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Shards of glass showered the floor of the main showroom, and inventory left behind was rustled through and knocked off of shelves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just wasn’t prepared for that level of damage and then to come in and then see just the sea of glass,” Waicukauski said. “There were just pieces of the building hanging. The glass was still falling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027612\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027612\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking Glass Photo & Camera owner Jen Waicukauski said the store’s main showroom was a sea of glass when they arrived Sunday morning, just an hour after the break-in. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Looking Glass Photo & Camera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They said the moment was overwhelming — “I just didn’t quite know what to do,” Waicukauski recalled. But almost immediately, people started showing up to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, the store reopened for business — operating mostly from a temporary back counter — and long-time customers and enthusiasts have raised more than $50,000 to go toward Looking Glass’ recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waicukauski said the support the store has received in the days since has been humbling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess I just never am sure if we deserve all the love that people have given us, so it just means so much to know that what we do actually matters,” Waicukauski said. “I like to think that it does, but when everybody shows up, it’s like, ‘OK, that’s cool, that’s amazing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A challenging path ahead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a construction crew and employees sifted through the damage on Sunday, the financial reality of the burglary began to set in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody [was] just starting to calculate in their minds the actual cost of what this is going to take to get up and running again and how much we have lost,” Waicukauski told KQED. “Many of them also know what we’ve been through as a business over the years and just how hard our industry is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027569 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking Glass Photo & Camera on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. 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On top of all that, it is in the midst of a transition in its operations, reviving rental services and moving away from demonstrations and displays — which Waicukauski said have gotten more dangerous because of smash-and-grabs like the one that happened Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, when workers cleaning the store floated the idea of a GoFundMe page to jumpstart recovery, Waicukauski said they were hesitant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s weird to ask for help. We’ve always asked for the support of our community,” they said. “But to literally go out and do a GoFundMe where you’re asking people for their hard-earned dollars to help us make it through a really tough time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My partner and I had this conversation where it was, ‘Are we prepared for nobody to really contribute?’ We can’t expect people to do anything, but we can’t not ask for help right now either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The whole freaking planet is showing up’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since a fundraiser was started for the store, though, hundreds of people have raised more than $52,800 toward its extensive repairs. A social media page managed by the trust of famed Bay Area photographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13928843/ansel-adams-in-our-time-de-young-review\">Ansel Adams\u003c/a> amplified the effort, and Waicukauski said people have been showing up in person to place orders and volunteer their time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole freaking planet is showing up right now,” they said. “I cannot believe the way that it has been shared, the people that are just coming in, [asking] ‘What do you have that I can buy?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The inside of Looking Glass Photo & Camera following Sunday morning’s break-in. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Looking Glass Photo & Camera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ginger Fierstein, who works at Looking Glass’ film developing partner next door, said the store is a major part of the local photography network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking Glass has done so much to foster community and be this core hub,” she said. “I would see some people come in and just yap to some of the employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photo Lab, where she works, develops all of the film dropped off next door at Looking Glass. Even when the store was in its previous locations further away, Fierstein said people often took the extra step to take their film there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12011111 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Annies-Annuals-3-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can come to the [Photo] Lab directly and get your film back a little faster or your digital scans developed by email instead of USB, but people still loved going to Looking Glass,” she said. “Despite the slight inconvenience, they would make it like a ritual to go there and really build that into a part of their art practice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin Stuart, who interned at the store in 2015, said the community made it worth getting caught in rush hour traffic from El Cerrito to go work at Looking Glass after long days in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just loved the vibe of the store, a lot of people who came in were characters,” said Stuart, who still makes photographs as part of her job with the city of Eugene, Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having the ability to talk to other photographers, the other staff,” she continued. “They were all super kind and nice and all were really invested in my development, both for my career and as a photographer. And so, just getting to chat with them and talk photography with all these different people who were into different kinds of photography all over the place was super cool. And Jen was super pivotal in my growth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the first few months in the Fifth Street space have been challenging, Waicukauski said the smash-and-grab hasn’t changed their path for revamping Looking Glass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was starting to make sense and starting to look like a sustainable plan moving forward,” they said of the time just before the break-in. “This is feeling like we’ve made the right choice, people are responding to it well, and we’re developing something really kind of cool. A new version of a camera store.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027570\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers installed a temporary wall at Looking Glass Photo & Camera after its dual front doors were smashed in during a smash-and-grab on Sunday. \u003ccite>(Katie DeBenedetti/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s going to include a new website reviving Looking Glass’ rentals program, which Waicukauski said will be a top priority as they begin recovery efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though [rental equipment] is something that will likely be covered by insurance, I don’t know when that check is coming,” Waicukauski said. “Any money that comes in now will be going towards rebuilding that, which will then get funneled into the other costs that are coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also hope to lean into the relationships a camera store can foster, introducing a community platform meant to help local photographers connect in person. Some of Looking Glass’ classes and workshops have given rise to groups who now photograph together, Waicukauski said, and they hope to host more events like a \u003ca href=\"https://www.lookingglassphoto.com/womens-photo-walk-in-nature.html\">Women’s Photo Walk\u003c/a> in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working on a way to help people find friends to just go out and take pictures with because it is not safe to do it by yourself — that’s part of it — and it’s also nice to have company and connect around a shared interest,” Waicukauski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having people to go out and do stuff with and having a reliable source to find those people, that’s one of the things that we want to do in a bigger and more meaningful way as we move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking Glass’ dual glass doors, surrounded by a grid of windows, had been rammed in by a vehicle, which pounded into the storefront four times. Shards of glass showered the floor of the main showroom, and inventory left behind was rustled through and knocked off of shelves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just wasn’t prepared for that level of damage and then to come in and then see just the sea of glass,” Waicukauski said. “There were just pieces of the building hanging. The glass was still falling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027612\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027612\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking Glass Photo & Camera owner Jen Waicukauski said the store’s main showroom was a sea of glass when they arrived Sunday morning, just an hour after the break-in. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Looking Glass Photo & Camera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They said the moment was overwhelming — “I just didn’t quite know what to do,” Waicukauski recalled. But almost immediately, people started showing up to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, the store reopened for business — operating mostly from a temporary back counter — and long-time customers and enthusiasts have raised more than $50,000 to go toward Looking Glass’ recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waicukauski said the support the store has received in the days since has been humbling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess I just never am sure if we deserve all the love that people have given us, so it just means so much to know that what we do actually matters,” Waicukauski said. “I like to think that it does, but when everybody shows up, it’s like, ‘OK, that’s cool, that’s amazing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A challenging path ahead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a construction crew and employees sifted through the damage on Sunday, the financial reality of the burglary began to set in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody [was] just starting to calculate in their minds the actual cost of what this is going to take to get up and running again and how much we have lost,” Waicukauski told KQED. “Many of them also know what we’ve been through as a business over the years and just how hard our industry is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027569 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking Glass Photo & Camera on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. Hundreds of people have raised more than $52,800 toward its extensive repairs. \u003ccite>(Katie DeBenedetti/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking Glass is one of the only small camera stores still \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13970148/pamplemousse-magazine-analog-film-photography-san-francisco\">operating in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, in part because of the slim profit margins on selling cameras. And during the pandemic, other services such as rentals, classes and demos weren’t possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The store also just finished a move into a new Fifth Street location, which was expensive and interrupted business over the summer. On top of all that, it is in the midst of a transition in its operations, reviving rental services and moving away from demonstrations and displays — which Waicukauski said have gotten more dangerous because of smash-and-grabs like the one that happened Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, when workers cleaning the store floated the idea of a GoFundMe page to jumpstart recovery, Waicukauski said they were hesitant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s weird to ask for help. We’ve always asked for the support of our community,” they said. “But to literally go out and do a GoFundMe where you’re asking people for their hard-earned dollars to help us make it through a really tough time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My partner and I had this conversation where it was, ‘Are we prepared for nobody to really contribute?’ We can’t expect people to do anything, but we can’t not ask for help right now either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The whole freaking planet is showing up’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since a fundraiser was started for the store, though, hundreds of people have raised more than $52,800 toward its extensive repairs. A social media page managed by the trust of famed Bay Area photographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13928843/ansel-adams-in-our-time-de-young-review\">Ansel Adams\u003c/a> amplified the effort, and Waicukauski said people have been showing up in person to place orders and volunteer their time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole freaking planet is showing up right now,” they said. “I cannot believe the way that it has been shared, the people that are just coming in, [asking] ‘What do you have that I can buy?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The inside of Looking Glass Photo & Camera following Sunday morning’s break-in. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Looking Glass Photo & Camera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ginger Fierstein, who works at Looking Glass’ film developing partner next door, said the store is a major part of the local photography network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking Glass has done so much to foster community and be this core hub,” she said. “I would see some people come in and just yap to some of the employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photo Lab, where she works, develops all of the film dropped off next door at Looking Glass. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:56 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fire that flared up Tuesday night at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022725/massive-fire-monterey-county-battery-plant-spews-toxic-smoke-forces-evacuations\">Monterey County energy storage facility\u003c/a> that burned in January is under control, county officials said Wednesday afternoon. Still, the reignition renewed fears about the environmental and health effects of both blazes, and other flare-ups that could still be coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North County Fire Chief Joel Mendoza said that fire crews and the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office responded Tuesday evening to reports of light smoke coming from a building at the Vistra Energy Storage Facility that burned in last month’s massive fire in Moss Landing. By later that night, it had intensified and turned into flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire started under a pile of rubble in a section of the facility that had previously burned. There haven’t been any sustained periods of poor air quality or indications of danger to the public, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency coordinator Eric Sandusky said, but officials advised residents to close windows and doors Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza said the fire burned at “different intensities” throughout the night and burned out around 8 a.m. Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 70% of the Vistra site, including some of the 100,000 lithium-ion batteries it uses to store energy, burned in the original fire, which scientists said could have dangerous health and environmental impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fire burns at Moss Landing Power Plant on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. Four Monterey County residents are suing PG&E and Vistra, alleging negligence in a battery storage fire that spread toxic chemicals and forced evacuations. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Iman-Floyd Carroll)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people joined a Facebook group to discuss symptoms like nausea, headaches and sore throats that they developed in the days after the fire started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four people are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026172/lawsuit-blames-pge-vistra-for-toxic-fire-at-monterey-battery-storage-facility\">suing Texas-based Vistra Corp.\u003c/a> over the release of toxic chemicals, saying the company should have known the risks of operating such a facility and failed to take safety measures to prevent or contain the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit also criticizes the use of indoor storage for some of the batteries and the site’s allegedly faulty and inadequate heat-suppression system. In addition, it names PG&E, which draws power from the energy storage facility, and LG Energy Solution, which installed the batteries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024233 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ElkhornSlough-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists at San José State University also later found \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026477/after-toxic-monterey-battery-fire-scientists-keep-watch-over-sensitive-ecosystem\">heightened levels of dangerous heavy metals\u003c/a> in the nearby Elkhorn Slough. In some parts of the sensitive ecosystem’s soil, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024233/monterey-county-battery-fire-linked-surge-heavy-metals-nature-reserves-soil\">nanoparticles of manganese, cobalt and nickel\u003c/a> were detected at levels 1,000 times greater than before the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County agencies formed a unified command to respond to the reignited fire Tuesday night and monitor the situation. Heavy metal and air quality monitoring are ongoing, but county environmental health chief Ric Encarnacion said that it appears to be safe for people living near the site to proceed with normal activities. If they smell smoke or are concerned, they should continue to take precautions like closing windows and wearing masks outdoors, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza said fire crews will remain on-site through Wednesday night to monitor the area where the flare-up occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because batteries were damaged in January’s fire, and Monterey County has been hit by recent storms, rekindlings like this are “very common,” Sandusky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the fire, you don’t get a complete burn of the battery, so there’s still some batteries in there that are damaged. And then, when water impacts the electrolytes or the electrodes in the batteries, that short-circuits and catches fire,” he said during a press conference Wednesday. “The goal here is to mitigate the possibility of a large fire and keep the fires as small as possible because unfortunately, during a lithium battery event, the rekindling is very, very likely — [it] is almost a certainty that it will happen at some point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 9 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-unified-school-district\">Oakland public school\u003c/a> parents, teachers and students packed La Escuelita Elementary School’s gym in December, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">ready for a fight\u003c/a>. The district’s board was set to vote on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013739/oakland-school-board-spurns-campus-closures-plans-merge-some-schools-instead\">plan to merge 10 schools\u003c/a> — a modest proposal compared to the number recommended by an efficiency study to align Oakland’s campuses with enrollment but a nonstarter for school communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about 30 minutes of pleas from a long line of emotional students who shuffled to the podium, former board President Sam Davis paused the public comment period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘Do we still want to hear public comment given that the guy whose idea this was isn’t even here?’” Davis recalled referring to board Vice President Mike Hutchinson, who had left his seat at the dais during the comment period after no motion was made. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis and Hutchinson sparred all fall about how to address the district’s massive — and growing — budget crisis. Davis believed the district needed to close schools while Hutchinson, who originally supported voting on the merger plan, pushed back against more drastic consolidations, saying there hadn’t been sufficient community engagement to do so. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re sitting in the meeting, and I’m like, ‘OK, is there a motion for this plan? And nobody makes a motion,” Davis said. “It’s not my place. I’m not going to make the motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We basically didn’t vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017852\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017852\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Unified School District Board listens to public comment during a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland, California, on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. Students, families, educators, and community members raised their concerns about a proposed merger of their schools. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The anticlimactic finale of the school closure proposal is nothing new. Oakland’s school board has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905982/how-dare-you-oakland-school-closure-decision-inspires-new-opposition-efforts\">repeatedly floated, then backed off\u003c/a>, plans to close schools and impose other “draconian” cuts in the name of budget balancing. Lisa Grant-Dawson, the district’s chief budget officer, described it as a pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been decades of not dealing with systemic issues and ultimately asking the superintendent … and the staff to make it work for the year with some commitment that ‘We’ll do something in the future,’” she told KQED. “That doesn’t happen, and we just reach the place where we’ve run out of space for us to be able to make amends as we have historically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland — under state receivership since 2003 but now less than two years from regaining control — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023461/ousd-on-track-run-out-of-cash-after-avoiding-hard-decisions-scathing-letter-says\">certified a negative interim budget\u003c/a> in December. That designation puts it among just seven of nearly 1,000 California school districts that see no clear path to meeting their financial obligations over the next three years. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-unified-school-district\">San Francisco’s school district\u003c/a> is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017631/embattled-sf-school-district-offer-hundreds-buyouts-potential-layoffs\">also on the list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12017631 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsFamiliesGetty.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two urban, considerably well-resourced districts are outliers among California’s districts with severe financial struggles. Their budgets are hundreds of millions larger. Mike Fine, the executive director of FCMAT, the financial company tasked with assisting California districts with financial management, said the reason they find themselves at the bottom is because of this skittish pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Districts all over the state are dealing with many of the same issues,” he said. “What distinguishes the districts on the negative list from others is the districts on the negative list aren’t really dealing with their problem in a timely way. Oakland, San Francisco have [spent] lots of years of ignoring, of not dealing with the problem at hand. Of having the same conversation year over year over year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A series of rolled-back plans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last fall, rumors and fears about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002125/as-san-francisco-school-closures-loom-frustrated-teachers-say-hiring-has-hit-a-wall\">looming school closures\u003c/a> and budget cuts swirled through Oakland and San Francisco’s schoolyards and board meetings. Like many districts across the state, both have experienced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014795/fewer-kids-are-going-to-california-public-schools-is-there-a-right-way-to-close-campuses\">declining enrollment\u003c/a>, shrinking the per-pupil funding they receive. COVID-19 relief money, which buoyed districts throughout the pandemic, is drying up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, SFUSD released a plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008405/these-san-francisco-schools-could-close-list-isnt-final\">close three schools and merge another eight\u003c/a>. After massive blowback, it was shelved, and the superintendent who proposed it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">was ousted\u003c/a>. Weeks later, Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013739/oakland-school-board-spurns-campus-closures-plans-merge-some-schools-instead\">announced its more modest merger plan\u003c/a> — combining 10 schools that already share five campuses. Davis said this replaced a proposition to close a larger number of campuses that didn’t curry enough board support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both districts have skirted around unpopular school closures for years. In 2006, SFUSD drastically scaled back a plan to close schools and abandoned another push for consolidations just before the pandemic. After opening more than 40 small schools in the early 2000s amid declining enrollment, Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937906/oakland-school-board-halts-controversial-closure-plan-sparing-5-elementary-schools\">approved five closures\u003c/a> in 2022. The board reversed them before they took effect in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have emerged from [state] receivership at some point recently, and the fact that we’re still kind of eking along in receivership, why? Why haven’t we made the progress to get out of it?” Davis said. “It’s because we’ll be like, ‘OK, we’re going to close schools. No, we’re not going to close schools. OK, we’re going to make a plan. And then, what’s the plan?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008830\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008830\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers, K-5 students, families, and community members leave Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy to march to Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2024, to protest against the potential closure of the school. The school is on the list of 11 San Francisco campuses that could close after this academic year as the district grapples with declining enrollment and a budget deficit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fine said that closures are happening across the state and that, while painful, most boards approve and implement the plans without much squabbling. He said what eases the transitions is the way they’re usually rolled out. Most include at least a year of lead time and provide next steps for staff and students all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parents already know exactly where their kids are going, all questions are answered,” he told KQED. “They probably have already hosted some open houses at the receiving schools so that the kids and families can start to be comfortable and meet people and integrate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland and San Francisco’s school boards have said the plans they’ve been presented disproportionately affect minority groups and don’t present clear pathways for students. Past board members argued that small school environments are good for student outcomes, and closing schools is painful for families who have built community.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The majority of districts follow through\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Do we want a community school manager and a restorative justice coordinator at every school?” asked new OUSD board member Patrice Berry. “I do. I think that’s important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those aren’t positions that the state covers in its base funding, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hard part about this is you are used to a lot of resources at your schools,” Elliott Duchon, SFUSD’s state-appointed advisor, said to the board at last week’s meeting. “Social workers are wonderful, but they are not generally part of the school allocation. It’s not really something that’s covered in your base expenditures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12025440 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-04-BL.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even paying for the positions California does require to “keep the lights on” — a principal, classroom teachers, clerks and janitors — at every SFUSD school will exceed the district’s unrestricted budget by more than $57 million next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the main arguments for consolidating school sites last fall was to free up funds to support auxiliary positions — such as counselors, social workers and specialists — that parents say are needs, not wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a smaller number of schools that keep better promises to kids,” Alameda County Superintendent Alysse Castro, who stepped up oversight in Oakland after the negative budget certification, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Oakland’s negative budget certification is its first in more than 20 years, it hasn’t been skating by financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s budget had been categorized as qualified — the equivalent of a maintenance warning light in your car — for seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We adapt and balance a budget year by year, make cuts mid-year to get through the year,” Grant-Dawson told KQED last month. “What we’ve not done is not created a comprehensive plan for it to be sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949458/oakland-teachers-strike-ends-as-union-reaches-agreement-with-school-district\">gave teachers a 10% raise\u003c/a> after a tense, weeklong strike. The raise was paid for, in part, with COVID-19 relief money, Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017856\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017856\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sahaana Garg, center, attends the Oakland Unified School District Board Meeting with her mom, Medha, right, and sister Naija, left, at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. The School Board took public comment on a proposed merger of ten different schools. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco covered overspending with pandemic funding as well, and its current three-year budget dips into reserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many years, SFUSD has relied on one-time funds to help us carry ourselves from year to year,” Su told the board last week. “If we make these cuts [to expenditures] now, we will be in a much better place in two years’ time where this district will be fully solvent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be able to give our teachers and educators and staff a level of stability and predictability that they need, which then translates to a level of stability and predictability that our students need, but we have to do this really hard thing now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the two decades Oakland has been in receivership, its school boards have come up with fiscal plans meant to set the district on a sustainable path, but they haven’t held up. The current iteration, dubbed the Re-Envision, Redesign, and Restructure plan, includes centralizing contracts for supplies and programs and potential staffing cuts. It’s been preliminarily approved but faces a final test next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco said it’s currently engaged in conversations to build its fiscal sustainability plan, which started under former superintendent Matt Wayne’s leadership and was mostly redone from scratch by Su last fall. Su is set to give insight into the staffing portion of the plan on Feb. 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fine said whether the districts are able to get out of the red depends on if they commit to pushing budget cuts and possibly moving forward on site closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of [districts] follow through on their plans. The board adopts a plan and the board follows through on what’s required to implement the plan. The exceptions are the ones that we’re talking about,” he said. “Oakland is notorious for taking a plan and naming it five different times. All they do is change the name of the plan but never fully implement the plan. San Francisco has yet to come up with a plan, in my opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">\u003cem>Sara Hossaini\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Feb. 18: This story was updated to clarify that Mike Hutchinson, who was not present for public comment during the Oakland school board meeting in December, left his seat at the dais only after no motion had been made for a vote on the school closures.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis and Hutchinson sparred all fall about how to address the district’s massive — and growing — budget crisis. Davis believed the district needed to close schools while Hutchinson, who originally supported voting on the merger plan, pushed back against more drastic consolidations, saying there hadn’t been sufficient community engagement to do so. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re sitting in the meeting, and I’m like, ‘OK, is there a motion for this plan? And nobody makes a motion,” Davis said. “It’s not my place. I’m not going to make the motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We basically didn’t vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017852\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017852\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Unified School District Board listens to public comment during a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland, California, on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. Students, families, educators, and community members raised their concerns about a proposed merger of their schools. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The anticlimactic finale of the school closure proposal is nothing new. Oakland’s school board has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905982/how-dare-you-oakland-school-closure-decision-inspires-new-opposition-efforts\">repeatedly floated, then backed off\u003c/a>, plans to close schools and impose other “draconian” cuts in the name of budget balancing. Lisa Grant-Dawson, the district’s chief budget officer, described it as a pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been decades of not dealing with systemic issues and ultimately asking the superintendent … and the staff to make it work for the year with some commitment that ‘We’ll do something in the future,’” she told KQED. “That doesn’t happen, and we just reach the place where we’ve run out of space for us to be able to make amends as we have historically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland — under state receivership since 2003 but now less than two years from regaining control — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023461/ousd-on-track-run-out-of-cash-after-avoiding-hard-decisions-scathing-letter-says\">certified a negative interim budget\u003c/a> in December. That designation puts it among just seven of nearly 1,000 California school districts that see no clear path to meeting their financial obligations over the next three years. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-unified-school-district\">San Francisco’s school district\u003c/a> is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017631/embattled-sf-school-district-offer-hundreds-buyouts-potential-layoffs\">also on the list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two urban, considerably well-resourced districts are outliers among California’s districts with severe financial struggles. Their budgets are hundreds of millions larger. Mike Fine, the executive director of FCMAT, the financial company tasked with assisting California districts with financial management, said the reason they find themselves at the bottom is because of this skittish pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Districts all over the state are dealing with many of the same issues,” he said. “What distinguishes the districts on the negative list from others is the districts on the negative list aren’t really dealing with their problem in a timely way. Oakland, San Francisco have [spent] lots of years of ignoring, of not dealing with the problem at hand. Of having the same conversation year over year over year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A series of rolled-back plans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last fall, rumors and fears about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002125/as-san-francisco-school-closures-loom-frustrated-teachers-say-hiring-has-hit-a-wall\">looming school closures\u003c/a> and budget cuts swirled through Oakland and San Francisco’s schoolyards and board meetings. Like many districts across the state, both have experienced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014795/fewer-kids-are-going-to-california-public-schools-is-there-a-right-way-to-close-campuses\">declining enrollment\u003c/a>, shrinking the per-pupil funding they receive. COVID-19 relief money, which buoyed districts throughout the pandemic, is drying up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, SFUSD released a plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008405/these-san-francisco-schools-could-close-list-isnt-final\">close three schools and merge another eight\u003c/a>. After massive blowback, it was shelved, and the superintendent who proposed it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">was ousted\u003c/a>. Weeks later, Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013739/oakland-school-board-spurns-campus-closures-plans-merge-some-schools-instead\">announced its more modest merger plan\u003c/a> — combining 10 schools that already share five campuses. Davis said this replaced a proposition to close a larger number of campuses that didn’t curry enough board support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both districts have skirted around unpopular school closures for years. In 2006, SFUSD drastically scaled back a plan to close schools and abandoned another push for consolidations just before the pandemic. After opening more than 40 small schools in the early 2000s amid declining enrollment, Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937906/oakland-school-board-halts-controversial-closure-plan-sparing-5-elementary-schools\">approved five closures\u003c/a> in 2022. The board reversed them before they took effect in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have emerged from [state] receivership at some point recently, and the fact that we’re still kind of eking along in receivership, why? Why haven’t we made the progress to get out of it?” Davis said. “It’s because we’ll be like, ‘OK, we’re going to close schools. No, we’re not going to close schools. OK, we’re going to make a plan. And then, what’s the plan?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008830\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008830\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers, K-5 students, families, and community members leave Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy to march to Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2024, to protest against the potential closure of the school. The school is on the list of 11 San Francisco campuses that could close after this academic year as the district grapples with declining enrollment and a budget deficit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fine said that closures are happening across the state and that, while painful, most boards approve and implement the plans without much squabbling. He said what eases the transitions is the way they’re usually rolled out. Most include at least a year of lead time and provide next steps for staff and students all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parents already know exactly where their kids are going, all questions are answered,” he told KQED. “They probably have already hosted some open houses at the receiving schools so that the kids and families can start to be comfortable and meet people and integrate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland and San Francisco’s school boards have said the plans they’ve been presented disproportionately affect minority groups and don’t present clear pathways for students. Past board members argued that small school environments are good for student outcomes, and closing schools is painful for families who have built community.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The majority of districts follow through\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Do we want a community school manager and a restorative justice coordinator at every school?” asked new OUSD board member Patrice Berry. “I do. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In celebration of Valentine’s Day, we asked listeners to share their stories about dating in the Bay Area. Today, we meet some daters from all around the region and hear how they’re navigating the highs and lows of the Bay Area dating scene. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2077177491&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\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>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:03:42] Hey, Carlos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos \u003c/strong>[00:03:44] Hi, Jessica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:03:45] I’m so excited to talk to you today. Can you maybe start by telling us a bit about the people that you spoke to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí \u003c/strong>[00:03:52] For this story, I spoke to folks all over the Bay Area. We wanted to make sure that we understood the experiences of what it’s like to be single, of what it’s like to date. Most of the folks we spoke to were born and raised in the Bay Area. I also spoke to a couple of folks who had moved from other places and loved the Bay, but they told me that, hey, this little region that we call home has a very particular energy that sometimes takes a while to get used to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:04:21] Sounds like we got a lot of really great perspectives and also there’s you, Carlos. You’re a dater in the Bay Area. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí \u003c/strong>[00:04:35] 5’8, deep dark brown eyes, melanated and marinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:04:41] There you go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí \u003c/strong>[00:04:43] I started using the apps, specifically Tinder, since I was able to. You know at that age, I was trying to figure out, like, hey, do I like girls, and I was like, oh, wait, I like both. And San Francisco is a place where I felt very comfortable and just being able to tell people that. I’ve met a lot of characters, a lot, a lot of characters, and I’m sure many of them can say the same about me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:05:13] Speaking of the apps, you mentioned the apps, and honestly, that’s the first thing I think of when I think of dating, especially in the past five, 10 years. And I’m curious, what’s your experience been like on the apps?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí \u003c/strong>[00:05:29] I’m a very spontaneous, instinctual person, and over time, I’ve learned that they’re tools, they’re helpful tools, but they’re also imperfect tools. But also, they make it really hard to just accurately express what you’re feeling, the energy, and also understand the other person. And also, it’s, you know, six, seven photos with maybe like two or three sentences. Right, right. How much are you going to get out of that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:05:54] Like you said, the apps are a tool. There’s good experiences to be had. There’s also not so great experiences to be had. But it seems like it’s just kind of an inevitable part of dating. And I want to get into the story of someone you talk to named Brenda. Can you tell me who she is and what her story is?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí \u003c/strong>[00:06:15] Brenda B is a teacher. For privacy reasons, we’re only going to be using the first letter of her last name. She is from Walnut Creek. She’s in her late 30s. She’s been in the apps and online dating for about 20 years, since she was 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brenda B \u003c/strong>[00:06:30] So that’s mostly how I’ve been able to meet people. And I also like make sure, like on my profile, that I say exactly like what I’m looking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:06:44] What did she tell you about what her overall experience has been like on the apps?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí \u003c/strong>[00:06:49] You know, one of the issues that comes up for her is that a lot of the guys she talks to, it’s just that they either don’t know what they want or they don’t want what she wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brenda B \u003c/strong>[00:06:59] A lot of people are interested in polyamory and/or non-monogamy. And so at my age and then wanting monogamy is really hard to find. I think in particular, that’s a unique trait of this area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:07:19] Wow, I mean, I didn’t realize monogamy was out of style. Maybe I’m out of touch. But I’m curious, you know, when Brenda does meet people who are also interested in monogamy, has she had good experiences?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí \u003c/strong>[00:07:37] She puts the best of herself out there. She’s very intentional. And she reminds me a lot of my female besties who go out to meet someone and they are putting so much thought into where the date’s gonna be, what they’re gonna wear, what they’re gonna talk about. And then they leave the house so excited and then a few hours later they come back and they’re like, the guy just didn’t measure up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brenda B \u003c/strong>[00:08:03] Single guys in the bay, I feel like if you put in a little bit of effort, it will be appreciated. Don’t waste people’s time. If you’re not interested in dating anyone, just delete your app, please.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí \u003c/strong>[00:08:17] Something else that bothers her is that she might go out with someone three, four, five times, start building a bit of a connection with them and then the guy’s like, “Wait a minute. This is not something I was ready for. I don’t know what I want. Let’s just stop seeing each other.” Brenda said it very clear. “Hey, it’s okay if you don’t wanna date or if you don’t want something serious, but communicate that from the beginning. The other person might be cool with that. But just don’t lead them along.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:08:55] People obviously resort to the apps because meeting people in real life is hard. I mean, even just making friends in real life is hard. But people are still managing to meet people IRL and I’m curious, based on the people you spoke to, what did you hear about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí \u003c/strong>[00:09:12] I spoke to Bri Fritz. She’s from Napa, works at a community college and dates queer people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bri Fritz \u003c/strong>[00:09:19] There are a couple queer people out here but it is very slim picking. For me, what I have found really successful is I joined sports leagues. Now, I’m not a sporty person. I had never played soccer, never played sports, but I went and they were so welcoming and through that, I met other people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí \u003c/strong>[00:09:37] She’s been able to form really cool networks of queer women and she’s been really intentional about this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:09:43] I really wish I was a sporty girl, but I would get so intimidated. I would definitely be the worst on the team. How did Bri choose sports?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí \u003c/strong>[00:10:01] These kind of spaces work really well for Bri because she’s not a drinker. She tries not to drink and wants to seek out spaces where drinking isn’t the center of what people are doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bri Fritz \u003c/strong>[00:10:12] The thing with the queer community is there’s a lot of focus on drinking and going to the bars and that’s not really my scene. I don’t like to just randomly approach people. I get pretty nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí \u003c/strong>[00:10:22] There’s a lot of really fun sports leagues for queer women, queer men, trans and non-binary folks all over the Bay Area and it can make meeting people a lot less daunting and even if you don’t meet someone that you’re romantically interested in, you’re now just gonna have a bigger network of people, of friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:10:46] I mean, it honestly sounds like a win -win. You know, she’s doing, she’s being active. She’s, you know, doing these fun activities. She’s meeting super cool people. I wonder, is Brie running into any challenges? Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí \u003c/strong>[00:11:02] The Bay Area is a huge place. It’s nine counties. But what that means is like, you know, you can meet someone at a bar or an app or something that might tell you, oh yeah, I live in the Bay too. And you might live in Marin and they’re like, and I live in San Jose. So you’re like, okay, how am I gonna make this work? Especially if you’re interested in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bri Fritz \u003c/strong>[00:11:21] I met actually somebody who’s originally from Napa, lived in Walnut Creek and then moved to Fremont and they were asking if I was okay with the commute. Luckily, I love to drive. I have a little Honda Fit. And so for me, that commute was okay. We would sometimes meet halfway but it was kind of difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:11:37] I feel the commuting pain point. I live in San Jose. I obviously work here in San Francisco. I feel like I’m in a long distance relationship with the rest of the Bay team. But I’m curious, you know, besides joining a sports league which is super cool. What are some other good ways you heard from the people that you spoke to about meeting people in real life?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí \u003c/strong>[00:12:04] Yeah, I spoke about that with Tim Huey. He’s in his 30s, living in Oakland and working as an organizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tim Huey \u003c/strong>[00:12:12] When it comes to meeting people in real life that’s certainly something that is maybe a little bit of a lost art. And so for myself, one of those spaces is kind of within community organizing, activism and advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí \u003c/strong>[00:12:30] Something that’s really important to Tim are the values, what the other person believes. Tim mentioned is that it helps you build trust with that person. That’s, I mean, in any relationship if you already have that, that makes things a lot stronger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tim Huey \u003c/strong>[00:12:43] You’re sitting in city hall for five hours for a meeting and you’re trying to wait for your turn to speak to you and making friends with people around you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:12:51] Has this worked out romantically for Tim as well?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí \u003c/strong>[00:12:55] In his case, it hasn’t worked out just because with the folks he’s met they mentioned that it’s best to not date within the movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tim Huey \u003c/strong>[00:13:05] A lot of these spaces are very close -knit doing a lot of important and stressful work. So adding romantic relationships into that element can and has in some cases been a little bit more drama than maybe it’s worth to some people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:13:24] Yeah, like dating within a particular community if it’s small or if it overlaps with your work like it definitely sounds like there are some real pitfalls there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí \u003c/strong>[00:13:36] Yeah, no, it makes things messy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:13:43] Just to wrap up, Carlos, I know you asked each of these daters for their best advice and I’m curious, what did they tell you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí \u003c/strong>[00:13:51] I loved asking folks this question because what they told me it just made me smile. 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It runs under the cities of Berkeley, Oakland and Hayward before connecting to the longer Calaveras fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward’s slip-strike fault hasn’t been hit with a strong earthquake since the 1860s, according to USGS, but do these smaller shakes mean the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1949019/its-about-time-how-to-get-ready-for-the-next-emergency\">Big One\u003c/a> is happening soon?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953682\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1408947194.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953682\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1408947194.jpg\" alt=\"A panoramic view of the North Bay shoreline near Rodeo. In the foreground are oil refinery terminals. Behind them are houses and hills.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1408947194.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1408947194-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1408947194-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1408947194-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phillips 66’s refinery in Rodeo, along the San Pablo Bay. The Feb. 13 quakes’ epicenters surrounded the Hayward fault, which spans from San Pablo Bay in the north to Fremont in the south. \u003ccite>(Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Peggy Hellweg with UC Berkeley’s Seismology Lab, who spoke to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1936949/do-little-quakes-mean-the-big-one-is-close-at-hand\">KQED in 2019\u003c/a>, it’s not so easy to know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said at the time that small quakes happen along the Hayward fault all the time, as they did in January of that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past 20 to 30 years, those worrisome, but fairly harmless, shakes had never led to a “big one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longer the fault goes without a significant quake, though, the more pressure it builds up, Hellweg said. And the widespread myth that small earthquakes release some of this tension isn’t true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1936949 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/05-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average interval between major seismic events on the Hayward fault is about 140 years, plus or minus 50. \u003ca href=\"https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2016/3020/fs20163020.pdf\">USGS researchers\u003c/a> say there’s about a 33% chance a magnitude 7 quake could take place on the fault in the next three decades, and there’s a slightly lower but still significant chance that two other faults that run through the Bay Area, the Paicines and San Andreas, could see some action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One concern on the East Bay fault specifically is that it is made of a combination of locked and creeping lines. While the creeping ones move, normally causing some slight shaking, locked faults don’t. Instead, shaking on those could be foreshocks of a larger quake to come, UC Berkeley seismologist Roland Burgmann previously told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever a quake — big or small — occurs, it’s a good time to check on earthquake kits and make sure to have the MyShake app downloaded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The app, created by Berkeley’s Seismology Lab, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999982/recent-california-earthquakes-had-a-few-seconds-warning-in-the-big-one-that-could-save-lives\">gave Californians a few seconds’ notice\u003c/a> before significant earthquakes last year and could make a real difference when a big one hits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farther from the epicenter, the longer the warning time you can usually get from the app, which sends out a notification instructing people to do what they’ve been taught since kindergarten but could forget in a panic: duck, cover and hold on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen that for many earthquakes, particularly on the West Coast, in California, the people that are injured are injured by things falling on them because they’re trying to get to safety,” said Angie Lux, a project scientist for the Berkeley Seismology Lab’s earthquake early warning program. “It’s really hard to move during an earthquake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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But flood advisories are in effect for most of the Bay Area through 5:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve heard numerous reports of flooding from the East Bay, Santa Cruz Mountains and the North Bay,” said Rachel Kennedy, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Bay Area office. “There have been several landslides, but from here on out, we should see rain rates decrease.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As many as 10,000 PG&E customers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1950931/map-pge-power-outages\">are without power\u003c/a>, with the majority in the South Bay. One man was killed in an early morning crash west of Santa Cruz, but it was not immediately certain whether the rain was a factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dylan Flynn, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Bay Area office, said the worst of the storm was expected before 10 a.m., though the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025860/trump-orders-and-atmospheric-rivers-how-prepared-are-californias-levees\">atmospheric river\u003c/a> will bring moderate to heavy rainfall and wind gusts over 50 mph across the Bay Area through Friday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/nwsbayarea/status/1890074097117536551?s=46&t=8L9OHVE58oUXKjH2wCBDtA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1 and 3 inches of rain have fallen over the region so far. By the time the storm passes, the North Bay could receive up to 4 inches of rain, the Bay Area up to 3 inches and the Santa Cruz Mountains up to 6 inches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pumping tropical moisture through the atmosphere directly at us; It’s like a fire hose,” Flynn said. “In terms of rainfall rates, this is about as heavy as it gets for us for atmospheric rivers. The only good news is that principal impacts only lasted about 12 hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrival flights are experiencing delays at San Francisco International Airport by more than an hour because of winds, according to FlightAware. The website reports departures are delayed by nearly an hour and a half. Inbound flights are delayed at the origin by more than two hours due to the wind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm has knocked over trees from Marin to Santa Cruz, including a large tree blocking Skyline Boulevard at Brandy Rock Way in Oakland’s Ridgemont neighborhood, according to an X post by the Oakland Fire Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OaklandFireLive/status/1890140306768871698\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple roads are closed across Sonoma County and on major highways across the region near Oakland, San Mateo, Sunnyvale, Redwood City, Hercules, Vallejo, South San Francisco, San Carlos, Emeryville and Castro Valley, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Highways are sort of the canary in the coal mine of where we start to see flooding in the typical places and how flooding is likely to become more widespread from there,” Kennedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders have been lifted across Santa Cruz County. Evacuation orders covered Felton Grove residents living near the San Lorenzo River, as well as residents near Watsonville because of rising water levels in two local creeks: Corralitos and Salsipuedes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz County posted a video on Facebook showing the Corralitos Creek overflowing with brown, muddy water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CHPscrz/status/1890091906086105334\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Soquel, Main Street above Bates Creek was closed due to a tree down with fallen wires, and a landslide and flooding shut down San Jose Road. Some roads were also closed in Watsonville and Interlaken, according to the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel Murillo, public information officer for the California Highway Patrol office in Santa Cruz, said that as the atmospheric river pounds the region, all available officers are working and gearing up for anything else the storm brings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a vehicle that got stuck in the middle of the roadway because that individual chose to drive across flooded roads,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said a man was killed around 4:20 a.m. on State Route 1 and Scaroni Road when he was hit by a truck. Murillo said he can’t at this point attribute the death to the rain, but it happened during the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service is paying close attention to any notable rise in streams and major rivers, with the Russian River at Guerneville and the San Lorenzo River having the highest chances of going into flood stage. “San Lorenzo is of particular concern given the rain so far and how flashy that basin is. The river gauge is already reporting a sharp rise,” meteorologists wrote in the weather service’s morning forecast discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh said this atmospheric river mirrors a more significant trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1996145 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/250210-SurferSewage-05-BL-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a trend towards the atmospheric river storms that make landfall getting warmer,” he said. “They’ll tend to produce more rainfall than snow, which creates runoff right away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that water is spilling into roadways, which is causing traffic issues, especially in the North Bay, said Sgt. 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Heavy rainfall may also continue to cause landslides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the rain and wind grabs everybody’s attention, the most deadly weather we have here in the Bay Area is high surf and people getting swept out to sea,” Flynn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flynn said scattered showers will pick up Thursday afternoon with a chance of thunderstorms, but the rain will be spottier than what happened overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By Friday afternoon, the sun will make a triumphant return, and the rain will stop,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meteorologists expect a weaker storm to move through the region Sunday, with light rain focused on the North Bay. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported for K Onda KQED, a monthly newsletter focused on the Bay Area’s Latinx community. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/k-onda\">\u003cem>Click here to subscribe.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met children’s author Aida Salazar back in 2017 at an intensive, weeklong writing class. It was the type of class aspiring writers sign up for to receive feedback and encouragement to keep going, but few end up going pro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar landed a book deal. Since 2020, she has published four young adult novels, several anthologies, a handful of children’s books and translations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I recently caught up with Salazar in the lobby of Freight & Salvage, a live music venue in Berkeley, before her partner, acclaimed Latin jazz percussionist John Santos, took the stage with his sextet. The sold-out show marked the 40th anniversary of Machete Records, the label he founded, and the release of his latest album, “Horizontes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar was in charge of the merchandise table, a role she begrudgingly took when they started dating more than 25 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I moved in with him, I said, ‘I’m not going to be the one selling your CDs,’ and now I’m always the one selling his CDs because I know his collection so well,” she said, laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, she set out copies of her books alongside the rows of CDs, turning the merch table into another symbol of their partnership. Making a living as an artist in the Bay Area is hard enough for one person, let alone two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026499\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250201_K-Onda_DMB_04886.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250201_K-Onda_DMB_04886.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250201_K-Onda_DMB_04886-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250201_K-Onda_DMB_04886-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250201_K-Onda_DMB_04886-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250201_K-Onda_DMB_04886-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250201_K-Onda_DMB_04886-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The John Santos Sextet performs to a sold out crowd at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, California, Feb. 1, 2025. The concert marked the release of a new album, Horizontes, along with the 40th anniversary of the launch of Santos’ label, Machete Records. The sextet features bassist Saul Sierra, drummer David Flores, flutist John Calloway, saxophonist Charlie Gurke, and pianist and trumpeter Marco Diaz. The band was joined by percussionist Javier Navarrette; pianist Marcel Joao, Santos’ 17-year-old son; vocalists Maria Cora, Christelle Durandy and Juan Luis Pérez; cuatro player Pedro Pastrana; violinist Anthony Blea; and timbales legend Orestes Vilató. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Artists are often credited with fueling the soul and character of a place, but in the Bay Area, artists are regularly forced to flee the high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I sat down with Salazar and Santos in their home earlier this year to find out more about how they thrive as a couple — and as working artists in the Bay Area. Art, they said, brought them together as a spiritual practice, a creative practice and a vehicle for social justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar’s books, including \u003cem>The Moon Within\u003c/em>, \u003cem>A Seed in the Sun\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Ultraviolet\u003c/em>, focus on the experiences of young Latinos navigating everything from their menstrual cycles to immigration to toxic masculinity. Her children’s book, \u003cem>Jovita Wore Pants\u003c/em>, tells the story of her distant aunt who dressed as a man to fight in a civil war over religious rights in 1920s Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021877 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-009-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santos, 69, was born and raised in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. His mother’s family was originally from Puerto Rico, and his father’s from Cape Verde, a small island nation off the coast of West Africa. He learned traditional Caribbean and African rhythms from the various professional musicians in his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They met in 2000 in Los Angeles, where Salazar grew up. At 27, she was an artist who made a living producing cultural events for nonprofits and arts organizations. At the time, she had a rule of not dating musicians or actors because they “didn’t know when to stop performing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“John came in to do a performance at the museum where I was helping produce a concert series,” Salazar, now 52, continued. “He had an energy about him that was really awesome. I had to take him around to different gigs throughout the weekend, and he just made me laugh. He was so down-to-earth and so charismatic. He just didn’t feel like he was performing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also didn’t hurt that he was tall and good-looking, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I met Aida, she was a very beautiful young lady,” Santos said. “She’s very natural, very comfortable in her skin. And smart as a whip and communicative. She was very spunky. That was very attractive. And finding out about her work in the community and her background as an activist, I related to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024525\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250127_K-Onda_DB_00109.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250127_K-Onda_DB_00109.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250127_K-Onda_DB_00109-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250127_K-Onda_DB_00109-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250127_K-Onda_DB_00109-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250127_K-Onda_DB_00109-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250127_K-Onda_DB_00109-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Santos and Aida Salazar pose for a portrait in front of their home in Oakland, California, on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. 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In retrospect, the purchase was fortuitous, given how much home values have risen in Oakland.[aside postID=news_12014006 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Rogelio_Garcia_-_Convivir1-e1731360269373-1020x616.png']Santos’ focus on Latin jazz and Afro-Caribbean music could have pulled him to New York City, but he never had the desire to leave the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not interested in the commercial aspect of music. I’m not interested in winning a Grammy. I’m not interested in breaking records sales because I know that’s not realistic,” he said. “I’ve never felt limited being in the Bay Area. It’s kind of in my DNA. It’s more mellow here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar referred to the house as a blessing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call it La Casa Florida because there’s flowers everywhere outside like the big bougainvillea that I just adore,” she said. “It’s been like a canvas to be able to grow all of these plants everywhere and really make this place our home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve focused on what Salazar calls “the ultimate creation,” their children. Their first child, Amaly Celeste, died a month after she was born — a loss they are still grappling with two decades later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The arts gave us something to express the grief we have and to dive into it and give us some solace,” Santos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have two children. A daughter, Avelina Claridad, 19, is an accomplished dancer. Their son, Marcel Joao, 17, studies music at the Oakland School for the Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We facilitated them to find their own artistic path, and they became artists not because we wanted them to, but just because we were able to expose them to a world of the arts,” Salazar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar plans to release \u003cem>Stream,\u003c/em> her fifth novel, next year. Santos hopes to perform at SF Jazz for his 70th birthday in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re lucky to be still doing what we’re doing,” Santos said. “I feel fortunate to have met Aida, who I respect greatly for being an artist. It’s [an] ideal situation because we are coming from the same place in terms of how we see art and the role of art in the community and how it’s such an important voice for sanity and for peace in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Santos’ focus on Latin jazz and Afro-Caribbean music could have pulled him to New York City, but he never had the desire to leave the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not interested in the commercial aspect of music. I’m not interested in winning a Grammy. I’m not interested in breaking records sales because I know that’s not realistic,” he said. “I’ve never felt limited being in the Bay Area. It’s kind of in my DNA. It’s more mellow here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar referred to the house as a blessing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call it La Casa Florida because there’s flowers everywhere outside like the big bougainvillea that I just adore,” she said. “It’s been like a canvas to be able to grow all of these plants everywhere and really make this place our home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve focused on what Salazar calls “the ultimate creation,” their children. Their first child, Amaly Celeste, died a month after she was born — a loss they are still grappling with two decades later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The arts gave us something to express the grief we have and to dive into it and give us some solace,” Santos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have two children. A daughter, Avelina Claridad, 19, is an accomplished dancer. Their son, Marcel Joao, 17, studies music at the Oakland School for the Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We facilitated them to find their own artistic path, and they became artists not because we wanted them to, but just because we were able to expose them to a world of the arts,” Salazar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar plans to release \u003cem>Stream,\u003c/em> her fifth novel, next year. Santos hopes to perform at SF Jazz for his 70th birthday in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re lucky to be still doing what we’re doing,” Santos said. “I feel fortunate to have met Aida, who I respect greatly for being an artist. It’s [an] ideal situation because we are coming from the same place in terms of how we see art and the role of art in the community and how it’s such an important voice for sanity and for peace in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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A spokesperson for Lee, who opened her campaign headquarters in downtown Oakland on Saturday, said she planned to donate the most recent contributions from David Duong to Meals on Wheels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Barbara Lee has zero tolerance for any pay to play or special interest influence, has denounced these disturbing allegations, and has never been involved in any City vendor selection or contract issuance — and she fully supports strengthening City ethics practices,” Bilen Mesfin, a spokesperson for Lee’s mayoral campaign, told KQED Feb. 6. “As her final congressional term has reached its natural conclusion, her previous congressional accounts are now closed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026401 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Repr. Barbara Lee speaks to the crowd as Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, right, addresses the room at the grand opening of her campaign headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the past two decades, the Duongs have been prolific donors to political campaigns and elected officials at the local, state and federal levels. Some politicians have returned those donations as an FBI investigation involving the Duongs has come into focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal campaign finance data show that since 1998, David Duong, Andy Duong and other members of the Duong family have contributed at least $66,250 to Lee. Most recently, David Duong contributed $5,000 to Lee’s unsuccessful run for Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As for the $5000 donated to her senate campaign in 2023, Barbara Lee is donating that to Meals on Wheels,” Mesfin said in a follow-up email on Feb. 7, hours before Lee’s campaign launch in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a room full of supporters at her new campaign headquarters on Saturday, Lee spoke of regaining public trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to make sure that all of the issues around ethics and transparency, the gaps are closed in this city. Because we have to restore trust and confidence with our residents,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. postal inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences to members of a politically connected family who run the citys contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Campaign finance records released so far do not show Lee has received donations from the Duongs during her run for mayor, and the past donations themselves are not an indication of wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that the Duongs are long-standing donors to Lee, often giving at the maximum allowed,” said Brendan Glavin, director of insights at OpenSecrets, which tracks money in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glavin reviewed campaign finance data for Barbara Lee’s political campaigns since 1998 at KQED’s request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal election finance documents show that Lee’s congressional campaign committee was \u003ca href=\"https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/389/202411050300227389/202411050300227389.pdf\">terminated as of November\u003c/a>. However, a committee for Lee’s Senate run, which remains open, had $48,791.98 cash on hand and $91,035.13 in debts as of Dec. 31, according to the most recent data available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors allege that David and Andy Duong financed negative political mailers targeting Thao’s opponents in the 2022 mayoral election and that following the election, the Duongs and a person identified as “co-conspirator 1” paid $95,000 to Jones for a no-show job. The unnamed co-conspirator appears to be local businessman and political operative Mario Juarez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022840\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Jones, longtime partner of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, leaves the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In exchange, Thao allegedly promised to extend the Duongs’ recycling company’s contract with the city, give the Duongs and the co-conspirator influence over city appointments and use public money to purchase housing units from another company owned by the Duongs and the co-conspirator, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/lorenmtaylor/status/1887565988570513462\">post on social media platform X on Thursday\u003c/a>, former Oakland City Councilmember Loren Taylor, one of Lee’s opponents in the mayor’s race, said the scandal had caused the public to lose trust in Oakland city government and pressed Lee to return the donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m calling on all East Bay officials — including my opponent in the upcoming special election, Former Congresswoman Barbara Lee — who have received money from the Duong family to donate those funds to charity,” Taylor said. “We must demonstrate to residents that we have learned from these events and that the public can trust us to lead Oakland during the difficult time that lies ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to campaign finance records, the Duongs have donated to politicians at almost every level of government for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State campaign finance data show members of the family have contributed often to big-name Democrats like Rob and Mia Bonta, Jerry Brown and Kamala Harris, while David Duong has donated to both Democrats and Republicans at the federal level, including $250,000 to a committee called Trump Victory in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Rep. Barbara Lee, center right, receives a welcome hug from Oakland District 4 Councilmember Janani Ramachandran at the grand opening of the Barbara Lee Campaign Headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2021, California’s Fair Political Practices Commission produced a report in support of a finding of probable cause alleging that Andy Duong, between at least 2016 and 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991426/oakland-fbi-raids-also-targeted-this-powerful-family-heres-what-we-know\">orchestrated an elaborate campaign contribution laundering scheme\u003c/a> for the benefit of California Waste Solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report describes how Duong allegedly sought out people to write campaign contribution checks and then reimbursed them with cash to bypass campaign donation limits while CWS had ongoing business with Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, Duong allegedly provided committees and candidates with checks at campaign fundraisers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While Duong and CWS concealed the true source of the contributions, Duong ensured the targeted candidates were aware of his commitment to raise money for their campaign by attending candidate fundraisers, bringing individuals to campaign fundraisers, and at times hosting campaign fundraisers,” the report reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is still open and under investigation, a spokesperson for FPPC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campaign door hangers are on display at the grand opening of the headquarters for the Barbara Lee campaign headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was opened as a joint investigation with the Oakland Public Ethics Commission, which the FBI credited at a January press conference for the initial information that led to the agency’s multiyear investigation of Thao, Jones and the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, after the FBI raided Thao’s home and three addresses associated with the Duongs and their business, several elected officials returned donations they received from the Duongs, including California Attorney General Rob Bonta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta returned $155,100 “out of an abundance of caution,” according to then-spokesperson Nathan Click.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Bay Congressman Ro Khanna donated $5,800 in contributions from the Duongs to Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action, Maitri and Community Seva, a spokesperson for the congressman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12022900 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00001-1020x681.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for then-Senate candidate Adam Schiff’s campaign \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/silicon-valley-san-jose-politicians-give-back-donations-following-fbi-raids-david-duong-california-waste-solutions/\">told the \u003cem>San José Spotlight\u003c/em>\u003c/a> last year that “following public news reports, the campaign will be giving $26,000 — the total contributions received from Mr. Duong and his family — to a local nonprofit helping address housing and homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s review of campaign finance records at the city, state and federal level did not uncover documentation of other candidates in the current Oakland mayors’ race receiving donations from the Duongs in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that almost anyone else in local politics who wants to reassure their constituents that they are clean and above board should consider doing the same thing,” said Dan Schnur, professor of political communication at USC and UC Berkeley and the former chair of California’s Fair Political Practices Commission. “It sounds like the Lee campaign decided that avoiding unnecessary bad publicity is more valuable than the $5,000. That is a wise decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous photos posted to Andy Duong’s Instagram account show him posing with major Democratic politicians at the state and federal level, including Hillary Clinton, Rob Bonta, Harris and Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Taylor and Lee also appear in photos posted to the account. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BsXKPmcAvGN/?img_index=3\">Jan. 7, 2019 post\u003c/a>, Thao, Taylor and former Oakland City Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas, now an Alameda County supervisor, appear in selfies with Andy Duong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was when the three of us — Nikki Bas, myself and Sheng Thao — were inaugurated. That was when we were first sworn into office as new council members,” Taylor said. “So there was a lot of photos being taken with a lot of people that I didn’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said that after Bonta returned donations from the Duongs, his staff reviewed their campaign financial records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as I know, I have never received any financial contributions from the Duong family,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Lee’s campaign did not respond to questions about the extent and nature of her relationship with members of the Duong family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BVvmt3Zgf3f/?hl=en\">June 24, 2017\u003c/a> photo, Andy Duong appears next to Lee at her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six days later, campaign finance records show, he contributed $2,700 to Lee’s reelection campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, who is running to be mayor of Oakland in an April 15 special election, served in Congress for more than 25 years before retiring and announcing her candidacy last month. A spokesperson for Lee, who opened her campaign headquarters in downtown Oakland on Saturday, said she planned to donate the most recent contributions from David Duong to Meals on Wheels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Barbara Lee has zero tolerance for any pay to play or special interest influence, has denounced these disturbing allegations, and has never been involved in any City vendor selection or contract issuance — and she fully supports strengthening City ethics practices,” Bilen Mesfin, a spokesperson for Lee’s mayoral campaign, told KQED Feb. 6. “As her final congressional term has reached its natural conclusion, her previous congressional accounts are now closed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026401 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Repr. Barbara Lee speaks to the crowd as Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, right, addresses the room at the grand opening of her campaign headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the past two decades, the Duongs have been prolific donors to political campaigns and elected officials at the local, state and federal levels. Some politicians have returned those donations as an FBI investigation involving the Duongs has come into focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal campaign finance data show that since 1998, David Duong, Andy Duong and other members of the Duong family have contributed at least $66,250 to Lee. Most recently, David Duong contributed $5,000 to Lee’s unsuccessful run for Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As for the $5000 donated to her senate campaign in 2023, Barbara Lee is donating that to Meals on Wheels,” Mesfin said in a follow-up email on Feb. 7, hours before Lee’s campaign launch in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a room full of supporters at her new campaign headquarters on Saturday, Lee spoke of regaining public trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to make sure that all of the issues around ethics and transparency, the gaps are closed in this city. Because we have to restore trust and confidence with our residents,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. postal inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences to members of a politically connected family who run the citys contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Campaign finance records released so far do not show Lee has received donations from the Duongs during her run for mayor, and the past donations themselves are not an indication of wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that the Duongs are long-standing donors to Lee, often giving at the maximum allowed,” said Brendan Glavin, director of insights at OpenSecrets, which tracks money in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glavin reviewed campaign finance data for Barbara Lee’s political campaigns since 1998 at KQED’s request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal election finance documents show that Lee’s congressional campaign committee was \u003ca href=\"https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/389/202411050300227389/202411050300227389.pdf\">terminated as of November\u003c/a>. However, a committee for Lee’s Senate run, which remains open, had $48,791.98 cash on hand and $91,035.13 in debts as of Dec. 31, according to the most recent data available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors allege that David and Andy Duong financed negative political mailers targeting Thao’s opponents in the 2022 mayoral election and that following the election, the Duongs and a person identified as “co-conspirator 1” paid $95,000 to Jones for a no-show job. The unnamed co-conspirator appears to be local businessman and political operative Mario Juarez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022840\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Jones, longtime partner of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, leaves the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In exchange, Thao allegedly promised to extend the Duongs’ recycling company’s contract with the city, give the Duongs and the co-conspirator influence over city appointments and use public money to purchase housing units from another company owned by the Duongs and the co-conspirator, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/lorenmtaylor/status/1887565988570513462\">post on social media platform X on Thursday\u003c/a>, former Oakland City Councilmember Loren Taylor, one of Lee’s opponents in the mayor’s race, said the scandal had caused the public to lose trust in Oakland city government and pressed Lee to return the donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m calling on all East Bay officials — including my opponent in the upcoming special election, Former Congresswoman Barbara Lee — who have received money from the Duong family to donate those funds to charity,” Taylor said. “We must demonstrate to residents that we have learned from these events and that the public can trust us to lead Oakland during the difficult time that lies ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to campaign finance records, the Duongs have donated to politicians at almost every level of government for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State campaign finance data show members of the family have contributed often to big-name Democrats like Rob and Mia Bonta, Jerry Brown and Kamala Harris, while David Duong has donated to both Democrats and Republicans at the federal level, including $250,000 to a committee called Trump Victory in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Rep. Barbara Lee, center right, receives a welcome hug from Oakland District 4 Councilmember Janani Ramachandran at the grand opening of the Barbara Lee Campaign Headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2021, California’s Fair Political Practices Commission produced a report in support of a finding of probable cause alleging that Andy Duong, between at least 2016 and 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991426/oakland-fbi-raids-also-targeted-this-powerful-family-heres-what-we-know\">orchestrated an elaborate campaign contribution laundering scheme\u003c/a> for the benefit of California Waste Solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report describes how Duong allegedly sought out people to write campaign contribution checks and then reimbursed them with cash to bypass campaign donation limits while CWS had ongoing business with Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, Duong allegedly provided committees and candidates with checks at campaign fundraisers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While Duong and CWS concealed the true source of the contributions, Duong ensured the targeted candidates were aware of his commitment to raise money for their campaign by attending candidate fundraisers, bringing individuals to campaign fundraisers, and at times hosting campaign fundraisers,” the report reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is still open and under investigation, a spokesperson for FPPC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campaign door hangers are on display at the grand opening of the headquarters for the Barbara Lee campaign headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was opened as a joint investigation with the Oakland Public Ethics Commission, which the FBI credited at a January press conference for the initial information that led to the agency’s multiyear investigation of Thao, Jones and the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, after the FBI raided Thao’s home and three addresses associated with the Duongs and their business, several elected officials returned donations they received from the Duongs, including California Attorney General Rob Bonta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta returned $155,100 “out of an abundance of caution,” according to then-spokesperson Nathan Click.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Bay Congressman Ro Khanna donated $5,800 in contributions from the Duongs to Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action, Maitri and Community Seva, a spokesperson for the congressman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for then-Senate candidate Adam Schiff’s campaign \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/silicon-valley-san-jose-politicians-give-back-donations-following-fbi-raids-david-duong-california-waste-solutions/\">told the \u003cem>San José Spotlight\u003c/em>\u003c/a> last year that “following public news reports, the campaign will be giving $26,000 — the total contributions received from Mr. Duong and his family — to a local nonprofit helping address housing and homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s review of campaign finance records at the city, state and federal level did not uncover documentation of other candidates in the current Oakland mayors’ race receiving donations from the Duongs in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that almost anyone else in local politics who wants to reassure their constituents that they are clean and above board should consider doing the same thing,” said Dan Schnur, professor of political communication at USC and UC Berkeley and the former chair of California’s Fair Political Practices Commission. “It sounds like the Lee campaign decided that avoiding unnecessary bad publicity is more valuable than the $5,000. That is a wise decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous photos posted to Andy Duong’s Instagram account show him posing with major Democratic politicians at the state and federal level, including Hillary Clinton, Rob Bonta, Harris and Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Taylor and Lee also appear in photos posted to the account. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BsXKPmcAvGN/?img_index=3\">Jan. 7, 2019 post\u003c/a>, Thao, Taylor and former Oakland City Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas, now an Alameda County supervisor, appear in selfies with Andy Duong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was when the three of us — Nikki Bas, myself and Sheng Thao — were inaugurated. That was when we were first sworn into office as new council members,” Taylor said. “So there was a lot of photos being taken with a lot of people that I didn’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said that after Bonta returned donations from the Duongs, his staff reviewed their campaign financial records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as I know, I have never received any financial contributions from the Duong family,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Lee’s campaign did not respond to questions about the extent and nature of her relationship with members of the Duong family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BVvmt3Zgf3f/?hl=en\">June 24, 2017\u003c/a> photo, Andy Duong appears next to Lee at her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six days later, campaign finance records show, he contributed $2,700 to Lee’s reelection campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Two storm-related deaths were reported in Sonoma County in the last 24 hours \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025777/north-bay-rivers-flood-after-storm-little-time-prepare-next-round-rain\">as rivers swelled\u003c/a> and another round of rain moved in, authorities said Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 4:40 p.m. Wednesday, deputies and firefighters responded to a report of a person dead in a culvert on the 7700 block of Franz Valley Road in Santa Rosa, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sonomasheriff/posts/pfbid0351U5AezHNj91ZMQU55zmPQBHKN4Jjp1Tk7w41iqeG73JZ6YooS51FS3mW7G9mCcal\">said in a social media post\u003c/a>. Fire personnel from the Northern Sonoma County Fire District removed his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 7 a.m. Thursday, deputies working with firefighters and the California National Guard recovered another body from the 5800 block of Hall Road in Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither man’s identity was released pending notification of family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deaths were reported as another round of showers began to soak the Bay Area on Thursday, raising the risk of further flooding and landslides, particularly in the North Bay, where all schools in the Guerneville School District remained closed, and some homes in Santa Rosa and nearby areas were evacuated Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Russian River and a few central Sonoma County creeks reached moderate flood levels on Wednesday morning, the Russian River at Guerneville had receded to the lower end of the minor flood zone when the rain began around 7 a.m. Thursday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11723283\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/GettyImages-631415386-e1549313950719.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars drive on a flooded road in Guerneville in January 2017. The Russian River town is just downstream from Venado, a site in the northern Sonoma County hills that is one of the rainiest locations in California. On Tuesday, at least one school in Guerneville closed because of the storm, and Sonoma County alerted residents in multiple RV parks along the Russian River and creeks that flow into the waterway that flooding may occur. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Water levels are expected to continue to decrease throughout the day since the North Bay — which was hit hardest by the previous two storms — is expected to get just about an inch of rain while the East Bay and San Francisco pick up about a half-inch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm won’t rival those \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025572/storm-stalls-over-bay-area-raising-risk-flooding-potential-tornado-warning\">earlier in the week\u003c/a>, but it could bring another inch or a few of rainfall and gusty winds up to 55 miles per hour as it sweeps over Northern California throughout the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12025777 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-RainStorm-01-BL-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/national-weather-service\">National Weather Service\u003c/a> is forecasting consistent precipitation throughout the day, trailing off late Thursday night. While showers should be moderate, meteorologist Roger Gass said there’s a slight thunderstorm risk in the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say there’s anywhere from 10%–15% [chance], so not very significant, but I wouldn’t rule out a rumble of thunder here and there,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The South Bay could see the highest rainfall totals from Thursday’s storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest winners are going to be in the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Santa Lucia range, where we could see up to about 4 to 4 ½ inches,” Gass said. “In the Santa Cruz mountains, anywhere from 2 to 3 [inches].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winds could reach up to 50 mph at lower elevations, picking up in the afternoon and evening, and stronger gusts could hit higher elevation areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weekend forecast looks clear, and there’s a 90%–100% chance of fresh snow in the Sierra for the ski-bound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next week, the National Weather Service expects a return of rain and unsettled conditions, which could last through most of the work week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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So when I was brought into work here, it was an incredible honor,” KTVU reporter Amber Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After serving in the Army, Richmond started his career at KTVU as a part-time clerk and typist in 1968, eventually becoming one of the nation’s first Black anchors of a major market TV newscast in 1976 — a position he would hold until he retired in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the Black community, he was hope; they could turn on the TV, and there was someone who identified with us,” retired KTVU photographer Bill Moore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s steady news delivery was one of his trademarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025872\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12025872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/dennis-richmond-3-1-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/dennis-richmond-3-1-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/dennis-richmond-3-1-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/dennis-richmond-3-1.jpg 871w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Legendary KTVU anchor Dennis Richmond, the face of Bay Area journalism for four decades, remained synonymous with Channel 2 long after his retirement. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of KTVU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ I initially searched for an anchor voice, and I quickly decided that the best direction was just to be me,” Richmond said in a 2008 interview with KQED. “ When I started, that was during an era where everyone was doing ‘happy talks,’ and I thought it was the goofiest thing in the world. I’m just telling you what’s going on. My opinion is not involved. You won’t see me raising an eyebrow or making any kind of ‘tsk tsk’ noise or anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond was the face and voice many Bay Area residents turned to during the region’s most pressing times, including the assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978, the Jonestown Massacre that followed later that year, and the Oakland Hills firestorm of 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former colleagues praised his commitment to the highest standards of journalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a tough bird, man,” said CNN anchor Sara Sidner, who worked with Richmond at KTVU earlier in her career. “ He was a stickler for really sticking with the facts and telling the best story that you possibly could with emotion, with honesty, with integrity. He made me a better journalist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After San Francisco Supervisor Dan White shot and killed Moscone and Milk, Richmond pulled no punches when interviewing White’s attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025873\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12025873\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/dennis-richmond-10-800x556.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/dennis-richmond-10-800x556.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/dennis-richmond-10-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/dennis-richmond-10.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dennis Richmond, a steadfast presence at KTVU for four decades, was known for his no-nonsense approach and commitment to journalistic integrity. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of KTVU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Other supervisors and perhaps other City Hall personnel do carry firearms presently and have carried them in the past,” White’s attorney, Doug Schmidt, said in defense of his client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you know if the other people who carry weapons also carry 10 extra rounds in their pockets?” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB78JMdPK_c&t=138s\">Richmond quipped back without hesitation. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond said retiring from KTVU was one of the most difficult decisions he ever made. 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Green Valley Creek at Martinelli Road and Colgan Creek near Sebastopol are both expected to follow a similar receding trend as the Russian River, but the risk remains high at Mark West Creek near Mirabel Heights, which is projected to crest above major flood levels. It had reached 65 feet as of 7:45 a.m., according to NWS observations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Napa, flood risk downtown at the Napa River was downgraded Wednesday morning after an earlier forecast projected major flooding risk. 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