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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A new state-funded program encourages district attorneys to resentence some incarcerated people serving long prison terms that many now consider excessive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine DAs throughout California — including those in San Francisco, Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties — will receive a portion of an $18 million pot earmarked in the recently approved state budget to help identify inmates who are no longer deemed a public safety risk, but still have years left behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most prosecutors agree that if a person has transformed their life and there’s no justification for having them incarcerated, then they should be out,” said Hillary Blout, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.fortheppl.org/\">For The People\u003c/a>, a sentencing reform group that is working with the DAs to help identify eligible inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That prosecutor can bring the case back to the court and essentially say, ‘Your honor, our agency asked you to send this person away and we’re here now asking you to send this person home,’ ” Blout said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The funding is intended to implement \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2942\">Assembly Bill 2942\u003c/a>, a 2018 law that Blout helped draft, which allows district attorneys to recommend that courts reconsider old cases and issue new, lighter sentences — including for people convicted of violent crimes years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 75 incarcerated people in California have so far been resentenced under the law, according to Blout. In most cases, it’s led to their near-immediate release from prison and reentry back into their communities on parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes about 50 people from San Francisco alone, according to Arcelia Hurtado, chief of the post-conviction unit in the San Francisco DA’s Office. She said her staff is working with the Public Defender’s Office and community groups to review the sentences of the nearly 200 people from San Francisco who have already served over 20 years — about a third of the current prison population from the city. Some of those cases, she added, are women who committed violent crimes against their abusers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many years ago, courts just didn’t hear that information or just didn’t give it proper weight,” Hurtado said, noting that her office will likely use the new state funding to hire a dedicated team to review the cases and develop a strong reentry program for people who are released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/08/see-the-chapters-that-still-have-to-be-written-san-jose-mans-redemption-held-up-as-testament-to-landmark-prison-reform-law/\">Kennard Love\u003c/a>, from San Jose, was one of the inmates who quickly rose to the top of the list of eligible participants. In 2007, at the age of 19, he was convicted of multiple armed robberies and sentenced to 28 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At San Quentin State Prison, he earned associate’s degrees in business, behavioral and social science, and math and joined \u003ca href=\"https://thelastmile.org/\">The Last Mile\u003c/a> program, which teaches computer coding to prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working with Silicon Valley De-Bug, a criminal justice reform organization that helps support incarcerated people, Blout’s group advocated for Love, and in December 2020, the Santa Clara DA’s Office recommended to a court that he be resentenced. Within days, he walked out prison, on parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He decided to make a change in his life,” said Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeffrey Rosen, who oversaw the resentencing effort. “I want to reward and incentivize other inmates to make that change, because that change is good for them and it’s good for our community, because somebody who’s now not a criminal, not robbing, not stealing means that there are fewer crime victims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen’s office has successfully petitioned to have 12 people resentenced since 2019 – a relatively modest figure that he said reflects the time it takes to carefully evaluate cases and do thorough risk assessments to guarantee public safety. And despite the inherently politically fraught business of releasing people from prison early, particularly those convicted of violent offenses, Rosen said he hasn’t yet faced much pushback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course, this isn’t something we do lightly. We talk to victims’ families,” Rosen said. “And sometimes victims are very supportive of the early release. Sometimes they don’t care so much one way or another, they’ve moved on. And sometimes they’re concerned. I haven’t had a victim say, ‘Oh, absolutely not. That person should rot in prison forever.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resentencing program, Rosen added, is a validation of his job as a prosecutor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our commitment is to do justice. And it doesn’t end after the conviction,” he said. “And while there certainly are cases we prosecuted where we think a person was not sentenced to enough time in prison, certainly we must acknowledge that there’s cases where someone was sentenced to too long in prison. And this law is an opportunity for us to redress that and to provide a fuller justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Fencing and the Olympics run in the Massialas family. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family patriarch Greg competed in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics and has passed on that experience to coach his two kids, Alexander and Sabrina. They’re all in Tokyo for this year’s Summer Games, with Alexander and Sabrina competing, and Greg serving as coach of the U.S. men’s foil team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest thing for me is just to go through the whole process along with my sister, because this will be her first time in the Olympic Village as an athlete,” said Alexander, a three-time Olympian who the International Fencing Federation currently \u003ca href=\"https://fie.org/athletes\">ranks\u003c/a> fifth in the world in the men’s individual foil. (The U.S. ranks first overall.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50245_024_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11882025\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50245_024_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50245_024_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50245_024_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50245_024_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50245_024_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Sabrina Massialas, Greg Massialas and Alexander Massialas pose for a portrait at the Massialas Foundation fencing studio in San Francisco on July 14, 2021, before leaving for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Brian Watt met up with Alexander and Greg before they left for Japan and spoke with them from their home in San Francisco. Here are some highlights from their conversation:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Competing During a Pandemic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Alexander, 27, was the youngest male athlete to compete in the London Games in 2012. In 2016, he earned a silver medal in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, which was the U.S.’s first individual Olympic medal in men’s fencing since 1984 and first silver since 1932.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these prior experiences, this year’s games are different from the outset because of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It drills into this idea that fencing is all about dealing with adversity,” Alexander said. “This [pandemic] is just another facet of adversity. We have to overcome fencing with a mask all year in training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of athletes who’ve arrived in Tokyo face many \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/21/1018686243/tokyo-olympic-games-grapple-with-pandemic-safety-protocols\">COVID restrictions\u003c/a> over the next several weeks. They’re required to wear masks, undergo regular testing and remain inside the Olympic Village. In the months leading up to the games, there’s been controversy given that vaccination rates are lagging as the delta variant continues to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/09/1014512213/covid-is-surging-in-new-hotspots-driven-by-low-vaccination-rates\">spread\u003c/a> ahead of the opening ceremonies, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2021/07/23/1019656439/photos-tokyo-summer-olympics-games-opening-ceremony-tonga-pita\">took place on Friday\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 11 athletes had reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/tokyo-olympics-opening-ceremony-start-highlights\">tested positive\u003c/a> for COVID-19 ahead of the opening ceremonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, athletes on Team USA are moving forward after a hiatus year in 2020 affected their Olympic goals. Alexander says he’s confident he’s got a good shot at a gold medal this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’m in a position now where I’m fencing stronger and better than I was at that point, too,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50254_033_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11882033\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50254_033_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50254_033_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50254_033_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50254_033_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50254_033_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Massialas practices with her father Greg in San Francisco on July 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Massialas family adapted their training over the past year and a half. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They practiced outdoors as COVID restrictions remained in place in the Bay Area. They eventually traveled to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, where they got a feel for similar testing protocols athletes are experiencing in Tokyo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That we’ve been able to be away in Colorado where everything has been very antiseptic in that respect, it has helped us,” Greg said. “And I think when we go to Tokyo, that is actually going to be a positive thing because we’re gonna have the same stuff that we’ve been doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50258_037_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11882026\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50258_037_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50258_037_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50258_037_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50258_037_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50258_037_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fencers practice during a fencing mini camp at the Massialas Foundation fencing studio in San Francisco on July 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Making the Bay Area a Fencing Hub\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since he focused full time on coaching, Greg has been working to make San Francisco a fencing powerhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco was really not on the map either in the U.S. and certainly not in the world, because a lot of our strongest fencers and coaches were on the East Coast,” he said. “So out here, it was kind of open from the time that I competed. Then it sort of dropped off a little bit. There wasn’t much going on. And then … we’ve sort of had this renaissance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11040427]Greg runs the Massialas Foundation fencing studio in San Francisco, and there’s an El Cerrito-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/08/10/new-el-cerrito-fencing-school-has-olympic-connection/\">branch\u003c/a> of his program. Over the years, he’s produced several good fencers – namely his son and Gerek Meinhardt, who ranks second overall in the International Fencing Federation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander says he’s proud that he’s been able to represent his hometown on the world stage every four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is really great that my dad’s program has really elevated fencing in the Bay Area and in California as a whole,” he said. “It’s inspired other clubs in the Bay Area to kind of look up and start their own, not only start their own programs, but start successful programs in their own right. You have other programs in the Bay Area that are sending kids to the junior world championships, the world championships, you know, getting really high-level results as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this growth is happening, Stanford University students rallied against the school’s plan to cut several varsity programs – including fencing. Alexander, an alumnus, helped lead the push to save the teams. Stanford ultimately \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanforddaily.com/2021/05/18/stanford-to-reinstate-all-11-discontinued-varsity-sports/\">reversed\u003c/a> its decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LISTEN: \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/olympic-fencer-decries-stanford-sports-cuts\">Olympic Fencer Decries Stanford Sports Cuts\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once we got confirmation that the university was going to change its decision, it really felt like a massive load off my back,” he said. “But for me, it was never about myself because obviously my time at Stanford is over. It was really for the next generation of athletes and next generation of fencers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fencing begins Saturday, July 24 with women’s individual épée. Find the full schedule \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/fencing/olympic-schedule-and-results.htm?fbclid=IwAR18VmQvSAol_-tX5M0kLTjaVFSHvFMTqpLvP-xwe-tjtQwQDEykwRh5yHk?fbclid=IwAR18VmQvSAol_-tX5M0kLTjaVFSHvFMTqpLvP-xwe-tjtQwQDEykwRh5yHk?fbclid=IwAR18VmQvSAol_-tX5M0kLTjaVFSHvFMTqpLvP-xwe-tjtQwQDEykwRh5yHk?fbclid=IwAR18VmQvSAol_-tX5M0kLTjaVFSHvFMTqpLvP-xwe-tjtQwQDEykwRh5yHk\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Fencing and the Olympics run in the Massialas family. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family patriarch Greg competed in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics and has passed on that experience to coach his two kids, Alexander and Sabrina. They’re all in Tokyo for this year’s Summer Games, with Alexander and Sabrina competing, and Greg serving as coach of the U.S. men’s foil team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest thing for me is just to go through the whole process along with my sister, because this will be her first time in the Olympic Village as an athlete,” said Alexander, a three-time Olympian who the International Fencing Federation currently \u003ca href=\"https://fie.org/athletes\">ranks\u003c/a> fifth in the world in the men’s individual foil. (The U.S. ranks first overall.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50245_024_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11882025\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50245_024_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50245_024_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50245_024_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50245_024_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50245_024_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Sabrina Massialas, Greg Massialas and Alexander Massialas pose for a portrait at the Massialas Foundation fencing studio in San Francisco on July 14, 2021, before leaving for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Brian Watt met up with Alexander and Greg before they left for Japan and spoke with them from their home in San Francisco. Here are some highlights from their conversation:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Competing During a Pandemic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Alexander, 27, was the youngest male athlete to compete in the London Games in 2012. In 2016, he earned a silver medal in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, which was the U.S.’s first individual Olympic medal in men’s fencing since 1984 and first silver since 1932.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these prior experiences, this year’s games are different from the outset because of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It drills into this idea that fencing is all about dealing with adversity,” Alexander said. “This [pandemic] is just another facet of adversity. We have to overcome fencing with a mask all year in training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In the months leading up to the games, there’s been controversy given that vaccination rates are lagging as the delta variant continues to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/09/1014512213/covid-is-surging-in-new-hotspots-driven-by-low-vaccination-rates\">spread\u003c/a> ahead of the opening ceremonies, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2021/07/23/1019656439/photos-tokyo-summer-olympics-games-opening-ceremony-tonga-pita\">took place on Friday\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 11 athletes had reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/tokyo-olympics-opening-ceremony-start-highlights\">tested positive\u003c/a> for COVID-19 ahead of the opening ceremonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, athletes on Team USA are moving forward after a hiatus year in 2020 affected their Olympic goals. Alexander says he’s confident he’s got a good shot at a gold medal this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’m in a position now where I’m fencing stronger and better than I was at that point, too,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50254_033_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11882033\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50254_033_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50254_033_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50254_033_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50254_033_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50254_033_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Massialas practices with her father Greg in San Francisco on July 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Massialas family adapted their training over the past year and a half. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They practiced outdoors as COVID restrictions remained in place in the Bay Area. They eventually traveled to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, where they got a feel for similar testing protocols athletes are experiencing in Tokyo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That we’ve been able to be away in Colorado where everything has been very antiseptic in that respect, it has helped us,” Greg said. “And I think when we go to Tokyo, that is actually going to be a positive thing because we’re gonna have the same stuff that we’ve been doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50258_037_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11882026\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50258_037_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50258_037_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50258_037_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50258_037_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50258_037_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fencers practice during a fencing mini camp at the Massialas Foundation fencing studio in San Francisco on July 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Making the Bay Area a Fencing Hub\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since he focused full time on coaching, Greg has been working to make San Francisco a fencing powerhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco was really not on the map either in the U.S. and certainly not in the world, because a lot of our strongest fencers and coaches were on the East Coast,” he said. “So out here, it was kind of open from the time that I competed. Then it sort of dropped off a little bit. There wasn’t much going on. And then … we’ve sort of had this renaissance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Greg runs the Massialas Foundation fencing studio in San Francisco, and there’s an El Cerrito-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/08/10/new-el-cerrito-fencing-school-has-olympic-connection/\">branch\u003c/a> of his program. Over the years, he’s produced several good fencers – namely his son and Gerek Meinhardt, who ranks second overall in the International Fencing Federation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander says he’s proud that he’s been able to represent his hometown on the world stage every four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is really great that my dad’s program has really elevated fencing in the Bay Area and in California as a whole,” he said. “It’s inspired other clubs in the Bay Area to kind of look up and start their own, not only start their own programs, but start successful programs in their own right. You have other programs in the Bay Area that are sending kids to the junior world championships, the world championships, you know, getting really high-level results as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this growth is happening, Stanford University students rallied against the school’s plan to cut several varsity programs – including fencing. Alexander, an alumnus, helped lead the push to save the teams. Stanford ultimately \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanforddaily.com/2021/05/18/stanford-to-reinstate-all-11-discontinued-varsity-sports/\">reversed\u003c/a> its decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LISTEN: \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/olympic-fencer-decries-stanford-sports-cuts\">Olympic Fencer Decries Stanford Sports Cuts\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once we got confirmation that the university was going to change its decision, it really felt like a massive load off my back,” he said. “But for me, it was never about myself because obviously my time at Stanford is over. It was really for the next generation of athletes and next generation of fencers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fencing begins Saturday, July 24 with women’s individual épée. Find the full schedule \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/fencing/olympic-schedule-and-results.htm?fbclid=IwAR18VmQvSAol_-tX5M0kLTjaVFSHvFMTqpLvP-xwe-tjtQwQDEykwRh5yHk?fbclid=IwAR18VmQvSAol_-tX5M0kLTjaVFSHvFMTqpLvP-xwe-tjtQwQDEykwRh5yHk?fbclid=IwAR18VmQvSAol_-tX5M0kLTjaVFSHvFMTqpLvP-xwe-tjtQwQDEykwRh5yHk?fbclid=IwAR18VmQvSAol_-tX5M0kLTjaVFSHvFMTqpLvP-xwe-tjtQwQDEykwRh5yHk\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With PG&E’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11881579/pge-power-line-may-have-sparked-dixie-fire-near-where-its-equipment-started-states-deadliest-blaze\">announcement earlier this week\u003c/a> that one of its power lines is under investigation as the cause of yet another destructive Northern California wildfire, attention has focused on the company’s account that nine and a half hours elapsed after the first indication of trouble in the Feather River Canyon before one of the company’s field workers reached the spot where a small fire was beginning to spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a series of statements, including public comments from the utility’s CEO, PG&E has blamed the delay on the worker’s difficulty accessing the remote location where a tree had fallen on a power line and ignited the blaze that turned into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/7/14/dixie-fire/\">Dixie Fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one of the prosecutors investigating the company’s possible role in starting the Dixie Fire, which had burned more than 100,000 acres as of early Thursday, said the utility did not consider a power outage it had detected in the area early on July 13 to be a high-priority issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, said Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey, the worker assigned to investigate the outage did not arrive in the area until as much as four hours after the the problem was detected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s just one in a series of delays and obstacles that together may have turned a minor incident into an inferno that has raged through the northern Sierra Nevada forests for 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21011766/071821.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an electrical incident report\u003c/a> to state utility regulators, PG&E said the first indication of trouble the day the fire started, July 13, was a 7 a.m. power outage at Cresta Dam. The dam is part of the company’s complex of hydropower facilities on the North Fork of the Feather River, northeast of Oroville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey, whose agency is investigating the incident alongside Cal Fire and the Plumas County District Attorney’s Office, said the utility’s response was delayed in part because the initial power outage was not considered a high-priority issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11881579 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/DixieFirePyrocumulus-1020x695.jpg']Ramsey said in an interview earlier this week that PG&E issued a “work ticket” after a remote monitoring system detected the problem at the dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They put in a ticket — not a high-priority ticket, just a regular ticket, for a lineman in Chico to go check on it,” Ramsey said. First, though, he had “other things to do — higher-priority tickets.” Ramsey estimated the worker got to Cresta Dam about 10:30 or 11 a.m., as much as four hours after the power problem there had been flagged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once at the dam, Ramsey said, the worker needed to scout for the source of the power problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to PG&E’s account, he spotted what appeared to be a blown fuse on a power line across the Feather River and hundreds of feet up the canyon’s precipitous slope. The site of the potential problem was just a quarter-mile from the dam as the crow flies, but it would take the worker hours to reach it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get there, he had to drive back down Highway 70 to the community of Pulga, where the route crosses the river. Then he had to drive about 10 miles up Camp Creek Road, a one-lane dirt road that passes the spot where the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705306/pge-transmission-line-may-be-tied-to-disastrous-butte-county-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a PG&E transmission line started the Camp Fire\u003c/a> early the morning of Nov. 8, 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1whAYyxH56Ms3bva5UcjCiYbnlWFcR7Av\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trip up the steep, winding road would have been slow under any conditions. Describing the character of the route the worker traveled, Ramsey said, “There’s an old statement, ‘They’re barely passable — not even jackass-able.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight miles up the road — still well short of the power line segment with the apparent blown fuse — the driver encountered a roadblock: a Butte County public works crew repairing a bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was turned back there,” Ramsey said. “They told him, nah, it’s going to be at least a couple, two and a half hours” before they’d be done with the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josh Pack, the county’s director of public works, said the crew was working to repair “significant damage” to the one-lane span that had been reported on July 9. Pack said the bridge deck had suffered “multiple failures,” likely due to an oversized vehicle that had used the span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unable to cross the bridge for the time being, the PG&E worker turned around and drove all the way back down to Highway 70, then another six miles back toward Oroville to a spot where he’d get better radio reception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882002\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882002\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A PG&E worker making his way up Camp Creek Road in Butte County was initially unable to proceed to the suspected source of the trouble because a road crew was repairing damage to this bridge. Trouble on the power line is suspected of touching off the Dixie Fire on July 13, 2021. The photo was taken about six hours before the fire was discovered. \u003ccite>(Butte County Department of Public Works)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said the worker discussed with a dispatcher coming back to Chico to do other work, but given the extra travel time that would add, he decided to wait for the bridge on Camp Creek Road to open. It wasn’t until 4:30 p.m. that the worker finally made it up to and over the bridge and reached the spot where trouble was unfolding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey echoed PG&E’s account that once the worker reached the scene, he discovered a small fire on the ground near a tree that had fallen onto the power lines. Fuses had blown on two of the three lines running across the tops of the poles at the site, Ramsey said, but the third line was apparently still live and may have helped ignite the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said the worker attempted to call the fire in to a PG&E dispatcher via radio, but got no response. He then attempted to put out the fire, which was spreading slowly on a steep slope below the road, by himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said the worker made two “forays” to try to control the blaze, one while carrying a fire extinguisher, one while using equipment from a fire backpack in his truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worker then heard someone on the radio answering his earlier call. He got back on the radio, which led to an emergency call being made to Cal Fire. Ramsey said Cal Fire got the alert from PG&E two minutes after a team of firefighters driving up Highway 70, across the river from the blaze, reported it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cal Fire dispatch audio, the passing firefighters estimated the blaze was about 40 feet by 40 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In comments made during media briefings Wednesday, PG&E CEO Patti Poppe said the worker “alone, by himself, in the wilderness, made multiple trips … from the top of the slope, where his truck was, down to the source of the fire, attempting to put it out. His efforts can be called nothing less than heroic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E declined to respond to detailed questions about the timeline of its response, including what time its worker first reached Cresta Dam to look for trouble and what delays he encountered along the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='pge']Once the fire was reported, Cal Fire dispatched a pair of air tankers and a water-dropping helicopter to hold the fire in check as ground crews tried to reach the incident. But getting to the scene proved as daunting for those crews as it had for the PG&E worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Cal Fire engine and a bus carrying a 20-member hand crew made their way up Camp Creek Road only to find the out-of-service bridge. The hand crew arrived at the bridge after 8 p.m. and still faced a hike of two miles to get to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cal Fire air tankers succeeded in painting a box of retardant around the fire, limiting its spread, and the helicopter took advantage of ready access to the Feather River to make drop after drop on the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said that effort was on the verge of success when a drone appeared over the blaze. That led Cal Fire to prematurely end air operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said drone interference cost about 45 minutes in firefighting time, which he said played a major part in the blaze burning out of control after darkness fell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point, Cal Fire estimated the fire was just one to two acres and spreading slowly. But with no nighttime air support and ground crews continuing to get into the area, the blaze continued to expand, growing to 500 acres overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday morning, the incident’s 10th day, the Dixie Fire had burned 104,000 acres, prompted the deployment of almost 4,000 firefighters and caused the evacuation of thousands of Butte and Plumas County residents. Firefighting agencies report the blaze is 17% contained.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With PG&E’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11881579/pge-power-line-may-have-sparked-dixie-fire-near-where-its-equipment-started-states-deadliest-blaze\">announcement earlier this week\u003c/a> that one of its power lines is under investigation as the cause of yet another destructive Northern California wildfire, attention has focused on the company’s account that nine and a half hours elapsed after the first indication of trouble in the Feather River Canyon before one of the company’s field workers reached the spot where a small fire was beginning to spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a series of statements, including public comments from the utility’s CEO, PG&E has blamed the delay on the worker’s difficulty accessing the remote location where a tree had fallen on a power line and ignited the blaze that turned into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/7/14/dixie-fire/\">Dixie Fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one of the prosecutors investigating the company’s possible role in starting the Dixie Fire, which had burned more than 100,000 acres as of early Thursday, said the utility did not consider a power outage it had detected in the area early on July 13 to be a high-priority issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, said Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey, the worker assigned to investigate the outage did not arrive in the area until as much as four hours after the the problem was detected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s just one in a series of delays and obstacles that together may have turned a minor incident into an inferno that has raged through the northern Sierra Nevada forests for 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ramsey said in an interview earlier this week that PG&E issued a “work ticket” after a remote monitoring system detected the problem at the dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They put in a ticket — not a high-priority ticket, just a regular ticket, for a lineman in Chico to go check on it,” Ramsey said. First, though, he had “other things to do — higher-priority tickets.” Ramsey estimated the worker got to Cresta Dam about 10:30 or 11 a.m., as much as four hours after the power problem there had been flagged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once at the dam, Ramsey said, the worker needed to scout for the source of the power problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to PG&E’s account, he spotted what appeared to be a blown fuse on a power line across the Feather River and hundreds of feet up the canyon’s precipitous slope. The site of the potential problem was just a quarter-mile from the dam as the crow flies, but it would take the worker hours to reach it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get there, he had to drive back down Highway 70 to the community of Pulga, where the route crosses the river. Then he had to drive about 10 miles up Camp Creek Road, a one-lane dirt road that passes the spot where the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705306/pge-transmission-line-may-be-tied-to-disastrous-butte-county-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a PG&E transmission line started the Camp Fire\u003c/a> early the morning of Nov. 8, 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1whAYyxH56Ms3bva5UcjCiYbnlWFcR7Av\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trip up the steep, winding road would have been slow under any conditions. Describing the character of the route the worker traveled, Ramsey said, “There’s an old statement, ‘They’re barely passable — not even jackass-able.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight miles up the road — still well short of the power line segment with the apparent blown fuse — the driver encountered a roadblock: a Butte County public works crew repairing a bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was turned back there,” Ramsey said. “They told him, nah, it’s going to be at least a couple, two and a half hours” before they’d be done with the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josh Pack, the county’s director of public works, said the crew was working to repair “significant damage” to the one-lane span that had been reported on July 9. Pack said the bridge deck had suffered “multiple failures,” likely due to an oversized vehicle that had used the span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unable to cross the bridge for the time being, the PG&E worker turned around and drove all the way back down to Highway 70, then another six miles back toward Oroville to a spot where he’d get better radio reception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882002\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882002\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A PG&E worker making his way up Camp Creek Road in Butte County was initially unable to proceed to the suspected source of the trouble because a road crew was repairing damage to this bridge. Trouble on the power line is suspected of touching off the Dixie Fire on July 13, 2021. The photo was taken about six hours before the fire was discovered. \u003ccite>(Butte County Department of Public Works)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said the worker discussed with a dispatcher coming back to Chico to do other work, but given the extra travel time that would add, he decided to wait for the bridge on Camp Creek Road to open. It wasn’t until 4:30 p.m. that the worker finally made it up to and over the bridge and reached the spot where trouble was unfolding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey echoed PG&E’s account that once the worker reached the scene, he discovered a small fire on the ground near a tree that had fallen onto the power lines. Fuses had blown on two of the three lines running across the tops of the poles at the site, Ramsey said, but the third line was apparently still live and may have helped ignite the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said the worker attempted to call the fire in to a PG&E dispatcher via radio, but got no response. He then attempted to put out the fire, which was spreading slowly on a steep slope below the road, by himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said the worker made two “forays” to try to control the blaze, one while carrying a fire extinguisher, one while using equipment from a fire backpack in his truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worker then heard someone on the radio answering his earlier call. He got back on the radio, which led to an emergency call being made to Cal Fire. Ramsey said Cal Fire got the alert from PG&E two minutes after a team of firefighters driving up Highway 70, across the river from the blaze, reported it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cal Fire dispatch audio, the passing firefighters estimated the blaze was about 40 feet by 40 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In comments made during media briefings Wednesday, PG&E CEO Patti Poppe said the worker “alone, by himself, in the wilderness, made multiple trips … from the top of the slope, where his truck was, down to the source of the fire, attempting to put it out. His efforts can be called nothing less than heroic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E declined to respond to detailed questions about the timeline of its response, including what time its worker first reached Cresta Dam to look for trouble and what delays he encountered along the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Moments after Gavin Newsom was sworn into a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in February of 1997, he promised that his experience running a small business would be the north star for his new life in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have a unique perspective standing before you today,\" said the 29-year-old supervisor who \"pledged to bring the board the benefit of his business background,\" as reported by the San Francisco Examiner at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's experience running a wine store and restaurants are central to the political origin story California's governor still tells about himself today: the tale of an aspiring entrepreneur who railed against a stifling bureaucracy, until San Francisco's mayor at the time figured it would be better to have Newsom's persuasiveness and ingenuity inside the tent rather than outside complaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That guy Willie Brown was angry with me and shut me up by making me chair of the Parking and Traffic Commission, and here I am, it's all damn connected,\" said Newsom, at a press conference on small business relief held last month in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after decades in politics, Newsom maintained that \"my identity is probably more, in terms of my own consciousness, in the context of right out of college opening a small business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nearly a quarter-century after Willie Brown appointed his protégé to the Board of Supervisors, launching his ultimate ascent to the governorship, Newsom is facing perhaps the most serious test of his political career. A recall election to remove him from office will take place on Sept. 14, driven in part by small business owners who say the governor treated their survival as an afterthought during his response to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Small Business a 'Driving Force' in Recall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the campaign to get the recall question on the ballot and passed, \"small business owners have been a driving force,\" said Orrin Heatlie, the former Yolo County sheriff's sergeant who started the recall petition in early 2020. \"They’ve been shut out and put out of business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heatlie said independent shops around California served as designated locations for petition-signing, helping qualify the recall. And videos of anguished shop owners, like \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/entertainment/why-are-film-shoots-allowed-when-outdoor-dining-isnt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sherman Oaks restauranteur Angela Marsden\u003c/a>, became viral symbols of anti-Newsom anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gretel Tiscornia, Calaveras County small business owner\"]'I don't know if Newsom ever can be considered one of us.'[/pullquote]As he campaigns to fight off the recall attempt, Newsom hopes his relief plans can ease the pain of proprietors who are struggling to stay on their feet after a year of closures and restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The COVID-19 crisis has absolutely decimated small businesses all across the state,\" said Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, D-Laguna Beach, chair of the Select Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, at a hearing last week. \"Thousands of California small businesses have closed their doors forever, thousands more are teetering on the brink.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's pandemic restrictions \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878318/california-and-florida-took-dramatically-divergent-pandemic-paths-who-did-better\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have been credited with saving thousands of lives\u003c/a>, and giving California a lower death rate than comparable states which had more open economies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many small businesses were left on shaky footing through multiple rounds of tightening rules and a tiered reopening plan that some found difficult to plan around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had a lot of sputtering — starting and stopping and then starting again and stopping,\" Dr. Robert Fairlie, professor of economics at UC Santa Cruz, told the committee. \"That’s been really difficult for small businesses and we had not seen that [in previous economic downturns].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Calaveras County Shops Open Doors to Recall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In addition to the feeling of whiplash, business owners like Gretel Tiscornia, of Calaveras County, thought the state's rules were giving big business a leg up early in the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have places like Walmart and Costco that are open all the time, serving hundreds of people in a short amount of time,\" she said. \"Super contradictory.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882106\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11882106 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gretel Tiscornia, owner of The Pickle Patch restaurant and Mingos on Main. 'I don't know if Newsom ever can be considered one of us,' she said. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tiscornia runs The Pickle Patch, a restaurant in San Andreas, and Mingos on Main, a gift store in Angels Camp, where the historic main street of 19th century buildings with rhyolite walls evokes the region's Gold Rush legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Newsom announced a second stay-at-home order in December, Tiscornia ignored it — keeping her restaurant open for outdoor dining. As anti-Newsom sentiment rose in the weeks after the governor violated his own guidance by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847570/gov-newsom-went-to-party-violated-own-virus-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dining at The French Laundry restaurant\u003c/a>, Tiscornia made the recall petition available to customers at her stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes they came in just to sign that, they didn't have lunch, they didn't buy anything,\" said Tiscornia, who now serves on the Angels Camp City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Recall Coverage' tag='newsom-recall']Eight miles to the northeast, in the bustling village of Murphys, Russell Irish is seeing visitors steadily return to his wine tasting room, Irish Vineyards. But things looked bleak last winter, when the shutdown order came just as Russell was catching up on his back rent payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another closure would have meant potential bankruptcy, and a likely move out of the state, said Russell. Like Tiscornia and other local shop owners, he kept his doors open, and served as a hub for recall petition signing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just wanted to be part of the recall,\" he said. \"You can’t get a recall done or anything else done politically unless you have help. And for us to be a base for that help — where anybody from this area could come sign a petition — that’s where I felt like, sure, open my doors, come on in, sign it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall organizers say roughly 900 business owners across California hosted petition-signing in their shops, helping fuel the grassroots movement against a governor who they feel abandoned his small business roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know if Newsom ever can be considered one of us,\" Tiscornia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A 'Point of Pride' for the Governor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, as Newsom has traveled across the state to pitch his small businesses relief plan, he's argued that his personal history makes him uniquely qualified to help store owners recover from the recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, to find California's last governor who jumped from running a business into politics, you'd have to go back to James Rolph, the shipping and banking entrepreneur who was elected mayor of San Francisco, and then governor, in 1930.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s a big point of pride, it’s personal for me,\" said Newsom, after a visit to a San Francisco restaurant in June. \"I can’t express to you how many extraordinary things have happened in my life because I had the privilege to be behind a counter, serving other people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political consultant Ellie Schafer, who ran Newsom's first ever campaign in 1998, for supervisor, remembers a candidate intent on bringing relief to small business owners butting heads with city bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"His focus was on small business, and that was really something that he ran strong on,\" said Schafer, founder and president of South Lawn Strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike your average shop owner, Newsom had well-publicized connections to some of San Francisco's elite families. Oil heir Gordon Getty was among the early investors in Newsom's first shop, PlumpJack Wine & Spirits. But Schafer said Newsom still dealt with bureaucratic hurdles in getting his early businesses off the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882107\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 765px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11882107\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50346_IMG_3231-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"765\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50346_IMG_3231-qut.jpg 765w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50346_IMG_3231-qut-160x164.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a mailer for his 1998 campaign for supervisor, Newsom promises to bring 'customer service' to city government.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"His philosophy at the time was like, 'If I'm running up against these roadblocks and I have the leg up that I have, what are other people who don't have these advantages running up against?' \" Schafer recalled. \"And he really, truly wanted to make their lives better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that first campaign, Newsom even saw fixes to the city's Muni metro system – the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Muni-Is-Top-Issue-In-Campaigns-for-S-F-2985652.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top issue for voters\u003c/a> – through an entrepreneurial lens. He wrote a ballot measure requiring city departments to create annual \"customer service plans,\" an idea which \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/november-3-1998-consolidated-general-election%E2%80%8B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was approved by voters\u003c/a> as Newsom won a full-term on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as a governor presiding over California's flush budget coffers, Newsom is directing relief checks to businesses and waiving regulations in hopes of spurring a small business recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Can Grants to Businesses Spur Recovery?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This spring, the governor signed executive orders extending the allowance of parklets for outdoor dining and the sale of alcoholic beverages to-go — and approved a tax cut for shops that received federal loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the state budget he approved earlier this month added $1.5 billion to a small business grant program that his administration launched in December — making a total of $4 billion in grants available to companies making less than $2.5 million in annual revenue. So far, 155,471 small businesses and nonprofits have received over $1.8 billion in grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tyranny Allen, co-owner of BeastMode Barbershop in Oakland\"]'We shouldn’t blame the government, we shouldn’t blame Gavin Newsom, can’t blame the president. We have to come together.'[/pullquote]\"California is leading the nation in this type of relief grant program for small businesses,\" Tara Lynn Gray, director of California’s Office of the Small Business Advocate, told assemblymembers last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyranny Allen, co-owner of BeastMode Barbershop in Oakland, is among the entrepreneurs applauding Newsom's investment in small businesses. His barbershop, created in partnership with NFL running back Marshawn Lynch, opened just before the pandemic hit and was closed for 11 months. Because the shop's barbers are independent contractors, not employees, the business was ineligible for federal loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50343_IMG_3100-qut-800x709.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50343_IMG_3100-qut-800x709.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50343_IMG_3100-qut-1020x904.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50343_IMG_3100-qut-160x142.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50343_IMG_3100-qut-1536x1361.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50343_IMG_3100-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyranny Allen, co-owner of BeastMode Barbershop in Oakland. 'We shouldn’t blame Gavin Newsom,' he said. 'We have to come together.' \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the closure, Allen said he doesn't harbor any resentment toward Newsom, who visited his shop last month on a tour of local small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We shouldn’t blame the government, we shouldn’t blame Gavin Newsom, can’t blame the president,\" Allen said. \"We have to come together and I think that’s the most important thing for us to do is come together as far as businesses are concerned.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the state relief, the road to recovery will not be smooth for all business owners across the state. Advocates for independent store owners say Newsom will need to commit to boosting small businesses, even if he puts the recall in the rear view mirror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One looming concern: commercial rent bills. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nearly a quarter-century after Willie Brown appointed his protégé to the Board of Supervisors, launching his ultimate ascent to the governorship, Newsom is facing perhaps the most serious test of his political career. A recall election to remove him from office will take place on Sept. 14, driven in part by small business owners who say the governor treated their survival as an afterthought during his response to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Small Business a 'Driving Force' in Recall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the campaign to get the recall question on the ballot and passed, \"small business owners have been a driving force,\" said Orrin Heatlie, the former Yolo County sheriff's sergeant who started the recall petition in early 2020. \"They’ve been shut out and put out of business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heatlie said independent shops around California served as designated locations for petition-signing, helping qualify the recall. And videos of anguished shop owners, like \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/entertainment/why-are-film-shoots-allowed-when-outdoor-dining-isnt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sherman Oaks restauranteur Angela Marsden\u003c/a>, became viral symbols of anti-Newsom anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As he campaigns to fight off the recall attempt, Newsom hopes his relief plans can ease the pain of proprietors who are struggling to stay on their feet after a year of closures and restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The COVID-19 crisis has absolutely decimated small businesses all across the state,\" said Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, D-Laguna Beach, chair of the Select Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, at a hearing last week. \"Thousands of California small businesses have closed their doors forever, thousands more are teetering on the brink.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's pandemic restrictions \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878318/california-and-florida-took-dramatically-divergent-pandemic-paths-who-did-better\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have been credited with saving thousands of lives\u003c/a>, and giving California a lower death rate than comparable states which had more open economies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many small businesses were left on shaky footing through multiple rounds of tightening rules and a tiered reopening plan that some found difficult to plan around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had a lot of sputtering — starting and stopping and then starting again and stopping,\" Dr. Robert Fairlie, professor of economics at UC Santa Cruz, told the committee. \"That’s been really difficult for small businesses and we had not seen that [in previous economic downturns].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Calaveras County Shops Open Doors to Recall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In addition to the feeling of whiplash, business owners like Gretel Tiscornia, of Calaveras County, thought the state's rules were giving big business a leg up early in the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have places like Walmart and Costco that are open all the time, serving hundreds of people in a short amount of time,\" she said. \"Super contradictory.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882106\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11882106 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50342_IMG_3172-qut-e1626973364627.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gretel Tiscornia, owner of The Pickle Patch restaurant and Mingos on Main. 'I don't know if Newsom ever can be considered one of us,' she said. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tiscornia runs The Pickle Patch, a restaurant in San Andreas, and Mingos on Main, a gift store in Angels Camp, where the historic main street of 19th century buildings with rhyolite walls evokes the region's Gold Rush legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Newsom announced a second stay-at-home order in December, Tiscornia ignored it — keeping her restaurant open for outdoor dining. As anti-Newsom sentiment rose in the weeks after the governor violated his own guidance by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847570/gov-newsom-went-to-party-violated-own-virus-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dining at The French Laundry restaurant\u003c/a>, Tiscornia made the recall petition available to customers at her stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes they came in just to sign that, they didn't have lunch, they didn't buy anything,\" said Tiscornia, who now serves on the Angels Camp City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Eight miles to the northeast, in the bustling village of Murphys, Russell Irish is seeing visitors steadily return to his wine tasting room, Irish Vineyards. But things looked bleak last winter, when the shutdown order came just as Russell was catching up on his back rent payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another closure would have meant potential bankruptcy, and a likely move out of the state, said Russell. Like Tiscornia and other local shop owners, he kept his doors open, and served as a hub for recall petition signing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just wanted to be part of the recall,\" he said. \"You can’t get a recall done or anything else done politically unless you have help. And for us to be a base for that help — where anybody from this area could come sign a petition — that’s where I felt like, sure, open my doors, come on in, sign it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall organizers say roughly 900 business owners across California hosted petition-signing in their shops, helping fuel the grassroots movement against a governor who they feel abandoned his small business roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know if Newsom ever can be considered one of us,\" Tiscornia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A 'Point of Pride' for the Governor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, as Newsom has traveled across the state to pitch his small businesses relief plan, he's argued that his personal history makes him uniquely qualified to help store owners recover from the recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, to find California's last governor who jumped from running a business into politics, you'd have to go back to James Rolph, the shipping and banking entrepreneur who was elected mayor of San Francisco, and then governor, in 1930.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s a big point of pride, it’s personal for me,\" said Newsom, after a visit to a San Francisco restaurant in June. \"I can’t express to you how many extraordinary things have happened in my life because I had the privilege to be behind a counter, serving other people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political consultant Ellie Schafer, who ran Newsom's first ever campaign in 1998, for supervisor, remembers a candidate intent on bringing relief to small business owners butting heads with city bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"His focus was on small business, and that was really something that he ran strong on,\" said Schafer, founder and president of South Lawn Strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike your average shop owner, Newsom had well-publicized connections to some of San Francisco's elite families. Oil heir Gordon Getty was among the early investors in Newsom's first shop, PlumpJack Wine & Spirits. But Schafer said Newsom still dealt with bureaucratic hurdles in getting his early businesses off the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882107\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 765px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11882107\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50346_IMG_3231-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"765\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50346_IMG_3231-qut.jpg 765w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50346_IMG_3231-qut-160x164.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a mailer for his 1998 campaign for supervisor, Newsom promises to bring 'customer service' to city government.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"His philosophy at the time was like, 'If I'm running up against these roadblocks and I have the leg up that I have, what are other people who don't have these advantages running up against?' \" Schafer recalled. \"And he really, truly wanted to make their lives better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that first campaign, Newsom even saw fixes to the city's Muni metro system – the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Muni-Is-Top-Issue-In-Campaigns-for-S-F-2985652.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top issue for voters\u003c/a> – through an entrepreneurial lens. 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So far, 155,471 small businesses and nonprofits have received over $1.8 billion in grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A couple whose gender reveal ceremony sparked a Southern California wildfire that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/914368098/a-firefighter-is-killed-in-california-wildfire-sparked-by-gender-reveal-party\">killed a firefighter\u003c/a> last year were charged with involuntary manslaughter, authorities announced Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refugio Manuel Jimenez Jr. and Angela Renee Jimenez pleaded not guilty Monday to charges involving the El Dorado Fire, San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson announced at a news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges included one felony count of involuntary manslaughter, along with other felony and misdemeanor counts related to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The El Dorado Fire erupted on Sept. 5 when the couple and their young children staged a baby gender reveal at El Dorado Ranch Park in Yucaipa, at the foot of the San Bernardino Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A smoke-generating pyrotechnic device was set off in a field and quickly ignited dry grass on a scorching day. The couple frantically tried to use bottled water to douse the flames and called 911, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong winds stoked the fire as it ran through wilderness on national forest land, about 75 miles east of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extremely dry conditions and heat waves tied to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/911847159/how-climate-change-affects-wildfires\">climate change have made wildfires harder to fight\u003c/a>. Climate change has made the West much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11881941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11881941\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50314_GettyImages-1276696874-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50314_GettyImages-1276696874-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50314_GettyImages-1276696874-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50314_GettyImages-1276696874-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50314_GettyImages-1276696874-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50314_GettyImages-1276696874-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photograph of fallen Big Bear Interagency Hotshot Charles Morton, a firefighter who was killed battling the El Dorado wildfire, is displayed at his memorial service on Sept. 25, 2020 in San Bernardino. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 17, flames overran a remote area where firefighters were cutting fire breaks, killing Charles Morton, the 39-year-old leader of the elite Big Bear Interagency Hotshot Squad. Morton had worked as a firefighter for 18 years, mostly with the U.S. Forest Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze injured 13 other people and forced the evacuations of hundreds of residents in small communities in the San Bernardino National Forest area. It destroyed five homes and 15 other buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze blackened nearly 36 square miles of land in San Bernardino and Riverside counties before it was contained on Nov. 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was one of thousands during a record-breaking wildfire season in California that charred more than 4% of the state while destroying nearly 10,500 buildings and killing 33 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple were released on their own recognizance pending a Sept. 15 court date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. are in limbo, after U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen ruled last Friday against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program launched in 2012 by former President Barack Obama. The program provides temporary protection from deportation, and work authorization, to undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. Hanen, based in Texas, argued that DACA was created illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision does not end legal protections for the roughly 616,000 current DACA participants. However, the legal decision does suspend approvals of new applications and leaves the door open for DACA to be terminated in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden has \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/17/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-daca-and-legislation-for-dreamers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pledged to appeal the ruling\u003c/a> and called on Congress to protect so-called Dreamers and create a path to citizenship for millions of people who lack legal status in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 19, KQED Forum host Mina Kim spoke with the following guests to get an overview of the legal decision and what happens next, and also to hear from immigrants who could be affected:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://polisci.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty-directory/currently-active-faculty/wong-profile.html\">Tom K. Wong\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>associate professor of political science and founding director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Center at UC San Diego.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.borderangels.org/dulce-garcia.html\">Dulce García\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>immigration attorney, executive director of Border Angels and a DACA recipient.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://immigrantsrising.org/story/denea-joseph-i-am-my-grandmothers-child/\">Denea Joseph\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>immigrants rights advocate and DACA recipient.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://immigrantsrising.org/leadership-council/ju-hong/\">Ju Hong\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>DACA recipient and member of Immigrants Rising, an organization that helps undocumented young people achieve educational and career goals.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Understanding the Ruling\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What was the basis Judge Andrew Hanen used in ruling that the creation of DACA was unlawful?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tom K. Wong\u003c/strong>: Judge Hanen ruled that DACA is unlawful because the creation of DACA violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), which requires public comment before changing policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling by Hanen based on the APA is a bit ironic because the last several years of the battle over DACA in the courts saw DACA being preserved mostly because of the APA as well. The Trump administration tried to end (DACA). DACA advocates [then] made a legal argument that the way that the Trump administration tried to end DACA violated the APA. Therefore, district courts all the way up to the Supreme Court said that DACA should stay. And now we have Judge Hanen relying on the same Administrative Procedure Act to essentially rule that DACA is illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What is the immediate impact of this decision?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tom K. Wong\u003c/strong>: The immediate impact is already being felt. Those who are first-time applicants, they should have received text notification from USCIS saying that biometrics appointments are now canceled. So part of applying for DACA not only includes a paper application, but once that's received by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), then individuals go in for biometrics, for example, to provide their fingerprints. So those appointments are already being canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the approximately 600,000 active DACA recipients, this means more uncertainty and more limbo. We essentially had four years of uncertainty over DACA under the Trump administration. And this particular ruling — although it does not say that current active DACA recipients will lose their status — adds to the sort of uncertainty that the recipients are living with on a day to day [basis] and makes more vivid the importance of a permanent legislative solution for not just DACA recipients, but for undocumented immigrants more generally.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Experiences of DACA Recipients\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What was your reaction to the ruling?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ju Hong, DACA recipient and member of Immigrants Rising\"]'I'm really tired and I cannot live like this anymore with this fear ... I'm 31 years old and I want to have peace of mind.'[/pullquote]\u003cstrong>Ju Hong: \u003c/strong> When I heard the news, I was devastated and frustrated and honestly, I was sick and tired. I was tired of hearing this news all over again. I just had to let out the frustration with other DACA recipients who are applying for it, and they all felt frustrated and angry, and this gave another affirmation that DACA is temporary and we cannot live in this limbo every two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honestly, I'm really tired and I cannot live like this anymore with this fear and this anxiety and the stress, I think enough is enough. I've had DACA since 2012. I've been undocumented since 2001. And I'm 31 years old and I want to have peace of mind and live a normal life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dulce García:\u003c/strong> Sad, tired, frustrated and exhausted. All of these attacks in our communities have taken a toll on us physically and emotionally. The last few years have been very difficult. We were physically at the steps of the Supreme Court and we celebrated a victory last year when we received the opinion of the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We thought with the change of administration, perhaps there was new hope renewed. This takes us back. It's unbelievable that we're in this place yet again where our livelihoods are compromised, where the uncertainty is still there and our lives are still very much in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DACA allowed so many of us to apply for opportunities we never even imagined. As an attorney, I'm able to step into ... immigration courts and represent clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What are the impacts that are often less known on DACA recipients?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dulce García:\u003c/strong> The emotional toll that we have every time that we have to send our application, and hope that it gets processed in time before we lose our jobs, is a big one. When I applied in 2014, I was hesitant. I didn't trust the government. I wasn't sure whether it would be approved and we would be turning over all of our information, that on its own is a little bit scary to apply for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I understand why some folks hesitated to apply. Once you apply, we know that the program can be destroyed at any moment, as it was during the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I applied in 2014, they told me it would be political suicide for anyone to attack the program. Yet here we are. Where not only the prior administration attacked it and we had to step up and sue the federal government ourselves, but now the state of Texas is doing its own lawsuit and we don't know what's going to happen with the program yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11881810\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11881810\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing facemasks hold up signs that say, 'Immigrant rights are human rights!' and 'No human is illegal. Protect DACA.'\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasmine Parish Moreno, 20, and Fiama Vilagrana-Ocasio, 20, participate in a demonstration outside of the U.S. District Courthouse on July 19, 2021 in Houston, Texas. \u003ccite>(Brandon Bell/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Possible Paths Forward\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Why was DACA was established the way it was in 2012?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tom K. Wong:\u003c/strong> If folks think back to 2010, the DREAM Act was in Congress. It narrowly failed, not because of Republicans who typically are opposed to legal status for undocumented immigrants, but because the Democratic caucus couldn't hold the line. And so the failure of the DREAM Act in 2010, followed by a looming reelection of President Obama in early 2012, combined with potential Republican DREAM Act legislation being introduced by then-Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio. That was the political backdrop for the announcement of DACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='immigration'][Budget reconciliation] seems to be the most viable path forward right now. We know that there are 50 Democrats in the Senate and 50 Republicans. With Vice President (Kamala) Harris being the tiebreaker. The filibuster makes it difficult to imagine getting 60 votes, which is needed to invoke cloture, which ends a filibuster. So it's hard to imagine 60 votes for something like legal status, even for undocumented young people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we're going to see any action from Congress on immigration, [we should look for] something before the end of summer, before August recess, or if there is some kind of continuing resolution which kind of punts the ball a few months down the road, then the next opportunity would be in fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To get something into a budget reconciliation bill, you're required to show that DACA has more than incidental budgetary impact. What's the status of that? Is there a strong argument there?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tom K. Wong, U.S. Immigration Policy Center at UC San Diego\"]'DACA recipients are in fact, exceptional ... What we see in the data, DACA recipients are using their education to make tremendous contributions to the economy.'[/pullquote]\u003cstrong>Tom K. Wong:\u003c/strong> My colleagues and I at the Center for American Progress, the National Immigration Law Center and United We Dream, have been surveying recipients like Dulce and Ju — sometimes with the help of Dulce and Ju — since the inception of DACA. What we've been able to show are DACA's fiscal and economic impacts and they are overwhelmingly positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have asked DACA recipients to be exceptional based on the requirements for receiving DACA in the first place. And our survey data show that DACA recipients are, in fact, exceptional. Part of what we are seeing is that DACA recipients are among the most educated subgroup of the population in the United States, and part of DACA requires at least a high school diploma, GED or equivalent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we see in the data, DACA recipients are using their education to make tremendous contributions to the economy. We see that 63% have moved to a job with a better pay post-DACA, that 53% have moved to jobs with better working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar percentages report moving to jobs that better fit their education and training and their long-term career goals. We have seen 110% in our latest 2020 survey increase in hourly wages because of DACA. With those hourly wages, we're seeing increased tax contributions both at federal, state and local levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Experiences of Black Dreamers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Some advocates point out that Dreamers are not often seen as Black or Asian. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. are in limbo, after U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen ruled last Friday against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program launched in 2012 by former President Barack Obama. The program provides temporary protection from deportation, and work authorization, to undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. Hanen, based in Texas, argued that DACA was created illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision does not end legal protections for the roughly 616,000 current DACA participants. However, the legal decision does suspend approvals of new applications and leaves the door open for DACA to be terminated in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden has \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/17/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-daca-and-legislation-for-dreamers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pledged to appeal the ruling\u003c/a> and called on Congress to protect so-called Dreamers and create a path to citizenship for millions of people who lack legal status in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 19, KQED Forum host Mina Kim spoke with the following guests to get an overview of the legal decision and what happens next, and also to hear from immigrants who could be affected:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://polisci.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty-directory/currently-active-faculty/wong-profile.html\">Tom K. Wong\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>associate professor of political science and founding director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Center at UC San Diego.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.borderangels.org/dulce-garcia.html\">Dulce García\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>immigration attorney, executive director of Border Angels and a DACA recipient.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://immigrantsrising.org/story/denea-joseph-i-am-my-grandmothers-child/\">Denea Joseph\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>immigrants rights advocate and DACA recipient.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://immigrantsrising.org/leadership-council/ju-hong/\">Ju Hong\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>DACA recipient and member of Immigrants Rising, an organization that helps undocumented young people achieve educational and career goals.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Understanding the Ruling\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What was the basis Judge Andrew Hanen used in ruling that the creation of DACA was unlawful?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tom K. Wong\u003c/strong>: Judge Hanen ruled that DACA is unlawful because the creation of DACA violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), which requires public comment before changing policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling by Hanen based on the APA is a bit ironic because the last several years of the battle over DACA in the courts saw DACA being preserved mostly because of the APA as well. The Trump administration tried to end (DACA). DACA advocates [then] made a legal argument that the way that the Trump administration tried to end DACA violated the APA. Therefore, district courts all the way up to the Supreme Court said that DACA should stay. And now we have Judge Hanen relying on the same Administrative Procedure Act to essentially rule that DACA is illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What is the immediate impact of this decision?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tom K. Wong\u003c/strong>: The immediate impact is already being felt. Those who are first-time applicants, they should have received text notification from USCIS saying that biometrics appointments are now canceled. So part of applying for DACA not only includes a paper application, but once that's received by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), then individuals go in for biometrics, for example, to provide their fingerprints. So those appointments are already being canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the approximately 600,000 active DACA recipients, this means more uncertainty and more limbo. We essentially had four years of uncertainty over DACA under the Trump administration. And this particular ruling — although it does not say that current active DACA recipients will lose their status — adds to the sort of uncertainty that the recipients are living with on a day to day [basis] and makes more vivid the importance of a permanent legislative solution for not just DACA recipients, but for undocumented immigrants more generally.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5 p.m. Thursday, July 22:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe University of California Board of Regents voted to begin increasing tuition in 2022-23. The Board of Regents voted to largely keep the proposal as laid out below, but with some modifications, including that the hike is no longer indefinite and will be voted on again in five years, and that a greater share of revenue from the increase will go to financial aid for in-state students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nGet ready for whiplash: After receiving \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july21/p2.pdf\">$1.3 billion in new money\u003c/a> from lawmakers this year, the University of California now wants to raise tuition on each incoming undergraduate class. Every year. Indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once tuition spikes for an incoming class, it would stay flat for six years for that class — allowing students to more reliably calculate the multiyear cost of a degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Board of Regents will vote Thursday on a tuition-hike plan two years in the works that was initially derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic but has since been resuscitated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC officials project that in-state tuition and systemwide fees \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july21/b1attach4.pdf#page=7\">would grow by $534 in 2022-23\u003c/a> and increase by a slightly lower amount for each subsequent incoming class of undergraduate students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upshot is that in 2026-27, California undergraduates entering the UC would owe a projected $15,078 in annual tuition and statewide fees — about $2,500 more than what in-state undergraduates pay now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/_/Uj9MnXqdgAi2JUNhVCPX?src=embed\" title=\"Projected tuition increases at the UC\" width=\"800\" height=\"925\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal is a complicated one, stippled with tuition hike estimates pegged to inflation and studded with various exemptions meant to cap what students would ultimately owe. But what’s definite is that this marks a dramatic departure for the UC: After doubling tuition during the great recession in response to deep state cuts, the UC raised tuition just once since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do believe (the tuition increase is) likely to pass even though I would not like it to,” said Alexis Atsilvsgi Zaragoza, a UC Berkeley undergraduate and a student voting member of the Board of Regents who’ll be casting her first vote at this week’s meeting. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her dissent has powerful allies. Speaker of the Assembly Anthony Rendon, a Long Beach Democrat, and Senate President Pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins, the two leaders of the Legislature, oppose the tuition increases at this time, they told CalMatters in emails. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families have been struggling during this pandemic and this year has been difficult enough for so many Californians,” said Atkins, a San Diego Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC President Michael V. Drake declined to be interviewed for this story. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgiyF6R9NTE&t=12350s\">At the May Regents meeting\u003c/a>, Drake said the tuition plan will “help campuses preserve academic excellence and critical support services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s no secret that UC’s funding has been unstable for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office argues that the UC needs stable revenue from tuition to counter the long trend of state disinvestment. The system four decades ago got about 80% of funding to educate students from state support. Today, that share has shrunk to closer to 40%, nearly identical to how much revenue the system collects from tuition. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2021/06/california-college-budget/\">This year’s massive infusion of state cash to the UC\u003c/a> does little to reverse that trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/c4661e74-01b9-4fc0-81a2-1f3a7617df21?src=embed\" title=\"Declining state support for the UC\" width=\"800\" height=\"975\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC president’s office projects \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july21/b1attach2.pdf\">soaring costs totaling $2.1 billion by 2026-27\u003c/a> on top of current expenses, a shortfall it argues must be plugged with tuition hikes along with more money from the Legislature. The new added revenue \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july21/b1attach3.pdf\">would pay for more faculty hires\u003c/a>, salary and benefits increases, plus a slew of student support services and programs aiming to \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-s-ambitious-plan-help-more-students-earn-degree\">boost graduation rates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the UC maintains that the proposed tuition model is ultimately better for all students. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-income students who don’t pay tuition anyway because they qualify for financial aid would get even more money for books, housing and food, because about 36% of the revenues from the tuition hikes would go back to student aid. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with tuition growing only once per graduating class and tied to inflation, the cost of attendance will be predictable and stable for higher-income students who’ll pay full freight.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Specifics of the Proposed Tuition Hike\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july21/b1attach1.pdf\">proposed plan would increase tuition for each new incoming undergraduate class of students\u003c/a> starting in 2022-23. Every tuition hike would be pegged to inflation. Undergraduate students also would pay a surcharge of 2% or less, which would be phased out within a few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New and continuing students in state-funded graduate programs would \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july21/b1.pdf\">see a different kind of tuition hike\u003c/a>: theirs would be annual, rather than occurring once for every incoming class, and grow with inflation starting in 2022-23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal ties tuition growth to a three-year rolling average of inflation. Doing so keeps tuition from changing drastically if consumer prices soar. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed hike would cap tuition growth \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july21/b1.pdf\">in any year at 6%\u003c/a>. Another provision would grow tuition by a smaller amount if state lawmakers increase their share of UC’s budget \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july21/b1.pdf#page=2\">by more than 5%\u003c/a>. But that kind of increase is rare: UC’s state support has grown by less than 4.6% per year \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/rbudget/2020-21-budget-detail.pdf#page=168\">after hitting 5% in 2014-15\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"university of california,tuition\" label=\"Related Coverage.\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaragoza, the student regent, says a cap of 6% is still too high; she’ll push for a lower threshold. She wants trigger language in the regents’ proposal that would force the UC to pause tuition hikes in extreme cases like, say, a global pandemic. And she’d like the regents to be required to renew the plan regularly — at least once a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re using the messaging of a ‘forever hike,’ ” said Josh Lewis, a rising senior at Berkeley and chair of government relations for the UC Student Association. The systemwide student group opposes any tuition increase and is organizing a phalanx of students to protest the proposed hikes at this week’s Board of Regents meeting. The association is also submitting commentary pieces in all UC campus student papers and has met with regents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis said he wants the state to boost its support to the UC in lieu of tuition hikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the regents themselves aren’t unified in support. Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, who serves as a regent, tweeted her opposition while noting how the cost of tuition to UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has skyrocketed since she attended in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EleniForCA/status/1415064500479283203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1415064500479283203%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Feducation%2Fhigher-education%2F2021%2F07%2Fuc-tuition-hike%2F\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least one influential lawmaker is comfortable with the UC plan. Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Sacramento Democrat who chairs the budget subcommittee on education, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/media/assembly-budget-subcommittee-2-education-finance-20210201/video\">at a February hearing\u003c/a> that “moderate and predictable” tuition increases of the kind the regents are considering do “make sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s at least one kink in the UC’s revenue-boosting arguments. California law gives the governor’s director of finance the power to reduce the state funds headed to the UC (and California State University) if the university raises tuition. That’s because every increase to tuition means the state budget spends more on the Cal Grant, the state’s main student aid grant — something a third of UC undergraduates get, and which is automatically pegged to what the UC charges for tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Most Students Won’t Actually Pay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Currently, \u003ca href=\"https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/tuition-financial-aid/\">56% of California undergraduates at the UC\u003c/a> don’t pay any tuition due to a combination of state, federal and university aid. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not changing under the proposed UC tuition model. The UC calculates that students who aren’t in wealthier households will ultimately owe less in overall college costs under this increase than if tuition stayed flat. That paradox is due to the fact that the UC plans to spend \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july21/b1.pdf#page=5\">more than a third of the increased tuition revenue\u003c/a> on student financial aid. That money plus state and federal grants translate into \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july21/b1.pdf#page=10\">savings of nearly $2,000 a year by 2028-29\u003c/a> for students whose parents earn $120,000 or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all that financial aid, students in dire need still fall through the cracks. There are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2018/04/homeless-college-students-california/\">students living out of cars and vans\u003c/a>. A 2020 UC report found that 6% of undergraduates who get federal grant aid \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/global-food-initiative/_files/regents-special-committee-basic-needs-report.pdf#page=38\">still experience homelessness\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For families with incomes of $150,000, UC’s tuition increase plan would result in added tuition costs, growing to about $2,000 by 2028-29 for undergraduates. 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"content": "\u003cp>PG&E said in a report filed with state utility regulators late Sunday night that Cal Fire is investigating the company's equipment as the possible cause of a wildland blaze that's burned nearly 50 square miles of forest land in Butte and Plumas counties. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company says Cal Fire investigators collected parts of a power line and other possible evidence, including portions of a tree that came into contact with the line, from the location where the fire was first seen last Tuesday, July 13. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sunday night report and a separate PG&E statement said the company was disclosing the information \"in an abundance of caution\" and is cooperating with Cal Fire's investigation. 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In addition to finding that two of three fuses at the location had blown, the company report says, the worker discovered a \"healthy green tree leaning into [a power line], which was still intact and suspended on the poles. He also observed a fire on the ground near the base of the tree.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After removing the still-intact fuse, the worker alerted a supervisor, who then called 911. But by then, Cal Fire already knew about the blaze. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11880651,news_11879943,news_11875846 label='Related Coverage']Just after 5 p.m., a passing Sutter County fire crew alerted Cal Fire dispatchers to a small blaze burning \"near the power lines\" on the other side of the river. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crew leader estimated the size of the fire at 40 feet by 40 feet. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update 7:18 p.m.:\u003c/strong> This article has been updated to clarify the requirements for talk show host Larry Elder to be placed on the list of certified candidates for governor.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s top election official has released the list of candidates who filed to run for governor in the September recall election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secretary of State Shirley Weber says a total of 41 people filed the paperwork needed to run for governor by the Friday afternoon deadline — far fewer than the 135 who ran in 2003, when Gov. 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If that question fails, the recall is over and Newsom remains in office, with the potential replacement candidates on the second ballot rendered irrelevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Newsom is recalled, then whoever on the list of potential replacements gets the most votes is the new governor of the nation’s most populous state. With numerous candidates and no clear front-runner, it’s possible the winner might get less than 25% of the votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall date was set earlier this month after Republican organizers easily cleared the required 1.5 million petition signatures needed to place the proposal on the ballot. The push to oust Newsom is largely rooted in frustration with long-running school and business closures during the pandemic that overturned daily life for millions of Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the leading Republican candidates have been campaigning for months, but no Democrat with political stature decided to run, giving Newsom what amounted to an important, incremental victory. In 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, was elected after voters recalled Democratic then-Gov. Gray Davis. Many believe Davis was damaged when a fellow Democrat, Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, entered the race.[aside tag=\"recall\" label=\"More recall coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that could also backfire. Polls have shown Newsom would beat back the recall. But should he lose in an upset, there would be no established Democrat among replacement candidates, potentially opening the way for a Republican to take the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are some notable personalities, this year’s list lacks the panache of contenders in the state’s circus-like 2003 recall. Among the 135 names on the ballot that year were former child star Gary Coleman, pornographer Larry Flynt, former baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and political pundit Arianna Huffington, who dropped out shortly before the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polls have shown many voters are ignoring this year’s contest, and there were no new candidates who emerged Saturday who appeared to have the potential to reorder the trajectory of the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to requirements to run, the bar is relatively low. A candidate must be a citizen, registered or qualified to vote in California and not be convicted of felony bribery or theft of public money. Candidates must pay a filing fee of about $4,200 and submit at least 65 valid nomination signatures with their declaration of candidacy. They must also file copies of federal tax returns for the previous five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879531\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11879531\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1699\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-1536x1019.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-2048x1359.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1302667642-1920x1274.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Faulconer, former mayor of San Diego and a Republican candidate for California governor, speaks during a news conference in front of Abraham Lincoln High School on Feb. 17, 2021 in San Francisco. Faulconer held a news conference in front of the San Francisco high school to demand that California Gov. Gavin Newsom reopen schools in the state. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A certified list — the one voters will see — will be released Wednesday, and changes are possible. According to the secretary of state’s office, candidates who have filed the required paperwork include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin Paffrath\u003c/strong>, 29, is a YouTuber who gives financial advice to his 1.7 million subscribers. The Democrat says his lack of “political baggage” is a good thing. Anyone who wins the recall election would be governor for just over a year before the next election, which Paffrath likened to a trial run. His proposals include building underground tunnels for new roadways and cutting income taxes. The multimillionaire denies his run for office is a ploy to generate more publicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Hewitt\u003c/strong>, 68, is a Riverside County supervisor. He wrote in The Orange County Register that he was entering the race because “this state no longer accommodates dreams, fosters ideas or solves problems.” He argues the state needs a new approach and, as a Libertarian, he is positioned to work with Democrats and Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Ventresca\u003c/strong>, 69, is a Democrat though says he’s further to the left than Newsom and even Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on some issues. “I consider Newsom a corporate, establishment, insider Democrat,” he says. Ventresca’s main campaign platform is providing free health care and education “cradle to grave” for everyone in California. He retired in 2018 from the San Francisco International Airport, where he held multiple roles, and he ran for mayor of San Francisco in 2019. He got 7% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sam Gallucci\u003c/strong>, 60, a Republican, is a former technology executive who is senior pastor at Embrace! Church in Oxnard, California. He also runs services that provide assistance for at-risk women and children and migrants. In his tech career, he rose through the corporate ranks to become an executive vice president and general manager for software maker PeopleSoft. Oracle acquired the company for $10.3 billion in 2004. He says “the soul of our state has been lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlyn Jenner\u003c/strong>, 71, is a lifelong Republican trying to parlay her celebrity into a surprise win. She won the men’s decathlon gold medal at the 1976 Olympics, married into the Kardashian family and with them became reality TV stars, and then came out as a transgender woman in 2015. She has described herself as a fiscal conservative who is liberal on social issues. 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She’s running to bring attention to what she calls a crisis in the legal cannabis market, which has struggled to get on its feet amid heavy regulation and taxes while facing stiff competition from the thriving underground market. Legal marijuana is not available in many parts of the state. She says the state has largely turned its back on the industry’s troubles. She would slash pot taxes and push communities that have not set up local markets to open the door for legal sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin Faulconer\u003c/strong>, 54, is a Republican who was twice elected mayor of Democratic-leaning San Diego and left office last year. He was an early entrant in the recall race and has long been seen as a potential statewide candidate given his centrist credentials in strongly Democratic California. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>And the smaller-than-expected number of Republican candidates could be a setback for recall supporters who had hoped for a large, prominent field to attract voters for the first, crucial question: Should Newsom be recalled, yes or no? If that question fails, the recall is over and Newsom remains in office, with the potential replacement candidates on the second ballot rendered irrelevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Newsom is recalled, then whoever on the list of potential replacements gets the most votes is the new governor of the nation’s most populous state. With numerous candidates and no clear front-runner, it’s possible the winner might get less than 25% of the votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall date was set earlier this month after Republican organizers easily cleared the required 1.5 million petition signatures needed to place the proposal on the ballot. The push to oust Newsom is largely rooted in frustration with long-running school and business closures during the pandemic that overturned daily life for millions of Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the leading Republican candidates have been campaigning for months, but no Democrat with political stature decided to run, giving Newsom what amounted to an important, incremental victory. In 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, was elected after voters recalled Democratic then-Gov. Gray Davis. Many believe Davis was damaged when a fellow Democrat, Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, entered the race.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that could also backfire. Polls have shown Newsom would beat back the recall. But should he lose in an upset, there would be no established Democrat among replacement candidates, potentially opening the way for a Republican to take the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are some notable personalities, this year’s list lacks the panache of contenders in the state’s circus-like 2003 recall. Among the 135 names on the ballot that year were former child star Gary Coleman, pornographer Larry Flynt, former baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and political pundit Arianna Huffington, who dropped out shortly before the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polls have shown many voters are ignoring this year’s contest, and there were no new candidates who emerged Saturday who appeared to have the potential to reorder the trajectory of the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to requirements to run, the bar is relatively low. A candidate must be a citizen, registered or qualified to vote in California and not be convicted of felony bribery or theft of public money. Candidates must pay a filing fee of about $4,200 and submit at least 65 valid nomination signatures with their declaration of candidacy. 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The multimillionaire denies his run for office is a ploy to generate more publicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Hewitt\u003c/strong>, 68, is a Riverside County supervisor. He wrote in The Orange County Register that he was entering the race because “this state no longer accommodates dreams, fosters ideas or solves problems.” He argues the state needs a new approach and, as a Libertarian, he is positioned to work with Democrats and Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Ventresca\u003c/strong>, 69, is a Democrat though says he’s further to the left than Newsom and even Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on some issues. “I consider Newsom a corporate, establishment, insider Democrat,” he says. Ventresca’s main campaign platform is providing free health care and education “cradle to grave” for everyone in California. He retired in 2018 from the San Francisco International Airport, where he held multiple roles, and he ran for mayor of San Francisco in 2019. He got 7% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sam Gallucci\u003c/strong>, 60, a Republican, is a former technology executive who is senior pastor at Embrace! Church in Oxnard, California. He also runs services that provide assistance for at-risk women and children and migrants. In his tech career, he rose through the corporate ranks to become an executive vice president and general manager for software maker PeopleSoft. Oracle acquired the company for $10.3 billion in 2004. He says “the soul of our state has been lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlyn Jenner\u003c/strong>, 71, is a lifelong Republican trying to parlay her celebrity into a surprise win. She won the men’s decathlon gold medal at the 1976 Olympics, married into the Kardashian family and with them became reality TV stars, and then came out as a transgender woman in 2015. She has described herself as a fiscal conservative who is liberal on social issues. But she’s proven gaffe-prone in interviews and a sprinkle of polling has suggested she’s no Arnold Schwarzenegger, who used the power of his celebrity to become California governor in a 2003 recall election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Cox\u003c/strong>, 66, was the Republican nominee for governor in 2018 and lost to Newsom in a landslide. This time around the multimillionaire businessman has displayed a showman’s instincts, campaigning at one point with a Kodiak bear to show he wants to make “beastly” changes to California. He’s long sought public office. Starting in 2000, Cox ran for the U.S. House and twice for the U.S. Senate in his old home state of Illinois, but fell short in crowded Republican primaries. 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