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But voters \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/11/california-election-2026-props-1-37/\">did pass two ballot measures \u003c/a>aimed at tackling the state’s housing crisis. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Democrat Clarissa Cervantes is leading incumbent Republican Leticia Castillo in the race for the \u003ca href=\"https://kvcr.org/news/local/2026-10-30/california-democrats-look-to-riverside-county-assembly-district-race-for-signs-theyve-gained-traction-among-latino-voters\">58th Assembly seat in Riverside County.\u003c/a> The rematch is one of the most competitive Assembly races in California. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>A measure to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12107221/despite-affordability-concerns-bay-area-farmworker-housing-project-lags-in-early-returns\">approve farmworker housing\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay is still too close to call, with just 64 votes separating the two sides.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/government-politics/2026-11-04/house-district-22-flips-for-democrat-randy-villegas-as-a-blue-wave-hits-nation\">House District 22 flips for Democrat Randy Villegas as a blue wave hits nation\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Political newcomer Randy Villegas has won the U.S. House of Representatives seat in District 22 against Republican incumbent David Valadao. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/california-us-house-results/#22\">The Associated Press called the race\u003c/a> Wednesday morning after Villegas showed a decisive lead in early election results.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valadao represented the San Joaquin Valley in Congress for six out of the last seven elections. Valadao first held a congressional seat in 2012 and was re-elected in 2020 after Democrat T.J. Cox unseated him for one term. The district was redrawn after a Democratic gerrymander effort last year to counter similar efforts by Republicans in other states.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Villegas declared victory at his election night party in Bakersfield long before the race was officially called. He addressed a crowd of about 200 supporters and thanked them for the journey. “A lot of people wrote us off. We had to beat our own party to get to where we are today,” Villegas told the crowd. “We beat the Democratic establishment. We beat the Republican establishment.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Throughout his campaign, Villegas made promises of establishing healthcare for all, lowering costs and helping reform immigration policies. He emphasized that he did not take funding from corporate political action committees. Villegas said one of his first acts in Congress will be to help undo health cuts from last year’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act – which cut about $1 trillion from Medicaid and established new work requirements in order to qualify. “We have the most Medicaid recipients in the entire country in this district, and despite that, my opponent voted to go give tax breaks to billionaires,” Villegas said. “That is money that our communities deserve. Those are resources our communities deserve. I’m going to fight like hell to reverse that damage and restore funding to Medicaid, SNAP, WIC and so many programs that our working families rely on.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House District 22 was watched closely by both parties looking to flip the district. High-profile politicians stumped in Bakersfield for the candidates in the lead up to the election. 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Plenty of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/prop-37-explained-homeownership/\">experts have questioned\u003c/a> how this untested program would work, but most agree that it would not come at the expense of state taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are still many \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/prop-37-explained-homeownership/\">open questions\u003c/a> about how Prop. 37 will be administered and how many Californians will benefit, said David Garcia, deputy director of policy at UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Thursday, November 5, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Democrat Randy Villegas \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/government-politics/2026-11-04/house-district-22-flips-for-democrat-randy-villegas-as-a-blue-wave-hits-nation\">has ousted\u003c/a> longtime Republican incumbent David Valadao from his seat in the Central Valley’s 22nd Congressional District. The seat was one of five targeted by new redistricting maps approved under Prop 50. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Election results are still being tallied across the state. And of the 14 state propositions on the ballot, more than half remain too close to call. But voters \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/11/california-election-2026-props-1-37/\">did pass two ballot measures \u003c/a>aimed at tackling the state’s housing crisis. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Democrat Clarissa Cervantes is leading incumbent Republican Leticia Castillo in the race for the \u003ca href=\"https://kvcr.org/news/local/2026-10-30/california-democrats-look-to-riverside-county-assembly-district-race-for-signs-theyve-gained-traction-among-latino-voters\">58th Assembly seat in Riverside County.\u003c/a> The rematch is one of the most competitive Assembly races in California. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>A measure to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12107221/despite-affordability-concerns-bay-area-farmworker-housing-project-lags-in-early-returns\">approve farmworker housing\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay is still too close to call, with just 64 votes separating the two sides.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/government-politics/2026-11-04/house-district-22-flips-for-democrat-randy-villegas-as-a-blue-wave-hits-nation\">House District 22 flips for Democrat Randy Villegas as a blue wave hits nation\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Political newcomer Randy Villegas has won the U.S. House of Representatives seat in District 22 against Republican incumbent David Valadao. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/california-us-house-results/#22\">The Associated Press called the race\u003c/a> Wednesday morning after Villegas showed a decisive lead in early election results.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valadao represented the San Joaquin Valley in Congress for six out of the last seven elections. Valadao first held a congressional seat in 2012 and was re-elected in 2020 after Democrat T.J. Cox unseated him for one term. The district was redrawn after a Democratic gerrymander effort last year to counter similar efforts by Republicans in other states.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Villegas declared victory at his election night party in Bakersfield long before the race was officially called. He addressed a crowd of about 200 supporters and thanked them for the journey. “A lot of people wrote us off. We had to beat our own party to get to where we are today,” Villegas told the crowd. “We beat the Democratic establishment. We beat the Republican establishment.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Throughout his campaign, Villegas made promises of establishing healthcare for all, lowering costs and helping reform immigration policies. He emphasized that he did not take funding from corporate political action committees. Villegas said one of his first acts in Congress will be to help undo health cuts from last year’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act – which cut about $1 trillion from Medicaid and established new work requirements in order to qualify. “We have the most Medicaid recipients in the entire country in this district, and despite that, my opponent voted to go give tax breaks to billionaires,” Villegas said. “That is money that our communities deserve. Those are resources our communities deserve. I’m going to fight like hell to reverse that damage and restore funding to Medicaid, SNAP, WIC and so many programs that our working families rely on.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House District 22 was watched closely by both parties looking to flip the district. High-profile politicians stumped in Bakersfield for the candidates in the lead up to the election. Valadao was endorsed by House Speaker Mike Johnson while Villegas was endorsed by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/11/california-election-2026-props-1-37/\">California housing bonds: Voters pass Prop. 37, Prop. 1\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California voters approved two housing bond measures, Propositions 1 and 37, according to the Associated Press. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two bonds take aim at the state’s affordable housing crisis in very different ways.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2026/proposition-1-housing-bond/\">Prop. 1\u003c/a> would give the state permission to borrow a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2026/10/prop-1-housing-bond/\">record-breaking $11.25 billion\u003c/a>, with the lion’s share going toward the construction of affordable housing for low-income renters and homeless Californians.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2026/proposition-37-homebuyers-loan/\">Prop. 37\u003c/a> is a first-of-its-kind revenue bond that would have the state borrow as much as $25 billion from private investors and lend that money to qualifying homebuyers to help cover the bulk of their down payments. Plenty of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/prop-37-explained-homeownership/\">experts have questioned\u003c/a> how this untested program would work, but most agree that it would not come at the expense of state taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are still many \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/prop-37-explained-homeownership/\">open questions\u003c/a> about how Prop. 37 will be administered and how many Californians will benefit, said David Garcia, deputy director of policy at UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation. But its blow-out margin “speaks to just how much the dream of homeownership matters to so many Californians,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://kvcr.org/news/local/2026-11-04/11-4-kvcr-midday-news-democrat-clarissa-cervantes-projected-to-win-58th-assembly-district-xavier-becerra-secures-governors-race-more\">Democratic challenger on track to win tight Assembly race in Riverside County\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrat Clarissa Cervantes is leading incumbent Republican Leticia Castillo in the race for the 58th Assembly seat in Riverside County. It’s \u003ca href=\"https://kvcr.org/news/local/2026-10-30/california-democrats-look-to-riverside-county-assembly-district-race-for-signs-theyve-gained-traction-among-latino-voters\">one of the most competitive assembly races this year.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 58th Assembly District traditionally votes with a Democratic sway and is about 60% Latino, but in 2024 President Donald Trump and Republicans \u003ca href=\"https://voteinfo.net/sites/g/files/aldnop371/files/ElectionResults/2024/November05/ElectionSummaryReportRPT_Nov52024_update30.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">carried the election\u003c/a>. Castillo benefited from this political shift. Castillo narrowly defeated Cervantes by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2024-11-22/leticia-castillo-leads-clarissa-cervantes-in-tight-ad-58-race-as-ballot-counting-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">close to 600 votes\u003c/a> in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At an election night watch party, Cervantes spoke with KVCR. “I think the biggest issues we talked to people at the doors were cost of living. You’re having ICE agents terrorize our communities. Trump again, you know, was trying to interfere with our elections in these last two weeks. But it was really powerful to see the turnout in our community, and I am hopeful for the final results,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12107221/despite-affordability-concerns-bay-area-farmworker-housing-project-lags-in-early-returns\">Despite affordability concerns, Bay Area farmworker housing project trails in early returns\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just 64 votes separated the two sides of Half Moon Bay’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanmateo/measure-q\">Measure Q\u003c/a> on Wednesday, leaving the future of a downtown housing development for older farmworkers uncertain as ballots continue to be counted.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The measure had just over 49% support, with 1,608 votes in favor and 1,672 against, according to preliminary results from the San Mateo County Registrar of Voters. The outcome remains too close to call. Many ballots remain uncounted countywide, including mail-in ballots received or dropped after Oct. 30, as well as provisional and conditional voter registration ballots, according to the elections office. The county’s next update on results is expected Thursday before 4:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vote is a referendum on the city’s approval this summer of a controversial five-story apartment building at 555 Kelly Ave. in downtown Half Moon Bay that’s been hotly debated for the past four years. The project, from nonprofit developer Mercy Housing and nonprofit advocacy organization Ayudando Latinos A Soñar, or ALAS, would include 39 affordable apartments for low-income agricultural workers aged 55 and older and one manager’s unit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposal predates the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939361/im-afraid-half-moon-bay-shootings-may-have-been-extreme-case-of-workplace-violence\">2023 mass shooting\u003c/a> at two Half Moon Bay farms that killed seven people and exposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940017/under-the-radar-half-moon-bay-and-the-vulnerability-of-farmwork\">substandard living conditions\u003c/a> among local farmworkers. 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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just 64 votes separated the two sides of Half Moon Bay’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanmateo/measure-q\">Measure Q\u003c/a> on Wednesday, leaving the future of a downtown housing development for older farmworkers uncertain as ballots continue to be counted.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The measure had just over 49% support, with 1,608 votes in favor and 1,672 against, according to preliminary results from the San Mateo County Registrar of Voters. The outcome remains too close to call.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many ballots remain uncounted countywide, including mail-in ballots received or dropped after Oct. 30, as well as provisional and conditional voter registration ballots, according to the elections office. The county’s next update on results is expected Thursday before 4:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vote is a referendum on the city’s approval this summer of a controversial five-story apartment building at 555 Kelly Ave. in downtown Half Moon Bay that’s been hotly debated for the past four years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-16-KQED-066915f1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105276\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-16-KQED-066915f1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-16-KQED-066915f1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-16-KQED-066915f1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The ALAS office in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 16, 2026. ALAS is a nonprofit supporting farmworkers and their families. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project, from nonprofit developer Mercy Housing and nonprofit advocacy organization Ayudando Latinos A Soñar, or ALAS, would include 39 affordable apartments for low-income agricultural workers aged 55 and older and one manager’s unit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposal predates the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939361/im-afraid-half-moon-bay-shootings-may-have-been-extreme-case-of-workplace-violence\">2023 mass shooting\u003c/a> at two Half Moon Bay farms that killed seven people and exposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940017/under-the-radar-half-moon-bay-and-the-vulnerability-of-farmwork\">substandard living conditions\u003c/a> among local farmworkers. The killings \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941716/we-have-a-moment-here-an-urgent-push-for-farmworker-housing-in-wake-of-half-moon-bay-tragedy\">intensified calls\u003c/a> for better housing in a community where many agricultural workers struggle to afford a place to live.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it comes as Half Moon Bay faces pressure from the state to build more housing. In July, Attorney General Rob Bonta and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration sued the city, saying it had fallen behind on zoning changes required under state housing law.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lilli Rey, board president of ALAS, said supporters of the Kelly Avenue project remain hopeful as they wait for more ballots to be counted.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s not easy to see numbers like this, but it’s so close,” she said. “There’s definitely more votes to come in. And we’re just staying optimistic.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Supporters have argued the development would help older farmworkers remain in the community where they spent decades working, with a downtown location near groceries, health care and other services. Rey said the prospect of the measure failing is “truly devastating.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rick Hernandez, vice chair of the city’s Planning Commission and an opponent of the project, said the early results show a community divided.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“There’s a lot of people who really want to address the need that we see and sense in the community,” Hernandez said. “And there are a lot of questions about, are we doing this the right way that works for our town?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opponents of Measure Q raised concerns about the building’s height, parking and traffic, and the city’s commitments under a 99-year ground lease. Some also questioned whether there are enough protections in place to ensure local farmworkers actually receive the apartments.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Measure Q fails, Hernandez said he wants a community task force to bring stakeholders together to help shape affordable housing plans for farmworkers and other residents.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-13-KQED-815830cf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105275\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-13-KQED-815830cf.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-13-KQED-815830cf-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-13-KQED-815830cf-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The proposed affordable housing site for senior farmworkers at 555 Kelly Ave in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 16, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite their differences over the project, both Hernandez and Rey said they want to bring the community together, regardless of the outcome.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s been an ugly, long fight,” Rey said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mercy Housing and ALAS proposed the project in 2022, but it took two years before the city approved land-use permits. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roughly two years after that, in May 2026, the City Council approved an ordinance authorizing a 99-year ground lease for the city-owned property and related agreements with Mercy Housing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly after the council approved the lease, opponents gathered enough signatures to force a referendum and put the decision before voters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mercy Housing said the project would prioritize eligible senior agricultural workers who live or work in Half Moon Bay, followed by those on the coastside and then elsewhere in San Mateo County. That preference would not guarantee housing for every eligible local applicant.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Cándido Rosales, 67, the development represents a chance to live with his wife again after more than half a century of marriage.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She recently joined him from Mexico after waiting years for her immigration paperwork to go through. But they haven’t found a place they can afford together in Half Moon Bay. She is staying with her sister, while he shares a rented room with another person.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“A family has to be together, not separated,” he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rosales, who spent nearly 40 years working in agriculture, said his pension is about $1,200 a month, less than the roughly $1,500 he has seen advertised for nearby rooms.\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just 64 votes separated the two sides of Half Moon Bay’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanmateo/measure-q\">Measure Q\u003c/a> on Wednesday, leaving the future of a downtown housing development for older farmworkers uncertain as ballots continue to be counted.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The measure had just over 49% support, with 1,608 votes in favor and 1,672 against, according to preliminary results from the San Mateo County Registrar of Voters. The outcome remains too close to call.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many ballots remain uncounted countywide, including mail-in ballots received or dropped after Oct. 30, as well as provisional and conditional voter registration ballots, according to the elections office. The county’s next update on results is expected Thursday before 4:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vote is a referendum on the city’s approval this summer of a controversial five-story apartment building at 555 Kelly Ave. in downtown Half Moon Bay that’s been hotly debated for the past four years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-16-KQED-066915f1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105276\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-16-KQED-066915f1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-16-KQED-066915f1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-16-KQED-066915f1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The ALAS office in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 16, 2026. ALAS is a nonprofit supporting farmworkers and their families. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project, from nonprofit developer Mercy Housing and nonprofit advocacy organization Ayudando Latinos A Soñar, or ALAS, would include 39 affordable apartments for low-income agricultural workers aged 55 and older and one manager’s unit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposal predates the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939361/im-afraid-half-moon-bay-shootings-may-have-been-extreme-case-of-workplace-violence\">2023 mass shooting\u003c/a> at two Half Moon Bay farms that killed seven people and exposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940017/under-the-radar-half-moon-bay-and-the-vulnerability-of-farmwork\">substandard living conditions\u003c/a> among local farmworkers. The killings \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941716/we-have-a-moment-here-an-urgent-push-for-farmworker-housing-in-wake-of-half-moon-bay-tragedy\">intensified calls\u003c/a> for better housing in a community where many agricultural workers struggle to afford a place to live.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it comes as Half Moon Bay faces pressure from the state to build more housing. In July, Attorney General Rob Bonta and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration sued the city, saying it had fallen behind on zoning changes required under state housing law.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lilli Rey, board president of ALAS, said supporters of the Kelly Avenue project remain hopeful as they wait for more ballots to be counted.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s not easy to see numbers like this, but it’s so close,” she said. “There’s definitely more votes to come in. And we’re just staying optimistic.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Supporters have argued the development would help older farmworkers remain in the community where they spent decades working, with a downtown location near groceries, health care and other services. Rey said the prospect of the measure failing is “truly devastating.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rick Hernandez, vice chair of the city’s Planning Commission and an opponent of the project, said the early results show a community divided.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“There’s a lot of people who really want to address the need that we see and sense in the community,” Hernandez said. “And there are a lot of questions about, are we doing this the right way that works for our town?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opponents of Measure Q raised concerns about the building’s height, parking and traffic, and the city’s commitments under a 99-year ground lease. Some also questioned whether there are enough protections in place to ensure local farmworkers actually receive the apartments.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Measure Q fails, Hernandez said he wants a community task force to bring stakeholders together to help shape affordable housing plans for farmworkers and other residents.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-13-KQED-815830cf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105275\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-13-KQED-815830cf.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-13-KQED-815830cf-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-13-KQED-815830cf-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The proposed affordable housing site for senior farmworkers at 555 Kelly Ave in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 16, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite their differences over the project, both Hernandez and Rey said they want to bring the community together, regardless of the outcome.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s been an ugly, long fight,” Rey said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mercy Housing and ALAS proposed the project in 2022, but it took two years before the city approved land-use permits. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roughly two years after that, in May 2026, the City Council approved an ordinance authorizing a 99-year ground lease for the city-owned property and related agreements with Mercy Housing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly after the council approved the lease, opponents gathered enough signatures to force a referendum and put the decision before voters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mercy Housing said the project would prioritize eligible senior agricultural workers who live or work in Half Moon Bay, followed by those on the coastside and then elsewhere in San Mateo County. That preference would not guarantee housing for every eligible local applicant.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Cándido Rosales, 67, the development represents a chance to live with his wife again after more than half a century of marriage.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She recently joined him from Mexico after waiting years for her immigration paperwork to go through. But they haven’t found a place they can afford together in Half Moon Bay. She is staying with her sister, while he shares a rented room with another person.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“A family has to be together, not separated,” he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rosales, who spent nearly 40 years working in agriculture, said his pension is about $1,200 a month, less than the roughly $1,500 he has seen advertised for nearby rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After more than a half-century of marriage, Cándido Rosales and his wife are living apart in the same town.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She recently joined him from Mexico after waiting years for her immigration paperwork to be approved. But they haven’t found a place they can afford where they could live together in Half Moon Bay. She is staying with her sister; he shares a rented room with another person.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“A family has to be together, not separated,” 67-year-old Rosales said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rosales, who spent nearly 40 years working in agriculture, hopes a proposed affordable housing development at 555 Kelly Ave. in downtown Half Moon Bay will give him and his wife a place to call home. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project, now four years in the making, was proposed a year before a 2023 mass shooting in the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941716/we-have-a-moment-here-an-urgent-push-for-farmworker-housing-in-wake-of-half-moon-bay-tragedy\">exposed substandard living conditions on local farms\u003c/a> and intensified calls for improved affordable housing for farmworkers. But it’s since become a lightning rod in city politics.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opponents have called the five-story, 40-unit building out of character for Half Moon Bay’s quaint downtown and decried impacts to traffic and parking new residents might bring. Supporters, however, say it would help aging farmworkers remain in the community they helped nourish.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite concerns from some residents, the city council approved the development in May, but opponents quickly rallied to put a referendum on the ballot. Now, voters will decide on Nov. 3 whether it moves forward.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-13-KQED-815830cf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105275\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-13-KQED-815830cf.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-13-KQED-815830cf-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-13-KQED-815830cf-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The proposed affordable housing site for senior farmworkers at 555 Kelly Ave. in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 16, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across California, low wages and a shortage of affordable housing leave many farmworkers living in crowded homes or subpar conditions. Between 2015 and 2019, about 38% of the state’s crop workers lived in crowded housing — defined as more than one person sharing a room, according to the most recent U.S. Department of Labor’s National Agricultural Workers Survey. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For retired farmworkers, the options can be even more limited, said Rob Wiener of the California Coalition for Rural Housing. Decades of low-paid, physically demanding work often leave little money for retirement. Moving in with relatives can mean sharing an already-crowded home, while finding an affordable home elsewhere can mean leaving family and community behind, Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It’s even more difficult for farmworkers in counties like San Mateo, he said, where the median one-bedroom apartment rents for \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/san-mateo-ca/?bedrooms=1\">more than $3,000 per month\u003c/a> and families must earn a minimum salary of \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/marketdata/data/haitraditional\">nearly $580,000\u003c/a> to afford buying a median-priced single-family home. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Every community, in my view, should have the full life cycle of housing that’s needed,” Wiener said, “from family housing to housing for single adults and for retirees.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Housing built for larger farmworker families may not fit the needs of older adults living alone or as couples, he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga, executive director of Ayudando Latinos A Soñar, or ALAS, said the proposal for the apartment building on Kelly Avenue grew out of the organization’s work during the pandemic, when staff at the nonprofit found agricultural workers in their 70s and 80s were still working because they could not afford to retire.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-16-KQED-066915f1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105276\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-16-KQED-066915f1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-16-KQED-066915f1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-16-KQED-066915f1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The ALAS office in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 16, 2026. ALAS is a nonprofit supporting farmworkers and their families. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some lived in housing tied to their jobs, meaning retirement could also cost them their homes. Others rented in the community but struggled to keep up with rising housing costs, she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Our aging farm workers are telling us they can’t stop working,” Hernandez-Arriaga said. “Because if they stop working, they don’t have income.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If voters approve the proposed apartment building in Half Moon Bay, senior farmworkers who live or work in the city would get first priority, followed by those elsewhere along the coast and in San Mateo County, according to Mercy Housing, which is partnering with ALAS on the project. The nonprofit developer said those preferences are established in its agreements with the city.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with apartments, the development would include a community center offering services such as health care and wellness programs. Its downtown location would put residents within walking distance of groceries, medical care, churches and organizations that already serve them, Hernandez-Arriaga said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Rosales, remaining close to services is important because he has never driven a car. He gets around by walking or taking the bus. He has lived in Half Moon Bay for about two decades and said he wants a home near the places he already relies on.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“What we like is having everything close at hand,” he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But opponents question the building’s size — at five stories, it would be the tallest in downtown — as well as its effects on parking and traffic and the city’s obligations under the proposed 99-year lease.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rick Hernandez, vice chair of the Half Moon Bay Planning Commission, said he supports more affordable housing but has concerns about this specific development.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It would be the tallest in downtown,” Hernandez said, “and it’s out of character with our community.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said a smaller development would be a better fit for a neighborhood where people already come for the library, church and community center. He also questioned what costs the city could face over the 99-year lease and whether the proposed lease agreement is adequate to ensure local residents get priority for the apartments.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hernandez-Arriaga sees the opposition as going beyond the building’s size. She questioned whether the older farmworkers who have been asking for housing for years are welcome downtown.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Why aren’t they good enough to be living downtown?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Hernandez pushed back on that assertion. He pointed to other affordable housing developments in Half Moon Bay as examples of the city’s support for farmworkers, including a manufactured housing project the city approved soon after the 2023 mass shooting.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This is about striking the right balance,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ALAS and Mercy Housing jointly proposed the project after the city sought proposals for affordable apartments on the Kelly Avenue property in 2022. It was the only proposal submitted. But it faced opposition from the start.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the planning commission approved the project’s land-use permits in May 2024, residents appealed. The city council upheld that approval but didn’t sign off on a final lease agreement on the city-owned land until May 2026. Opponents then gathered enough signatures to put that decision before voters, suspending the ordinance until the election.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vote comes as the city faces pressure from the state over its broader housing obligations. In July, Attorney General Rob Bonta and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-newsom-administration-take-legal-action-against-local\">sued Half Moon Bay\u003c/a> for failing to complete zoning changes required to bring its housing plan into compliance with state law, asking a court to require compliance and impose financial penalties.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-17-KQED-1deb1f18.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-17-KQED-1deb1f18.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-17-KQED-1deb1f18-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-17-KQED-1deb1f18-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A “Yes on Q” sign is posted at a local business in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 16, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeff Regan, campaign organizer for Yes on 555 Kelly Ave., said rejecting the Kelly Avenue project would make it harder for the city to meet state housing goals. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the city’s description of the lease, Mercy Housing would be responsible for constructing and maintaining the buildings, carrying required insurance and operating resident programs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement, Mercy said about $28 million in public funding has been secured, including more than $6 million recently approved by San Mateo County. The plan anticipates covering the remaining $14 million through tax-credit financing.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rosales has attended several meetings about the development, hoping it will move forward. For now, he visits his wife at her sister’s home, spends time talking with her, then leaves.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He wants to stay in Half Moon Bay but said they are considering returning to Mexico if they cannot find a place to live together. Still, he’s reluctant to leave the city he’s called home for two decades. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I’d like to stay here a little longer,” he said.\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After more than a half-century of marriage, Cándido Rosales and his wife are living apart in the same town.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She recently joined him from Mexico after waiting years for her immigration paperwork to be approved. But they haven’t found a place they can afford where they could live together in Half Moon Bay. She is staying with her sister; he shares a rented room with another person.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“A family has to be together, not separated,” 67-year-old Rosales said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rosales, who spent nearly 40 years working in agriculture, hopes a proposed affordable housing development at 555 Kelly Ave. in downtown Half Moon Bay will give him and his wife a place to call home. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project, now four years in the making, was proposed a year before a 2023 mass shooting in the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941716/we-have-a-moment-here-an-urgent-push-for-farmworker-housing-in-wake-of-half-moon-bay-tragedy\">exposed substandard living conditions on local farms\u003c/a> and intensified calls for improved affordable housing for farmworkers. But it’s since become a lightning rod in city politics.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opponents have called the five-story, 40-unit building out of character for Half Moon Bay’s quaint downtown and decried impacts to traffic and parking new residents might bring. Supporters, however, say it would help aging farmworkers remain in the community they helped nourish.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite concerns from some residents, the city council approved the development in May, but opponents quickly rallied to put a referendum on the ballot. Now, voters will decide on Nov. 3 whether it moves forward.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-13-KQED-815830cf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105275\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-13-KQED-815830cf.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-13-KQED-815830cf-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-13-KQED-815830cf-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The proposed affordable housing site for senior farmworkers at 555 Kelly Ave. in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 16, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across California, low wages and a shortage of affordable housing leave many farmworkers living in crowded homes or subpar conditions. Between 2015 and 2019, about 38% of the state’s crop workers lived in crowded housing — defined as more than one person sharing a room, according to the most recent U.S. Department of Labor’s National Agricultural Workers Survey. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For retired farmworkers, the options can be even more limited, said Rob Wiener of the California Coalition for Rural Housing. Decades of low-paid, physically demanding work often leave little money for retirement. Moving in with relatives can mean sharing an already-crowded home, while finding an affordable home elsewhere can mean leaving family and community behind, Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It’s even more difficult for farmworkers in counties like San Mateo, he said, where the median one-bedroom apartment rents for \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/san-mateo-ca/?bedrooms=1\">more than $3,000 per month\u003c/a> and families must earn a minimum salary of \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/marketdata/data/haitraditional\">nearly $580,000\u003c/a> to afford buying a median-priced single-family home. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Every community, in my view, should have the full life cycle of housing that’s needed,” Wiener said, “from family housing to housing for single adults and for retirees.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Housing built for larger farmworker families may not fit the needs of older adults living alone or as couples, he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga, executive director of Ayudando Latinos A Soñar, or ALAS, said the proposal for the apartment building on Kelly Avenue grew out of the organization’s work during the pandemic, when staff at the nonprofit found agricultural workers in their 70s and 80s were still working because they could not afford to retire.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-16-KQED-066915f1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105276\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-16-KQED-066915f1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-16-KQED-066915f1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-16-KQED-066915f1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The ALAS office in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 16, 2026. ALAS is a nonprofit supporting farmworkers and their families. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some lived in housing tied to their jobs, meaning retirement could also cost them their homes. Others rented in the community but struggled to keep up with rising housing costs, she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Our aging farm workers are telling us they can’t stop working,” Hernandez-Arriaga said. “Because if they stop working, they don’t have income.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If voters approve the proposed apartment building in Half Moon Bay, senior farmworkers who live or work in the city would get first priority, followed by those elsewhere along the coast and in San Mateo County, according to Mercy Housing, which is partnering with ALAS on the project. The nonprofit developer said those preferences are established in its agreements with the city.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with apartments, the development would include a community center offering services such as health care and wellness programs. Its downtown location would put residents within walking distance of groceries, medical care, churches and organizations that already serve them, Hernandez-Arriaga said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Rosales, remaining close to services is important because he has never driven a car. He gets around by walking or taking the bus. He has lived in Half Moon Bay for about two decades and said he wants a home near the places he already relies on.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“What we like is having everything close at hand,” he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But opponents question the building’s size — at five stories, it would be the tallest in downtown — as well as its effects on parking and traffic and the city’s obligations under the proposed 99-year lease.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rick Hernandez, vice chair of the Half Moon Bay Planning Commission, said he supports more affordable housing but has concerns about this specific development.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It would be the tallest in downtown,” Hernandez said, “and it’s out of character with our community.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said a smaller development would be a better fit for a neighborhood where people already come for the library, church and community center. He also questioned what costs the city could face over the 99-year lease and whether the proposed lease agreement is adequate to ensure local residents get priority for the apartments.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hernandez-Arriaga sees the opposition as going beyond the building’s size. She questioned whether the older farmworkers who have been asking for housing for years are welcome downtown.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Why aren’t they good enough to be living downtown?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Hernandez pushed back on that assertion. He pointed to other affordable housing developments in Half Moon Bay as examples of the city’s support for farmworkers, including a manufactured housing project the city approved soon after the 2023 mass shooting.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This is about striking the right balance,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ALAS and Mercy Housing jointly proposed the project after the city sought proposals for affordable apartments on the Kelly Avenue property in 2022. It was the only proposal submitted. But it faced opposition from the start.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the planning commission approved the project’s land-use permits in May 2024, residents appealed. The city council upheld that approval but didn’t sign off on a final lease agreement on the city-owned land until May 2026. Opponents then gathered enough signatures to put that decision before voters, suspending the ordinance until the election.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vote comes as the city faces pressure from the state over its broader housing obligations. In July, Attorney General Rob Bonta and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-newsom-administration-take-legal-action-against-local\">sued Half Moon Bay\u003c/a> for failing to complete zoning changes required to bring its housing plan into compliance with state law, asking a court to require compliance and impose financial penalties.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-17-KQED-1deb1f18.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-17-KQED-1deb1f18.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-17-KQED-1deb1f18-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/20261016_HALFMOONBAYMEASUREQ_GC-17-KQED-1deb1f18-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A “Yes on Q” sign is posted at a local business in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 16, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeff Regan, campaign organizer for Yes on 555 Kelly Ave., said rejecting the Kelly Avenue project would make it harder for the city to meet state housing goals. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the city’s description of the lease, Mercy Housing would be responsible for constructing and maintaining the buildings, carrying required insurance and operating resident programs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement, Mercy said about $28 million in public funding has been secured, including more than $6 million recently approved by San Mateo County. The plan anticipates covering the remaining $14 million through tax-credit financing.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rosales has attended several meetings about the development, hoping it will move forward. For now, he visits his wife at her sister’s home, spends time talking with her, then leaves.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He wants to stay in Half Moon Bay but said they are considering returning to Mexico if they cannot find a place to live together. Still, he’s reluctant to leave the city he’s called home for two decades. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I’d like to stay here a little longer,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054312/dolores-huerta-on-the-state-of-workers-rights-in-california\">Dolores Huerta\u003c/a>, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union to improve working conditions in the nation’s fruit and vegetable fields and coined the phrase “Sí, se puede!” that became a widespread rallying cry, has died. She was 96.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta’s family said in a statement through her foundation that she died Wednesday at home.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She kept a busy schedule well into her 90s, marching in protests and speaking in cities across the country about race, poverty, LGBTQ+ and women’s rights on behalf of her Bakersfield, California-based foundation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta’s resolve cemented her place in history as one of the nation’s most influential labor leaders, civil rights icons and feminist activists. Her three-word Spanish-language slogan — which translates to “Yes, it can be done” — was grounded in the belief that people could effect change.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta told KQED’s \u003cem>The California Report\u003c/em> in 2025, when the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement in California — hitting agricultural communities like Bakersfield first, she noted — that farm workers still had “an awful lot of pride” for the work they do. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12044395\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty-1536x1070.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Portrait of labor activist Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers group, with a union flag that reads “Viva La Causa,” ca.1970s. (Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This whole perception that the employers themselves have put out there that somehow a farm worker is below someone’s level of competence or someone’s level of pride that they have kind of created that mentality,” Huerta said then. “Unfortunately that still sits there.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her work over the decades earned her a number of accolades, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. When then-President Barack Obama presented the award in 2012, he praised Huerta as a tenacious leader and joked that he had stolen her slogan for his 2008 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year, Huerta sent shockwaves through the Latino community when she revealed that she was sexually abused in the 1960s by the farmworker movement’s co-founder, César Chavez, leading to the birth of two children, a secret she kept for 60 years and long after he died.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the early 1970s on, Huerta’s life partner was Richard Chavez, César’s brother, and together they had four kids. She also had seven children from two earlier marriages.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta said she had kept silent for so long because she feared that coming forward would compromise her life’s work and unravel all the progress made for workers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked during a 2026 interview with the news organization Latino USA about keeping the secret, Huerta said: “It was my personal pain, it was my personal problem and, you know, I think it was worth it because it was my cross to bear. I’ll say it that way.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Homegrown activism\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta was born Dolores Clara Fernandez in 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico. Her father was a miner and union activist who went on to win a seat in the state Legislature. Her parents divorced when she was 3, and her mother took her and her brothers to California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Immersed in a melting pot of Mexican, Filipino, African American, Japanese and Chinese working families, Huerta learned from her mother — who owned a restaurant and hotel — about independence, compassion and activism.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta was a young, energetic elementary school teacher in the farm-rich San Joaquin Valley when she decided to answer another calling after growing frustrated by her students’ poor living conditions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I couldn’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes,” she said in a 2017 PBS Independent Lens documentary on her life. “I thought I could do more by organizing farmworkers than by trying to teach their hungry children.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta’s early work with a civil rights group in Stockton resulted in her meeting Chavez. The two wanted to focus more on the plight of farmworkers, so in 1962 they started the National Farm Workers Association, which became United Farm Workers of America a few years later. She was a key leader and negotiator for the union for years.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was among those who joined Filipino grape pickers on the picket line in what became the five-year “Delano Grape Strike.” With Chavez, she negotiated collective bargaining agreements and contracts with big growers, winning the first health and benefit plans for farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chavez, who died in 1993, once described her as fearless, committed to the cause and tough when it came to negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On the campaign trail\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She met U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy of Massachusetts during his visit to Delano in 1968 and became a volunteer on his presidential campaign, registering Mexican Americans in California to vote. Huerta was on stage with Kennedy after he won the California primary, and he publicly thanked her moments before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The assassination devastated Huerta, but she kept organizing for farmworkers’ rights.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta was jailed 22 times for union demonstrating. In 1988, she was seriously injured while protesting Republican presidential candidate George H.W. Bush’s opposition to the UFW grape boycott during his visit to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106902\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7-1536x1201.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">American labor activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) Dolores Huerta speaks on stage during a UFW rally in California, circa 1975 or 1976. (Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caught in a crowd, she was struck by a police officer’s baton, suffered three broken ribs and a pulverized spleen, and required more than a dozen blood transfusions. She reached a settlement with the city to resolve her claims.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a long recovery, Huerta shifted focus and hit the road to campaign for women’s rights and encourage Latinas to run for office.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also campaigned for Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton, Obama and Joe Biden. California Gov. Gavin Newsom considered her a close friend.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fueled by courage\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emilio Huerta, one of Dolores’ 13 children, once pointed to his mom’s courage during an interview, saying it was one of the most significant drivers of her life’s work.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“To dedicate your life to building a dream of a union for farmworkers, to take on agriculture, which to this day is still a powerhouse … That took a lot of guts,” he had said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta learned the art of lobbying politicians. She secured financial aid for the unemployed and disability insurance for California farmworkers. She spoke out against toxic pesticides, pushed for amnesty for immigrants in the country illegally and fought federal guest worker programs.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty2-a3693d7e.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106906\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty2-a3693d7e.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty2-a3693d7e-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty2-a3693d7e-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A close-up shows the hands of Dolores Huerta, 95, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) labor union, with bracelets reading “huelga” (“strike”) and “si se puede” (“yes we can”) as she poses in her office in Bakersfield, California, on July 21, 2025. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By directing nationwide boycotts of grapes and lettuce in the early 1970s, she helped to create the economic pressure and political climate necessary for California to pass what would be the first state law recognizing farmworkers’ right to collective bargaining.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her work earned her many accolades. She was the first Latina to be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame, and she’s received nine honorary doctorates from U.S. universities.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schools are named in her honor in a handful of states, including California. 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She was 96.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta’s family said in a statement through her foundation that she died Wednesday at home.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She kept a busy schedule well into her 90s, marching in protests and speaking in cities across the country about race, poverty, LGBTQ+ and women’s rights on behalf of her Bakersfield, California-based foundation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta’s resolve cemented her place in history as one of the nation’s most influential labor leaders, civil rights icons and feminist activists. Her three-word Spanish-language slogan — which translates to “Yes, it can be done” — was grounded in the belief that people could effect change.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta told KQED’s \u003cem>The California Report\u003c/em> in 2025, when the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement in California — hitting agricultural communities like Bakersfield first, she noted — that farm workers still had “an awful lot of pride” for the work they do. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12044395\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty-1536x1070.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Portrait of labor activist Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers group, with a union flag that reads “Viva La Causa,” ca.1970s. (Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This whole perception that the employers themselves have put out there that somehow a farm worker is below someone’s level of competence or someone’s level of pride that they have kind of created that mentality,” Huerta said then. “Unfortunately that still sits there.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her work over the decades earned her a number of accolades, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. When then-President Barack Obama presented the award in 2012, he praised Huerta as a tenacious leader and joked that he had stolen her slogan for his 2008 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year, Huerta sent shockwaves through the Latino community when she revealed that she was sexually abused in the 1960s by the farmworker movement’s co-founder, César Chavez, leading to the birth of two children, a secret she kept for 60 years and long after he died.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the early 1970s on, Huerta’s life partner was Richard Chavez, César’s brother, and together they had four kids. She also had seven children from two earlier marriages.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta said she had kept silent for so long because she feared that coming forward would compromise her life’s work and unravel all the progress made for workers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked during a 2026 interview with the news organization Latino USA about keeping the secret, Huerta said: “It was my personal pain, it was my personal problem and, you know, I think it was worth it because it was my cross to bear. I’ll say it that way.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Homegrown activism\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta was born Dolores Clara Fernandez in 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico. Her father was a miner and union activist who went on to win a seat in the state Legislature. Her parents divorced when she was 3, and her mother took her and her brothers to California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Immersed in a melting pot of Mexican, Filipino, African American, Japanese and Chinese working families, Huerta learned from her mother — who owned a restaurant and hotel — about independence, compassion and activism.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta was a young, energetic elementary school teacher in the farm-rich San Joaquin Valley when she decided to answer another calling after growing frustrated by her students’ poor living conditions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I couldn’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes,” she said in a 2017 PBS Independent Lens documentary on her life. “I thought I could do more by organizing farmworkers than by trying to teach their hungry children.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta’s early work with a civil rights group in Stockton resulted in her meeting Chavez. The two wanted to focus more on the plight of farmworkers, so in 1962 they started the National Farm Workers Association, which became United Farm Workers of America a few years later. She was a key leader and negotiator for the union for years.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was among those who joined Filipino grape pickers on the picket line in what became the five-year “Delano Grape Strike.” With Chavez, she negotiated collective bargaining agreements and contracts with big growers, winning the first health and benefit plans for farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chavez, who died in 1993, once described her as fearless, committed to the cause and tough when it came to negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On the campaign trail\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She met U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy of Massachusetts during his visit to Delano in 1968 and became a volunteer on his presidential campaign, registering Mexican Americans in California to vote. Huerta was on stage with Kennedy after he won the California primary, and he publicly thanked her moments before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The assassination devastated Huerta, but she kept organizing for farmworkers’ rights.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta was jailed 22 times for union demonstrating. In 1988, she was seriously injured while protesting Republican presidential candidate George H.W. Bush’s opposition to the UFW grape boycott during his visit to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106902\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7-1536x1201.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">American labor activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) Dolores Huerta speaks on stage during a UFW rally in California, circa 1975 or 1976. (Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caught in a crowd, she was struck by a police officer’s baton, suffered three broken ribs and a pulverized spleen, and required more than a dozen blood transfusions. She reached a settlement with the city to resolve her claims.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a long recovery, Huerta shifted focus and hit the road to campaign for women’s rights and encourage Latinas to run for office.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also campaigned for Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton, Obama and Joe Biden. California Gov. Gavin Newsom considered her a close friend.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fueled by courage\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emilio Huerta, one of Dolores’ 13 children, once pointed to his mom’s courage during an interview, saying it was one of the most significant drivers of her life’s work.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“To dedicate your life to building a dream of a union for farmworkers, to take on agriculture, which to this day is still a powerhouse … That took a lot of guts,” he had said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta learned the art of lobbying politicians. She secured financial aid for the unemployed and disability insurance for California farmworkers. 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(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By directing nationwide boycotts of grapes and lettuce in the early 1970s, she helped to create the economic pressure and political climate necessary for California to pass what would be the first state law recognizing farmworkers’ right to collective bargaining.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her work earned her many accolades. She was the first Latina to be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame, and she’s received nine honorary doctorates from U.S. universities.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schools are named in her honor in a handful of states, including California. 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With more than 10,500 responses to the survey, it earned more first-choice votes than the second-place and third-place options combined, according to city reports.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“By a fairly resounding margin, the community has made it clear that Plaza de San José is their preferred choice for renaming the plaza,” Councilmember Anthony Tordillos, who represents downtown, said during the meeting. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-PLAZACESAR-JG-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092783\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-PLAZACESAR-JG-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-PLAZACESAR-JG-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-PLAZACESAR-JG-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A stone stage platform at one end of Plaza de Cesar Chavez is seen in downtown San José on July 27, 2026. The platform’s engraved lettering bearing Chavez’s name has been removed. (Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I think that this is really a name that speaks to the central role that this park has played in our city’s civic history as the oldest public space in Northern California, as the site of our first State Capitol here in \u003ca href=\"https://www.library.ca.gov/california-history/previous-ca-capitals/\">California\u003c/a> and as a longtime home to one of our earlier city halls. 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Commissioner Daisy Barocio said Plaza de San José lacked “richness” and felt “very plain and safe.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Misrayn Mendoza of community group Amigos de Guadalupe, along with several others, called into the council meeting on Tuesday to suggest renaming the area Plaza de los Inmigrantes, or Immigrants Plaza, noting the city’s population is made up of more than 40% immigrants. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We cannot take the easy way out and name it just the Plaza of San José,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The community meetings and surveys yielded more than 600 suggestions for potential names from residents and organizations. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After winnowing down the choices to five options based on what was most frequently suggested, and removing options that didn’t meet the city’s existing criteria for park names, city staff shared five options in a ranked-choice voting survey. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plaza de San José was the overall leader after the survey, with Farmworkers Plaza the second preferred choice and Plaza del Pueblo the third, followed by Plaza Park and Plaza de Quetzalcoatl. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">City staff said a request for qualifications will go out later this year seeking a group to establish a conservancy for the plaza, and a contract could be completed in the spring. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plaza de San José’s broad community support “will really set up this next era for the plaza well and help us get on that journey with the right foot,” Tordillos said. “And it will reaffirm that this really is a park that belongs to the people of San José and where everyone in our community is welcome.”\u003c/p>\n",
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In the community of Bonsall in San Diego County, a high school teacher \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/education/2026/10/02/californias-new-native-american-studies-curriculum-comes-alive-in-a-bonsall-classroom\">is weaving the curriculum into his history class.\u003c/a> \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Central Valley leaders are trying to assuage the anxieties of their constituents, who are worried about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2026-10-08/immigration-sweeps-hit-central-californias-farming-region-as-diesel-costs-also-worry-farmers\">a reported ICE crackdown\u003c/a> in the area.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/education/2026/10/02/californias-new-native-american-studies-curriculum-comes-alive-in-a-bonsall-classroom\">California’s new Native American studies curriculum comes alive in a Bonsall classroom\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Can a government legitimately claim territory, even when other people already live there? If land is not being farmed or developed, does someone else have a right to use it?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Greg Hinchliff’s 11th-grade history students grappled with these questions on a recent morning at Bonsall High School. They moved to different parts of the room depending on what they thought, gathering around signs that ranged from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Then, they repeated the activity from the perspectives of Native Americans, European settlers, monarchs and religious leaders. “European religious leaders,” Hinchliff said to a group of students. “What would they say about this statement, that explorers can claim that land?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That they can claim it because they’re Christians, basically,” a student responded.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Right, because it goes back to that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/30/1167056438/vatican-doctrine-of-discovery-colonialism-indigenous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003cu>doctrine of discovery\u003c/u>\u003c/a>,” Hinchliff said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The activity comes from California’s Native American Studies Model Curriculum. Published in 2025, it has hundreds of free lesson plans and teaching materials. Hinchliff helped write it. There are lessons \u003ca href=\"https://camodelcurricula.ucdavis.edu/native-american-studies/whats-in-a-name-native-place-names-and-perspectives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for elementary school students\u003c/a> about Indigenous and colonial place names. Eighth graders can learn about \u003ca href=\"https://camodelcurricula.ucdavis.edu/native-american-studies/tribal-governments-sovereignty-treaties-and-constitutions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tribal sovereignty and federal recognition\u003c/a>. High schoolers can learn about cultural fire practices.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In 2021, the California Department of Education allocated $4 million to develop the curriculum. Joely Proudfit (Luiseño/Payómkawichum, Tongva), director of the California Indian Culture and Sovereignty Center at CSU San Marcos, was one of three people from across the state selected to lead the project. “We really wanted tribal communities to take the lead in helping us write this curriculum,” Proudfit said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>They held dozens of meetings with tribal communities throughout the state. There are 109 federally recognized tribes in California, plus many other tribal communities that aren’t recognized. “There’s not a lesson plan for every single tribe in the state,” Proudfit said. “This is merely the first step in the right direction.” Teachers can continue in the right direction, she said, by building relationships with members of local tribal communities.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2026-10-08/immigration-sweeps-hit-central-californias-farming-region-as-diesel-costs-also-worry-farmers\">Immigration sweeps hit Central Valley\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>There have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article317542396.html\">reports this week\u003c/a> of a significant increase in immigration enforcement activity across the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement, State Senator Anna Caballero said her office has received reports that upwards of 60 people have been taken into ICE custody in her district in the past few days. 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He told KQED he’s tired of losing money year after year and struggling to make payroll. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t work anymore. It’s no longer economically viable to have this farm,” Mariani said, sitting in a gazebo to one side of the farm store. Somewhere nearby, chickens interrupted him periodically to proclaim for all the world to hear they just laid another egg. We gazed out across the parking lot to neat rows of fruit trees and flowering bushes designed to draw in hummingbirds, bees and other pollinators.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1502\" height=\"2000\" data-id=\"12101636\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260928-Last-Stone-Fruit-Growers-RM-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101636\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260928-Last-Stone-Fruit-Growers-RM-KQED.jpg 1502w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260928-Last-Stone-Fruit-Growers-RM-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260928-Last-Stone-Fruit-Growers-RM-KQED-1154x1536.jpg 1154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1502px) 100vw, 1502px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Stone fruit on sale at the farm store at Andy’s Orchard in Morgan Hill on July 16, 2021. 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(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mariani knows a lot about fruit farming, and he wants to write a book about it while he still can. He is not giving up on fruit farming altogether, but the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11676561/to-survive-as-a-fruit-farmer-in-silicon-valley-you-need-to-grow-tastier-fruit\">family farm\u003c/a> in Morgan Hill, the one with the little farm store and the summer fruit-picking events that fill the rows with laughing, running children, has one more growing season before he hands the property to a real estate developer.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As first reported by the \u003ca href=\"https://morganhilltimes.com/study-underway-for-376-home-project-on-andys-orchard-property/\">\u003cem>Morgan Hill Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Mariani has signed an option agreement with a Southern California firm marketing a 376-home subdivision on the 58-acre property. A draft environmental impact report for the project is expected this fall, followed by a public review period. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>There’s organized opposition. State housing law puts a heavy finger on the scale, generally forcing local governments to approve qualifying developments. But Green Foothills, one of several environmental groups opposing the project, argues that Santa Clara County officials can still say no here, because the law makes an exception when a site lacks adequate water or wastewater facilities, and the developer would have to drill new wells and build a new on-site wastewater system.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mariani is not “hanging up his shears” just yet, as a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/business/andys-orchard-silicon-valley.html\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> article\u003c/a> implied. He still intends to farm 20 acres of land he leases now nearby. But he said he understands that word of his soft-retirement has set off a panic among his super fans here in the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Back in August, during the height of stone fruit season, Mary Balmana drove all the way down from San Francisco — a two-hour drive, each way — to stock up on cherries, apricots and peaches, like the August Flame peach and the Cal Red.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12095047\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-19-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A peach ripens on a tree at Andy’s Orchard in Morgan Hill on Aug. 12, 2026. Tree-ripened fruit is more delicate and finicky to grow than most varieties sold today. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“I don’t have to peel them because it’s so luscious,” she said. “It’s tender, sweet beyond belief, and it just speaks for itself. I don’t have to do anything to it. It tastes like the peaches that I grew up with that we used to pick from a neighbor’s farm, you know, when we would go visit.”\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When Balmana spotted Mariani in the store, she asked to have a photo taken with him.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In many ways, Mariani’s family history mirrors the last century of the Valley of Heart’s Delight. \u003ca href=\"https://andysorchard.com/about-us/\">His father came to the Santa Clara Valley\u003c/a> from a little island off the coast of Croatia in 1931. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He was hardly the first to grow apricots in Cupertino. 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Karp noted they stopped selling summer fruit at the Santa Monica Farmers Market a month early this year, in July instead of August. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He has no doubt that whatever crops emerge next summer, the fruit will sell out.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot more demand for Andy’s fruit than there is fruit,” Karp said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Even though fresh fruit fans have proven willing to pay more, rising costs still make it challenging to run an operation like Andy’s Orchard.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-6 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12095045\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12095045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-16-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A worker picks peaches at Andy’s Orchard, in Morgan Hill on Aug. 12, 2026. 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(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We pay more than minimum wage because our people are skilled,” Mariani said. “We have workers that have worked for us for over 40 years, and so they know the orchard as well as I do, and because of that skill level, we pay ‘em well. And they’re in Silicon Valley, too. They need to get more money because it’s an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943634/bay-area-land-is-so-expensive-how-do-urban-farms-survive%20https://morganhilltimes.com/study-underway-for-376-home-project-on-andys-orchard-property/\">expensive place to live\u003c/a>. They get free rent, actually, but on the other hand, it’s still expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s only getting more so with each Silicon Valley boom. Where once the Marianis were one farming family among many, they have grown more and more isolated as the decades passed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’re basically surrounded by urban development now. We’re just a little piece of the jigsaw puzzle that hasn’t been put in yet,” he said, waving his hand to gesture at the neat rows of fruit trees in front of the farm store. Between this property and the nearest freeway exit, most of the land is paved over with housing developments, retail malls and office buildings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001249/what-are-heat-islands-and-where-are-they-in-the-bay-area\">Paved land is also hotter land\u003c/a>, which is growing hotter thanks to climate change. In addition to the growing threat from oak root fungus and ravenous squirrels, Mariani said crops are shrinking because the winters and the nights aren’t as cool as they used to be. This year, he said, was the orchard’s worst on record. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>If you grew up in the Bay Area, you may already know the story of the Valley of Heart’s Delight. Before Silicon Valley took root in the Santa Clara Valley, immigrants from all over the world planted close to 100,000 acres of fruit trees and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957868/from-fruit-picker-to-political-trailblazer-the-92-year-old-madrina-of-east-san-jose\">picked, processed and shipped\u003c/a> the apricots, peaches, plums and more. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nearly all of that is gone now, paved over and replaced with suburbs and office parks. Just a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11676561/to-survive-as-a-fruit-farmer-in-silicon-valley-you-need-to-grow-tastier-fruit\">handful of fruit farmers remain\u003c/a>, and they’re aging out.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Andy Mariani, one of that last handful, is 80 years old. He told KQED he’s tired of losing money year after year and struggling to make payroll. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t work anymore. It’s no longer economically viable to have this farm,” Mariani said, sitting in a gazebo to one side of the farm store. Somewhere nearby, chickens interrupted him periodically to proclaim for all the world to hear they just laid another egg. We gazed out across the parking lot to neat rows of fruit trees and flowering bushes designed to draw in hummingbirds, bees and other pollinators.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1502\" height=\"2000\" data-id=\"12101636\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260928-Last-Stone-Fruit-Growers-RM-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101636\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260928-Last-Stone-Fruit-Growers-RM-KQED.jpg 1502w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260928-Last-Stone-Fruit-Growers-RM-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260928-Last-Stone-Fruit-Growers-RM-KQED-1154x1536.jpg 1154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1502px) 100vw, 1502px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Stone fruit on sale at the farm store at Andy’s Orchard in Morgan Hill on July 16, 2021. (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12095049\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-22-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12095049\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-22-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-22-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-22-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A quiet moment in the farm store at Andy’s Orchard in Morgan Hill on Aug. 12, 2026. Bay Area customers come from far and wide during the summer, when stone fruit is in season. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mariani knows a lot about fruit farming, and he wants to write a book about it while he still can. He is not giving up on fruit farming altogether, but the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11676561/to-survive-as-a-fruit-farmer-in-silicon-valley-you-need-to-grow-tastier-fruit\">family farm\u003c/a> in Morgan Hill, the one with the little farm store and the summer fruit-picking events that fill the rows with laughing, running children, has one more growing season before he hands the property to a real estate developer.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As first reported by the \u003ca href=\"https://morganhilltimes.com/study-underway-for-376-home-project-on-andys-orchard-property/\">\u003cem>Morgan Hill Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Mariani has signed an option agreement with a Southern California firm marketing a 376-home subdivision on the 58-acre property. A draft environmental impact report for the project is expected this fall, followed by a public review period. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>There’s organized opposition. State housing law puts a heavy finger on the scale, generally forcing local governments to approve qualifying developments. But Green Foothills, one of several environmental groups opposing the project, argues that Santa Clara County officials can still say no here, because the law makes an exception when a site lacks adequate water or wastewater facilities, and the developer would have to drill new wells and build a new on-site wastewater system.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mariani is not “hanging up his shears” just yet, as a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/business/andys-orchard-silicon-valley.html\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> article\u003c/a> implied. He still intends to farm 20 acres of land he leases now nearby. But he said he understands that word of his soft-retirement has set off a panic among his super fans here in the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Back in August, during the height of stone fruit season, Mary Balmana drove all the way down from San Francisco — a two-hour drive, each way — to stock up on cherries, apricots and peaches, like the August Flame peach and the Cal Red.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12095047\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-19-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A peach ripens on a tree at Andy’s Orchard in Morgan Hill on Aug. 12, 2026. Tree-ripened fruit is more delicate and finicky to grow than most varieties sold today. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“I don’t have to peel them because it’s so luscious,” she said. “It’s tender, sweet beyond belief, and it just speaks for itself. I don’t have to do anything to it. It tastes like the peaches that I grew up with that we used to pick from a neighbor’s farm, you know, when we would go visit.”\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When Balmana spotted Mariani in the store, she asked to have a photo taken with him.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In many ways, Mariani’s family history mirrors the last century of the Valley of Heart’s Delight. \u003ca href=\"https://andysorchard.com/about-us/\">His father came to the Santa Clara Valley\u003c/a> from a little island off the coast of Croatia in 1931. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He was hardly the first to grow apricots in Cupertino. Spanish mission fathers planted trees in the region as early as the mid-1700s, and after the Gold Rush and the railroads in the 19th century, the Santa Clara Valley became a world-famous producer of dried and canned stone fruits.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California’s ancient history, submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean, left a legacy of fertile soil for farming. Add to that the cool nights of the Santa Clara Valley, especially in winter, and you have a region second to none for stone fruit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It was great for decades and decades,” said Mariani, who took over the family farming operation with his brother after their father retired. “But then, like in the 1980s, the United States started importing Turkish apricots, and they were coming in very cheap, because of cheap labor in Turkey.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The brothers realized they had to diversify beyond the once famous Blenheim apricot, an heirloom variety that boasts flesh perfectly balanced between sweet and tart. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Blenheim’s popularity was also at risk because, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/11/08/164696316/tracking-the-elusive-chocolate-persimmon\">many heirloom fruits\u003c/a>, the soft, small apricot is too delicate for mass shipping. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In an industry that, in a bid for growth, shifted to cold storage and steroidal, uniform fruits picked green and hard, the Marianis decided to go in a different direction. They specialized in fruit consumers, including professional chefs, who would pay more for them as they grew rarer and harder to find. That included heirloom fruit, like the Blenheim, and new varieties, like Baby Crawford peaches. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The brothers also decided to steer clear of competing with industrial agriculture by focusing on flavor, even though it leads to a highly perishable product that must be consumed in a matter of days, not weeks or months. “The last few days that the fruit is on the tree is when it increases tremendously in flavor, sugar content, and juiciness,” Mariani said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As other farmers packed up and left the Santa Clara Valley, Mariani leaned into new ways to make money: selling to chefs at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.laweekly.com/fruit-detective-david-karp-and-andy-mariani-now-at-the-santa-monica-farmers-market/\">Santa Monica Farmers Market\u003c/a> down south, educational \u003ca href=\"https://andysorchard.com/event-calendar/\">fruit picking tours and tastings\u003c/a>, as well as selling pies and other goodies at the farm’s retail store. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“A lot of people can farm at 80; fewer at 90,” said David Karp, a pomologist at UC Riverside’s botany department and Mariani’s business partner. The two recently traveled together to visit Mariani’s relatives in Croatia.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-08-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12095044\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-08-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-08-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-08-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fruit orchardist Andy Mariani drives through his farm, Andy’s Orchard, in Morgan Hill on Aug. 12, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>Karp confirms that climate change and urbanization are gradually forcing the Valley of Heart’s Delight into the history books, even though Mariani will continue farming for the time being. Karp noted they stopped selling summer fruit at the Santa Monica Farmers Market a month early this year, in July instead of August. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He has no doubt that whatever crops emerge next summer, the fruit will sell out.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot more demand for Andy’s fruit than there is fruit,” Karp said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Even though fresh fruit fans have proven willing to pay more, rising costs still make it challenging to run an operation like Andy’s Orchard.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-6 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12095045\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12095045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-16-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A worker picks peaches at Andy’s Orchard, in Morgan Hill on Aug. 12, 2026. Even though foodies are willing to pay more for Mariani’s fruit, he notes that it costs more to grow that kind of fruit, too. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12095046\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-17-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12095046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-17-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-17-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-17-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fruit orchardist Andy Mariani at his farm, Andy’s Orchard, in Morgan Hill on Aug. 12, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We pay more than minimum wage because our people are skilled,” Mariani said. “We have workers that have worked for us for over 40 years, and so they know the orchard as well as I do, and because of that skill level, we pay ‘em well. And they’re in Silicon Valley, too. They need to get more money because it’s an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943634/bay-area-land-is-so-expensive-how-do-urban-farms-survive%20https://morganhilltimes.com/study-underway-for-376-home-project-on-andys-orchard-property/\">expensive place to live\u003c/a>. They get free rent, actually, but on the other hand, it’s still expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s only getting more so with each Silicon Valley boom. Where once the Marianis were one farming family among many, they have grown more and more isolated as the decades passed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’re basically surrounded by urban development now. We’re just a little piece of the jigsaw puzzle that hasn’t been put in yet,” he said, waving his hand to gesture at the neat rows of fruit trees in front of the farm store. Between this property and the nearest freeway exit, most of the land is paved over with housing developments, retail malls and office buildings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001249/what-are-heat-islands-and-where-are-they-in-the-bay-area\">Paved land is also hotter land\u003c/a>, which is growing hotter thanks to climate change. In addition to the growing threat from oak root fungus and ravenous squirrels, Mariani said crops are shrinking because the winters and the nights aren’t as cool as they used to be. This year, he said, was the orchard’s worst on record. Cherries came in at about 5% of a normal harvest, and his signature Baby Crawford peach crop failed almost completely.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-20-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12095048\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-20-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-20-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260812-StoneFruitGrowers-20-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fruit orchardist Andy Mariani at his farm, Andy’s Orchard, in Morgan Hill on Aug. 12, 2026. 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And so what César Chavez meant to us was a really deal back then, and it still [is].”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Miranda said the committee has spent weeks discussing many possible names, including those of other prominent leaders of the farmworker movement, like Huerta.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ChavezRenaming-NG-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101372\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ChavezRenaming-NG-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ChavezRenaming-NG-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ChavezRenaming-NG-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mary Travis-Allen raises her hand to speak at a community meeting on renaming César Chavez Street at Leonard R. 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Critics call it a wage cut that could push local workers out of the fields. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A man who was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/carlos-ivan-mendoza-hernandez-ice-shooting-california-4c1e3dc426ac06a1498e295999f0827b\">shot multiple times by immigration agents\u003c/a> last month in the Central California community of Patterson pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco Assemblymember Matt Haney is trying again to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082132/following-newsoms-veto-lawmaker-returns-with-drug-free-homeless-housing-bill\">expand drug-free housing for people leaving homelessness\u003c/a>, after Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a similar bill last year. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A bill moving through the California legislature would \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/early-childhood-education-pre-k/new-education-programs-transitional-kindergarten-evaluation-bill\">require independent evaluations\u003c/a> of new education programs, like transitional kindergarten.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Changes to H-2A visa program roil California farmworkers\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A major change to a federal farmworker visa program known as H-2A is sparking a heated debate across California. The program allows farms to bring in temporary workers from other countries, but a change from the Trump administration has altered how they are paid, sparking a lawsuit from the United Farm Workers union. Supporters said it’s a lifeline for farmers facing rising labor costs. Critics call it a wage cut that could push local workers out of the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cesar, a farmworker in Salinas, shares that fear. He’s tended plants in a greenhouse for nearly a decade. He’s 45, a father of two, and like many in the Salinas Valley, his job is the only thing keeping his family afloat. “My family, making sure they have everything they need,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the last couple years, that’s felt like a losing battle. After the pandemic, Cesar noticed more guest workers arriving under the H-2A program. At first, he hoped the extra hands would help. Instead, his hours were slashed, sometimes to just 16 a week. “It was a hard blow,” he said. “You still have bills, but don’t know where the money will come from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new federal rule reclassifies many agricultural jobs into lower pay categories. Daniel Costa with the Economic Policy Institute said the losses could add up quickly. “Both migrant farm workers on H-2A visas and U.S. farm workers combined are probably going to lose between 4.4 and 5.4 billion,” Costa said. In recent years, many California farmworkers earned close to $20 an hour. Under the new rule, base wages could fall closer to about $16.90. Advocates said even small cuts will hit workers who are already struggling. That’s why the United Farm Workers is suing the Trump administration over these changes. UFW President Teresa Romero said even a few dollars can make a big difference. “If you cut their salary by $3 an hour, it is impossible for them to have a decent place to live, to support their families,” Romero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farm industry advocates said it’s too early to know the full impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"Page-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/carlos-ivan-mendoza-hernandez-ice-shooting-california-4c1e3dc426ac06a1498e295999f0827b\">\u003cstrong>A man shot by ICE in California pleads not guilty to federal charges\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A man \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-ice-shooting-carlos-ivan-mendoza-hernandez-71b60ba1007bd705454a4cef5293da6e\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">who was shot\u003c/a>\u003c/span> multiple times during an arrest by immigration officers in the Central California community of Patterson in April pleaded not guilty on Monday to federal charges that he rammed his vehicle into two agents, prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal grand jury on Friday indicted Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, who has dual citizenship in El Salvador and Mexico, on two counts of assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon and one count of damaging government property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick Kolasinski, one of his lawyers, has said Mendoza panicked and tried to flee when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents blocked his car and that he did not intend to run over anyone. Kolasinski also disputed claims by officials that his client was a suspected gang member wanted in El Salvador for questioning in relation to a murder. Salvadoran court documents show he was acquitted of murder in El Salvador and Mendoza has denied ever being in a gang, his lawyer has said. He came to the U.S. in 2019 and has no criminal record, Kolasinski has said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Monday that Mendoza has requested a jury trial. A status conference was set for July 27. Mendoza is recovering after several surgeries for multiple gunshot wounds, including one to the jaw, his attorney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082132/following-newsoms-veto-lawmaker-returns-with-drug-free-homeless-housing-bill\">\u003cstrong>Following Newsom’s veto, lawmaker returns with drug-free homeless housing bill\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Assemblymember Matt Haney is reviving a proposal to allow drug-free housing for people transitioning out of homelessness, months after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a similar bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney’s new proposal, AB 1556, would set rules for how “recovery residences” can operate within California’s Housing First framework, the \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1556/id/3425398\">state’s policy\u003c/a> of offering permanent housing without first requiring people to meet conditions like sobriety, mental health treatment or employment. “We should give people who are ready to take the steps to get to recovery and stability an opportunity to do so,” Haney said at a press conference in San Francisco on Monday. “People want to live in housing where they receive the support to be off of and away from drugs with people who will support them in that process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation comes after Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/AB-255-Veto.pdf\">rejected \u003c/a>Haney’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058779/newsoms-veto-of-sober-housing-bill-sparks-a-backlash-in-sf\">AB 255 last year\u003c/a>. That bill would have allowed some state homelessness dollars to support sober housing programs. In his veto message, Newsom said recovery-focused housing is already allowed under state law and argued the bill “wrongly suggests incompatibility with Housing First.” He also raised concerns about creating a separate certification and oversight process that could cost taxpayers money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing First has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054270/trumps-tectonic-shift-on-homelessness-could-have-dire-impacts-in-california\">credited with reducing barriers\u003c/a> for people who might otherwise be denied housing because of substance use, mental health challenges or other issues. But some local officials and advocates argue the policy has also made it harder to fund housing where residents can live away from active drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/early-childhood-education-pre-k/new-education-programs-transitional-kindergarten-evaluation-bill\">\u003cstrong>After criticism of how California rolls out education programs, a new bill would trigger evaluations\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A bill moving through the state legislature would require independent evaluations of any new education initiative that costs at least $500 million a year or $1 billion in one-time spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed requirement is part of \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>a larger bill\u003c/u>\u003c/a> that would \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/schools-chief-was-caught-off-guard-by-newsoms-plan-to-pare-down-the-future-scope-of-his-job\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>restructure the role of the state\u003c/u>\u003c/a> superintendent, an elected position that currently oversees the California Department of Education. “That means that as we make massive investments, as have occurred in the last several years, like universal transitional kindergarten, that there is a built-in independent check to tell us what is actually working,” Assemblymember David Alvarez, the bill’s author and chair of the assembly subcommittee on education, said at \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://aedn.assembly.ca.gov/hearings/2026-bill-hearings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>a hearing\u003c/u>\u003c/a> a few weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While research shows a child’s early years are critical for learning, in February, reporting by LAist found the \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/early-childhood-education-pre-k/california-legislature-newsom-transitional-kindergarten-budget-research\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">state had no formal plans to evaluate transitional kindergarten\u003c/a> — a new grade for \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/transitional-kindergarten-california-preschool-classroom-learning-behavior\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">4-year-olds in the public school system\u003c/a> that was fully implemented this year. ”For TK, as you’ve covered well, you know, it’s nonexistent,” Alvarez told LAist. The state has spent billions on the program, including \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/1076?_gl=1*161scwa*_gcl_au*MTI1NzgzMjM5My4xNzc3MzI2MDQz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>$3.9 billion\u003c/u>\u003c/a> to administer it this fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amendments to the bill also follow reports from the research group \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://edpolicyinca.org/publications/tk-12-education-governance-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>Policy Analysis for California Education\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, as well as the \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165#Research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, that recommend reshaping the role of an elected state superintendent to include evaluation duties. But Alvarez said he thought it was crucial to take the legislation a step further and include a fiscal trigger to make evaluations mandatory, and envisions the requirement to apply to new state spending.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Kolasinski also disputed claims by officials that his client was a suspected gang member wanted in El Salvador for questioning in relation to a murder. Salvadoran court documents show he was acquitted of murder in El Salvador and Mendoza has denied ever being in a gang, his lawyer has said. He came to the U.S. in 2019 and has no criminal record, Kolasinski has said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Monday that Mendoza has requested a jury trial. A status conference was set for July 27. Mendoza is recovering after several surgeries for multiple gunshot wounds, including one to the jaw, his attorney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082132/following-newsoms-veto-lawmaker-returns-with-drug-free-homeless-housing-bill\">\u003cstrong>Following Newsom’s veto, lawmaker returns with drug-free homeless housing bill\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Assemblymember Matt Haney is reviving a proposal to allow drug-free housing for people transitioning out of homelessness, months after Gov. 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That bill would have allowed some state homelessness dollars to support sober housing programs. In his veto message, Newsom said recovery-focused housing is already allowed under state law and argued the bill “wrongly suggests incompatibility with Housing First.” He also raised concerns about creating a separate certification and oversight process that could cost taxpayers money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing First has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054270/trumps-tectonic-shift-on-homelessness-could-have-dire-impacts-in-california\">credited with reducing barriers\u003c/a> for people who might otherwise be denied housing because of substance use, mental health challenges or other issues. 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"content": "\u003cp>State officials are escalating pressure against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/half-moon-bay\">Half Moon Bay\u003c/a> to approve a long-delayed affordable farmworker \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/housing\">housing\u003c/a> project there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five-story, 40-unit building for seniors aging out of farm work received a boost of support following the 2023 mass shooting at a mushroom farm in the city, which spotlighted the substandard living conditions many farmworkers face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But three years later, the project has yet to receive a final green light. That prompted the Housing Accountability Unit — the enforcement arm of the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) — to send a \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Half-Moon-Bay-LOS-TA-040926-1-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sharply toned letter\u003c/a> earlier this month to Half Moon Bay city officials with a clear message: approve the project quickly or face fines, a loss in state funding, and potential legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“HCD strongly encourages the city to expeditiously approve the agreements necessary to facilitate the project,” the letter read. Further down, it warned officials: “If HCD finds that a city’s actions do not comply with state law, HCD may notify the California Office of the Attorney General that the local government is in violation of state law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Manager Matthew Chidester said the city is taking the letter seriously and the city council plans to vote on the project next week. He said he felt the tone of the April 9 letter implied the city was “thumbing our nose at the state and its requirements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not indignant or not prioritizing affordable housing, but the opposite,” he said. “This project … just had more complexity [for the council] and caused a longer timeline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12080755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12080755\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/HMBRendering2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/HMBRendering2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/HMBRendering2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/HMBRendering2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/HMBRendering2-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The project, located at 555 Kelly Ave in Half Moon Bay, would provide 40 affordable homes for retired and current farmworkers age 55 and older. When it was initially introduced in 2022, the project received support from state and local officials. Three years later, it is stuck behind city approvals. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Van Meter William Pollock, LLP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Colloquially called 555 Kelly, the project faced initial support soon after it was introduced in 2022. That support grew the following year after the city experienced the worst mass shooting in San Mateo County history, which took place at a mushroom farm and killed seven people. The shooting exposed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987049/half-moon-bay-farm-where-mass-shooting-took-place-settles-workplace-violations-for-nearly-400000\">substandard living conditions\u003c/a> of many farmworkers there and became a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981087/progress-being-made-on-providing-housing-for-farmworkers-in-half-moon-bay\">call-to-action\u003c/a> for state and city leaders to make way for more affordable housing for farmworkers in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s planning commission approved the project in May 2024, but appeals were subsequently filed against the project. A month later, the City Council denied the appeals and upheld the planning commission’s approval. But since then, the project has been stuck behind negotiations surrounding its land-lease agreement. As the state faces an increasingly dire housing crisis, officials are using whatever tools they can to push cities towards approving more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state knows Half Moon Bay can move quickly to approve projects. A year after the mass shooting, city and county officials approved a different affordable housing development for farmworkers called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037511/2-years-after-the-half-moon-bay-shooting-new-housing-for-farmers-starts-to-take-shape\">Stone Pine Cove\u003c/a>. That development included 47 affordable factory-built homes, and residents moved in last year.[aside postID=news_12037511 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246581187-1020x765.jpg']But Jeremy Levine, policy manager for the local pro-housing group, Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo, said that project and 555 Kelly are very different. Stone Pine Cove is located on the east side of the city. It’s directly across from the California Terra Garden, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983338/more-than-a-year-after-shooting-half-moon-bay-is-making-progress-on-farmworker-housing\">where the mass shooting happened\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“555 Kelly is closer to the commercial part of Half Moon Bay,” he said. “It’s more walkable, it’s more integrated into the community writ large, rather than being sort of to the side, in a corner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its location is intentional. The development will include a community resource center, where residents can receive mental health care, case management and other services. Chidester said the project is centrally located so that residents can take advantage of the fact that the development is on a main artery leading into the city’s downtown and is across from a health clinic and a farmers market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during public meetings about the project, its location has proved controversial among some neighbors who worry that traffic and parking could be impacted by additional residents. And at five stories, it would be the tallest building in Half Moon Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chidester said, as city council members negotiate the land-lease agreement, which would be valid for 99 years, they want to make sure neighbors’ concerns don’t go unnoticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The council wants to just make sure that the terms of the agreements really protect the city in the long run,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982571\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At a Half Moon Bay City Council meeting on March 14, 2024, Mayor Joaquín Jiménez speaks about the urgency of building affordable housing for farmworkers and other essential workers with low incomes. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State officials are watching these negotiations play out and want to see a decision soon, but their hands are somewhat tied because the development is on city-owned land. Chris Elmendorf, a land use law professor at the University of California, Davis, said he has seen cities delay approvals on projects built on private land, but this case is different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“State law doesn’t provide nearly as strong legal hooks for controlling cities’ disapproval of projects on land that they own than it does for controlling city’s disapproval of projects on privately owned land,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, the state pulled the only lever it could pull: warning the city that it could be violating state housing law by delaying action on a project it promised it would build. In 2024, the city adopted a state-mandated plan to allow for more homes to compensate for growing demand. It included Stone Pine Cove and 555 Kelly Ave. as projects that would help it achieve that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They made some progress, but you don’t get to claim that you’re getting an A-plus because you complete half of the assignment,” Levine said. “I think we can celebrate [Stone Pine Cove] and the city’s success, while still recognizing that there are farm workers who need housing, who are living in terrible conditions, and it is the city’s responsibility to meet those needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Jeremy Levine, policy manager for the local pro-housing group, Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo, said that project and 555 Kelly are very different. Stone Pine Cove is located on the east side of the city. It’s directly across from the California Terra Garden, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983338/more-than-a-year-after-shooting-half-moon-bay-is-making-progress-on-farmworker-housing\">where the mass shooting happened\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“555 Kelly is closer to the commercial part of Half Moon Bay,” he said. “It’s more walkable, it’s more integrated into the community writ large, rather than being sort of to the side, in a corner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its location is intentional. The development will include a community resource center, where residents can receive mental health care, case management and other services. Chidester said the project is centrally located so that residents can take advantage of the fact that the development is on a main artery leading into the city’s downtown and is across from a health clinic and a farmers market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during public meetings about the project, its location has proved controversial among some neighbors who worry that traffic and parking could be impacted by additional residents. And at five stories, it would be the tallest building in Half Moon Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chidester said, as city council members negotiate the land-lease agreement, which would be valid for 99 years, they want to make sure neighbors’ concerns don’t go unnoticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The council wants to just make sure that the terms of the agreements really protect the city in the long run,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982571\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At a Half Moon Bay City Council meeting on March 14, 2024, Mayor Joaquín Jiménez speaks about the urgency of building affordable housing for farmworkers and other essential workers with low incomes. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State officials are watching these negotiations play out and want to see a decision soon, but their hands are somewhat tied because the development is on city-owned land. Chris Elmendorf, a land use law professor at the University of California, Davis, said he has seen cities delay approvals on projects built on private land, but this case is different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“State law doesn’t provide nearly as strong legal hooks for controlling cities’ disapproval of projects on land that they own than it does for controlling city’s disapproval of projects on privately owned land,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, the state pulled the only lever it could pull: warning the city that it could be violating state housing law by delaying action on a project it promised it would build. In 2024, the city adopted a state-mandated plan to allow for more homes to compensate for growing demand. It included Stone Pine Cove and 555 Kelly Ave. as projects that would help it achieve that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They made some progress, but you don’t get to claim that you’re getting an A-plus because you complete half of the assignment,” Levine said. “I think we can celebrate [Stone Pine Cove] and the city’s success, while still recognizing that there are farm workers who need housing, who are living in terrible conditions, and it is the city’s responsibility to meet those needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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My dad and brother, who is a year older than I am, often handled the higher branches that required using a ladder, while I excelled at the low-hanging fruit. We’d come home covered in dirt and exhausted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, California lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077073/cesar-chavez-was-a-hero-to-farmworkers-now-they-confront-the-pain-of-alleged-abuse\">renamed a state holiday\u003c/a> on March 31 to Farmworkers Day after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> published allegations\u003c/a> that now-disgraced labor rights icon Cesar Chavez had abused young women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renaming happened swiftly. Lawmakers called the change “long overdue” as if we are rectifying a wrong that should have been fixed years ago. But, to me, this incident reinforces how farmworkers have been marginalized, discriminated against, and overlooked for centuries in the United States since the time enslaved people did most farm work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-515109272-scaled-e1773940356467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1443\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farm labor leader Cesar Chavez pickets outside the San Diego-area headquarters of Safeway markets. It was in protest over the arrest of 29 persons at a Delano, California, Safeway. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My hope would be that this holiday becomes a substantive and longstanding tradition, but I’m skeptical. We have Mother’s Day, but research shows that moms are some of the most overworked, undercompensated and stretched-thin members of society. But, hey, we love our moms!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same type of hollow praise could happen to farmworkers. Farm labor is considered a category separate from all other types of jobs, hence that unartful term “nonfarm jobs” that makes up most jobs in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2019/july/nonfarm-payrolls-why-farmers-not-included\">explainer\u003c/a> from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, “The answer may go back to early America. Highly seasonal, farming has always had a special place in our history — and our hearts.”[aside postID=news_12077073 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Chavez-Statue-1.jpg']Farm labor is hard to count because workers include farmers, their family members and hired workers who are often seasonal employees. Oh, and a lot of them lack proper authorization to work in the country, so that makes them harder to account for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plenty of other industries hire seasonal workers and hire undocumented workers, and yet they are counted. Instead, separating farm work from other categories makes it easier for employers to exploit workers and for consumers to build up a protective wall of ignorance. Americans might balk at buying a sweater made by a child in India, but we’re okay eating produce \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101912263/investigation-lax-state-oversight-endangers-californias-child-farmworkers\">picked by children in our own communities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. diets and the economy depend on the food harvested here, but Americans, by and large, prefer to look away and not have to recognize farmworkers to the extent we should.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians take pride in being a state that feeds the rest of the nation with our produce. This state is home to more farmworkers than any other state, with about \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/blog/how-many-farmworkers-are-employed-in-the-united-states/\">800,000 seasonal and full-time workers\u003c/a> each year, representing about \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/about_edd/news_releases_and_announcements/california-thanks-its-agricultural-workforce-with-45th-annual-farmworkers-appreciation-breakfast/\">2.2 percent\u003c/a> of the state’s workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has not been a farmworker movement for decades,” said Miriam Pawel, a journalist who has written two books about the United Farm Workers on an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101913334/california-confronts-the-cesar-chavez-allegations\">episode of Forum\u003c/a> that aired days after the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> investigation was published. “Declaring something as Farmworker Day instead of Cesar Chavez Day doesn’t really do anything for the farmworkers in the fields who are working in very tough conditions right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farm work has been a job that we regard as something you do if you’re desperate and have no other options, instead of regarding it as a job worthy of dignity and respect because of how hard it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking away from farm work is another way that the labor and economic contributions of immigrants and Latinos are erased. But for many Mexican American families, farm work has served as an accessible stepping stone to achieve the American Dream. Despite the grueling hours and low pay, thousands of families, like my own, have had farmwork in our history.[aside postID=news_12077059 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED.jpg']A few years ago, photos of graduates donning their cap and gowns surrounded by orchards went viral. The graduates in regalia, contrasting with the lush green of fruit trees, were both visually and emotionally striking because farm work and education come off as incompatible, as opposites. The images conveyed the message that leaving the fields equates to progress, but those images also conveyed gratitude for parents who taught their children what hard work looks like and that the returns can be worth so much more than a paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those weeks picking cherries were what we might now call a side hustle, but they were among the most formative experiences of my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’d usually spend a few weeks doing this while my dad took vacation from his regular job at a potato processing plant. My parents were very explicit that the reason for taking us to the fields was to teach us the value of hard work and what adults had to do to make money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lessons from those summers in the fields informed so much of my work ethic and the value of manual labor. I also had the privilege of knowing that my days picking cherries were numbered. I would eventually return to school, and if I earned good grades, my parents told me, I would have other career options. But I also knew there were many people who would spend their whole working lives in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever I buy cherries, I think about how each little bunch was probably picked by someone — a real person, like me — who deserves to be compensated for their hard work. And for that, we have to keep the fight alive and make sure state holidays and words of praise have substance. It means not looking away from farm work and giving that occupation the respect it deserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Wednesday, April 8, 2026\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.healthinpartnership.org/resources/beyond-the-cycle-of-survival-wages-health-and-justice-for-farmworkers\">A new report is shedding light\u003c/a> on the lives of California farmworkers. It argues low wages are not just an economic issue, but a public health crisis. The report is called Beyond the Cycle of Survival, and it looks at how pay impacts workers’ health, families, and communities. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An investigation is underway after \u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/california/article315335981.html\">federal authorities shot and wounded a person\u003c/a> they were apparently trying to arrest. In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security says it happened after officers pulled over the man in Patterson in Stanislaus County on Tuesday.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb1422\">bill to restore state health care coverage\u003c/a> for low-income undocumented Californians will face its first hearing at the state Capitol on Wednesday.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Low wages, inequity affecting the health of farmworkers in California\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Agriculture has long been one of the driving forces of California’s economy. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthinpartnership.org/resources/beyond-the-cycle-of-survival-wages-health-and-justice-for-farmworkers\">a new report\u003c/a> is shining some light on the plight of farmworkers themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, “Beyond the Cycle of Survival: Wages, Health, and Justice for Farmworkers” looked at how low wages and inequity are impacting the health of farmworkers and their families. “What we found is that California’s agricultural economy generates substantial wealth, but that wealth is not distributed equitably,” said Elana Muldavin with the organization Health in Partnership, one of the organizations that conducted the study. “Agriculture in California is a $60 billion industry, yet farmworker wages fall far below what’s considered livable anywhere in our state. Crop farmworkers in California earn $17.10 per hour statewide, and previous research from UC Merced found that farmworkers earn $15,000 a year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the low pay is not just an economic issue. The report found that it’s also causing a public health crisis, contributing to higher rates of workplace injuries, chronic illness, poor birth outcomes, stress, and anxiety among farmworker families. “Every single person that we interviewed said that their wages aren’t enough to cover the cost of their basic needs. People talked about having to make impossible trade-offs, like having to pick between going to the doctor and having something to eat,” Muldavin said. “Entire families are affected. People spoke about how it’s difficult to afford the things that their children want and need, like diapers, food and clothes. And it’s also difficult for farmworking parents to spend enough time with their children when they come home exhausted from working so hard to make ends meet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muldavin said their research underscored the need for an industry-wide livable wage standard for farmworkers and how doing so would improve the public health and well-being for farmworkers and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12079006/federal-immigration-officers-say-they-shot-suspected-gang-member-in-central-california\">\u003cstrong>Conflicting reports over man shot by immigration agents in Patterson\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ice\">agents\u003c/a> shot and wounded a person who they said is a suspected gang member in central California. 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