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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#A\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seagulls are everywhere we go in the Bay Area; swooping into Giants games, crowding runways at San Jose airport and eyeing tourists’ ice cream cones at the Ferry Building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To many, they’re a nuisance — not worth a second thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to ecologists, the California gulls represent the textbook problem of managing wildlife in a world increasingly altered by humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The California gulls are one of the most interesting stories going on right now,” said Nathan Van Schmidt, a science director at the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nThat’s because in the past 45 years, California gull numbers have exploded, leaving local ecologists scratching their heads about how to mitigate their impact on other bird species.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Finding fertile new breeding grounds\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To the casual eye, most gulls look alike, but there are actually many types flying around the Bay Area; Bonaparte’s gulls, ring-billed gulls, herring gulls, western gulls and California gulls, to name a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most common — and abundant — are the western and California gulls. They’re hard to tell apart, but western gulls are slightly bigger with pink legs instead of yellow. California gulls have always been seasonal foragers on our shores during the winter, but they’ve recently become year-round residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-37-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040234\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-37-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-37-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-37-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-37-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-37-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-37-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-37-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nesting California gull protects its nest during a nest survey conducted by the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory near the Dumbarton Bridge in Fremont on May 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Historically, California gulls bred on inland saline lakes of the Mountain West during the warmer months. The gulls are considered an iconic species at California’s Mono Lake on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada mountains. There, they found the protection of a landmass within Mono Lake called Negit Island, where they raised their young in ground nests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/civil-engineering-magazine/article/2023/08/debate-centers-on-diversions-from-californias-mono-lake-basin\">since 1941, the city of Los Angeles has diverted water from the area\u003c/a>, causing lake levels to drop. In 1979, a land bridge appeared from the shore of Mono Lake out to Negit Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coyotes made it out to Negit Island and chased the gulls,” said Bartshe Miller, policy director with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.monolake.org/\">Mono Lake Committee\u003c/a>, which is trying to protect the gigantic saline lake ecosystem. “They predated on their eggs and chicks, and the gulls abandoned the nest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next year, scientists discovered the breeding colony in the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of gulls probably just decided, well, it’s not safe to nest at Mono Lake. And maybe they figured out there were opportunities in the South Bay,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Gulls are voracious predators\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>More than 40,000 California gulls now raise their young in the South Bay every year — up from a few dozen when they were discovered in 1980. At their peak in \u003ca href=\"https://www.southbayrestoration.org/sites/default/files/documents/2019_sfbbo_colonial_waterbird_report.pdf\">2013, there were more than 50\u003c/a> thousand gulls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory counts them every year, keeping track of their number and impact on the local ecosystem.[aside postID=news_12050357 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250721-AFGHANSINFREMONT-11-BL-KQED.jpg']Counting them is not easy. Scientists and volunteers must wear waterproof jackets and hard hats to protect themselves from dive bombs and projectile-poop. They walk through swarms of birds, careful not to slip on the muddy levees, counting the eggs in each ground nest. The eggs are seafoam green with little brown speckles, each a little larger than a chicken egg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that California gulls have made the Bay Area their year-round home, wildlife managers are concerned about how they’re impacting other native bird species. They feast on the eggs and chicks of birds like the threatened snowy plover, least terns, American avocets and black-necked stilts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are pretty voracious,” said Van Schmidt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just a few decades, the California gulls have become one of the threatened plover’s biggest predators, destroying as much as a third of their young in some years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A gull management plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About a decade ago, when the number of gulls was at their highest, wildlife managers decided their threat to local native birds was too great.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were getting really concerned that this population was just spiraling out of control and wanting to get them away from these really sensitive species,” said Van Schmidt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040226\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-05-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040226\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan Van Schmidt, science director with the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, prepares to lead a team on a California gull nest survey near the Dumbarton Bridge in Fremont on May 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They destroyed the gulls’ nests and eggs on the levees and initiated a long-term strategy to keep their population in check — depriving them of food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newby Island landfill stretches over hundreds of acres right next to the South Bay salt ponds. Gulls feasted on the trash piles, a major reason their population ballooned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the dump hired a falconer to chase the birds away for 10 hours a day.[aside postID=news_12046670 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/MonoLakeGullsGetty1.jpg']Max Ottersbach, of \u003ca href=\"https://wingmasterfalconry.com/\">Wingmaster Falconry\u003c/a>, has a number of tactics to keep the birds from feeding. He flies three different falcons, employs two bird-chasing dogs and drives around on an ATV with a 16-foot flag waving above him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the birds see the ATV and they see the flag and they see the dogs, they know that the danger is in the area,” said Ottersbach. “It’s all a big show to make my presence known.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early on, wildlife managers tried air cannons and even pyrotechnics to scare the gulls. But Ottersbach said only the threat from living creatures keeps the birds uncomfortable. While they no longer nest or rest at the dump, Ottersbach said, relocating them permanently is a long-term project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s gonna take multiple generations of seagulls learning that this just isn’t a place that they can come for a food source anymore,” said Ottersbach.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What does the future hold for the gulls?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Van Schmidt credits the falconer’s work at the landfill for the modest decrease in the California gull population over the last decade. But scientists don’t know whether the gulls are going somewhere else or just making fewer babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Bay Area agencies try to keep California gull numbers down, Mono Lake advocates are tirelessly working to get their numbers up by trying to limit water diversions to Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-31-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040231\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-31-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-31-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-31-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-31-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-31-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-31-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-31-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nests of California gull eggs are tucked in the grass during a survey conducted by the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory near the Dumbarton Bridge in Fremont on May 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maintaining a large breeding colony at Mono Lake is not only good for the birds, said Bartshe Miller of the Mono Lake Committee, but it’s also a harbinger of a healthy and diverse local ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046670/mono-lake-could-be-losing-its-california-gulls\">But in 2024, only a few hundred chicks were born at the lake\u003c/a>, the worst California gull breeding season on record. Miller said the birds belong there, where they don’t do harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The gulls aren’t preying on other birds here,” Miller said. “There aren’t other birds nesting at Mono Lake that gulls prey on. So this is the place for them to be.”[aside postID=news_12048156 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Hearst_Castle_Neptune_Pool_sized.jpg']California gulls present wildlife managers with an interesting quandary; they’re not thriving in their historic native breeding ground, but are flourishing in a human-engineered habitat and harming other species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ecologists are still debating the best way to manage “native invasive” species like California gulls going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the challenge of trying to conserve multiple species on a shrinking set of habitats, where human transformation of California has been so dramatic,” Van Schmidt said. “We have to figure out how to manage that and how to balance these competing needs of all these different species.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, there have been some biodiversity wins with native birds in the Bay Area. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbbo.org/wingbeat/an-update-on-snowy-plovers\">threatened snowy plovers are slowly making a comeback\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Seagulls are everywhere we go in the Bay Area, swooping into Giants games at Oracle Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clip from Giant’s game:\u003c/strong> Hey, the seagulls are here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Making it difficult for planes to take off at the San Jose Airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>News clip: \u003c/strong>1118, just hit a bird, emergency returning to San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> And generally being a nuisance, ask almost anyone who has eaten anything outside, and they’ll have a seagull story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alicia Aschauer: \u003c/strong>One summer day, we were having a picnic, and my dad was grilling, and one seagull just swooped down and took an entire hamburger patty that was cooking on the grill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annie Fruit:\u003c/strong> Classic SF State lunchtime scenario, get an awesome student union burrito. Go outside to eat it. Sit down. Seagull swoops in and takes a huge bite. Absolutely disgusting, burrito ruined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>William Wallis: \u003c/strong>One afternoon I was sitting in behind the Ferry Building enjoying my lunch. A couple of visitors to our city were walking around enjoying ice cream cones. Out of nowhere, a seagull swooped down and took one of the scoops of ice cream atop one of their cones and flew off with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> And of course, there’s the poop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Charlotte Cheng: \u003c/strong>I was a first-grade teacher at Audubon Elementary in Foster City. It was right along the bay, so there were tons of seagulls. And for my little kids, they lined up after recess right alongside those handball courts. And when I went to pick up the kids, one of them was just standing in shock, covered in seagull poop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Seagulls have been making their presence known in the Bay Area over the last couple decades. And no, it’s not your imagination; there are more of them. That got one Bay Curious listener wondering, are seagulls native to the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people think they’re dirty and pests, others find them majestic. Today’s episode is all about the California gull. We’ll take you on an expedition to count gulls, explore how these birds can be both native and invasive at the same time, and learn what ecologists are doing to keep their numbers in check. I’m Katrina Schwartz, and this is Bay Curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor message\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>There are many different species of gulls flying around the Bay Area. The most common are the Western and California gulls. While both have always foraged on our shores, the California gulls used to only be seasonal visitors, but recently, they’ve become year-round residents. KQED’s Pauline Bartolone tells us why that’s a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>So, to answer our question-asker, are California gulls native? The answer is yes, native to the state. But when you zoom into the Bay Area, that’s when the answer gets more complex. The gulls have always come to eat on our shores during the winter, but several decades ago, they started breeding here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt:\u003c/strong> Right now, we are at the salt ponds in Newark, California, next to Coyote Hills Regional Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>That’s Nathan van Schmidt of the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory. His organization has been counting bird nests here in the shallow southernmost tip of the bay for more than 40 years. Before then, these birds never bred on the levees and islands here. Then one day in 1980, they just showed up and laid eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt: \u003c/strong>A breeding colony was discovered of just a few dozen of these California gulls out on historic salt pond habitats, and that looked just like their native habitat for breeding. So probably because of that, the birds started breeding there, and over the next few decades, just exploded in size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> At their peak in 2013, there were more than 50,000 gulls. Nathan’s group tracks their numbers to see if they’re harming other creatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this wet spring morning, the gulls are in dense colonies along the pond’s edges. The birds don’t care that humans created these ponds in the bay to make commercial table salt. The gulls just like the saline water where they can feast on brine shrimp and flies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt:\u003c/strong> These ponds in particular are some of our stinkiest ponds. There’s one or two spots out on this pond where there’s some bubbles that you can see methane coming up, all that good wetland stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Nathan, at least six feet tall, stands in knee-high rubber boots with clipboard in hand, he explains to a small circle of volunteers how to help count the gulls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt:\u003c/strong> Here we are going to be tallying the number of nests. So empty nest, one egg, two eggs, three eggs, four eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>The count is not an easy task, especially today. It rained this morning, and volunteers struggled to find steady footing in the mud near the nest sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Volunteer: \u003c/strong>Oh god, I’m really slipped in the mud here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt: \u003c/strong>Who has clickers? Somebody’s gonna need to have two clickers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Long-sleeved waterproof jackets and hard hats are a must out here. The gulls attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt: \u003c/strong>We need hard hats, because the gulls are quite defensive of their colonies, they will be dive bombing us. They will be bombing us with poop. I am pretty sure that is intentional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> As Nathan walks toward the nests and the levee flanked by his volunteers, the pace of the count picks up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Volunteers:\u003c/strong> One egg, one egg, one egg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Little nests are scattered all over the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt:\u003c/strong> We’ll do 1e, 1d, e for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>The eggs are sea foam green with brown speckles. They’re a little bit bigger than a chicken egg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt: \u003c/strong>They’re sizable. They were historically eaten in large numbers by both native people of California and folks during the Gold Rush times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>It’’s a chaotic scene, walking into a swarm of birds. You have to watch where you step. There are a lot of bird poop splats, white splats everywhere. And beware of those swooping down from above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt:\u003c/strong> That’s the attack call, if you hear it, one of them right now is going for me repeatedly, and it’s a little more ‘ehhh.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> The gulls also attack each other, protecting their chicks from hungry fellow breeders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt:\u003c/strong> They’re pretty aggressive with each other. We will see them out there chasing each other around, defending their nests from each other. The other birds in the colony are the biggest threat to their nests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Scientists are keeping tabs on the gull population because while they breed in the bay, they prey on their neighbors, other native birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt:\u003c/strong> They are pretty voracious nest predators. There are threatened species like snowy plovers that are breeding in San Francisco Bay, and there are also least terns, American avocets, black-necked stilts. They all like the islands because they’re safe from mammalian predators. But then the avian predators, like the California gulls, can be an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>The gulls have quickly become one of the threatened plovers, biggest predators, destroying as much as a third of their young in some years. The California gulls have only been breeding in San Francisco Bay for 45 years. So, where did they raise their young before?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bartshe Miller:\u003c/strong> California gulls are definitely an iconic part of the Mono Basin. I think they’ve been nesting here for centuries and centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Bartshe Miller lives on the eastern side of the Sierra near the border of Nevada. He’s a scientist with the Mono Lake committee, an organization trying to protect the gigantic saline lake. While scientists in the Bay Area want to keep California numbers down, Bartshe’s group is working full-time to bring their numbers back up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bartshe Miller: \u003c/strong>They’re beautiful birds to look at. They soar all over Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra. And every time they show up each year, it marks the passage of time and the seasons, and it tells us that they’re showing up, getting ready to breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Gulls are migratory, so historically, these birds foraged for food on the coast during the winter and then returned to breed and raise their young on inland saline lakes in the spring and summer. At Mono Lake, gulls found a safe place to make their nests on Negit Island, nesting on the ground there. But for decades, the lake level has been dropping, and one year, a land bridge appeared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bartshe Miller: \u003c/strong>A lot of the surrounding lake bottom was exposed. And by 1979, coyotes made it out to Negit Island and chased the gulls. I mean, they predated on their eggs and chicks, and the gulls abandoned the nests on Negit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Water levels at Mono Lake have been dropping for a long time, since at least 1941, when streams flowing to the lake were diverted to serve the city of Los Angeles. With the lake level still nine feet below what they should be, the habitat isn’t the reliable and safe breeding ground the gulls once knew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bartshe Miller:\u003c/strong> But I think there was this point in time where a lot of gulls probably just decided, well, it’s not safe to nest at Mono Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>In 2024, only a few 100 chicks were born at Mono Lake, the worst California gull breeding season on record. But Mono Lake advocates say limiting water diversions to Los Angeles is critical to maintain an important breeding ground for the gulls and to preserve the area’s biodiversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bartshe Miller:\u003c/strong> There is a strong ecological link to the health of the gulls and the health of the lake’s ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Bartshe says these gulls belong at Mono Lake. They don’t do harm there like they do in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bartshe Miller:\u003c/strong> There’s been this evolutionary circumstances that’s going around here where the gulls aren’t preying on other birds here. There aren’t other birds nesting at Mono Lake that gulls prey on, so this is the place for them to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>When it was no longer safe to breed at the traditional spot on Negit Island and Mono Lake, the gulls moved on to San Francisco Bay. When their number peaked a little over a decade ago, wildlife managers decided their threat to local native birds was too great. They started destroying the gulls’ nests and eggs on the levees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt: \u003c/strong>We’re getting really concerned this population were just spiraling out of control and wanting to get them away from these really sensitive species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>But that was a short-term fix. They needed another strategy to tamp down on the gulls, deprive them of food. There’s a huge landfill right next to the salt ponds in the South Bay, a major reason their population exploded. The Newby Island landfill stretches over hundreds of acres. Basically, it’s a giant smorgasbord for seagulls. So about a decade ago, the dump hired one man whose full-time job is chasing the birds off trash piles. Max Ottersbach is a falconer, and that’s him talking to one of his birds of prey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Max Ottersbach:\u003c/strong> I have three falcons, and each one flies one, two hours, and I try to spread that out throughout the day, for 10 hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>He and his menagerie of raptors and dogs scare away the seagulls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Max Ottersbach: \u003c/strong>The falcon goes up, tries to get above them as best he can, or flies towards the flock to disperse the seagulls that are in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Landfill managers wouldn’t allow us to visit the dump, but we asked Max to record himself with all of his anti-gull props. The falcons are just one of his strategies. He drives around the dump on an ATV with a flag flying 16 feet in the air. Then his dogs chase after the birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Max Ottersbach:\u003c/strong> When the birds see the ATV, and they see the flag, and they see the dogs, they know that the danger is in the area. It’s all a big show to make, to make my presence known to the seagulls that we’re here and ready to rock and roll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Max says it can feel overwhelming out there fighting a constant tide of hundreds of birds that descend on trash heaps over and over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Max Ottersbach: \u003c/strong>Seagulls are, are a force of nature. But the good thing is about seagulls is they don’t really act individually; they act in a flock. So if you can get one bird to go, then the chances of the other one going is going to be greater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Early on, wildlife managers tried air cannons and even pyrotechnics to scare the gulls. But Max says the primal fear of living creatures is what works best. So after a decade of being chased by his dogs and falcons, the gulls aren’t nesting or resting at the dump anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Max Ottersbach: \u003c/strong>It’s all about the long game with this project, I feel, you know, these birds are here. They’ve migrated into the bay. And so you know it’s not going to happen overnight. It’s going to take multiple generations of seagulls learning that this just isn’t a place that they can come for a food source anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Nathan from the Bird Observatory says the falconer’s job may be an odd one, but it’s working. The number of breeding gulls in the South Bay is still in the 10s of 1000s, but there are fewer than the peak of over 50,000. Are the gulls going somewhere else or just making fewer babies? Scientists don’t really know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nathan says, California goals are in a weird spot. They’re not thriving at Mono Lake, their native breeding grounds, and they’re harmful to other species here in the Bay Area. There are no clear answers, he says, about the best way to manage these gulls in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt: \u003c/strong>It’s the challenge of trying to conserve multiple species on a shrinking set of habitats where human transformation of California has been so dramatic. They’ve all concentrated in this weird anthropogenic habitat in South Bay, and now we have to figure out how to manage that and how to balance these competing needs of all these different species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>In the short term, there have been biodiversity wins in the Bay Area. The threatened snowy plovers, which decades ago suddenly fell prey to new gull neighbors, are slowly making a comeback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>That was KQED reporter Pauline Bartolone. Thanks to Alicia Aschauer, Annie Fruit, William Wallis and Charlotte Cheng for sharing the seagull stories you heard at the top of the episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been enjoying Bay Curious, please consider leaving us a review in your favorite podcast app or tell a friend about the show. Both are great ways for new people to find out about us, and thank you so much for doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is produced in San Francisco at member-supported KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our show is made by Gabriela Glueck, Christopher Beale and me, Katrina Schwartz. With extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien and everyone on team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>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/p>\n\u003cp>Have a great week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Counting them is not easy. Scientists and volunteers must wear waterproof jackets and hard hats to protect themselves from dive bombs and projectile-poop. They walk through swarms of birds, careful not to slip on the muddy levees, counting the eggs in each ground nest. The eggs are seafoam green with little brown speckles, each a little larger than a chicken egg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that California gulls have made the Bay Area their year-round home, wildlife managers are concerned about how they’re impacting other native bird species. They feast on the eggs and chicks of birds like the threatened snowy plover, least terns, American avocets and black-necked stilts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are pretty voracious,” said Van Schmidt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just a few decades, the California gulls have become one of the threatened plover’s biggest predators, destroying as much as a third of their young in some years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A gull management plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About a decade ago, when the number of gulls was at their highest, wildlife managers decided their threat to local native birds was too great.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were getting really concerned that this population was just spiraling out of control and wanting to get them away from these really sensitive species,” said Van Schmidt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040226\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-05-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040226\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan Van Schmidt, science director with the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, prepares to lead a team on a California gull nest survey near the Dumbarton Bridge in Fremont on May 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They destroyed the gulls’ nests and eggs on the levees and initiated a long-term strategy to keep their population in check — depriving them of food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newby Island landfill stretches over hundreds of acres right next to the South Bay salt ponds. Gulls feasted on the trash piles, a major reason their population ballooned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the dump hired a falconer to chase the birds away for 10 hours a day.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Max Ottersbach, of \u003ca href=\"https://wingmasterfalconry.com/\">Wingmaster Falconry\u003c/a>, has a number of tactics to keep the birds from feeding. He flies three different falcons, employs two bird-chasing dogs and drives around on an ATV with a 16-foot flag waving above him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the birds see the ATV and they see the flag and they see the dogs, they know that the danger is in the area,” said Ottersbach. “It’s all a big show to make my presence known.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early on, wildlife managers tried air cannons and even pyrotechnics to scare the gulls. But Ottersbach said only the threat from living creatures keeps the birds uncomfortable. While they no longer nest or rest at the dump, Ottersbach said, relocating them permanently is a long-term project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s gonna take multiple generations of seagulls learning that this just isn’t a place that they can come for a food source anymore,” said Ottersbach.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What does the future hold for the gulls?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Van Schmidt credits the falconer’s work at the landfill for the modest decrease in the California gull population over the last decade. But scientists don’t know whether the gulls are going somewhere else or just making fewer babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Bay Area agencies try to keep California gull numbers down, Mono Lake advocates are tirelessly working to get their numbers up by trying to limit water diversions to Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-31-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040231\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-31-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-31-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-31-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-31-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-31-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-31-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250512-SEAGULLCOUNTY-31-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nests of California gull eggs are tucked in the grass during a survey conducted by the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory near the Dumbarton Bridge in Fremont on May 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maintaining a large breeding colony at Mono Lake is not only good for the birds, said Bartshe Miller of the Mono Lake Committee, but it’s also a harbinger of a healthy and diverse local ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046670/mono-lake-could-be-losing-its-california-gulls\">But in 2024, only a few hundred chicks were born at the lake\u003c/a>, the worst California gull breeding season on record. Miller said the birds belong there, where they don’t do harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The gulls aren’t preying on other birds here,” Miller said. “There aren’t other birds nesting at Mono Lake that gulls prey on. So this is the place for them to be.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Seagulls are everywhere we go in the Bay Area, swooping into Giants games at Oracle Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clip from Giant’s game:\u003c/strong> Hey, the seagulls are here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Making it difficult for planes to take off at the San Jose Airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>News clip: \u003c/strong>1118, just hit a bird, emergency returning to San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> And generally being a nuisance, ask almost anyone who has eaten anything outside, and they’ll have a seagull story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alicia Aschauer: \u003c/strong>One summer day, we were having a picnic, and my dad was grilling, and one seagull just swooped down and took an entire hamburger patty that was cooking on the grill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Annie Fruit:\u003c/strong> Classic SF State lunchtime scenario, get an awesome student union burrito. Go outside to eat it. Sit down. Seagull swoops in and takes a huge bite. Absolutely disgusting, burrito ruined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>William Wallis: \u003c/strong>One afternoon I was sitting in behind the Ferry Building enjoying my lunch. A couple of visitors to our city were walking around enjoying ice cream cones. Out of nowhere, a seagull swooped down and took one of the scoops of ice cream atop one of their cones and flew off with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> And of course, there’s the poop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Charlotte Cheng: \u003c/strong>I was a first-grade teacher at Audubon Elementary in Foster City. It was right along the bay, so there were tons of seagulls. And for my little kids, they lined up after recess right alongside those handball courts. And when I went to pick up the kids, one of them was just standing in shock, covered in seagull poop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Seagulls have been making their presence known in the Bay Area over the last couple decades. And no, it’s not your imagination; there are more of them. That got one Bay Curious listener wondering, are seagulls native to the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people think they’re dirty and pests, others find them majestic. Today’s episode is all about the California gull. We’ll take you on an expedition to count gulls, explore how these birds can be both native and invasive at the same time, and learn what ecologists are doing to keep their numbers in check. I’m Katrina Schwartz, and this is Bay Curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor message\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>There are many different species of gulls flying around the Bay Area. The most common are the Western and California gulls. While both have always foraged on our shores, the California gulls used to only be seasonal visitors, but recently, they’ve become year-round residents. KQED’s Pauline Bartolone tells us why that’s a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>So, to answer our question-asker, are California gulls native? The answer is yes, native to the state. But when you zoom into the Bay Area, that’s when the answer gets more complex. The gulls have always come to eat on our shores during the winter, but several decades ago, they started breeding here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt:\u003c/strong> Right now, we are at the salt ponds in Newark, California, next to Coyote Hills Regional Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>That’s Nathan van Schmidt of the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory. His organization has been counting bird nests here in the shallow southernmost tip of the bay for more than 40 years. Before then, these birds never bred on the levees and islands here. Then one day in 1980, they just showed up and laid eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt: \u003c/strong>A breeding colony was discovered of just a few dozen of these California gulls out on historic salt pond habitats, and that looked just like their native habitat for breeding. So probably because of that, the birds started breeding there, and over the next few decades, just exploded in size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> At their peak in 2013, there were more than 50,000 gulls. Nathan’s group tracks their numbers to see if they’re harming other creatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this wet spring morning, the gulls are in dense colonies along the pond’s edges. The birds don’t care that humans created these ponds in the bay to make commercial table salt. The gulls just like the saline water where they can feast on brine shrimp and flies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt:\u003c/strong> These ponds in particular are some of our stinkiest ponds. There’s one or two spots out on this pond where there’s some bubbles that you can see methane coming up, all that good wetland stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Nathan, at least six feet tall, stands in knee-high rubber boots with clipboard in hand, he explains to a small circle of volunteers how to help count the gulls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt:\u003c/strong> Here we are going to be tallying the number of nests. So empty nest, one egg, two eggs, three eggs, four eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>The count is not an easy task, especially today. It rained this morning, and volunteers struggled to find steady footing in the mud near the nest sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Volunteer: \u003c/strong>Oh god, I’m really slipped in the mud here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt: \u003c/strong>Who has clickers? Somebody’s gonna need to have two clickers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Long-sleeved waterproof jackets and hard hats are a must out here. The gulls attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt: \u003c/strong>We need hard hats, because the gulls are quite defensive of their colonies, they will be dive bombing us. They will be bombing us with poop. I am pretty sure that is intentional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> As Nathan walks toward the nests and the levee flanked by his volunteers, the pace of the count picks up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Volunteers:\u003c/strong> One egg, one egg, one egg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Little nests are scattered all over the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt:\u003c/strong> We’ll do 1e, 1d, e for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>The eggs are sea foam green with brown speckles. They’re a little bit bigger than a chicken egg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt: \u003c/strong>They’re sizable. They were historically eaten in large numbers by both native people of California and folks during the Gold Rush times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>It’’s a chaotic scene, walking into a swarm of birds. You have to watch where you step. There are a lot of bird poop splats, white splats everywhere. And beware of those swooping down from above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt:\u003c/strong> That’s the attack call, if you hear it, one of them right now is going for me repeatedly, and it’s a little more ‘ehhh.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> The gulls also attack each other, protecting their chicks from hungry fellow breeders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt:\u003c/strong> They’re pretty aggressive with each other. We will see them out there chasing each other around, defending their nests from each other. The other birds in the colony are the biggest threat to their nests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Scientists are keeping tabs on the gull population because while they breed in the bay, they prey on their neighbors, other native birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt:\u003c/strong> They are pretty voracious nest predators. There are threatened species like snowy plovers that are breeding in San Francisco Bay, and there are also least terns, American avocets, black-necked stilts. They all like the islands because they’re safe from mammalian predators. But then the avian predators, like the California gulls, can be an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>The gulls have quickly become one of the threatened plovers, biggest predators, destroying as much as a third of their young in some years. The California gulls have only been breeding in San Francisco Bay for 45 years. So, where did they raise their young before?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bartshe Miller:\u003c/strong> California gulls are definitely an iconic part of the Mono Basin. I think they’ve been nesting here for centuries and centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Bartshe Miller lives on the eastern side of the Sierra near the border of Nevada. He’s a scientist with the Mono Lake committee, an organization trying to protect the gigantic saline lake. While scientists in the Bay Area want to keep California numbers down, Bartshe’s group is working full-time to bring their numbers back up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bartshe Miller: \u003c/strong>They’re beautiful birds to look at. They soar all over Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra. And every time they show up each year, it marks the passage of time and the seasons, and it tells us that they’re showing up, getting ready to breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Gulls are migratory, so historically, these birds foraged for food on the coast during the winter and then returned to breed and raise their young on inland saline lakes in the spring and summer. At Mono Lake, gulls found a safe place to make their nests on Negit Island, nesting on the ground there. But for decades, the lake level has been dropping, and one year, a land bridge appeared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bartshe Miller: \u003c/strong>A lot of the surrounding lake bottom was exposed. And by 1979, coyotes made it out to Negit Island and chased the gulls. I mean, they predated on their eggs and chicks, and the gulls abandoned the nests on Negit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Water levels at Mono Lake have been dropping for a long time, since at least 1941, when streams flowing to the lake were diverted to serve the city of Los Angeles. With the lake level still nine feet below what they should be, the habitat isn’t the reliable and safe breeding ground the gulls once knew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bartshe Miller:\u003c/strong> But I think there was this point in time where a lot of gulls probably just decided, well, it’s not safe to nest at Mono Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>In 2024, only a few 100 chicks were born at Mono Lake, the worst California gull breeding season on record. But Mono Lake advocates say limiting water diversions to Los Angeles is critical to maintain an important breeding ground for the gulls and to preserve the area’s biodiversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bartshe Miller:\u003c/strong> There is a strong ecological link to the health of the gulls and the health of the lake’s ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Bartshe says these gulls belong at Mono Lake. They don’t do harm there like they do in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bartshe Miller:\u003c/strong> There’s been this evolutionary circumstances that’s going around here where the gulls aren’t preying on other birds here. There aren’t other birds nesting at Mono Lake that gulls prey on, so this is the place for them to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>When it was no longer safe to breed at the traditional spot on Negit Island and Mono Lake, the gulls moved on to San Francisco Bay. When their number peaked a little over a decade ago, wildlife managers decided their threat to local native birds was too great. They started destroying the gulls’ nests and eggs on the levees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt: \u003c/strong>We’re getting really concerned this population were just spiraling out of control and wanting to get them away from these really sensitive species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>But that was a short-term fix. They needed another strategy to tamp down on the gulls, deprive them of food. There’s a huge landfill right next to the salt ponds in the South Bay, a major reason their population exploded. The Newby Island landfill stretches over hundreds of acres. Basically, it’s a giant smorgasbord for seagulls. So about a decade ago, the dump hired one man whose full-time job is chasing the birds off trash piles. Max Ottersbach is a falconer, and that’s him talking to one of his birds of prey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Max Ottersbach:\u003c/strong> I have three falcons, and each one flies one, two hours, and I try to spread that out throughout the day, for 10 hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>He and his menagerie of raptors and dogs scare away the seagulls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Max Ottersbach: \u003c/strong>The falcon goes up, tries to get above them as best he can, or flies towards the flock to disperse the seagulls that are in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Landfill managers wouldn’t allow us to visit the dump, but we asked Max to record himself with all of his anti-gull props. The falcons are just one of his strategies. He drives around the dump on an ATV with a flag flying 16 feet in the air. Then his dogs chase after the birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Max Ottersbach:\u003c/strong> When the birds see the ATV, and they see the flag, and they see the dogs, they know that the danger is in the area. It’s all a big show to make, to make my presence known to the seagulls that we’re here and ready to rock and roll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Max says it can feel overwhelming out there fighting a constant tide of hundreds of birds that descend on trash heaps over and over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Max Ottersbach: \u003c/strong>Seagulls are, are a force of nature. But the good thing is about seagulls is they don’t really act individually; they act in a flock. So if you can get one bird to go, then the chances of the other one going is going to be greater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Early on, wildlife managers tried air cannons and even pyrotechnics to scare the gulls. 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They’re not thriving at Mono Lake, their native breeding grounds, and they’re harmful to other species here in the Bay Area. There are no clear answers, he says, about the best way to manage these gulls in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Van Schmidt: \u003c/strong>It’s the challenge of trying to conserve multiple species on a shrinking set of habitats where human transformation of California has been so dramatic. They’ve all concentrated in this weird anthropogenic habitat in South Bay, and now we have to figure out how to manage that and how to balance these competing needs of all these different species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>In the short term, there have been biodiversity wins in the Bay Area. The threatened snowy plovers, which decades ago suddenly fell prey to new gull neighbors, are slowly making a comeback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>That was KQED reporter Pauline Bartolone. 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He said he was drawn back by all the advantages he remembers from the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just loved that it was seemingly always available, inexpensive, often more convenient, often more comfortable than BART or a bus,” Reiten said. “It was a great way to catch up on the news, because often they would have news playing in the car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that rides in the before-times were always perfect. Reiten mentioned one particularly “uncomfortable ride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got into a car, and the woman who was driving had her bird loose in the car,” Reiten said. “When I stepped in, I saw the bird flying around. The bird cage was next to me, in the back. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As drivers and riders began to roll into the squat concrete structure on Lake Park Boulevard at 7 a.m., Bermudez played the role of carpool concierge and emcee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bermudez greeted other commuters like old friends, gave newbies a heads-up on how the system is supposed to work at the Lake Park location, and even introduced reporters to arriving carpoolers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just had one successful carpooler!” she said after the first of half a dozen or so carpools rolled out toward a freeway on-ramp. “We’re thrilled to be back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051486\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camille Bermudez in Oakland, near where the Casual Carpool pick-up location will be under the 580 freeway, on Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is Chuy,” she said, introducing a new acquaintance, San Ramon resident Chuy Perez, as he pulled up in an SUV. “Chuy is a casual carpooler from years before, and he just told me he’s been commuting for about 40 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez, a technician for AT&T, said he’s been perplexed that it has taken so long for the carpool to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve periodically been looking online to see what’s been going on,” he said. “I couldn’t understand why it’s taken so long to get it back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Lee, who drives from the East Bay to teach at San Francisco’s A.P. Giannini Middle School, echoed that sentiment.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Probably the last two years, occasionally I’d go: ‘Hey, is this still a thing?'” Lee told reporters, who clustered at his driver’s side window. “… So I’m crossing my fingers that this is working out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riders didn’t materialize for Perez and Lee, and both of them wound up leaving for the city solo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers who arrived a little later, however, were luckier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Reiten said he has been waiting to pick up riders for the first time since COVID-19 stay-at-home and social distancing orders ended the four-decade-old casual carpool in March 2020. He said he was drawn back by all the advantages he remembers from the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just loved that it was seemingly always available, inexpensive, often more convenient, often more comfortable than BART or a bus,” Reiten said. “It was a great way to catch up on the news, because often they would have news playing in the car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that rides in the before-times were always perfect. Reiten mentioned one particularly “uncomfortable ride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got into a car, and the woman who was driving had her bird loose in the car,” Reiten said. “When I stepped in, I saw the bird flying around. The bird cage was next to me, in the back. There was bird … mess … all over the place, and I immediately got out and said, ‘I’m not riding in this car.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051481\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars drive along the 580 freeway in Oakland on Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two Oakland residents who caught rides into the city on Tuesday morning said they see casual carpooling as something that can help build and sustain community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a really big advocate of community support and mutual aid,” Brionna Lewis, a marketing strategist, said. “I think this is a way of people helping people in ways that sometimes our government can’t support. I know they’re cutting and changing bus routes and things like that, and I feel like this is a great way for folks to step up and support each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jahan Sagafi, an attorney, said he always appreciated the efficiency and comfort of the casual carpool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also appreciated “the feeling that it was a community effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And not just a community of people who already know each other and are loyal to each other, but people who don’t know each other can pull together for that one moment and help each other out,” Sagafi said. “I think that’s very Bay Area, and that’s kind of one of the wonderful things about living in this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The parking lot under the 580 freeway where the Casual Carpool pick up location will be in Oakland on Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All told, Tuesday’s relaunch involved about half a dozen carpools — including three in which journalists rode and one more driven by organizer Camille Bermudez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that may seem like a modest result, the mode’s advocates recalled that until now, a system that once brought thousands of people to work each day was pretty much dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one’s done what Camille just managed to do,” said Greg Riessen, a traffic engineer who’s developed his own \u003ca href=\"https://rapidcarpool.com/\">carpooling app\u003c/a>. “This is a real accomplishment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bermudez said she considers the half-dozen carpools that made it to the city a success. “I’m absolutely thrilled to see the momentum picking up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she said she’ll be greeting carpoolers at the Grand Lake garage site, at 533 Lake Park Ave., every morning this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A central figure in the corruption scandal that rippled through San Francisco City Hall in 2020 is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051475/former-sf-utilities-chief-harlan-kelly-is-appealing-his-2023-corruption-case\">seeking to overturn his guilty verdict\u003c/a> based on allegations that the federal grand jury that indicted him systematically underrepresented Black citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for former San Francisco Public Utilities Commission general manager Harlan Kelly returned to the argument that Kelly’s team first raised in an appeal he lodged when he was indicted. In the case submitted to a panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday, his attorneys wrote that the court’s denial of his motion to throw out the indictment charging him with fraud “undermine[s] every aspect of the district court’s grand jury decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2021, Kelly — a Black man — was indicted by a federal grand jury,” his attorney, Steven Kalar, wrote in a brief to the court. “Not a single Black person sat on this grand jury. This fact is not surprising, because the venire [or jury pool] from which that grand jury was constituted suffered from dramatic underrepresentation of Black citizens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalar also argued that the court allowed the government to introduce “improper” evidence during trial and made mistakes in the jury’s instructions that confused their deliberative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Kelly was indicted on a bank fraud charge over allegations that he took bribes from permit expediter \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873494/sf-corruption-saga-continues-permit-expediter-walter-wong-to-repay-1-7-million\">Walter Wong\u003c/a>, who pleaded guilty and later testified against him. He was later accused of additional “honest services” fraud, and in a superseding indictment filed in 2022, he was charged with nine counts related to fraud in connection with the bribery scheme involving Wong and a separate accusation that he defrauded a loan company of more than $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly is one of more than a dozen city officials and contractors who were embroiled in a wide-ranging corruption probe that became public in 2020 with the indictment of then-Public Works Director \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923588/disgraced-former-sf-public-works-chief-mohammed-nuru-sentenced-to-7-years-for-bribery-scheme\">Mohammed Nuru\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955456\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a suit and tie and carrying a backpack walks down a sidewalk.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco public utilities chief Harlan Kelly walks out of the Philip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on July 11, 2023, during his corruption trial this week. A jury convicted Kelly. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nuru and many of those implicated pleaded guilty, but Kelly maintained his innocence through a weekslong trial in 2023 and since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955753/jury-convicts-top-sf-official-in-corruption-trial-here-are-5-takeaways\">his conviction\u003c/a> on six of the wire and bank fraud charges in 2024. He is serving a four-year prison term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, his appeal, which was first filed just days after his conviction last year, was submitted to the 9th Circuit, which said it would decide whether to overturn his conviction based on written briefs and the case’s existing record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what those briefs argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an opening brief filed in December, Kalar — who was appointed as Kelly’s attorney six months earlier when Kelly could no longer afford representation — wrote that the court first erred when it dismissed Kelly’s appeal of his 2022 indictment.[aside postID=news_12051475 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS29855_COURTHOUSE_007-qut-1180x788.jpg']Kalar said that, through an independent statistician, Kelly provided evidence that the federal grand jury that indicted him was selected from a pool of citizens that systematically underrepresented Black people, violating the Sixth Amendment, Jury Selection and Service Act, and the 5th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black citizens were underrepresented in this grand jury venire by a shocking 49% — three standard deviations away from the expected composition,” the brief said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors disagreed, arguing that the court summoned 2,000 eligible grand jurors and followed its randomized protocols for selecting the panel that heard the government’s case. They said the court’s analysis found no legally significant underrepresentation of Black jury members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a comparative disparity test showed that there was some statistically significant underrepresentation of Black people in the grand jury pool, the prosecutors said it didn’t rise to the legal bar needed to qualify in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalar called the cases the government relied on to draw that legal line “inapposite or unpersuasive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020020\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/12/GettyImages-2174968250-e1736293413905.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Hall in November 2024. \u003ccite>(James Carter-Johnson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to his objection to the verdict as a whole, Kalar also made a more pointed argument for appealing Kelly’s convictions on two counts related to “honest services” fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalar argued that during trial, the court allowed the government to introduce improper evidence related to those charges, which were based on allegations that Kelly accepted bribes, including a lavish meal and a five-star hotel stay from Wong in exchange for helping his companies get a leg up on city contract proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite objections from Kelly’s attorneys ahead of trial, the court allowed prosecutors to show evidence of San Francisco’s ethics rules and regulations in court. Kalar wrote that this should not have been permitted, since honest services fraud “cannot be based on the violation of a city or state regulation.[aside postID=news_12051261 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250303-AntiochPolice-13-BL_qed-1.jpg']“This error was compounded by instructional error,” he continued in the original appeal brief. “The court misadvised the jury on the permissible use of ‘ethics’ evidence, permitting the jury to improperly use that evidence to convict Kelly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government’s lawyers responded that no actual evidence of the ethics laws — like Statements of Economic Interest and San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance Declarations that Kelly submitted — were ever actually presented in court. Some former Public Utilities Commission workers who testified did speak to the Sunshine Ordinance and other ethics laws, but the government wrote that Kelly doesn’t seem to be objecting to anything said in testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also said that, according to the rules given to the jury in his original trial, they were only allowed to “use evidence of the defendant’s knowledge of, and compliance with city ethics rules in deciding whether the defendant knowingly violated his fiduciary duty as a public official,” not whether he committed honest services fraud more broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear when the three-judge panel reviewing Kelly’s case will decide whether to overturn all or part of his conviction. If the judges uphold his conviction, Kelly is expected to get out of prison in October 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is currently serving his term at the Federal Prison Camp in Duluth, Minnesota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/south-bay\">South Bay\u003c/a> transit officials in charge of building the $12.7 billion \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bart\">BART\u003c/a> extension through downtown San José are doubling down on a single-tunnel design for the long-delayed megaproject, despite concerns from some engineering experts that conclusions made in a newly released report may lack “validity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Managers of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, which is building the 6-mile, four-station project for BART, say their plan to dig one of the largest underground tunnels on earth to house the train tracks and its platforms 80 feet below ground is still the best option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They reaffirmed that determination on Monday, after the agency released what it called an independent cost, risk and impact analysis of a previously considered design that would use two smaller tunnels at a shallower depth — a more conventional approach to building subways in line with most of the existing BART system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This report was prepared in direct response to inquiries from our board of directors and reflects VTA’s ongoing commitment to transparency, fiscal responsibility, and thoughtful data-driven decision-making,” Carolyn Gonot, VTA’s general manager, said Monday during a press briefing on the analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Maguire, head of megaprojects for VTA, said the report highlighted a higher cost and additional time required to construct a twin-bore design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11990511 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VTA General Manager Carolyn Gonot speaks during the agency’s BART to Silicon Valley Phase II project groundbreaking event on June 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Changing the design of the BART Silicon Valley extension from its current single-bore back to a twin-bore design would increase the cost of the project by at least $600 million, and would not allow us to open the project any sooner than the 2037 date, which we are currently on track to deliver,” Maguire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the project was expected to cost $4.7 billion, with an intended completion date in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maguire said updating plans and environmental reviews for the original twin-bore blueprints that were partially completed in 2008 — when BART’s extension into Santa Clara County was first being planned — risks pushing back the project timeline even more. Building underground “boxes” to house stations around the two smaller tunnels would drive significant cost increases, he said.[aside postID=news_11990508 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-01_qut-1020x680.jpg']The single-bore option would also be less disruptive, Maguire said, and requires less tearing up of surface streets like San José’s downtown thoroughfare, Santa Clara Street — as opposed to digging to build the shallower stations, or “cut-and-cover” construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, assembled by three different teams of VTA consultants, responded to critics, transit advocates and some VTA board members who say the twin-bore design might have been dismissed too quickly in 2018 by VTA because of concerns about the impacts of cut-and-cover construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a consultant for the VTA board’s project oversight committee, tasked with reviewing the report and offering feedback, questioned the agency’s conclusions and calculations about the twin-bore model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nasri Munfah, a principal at engineering firm Gall Zeidler, told VTA managers in a written memo that the cost estimate of the twin-bore design “appears to be overinflated” due to overly conservative timelines and nonessential design additions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These results invite questions of the validity of the cost estimate,” Munfah wrote in his response to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051900\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers and machinery are seen at VTA’s West Portal construction site in San José on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Munfah wrote that the report fell short because it did “not compare the twin-bore vs the large single-bore concepts nor does it provide advantages/disadvantages of either of the two methods, or address risk assessment of either method.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barney Smits, a retired engineer who worked for BART for 25 years, told KQED the comments from Gall Zeidler are “right on target,” and said the VTA report seems “completely inaccurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They deliberately added things to the twin-bore design to make it more expensive and deliberately removed things from the single-bore design to try and make it look less expensive,” Smits said, of the VTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a response, the VTA pushed back against much of Gall Zeidler’s critiques about project schedules, saying they “appear to be opinion-based rather than analysis-based.” The agency said its teams made “conservative but reasonable” assumptions in their analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gall Zeidler needed to include more “specific examples and details” to support concerns raised about the estimated cost of stations, the agency continued, and said VTA staff “takes exception to certain statements such as ‘overinflated’ and ‘questioning the validity.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051898\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excavator operator moves material during early work on VTA’s BART to Silicon Valley Phase II Extension project at the West Portal construction site in San José on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, the VTA said it isn’t planning to do any further analysis of the twin-bore design. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some teachers who worked at district-sponsored enrichment programs over the summer didn’t receive pay at all; others never had union dues deducted from their paychecks like they were supposed to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other employees were paid at the incorrect rate or had their paychecks delayed for weeks, among other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that going into the implementation of Frontline, there were going to be challenges. … with the implementation of any software and program, especially built on top of a system that we know struggled and did not work for our school district,” said Phil Kim, the president of San Francisco’s Board of Education. “The question I think that I’ve been posing to staff and making sure that the superintendent prioritizes is: ‘How fast are we able to resolve these issues?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the union has been especially disappointed by how the district is handling the problems, Lara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we raised the alarm, we were shocked at how dismissive the staff was in terms of the very real concerns,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a problem arises, everybody starts blaming each other. When we talk to the executive director of payroll … they go, ‘That’s probably an HR thing or a labor relations thing.’ So then we go over to the executive director of HR, and they’re like, ‘We raised these concerns a year ago and they didn’t include that into the system,’” he said. “Then who’s managing the system?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, the union sent a cease and desist letter to district leaders, including Su and Kim, detailing the issues employees had been dealing with since July, and informing the district it would file a state labor complaint if the issues were not resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, UESF sent that complaint to California’s Public Employment Relations Board, writing that after spending a year preparing for the transition to Frontline, “the system cannot actually do the things we need it to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UESF’s expectation is that SFUSD is paying all of our members exactly what they are owed exactly when it is owed, that our member’s benefits are fully and completely available … without delay,” the unfair-practice charge reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the district said it is working quickly to resolve any issues that arise and has created a website for employees with information and a way to report payroll concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As teachers return to their classrooms on Tuesday before the first day of school next week, union leaders plan to rally outside the district’s office, urging officials to resolve the issues quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really concerned now that 6,000 of our members are coming back, especially substitute teachers, that this is going to be a problem,” Lara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Summer may be winding down — at least for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/educationnews\">Bay Area’s kids returning to school\u003c/a> — but you still have many opportunities to watch movies under the night sky well into the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s beloved open-air film series, Sundown Cinema, may have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13975608/sundown-cinema-canceled-san-francisco-movie-series\">canceled earlier this year\u003c/a>, but several cities are still hosting their own free outdoor film programming. Keep reading for our roundup of the select shows happening in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tips-first-timers\">Pro tips for attending an outdoor movie screening in the Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Outdoor movie screenings in August\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 14:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire\u003c/em> at \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcity.org/residents/redwood-city-events/movies\">Courthouse Square in Redwood City\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 15:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>10 Things I Hate About You \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blankets-blockbusters-tickets-1368178110559?aff=erelexpmlt\">Thrive City in Chase Center, San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 15: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>The Wild Robot \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainview.gov/our-city/departments/community-services/special-events/summer-outdoor-movie-night-series\">Rengstorff Park in Mountain View\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 15: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Moana 2 \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/2170/Movies-in-the-Park\">Howarth Park in Santa Rosa\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 15: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Inside Out 2 \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.pinole.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/summer-series-flyer.png\">Fernandez Park in Pinole\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 16:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Mrs. Doubtfire\u003c/em> at \u003ca href=\"https://visitunionsquaresf.com/park-programs\">Union Square Plaza\u003c/a> in San Francisco. While the film starts at 8 p.m., there will be a pre-show (and a Mrs. Doubtfire look-alike contest) at 6 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 16:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Clueless \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitoakland.com/event/jack-london-square%3A-waterfront-flicks/33905/\">Jack London Square in Oakland\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 21:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Clueless \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcity.org/residents/redwood-city-events/movies\">Courthouse Square in Redwood City\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 22: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Mufasa \u003c/em>at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/v/1/departments/alameda/rec-and-park/arpd-pdfs/spring-apr-may/2025-starlight-movies-in-the-park-flyer.pdf\">Alameda Point Multipurpose Field in Alameda\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 22: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Inside Out 2 \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/2170/Movies-in-the-Park\">Howarth Park in Santa Rosa\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 22: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>A Minecraft Movie \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.unioncity.org/419/Community-Events\">Kennedy Park in Union City\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 28\u003c/strong>: \u003cem>Argylle \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcity.org/residents/redwood-city-events/movies\">Courthouse Square in Redwood City\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 29: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Up\u003c/em> at \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/2170/Movies-in-the-Park\">Howarth Park in Santa Rosa\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Outdoor movie screenings in September\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 5: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Superman\u003c/em> (2025) at \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/giants/ballpark/events/movie-night\">Oracle Park in San Francisco\u003c/a> (which is a ticketed event, costing around $28.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 5: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Wicked \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/community-recreation/news/summer-evening-movies-berkeley-parks\">Willard Park in Berkeley \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 5: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>A Minecraft Movie \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/2170/Movies-in-the-Park\">Howarth Park in Santa Rosa\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 5: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Inside Out 2 \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofmillvalley.gov/840/Movies-in-the-Park\">Old Mill Park in Mill Valley\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 12:\u003c/strong>\u003cem> Inside Out 2 \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/community-recreation/news/summer-evening-movies-berkeley-parks\">Codornices Park in Berkeley \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 12: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Mufasa\u003c/em> at \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/2170/Movies-in-the-Park\">Howarth Park in Santa Rosa\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 12: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Sonic the Hedgehog 3 \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.haywardrec.org/calendar.aspx?Keywords=movie&startDate=&enddate=&CID=35,23,43,28,14,29,31,40,27&showPastEvents=false\">Meek Estate Park in Hayward\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 13: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Coco \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://ybgfestival.org/event/movie-night-coco/\">Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 19: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Encanto \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.unioncity.org/419/Community-Events\">Old Alvardo/Cesar Chavez Park at Union City\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 20:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Big Hero 6 \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://visitunionsquaresf.com/park-programs\">Union Square Plaza\u003c/a> in San Francisco. While the film starts at 7:30 p.m., The Walt Disney Family Museum will be hosting art activists for audiences at 5:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 26: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Sonic the Hedgehog 3 \u003c/em>at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/v/1/departments/alameda/rec-and-park/arpd-pdfs/spring-apr-may/2025-starlight-movies-in-the-park-flyer.pdf\">Alameda Point Multipurpose Field in Alameda\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout September and October, \u003ca href=\"https://proxysf.net/events/2025-proxy-fall-film-fest\">San Francisco’s Proxy Film Festival on Octavia Street\u003c/a> is featuring a series of movies that are yet to be announced on Fridays.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Outdoor movie screenings in October and beyond\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 3: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Little Mermaid (2023) \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofmillvalley.gov/840/Movies-in-the-Park\">Old Mill Park in Mill Valley\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 4:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>The Birds \u003c/em>at \u003ca href=\"https://visitunionsquaresf.com/park-programs\">Union Square Plaza\u003c/a> in San Francisco. (The Union Square’s website adds, “Did you know the opening scene is filmed in Union Square?” This writer did not!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/109351375-scaled-e1754946824662.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/109351375-scaled-e1754946824662.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1370\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pedestrian carries a shopping bag from Macy’s as she walks through Union Square on Feb. 22, 2011, in San Francisco. Cinema on the Square, a free Saturday night outdoor movie series on Union Square, begins Aug. 16, with “Mrs. Doubtfire” (1993). \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You can expect more scary movie screenings to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.pinole.gov/event_list/halloween-movie-2/?event-date=2025-10-24%2018:00:00\">announced\u003c/a> for Spooky Season closer to the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, watch for the 2025 lineup announcement for \u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/series/floating-features/\">Floating Features\u003c/a>: the Roxie Theatre and Red and White Fleet’s series that offers the chance to watch a movie on the top deck of a boat — as it sails around the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Watching movies outdoors in the Bay Area: \u003ca id=\"tips-first-timers\">\u003c/a>Tips for first-timers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>These movies usually start just after dusk, around 8 p.m. or 7 p.m. in the later months, so audiences can see the projected screen as clearly as possible. It’s a good idea to get to the “theater” early to secure a good view of the screen. Most screenings do not require a ticket or reservation, but check their website in case they do require some notice.[aside postID=news_12045979 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1369841386-1020x680.jpg']Before heading out to any show, be sure to check the weather and see if the screening will continue in the event of rain or other disruptive weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the comfiest experience, bring picnic blankets, a sweater and (non-crackling) snacks. A camping chair could offer you the most comfort, but be mindful you’re not blocking anyone’s view of the screen with your setup. 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Cinema on the Square, a free Saturday night outdoor movie series on Union Square, begins Aug. 16, with “Mrs. Doubtfire” (1993). \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You can expect more scary movie screenings to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.pinole.gov/event_list/halloween-movie-2/?event-date=2025-10-24%2018:00:00\">announced\u003c/a> for Spooky Season closer to the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, watch for the 2025 lineup announcement for \u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/series/floating-features/\">Floating Features\u003c/a>: the Roxie Theatre and Red and White Fleet’s series that offers the chance to watch a movie on the top deck of a boat — as it sails around the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Watching movies outdoors in the Bay Area: \u003ca id=\"tips-first-timers\">\u003c/a>Tips for first-timers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>These movies usually start just after dusk, around 8 p.m. or 7 p.m. in the later months, so audiences can see the projected screen as clearly as possible. 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Gaza health officials estimate that more than 60,000 Palestinians, including around 18,000 children, have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in Israel and took over 200 hostage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the consulate in San Francisco, the rabbis and leaders formed a line, bearing a sweeping yellow banner that read “Each Person is Created in the Image of God! Food for Gaza Now!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Israel continues in its relentless campaign of bombing,” Rabbi Cat Zavis from Beyt Tikkun Synagogue told KQED. “We are here today as rabbis from diverse backgrounds to say stop all killings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zavis, a self-described anti-Zionist rabbi from Oakland, said this message especially applies to the five Al Jazeera press staffers who were killed over the weekend in a targeted strike by the Israeli military.[aside postID=news_12050908 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250806-PALESTINIANCHILDREN-05-KQED.jpg']In a statement to KQED, a spokesperson for the Israeli Consulate said it “is deeply regrettable that in the 675 days since the October 7th Massacre, these protesters never called for the release of the Israeli hostages” — a point that the organizers explicitly denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also said that “despite the Hamas disinformation campaign, there is food in Gaza and Israel continues to flood Gaza with food and humanitarian aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rabbi David Cooper at Kehilla Community Synagogue said those who gathered Monday would have stood directly in front of the Israeli Consulate for their demonstration if not for the barriers that went up in anticipation of the act of protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper called them “the barriers that have been put up to try and silence us, but we won’t be silenced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper said the group wrote a letter to Israeli Consul General Marco Sermoneta last week, asking to arrange a meeting there on Monday to discuss these issues. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rabbi Andrew Straus, one of the lead organizers of the rally, said the group had three main demands: food for Gaza, an end to the killing, and the release of all hostages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their actions follow a worldwide effort by other rabbis and Jewish leaders who this month signed a public \u003ca href=\"https://www.ljs.org/1000rabbis\">letter\u003c/a> asking that Israel allow extensive humanitarian aid into Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter calls on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “stop at once the use and threat of starvation as a weapon of war” and to guard against theft or control of that aid by Hamas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051780\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051780 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250811-israeliconsulate_01009_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250811-israeliconsulate_01009_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250811-israeliconsulate_01009_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250811-israeliconsulate_01009_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters rally outside the Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest in San Francisco on Aug. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As of Saturday, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, at least 212 people in Gaza have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910823/starvation-in-gaza-persists-despite-increased-aid-deliveries\">died\u003c/a> of starvation, nearly half of them children. Gaza health officials estimate that more than 60,000 Palestinians, including around 18,000 children, have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in Israel and took over 200 hostage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the consulate in San Francisco, the rabbis and leaders formed a line, bearing a sweeping yellow banner that read “Each Person is Created in the Image of God! Food for Gaza Now!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Israel continues in its relentless campaign of bombing,” Rabbi Cat Zavis from Beyt Tikkun Synagogue told KQED. “We are here today as rabbis from diverse backgrounds to say stop all killings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zavis, a self-described anti-Zionist rabbi from Oakland, said this message especially applies to the five Al Jazeera press staffers who were killed over the weekend in a targeted strike by the Israeli military.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, a spokesperson for the Israeli Consulate said it “is deeply regrettable that in the 675 days since the October 7th Massacre, these protesters never called for the release of the Israeli hostages” — a point that the organizers explicitly denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also said that “despite the Hamas disinformation campaign, there is food in Gaza and Israel continues to flood Gaza with food and humanitarian aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rabbi David Cooper at Kehilla Community Synagogue said those who gathered Monday would have stood directly in front of the Israeli Consulate for their demonstration if not for the barriers that went up in anticipation of the act of protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper called them “the barriers that have been put up to try and silence us, but we won’t be silenced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper said the group wrote a letter to Israeli Consul General Marco Sermoneta last week, asking to arrange a meeting there on Monday to discuss these issues. But, he said, the group received a polite response that Sermoneta was unable to meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will take advantage of that offer, but the situation in Gaza and in the West Bank has become too dire,” Cooper said. “Starvation in Gaza continues unabated every moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also mentioned his friend Awdah Al-Hathaleen, the Palestinian human rights activist who was denied entry at San Francisco International Airport in June, and subsequently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050131/activists-mourn-palestinian-man-killed-in-west-bank-after-being-denied-entry-at-sfo\">killed\u003c/a> by an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank come late July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His known killer is walking free,” Cooper said. “We are here under a holy obligation to take action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said they expected to be arrested for civil disobedience, but ultimately were not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Aug. 12: This article was updated after one of the rally’s lead organizers clarified that the activists’ three main demands included the release of all hostages, pushing back against a quote from the Israeli Consulate.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The federal probe became public after former Public Works director Mohammed Nuru was indicted on charges that he accepted bribes in exchange for advantages in winning city contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the following years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859677/san-franciscos-unfolding-web-of-corruption-a-cartoon-interactive\">more than a dozen other city officials and contractors\u003c/a> were implicated in the scheme, including Sandra Zuniga, who previously led the Mayor’s Office Fix-It Team, and Tom Hui, the former director of the Department of Building Inspection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naomi Kelly, Harlan’s wife, also stepped down from her role as city administrator as a result of the scandal, though she did not face indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at the center of the probe was political insider and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873494/sf-corruption-saga-continues-permit-expediter-walter-wong-to-repay-1-7-million\">construction contractor Walter Wong\u003c/a>, who owned multiple companies that vied for city contracts over decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873533\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/HuiAndWong.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/HuiAndWong.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/HuiAndWong-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/HuiAndWong-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/HuiAndWong-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/HuiAndWong-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walter Wong (right) and former Department of Building Inspection Director Tom Hui at a fundraiser in Chinatown in February 2017. \u003ccite>(Anonymous courtesy photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While many of the central figures in the scheme — including Wong and Nuru — pleaded guilty to charges brought by the federal government, Kelly has maintained his innocence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a three-week trial in 2023, federal prosecutors alleged that Wong began bribing Kelly as early as 2013 by doing heavily discounted home repairs for him, such as fixing water damage and installing wine cellar shelving in his house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also alleged Wong treated Kelly’s family to five-star hotel stays and a $600 meal on a lavish trip to China in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors showed a message Kelly sent to Wong saying, “I owe you big time!!!” after the wine cellar work, and alleged that Kelly repaid Wong by helping his companies secure roles in city projects.[aside postID=news_11955753 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Kelly urged his staff to buy lights from one of Wong’s companies for downtown San Francisco’s holiday display one year and gave Wong insider information to give him a leg up on a proposal for a contract to swap city streetlights to LED bulbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his testimony, Walter’s son, Washington Wong, admitted that his father’s company used information Kelly provided to tweak its proposals and give it better chances at winning contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, prosecutors \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/federal-charges-against-former-san-francisco-puc-general-manager-expanded-include-bank\">accused Kelly\u003c/a> of conspiring with real estate investor Victor Makras to make false statements to obtain a $1.3 million loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly was ultimately found guilty of six charges: one count of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, one count of honest services wire fraud, and four counts related to bank fraud. He was acquitted of two other honest services wire fraud charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2024, he was sentenced to four years in federal prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, Kelly appealed the conviction, and on Monday, the case will be submitted to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals based on briefs from federal prosecutors and his attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court was initially slated to hear oral arguments on Monday but announced in July that it would rule based on the briefs and existing record alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1548px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11893097\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS8504_Kelly-4-2000.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a suit and tie stands behind a lectern with a projection screen on the wall behind him.\" width=\"1548\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS8504_Kelly-4-2000.jpg 1548w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS8504_Kelly-4-2000-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS8504_Kelly-4-2000-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS8504_Kelly-4-2000-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS8504_Kelly-4-2000-1536x1009.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1548px) 100vw, 1548px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Public Utilities Commission General Manager Harlan Kelly on Jan. 31, 2014. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The court is of the unanimous opinion that the facts and legal arguments are adequately presented in the briefs and record and the decisional process would not be significantly aided by oral argument,” the document said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what Kelly’s appeal strategy is. He is now represented by litigator Steven Kalar, who the court appointed in June 2024, after Kelly testified that he could no longer afford criminal defense attorney Brian Getz, who represented him in his original trial and submitted his appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalar declined KQED’s request for comment on the appeal on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Kelly’s original trial, Getz and his other attorney, Jonathan Baum, largely based their defense on discrediting Wong, whose testimony should therefore be treated with “greater caution” than other witnesses’ since he agreed to cooperate with the government in exchange for a lighter sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argued that Wong and Kelly had a friendship — hence the gifts and dinners — and cast Wong as a calculated businessman looking for city officials to bribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys also pointed out that Wong’s bribes to Kelly were different from those he gave to other city officials, like Nuru, which included envelopes of thousands of dollars in cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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