordable housing requirement from 15 to zero.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> I think when we talk about housing in San Francisco that’s often one of the first questions you ask just because rent is so expensive. What the developers basically told me is that if they were required to put in affordable units they wouldn’t be able to make money off the building, so they wouldn’t be able to get investors, they wouldn’t be able do the project at all.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Marc Babsin:\u003c/strong> Because at 15% affordable, it costs about $140,000 per every unit in the building to provide that affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> That said, even though there won’t be affordable housing in the building, they’re not envisioning this to be like a luxury apartment building. It’s going to be kind of market rate apartment, even thought average cost in San Francisco is still expensive. So these are all financial incentives that kind of help offset the cost of doing these kinds of projects.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Daniel Lurie\u003c/strong> This old office building, an old Nordstrom Rack, is being turned into housing. 136 units of new housing. And thanks to legislation that we have passed, this is happening and five other projects like it…\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> And so far, a few developers, and this is including 150 Hayes Street, have submitted their projects for the downtown revitalization financing district program. And that’s a really good sign, you know, that there’s been a shift here, and more projects might start to pop up.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Jack Sylvan:\u003c/strong> Investors tend to be followers. There are not that many investors that wanna be the first into something. And so things have changed rapidly in the last six to nine months. So I think we’ll be able to show them with this project that it’s actually a smart investment for the right building.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> So where are they at in the timeline of things now?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> They’re planning to start construction kind of the middle of next year, and that’s gonna take a year and a half to complete. So basically what that means is that people will be able to move in late 2028 or early 2029.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Is there a reason, like, not to be so optimistic about this idea and it really working in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> Yeah, I think that’s a great question, and one that can be a little hard to answer after just hanging out with these developers for, you know, an hour because they’re so optimistic, because they are so excited. I think maybe to measure some of that excitement. I think in some ways we will kind of have to wait and see. Because what they’re trying to do or what they are hoping to do isn’t just to convert an office to housing. It’s kind of like a bigger project. It’s basically totally revitalizing downtown San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Marc Babsin:\u003c/strong> Couple hundred people are gonna live here. They’re gonna be going to the restaurant across the street. They’re going to be going to the conservatory where they’ve got free jazz and eat in the restaurant. They’re to activate this area. We’re adding to the life and the vibrancy of the city. That’s exciting.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck:\u003c/strong> You know, people have been trying to do that for a while and it hasn’t always worked out the way they wanted it to. So I think that is reason enough to kind of measure your optimism. Just converting one office building to housing is only the start of that. Like we’re really early on to seeing if this bigger project is gonna work out.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Well, Gabriela Glueck, our producer, thank you so much. Thank you. That was The Bay’s producer, Gabriela Glueck. By the way, we’ve got pictures on our site of the building that Gabi visited for this story. You could peep them at kqed.org slash the bay. Shout out to producer Gabriela Glueck for pitching, reporting, and producing this story, I cut down and edited it, music courtesy of Audio Network and APN. If you liked this episode, please do me a quick favor right now and review the show in your podcast app. Those reviews really help other people find our show. Support for The Bay is provided in part by the Osher Production Fund. Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California Local. And I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks so much for listening to The Bay. I’ll talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/golden-state-valkyries\">Golden State Valkyries\u003c/a> beat the Atlanta Dream in Game 4 of the Women’s National Basketball Finals. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Valkyries were coming off a difficult 97-71 loss in Game 3, but tied up the best-of-seven series in Atlanta on Saturday with a 67-62 win. The win guarantees that the series will at least go through Game 6. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guard Tiffany Hayes told reporters after the game that fans in Ballhalla in San Francisco — where Game 5 will take place on Monday — need to “get loud, get ready.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-7 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12106262\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-11-KQED_-38f9f628.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106262\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-11-KQED_-38f9f628.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-11-KQED_-38f9f628-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-11-KQED_-38f9f628-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alex Morrison holds a “believe” flag at Game 4 of the WNBA finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Oct. 24, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12106261\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-10-KQED_-9bf3b443.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106261\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-10-KQED_-9bf3b443.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-10-KQED_-9bf3b443-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-10-KQED_-9bf3b443-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries fans cheer during Game 4 of the WNBA finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Oct. 24, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year has marked a historic playoff series for the WNBA as a whole. The 2026 WNBA championship tournament has brought in record-breaking viewers and stadium sell-outs, giving basketball fans across the country reasons to celebrate. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valkyries were looking for redemption. The team changed up their starting lineup, putting in Hayes and Kaila Charles for Game 4, putting Charles in to defend Dream star forward Angel Reese. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Golden State played scrappier on Saturday, diving for loose balls and securing turnovers. By halftime, the team took a commanding lead of 42-26 over the Dream. Valkyries held on to a more narrow advantage of 54-45 by the end of the third quarter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With less than 30 seconds left in the game, the Dream had narrowed the lead even more, but the Valkyries held on.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-8 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" data-id=\"12106299\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-36-KQED_-251d90ec.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-36-KQED_-251d90ec.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-36-KQED_-251d90ec-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-36-KQED_-251d90ec-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries fans cheer after the Valkyries defeated the Atlanta Dream 67-62 during Game 4 of the WNBA finals at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Oct. 24, 2026. 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(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The beauty of our sport is that as bad as we felt on Wednesday, we get to turn around and make it right today,” forward Gabby Williams said after the game. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fan Miles Ott was hyped about the win. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We’ve got a freaking series, baby,” Ott told KQED after the game. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Renard Hayes, Tiffany Hayes father, said after the game that Atlanta brought the vibe, but Golden State got the win. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“As for being her father, I’m so proud of her,” Renard said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-4-KQED_-e7ea4439.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106255\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-4-KQED_-e7ea4439.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-4-KQED_-e7ea4439-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-4-KQED_-e7ea4439-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Atlanta Dream forward Angel Reese (5) runs toward the basket during the first quarter of Game 4 of the WNBA finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Oct. 24, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dozens of Valkyries fans from across the country trekked out to Atlanta for Game 4, gathering at a food hall just outside of State Farm Arena on Saturday morning before tip off. They brought the Ballhalla spirit to the east coast in head-to-toe purple, from hats and sequin bomber jackets, to custom crocheted Valkyries vests, and extravagant mythical warrior costumes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though the Golden State fans were outnumbered on the Dream’s home turf, they were loud and took over a section of the stands in all violet on Saturday. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beverly McClendon and Leanne Deegenaars — donning Williams-signed jerseys, Valkyries headgear and violet checkered pants — flew from San Francisco to cheer on the team with other fans and said they were “ready to win it all.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s like you have 150 of your new best friends that you just met.” McClendon said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-7-KQED_-dbd88dc6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106258\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-7-KQED_-dbd88dc6.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-7-KQED_-dbd88dc6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-7-KQED_-dbd88dc6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries head coach Natalie Nakase reacts during the first quarter of Game 4 of the WNBA finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Oct. 24, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ashley Thomas-Williams organized a meet-up that brought several fans to the game. She said she did “a little tossing and turning” the night before the game, but still wanted to support the team. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“They need us here. They need to feel us,” Thomas-Williams said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stephisha Ycoy-Walton, who came with their family, said going into the game 2-1 was a gut-wrenching, but they “know why we’re here.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I want to see them play with heart — like we always do. That’s our Valkyries team,” Ycoy-Walton said. “No matter the outcome, we’re always gonna be proud.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in the Bay, hundreds of fans flocked to The People’s Block Party, organized by The People’s Watch Party and Xingones, in Oakland to show their love during the game. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Madison Huynh said the “best team in the world” took better care of the ball this game. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It looks like we’re the team we’re supposed to be,” Huynh said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It will be a first and historic victory for either team that takes away the 2026 WNBA championship title. The Dream has not made it to the WNBA finals since 2013, when they lost to the Minnesota Lynx. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Valkyries are only in their second season after launching in 2025. The team made it to the playoffs in their inaugural season, but the Lynx knocked them out in the first round. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, Game 3 was close at halftime, but the Dream ran away with the lead by the end of the fourth quarter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This game they wanted it more than us and that’s not who we are, that’s not who we’ve been and that’s not how we got here,” said shooting guard Tiffany Hayes in the postgame conference.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Williams said the team was, “undisciplined on defense.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emotions were high for Valkyries fans who traveled across the country for the Wednesday night away game. They were disappointed and frustrated, but overall optimistic that the team could still come back and prevail. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I mean, I’m a little bummed to lose, but I believe in us,” said Hill Winans, who was among the Valkyries diehards to attend Game 4 in Atlanta this week. “We just need to play better defense and better basketball in general. But we can do it, we’ve been doing it all season.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-9 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" data-id=\"12106288\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-17-KQED_-90ae7b3a.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106288\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-17-KQED_-90ae7b3a.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-17-KQED_-90ae7b3a-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-17-KQED_-90ae7b3a-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries fans celebrate as they wait in line to get into State Farm Arena ahead of Game 4 of the WNBA finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Oct. 24, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" data-id=\"12106287\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-16-KQED_-6d0e161d.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106287\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-16-KQED_-6d0e161d.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-16-KQED_-6d0e161d-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-16-KQED_-6d0e161d-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From left, fans Viveca Ycoy-Walton, Stephisha Ycoy Walton and Karter of Oakland celebrate as they wait in line to get into State Farm Arena ahead of Game 4 of the WNBA finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Oct. 24, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Golden State super fans were loud but far outnumbered for Game 3 in State Farm Arena, which was completely sold out and a sea of blue on Wednesday. But even more fans are traveling to root for the Valkyries on Saturday for Game 4. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ott flew from Oakland to Atlanta on Friday night for a quick turnaround trip just to cheer on his favorite team. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We’re going to support this team no matter what,” Ott said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-19-KQED_-9cd648c2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106289\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-19-KQED_-9cd648c2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-19-KQED_-9cd648c2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-19-KQED_-9cd648c2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries fans cheer during Game 4 of the WNBA finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Oct. 24, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coach Natalie Nakase had confidence even before Game 4 that her team could still come back and win it today. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“After times when we’ve been punched, we know how to come back,” Nakase said in Wednesday’s postgame conference. “What’s good is that usually we come back even tighter.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Game 5 will be played at Chase Center on Monday, Oct. 26 at 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>KQED’s\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/calam\">\u003cem>Christopher Alam\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/golden-state-valkyries\">Golden State Valkyries\u003c/a> beat the Atlanta Dream in Game 4 of the Women’s National Basketball Finals. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Valkyries were coming off a difficult 97-71 loss in Game 3, but tied up the best-of-seven series in Atlanta on Saturday with a 67-62 win. The win guarantees that the series will at least go through Game 6. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guard Tiffany Hayes told reporters after the game that fans in Ballhalla in San Francisco — where Game 5 will take place on Monday — need to “get loud, get ready.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-7 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12106262\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-11-KQED_-38f9f628.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106262\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-11-KQED_-38f9f628.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-11-KQED_-38f9f628-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-11-KQED_-38f9f628-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alex Morrison holds a “believe” flag at Game 4 of the WNBA finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Oct. 24, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12106261\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-10-KQED_-9bf3b443.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106261\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-10-KQED_-9bf3b443.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-10-KQED_-9bf3b443-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-10-KQED_-9bf3b443-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries fans cheer during Game 4 of the WNBA finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Oct. 24, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year has marked a historic playoff series for the WNBA as a whole. The 2026 WNBA championship tournament has brought in record-breaking viewers and stadium sell-outs, giving basketball fans across the country reasons to celebrate. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valkyries were looking for redemption. The team changed up their starting lineup, putting in Hayes and Kaila Charles for Game 4, putting Charles in to defend Dream star forward Angel Reese. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Golden State played scrappier on Saturday, diving for loose balls and securing turnovers. By halftime, the team took a commanding lead of 42-26 over the Dream. Valkyries held on to a more narrow advantage of 54-45 by the end of the third quarter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With less than 30 seconds left in the game, the Dream had narrowed the lead even more, but the Valkyries held on.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-8 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" data-id=\"12106299\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-36-KQED_-251d90ec.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-36-KQED_-251d90ec.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-36-KQED_-251d90ec-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-36-KQED_-251d90ec-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries fans cheer after the Valkyries defeated the Atlanta Dream 67-62 during Game 4 of the WNBA finals at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Oct. 24, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" data-id=\"12106298\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-35-KQED_-9bfc09c7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106298\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-35-KQED_-9bfc09c7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-35-KQED_-9bfc09c7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-35-KQED_-9bfc09c7-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries fans cheer after the Valkyries defeated the Atlanta Dream 67-62 during Game 4 of the WNBA finals at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Oct. 24, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The beauty of our sport is that as bad as we felt on Wednesday, we get to turn around and make it right today,” forward Gabby Williams said after the game. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fan Miles Ott was hyped about the win. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We’ve got a freaking series, baby,” Ott told KQED after the game. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Renard Hayes, Tiffany Hayes father, said after the game that Atlanta brought the vibe, but Golden State got the win. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“As for being her father, I’m so proud of her,” Renard said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-4-KQED_-e7ea4439.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106255\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-4-KQED_-e7ea4439.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-4-KQED_-e7ea4439-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-4-KQED_-e7ea4439-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Atlanta Dream forward Angel Reese (5) runs toward the basket during the first quarter of Game 4 of the WNBA finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Oct. 24, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dozens of Valkyries fans from across the country trekked out to Atlanta for Game 4, gathering at a food hall just outside of State Farm Arena on Saturday morning before tip off. They brought the Ballhalla spirit to the east coast in head-to-toe purple, from hats and sequin bomber jackets, to custom crocheted Valkyries vests, and extravagant mythical warrior costumes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though the Golden State fans were outnumbered on the Dream’s home turf, they were loud and took over a section of the stands in all violet on Saturday. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beverly McClendon and Leanne Deegenaars — donning Williams-signed jerseys, Valkyries headgear and violet checkered pants — flew from San Francisco to cheer on the team with other fans and said they were “ready to win it all.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s like you have 150 of your new best friends that you just met.” McClendon said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-7-KQED_-dbd88dc6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106258\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-7-KQED_-dbd88dc6.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-7-KQED_-dbd88dc6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-7-KQED_-dbd88dc6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries head coach Natalie Nakase reacts during the first quarter of Game 4 of the WNBA finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Oct. 24, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ashley Thomas-Williams organized a meet-up that brought several fans to the game. She said she did “a little tossing and turning” the night before the game, but still wanted to support the team. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“They need us here. They need to feel us,” Thomas-Williams said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stephisha Ycoy-Walton, who came with their family, said going into the game 2-1 was a gut-wrenching, but they “know why we’re here.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I want to see them play with heart — like we always do. That’s our Valkyries team,” Ycoy-Walton said. “No matter the outcome, we’re always gonna be proud.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in the Bay, hundreds of fans flocked to The People’s Block Party, organized by The People’s Watch Party and Xingones, in Oakland to show their love during the game. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Madison Huynh said the “best team in the world” took better care of the ball this game. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It looks like we’re the team we’re supposed to be,” Huynh said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It will be a first and historic victory for either team that takes away the 2026 WNBA championship title. The Dream has not made it to the WNBA finals since 2013, when they lost to the Minnesota Lynx. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Valkyries are only in their second season after launching in 2025. The team made it to the playoffs in their inaugural season, but the Lynx knocked them out in the first round. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, Game 3 was close at halftime, but the Dream ran away with the lead by the end of the fourth quarter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This game they wanted it more than us and that’s not who we are, that’s not who we’ve been and that’s not how we got here,” said shooting guard Tiffany Hayes in the postgame conference.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Williams said the team was, “undisciplined on defense.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emotions were high for Valkyries fans who traveled across the country for the Wednesday night away game. They were disappointed and frustrated, but overall optimistic that the team could still come back and prevail. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I mean, I’m a little bummed to lose, but I believe in us,” said Hill Winans, who was among the Valkyries diehards to attend Game 4 in Atlanta this week. “We just need to play better defense and better basketball in general. But we can do it, we’ve been doing it all season.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-9 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" data-id=\"12106288\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-17-KQED_-90ae7b3a.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106288\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-17-KQED_-90ae7b3a.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-17-KQED_-90ae7b3a-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-17-KQED_-90ae7b3a-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries fans celebrate as they wait in line to get into State Farm Arena ahead of Game 4 of the WNBA finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Oct. 24, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" data-id=\"12106287\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-16-KQED_-6d0e161d.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106287\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-16-KQED_-6d0e161d.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-16-KQED_-6d0e161d-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-16-KQED_-6d0e161d-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From left, fans Viveca Ycoy-Walton, Stephisha Ycoy Walton and Karter of Oakland celebrate as they wait in line to get into State Farm Arena ahead of Game 4 of the WNBA finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Oct. 24, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Golden State super fans were loud but far outnumbered for Game 3 in State Farm Arena, which was completely sold out and a sea of blue on Wednesday. But even more fans are traveling to root for the Valkyries on Saturday for Game 4. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ott flew from Oakland to Atlanta on Friday night for a quick turnaround trip just to cheer on his favorite team. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We’re going to support this team no matter what,” Ott said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-19-KQED_-9cd648c2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106289\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-19-KQED_-9cd648c2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-19-KQED_-9cd648c2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261024_ValkyriesGame4_GC-19-KQED_-9cd648c2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golden State Valkyries fans cheer during Game 4 of the WNBA finals between the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Oct. 24, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coach Natalie Nakase had confidence even before Game 4 that her team could still come back and win it today. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“After times when we’ve been punched, we know how to come back,” Nakase said in Wednesday’s postgame conference. “What’s good is that usually we come back even tighter.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Game 5 will be played at Chase Center on Monday, Oct. 26 at 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>KQED’s\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/calam\">\u003cem>Christopher Alam\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>Editor’s Note: This story includes details of alleged sexual misconduct against minors.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A jury on Thursday found a former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/benicia\">Benicia\u003c/a> teacher guilty of sexually abusing four students at Robert Semple Elementary School, bringing to a close a criminal case that rocked the waterfront community and highlighted statewide gaps in educator vetting. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matthew Shelton, 44, faced 12 felony counts of lewd acts with a child. He was convicted of 11 of those counts. The jury declared a mistrial for the remaining count. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was not the first time Shelton had been on trial for sexually abusing elementary students. Nearly two decades ago, Shelton stood trial over similar allegations that he sexually abused students at Phillips Edison Elementary School, a charter school in Napa. The jury acquitted him in 2008 after deliberating for just 20 minutes. The Benicia Unified School District hired him months later. Shelton then taught at the West Contra Costa Unified School District before returning to Benicia in 2015. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the victims of the alleged abuse in Napa, who testified in Shelton’s trial this month, said the verdict felt like a long time coming. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Justice was served. We’re finally here. Almost 20 years later,” she told KQED. This news organization does not name victims of alleged abuse without their consent.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The woman, now in her 20s, said she testified on behalf of the girls in Benicia — and to make sure Shelton did not escape justice a second time.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“It brought me back to being that third-grader and not being believed,” she said, adding that testifying as an adult felt different. “I felt like I had a voice this time.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The woman was among seven former students from two school districts, ranging in ages from teens to adults in their late 20s, who took the stand over three weeks to testify against Shelton. They alleged that between 2007 and late 2022, he touched their butts, their crotch area, or that he made them touch his penis. Most of the abuse occurred in his classroom, including while other students were present. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101867\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Matthew Shelton holds hands with his wife Brandy Shelton as he walks into the Solano County Law and Justice Center for his court hearing in Fairfield on Sept. 28, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Shelton was acquitted in 2008, the Commission on Teacher Credentialing — the state agency charged with determining who is fit to teach in California public schools — considered whether to discipline him, ultimately issuing a private admonishment. Such punishments, which are rare, are hidden from the public and must be expunged by the state and employers within three years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While making the case to the state for why he should be allowed to continue teaching, Shelton said he was willing to “put this event behind him” for future students who could benefit from his educational experience. He told the state panel of volunteers who reviewed his case that he changed his teaching practices, putting neon orange tape on the floor by his desk to create a physical barrier students were not allowed to cross, according to audio from the review played for the jury. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The state allowed him to keep his license, and Shelton worked hard to ingratiate himself with Benicia parents and school administrators so future victims would not be believed, Shapiro said. Shapiro said when girls first reported inappropriate touching by Shelton to the Robert Semple Elementary principal, Christina Moore, in December 2022, they did not think their principal believed them.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the trial, prosecutors played footage showing she told an officer the girls in Shelton’s class were 10 years old and hormonal, and that there was “a lot of emotion” in the classroom. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moore was put on leave the day after the verdict. Reached by phone, she declined to comment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“[Shelton] thought that if he were valued by the school district, even if those students and victims did come forward, they likely would not make their way to the police department and certainly would not have the strength to make it into court,” Shapiro said. “The defendant was wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shelton’s defense attorney, Amanda Bevins, declined to comment on the verdict on Thursday. She had argued in her closing statement on Tuesday that multiple girls making allegations did not mean the claims were true.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“Repetition is not corroboration,” Bevins said. “The argument assumes the accounts developed independently. The evidence shows the opposite.”\u003cbr>\u003cbr>She told the jury that the Benicia victims’ allegations became more detailed and egregious over time, beginning with claims of hugs and pinches on the arm that eventually morphed into accusations of sexual abuse. The girls’ memories, she said, had become “contaminated” by outside influences, from classmates and parents to attorneys posting ads online seeking victims of Shelton to represent in civil lawsuits. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shelton acknowledged that he hugged students at Robert Semple Elementary School, and Bevins noted the school had no policy against touching students. She said no other students in Shelton’s classroom independently corroborated the girls’ claims that he touched their butts.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“If the prosecution’s theory is true, and Shelton was touching girls’ bottoms every day, multiple times a day, in front of the classroom, where is the corroboration? Where is the immediate outcry?” Bevins said. “It’s not there.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said another one of the girls’ claims that Shelton reached in the back seat of the car he was driving — then touched her crotch while he smiled — was either impossible or nearly impossible. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-21-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101868\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-21-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-21-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-21-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Solano County Law and Justice Center in Fairfield on Sept. 28, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two of the girls who accused Shelton of sexually abusing them at Phillips Edison Elementary School in Napa testified again at this trial. Bevins described the students as obstructive during their testimonies. One answered several of the defense attorney’s questions by saying she could not remember. Bevins said the other student appeared “angry” and “out for vengeance.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former Napa student alleged during the trial that Shelton touched her crotch and made her touch his penis when she was in the third grade. Shapiro asked her to describe his demeanor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said Shelton would smile. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Like he’s doing now,” she said from the witness stand. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with KQED after the verdict, the former student said she could feel him looking at her “deep within her soul” and his expression brought her back to being a third-grader in his classroom all over again.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is still dealing with the trauma, she said, and struggles to trust male teachers around her own daughter. Sending her daughter to third-grade was the hardest, she said. But she said the guilty verdict closes a painful chapter for her. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She now works for an organization that advocates for victims of domestic violence and assault. “Being the voice for others is the whole purpose I’m put on this earth for.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the criminal trial is over, Benicia Unified still faces three lawsuits alleging the district failed to protect its students when administrators hired Shelton in 2008. During the trial, the prosecutor presented evidence that appeared to show the state had notified the school district that it privately admonished Shelton. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“They really dropped the ball,” said the mother of one of the girls suing Benicia Unified, who also testified at the trial. KQED is not naming her to protect her daughter’s identity. “They allowed someone like this inside of our school system. Somebody who was supposed to be a trusted figure.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a written statement, the Benicia Unified superintendent, Chris Calabrese, said the district’s focus is on the well-being and safety of its students.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We are committed to maintaining strong hiring and screening practices, clear reporting procedures, staff training, and a school culture where students feel safe and heard,” Calabrese said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the mom said the issue extends beyond the district. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Shelton agreed to resign from Benicia Unified in 2023 following complaints he touched students inappropriately, he was hired as an assistant principal at Helms Middle School in West Contra Costa Unified. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the job application, Shelton listed as his supervisor a former teaching colleague and identified her as a principal, which she was not. Shelton acknowledged to the jury he lied and that he expected the teacher to provide a favorable reference. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Why didn’t they protect the children there?” the mother said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson for West Contra Costa Unified said the district conducts reference checks when hiring and information during that process is “carefully vetted.” The district spokesperson said officials there placed Shelton on administrative leave in August 2023 after receiving an anonymous complaint.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2025, California public school administrators have been required to ask every single previous employing school whether teaching candidates were reported to the state for credible or substantiated reports of egregious misconduct. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097322/california-teacher-misconduct-bill-administrator-discipline-al-muratsuchi\">new law\u003c/a>, which goes into effect next year and was prompted by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/california-fired-teacher-sexual-harassment\">KQED-ProPublica investigation\u003c/a>, clarifies administrators who fail to do so may be subject to discipline by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But some school administrators say contacting every former employing school and getting their responses leaves room for error, since prospective teachers can omit information, or lie. Two California bills proposed this year would have created a searchable database to allow hiring schools to determine whether prospective teachers had been reported to the state after they were fired or resigned over claims of misconduct. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12093249/california-teacher-misconduct-database-bill-failed-al-muratsuchi\">both killed\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shelton is scheduled for sentencing in December. He faces life in prison.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>Editor’s Note: This story includes details of alleged sexual misconduct against minors.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A jury on Thursday found a former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/benicia\">Benicia\u003c/a> teacher guilty of sexually abusing four students at Robert Semple Elementary School, bringing to a close a criminal case that rocked the waterfront community and highlighted statewide gaps in educator vetting. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matthew Shelton, 44, faced 12 felony counts of lewd acts with a child. He was convicted of 11 of those counts. The jury declared a mistrial for the remaining count. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was not the first time Shelton had been on trial for sexually abusing elementary students. Nearly two decades ago, Shelton stood trial over similar allegations that he sexually abused students at Phillips Edison Elementary School, a charter school in Napa. The jury acquitted him in 2008 after deliberating for just 20 minutes. The Benicia Unified School District hired him months later. Shelton then taught at the West Contra Costa Unified School District before returning to Benicia in 2015. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the victims of the alleged abuse in Napa, who testified in Shelton’s trial this month, said the verdict felt like a long time coming. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Justice was served. We’re finally here. Almost 20 years later,” she told KQED. This news organization does not name victims of alleged abuse without their consent.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The woman, now in her 20s, said she testified on behalf of the girls in Benicia — and to make sure Shelton did not escape justice a second time.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“It brought me back to being that third-grader and not being believed,” she said, adding that testifying as an adult felt different. “I felt like I had a voice this time.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The woman was among seven former students from two school districts, ranging in ages from teens to adults in their late 20s, who took the stand over three weeks to testify against Shelton. They alleged that between 2007 and late 2022, he touched their butts, their crotch area, or that he made them touch his penis. Most of the abuse occurred in his classroom, including while other students were present. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101867\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Matthew Shelton holds hands with his wife Brandy Shelton as he walks into the Solano County Law and Justice Center for his court hearing in Fairfield on Sept. 28, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Shelton was acquitted in 2008, the Commission on Teacher Credentialing — the state agency charged with determining who is fit to teach in California public schools — considered whether to discipline him, ultimately issuing a private admonishment. Such punishments, which are rare, are hidden from the public and must be expunged by the state and employers within three years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While making the case to the state for why he should be allowed to continue teaching, Shelton said he was willing to “put this event behind him” for future students who could benefit from his educational experience. He told the state panel of volunteers who reviewed his case that he changed his teaching practices, putting neon orange tape on the floor by his desk to create a physical barrier students were not allowed to cross, according to audio from the review played for the jury. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The state allowed him to keep his license, and Shelton worked hard to ingratiate himself with Benicia parents and school administrators so future victims would not be believed, Shapiro said. Shapiro said when girls first reported inappropriate touching by Shelton to the Robert Semple Elementary principal, Christina Moore, in December 2022, they did not think their principal believed them.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the trial, prosecutors played footage showing she told an officer the girls in Shelton’s class were 10 years old and hormonal, and that there was “a lot of emotion” in the classroom. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moore was put on leave the day after the verdict. Reached by phone, she declined to comment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“[Shelton] thought that if he were valued by the school district, even if those students and victims did come forward, they likely would not make their way to the police department and certainly would not have the strength to make it into court,” Shapiro said. “The defendant was wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shelton’s defense attorney, Amanda Bevins, declined to comment on the verdict on Thursday. She had argued in her closing statement on Tuesday that multiple girls making allegations did not mean the claims were true.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“Repetition is not corroboration,” Bevins said. “The argument assumes the accounts developed independently. The evidence shows the opposite.”\u003cbr>\u003cbr>She told the jury that the Benicia victims’ allegations became more detailed and egregious over time, beginning with claims of hugs and pinches on the arm that eventually morphed into accusations of sexual abuse. The girls’ memories, she said, had become “contaminated” by outside influences, from classmates and parents to attorneys posting ads online seeking victims of Shelton to represent in civil lawsuits. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shelton acknowledged that he hugged students at Robert Semple Elementary School, and Bevins noted the school had no policy against touching students. She said no other students in Shelton’s classroom independently corroborated the girls’ claims that he touched their butts.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“If the prosecution’s theory is true, and Shelton was touching girls’ bottoms every day, multiple times a day, in front of the classroom, where is the corroboration? Where is the immediate outcry?” Bevins said. “It’s not there.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said another one of the girls’ claims that Shelton reached in the back seat of the car he was driving — then touched her crotch while he smiled — was either impossible or nearly impossible. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-21-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101868\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-21-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-21-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260928_BeniciaTeacherTrial_GC-21-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Solano County Law and Justice Center in Fairfield on Sept. 28, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two of the girls who accused Shelton of sexually abusing them at Phillips Edison Elementary School in Napa testified again at this trial. Bevins described the students as obstructive during their testimonies. One answered several of the defense attorney’s questions by saying she could not remember. Bevins said the other student appeared “angry” and “out for vengeance.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former Napa student alleged during the trial that Shelton touched her crotch and made her touch his penis when she was in the third grade. Shapiro asked her to describe his demeanor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said Shelton would smile. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Like he’s doing now,” she said from the witness stand. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with KQED after the verdict, the former student said she could feel him looking at her “deep within her soul” and his expression brought her back to being a third-grader in his classroom all over again.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is still dealing with the trauma, she said, and struggles to trust male teachers around her own daughter. Sending her daughter to third-grade was the hardest, she said. But she said the guilty verdict closes a painful chapter for her. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She now works for an organization that advocates for victims of domestic violence and assault. “Being the voice for others is the whole purpose I’m put on this earth for.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the criminal trial is over, Benicia Unified still faces three lawsuits alleging the district failed to protect its students when administrators hired Shelton in 2008. During the trial, the prosecutor presented evidence that appeared to show the state had notified the school district that it privately admonished Shelton. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“They really dropped the ball,” said the mother of one of the girls suing Benicia Unified, who also testified at the trial. KQED is not naming her to protect her daughter’s identity. “They allowed someone like this inside of our school system. Somebody who was supposed to be a trusted figure.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a written statement, the Benicia Unified superintendent, Chris Calabrese, said the district’s focus is on the well-being and safety of its students.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We are committed to maintaining strong hiring and screening practices, clear reporting procedures, staff training, and a school culture where students feel safe and heard,” Calabrese said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the mom said the issue extends beyond the district. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Shelton agreed to resign from Benicia Unified in 2023 following complaints he touched students inappropriately, he was hired as an assistant principal at Helms Middle School in West Contra Costa Unified. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the job application, Shelton listed as his supervisor a former teaching colleague and identified her as a principal, which she was not. Shelton acknowledged to the jury he lied and that he expected the teacher to provide a favorable reference. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Why didn’t they protect the children there?” the mother said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson for West Contra Costa Unified said the district conducts reference checks when hiring and information during that process is “carefully vetted.” The district spokesperson said officials there placed Shelton on administrative leave in August 2023 after receiving an anonymous complaint.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2025, California public school administrators have been required to ask every single previous employing school whether teaching candidates were reported to the state for credible or substantiated reports of egregious misconduct. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097322/california-teacher-misconduct-bill-administrator-discipline-al-muratsuchi\">new law\u003c/a>, which goes into effect next year and was prompted by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/california-fired-teacher-sexual-harassment\">KQED-ProPublica investigation\u003c/a>, clarifies administrators who fail to do so may be subject to discipline by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But some school administrators say contacting every former employing school and getting their responses leaves room for error, since prospective teachers can omit information, or lie. Two California bills proposed this year would have created a searchable database to allow hiring schools to determine whether prospective teachers had been reported to the state after they were fired or resigned over claims of misconduct. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12093249/california-teacher-misconduct-database-bill-failed-al-muratsuchi\">both killed\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shelton is scheduled for sentencing in December. He faces life in prison.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you certain that your beloved dachshund would outshine all the other dogs in their adorable Halloween hotdog costume? That the public \u003cem>must\u003c/em> see your pug in \u003ca href=\"https://store.usps.com/store/product/us-mail-carrier-dog-costume-P_843201\">a USPS mailman getup\u003c/a>, delivering a little package?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Know that your instincts here are completely right and that yes, you should indeed enter your child in a Halloween costume contest or parade focused solely on pets — of which there are several throughout the Bay Area this weekend and next. (This reporter does not envy the job of the judges — because truly, we are all winners here.) \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://www.instagram.com/reel/DezYDqRDjkL/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more on what events are available — many of which are free — and be sure to check details before heading out, in case of any cancellations or delays because of weather. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Halloween pet portrait session, San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Saturday, Oct. 24, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In preparation for spooky season celebrations, your pet can have their portraits taken for free at pet daycare and supply shop Expert Pet in the city’s Ingleside District. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Be sure to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-halloween-pet-photo-studio-tickets-2003033161105\">reserve a spot on Eventbrite\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1514\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/Cool-Dudes-0cd4e344.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106210\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/Cool-Dudes-0cd4e344.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/Cool-Dudes-0cd4e344-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/Cool-Dudes-0cd4e344-1536x1163.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dogs dressed up for the season at 2025’s “Bark at SPARK: Howl-O-Ween.”\u003cbr> (Courtesy of Bark at SPARK: Howl-O-Ween)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘Bark at SPARK: Howl-O-Ween,’ San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sunday, Oct. 25, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This canine-centric Halloween celebration in Mission Bay’s SPARK Social SF food truck spot is free to attend, although an \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bark-at-spark-howl-o-ween-tickets-1998393395441\">RSVP on Eventbrite is required\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event includes vendors, a pup cup eating race, a costume contest and a parade.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Halloween party and costume contest, San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wednesday, Oct. 28, from 6 p.m.\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also hosted by Ingleside’s Expert Pet, this \u003ca href=\"https://www.expertpet.com/halloween-party-costume-contest\">party and dog contest\u003c/a> offers a first prize of a goodie bag worth $100. There’ll also be treats and pet portrait sessions. The event is free, but be sure to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/halloween-party-costume-contest-tickets-2003333405143\">RSVP on Eventbrite\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the \u003cem>in-person\u003c/em> contest is for dogs, there is a cat version online, in which the winner gets a $50 goodie bag. But you’ll need to have your feline’s picture taken at \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-halloween-pet-photo-studio-tickets-2003033161105\">the shop’s free pet portrait sessions\u003c/a> on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/DeccXaTEqOr/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Halloween pet contest and parade in Aptos\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thursday, Oct. 29, 4:30-6:30 p.m. \u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Santa Cruz Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is \u003ca href=\"https://spcasc.org/event/seacliff-inn-halloween-pet-costume-parade/\">hosting these fearsome festivities\u003c/a> at Aptos’ Seacliff Inn for free. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here, you can also meet dogs that are up for adoption, adding more members to your family (to dress up for \u003cem>next\u003c/em> Halloween).\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/Dd907PVSZOq/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sausalito’s Halloween parade and dog costume contest \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Saturday, Oct. 31, from 5:45 p.m.\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Halloween night, the city of Sausalito is throwing a parade from around 5:45 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, at 6:30 p.m., you’ll be treated to \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincitycalendar.org/index.php/event/sausalitos-halloween-parade-and-festival\">the dog costume contest\u003c/a>, with categories like “Best Little Dog,” “Best Big Dog” and “Best Couple (human and dog).”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/DQuXShpj4HR/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘Halloween in the Park’ dog costume contest, San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Saturday, Oct. 31, from 5 p.m.\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Halloween Saturday, the Nob Hill Association is hosting a dog costume contest in Huntington Park. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to social media, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/nobhillassociation/p/DecYWIkmOlu/\">no sign-up is required\u003c/a> — so you can spontaneously show up.\u003c/p>\n",
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