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After getting his two-year degree from this campus, he wants to transfer to Tuskegee University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to be a cardiovascular surgeon — but the residency might be too much — so I might settle for dermatology,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elimimian’s struggles are common among California’s community college students, 80 percent of whom are assigned non-credit remedial coursework after taking a placement test when they arrive on campuses. Roughly 40 percent of those students go on to drop out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, his community college and others are leading the charge to overhaul what many observers say is a broken remedial education program. Administrators are changing the placement tests, the weight they give to its results and the content of the courses students take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to stop remedial students from dropping out and to get more of them to transfer to a four-year university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Remedial classes lead to dropping out\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBeing assigned remedial classes also led Elyse Gonzalez to take some time off from school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made me feel really low about myself,” she said of her remedial math class. “Because I would see my friends that first of all were in universities — not even [community college] — they would be doing calculus and statistics problems. And I whoop out my arithmetic book, like, here’s long division, adding and multiplying decimals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West L.A. College isn’t getting rid of remedial classes, as some faculty and administrators want, but it is phasing out remedial classes like Gonzalez’s that review skills students should have learned in middle school and high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students come to college expecting that they’re going to be in college classes,” said West L.A. 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The assumption of college administrators before the creation of this class was that the students weren’t ready to engage in these types of discussions to write college essays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instructor Tejada said these students are proving those assumptions wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Content matters, that if we give students engaging, thinking-oriented curriculum that they are excited about learning, they come to class ready to discuss what they’ve read and share their own ideas,” Tejada said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students are thrown into the deep end of the pool, but with floaties, so to speak. There’s a paid aide in each class whose job is to help students do research, structure their writing, and work through the lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students who have been challenged by community college’s remedial education system raved about this class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re learning someone else’s experience and how he lived and how he expressed what we went through. and we can compare it to our daily livelihood,” said student Cynthia Graham. “It’s a great book. I couldn’t put it down when I picked it up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11231137\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11231137\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/remedialclass1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cynthia Graham, right, participates in a discussion in Leslie Tejada's English 100 class at West Los Angeles College in Los Angeles, Calif. on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/remedialclass1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/remedialclass1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/remedialclass1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/remedialclass1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/remedialclass1-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/remedialclass1-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/remedialclass1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/remedialclass1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/remedialclass1-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Graham, right, participates in a discussion in Leslie Tejada’s English 100 class at West Los Angeles College in Los Angeles on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. \u003ccite>(Susanica Tam/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Data driving reforms\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThese anecdotes and a growing body of research are convincing community college administrators and faculty that the remedial education system is broken, doing more to stand in the way of students’ goals rather than help them reach them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I agree that it is broken,” said James Lanich, the CEO of Educational Results Partnership, a nonprofit that’s working for California’s community colleges to change the methods campuses use to place students in remedial classes. “I think that there’s disagreement on the reasons why it is broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now the vast majority of our ethnic minority, socioeconomically disadvantaged English language learners are being sorted out of access to the community college system,” he said, “Ultimately not succeeding in transfer degrees to the universities and not succeeding in attainment of living wage jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_1116ORR.pdf\">According to a recent report\u003c/a> by the Public Policy Institute of California, 56 percent of California community college students who begin remedial math courses do not finish the sequence that is supposed to prepare them for college-level classes. Forty percent of students who begin remedial English courses finish the sequence. And the majority of students sorted into these courses are low-income students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Developmental education that is not effective comes at a high cost to students — not only in tuition and fees for courses that do not count toward a degree, but also in time and lost income,” said Marisol Cuellar Mejia, a co-author of the report. “It is also costly to California, which needs more college-educated workers and relies on community colleges as an entry point to higher education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Patchwork of improvements\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAbout 75 percent of the state’s community colleges are changing their remedial classes, some a lot faster than others. One of the reasons behind the uneven changes is that California’s 113 community colleges are locally run by elected boards of education and campus presidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At West L.A. College, about a third of students needing remedial English, Manner said, are still in the older classes that focus on grammar skills. 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Administrators are changing the placement tests, the weight they give to its results and the content of the courses students take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to stop remedial students from dropping out and to get more of them to transfer to a four-year university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Remedial classes lead to dropping out\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBeing assigned remedial classes also led Elyse Gonzalez to take some time off from school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made me feel really low about myself,” she said of her remedial math class. “Because I would see my friends that first of all were in universities — not even [community college] — they would be doing calculus and statistics problems. And I whoop out my arithmetic book, like, here’s long division, adding and multiplying decimals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West L.A. 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The assumption of college administrators before the creation of this class was that the students weren’t ready to engage in these types of discussions to write college essays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instructor Tejada said these students are proving those assumptions wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Content matters, that if we give students engaging, thinking-oriented curriculum that they are excited about learning, they come to class ready to discuss what they’ve read and share their own ideas,” Tejada said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students are thrown into the deep end of the pool, but with floaties, so to speak. There’s a paid aide in each class whose job is to help students do research, structure their writing, and work through the lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students who have been challenged by community college’s remedial education system raved about this class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re learning someone else’s experience and how he lived and how he expressed what we went through. and we can compare it to our daily livelihood,” said student Cynthia Graham. “It’s a great book. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s tough for California voters to say no to more money for school construction. They almost always approve state bond requests, and this month they passed a $9 billion package that backers promised would help pay for repairs and upgrades needed to preserve students’ access to safe, modern classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike previous bonds, however, Proposition 51 was placed on the ballot not by elected lawmakers, but by developers looking out for their own interests. Its approval locks in an outdated system that was designed for a time when the student population was growing, and its application process may limit poor districts’ chances of claiming their fair share of the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of prioritizing projects for needy communities, the state will dole out these bond proceeds the way it always has: on a first-come, first-served basis. Scores of well-off districts are already in line, and small impoverished ones have no one in their corner helping them navigate the complicated application process. That means some worthy repair projects may never see a dime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children all across the state are sitting in subpar buildings with leaky roofs and classrooms that can’t support their curriculum,” said Jeff Vincent, who directs UC Berkeley’s Center for Cities and Schools. “Some of those problems may not get fixed any time soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s widely agreed that California needs more money for school facilities, and that the bond will help pay for projects that have languished. But the problem starts with how the funding is divided among projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-third of the $9 billion bond’s proceeds will support new construction, another third will finance modernization projects and the rest of it will go to career technical education, charter school and community college buildings. That mix may sound reasonable. But when the state created the School Facility Program in 1998, California’s population was booming and new school construction was needed to keep pace. By contrast, public school enrollment over the next decade is projected to dip slightly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be some new construction needs. Some counties are growing,” said Vincent. “But to suggest that we should spend as much on new construction as we spend on modernization is out of skew with our needs on the ground. Demand for upgrades is far greater.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next problem is how the money is awarded. Districts applying to the state must provide matching funds, giving wealthier communities an advantage because they can tap a deeper well of local taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Hanford Elementary School District, which serves a small farming town in the Central Valley, the wish list includes replacing old electrical wiring in schools that are more than half a century old, improving students’ access to computers and getting some new fire alarms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anticipating voter approval of Proposition 51, Hanford was one of nearly 200 districts across the state that used the November ballot to also seek voter approval of local school bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s $24 million bond passed, but Hanford will never qualify for as much state support as the Campbell Union School District, located in the heart of Silicon Valley. Voters there approved a $72 million bond, which could mean three times as much state matching money as Hanford — even though the districts serve about the same number of students in roughly the same number of buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This disparity isn’t fair to students from Hanford and other needy parts of the state, said Shin Green, an Oakland-based consultant whose firm specializes in school infrastructure financing. “We don’t know where the next doctor or physicist or inventor will come from,” Green said. “Substantial differences in the quality of our facilities mean substantial differences in our kids’ opportunities to learn. And that strikes me as wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poor districts incapable of raising money locally through bonds or developer fees — which communities charge to help pay for new school construction — may ask the state to cover a project’s full cost. But few are familiar enough with the application process to make it work in their favor, Green said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Districts trying to get the septic system fixed or get that bus alternator replaced may not even know who in Sacramento to call for help,” Green said. “I’ve run across districts that assume they can’t get any money and don’t bother applying.”[subscription_form]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Proposition 51 drew support from a large, diverse coalition of interest groups and politicians, including the California Chamber of Commerce, the State Building and Construction Trades Council, and both the state Democratic and Republican parties. Proponents were eager to replenish California’s fund for school construction, which ran dry four years ago after churning through $40 billion in bond money over the last two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breaking with recent tradition, this year’s measure was sponsored by two groups that stand to benefit from an incoming wave of school and home building: the Coalition for Adequate School Housing, which promotes new school construction, and the California Building Industry Association, a trade group for developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from both organizations declined a CALmattters request for interviews about their motivations and the need for the bond. Had it failed, districts likely would have raised fees on developers to pay for school projects — either cutting into developers’ bottom lines or prompting them to raise home prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 51’s loudest critic was Gov. Jerry Brown, who called it “a blunderbuss” and said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that the Legislature could have done a better job than “the developers who put that one together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early this year, Brown collaborated with legislative leaders on a much smaller $5 billion bond that would also have changed the way the state distributes the money, prioritizing projects that reduce overcrowding and protect students’ health and safety. But the developers who sponsored the measure refused to change anything about the existing program or even discuss how to improve it, state Department of Finance Director Michael Cohen noted in an October op-ed urging a no vote. “They insisted on the status quo,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Chris Funk, who leads San Jose’s East Side Union High School District, says he’s glad the measure passed because school systems such as his can’t wait any longer to get financing for repairs on old pipes, leaky roofs and broken air-conditioning systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funk also rejected the governor’s criticism of the measure’s price tag, which the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office pegs at $17.6 billion to pay off both the bond’s principal and interest over the next 35 years — via payments of about $500 million annually. “Until the governor starts fully funding education and providing the right money for facilities, I would much rather perpetuate the current system,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tucked into Proposition 51 is a key provision that voters likely glossed over: It prohibits the state from modifying the way it allocates school construction funding without another vote of the people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outgoing state Senate Education Committee Chairwoman Carol Liu, D-Glendale, said she opposed the bond, too, and wishes the Legislature could have done more to fix the problem. “We have lost an opportunity to reform a fragmented system of bond administration and disbursement that does not ensure that school districts and communities with the greatest need for new facilities receive funds,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CALmatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit news venture devoted to coverage of state policy and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s tough for California voters to say no to more money for school construction. They almost always approve state bond requests, and this month they passed a $9 billion package that backers promised would help pay for repairs and upgrades needed to preserve students’ access to safe, modern classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike previous bonds, however, Proposition 51 was placed on the ballot not by elected lawmakers, but by developers looking out for their own interests. Its approval locks in an outdated system that was designed for a time when the student population was growing, and its application process may limit poor districts’ chances of claiming their fair share of the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of prioritizing projects for needy communities, the state will dole out these bond proceeds the way it always has: on a first-come, first-served basis. Scores of well-off districts are already in line, and small impoverished ones have no one in their corner helping them navigate the complicated application process. That means some worthy repair projects may never see a dime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children all across the state are sitting in subpar buildings with leaky roofs and classrooms that can’t support their curriculum,” said Jeff Vincent, who directs UC Berkeley’s Center for Cities and Schools. “Some of those problems may not get fixed any time soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s widely agreed that California needs more money for school facilities, and that the bond will help pay for projects that have languished. But the problem starts with how the funding is divided among projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-third of the $9 billion bond’s proceeds will support new construction, another third will finance modernization projects and the rest of it will go to career technical education, charter school and community college buildings. That mix may sound reasonable. But when the state created the School Facility Program in 1998, California’s population was booming and new school construction was needed to keep pace. By contrast, public school enrollment over the next decade is projected to dip slightly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be some new construction needs. Some counties are growing,” said Vincent. “But to suggest that we should spend as much on new construction as we spend on modernization is out of skew with our needs on the ground. Demand for upgrades is far greater.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next problem is how the money is awarded. Districts applying to the state must provide matching funds, giving wealthier communities an advantage because they can tap a deeper well of local taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Hanford Elementary School District, which serves a small farming town in the Central Valley, the wish list includes replacing old electrical wiring in schools that are more than half a century old, improving students’ access to computers and getting some new fire alarms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anticipating voter approval of Proposition 51, Hanford was one of nearly 200 districts across the state that used the November ballot to also seek voter approval of local school bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s $24 million bond passed, but Hanford will never qualify for as much state support as the Campbell Union School District, located in the heart of Silicon Valley. Voters there approved a $72 million bond, which could mean three times as much state matching money as Hanford — even though the districts serve about the same number of students in roughly the same number of buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This disparity isn’t fair to students from Hanford and other needy parts of the state, said Shin Green, an Oakland-based consultant whose firm specializes in school infrastructure financing. “We don’t know where the next doctor or physicist or inventor will come from,” Green said. “Substantial differences in the quality of our facilities mean substantial differences in our kids’ opportunities to learn. And that strikes me as wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poor districts incapable of raising money locally through bonds or developer fees — which communities charge to help pay for new school construction — may ask the state to cover a project’s full cost. But few are familiar enough with the application process to make it work in their favor, Green said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Districts trying to get the septic system fixed or get that bus alternator replaced may not even know who in Sacramento to call for help,” Green said. “I’ve run across districts that assume they can’t get any money and don’t bother applying.”[subscription_form]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Proposition 51 drew support from a large, diverse coalition of interest groups and politicians, including the California Chamber of Commerce, the State Building and Construction Trades Council, and both the state Democratic and Republican parties. Proponents were eager to replenish California’s fund for school construction, which ran dry four years ago after churning through $40 billion in bond money over the last two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breaking with recent tradition, this year’s measure was sponsored by two groups that stand to benefit from an incoming wave of school and home building: the Coalition for Adequate School Housing, which promotes new school construction, and the California Building Industry Association, a trade group for developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from both organizations declined a CALmattters request for interviews about their motivations and the need for the bond. Had it failed, districts likely would have raised fees on developers to pay for school projects — either cutting into developers’ bottom lines or prompting them to raise home prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 51’s loudest critic was Gov. Jerry Brown, who called it “a blunderbuss” and said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that the Legislature could have done a better job than “the developers who put that one together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early this year, Brown collaborated with legislative leaders on a much smaller $5 billion bond that would also have changed the way the state distributes the money, prioritizing projects that reduce overcrowding and protect students’ health and safety. 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"content": "\u003cp>Long associated with the Bay Area, the word ‘hella’ has gained widespread use. But how was the word born? Ventura Albor asked \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Curious\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How is it that “hella” became synonymous with the Bay?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ventura’s question was inspired by his college days at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11178097\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11178097\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS21661_161026_HellaShirt_bhs02-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A UC Berkeley student poses for photos wearing a 'Hella Kitty' shirt from Pure 510, a local custom t-shirt business in Oakland, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS21661_161026_HellaShirt_bhs02-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS21661_161026_HellaShirt_bhs02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS21661_161026_HellaShirt_bhs02-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS21661_161026_HellaShirt_bhs02-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS21661_161026_HellaShirt_bhs02-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS21661_161026_HellaShirt_bhs02-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS21661_161026_HellaShirt_bhs02-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS21661_161026_HellaShirt_bhs02-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS21661_161026_HellaShirt_bhs02-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A UC Berkeley student poses for photos wearing a ‘Hella Kitty’ shirt from Pure 510, a local custom t-shirt business in Oakland, California. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“L.A. folks would [home] in on it right away and be like, ‘Oh you’re from the Bay Area?’ ” he says. “I never really thought of it, I just thought everyone said hella.” \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hella: A Linguistic Boundary\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many Bay Area residents and Californians believe that hella — and its G-rated equivalent “hecka” — are Bay Area slang. The words, which mean “very” or “a lot of,” can be used multiple ways. You can say “I’m hella stoked” or “There were hella people at that party last night,” or even, “I was doing it for hella days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Bucholtz, a linguist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, conducted a study in which people indicated their perceptions of how people talk in certain areas of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch3>A Guide to Bay Area Slang\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hella\u003c/strong> – very, really, extremely; many, a lot; in an extraordinary or impressive manner.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>“That jacket’s hella dope!”\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hyphy\u003c/strong> – hyper, excited\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>“I’m from the Bay where we hyphy and go dumb. From the soil where them rappers be getting their lingo from.” – E-40\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Off the chain\u003c/strong> – super fun, exciting, great\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>“This party tonight’s gonna be off the chain!”\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Fa sheezy/fo shizzle\u003c/strong> – for sure\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>“Saturday is off the heezy fo’sheezy.” – Jermaine Dupri\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Janky\u003c/strong> – poor quality, inferior, weird\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>“Ugh, this umbrella is hella janky.”\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Baller\u003c/strong> (n)/\u003cstrong>ballin’\u003c/strong> (v) – a ball player, or someone who’s winning “the game” (of life).\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>“Wanna be a baller, shot caller, 20-inch blades on the impala” – Lil’ Troy\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hella was the most frequently cited word, and 78.4 percent of the people who mentioned it in the study said it was Northern California slang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For Southern Californians in particular, hella represents a crucial shibboleth separating the two major regions of the state,” says Bucholtz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true for Southern California transplant Bree DeRobbio, now living in San Jose. She remembers the first time she heard someone say hella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My reaction was ‘Oh my God, they really do say it.’ And I was amazed at all the different applications the word has,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Dictionary Says WHAT?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are at least two origin stories for hella: One places it in Toronto (yes, Canada) and the other in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More on Oakland later, but first — Toronto? I mean, really?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hella made its first appearance in the Oxford English Dictionary in 2002, and the dictionary says the word was first used in a 1987 article in the Toronto Star:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The horse went hella whoopin’ down the trail, trailing 50 feet or more of the best Berkley Trilene Monofilament line.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>(Sidenote: That part about the best Berkley Trilene Monofilament line refers to a type of fishing line — no relation to Berkeley, Calif.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, hella is identified as Northern American slang that was probably shortened from “helluva” or “hellacious.” But English-language historian Michael Adams says hella’s grammatical usage doesn’t quite align with what the Oxford English Dictionary says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really skeptical of that etymology that hella comes from helluva because we don’t use hella grammatically in the same way that we would use helluva,” Adams says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Adams means is you can’t get “hella cute” from “helluva cute,” or say, “My dad’s a hella cook,” even though you could say, “My dad’s a helluva cook.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also has an explanation for why hella didn’t come from hellacious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10649553\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16365_223475127_786d4ee142_o-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Someone turned Fell Street in San Francisco into Hella Street. (kyle rw/Flickr)\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16365_223475127_786d4ee142_o-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16365_223475127_786d4ee142_o-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16365_223475127_786d4ee142_o-qut-1440x958.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16365_223475127_786d4ee142_o-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16365_223475127_786d4ee142_o-qut-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16365_223475127_786d4ee142_o-qut-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Someone turned Fell Street in San Francisco into Hella Street. (kyle rw/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The suffix from hellacious is ‘—acious,’ like tenacious, and if you’re going to break a word, you’re usually going to break a word where there’s a boundary between its parts,” Adams says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to this theory, the natural break for hellacious would make it “hell-aysh,” not hella.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>From Oakland Teens to the Rest of the World\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley linguist Geoff Nunberg traces hella back a few more years, to Oakland, from two early citations in a 1987 \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=k-NIAQAAMAAJ&q=Second+Class+Finish:+The+Effects+of+Rituals+and+Routines+of+a+Working-class+High+School,+Volume+2&dq=Second+Class+Finish:+The+Effects+of+Rituals+and+Routines+of+a+Working-class+High+School,+Volume+2&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAGoVChMI6OGT39u2xwIVUFaICh3jbQDI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dissertation\u003c/a> of a Berkeley student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10650083\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16362_6312711130_5e7518b922_o-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10650083 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16362_6312711130_5e7518b922_o-qut-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Some in Oakland have embraced the word. Mayor Libby Schaaf often used it while campaigning, saying 'I hella love Oakland' and 'It is hella time for leadership in Oakland.'\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16362_6312711130_5e7518b922_o-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16362_6312711130_5e7518b922_o-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16362_6312711130_5e7518b922_o-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16362_6312711130_5e7518b922_o-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16362_6312711130_5e7518b922_o-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16362_6312711130_5e7518b922_o-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some in Oakland have embraced the word. Mayor Libby Schaaf often used it while campaigning, saying ‘I hella love Oakland’ and ‘It is hella time for leadership in Oakland.’ \u003ccite>(cplbasilisk/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Hella emerged somewhere in Northern California around the late 1970s, and although it spread to other places, it’s still associated with this region,” says Nunberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, slang spreads from black English to white English and not in the other direction, which is why Nunberg says he suspects it started in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phrases like “cool” and “tell it like it is” are good examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ ‘Cool’ was adopted by white hipsters and beatniks in the early ‘50s before spreading to teen slang. ‘Tell it like it is’ was used by black writers in the early ’60s and quickly became part of general white English,” he says.[aside tag='bay-curious' label='Looking for More Bay Curious?']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lines up with what multimedia producer Sean Kennedy, an Oakland native, recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers saying hella with the kids on his Pop Warner football team and at King Estates Junior High School in the late ’70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Very rarely in the African-American or black community do we pick up other people’s language and use them,” he says. “It’s usually the language we create and other people use them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that time, hip-hop and street culture gained widespread popularity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was used in a manner of explaining, ‘That looked hella good— that looked good’—something that was clean, or somebody acting crazy, ‘You’re hella crazy,’ ” Kennedy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bay Area Punks Debate Hella Vs. Hell Of\u003c/h3>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>“Hell of Dumb” by the Mr. T. Experience\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"369\" height=\"277\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/-R_TW_ZqHw4\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In early years, Bay Area youth debated whether the slang word was hella or actually “hell of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, the debate could get quite heated, says punk rocker Frank Portman. In 1997, he wrote a song called “Hell of Dumb,” poking fun at the issue with his band the Mr. T. Experience. He thinks the hella vs. hell of debate goes back to 1983.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was always very clear that it was hell of. It was not hella and if anyone ever said hella, which sometimes people did, they would always correct you with the attitude of a school marm correcting your grammar,” Portman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hella Now\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since those early days, widespread use of hell of, hellacious and helluva has dwindled — leaving hella to stand alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch3>Cartman uses hella in South Park\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"369\" height=\"208\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/7pohEb7DUac\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hella got a national audience in the South Park episode “Spookyfish,” from the second season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cartman taunts Stan and Kyle by singing, “You guys are hella stupid, you guys are hella lame, you guys are hella dumb hella, hella, hella.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word may be one of Northern California’s most notorious cultural exports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re welcome, world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Got a question you want to see the Bay Curious team take on? \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Submit it!\u003c/a> Be sure to subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iTunes\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ipi2mc5aqfen4nr2daayiziiyuy\">Google Play\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\">NPR One\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Long associated with the Bay Area, the word ‘hella’ has gained widespread use. But how was the word born? Ventura Albor asked \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Curious\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How is it that “hella” became synonymous with the Bay?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ventura’s question was inspired by his college days at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11178097\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11178097\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS21661_161026_HellaShirt_bhs02-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A UC Berkeley student poses for photos wearing a 'Hella Kitty' shirt from Pure 510, a local custom t-shirt business in Oakland, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS21661_161026_HellaShirt_bhs02-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS21661_161026_HellaShirt_bhs02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS21661_161026_HellaShirt_bhs02-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS21661_161026_HellaShirt_bhs02-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS21661_161026_HellaShirt_bhs02-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS21661_161026_HellaShirt_bhs02-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS21661_161026_HellaShirt_bhs02-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS21661_161026_HellaShirt_bhs02-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS21661_161026_HellaShirt_bhs02-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A UC Berkeley student poses for photos wearing a ‘Hella Kitty’ shirt from Pure 510, a local custom t-shirt business in Oakland, California. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“L.A. folks would [home] in on it right away and be like, ‘Oh you’re from the Bay Area?’ ” he says. “I never really thought of it, I just thought everyone said hella.” \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hella: A Linguistic Boundary\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many Bay Area residents and Californians believe that hella — and its G-rated equivalent “hecka” — are Bay Area slang. The words, which mean “very” or “a lot of,” can be used multiple ways. You can say “I’m hella stoked” or “There were hella people at that party last night,” or even, “I was doing it for hella days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Bucholtz, a linguist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, conducted a study in which people indicated their perceptions of how people talk in certain areas of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch3>A Guide to Bay Area Slang\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hella\u003c/strong> – very, really, extremely; many, a lot; in an extraordinary or impressive manner.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>“That jacket’s hella dope!”\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hyphy\u003c/strong> – hyper, excited\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>“I’m from the Bay where we hyphy and go dumb. From the soil where them rappers be getting their lingo from.” – E-40\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Off the chain\u003c/strong> – super fun, exciting, great\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>“This party tonight’s gonna be off the chain!”\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Fa sheezy/fo shizzle\u003c/strong> – for sure\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>“Saturday is off the heezy fo’sheezy.” – Jermaine Dupri\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Janky\u003c/strong> – poor quality, inferior, weird\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>“Ugh, this umbrella is hella janky.”\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Baller\u003c/strong> (n)/\u003cstrong>ballin’\u003c/strong> (v) – a ball player, or someone who’s winning “the game” (of life).\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>“Wanna be a baller, shot caller, 20-inch blades on the impala” – Lil’ Troy\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hella was the most frequently cited word, and 78.4 percent of the people who mentioned it in the study said it was Northern California slang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For Southern Californians in particular, hella represents a crucial shibboleth separating the two major regions of the state,” says Bucholtz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true for Southern California transplant Bree DeRobbio, now living in San Jose. She remembers the first time she heard someone say hella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My reaction was ‘Oh my God, they really do say it.’ And I was amazed at all the different applications the word has,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Dictionary Says WHAT?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are at least two origin stories for hella: One places it in Toronto (yes, Canada) and the other in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More on Oakland later, but first — Toronto? I mean, really?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hella made its first appearance in the Oxford English Dictionary in 2002, and the dictionary says the word was first used in a 1987 article in the Toronto Star:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The horse went hella whoopin’ down the trail, trailing 50 feet or more of the best Berkley Trilene Monofilament line.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>(Sidenote: That part about the best Berkley Trilene Monofilament line refers to a type of fishing line — no relation to Berkeley, Calif.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, hella is identified as Northern American slang that was probably shortened from “helluva” or “hellacious.” But English-language historian Michael Adams says hella’s grammatical usage doesn’t quite align with what the Oxford English Dictionary says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really skeptical of that etymology that hella comes from helluva because we don’t use hella grammatically in the same way that we would use helluva,” Adams says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Adams means is you can’t get “hella cute” from “helluva cute,” or say, “My dad’s a hella cook,” even though you could say, “My dad’s a helluva cook.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also has an explanation for why hella didn’t come from hellacious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10649553\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16365_223475127_786d4ee142_o-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Someone turned Fell Street in San Francisco into Hella Street. (kyle rw/Flickr)\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16365_223475127_786d4ee142_o-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16365_223475127_786d4ee142_o-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16365_223475127_786d4ee142_o-qut-1440x958.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16365_223475127_786d4ee142_o-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16365_223475127_786d4ee142_o-qut-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16365_223475127_786d4ee142_o-qut-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Someone turned Fell Street in San Francisco into Hella Street. (kyle rw/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The suffix from hellacious is ‘—acious,’ like tenacious, and if you’re going to break a word, you’re usually going to break a word where there’s a boundary between its parts,” Adams says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to this theory, the natural break for hellacious would make it “hell-aysh,” not hella.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>From Oakland Teens to the Rest of the World\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley linguist Geoff Nunberg traces hella back a few more years, to Oakland, from two early citations in a 1987 \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=k-NIAQAAMAAJ&q=Second+Class+Finish:+The+Effects+of+Rituals+and+Routines+of+a+Working-class+High+School,+Volume+2&dq=Second+Class+Finish:+The+Effects+of+Rituals+and+Routines+of+a+Working-class+High+School,+Volume+2&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAGoVChMI6OGT39u2xwIVUFaICh3jbQDI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dissertation\u003c/a> of a Berkeley student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10650083\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16362_6312711130_5e7518b922_o-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10650083 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16362_6312711130_5e7518b922_o-qut-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Some in Oakland have embraced the word. Mayor Libby Schaaf often used it while campaigning, saying 'I hella love Oakland' and 'It is hella time for leadership in Oakland.'\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16362_6312711130_5e7518b922_o-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16362_6312711130_5e7518b922_o-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16362_6312711130_5e7518b922_o-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16362_6312711130_5e7518b922_o-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16362_6312711130_5e7518b922_o-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16362_6312711130_5e7518b922_o-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some in Oakland have embraced the word. Mayor Libby Schaaf often used it while campaigning, saying ‘I hella love Oakland’ and ‘It is hella time for leadership in Oakland.’ \u003ccite>(cplbasilisk/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Hella emerged somewhere in Northern California around the late 1970s, and although it spread to other places, it’s still associated with this region,” says Nunberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, slang spreads from black English to white English and not in the other direction, which is why Nunberg says he suspects it started in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phrases like “cool” and “tell it like it is” are good examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ ‘Cool’ was adopted by white hipsters and beatniks in the early ‘50s before spreading to teen slang. ‘Tell it like it is’ was used by black writers in the early ’60s and quickly became part of general white English,” he says.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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We’re doing everything we can to support them.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2016/11/09/1500-students-walk-out-of-berkeley-high-school-in-protest-of-election/\">headed toward the UC Berkeley campus\u003c/a> where they congregated at the base of the Campanile and were joined by a number of Cal students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several gatherings appear planned for Wednesday evening, including events in Oakland and San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald Trump’s election to the presidency Tuesday night was met virtually instantaneously with protests in the streets of Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowds in at least two gatherings in the East Bay appeared to number in the hundreds. At least one injury was reported, apparently occurring when protesters walked onto Highway 24 in North Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the best of the coverage we’re seeing via other organizations posting on social media. Special nod to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/11/09/bay-area-protesters-rail-against-donald-trump-presidency-set-fires-vandalize-buildings/\">East Bay Times\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/2016/11/09/berkeley-protest-erupts-trump-wins-presidency/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Californian\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11166259\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11166259\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/trumpprotest-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Police and protesters faced off at 14th Street and Broadway in downtown Oakland early Wednesday morning. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police and protesters faced off at 14th Street and Broadway in downtown Oakland early Wednesday morning. \u003ccite>(Berkeleyside via Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, from the East Bay Times:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When it looked as if Trump was close to clinching the presidency, protesters began to gather in downtown Oakland at Frank Ogawa Plaza. But what started out as a peaceful march quickly turned violent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… protesters threw a rock through the window at the Oakland Tribune office at 20th and Broadway, set several dumpsters on fire on Broadway, and sprayed profanity about Trump on buildings…\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Tyska/status/796278451514679297\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the Daily Cal report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Shortly after Donald Trump won the presidency on Tuesday night, more than 200 students poured into the streets of Berkeley and protested down Telegraph Avenue to Oakland, later jumping onto Highway 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 11:30 p.m., protesters began marching down Telegraph Avenue in response to the presidential election results, chanting “Not my president” and “whose streets, ours streets,” as they lit flares and marched. After crossing into Oakland, protesters jumped onto the highway, with the scene quickly becoming chaotic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t feel the government is hearing our voices when we say Donald Trump is not our president,” said UC Berkeley sophomore Esmeralda Cortez, who was at the protest. “The fact that he’s our new president says a lot about where our future and our generations are heading.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman was hit by a car about 12:15 a.m. on the eastbound side of the freeway near Claremont, with multiple reports that the driver of the car allegedly tried to flee the scene. Protesters created a barricade to stop the car and attempted to break the glass.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, protesters gathered outside a Trump victory gathering at Twitter headquarters on Market Street. They dispersed without incident. 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Early election results showed San Francisco, Oakland and Albany were poised to approve soda taxes by a wide margin. \u003ccite>(Aaron Levy-Wolins/Bay News Now)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jason McDaniel, a political science professor at San Francisco State University, said the flood of cash from the soda industry pointed to the races’ high stakes nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they see this as very important for their future, and they are trying to make it clear to other cities and other states that might consider similar types of taxes that they are going to fight hard,” McDaniel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While tax proponents relied heavily on volunteers going door to door to garner support, out-of-state billionaires \u003ca href=\"https://www.mikebloomberg.com/\">Michael Bloomberg\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.lauraandjohnarnold.com/biography/\">Laura and John Arnold\u003c/a> infused about $24 million into the campaign, mostly during the final weeks before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley voters approved the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/11/04/will-berkeley-and-san-francisco-soda-tax-measures-set-precedent/\">nation’s first soda tax \u003c/a>in 2014, while a similar tax in San Francisco failed the same year. 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"content": "\u003cp>Have you noticed more local bond and parcel tax measures on your ballot? There are \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiacityfinance.com/Votes1611preview.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a record number of them\u003c/a> this year in California, more than in any presidential or gubernatorial election in the past 10 years, according to the California Local Government Finance Almanac. More than half of these measures are for schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts all over the state propose bonds, but parcel taxes are mostly a Bay Area thing. Most school districts are proposing to renew taxes that are set to expire in the next few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/290998707″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sjusd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose Unified School District\u003c/a> is proposing its very first parcel tax. School board member Susan Ellenberg said her district faces a big challenge: recruiting and retaining quality teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When teachers leave our district, it tends to be because the cost of living is so incredibly high here,” Ellenberg said. “They’re moving occasionally to districts in the surrounding areas where they are paid significantly more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11156602\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11156602\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21717_IMG_34591-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Children play at Horace Mann Elementary in San Jose Unified School District. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21717_IMG_34591-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21717_IMG_34591-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21717_IMG_34591-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21717_IMG_34591-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21717_IMG_34591-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21717_IMG_34591-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21717_IMG_34591-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21717_IMG_34591-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21717_IMG_34591-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play at Horace Mann Elementary in San Jose Unified School District. \u003ccite>(KQED/Zaidee Stavely)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ellenberg says many surrounding districts have an advantage, because they either have parcel tax revenue or are in such affluent communities that they get extra property tax revenue, beyond the state’s baseline funding. In some cases, they have both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike bonds, which are used for building new schools or renovating old ones, parcel taxes can be used for anything — from music and art to teacher salaries. They’re more common in the Bay Area than anywhere else in the state. But they require a two-thirds majority of votes to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Proposition 13 limits property taxes. And these parcel taxes are one of the only loopholes around that Prop. 13 restriction,” said Eric McGhee of the Public Policy Institute of California. He’s co-author of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/atissue/AI_913EMAI.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report about school parcel taxes\u003c/a> in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in San Jose Unified rejected a parcel tax proposal back in 2003. But this November, district leaders think they have a chance to get the supermajority they need. They’re asking voters to pass a measure that would allow the district to collect $72 a year for eight years from all property owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s facing some opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Already about 50 percent of the money that goes into the school budget does not reach the classrooms,” said Mark Hinkle, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.svtaxpayers.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association\u003c/a>, who wrote the argument opposing the measure. “A big chunk of the money is going to administration, bureaucracy and bloated pensions. That’s not helping the students at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area alone, there are 17 school parcel taxes, as well as 25 school bond measures, on local ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified School District is going for its third parcel tax. The district already has one permanent parcel tax in place. \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Oakland_Unified_School_District_parcel_tax,_Measure_G_(February_2008)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Measure G passed in 2008\u003c/a>, and pays for teacher recruitment and retention, school libraries, art, music and classes needed to apply for college. Oakland also has a 10-year parcel tax, \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Oakland_Unified_School_District_Parcel_Tax,_Measure_N_(November_2014)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Measure N\u003c/a>, to pay for job training and preparing high school students for college. It expires in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new Oakland measure, G1, would pay for middle school enrichment and could be used to increase teacher salaries, which are among the lowest in the Bay Area. The measure has been opposed by some parent and teacher groups because it would give a portion of the funds to charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in Berkeley are being asked to replace an expiring school parcel tax with a new larger one. It would yield an estimated $28 million annually, making it the largest on any Bay Area ballot this year. Berkeley’s parcel tax currently provides about 20 percent of the district’s budget, paying for many classroom teachers, school libraries, music programs and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley was one of five districts in the state with the largest proportion of revenue coming from parcel taxes in 2011-12, according to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/publications/pub13-ParcelTaxesFinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">information compiled \u003c/a>by EdSource. The others were: Piedmont City Unified, Kentfield Elementary, Mill Valley Elementary and Emery Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wealthy school districts are much more likely to have passed one of these taxes, and to have put one of these things on the ballot in the first place,” McGhee said. He says the Bay Area has more parcel taxes than other part of the state because of the high cost of living, which requires higher teacher salaries, and because voters in the generally liberal Bay Area are often more willing to raise taxes on themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts are proposing more bond measures this year, too. The biggest one is San Francisco, which would issue $744 million in bonds to renovate existing schools, build two new ones and put some money toward affordable housing for teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most bond measures need only 55 percent of the vote to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGhee says it’s possible that they are easier to pass than parcel taxes, because it may not be clear to voters how much they will end up paying in added property tax to repay the bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason there are so many local bond measures on the ballot this year is because of \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/2010101856774/prop-51-seeks-9-billion-in-bonds-for-public-school-construction-projects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 51\u003c/a>, which would provide construction funds to school districts that can come up with matching funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you can make the case, ‘Hey, we’re just getting a piece of this state pie. If we pass our construction bond, we’ll get extra money from the state, and it’ll be even better,’ ” McGhee said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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They’re asking voters to pass a measure that would allow the district to collect $72 a year for eight years from all property owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s facing some opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Already about 50 percent of the money that goes into the school budget does not reach the classrooms,” said Mark Hinkle, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.svtaxpayers.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association\u003c/a>, who wrote the argument opposing the measure. “A big chunk of the money is going to administration, bureaucracy and bloated pensions. That’s not helping the students at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area alone, there are 17 school parcel taxes, as well as 25 school bond measures, on local ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified School District is going for its third parcel tax. The district already has one permanent parcel tax in place. \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Oakland_Unified_School_District_parcel_tax,_Measure_G_(February_2008)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Measure G passed in 2008\u003c/a>, and pays for teacher recruitment and retention, school libraries, art, music and classes needed to apply for college. Oakland also has a 10-year parcel tax, \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Oakland_Unified_School_District_Parcel_Tax,_Measure_N_(November_2014)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Measure N\u003c/a>, to pay for job training and preparing high school students for college. It expires in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new Oakland measure, G1, would pay for middle school enrichment and could be used to increase teacher salaries, which are among the lowest in the Bay Area. The measure has been opposed by some parent and teacher groups because it would give a portion of the funds to charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in Berkeley are being asked to replace an expiring school parcel tax with a new larger one. It would yield an estimated $28 million annually, making it the largest on any Bay Area ballot this year. Berkeley’s parcel tax currently provides about 20 percent of the district’s budget, paying for many classroom teachers, school libraries, music programs and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley was one of five districts in the state with the largest proportion of revenue coming from parcel taxes in 2011-12, according to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/publications/pub13-ParcelTaxesFinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">information compiled \u003c/a>by EdSource. 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It’s a large scene,” Meiman said in an interview. “The more people you have working on it at one time, the quicker they’re able to process the scene and hopefully lead to some conclusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deloach Reed said she asked the ATF for help because the department only has one investigator on the scene looking into the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That one fire investigator, with all the damage to the building, was not going to be able to conduct an effective investigation by himself,” Deloach Reed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has a total of three fire investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland fire officials briefed the ATF team at the scene Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators have repeatedly said they have no preliminary information on what may have started the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ATF help comes as Oakland fire investigators continue to look for witnesses who may have seen the beginning stages of the blaze that sent flames shooting into the sky, forced dozens of nearby residents to flee from their homes and pushed smoke into a wide area of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland officials issued a statement Wednesday afternoon, urging the public to contact them if they have information about the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators have not yet been able to get inside the gutted building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The scene is not safe yet,” Oakland fire investigator Weldon Clemons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspectors have red-tagged the building and barred most members of the public from entering it, according to David Harlan, engineering manager for the city’s Planning and Building Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“City inspectors will make periodic monitoring site visits,” Harlan wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials asked the structure’s owner to help shore up the building to make it safer for investigators to enter it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Athan Magganas, manager of Adelphos LLC, the property’s owner and developer, did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It might take a couple of days for them to stabilize the structure,” Deloach Reed said, adding that officials were concerned that scaffolding from the construction and the structure’s remaining walls could collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ATF team has experience in helping make large fire sites safer for investigations, Meiman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deloach Reed said the ATF was considering bringing in a crane to pull out some of the debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal involvement in the probe is the second time in the last five months that the ATF has assisted in looking into a large construction fire in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early July, a five-story apartment \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/06/6-alarm-blaze-in-emeryville-destroys-building-under-construction/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">building under construction in Emeryville was destroyed in a six-alarm fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ATF completed its role in that blaze and the Emeryville Police Department has taken over as the lead agency investigating the fire. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deloach Reed said she asked the ATF for help because the department only has one investigator on the scene looking into the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That one fire investigator, with all the damage to the building, was not going to be able to conduct an effective investigation by himself,” Deloach Reed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has a total of three fire investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland fire officials briefed the ATF team at the scene Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators have repeatedly said they have no preliminary information on what may have started the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ATF help comes as Oakland fire investigators continue to look for witnesses who may have seen the beginning stages of the blaze that sent flames shooting into the sky, forced dozens of nearby residents to flee from their homes and pushed smoke into a wide area of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland officials issued a statement Wednesday afternoon, urging the public to contact them if they have information about the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators have not yet been able to get inside the gutted building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The scene is not safe yet,” Oakland fire investigator Weldon Clemons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspectors have red-tagged the building and barred most members of the public from entering it, according to David Harlan, engineering manager for the city’s Planning and Building Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“City inspectors will make periodic monitoring site visits,” Harlan wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials asked the structure’s owner to help shore up the building to make it safer for investigators to enter it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Athan Magganas, manager of Adelphos LLC, the property’s owner and developer, did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It might take a couple of days for them to stabilize the structure,” Deloach Reed said, adding that officials were concerned that scaffolding from the construction and the structure’s remaining walls could collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ATF team has experience in helping make large fire sites safer for investigations, Meiman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deloach Reed said the ATF was considering bringing in a crane to pull out some of the debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal involvement in the probe is the second time in the last five months that the ATF has assisted in looking into a large construction fire in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early July, a five-story apartment \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/06/6-alarm-blaze-in-emeryville-destroys-building-under-construction/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">building under construction in Emeryville was destroyed in a six-alarm fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ATF completed its role in that blaze and the Emeryville Police Department has taken over as the lead agency investigating the fire. Police officials say their investigation is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the Oakland Fire Department asked the ATF for help in an investigation was in June of 2012 when a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/06/14/fire-in-oakland-shuts-down-transbay-bart-service/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three-alarm blaze at a construction site in West Oakland disrupted transbay BART service\u003c/a>. Federal \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Fire-that-disrupted-BART-was-arson-feds-say-3671706.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigators concluded that fire was the result of arson\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The city of Oakland was the first to regulate and tax medical marijuana dispensaries. Now, some city leaders see the industry’s profits and are proposing to take a bigger piece of the action: The Oakland City Council is voting Tuesday night on a pot profit-taking plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.shopharborside.com/\">Harborside Health Center\u003c/a> in Oakland is the largest medical marijuana dispensary in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its executive director, Steve DeAngelo, says his dispensary brings in about $30 million in annual revenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve created over a 150 well-paying jobs and we’re the second largest retail taxpayer in the city,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeAngelo says Harborside pays about $1.5 million in taxes every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11155471\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gettyimages-567367357_cc_custom-fa9bde16e73ab45fde44f9f091230abb0d7881ad-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Steve DeAngelo (shown in 2014) is co-founder and executive director of Harborside Health Center in Oakland, the country's largest medical marijuana dispensary.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11155471\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gettyimages-567367357_cc_custom-fa9bde16e73ab45fde44f9f091230abb0d7881ad-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gettyimages-567367357_cc_custom-fa9bde16e73ab45fde44f9f091230abb0d7881ad-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gettyimages-567367357_cc_custom-fa9bde16e73ab45fde44f9f091230abb0d7881ad-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gettyimages-567367357_cc_custom-fa9bde16e73ab45fde44f9f091230abb0d7881ad-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gettyimages-567367357_cc_custom-fa9bde16e73ab45fde44f9f091230abb0d7881ad-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gettyimages-567367357_cc_custom-fa9bde16e73ab45fde44f9f091230abb0d7881ad-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gettyimages-567367357_cc_custom-fa9bde16e73ab45fde44f9f091230abb0d7881ad-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gettyimages-567367357_cc_custom-fa9bde16e73ab45fde44f9f091230abb0d7881ad-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gettyimages-567367357_cc_custom-fa9bde16e73ab45fde44f9f091230abb0d7881ad-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve DeAngelo (shown in 2014) is co-founder and executive director of Harborside Health Center in Oakland, the country’s largest medical marijuana dispensary. \u003ccite>(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His operation is one of eight licensed dispensaries in Oakland. But there are scores of other pot businesses that operate semi-legally, meaning they pay taxes but they are not fully licensed. And now the city wants to license them, too, but at a price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exploding cannabis industry has the city rethinking how much the dispensaries should pay the city to operate and who gets those licenses. City Councilwoman Desley Brooks is leading that effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at this industry across the United States and in Oakland, the vast majority of people who are making money in this industry are white males,” she said during a recent city hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harborside’s DeAngelo says he’s sympathetic with effort to diversify the industry. But he has problems with Brooks’ other plan to charge dispensaries 25 percent of their profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the courts have really been very, very consistent in ruling that a government agency is not allowed to take private property in that fashion,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate over whether they city should demand medical marijuana profits comes as it is still grappling with how to promote diversity in the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/500264056/500264057\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, the City Council voted to expand the industry by giving preferences for licenses to pot entrepreneurs who did jail time for marijuana offenses or for those who live in certain East Oakland neighborhoods — like Brooks’ district — that are predominantly black and Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make sure that there is equity in this industry and we need to make sure that Oaklanders have an opportunity,” Brooks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, under current rules, drug felons applying for a cannabis license have to own at least 50 percent of their business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dale Geringer, director of the California chapter of National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML, opposes the preference program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11155472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Super Skunk is one of the many different kinds of marijuana sold at Harborside Health Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11155472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Super Skunk is one of the many different kinds of marijuana sold at Harborside Health Center. \u003ccite>(Richard Gonzales/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These rules go well beyond what any other legal industry has to put up with and they are supposedly addressed at equity problems which are not even caused by this industry but rather by the laws that prohibited it,” Geringer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a few people around the city worry that the controversy over profits and preferences could drive away the medical marijuana industry from Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terryn Buxton is among them. He’s an entrepreneur who sits on a commission that advises the city on how to deal with the marijuana business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m from Oakland and I’m born and raised here. I’d like my business to be here,” he says. “But I do not know if we’re going to have an environment our business can survive in.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But he has problems with Brooks’ other plan to charge dispensaries 25 percent of their profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the courts have really been very, very consistent in ruling that a government agency is not allowed to take private property in that fashion,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate over whether they city should demand medical marijuana profits comes as it is still grappling with how to promote diversity in the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/500264056/500264057\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, the City Council voted to expand the industry by giving preferences for licenses to pot entrepreneurs who did jail time for marijuana offenses or for those who live in certain East Oakland neighborhoods — like Brooks’ district — that are predominantly black and Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make sure that there is equity in this industry and we need to make sure that Oaklanders have an opportunity,” Brooks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, under current rules, drug felons applying for a cannabis license have to own at least 50 percent of their business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dale Geringer, director of the California chapter of National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML, opposes the preference program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11155472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Super Skunk is one of the many different kinds of marijuana sold at Harborside Health Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11155472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/gonzales_marijuana1_custom-47931b13e69cd2569236a4ed456605e25b744fae.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Super Skunk is one of the many different kinds of marijuana sold at Harborside Health Center. \u003ccite>(Richard Gonzales/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These rules go well beyond what any other legal industry has to put up with and they are supposedly addressed at equity problems which are not even caused by this industry but rather by the laws that prohibited it,” Geringer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a few people around the city worry that the controversy over profits and preferences could drive away the medical marijuana industry from Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terryn Buxton is among them. He’s an entrepreneur who sits on a commission that advises the city on how to deal with the marijuana business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m from Oakland and I’m born and raised here. I’d like my business to be here,” he says. “But I do not know if we’re going to have an environment our business can survive in.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Supporters of taxing soda distributors in San Francisco, Oakland and Albany see these November 2016 ballot measures as a fundraising tool to stem a growing Type 2 diabetes epidemic. But opponents say it’s really a “grocery tax” that will hurt low-income residents and small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So which one is it, a soda tax or a grocery tax?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By charging distributors 1 cent per ounce of sugar-sweetened drinks they bring into a city, all three Bay Area ballot measures aim to raise significant funds — over \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/elections/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/Controller%20Statement%20Prop%20V%20-%20Tax%20on%20Distributing%20Sugar-sweetened%20Beverages.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$7.5 million\u003c/a> in San Francisco, $6 million in Oakland and $220,000 in Albany per year — for health and education programs to reduce the consumption of sugary drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/287345567″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To really educate young people, catch them early and teach them what comes from consumption of sugary beverages, the damage that causes,” said Annie Campbell Washington, Oakland vice mayor, City Council member and a big supporter of the tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That probably sounds terrifying to the soda industry. So the American Beverage Association, representing giants like Coca-Cola and Pepsi, has spent more than $14 million to fight the proposals, which are pretty similar in all three cities. Their massive ad campaign in the Bay Area often features small-business owners of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a dream to expand my business. This tax could kill it. Join me, vote no on the S.F. Grocery Tax,” says Danielle Reed, a cafe owner, in one of the ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Campaigns Are Saying\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both campaigns for and against the tax have gone door to door in disadvantaged, diverse areas the soda industry heavily markets to, like San Francisco’s Tenderloin and Oakland’s Fruitvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the pro-tax team points to evidence linking sugary drinks to obesity, diabetes, tooth decay and other health problems, the No on Grocery Tax promoters make an economic argument. They say that distributors will pass on the cost of a soda tax to small-business owners, who might need to raise the prices of other items they sell in order to stay competitive, hence the “grocery tax” tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abdul Taleb, owner of a small grocery in Fruitvale, heard the latter argument, and now he’s worried he’ll lose customers if Oakland’s Measure HH passes — so he’s voting no. Sugary beverages account for more than 10 percent of his sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s part of our business and we have to stay as competitive as we can in order to keep people in our neighborhood. And we are already struggling to keep people here,” Taleb said, adding that larger supermarkets are able to absorb extra costs more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taleb supports healthy choices for his customers — his store specializes in fresh fruits and vegetables. But he doesn’t believe Oakland would actually use any additional funds from a soda tax toward public health education that could benefit his neighborhood in the long run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s absolutely not true,” Taleb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three measures say the tax funds would go to their city’s general fund. \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/elections/file/3941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition V\u003c/a> in San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/rov/elections/20161108/documents/MeasureHH.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Measure HH\u003c/a> in Oakland would also require the creation of advisory boards made up of residents and public health experts that would recommend to the City Council how to spend those funds, while Albany’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.albanyca.org/index.aspx?page=999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Measure O1\u003c/a> would also seek public input to spend additional funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, the first city in the U.S. to implement a soda tax last year, additional dollars have been allocated toward health programs for children and other residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Berkeley, dozens of similar attempts had failed around the country, such as in Richmond in 2012 and San Francisco in 2014. Berkeley’s law inspired the current round of proposals that voters are deciding on in the Bay Area but also in Boulder, Colorado, on Nov. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11127321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11127321\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21459_IMG_0133-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Abdul Taleb, the owner of a small grocery store in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood, believes Measure HH could end up driving customers away. Taleb has appeared in ads against the tax.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21459_IMG_0133-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21459_IMG_0133-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21459_IMG_0133-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21459_IMG_0133-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21459_IMG_0133-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abdul Taleb, the owner of a small grocery store in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood, believes Measure HH could end up driving customers away. Taleb has appeared in ads against the tax. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How \u003cem>Is\u003c/em> the Nation’s First Soda Tax Working?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley raises about $1.5 million per year from its soda tax, which goes into the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the city has allocated about $2 million to nutrition and gardening programs at public schools, and local organizations bringing fresh fruits and vegetables at a subsidized price into lower-income neighborhoods, said Xavier Morales, who sits on the advisory panel. Morales is the current executive director of the Praxis Project and former executive director of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are raising these funds so we can go into communities that have fewer resources and be able to make the healthy choice the easy choice for them,” said Morales, who lives in southwest Berkeley, an area with a higher concentration of Latino and African-American residents than other parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales helped pass Berkeley’s soda tax in 2014 and battled an aggressive anti-tax campaign then, which also claimed poor residents would bear the brunt of the cost of the tax, while saying the money might not go toward improving health, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got to remember, these are multibillion, global corporations trying to protect their profits on the backs of the most vulnerable communities,” Morales said. “They’ll say anything to deflect attention from the real issue, and that is that sugar is not healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Not a Grocery Tax’ in Berkeley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Freese, who owns a small corner store in southwest Berkeley, said the soda tax has not hurt her business, and the paperwork to comply has not been too cumbersome. Freese is technically a distributor because she brings ice teas and other sugary drinks to her store from an Oakland warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city of Berkeley has a one-page form. We fill it out, write our check and mail it in,” said Freese. “It’s just like another part of bookkeeping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She passes on the cost of the tax directly to the price of the sugary drinks for sale in her store, but not the price of other groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s a 12-ounce soda, we pay 12 cents in tax, and we add 12 cents onto the price of the soda for our customers,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is also what dozens of other mom-and-pop corner stores, supermarkets and restaurants across Berkeley \u003ca href=\"http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/10/07/soda-tax-boosts-sugary-drink-prices/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> doing, so the soda tax has \u003cem>not\u003c/em> worked out to be a grocery tax in that city, said Jennifer Falbe, a researcher at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11127319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11127319 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21457_IMG_0137-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Scientific studies link sugary beverage consumption to obesity, diabetes and other ills. The Centers for Disease Control projects up to one in three Americans could develop diabetes by 2050, with an even higher impact in communities of color.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21457_IMG_0137-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21457_IMG_0137-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21457_IMG_0137-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21457_IMG_0137-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21457_IMG_0137-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scientific studies link over consumption of sugar to obesity, diabetes and other ills. The Centers for Disease Control projects up to one in three Americans could develop diabetes by 2050, with a greater impact in communities of color. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Cornell University and University of Iowa \u003ca href=\"http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/08/study-berkeley-soda-tax-falls-flat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysis\u003c/a> found that only a small portion of the soda tax was reflected in the price of sugary drinks in the first few months after the ordinance took effect. But the preliminary findings of another \u003ca href=\"http://www.phi.org/resources/?resource=berkeley-evaluation-of-soda-tax-best-study-preliminary-findings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> by the Oakland-based Public Health Institute looked at retail scanner data of millions of transactions in Berkeley and found the cost of the tax was predominantly passed on to the price of sodas and other sugar-sweetened beverages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also did not see a rise in the average grocery bill,” said Lynn Silver, one of the researchers with the Public Health Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higher sugary drink prices do not seem to be forcing any small businesses to close, said Falbe. But stores on the border with Oakland have mixed feelings about it, in part because customers can buy cheaper sodas just a few blocks away, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the businesses that we interviewed mentioned that it would make things easier for them if it wasn’t just one city, Berkeley, that had a tax like this, but if it was over a larger geographic region like the county or the state. That might simplify things for them,” Falbe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Falbe’s team also polled people in Berkeley’s low-income areas before and after the soda tax was implemented, and concluded that sugary drink consumption declined by 21 percent. Because that survey was conducted only a couple of months after the soda tax went into effect, Falbe suspects the political campaign to approve the tax also influenced people’s behavior by raising awareness of the health impacts of sugary drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tax proposals on this year’s ballot would not impact milk, 100 percent juice, baby formula, diet drinks or drinks taken for medical reasons.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That probably sounds terrifying to the soda industry. So the American Beverage Association, representing giants like Coca-Cola and Pepsi, has spent more than $14 million to fight the proposals, which are pretty similar in all three cities. Their massive ad campaign in the Bay Area often features small-business owners of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a dream to expand my business. This tax could kill it. Join me, vote no on the S.F. Grocery Tax,” says Danielle Reed, a cafe owner, in one of the ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Campaigns Are Saying\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both campaigns for and against the tax have gone door to door in disadvantaged, diverse areas the soda industry heavily markets to, like San Francisco’s Tenderloin and Oakland’s Fruitvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the pro-tax team points to evidence linking sugary drinks to obesity, diabetes, tooth decay and other health problems, the No on Grocery Tax promoters make an economic argument. They say that distributors will pass on the cost of a soda tax to small-business owners, who might need to raise the prices of other items they sell in order to stay competitive, hence the “grocery tax” tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abdul Taleb, owner of a small grocery in Fruitvale, heard the latter argument, and now he’s worried he’ll lose customers if Oakland’s Measure HH passes — so he’s voting no. Sugary beverages account for more than 10 percent of his sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s part of our business and we have to stay as competitive as we can in order to keep people in our neighborhood. And we are already struggling to keep people here,” Taleb said, adding that larger supermarkets are able to absorb extra costs more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taleb supports healthy choices for his customers — his store specializes in fresh fruits and vegetables. But he doesn’t believe Oakland would actually use any additional funds from a soda tax toward public health education that could benefit his neighborhood in the long run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s absolutely not true,” Taleb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three measures say the tax funds would go to their city’s general fund. \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/elections/file/3941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition V\u003c/a> in San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/rov/elections/20161108/documents/MeasureHH.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Measure HH\u003c/a> in Oakland would also require the creation of advisory boards made up of residents and public health experts that would recommend to the City Council how to spend those funds, while Albany’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.albanyca.org/index.aspx?page=999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Measure O1\u003c/a> would also seek public input to spend additional funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, the first city in the U.S. to implement a soda tax last year, additional dollars have been allocated toward health programs for children and other residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Berkeley, dozens of similar attempts had failed around the country, such as in Richmond in 2012 and San Francisco in 2014. Berkeley’s law inspired the current round of proposals that voters are deciding on in the Bay Area but also in Boulder, Colorado, on Nov. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11127321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11127321\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21459_IMG_0133-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Abdul Taleb, the owner of a small grocery store in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood, believes Measure HH could end up driving customers away. 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Taleb has appeared in ads against the tax. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How \u003cem>Is\u003c/em> the Nation’s First Soda Tax Working?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley raises about $1.5 million per year from its soda tax, which goes into the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the city has allocated about $2 million to nutrition and gardening programs at public schools, and local organizations bringing fresh fruits and vegetables at a subsidized price into lower-income neighborhoods, said Xavier Morales, who sits on the advisory panel. 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Freese is technically a distributor because she brings ice teas and other sugary drinks to her store from an Oakland warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city of Berkeley has a one-page form. We fill it out, write our check and mail it in,” said Freese. “It’s just like another part of bookkeeping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She passes on the cost of the tax directly to the price of the sugary drinks for sale in her store, but not the price of other groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s a 12-ounce soda, we pay 12 cents in tax, and we add 12 cents onto the price of the soda for our customers,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is also what dozens of other mom-and-pop corner stores, supermarkets and restaurants across Berkeley \u003ca href=\"http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/10/07/soda-tax-boosts-sugary-drink-prices/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> doing, so the soda tax has \u003cem>not\u003c/em> worked out to be a grocery tax in that city, said Jennifer Falbe, a researcher at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11127319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11127319 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21457_IMG_0137-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Scientific studies link sugary beverage consumption to obesity, diabetes and other ills. The Centers for Disease Control projects up to one in three Americans could develop diabetes by 2050, with an even higher impact in communities of color.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21457_IMG_0137-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21457_IMG_0137-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21457_IMG_0137-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21457_IMG_0137-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21457_IMG_0137-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scientific studies link over consumption of sugar to obesity, diabetes and other ills. The Centers for Disease Control projects up to one in three Americans could develop diabetes by 2050, with a greater impact in communities of color. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Cornell University and University of Iowa \u003ca href=\"http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/08/study-berkeley-soda-tax-falls-flat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysis\u003c/a> found that only a small portion of the soda tax was reflected in the price of sugary drinks in the first few months after the ordinance took effect. 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But stores on the border with Oakland have mixed feelings about it, in part because customers can buy cheaper sodas just a few blocks away, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the businesses that we interviewed mentioned that it would make things easier for them if it wasn’t just one city, Berkeley, that had a tax like this, but if it was over a larger geographic region like the county or the state. That might simplify things for them,” Falbe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Falbe’s team also polled people in Berkeley’s low-income areas before and after the soda tax was implemented, and concluded that sugary drink consumption declined by 21 percent. Because that survey was conducted only a couple of months after the soda tax went into effect, Falbe suspects the political campaign to approve the tax also influenced people’s behavior by raising awareness of the health impacts of sugary drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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