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At his shop he shows off several large black gun safes, containing an array of rifles and handguns. “These are bolted to the floor, and they’re $3,000 safes,” said Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of Jackson’s firearms are locked up, unloaded, when they’re not in use. Under current California law, customers buying firearms must leave the shop with their guns unloaded. They must also have an approved gun safe or a locking device, such as a simple cable lock that loops through the action of an unloaded handgun or rifle. Once the cable lock is secured, the firearm becomes inoperable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a second gun safety bill passes in Sacramento, gun owners would also have to lock up all firearms whenever they leave their residences. SB108, sponsored by Democratic Senator Leland Yee, is also aimed at preventing unauthorized access to firearms. But gun owners complain they’d either have to reload their guns each time they come home, or give up on self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Having an unloaded firearm in your nightstand drawer is tantamount to having a rock to respond to an immediate danger. \n\u003cp>‑\u003cem>\u003cem>Sam Paredes, Gun Owners of California\u003c/em>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Having an unloaded firearm in your nightstand drawer is tantamount to having a rock to respond to an immediate danger that presents itself,” said Sam Paredes, a lobbyist and the executive director of Gun Owners of California, which, according to its website, has more than 30,000 members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Paredes, the state can mandate how guns must be secured in public, at a business, at a firing range, or in a vehicle, but not in the owners’ residence. “What the government cannot do is tell people how, when and where to keep those firearms in their own homes,” said Paredes. “Cannot be done. It’s unconstitutional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to being onerous, said Paredes, the Democrats’ proposed new gun safety measures are simply unnecessary. “The vast majority of Californians are properly and safely storing their firearms because the number of accidents is very small. We hear about every time it happens, it makes the media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, according to the California Department of Public Health, the number of accidental firearm deaths in the state has been dropping, from 146 in 2005 to 27 deaths in 2010. Some say that’s because of strict new state regulations; others say firearm deaths have been dropping everywhere. But that is small comfort to people who have been touched by this kind of tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairfield mother Sandra Macias lost her 14-year-old son Alex, who was killed in an accidental shooting. “He was a comedian. He was very funny. He played soccer and baseball, basketball. He was in the band. He was a Boy Scout. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Lance Williams and Agustin Armendariz, \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2012 and again in June, Speaker John A. Pérez wrote memos to Democrats in the California Assembly. He wanted millions in campaign cash to win a handful of key races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97179\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Speaker_081.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-97179 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Speaker_081-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Speaker_08(1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (Max Whittaker /Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At stake, Pérez wrote, was their party’s control of the Assembly – and, as it turned out, the perks and power enjoyed by the lawmakers themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is critical that we band together to maximize our financial resources,” the burly Los Angeles legislative leader wrote in the memos, copies of which were obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawmakers gave Pérez what he wanted, state campaign finance records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exploiting loopholes in a law enacted to stanch the flow of big money in state politics, the Assembly Democrats pumped $5.8 million into the campaigns Pérez designated, a CIR data analysis shows. The infusion of cash helped the Democrats win a supermajority in the Capitol: two-thirds control of the Legislature for the first time since 1883.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system also paid off for the speaker’s biggest fundraisers in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the data, Pérez gave lawmakers who raised the most money the best assignments in the new Legislature – posts on the speaker’s leadership team and seats on the powerful “juice committees.” \u003c!--more-->These\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>are seven of the Assembly’s 30 standing policy committees. They control bills affecting the financial bottom line for the Capitol’s wealthiest interest groups: from banks, insurance companies and public utilities to casinos, racetracks and liquor distributors. For lawmakers who serve on them, the committees are a source of political campaign “juice”: abundant donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez spokesman John Vigna said the speaker makes legislative assignments based on merits, not money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is absolutely no connection, zero connection, between Speaker Pérez’s leadership selections and any political considerations, including fundraising,” he said. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Speaker Pérez chooses his leadership team based on their ability to serve the people of California” and nothing else, Vigna added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIR’s analysis of more than 38,000 contributions to Assembly Democrats in the 2011-12 campaign shows a link between donations to the speaker’s\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>targeted races and a lawmaker’s prospects for important legislative assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Among the findings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The mega-donors to Pérez’s targets – three lawmakers who gave more than $250,000 – obtained\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>positions of power. Each was named to either a leadership post or chairmanship of a juice committee, along with a seat on at least one juice committee.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Lawmakers who gave more than $150,000 were likely to get multiple important posts. All 18 got one juice committee seat, and 16 got a leadership post, chairmanship of a juice committee or a seat on a second juice committee.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Lawmakers who gave less got less. Donors who contributed less than $150,000 stood a 13 percent chance of heading a juice committee or joining the leadership. No lawmaker who gave less than $40,000 was named chairman of a juice committee.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>California’s Assembly speakers, Democrat and Republican alike, long have courted the state’s monied interests, seeking campaign funds to win or maintain power in the Legislature. Despite efforts to break this cycle, most speakers also have given political allies leadership posts, committee assignments and other perks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pérez memos and the pattern of donations that followed them provide new insights into how those dynamics played out in the 2012 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Phillip Ung, policy advocate for the political reform group California Common Cause, said CIR’s findings are reason for concern.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>“This system of campaign finance buying leadership on committees” has nothing to do with good government, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When voters see someone is chair of a committee, their expectation is that person is there because that person is a policy expert, not because they bought that chair,” Ung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez, 43, is a former labor union official who was elected speaker in 2009. Even in an era of term limits – Pérez must leave the Assembly next year – he has emerged as one of California’s most powerful officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the memos make clear, Pérez as speaker has made fundraising a priority. But raising money is complicated by Proposition 34, a campaign finance law passed by voters in 2000 to limit the influence of big money on state elections. Today, the law caps donations in legislative races at $3,900 per donor but allows unlimited donations to state political parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez’s memos – one concerning the June primary, the other the general election – spell out his strategy for sidestepping the $3,900 donation cap and directing millions in contributions to key campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the documents, Pérez sought $127,900 from each of the 52 Democrats in the Assembly at the time. The breakdown: $3,900 apiece in each of five targeted primary races and $3,900 more in each of six races targeted in the November campaign; $65,000 for the state party’s “candidate support fund,” split between the primary and general elections; and $20,000 for Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax hike measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Pérez told the lawmakers not to send the money directly to the campaigns. Instead, “for proper tracking,” they were told to deliver the money to an office the speaker\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>maintains near the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the Democrats gave more money than the speaker had requested. Republicans lost in all the races Pérez targeted, and Democrats wound up with 55 seats in the 80-seat Assembly – one seat more than needed for a two-thirds majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reaping benefits \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Meanwhile, as Pérez doled out legislative assignments between August and January, those who gave the most money reaped larger benefits, CIR’s analysis indicates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly’s top donor, Toni Atkins of San Diego, gave $282,000 to the targeted races, records show. She was named Assembly majority floor leader – next to the speaker, the top leadership post. In addition to naming her majority leader, Pérez kept Atkins on the Health Committee, a juice committee on which she had served in the previous term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry Perea of Fresno, a Pérez loyalist who gave a total of $277,000, was named chairman of the committee that oversees the insurance industry. He retained seats on two other juice committees as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Pérez’s No. 3 donor, Mike Gatto of Los Angeles, gave $258,000 to the targeted races. The speaker promoted him to be chairman of the most powerful juice committee, the Appropriations Committee, with jurisdiction over fiscal bills. Gatto also kept his seat on another juice committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Gatto declined to comment, referring a query to the speaker. Atkins and Perea didn’t respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIR’s analysis shows that $150,000 was a cutoff of sorts. Most lawmakers who donated more than $150,000 to the speaker’s targeted races obtained important committee assignments or leadership posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Including the three mega-donors, 18 lawmakers broke the $150,000 threshold. Pérez named six of them to head juice committees. Five more got leadership posts, and another five got two or more juice committee assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roger Hernández of West Covina, who donated $185,000, wound up with seats on three juice committees. He was Pérez’s majority whip, but the speaker replaced him after he became embroiled in scandal involving an ex-girlfriend. Hernández didn’t respond to interview requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez named two major donors to leadership posts even though they were incoming freshman assemblymen and thus had no Capitol experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Pasadena City Council member Chris Holden, who donated $199,000 to Pérez’s targets, was named majority whip, replacing Hernández, and was put on two juice committees. In a statement, Holden said he believed he was named whip because of his long service in local government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental activist Anthony Rendon of South Gate, near Los Angeles, who gave $191,000, was named assistant majority floor leader and appointed to the Utilities and Commerce Committee. Pérez later removed Rendon from the leadership and made him chairman of the Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife, which is not considered a juice committee. Rendon asked for that assignment, spokesman Bill Wong said, largely because of water issues in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For lawmakers who steered less than $150,000 to the speaker, prospects were leaner, the analysis shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eighteen lawmakers gave between $40,000 and $150,000. Of those, two were named to leadership positions, and one became chairman of a juice committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prospects were poorest for lawmakers who gave less than $40,000. None of this group of 18 lawmakers was named to head a juice committee, and two were named to leadership posts.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>The experience of Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada of Davis was noteworthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamada donated $9,600 to the targeted races, the least of any incumbent Assembly Democrat. When Pérez parceled out leadership posts and slots on the juice committees, Yamada was passed over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the former social worker was reappointed as chairwoman of the Assembly’s low-profile Committee on Aging and Long-Term Care. She didn’t respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Amy Pyle and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The independent, nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting is the country’s largest investigative reporting team. For more, visit \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiawatch.org\">\u003cstrong>www.cironline.org\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>. The reporters can be reached at \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"mailto:lwilliams@cironline.org\">\u003cstrong>lwilliams@cironline.org\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> and \u003ca href=\"mailto:lwilliams@cironline.org\">\u003cstrong>aarmendariz@cironline.org\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exploiting loopholes in a law enacted to stanch the flow of big money in state politics, the Assembly Democrats pumped $5.8 million into the campaigns Pérez designated, a CIR data analysis shows. The infusion of cash helped the Democrats win a supermajority in the Capitol: two-thirds control of the Legislature for the first time since 1883.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system also paid off for the speaker’s biggest fundraisers in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the data, Pérez gave lawmakers who raised the most money the best assignments in the new Legislature – posts on the speaker’s leadership team and seats on the powerful “juice committees.” \u003c!--more-->These\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>are seven of the Assembly’s 30 standing policy committees. They control bills affecting the financial bottom line for the Capitol’s wealthiest interest groups: from banks, insurance companies and public utilities to casinos, racetracks and liquor distributors. For lawmakers who serve on them, the committees are a source of political campaign “juice”: abundant donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez spokesman John Vigna said the speaker makes legislative assignments based on merits, not money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is absolutely no connection, zero connection, between Speaker Pérez’s leadership selections and any political considerations, including fundraising,” he said. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Speaker Pérez chooses his leadership team based on their ability to serve the people of California” and nothing else, Vigna added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIR’s analysis of more than 38,000 contributions to Assembly Democrats in the 2011-12 campaign shows a link between donations to the speaker’s\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>targeted races and a lawmaker’s prospects for important legislative assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Among the findings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The mega-donors to Pérez’s targets – three lawmakers who gave more than $250,000 – obtained\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>positions of power. Each was named to either a leadership post or chairmanship of a juice committee, along with a seat on at least one juice committee.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Lawmakers who gave more than $150,000 were likely to get multiple important posts. All 18 got one juice committee seat, and 16 got a leadership post, chairmanship of a juice committee or a seat on a second juice committee.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Lawmakers who gave less got less. Donors who contributed less than $150,000 stood a 13 percent chance of heading a juice committee or joining the leadership. No lawmaker who gave less than $40,000 was named chairman of a juice committee.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>California’s Assembly speakers, Democrat and Republican alike, long have courted the state’s monied interests, seeking campaign funds to win or maintain power in the Legislature. Despite efforts to break this cycle, most speakers also have given political allies leadership posts, committee assignments and other perks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pérez memos and the pattern of donations that followed them provide new insights into how those dynamics played out in the 2012 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Phillip Ung, policy advocate for the political reform group California Common Cause, said CIR’s findings are reason for concern.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>“This system of campaign finance buying leadership on committees” has nothing to do with good government, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When voters see someone is chair of a committee, their expectation is that person is there because that person is a policy expert, not because they bought that chair,” Ung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez, 43, is a former labor union official who was elected speaker in 2009. Even in an era of term limits – Pérez must leave the Assembly next year – he has emerged as one of California’s most powerful officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the memos make clear, Pérez as speaker has made fundraising a priority. But raising money is complicated by Proposition 34, a campaign finance law passed by voters in 2000 to limit the influence of big money on state elections. Today, the law caps donations in legislative races at $3,900 per donor but allows unlimited donations to state political parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez’s memos – one concerning the June primary, the other the general election – spell out his strategy for sidestepping the $3,900 donation cap and directing millions in contributions to key campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the documents, Pérez sought $127,900 from each of the 52 Democrats in the Assembly at the time. The breakdown: $3,900 apiece in each of five targeted primary races and $3,900 more in each of six races targeted in the November campaign; $65,000 for the state party’s “candidate support fund,” split between the primary and general elections; and $20,000 for Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax hike measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Pérez told the lawmakers not to send the money directly to the campaigns. Instead, “for proper tracking,” they were told to deliver the money to an office the speaker\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>maintains near the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the Democrats gave more money than the speaker had requested. Republicans lost in all the races Pérez targeted, and Democrats wound up with 55 seats in the 80-seat Assembly – one seat more than needed for a two-thirds majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reaping benefits \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Meanwhile, as Pérez doled out legislative assignments between August and January, those who gave the most money reaped larger benefits, CIR’s analysis indicates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly’s top donor, Toni Atkins of San Diego, gave $282,000 to the targeted races, records show. She was named Assembly majority floor leader – next to the speaker, the top leadership post. In addition to naming her majority leader, Pérez kept Atkins on the Health Committee, a juice committee on which she had served in the previous term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry Perea of Fresno, a Pérez loyalist who gave a total of $277,000, was named chairman of the committee that oversees the insurance industry. He retained seats on two other juice committees as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Pérez’s No. 3 donor, Mike Gatto of Los Angeles, gave $258,000 to the targeted races. The speaker promoted him to be chairman of the most powerful juice committee, the Appropriations Committee, with jurisdiction over fiscal bills. Gatto also kept his seat on another juice committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Gatto declined to comment, referring a query to the speaker. Atkins and Perea didn’t respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIR’s analysis shows that $150,000 was a cutoff of sorts. Most lawmakers who donated more than $150,000 to the speaker’s targeted races obtained important committee assignments or leadership posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Including the three mega-donors, 18 lawmakers broke the $150,000 threshold. Pérez named six of them to head juice committees. Five more got leadership posts, and another five got two or more juice committee assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roger Hernández of West Covina, who donated $185,000, wound up with seats on three juice committees. He was Pérez’s majority whip, but the speaker replaced him after he became embroiled in scandal involving an ex-girlfriend. Hernández didn’t respond to interview requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez named two major donors to leadership posts even though they were incoming freshman assemblymen and thus had no Capitol experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Pasadena City Council member Chris Holden, who donated $199,000 to Pérez’s targets, was named majority whip, replacing Hernández, and was put on two juice committees. In a statement, Holden said he believed he was named whip because of his long service in local government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental activist Anthony Rendon of South Gate, near Los Angeles, who gave $191,000, was named assistant majority floor leader and appointed to the Utilities and Commerce Committee. Pérez later removed Rendon from the leadership and made him chairman of the Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife, which is not considered a juice committee. Rendon asked for that assignment, spokesman Bill Wong said, largely because of water issues in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For lawmakers who steered less than $150,000 to the speaker, prospects were leaner, the analysis shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eighteen lawmakers gave between $40,000 and $150,000. Of those, two were named to leadership positions, and one became chairman of a juice committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prospects were poorest for lawmakers who gave less than $40,000. 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But I am the backstop at the end and I’m going to keep this budget balanced as long as I’m around here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s latest $96 billion state budget would spend less money than the proposal he unveiled in January. The governor said that even though California brought in more tax dollars than it expected to this year, its economic recovery is still shaky. The decrease, he said, is a response to the economic uncertainty created by the federal budget sequester, ongoing problems in the European Union and other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have climbed out of a hole with a Proposition 30 tax. That’s good,” said Brown. “But this is not the time to break out the champagne.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state brought in $4.5 billion in extra tax revenue this year, but Brown argued that when you factor in various projections, the total shrinks to a bit less than $3 billion. 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The so-called “concentration grant,” which drives additional money to districts where more than half of students are either poor or learning English, is still in his plan, even though it’s smaller than the initial version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/26/95454/\">Democratic leaders in the Senate and Assembly want to spread that money out across every school district\u003c/a> in order to make up for years of budget cuts, but Brown said that proposal is less effective. “If you spray it over the whole 6 million kids [in California schools], they’ll hardly notice it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you concentrate it, as my formula does, you can make some dramatic improvements on areas that, really, we’ve neglected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s education funding formula will likely be the major sticking point during the next four weeks, when the governor and legislators negotiate the budget. 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The Brown administration said it accounts for just four cents of every dollar spent on education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after years of funding cuts, that extra revenue is very valuable to school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Mina Kim reports that Brown proposed a state-based approach, rather than a county-by-county approach, to implementing the state’s expansion of Medi-Cal under the federal Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/01/11/state-vs-county-showdown-over-funding-the-medi-cal-expansion/\">The approach \u003c/a>means that the governor is planning to take on health care coverage of indigent Californians but reduce funding to the counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The May budget also includes $500 million more for Medi-Cal spending, based in part on delays to the state’s plans to cut payment rates to doctors. Brown’s budget continues cuts to health care, including dental benefits for Medi-Cal recipients, to the dismay of health advocates who have planned rallies across the state today, including in Oakland, Sacramento and Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tweets from reporters:\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>As some Capitol watchers surmised, the entire extra \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23cabudget\">#cabudget\u003c/a> money, plus more, effectively goes 2 schoools\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— John Myers (@johnmyers) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/johnmyers/status/334362723699789825\">May 14, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>“Prognosticate or pontificate? 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Now he comes alone, waving to friends as the service gets under way and singing along to the songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With the way that things are going, the social hour after church that we used to have -- people stayed 20, 30 minutes and had little servings in here sometime,\" said Floyd, standing outside the church. \"But that’s all out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When services ended around 11:30, Jones headed to the church’s multipurpose room to catch up with friends over coffee and cookies. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones is part of a group of about 20 friends who gather in the church community room to exchange news about themselves and the neighborhood. Just about everyone here laments that the gatherings are getting smaller and not lasting as long. They blame Sunday parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LeVell McClain said congregants don’t stay around to socialize because they have to start feeding the meters outside the church at noon. It costs $1 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Normally this room would be full,\" McClain said. \"But everybody [has] to leave because of the meters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClain, a retired Muni operator who has attended the church for 25 years, said, “The fact that the church is kind of like the backbone of the average community – I would think the city could kind of back off a little bit on making you pay to come to church.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">A lot of members are not coming because they are on fixed income and they don’t have the money to pay for parking.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency regulates the meters. Its spokesman, Paul Rose, said, \"In the 1940s when most of the businesses were closed on Sundays, Sundays may have been sacred. It’s not sacred at this point, as far as parking is concerned.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose said the Sunday meters should generate around $2 million annually, but contended that the change is not driven by money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a need for better parking management on Sundays,\" Rose said. \"There were very few parking spaces available. There was a lot of congestion, due to people circling or looking for parking throughout the city. They say that 33 percent of all congestion in San Francisco is due to circling or double parking or looking for that perfect parking space. And this will help with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a handful of other cities in the country enforce parking meters on Sundays, including Sausalito and Los Angeles. Just this week, Chicago backed away from enforcing parking meters in residential areas on Sundays following a public outcry. In announcing the return of free Sunday parking, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel quoted one resident who said, “You shouldn’t have to pay to go to church.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, businesses are split on the issue. A merchants' association in the Castro neighborhood says it’s bad for business. But the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce supports it, as does the San Francisco Council of District Merchants. The council’s president, Henry Karnilowicz, says it’s all about turnover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to be able to have turnover traffic, so we don’t have people coming over and they are parking for the whole day,\" Karnilowicz said. \"Going to some sort of event, some sort of party and all that. And in the meantime, people who want to come to their business don’t have nowhere to park because these folks are parked for the full day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sunday meters start ticking at noon. 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"content": "\u003cp>by Zusha Elinson, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/car-king-street-design-detriment-pedestrians-4441\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Jose Flores Miguel, 65, was killed in 2010 crossing a busy Concord boulevard, city officials took action: They scraped off the crosswalk where he took his last steps and installed a metal gate with a sign warning walkers not to cross there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that didn’t solve the problem. With the next crosswalk 460 feet away, people still cut across the five lanes of Clayton Road at Barbis Way, where Flores is remembered with a wooden cross decorated with rosaries and surrounded by yellow tulips. The draws are a bus stop and shopping center on the north side of the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This Center for Investigative Reporting video examines the prosecution of drivers who kill pedestrians:\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RJMKk6NmHM?rel=0]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores’ daughter, Maria Banjos, said the city should have improved the crosswalk, perhaps with signs or lights, instead of getting rid of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I was going to sue the city, it wouldn’t have been for money – it would have been for injustice and so that there wouldn’t be so many accidents like the one with my father,” Banjos said. “We have seen people crossing there so many times since then.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds-4420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why motorists rarely face prosecution for killing pedestrians\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/map-bay-area-fatal-pedestrian-crossings-4439\">A map of pedestrian deaths in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/how-we-analyzed-pedestrian-fatalities-4421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How the Center for Investigative Reporting analyzed pedestrian deaths\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The stretch of Clayton Road embodies many of the ways American street design can be hostile to pedestrians: wide roadways with fast-moving traffic and long stretches between crosswalks at traffic signals. Such thoroughfares are particularly dangerous for the elderly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In retirement, Flores, a punctual man, relied on public transit. He would cross the street nearly every day to catch the bus or pick up groceries – as he was doing the evening he was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each of the Bay Area’s five largest counties, the roads with the most pedestrian deaths were multilane thoroughfares where traffic reaches 35 mph or more, according to a Center for Investigative Reporting review of fatalities from 2007 through 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Route 82, the historic El Camino Real that runs from San Jose to San Francisco, was the most deadly in the Bay Area, claiming 18 lives in five years. San Jose’s Capitol Expressway saw six deaths. Five people died on Fremont’s Mowry Avenue, another suburban thoroughfare with long stretches between crosswalks. In San Francisco, Geary Boulevard, 19th Avenue and Mission Street were the most deadly streets. Three pedestrians died on Clayton Road, the most of any street in Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95775\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds/wooden-cross/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95775\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95775 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/wooden-cross.jpg\" alt=\"A wooden cross at the intersection of Clayton Road and Barbis Way in Concord memorializes the death of Jose Flores Miguel. (Adithya Sambamurthy/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"328\" height=\"219\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wooden cross at the intersection of Clayton Road and Barbis Way in Concord memorializes the death of Jose Flores Miguel. (Adithya Sambamurthy/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area also stands out from the rest of the country in pedestrians being killed in crosswalks. More than a third of the 434 who died during those five years were hit in legal crossing spots, CIR found – about three times the national average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a third of those deadly crosswalks are marked only with paint on the pavement, lacking any additional warning for drivers, such as a stoplight, stop sign or flashing lights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Streets sometimes favor cars in subtle ways. CIR found that some crosswalk signals where pedestrians were killed were not timed to federal standards – and therefore not giving people enough time to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic engineering for so many years was just not mindful of pedestrians; for so many years, it was just about moving cars,” said Michelle Ernst, lead author of “Dangerous by Design,” the national pedestrian fatality study by research and advocacy group Transportation for America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, the urban Bay Area is better designed for walkers than more suburban parts of the country where sidewalks are rare and crosswalks even rarer. But officials are reluctant to make improvements even after fatal crashes, CIR found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After repeated deaths in Atherton, Councilman Bill Widmer implored the California Department of Transportation to add flashing lights at some crosswalks on El Camino Real. He said a state official told him it could happen – in three to six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought he was joking,” Widmer said. “There is a mile-and-a-quarter stretch where there are no lights, so the vehicles speed up to make up some time. It’s residential there, so people are trying to get across – it’s a mess that needs to be fixed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans spokesman Robert Haus responded in an email that his agency is working with cities to improve pedestrian safety along El Camino Real: Signs will be installed and white triangles painted on the pavement to warn drivers of upcoming crosswalks. Some crossings also will get pedestrian-activated flashing lights, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to provide the safest facilities and are always looking for ways to improve them,” Haus wrote. “Every life lost is serious to Caltrans whether caused by an impaired, inattentive or inexperienced driver. Every road is only as safe as the drivers who use them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On city streets, local leaders have let crosswalks fade and failed to reset crosswalk signals to the slower federal standards. And by removing the crosswalk in Concord where Jose Flores Miguel died, along with another crosswalk 800 feet away with no traffic signal, the city might have made things worse on Clayton Road, some experts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city did add a new traffic light down the road at the same time, but the gap between lights is now nearly one-third of a mile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too often, the spacing of the walks with better controls are too far apart,” said Michael Moule, a transportation engineer with the San Francisco-based consulting firm Nelson\\Nygaard. “The question should not be to mark or not to mark, but the question should be, ‘How do we best help pedestrians to cross?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95776\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds/seniors-crossing-the-street/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95776\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/seniors-crossing-the-street.jpg\" alt=\"Seniors cross Alum Rock Avenue near the Eastside Neighborhood Center in San Jose.(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"328\" height=\"209\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seniors cross Alum Rock Avenue near the Eastside Neighborhood Center in San Jose.(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting) \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Kuzbari, Concord’s transportation manager, said the changes made the road safer for walkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s safer to direct pedestrians to cross at the signalized intersections,” Kuzbari said. “There’s many arterials where the distance could be more than half a mile between traffic signals. I think, to the contrary, this is a very walkable distance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six pedestrians were hit along that stretch from 2007 to the day Flores was killed, Feb. 15, 2010. Crash data since then is incomplete, but at least one more pedestrian has been hit there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Risk Rises With Speeds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speed kills. The odds of being killed by a car traveling 40 mph are more than five times greater than by a car going 30 mph, according to a 2010 study by the London Department for Transport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60 percent of pedestrian deaths in the United States between 2000 and 2009 took place on roads with a speed limit of 40 mph or more, according to “Dangerous by Design.” Meanwhile, 1 percent of the deaths in which the speed limit could be determined happened on roads with a 20 mph limit or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Concord, Marie Judy Jensen told police she was traveling about 40 mph on Clayton Road as she approached Barbis Way in the lane closest to the center around 6 p.m. The speed limit there is 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jensen, a retired bus driver, told police she saw a “shadow or blur” of a white jacket – but it was too late. The right side of her 2003 Buick slammed into Flores and sent him about 50 feet into the farthest lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banjos, Flores’ daughter, ran out of the family’s home a half-block away. She saw traffic stopped and her father on the ground, his shoes and groceries scattered in the street. Banjos rushed to Flores’ side and heard him take a last breath, full of blood, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact fractured Flores’ skull, sternum, ribs and tibia, the coroner found. It caused his brain to hemorrhage. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. The cause of death: “blunt force head and chest injury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speed limit on El Camino Real as it passes through Santa Clara also is 35 mph. Kim Chinh Wilson was in that zone, driving between 27 and 36 mph, when she hit Santosh Racherla, 22, as he crossed the thoroughfare Jan. 16, 2009, police later would conclude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Indian exchange student entered the third lane, witnesses said he “put out his right hand in an attempt to deflect” Wilson’s Chevrolet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racherla flipped into the air, his head hit the windshield, and he was carried on the hood for 51 feet before the car stopped and he rolled to the ground. Racherla suffered major head trauma and brain swelling. He was pronounced brain dead within an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans should find ways to lower the speed on El Camino Real, said Dan Burden, a former Florida Department of Transportation official who runs the Washington state-based nonprofit Walkable and Livable Communities Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that the biggest factor to look at is the dominant speed,” Burden said. “The higher speed, the more likely the fatality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haus, the Caltrans spokesman, said any speed limits under the maximum 65 mph for freeways and 55 mph for conventional highways must be supported with engineering and traffic surveys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Further, the American Automobile Association published a study that says an artificially-low speed limit can actually increase the accident rate,” Haus wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a 2011 AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety report on pedestrian fatalities also found that the risk of death increased markedly with speed, rising from 10 percent at 23 mph to 25 percent at 32 mph and up to 90 percent at 58 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Marking Crosswalks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The erased crosswalk in Concord illustrates the ongoing debate about the safety of crosswalks without traffic lights or signs to stop traffic. Some traffic planners say they pose more of a danger to pedestrians than no crosswalks, giving a false sense of security amid swift-moving traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study on the subject for the Federal Highway Administration found no difference between crash rates at marked and unmarked crosswalks on two-lane roads. But on streets with more than two lanes, the study found that a marked crosswalk “was associated with a higher pedestrian crash rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author of the federally funded study, Charles Zegeer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, wrote that simple improvements such as raised medians could “significantly lower pedestrian crash rates on multilane roads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flashing lights on the sides and middle – and embedded in the roadbed – are potential improvements missing from many crosswalks in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacking those, pedestrians sometimes take matters into their own hands. Millbrae resident Jean Escobar, who was hit in an El Camino Real crosswalk with her 13-year-old son last fall, has taken to carrying glow sticks to alert motorists during the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even at crossings with full traffic lights, pedestrians don’t always have enough time to cross the street. In 2009, the federal standard for crosswalk signals was changed from 4 feet per second to 3.5 feet per second to give people more time to cross. But compliance is uneven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morena Torres, 59, was killed in 2010 while crossing Tasman Drive at Calle Del Sol near a shopping center, a long walk across seven lanes and two light-rail tracks in Santa Clara. CIR found that the length of that crosswalk, 127 feet, would require more than 36 seconds to cross. But on a recent afternoon, the crosswalk signal allowed less than 32 seconds – the out-of-date rate of 4 feet per second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators concluded that the pedestrian was at fault for walking on a “don’t walk” signal, but it is unclear if the signal changed too quickly that day because authorities don’t make full collision reports available in cases in which no charges are filed or arrests are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Laigo, a Santa Clara traffic operations engineer, acknowledged that the timing there was not set at the new slower standard. He said the city is in the process of updating all its intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, 500 – or about half – of the city’s intersections have been updated, according to Paul Rose, spokesman for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. In San Jose, public works crews have retimed 600 of the 900, said Lily Lim-Tsao, a program manager for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inconvenient Bus Stops\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because cars are given priority in street design, bus stops can land in inconvenient locations – far from crosswalks or traffic lights. And, CIR’s analysis shows, transit-dependent senior citizens tend to suffer most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresita Malixi, 68, was on her way to catch a bus in San Jose when she was hit and killed by a Land Rover in 2008. The following year, Thalia Hsiung, 74, was walking to another San Jose bus stop when she was struck and killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roads in San Jose’s Alum Rock corridor are in poor condition. Many of the seniors who visit the Eastside Neighborhood Center on Alum Rock Avenue for meals and activities are immigrants who come on the bus. For years, the closest bus stop was midblock on the opposite side of the street, across four lanes of traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew what was going to happen,” said Milton Cadena, who runs the center for Catholic Charities. “That’s such a temptation. They just jaywalk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, a senior citizen who had come to the center for a meal was seriously injured while cutting across the street to the bus stop. The seniors protested, and the city moved the bus stop closer to an intersection with a stoplight and slowed the crosswalk signal to allow more time to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last May, Trinidad Cruz, 63, was killed nearby, on Jackson Avenue as it approaches Alum Rock Avenue. Cruz’s death reignited the outcry from seniors, who Cadena said now are pushing to lower area speed limits, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We say thank you for the change,” Cadena said, “and we say hopefully we will see other changes, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story was edited by Amy Pyle and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I was going to sue the city, it wouldn’t have been for money – it would have been for injustice and so that there wouldn’t be so many accidents like the one with my father,” Banjos said. “We have seen people crossing there so many times since then.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds-4420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why motorists rarely face prosecution for killing pedestrians\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/map-bay-area-fatal-pedestrian-crossings-4439\">A map of pedestrian deaths in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/how-we-analyzed-pedestrian-fatalities-4421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How the Center for Investigative Reporting analyzed pedestrian deaths\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The stretch of Clayton Road embodies many of the ways American street design can be hostile to pedestrians: wide roadways with fast-moving traffic and long stretches between crosswalks at traffic signals. Such thoroughfares are particularly dangerous for the elderly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In retirement, Flores, a punctual man, relied on public transit. He would cross the street nearly every day to catch the bus or pick up groceries – as he was doing the evening he was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each of the Bay Area’s five largest counties, the roads with the most pedestrian deaths were multilane thoroughfares where traffic reaches 35 mph or more, according to a Center for Investigative Reporting review of fatalities from 2007 through 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Route 82, the historic El Camino Real that runs from San Jose to San Francisco, was the most deadly in the Bay Area, claiming 18 lives in five years. San Jose’s Capitol Expressway saw six deaths. Five people died on Fremont’s Mowry Avenue, another suburban thoroughfare with long stretches between crosswalks. In San Francisco, Geary Boulevard, 19th Avenue and Mission Street were the most deadly streets. Three pedestrians died on Clayton Road, the most of any street in Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95775\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds/wooden-cross/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95775\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95775 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/wooden-cross.jpg\" alt=\"A wooden cross at the intersection of Clayton Road and Barbis Way in Concord memorializes the death of Jose Flores Miguel. (Adithya Sambamurthy/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"328\" height=\"219\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wooden cross at the intersection of Clayton Road and Barbis Way in Concord memorializes the death of Jose Flores Miguel. (Adithya Sambamurthy/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area also stands out from the rest of the country in pedestrians being killed in crosswalks. More than a third of the 434 who died during those five years were hit in legal crossing spots, CIR found – about three times the national average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a third of those deadly crosswalks are marked only with paint on the pavement, lacking any additional warning for drivers, such as a stoplight, stop sign or flashing lights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Streets sometimes favor cars in subtle ways. CIR found that some crosswalk signals where pedestrians were killed were not timed to federal standards – and therefore not giving people enough time to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic engineering for so many years was just not mindful of pedestrians; for so many years, it was just about moving cars,” said Michelle Ernst, lead author of “Dangerous by Design,” the national pedestrian fatality study by research and advocacy group Transportation for America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, the urban Bay Area is better designed for walkers than more suburban parts of the country where sidewalks are rare and crosswalks even rarer. But officials are reluctant to make improvements even after fatal crashes, CIR found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After repeated deaths in Atherton, Councilman Bill Widmer implored the California Department of Transportation to add flashing lights at some crosswalks on El Camino Real. He said a state official told him it could happen – in three to six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought he was joking,” Widmer said. “There is a mile-and-a-quarter stretch where there are no lights, so the vehicles speed up to make up some time. It’s residential there, so people are trying to get across – it’s a mess that needs to be fixed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans spokesman Robert Haus responded in an email that his agency is working with cities to improve pedestrian safety along El Camino Real: Signs will be installed and white triangles painted on the pavement to warn drivers of upcoming crosswalks. Some crossings also will get pedestrian-activated flashing lights, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to provide the safest facilities and are always looking for ways to improve them,” Haus wrote. “Every life lost is serious to Caltrans whether caused by an impaired, inattentive or inexperienced driver. Every road is only as safe as the drivers who use them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On city streets, local leaders have let crosswalks fade and failed to reset crosswalk signals to the slower federal standards. And by removing the crosswalk in Concord where Jose Flores Miguel died, along with another crosswalk 800 feet away with no traffic signal, the city might have made things worse on Clayton Road, some experts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city did add a new traffic light down the road at the same time, but the gap between lights is now nearly one-third of a mile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too often, the spacing of the walks with better controls are too far apart,” said Michael Moule, a transportation engineer with the San Francisco-based consulting firm Nelson\\Nygaard. “The question should not be to mark or not to mark, but the question should be, ‘How do we best help pedestrians to cross?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95776\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds/seniors-crossing-the-street/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95776\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/seniors-crossing-the-street.jpg\" alt=\"Seniors cross Alum Rock Avenue near the Eastside Neighborhood Center in San Jose.(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"328\" height=\"209\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seniors cross Alum Rock Avenue near the Eastside Neighborhood Center in San Jose.(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting) \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Kuzbari, Concord’s transportation manager, said the changes made the road safer for walkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s safer to direct pedestrians to cross at the signalized intersections,” Kuzbari said. “There’s many arterials where the distance could be more than half a mile between traffic signals. I think, to the contrary, this is a very walkable distance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six pedestrians were hit along that stretch from 2007 to the day Flores was killed, Feb. 15, 2010. Crash data since then is incomplete, but at least one more pedestrian has been hit there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Risk Rises With Speeds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speed kills. The odds of being killed by a car traveling 40 mph are more than five times greater than by a car going 30 mph, according to a 2010 study by the London Department for Transport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60 percent of pedestrian deaths in the United States between 2000 and 2009 took place on roads with a speed limit of 40 mph or more, according to “Dangerous by Design.” Meanwhile, 1 percent of the deaths in which the speed limit could be determined happened on roads with a 20 mph limit or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Concord, Marie Judy Jensen told police she was traveling about 40 mph on Clayton Road as she approached Barbis Way in the lane closest to the center around 6 p.m. The speed limit there is 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jensen, a retired bus driver, told police she saw a “shadow or blur” of a white jacket – but it was too late. The right side of her 2003 Buick slammed into Flores and sent him about 50 feet into the farthest lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banjos, Flores’ daughter, ran out of the family’s home a half-block away. She saw traffic stopped and her father on the ground, his shoes and groceries scattered in the street. Banjos rushed to Flores’ side and heard him take a last breath, full of blood, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact fractured Flores’ skull, sternum, ribs and tibia, the coroner found. It caused his brain to hemorrhage. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. The cause of death: “blunt force head and chest injury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speed limit on El Camino Real as it passes through Santa Clara also is 35 mph. Kim Chinh Wilson was in that zone, driving between 27 and 36 mph, when she hit Santosh Racherla, 22, as he crossed the thoroughfare Jan. 16, 2009, police later would conclude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Indian exchange student entered the third lane, witnesses said he “put out his right hand in an attempt to deflect” Wilson’s Chevrolet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racherla flipped into the air, his head hit the windshield, and he was carried on the hood for 51 feet before the car stopped and he rolled to the ground. Racherla suffered major head trauma and brain swelling. He was pronounced brain dead within an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans should find ways to lower the speed on El Camino Real, said Dan Burden, a former Florida Department of Transportation official who runs the Washington state-based nonprofit Walkable and Livable Communities Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that the biggest factor to look at is the dominant speed,” Burden said. “The higher speed, the more likely the fatality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haus, the Caltrans spokesman, said any speed limits under the maximum 65 mph for freeways and 55 mph for conventional highways must be supported with engineering and traffic surveys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Further, the American Automobile Association published a study that says an artificially-low speed limit can actually increase the accident rate,” Haus wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a 2011 AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety report on pedestrian fatalities also found that the risk of death increased markedly with speed, rising from 10 percent at 23 mph to 25 percent at 32 mph and up to 90 percent at 58 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Marking Crosswalks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The erased crosswalk in Concord illustrates the ongoing debate about the safety of crosswalks without traffic lights or signs to stop traffic. Some traffic planners say they pose more of a danger to pedestrians than no crosswalks, giving a false sense of security amid swift-moving traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study on the subject for the Federal Highway Administration found no difference between crash rates at marked and unmarked crosswalks on two-lane roads. But on streets with more than two lanes, the study found that a marked crosswalk “was associated with a higher pedestrian crash rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author of the federally funded study, Charles Zegeer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, wrote that simple improvements such as raised medians could “significantly lower pedestrian crash rates on multilane roads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flashing lights on the sides and middle – and embedded in the roadbed – are potential improvements missing from many crosswalks in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacking those, pedestrians sometimes take matters into their own hands. Millbrae resident Jean Escobar, who was hit in an El Camino Real crosswalk with her 13-year-old son last fall, has taken to carrying glow sticks to alert motorists during the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even at crossings with full traffic lights, pedestrians don’t always have enough time to cross the street. In 2009, the federal standard for crosswalk signals was changed from 4 feet per second to 3.5 feet per second to give people more time to cross. But compliance is uneven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morena Torres, 59, was killed in 2010 while crossing Tasman Drive at Calle Del Sol near a shopping center, a long walk across seven lanes and two light-rail tracks in Santa Clara. CIR found that the length of that crosswalk, 127 feet, would require more than 36 seconds to cross. But on a recent afternoon, the crosswalk signal allowed less than 32 seconds – the out-of-date rate of 4 feet per second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators concluded that the pedestrian was at fault for walking on a “don’t walk” signal, but it is unclear if the signal changed too quickly that day because authorities don’t make full collision reports available in cases in which no charges are filed or arrests are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Laigo, a Santa Clara traffic operations engineer, acknowledged that the timing there was not set at the new slower standard. He said the city is in the process of updating all its intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, 500 – or about half – of the city’s intersections have been updated, according to Paul Rose, spokesman for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. In San Jose, public works crews have retimed 600 of the 900, said Lily Lim-Tsao, a program manager for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inconvenient Bus Stops\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because cars are given priority in street design, bus stops can land in inconvenient locations – far from crosswalks or traffic lights. And, CIR’s analysis shows, transit-dependent senior citizens tend to suffer most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresita Malixi, 68, was on her way to catch a bus in San Jose when she was hit and killed by a Land Rover in 2008. The following year, Thalia Hsiung, 74, was walking to another San Jose bus stop when she was struck and killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roads in San Jose’s Alum Rock corridor are in poor condition. Many of the seniors who visit the Eastside Neighborhood Center on Alum Rock Avenue for meals and activities are immigrants who come on the bus. For years, the closest bus stop was midblock on the opposite side of the street, across four lanes of traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew what was going to happen,” said Milton Cadena, who runs the center for Catholic Charities. “That’s such a temptation. They just jaywalk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, a senior citizen who had come to the center for a meal was seriously injured while cutting across the street to the bus stop. The seniors protested, and the city moved the bus stop closer to an intersection with a stoplight and slowed the crosswalk signal to allow more time to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last May, Trinidad Cruz, 63, was killed nearby, on Jackson Avenue as it approaches Alum Rock Avenue. Cruz’s death reignited the outcry from seniors, who Cadena said now are pushing to lower area speed limits, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We say thank you for the change,” Cadena said, “and we say hopefully we will see other changes, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>SACRAMENTO (AP) — \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">The California Assembly passed a bill on Thursday that would make the state the first in the nation to allow non-citizens who are in the country legally to serve on jury duty.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, said his bill, \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/asm/ab_1401-1450/ab_1401_bill_20130312_introduced.htm\">AB1401\u003c/a>, would help California widen the pool of prospective jurors and help integrate immigrants into the community.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95402\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/jury-box.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-95402 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/jury-box-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Non-citizens could serve on California juries in the future. (Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">It does not change other criteria for being eligible to serve on a jury, such as being at least 18, living in the county that is making the summons, and being proficient in English.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">The bill passed 45-25 largely on a party-line vote in the Democratic-controlled Assembly and will move on to the Senate. One Democrat — Assemblyman Adam Gray, of Merced — voted no, while some other Democrats did not vote.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Democratic lawmakers who voted for the bill said there is no correlation between being a citizen and a juror, and they noted that there is no citizenship requirement to be an attorney or a judge. Republican lawmakers who opposed Wieckowski’s bill called it misguided and premature.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Assemblywoman Diane Harkey, R-Dana Point, said there is no shortage of jurors.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Jury selection is not the problem. The problem is trial court funding,” Harkey said before the vote. “I hope we can focus on that. Let’s not break something; it’s not broken now. Let’s not whittle away at what is reserved for U.S. citizens. There’s a reason for it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Wieckowski’s office said the bill is the first of its kind in the nation and suggested that courts regularly struggle to find enough prospective jurors because jury duty is often seen as an inconvenience, if not a burden. His office did not cite any statistics but pointed to a 2003 legislative report that said numerous articles have noted high rates of non-participation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">A 2007 survey by the Center for Jury Studies said 20 percent of courts across the country reported a failure to respond or failure to appear rate of 15 percent or higher. The center is run by the National Center for State Courts, a Virginia-based nonprofit dedicated to improving court systems.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">It’s not clear, however, if that rate translates to a shortage of jurors in California.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Noting that women were once kept off juries, Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, said the judicial system should be changed to allow a person to be judged by their peers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“This isn’t about affording someone who would come in as a juror something,” Perez said. “But rather understanding that the importance of the jury selection process of affording justice to the person in that courtroom.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">An estimated 10 million Californians are summoned for jury duty each year and about 4 million are eligible and available to serve, according to the Judicial Council, which administers the state’s court system. About 3.2 million complete the service, meaning they waited in a courthouse assembly room or were placed on call.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">In 2010-2011, the most recent year available, only about 165,000 people were sworn in as jurors.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">The judicial branch has not taken a position on AB 1401.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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But officials’ financial information — such as their outside business interests, stock holdings and the gifts they’re receiving — is buried in hard-to-find documents called Form 700s. If a voter is trying to see if one company gave gifts to several politicians, or if several officials hold stock in the same company, he or she needs to go through form after form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to the accompanying California Report story \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201304250850/b\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most voters don’t have the time to be able to do that,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.fppc.ca.gov/\">Fair Political Practices Commission \u003c/a>Chair Ann Ravel told KQED. “If data is available but it’s not easy to access, then it’s not of benefit to people, and it’s hard for them to get the information they need to make thoughtful decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An innovative project sponsored by the FPPC and \u003ca href=\"http://codeforamerica.org/\">Code For America\u003c/a> offers a window into what a more accessible system would look like. Competing in a “hackathon” sponsored by the two organizations last fall, a team of coders built an app visualizing which donors gave money to California judges in 2011. Instead of rifling through hundreds of PDF documents, voters could instead look at a graphic of interconnected donors and public officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Financial Forms Locked In PDF Format\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hackers were able to manipulate the financial data into a visual graphic because the FPPC had paid a company called Captricity to convert and digitize a year’s worth of financial information on California’s judges. The goal was to use the data as a test case to show what a more accessible disclosure system could look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company transformed all the PDF files into a large downloadable spreadsheet listing every judge’s financial information. That straightforward step matters, explained Cathryn Posey, because “if [data] on a PDF, if it’s on paper, it’s much harder for people to see it or get access to it. If I can digitize it, if I can get it into a spreadsheet, then I can get it online, and suddenly lots of people can come and view it. It can also make it sortable. I can start to look at relationships.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Posey is a member of a \u003ca href=\"http://openjudge.herokuapp.com/home/team#.UXhzvLWG2So\">six-person team, OpenJudge, that won last year’s hackathon\u003c/a>, where the FPPC and Code For America invited tech-savvy people to spend a weekend working with information to see what kind of apps they could come up with. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Red Dots And Blue Dots\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95272\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-95272\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/openjudgepic-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Renee DiResta (l), Cathryn Posey (c) and Kaming Li (r) of the OpenJudge hackathon team. (Scott Detrow/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renee DiResta (l), Cathryn Posey (c) and Kaming Li (r) of the OpenJudge hackathon team. (Scott Detrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sitting in a meeting room at Code For America’s San Francisco headquarters, Posey and two other members of her hackathon team showed me the app they created. \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>“When they say a picture tells a thousand words, [that’s true] especially when we’re dealing with data. Large sets of data, people kind of go blind,” Posey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, focusing on the gifts information, the team of hackers made a big interactive picture, visualizing what California judges were receiving from which donors. Renee DiResta walked me through the visualization, \u003ca href=\"http://openjudge.herokuapp.com/home/visualization#.UXgoULWG2Sp\">which you can view here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Red dots are judges, and blue dots are donors,” she said. \u003cstrong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>“In the case where there’s a red dot in the middle with a lot of blue dots pointing to it, that’s a situation where one judge received a lot of gifts from many different donors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some judges and donors create a spider web of connections to each other. A user can hold a mouse over a dot and see the name of the judge or the donor. 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It looked a lot like Las Vegas’ Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital was trying to get rid of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bee’s Phillip Reese sat down with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201304240850/b\">California Report\u003c/a> and explained where things went from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He did not know anyone here. He did not have any plan for medical care set up,” Reese said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“He did not know anyone here. He did not have any plan for medical care set up.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Brown eventually found a new home in North Carolina with his daughter, but in the meantime the Nevada legislature became interested in the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those hearings, they mentioned that they had sent around 100 people to California, just in the last seven or eight months,” Reese said. “And potentially many more to other states. So we had a feeling that this was not an isolated incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the Bee began reviewing five years’ worth of Greyhound bus receipts that Nevada’s \u003ca href=\"http://mhds.state.nv.us/\">mental health division\u003c/a> had purchased. The reporters put together an interactive \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">map\u003c/a> showing where patients ended up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Visit the Sacramento Bee for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">interactive version\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/24/the-hunt-is-on-for-1500-psychiatric-patients-a-nev/patientbusingmap-sacbee/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95201\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-95201\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/PatientBusingMap-SacBee-1024x785.png\" alt=\"PatientBusingMap-SacBee\" width=\"640\" height=\"490\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">Via the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>. Source: Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services; data for-mid 2008 to early 2013; Analysis by Phillip Reese. Interactive by Nathaniel Levine.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials at the main hospital in question, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital, said a lot of people come to Nevada from somewhere else. They said the Brown case was an anomaly and that in all other cases there was a close family member or friend waiting at the destination to receive the patient who gets put on a bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To confirm that assertion, the Bee called at least 10 mental health agencies in counties all over California. Most were completely surprised at Nevada officials’ assertions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco told us that they’ve had at least two patients in the last year alone come from this particular facility, Rawson-Neal, without a plan or family members,” Reese said. “[They] just showed up, in the way that Mr. Brown did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Bee’s review of bus records, 36 patients took buses to San Francisco. Without talking to those people, it’s hard to know what happened once they got to the city. They might have sought help. They might not have. They might be in San Francisco now. They might be elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese said he and his colleagues are trying to track down patients, as well as Rawson-Neal employees and former employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hampered a bit, and rightfully so, by patient privacy laws,” Reese said. “The Greyhound bus receipts had the names blacked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevada regulators told the Bee they reviewed protocols and instituted new rules that include requiring high-level approval of a Greyhound trip and a clear plan in place at the other end of the line for the patient. They also said they have taken disciplinary action related to Brown’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cross-state busing of patients might not be considered a best practice in mental health care, but is it illegal? Reese said California’s Justice Department isn’t sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles, though, has laws on the books explicitly prohibiting patient “dumping” of any kind, because it’s something its own local hospitals did in the past. The San Francisco city attorney’s office is checking local codes that might provide grounds for a civil action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-third of patients bused out of Nevada were shipped to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese points to “severe” budget cuts in Nevada. The bus trips began to spike in 2009, around the same time a recent round of budget cuts took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, he said, “They never had an elaborate safety net for mentally ill patients to begin with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UPDATE [4/26/13]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) _ The federal agency that oversees Medicaid and Medicare compliance has put Nevada on notice of “serious deficiencies” at a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital following reports of patients being improperly discharged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An April 25 letter from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, first reported by The Sacramento Bee and obtain Friday by The Associated Press, gave Nevada 10 days to correct problems in its mental health discharge policies at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital or risk loss of federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s too soon to say whether the story of James Flavy Coy Brown is an anomaly, as Nevada regulators claim, or if budget-stressed mental health service professionals are “dumping” disoriented, mentally ill people on the rest of the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If one thing is certain, it’s that a lot of people are now actively engaged in answering that question. Among them: at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/leavinglasvegas/\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>, city attorney’s offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.jointcommission.org/accreditation/hospitals.aspx\">commission\u003c/a> that certifies hospitals in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s return to the beginning, to the story of a man who showed up at a Greyhound bus station in Sacramento on \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/07/5322199/cast-out-by-nevada-he-finds-kindness.html\">Feb. 12\u003c/a>. Brown suffers from \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=schizophrenia+definition&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a\">schizophrenia\u003c/a>, which among other things makes it difficult for a person to think clearly. Fortunately for him, Brown was thinking clearly enough that morning to head toward a local police station and ask for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story made it to the Sacramento Bee through \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacloaves.org/\">Loaves & Fishes\u003c/a>, a local provider of services to the homeless. The compelling nature of Brown’s adventure raised questions that went well beyond how one man got put on a bus to a city where he’d never been.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had no friends or family there. He had only a few days’ worth of medication and a few bottles of Ensure. He had no plan for continuing medical treatment. It looked a lot like Las Vegas’ Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital was trying to get rid of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bee’s Phillip Reese sat down with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201304240850/b\">California Report\u003c/a> and explained where things went from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He did not know anyone here. He did not have any plan for medical care set up,” Reese said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“He did not know anyone here. He did not have any plan for medical care set up.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Brown eventually found a new home in North Carolina with his daughter, but in the meantime the Nevada legislature became interested in the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those hearings, they mentioned that they had sent around 100 people to California, just in the last seven or eight months,” Reese said. “And potentially many more to other states. So we had a feeling that this was not an isolated incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the Bee began reviewing five years’ worth of Greyhound bus receipts that Nevada’s \u003ca href=\"http://mhds.state.nv.us/\">mental health division\u003c/a> had purchased. The reporters put together an interactive \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">map\u003c/a> showing where patients ended up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Visit the Sacramento Bee for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">interactive version\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/24/the-hunt-is-on-for-1500-psychiatric-patients-a-nev/patientbusingmap-sacbee/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95201\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-95201\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/PatientBusingMap-SacBee-1024x785.png\" alt=\"PatientBusingMap-SacBee\" width=\"640\" height=\"490\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">Via the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>. Source: Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services; data for-mid 2008 to early 2013; Analysis by Phillip Reese. Interactive by Nathaniel Levine.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials at the main hospital in question, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital, said a lot of people come to Nevada from somewhere else. They said the Brown case was an anomaly and that in all other cases there was a close family member or friend waiting at the destination to receive the patient who gets put on a bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To confirm that assertion, the Bee called at least 10 mental health agencies in counties all over California. Most were completely surprised at Nevada officials’ assertions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco told us that they’ve had at least two patients in the last year alone come from this particular facility, Rawson-Neal, without a plan or family members,” Reese said. “[They] just showed up, in the way that Mr. Brown did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Bee’s review of bus records, 36 patients took buses to San Francisco. Without talking to those people, it’s hard to know what happened once they got to the city. They might have sought help. They might not have. They might be in San Francisco now. They might be elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese said he and his colleagues are trying to track down patients, as well as Rawson-Neal employees and former employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hampered a bit, and rightfully so, by patient privacy laws,” Reese said. “The Greyhound bus receipts had the names blacked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevada regulators told the Bee they reviewed protocols and instituted new rules that include requiring high-level approval of a Greyhound trip and a clear plan in place at the other end of the line for the patient. They also said they have taken disciplinary action related to Brown’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cross-state busing of patients might not be considered a best practice in mental health care, but is it illegal? Reese said California’s Justice Department isn’t sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles, though, has laws on the books explicitly prohibiting patient “dumping” of any kind, because it’s something its own local hospitals did in the past. The San Francisco city attorney’s office is checking local codes that might provide grounds for a civil action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-third of patients bused out of Nevada were shipped to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese points to “severe” budget cuts in Nevada. The bus trips began to spike in 2009, around the same time a recent round of budget cuts took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, he said, “They never had an elaborate safety net for mentally ill patients to begin with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UPDATE [4/26/13]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CARSON CITY, Nev. 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"content": "\u003cp>A bipartisan group of lawmakers known as the “Gang of Eight” formally filed an 844-page immigration bill on the U.S. Senate floor Wednesday. California has a lot at stake in the outcome — and not just because it’s home to many of the estimated 11 million people living in the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94614\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/schumermccain20130417.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-94614\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/schumermccain20130417-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Chuck Schumer, D-NY, speaks to reporters as Senator John McCain (L), R-AZ, looks on after a meeting with US President Barack Obama to brief him on the draft of a bipartisan immigration reform bill outside of the West Wing of the White House on April 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters as Sen. John McCain (L), R-Ariz., looks on after a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama to brief him on the draft of a bipartisan immigration reform bill. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bill contains several major components, including a 13-year pathway to citizenship, new visa programs for low-skilled and high-skilled workers, tweaks to family-based visas and a greater emphasis on employment and education skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The eight senators should be commended for trying to hammer out some concrete proposals dealing with these very complex issues, and there’s room for discussion and debate, criticism and dialogue,” UC Davis law professor and immigration expert Kevin Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill has potentially big impacts on California agriculture. Growers and farmworker advocates are applauding provisions that would provide farmworkers already in U.S. fields with an expedited path to citizenship, compared with the traditional green card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arturo Rodriguez, president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/\">United Farm Workers\u003c/a>, said the entire state would benefit, should farmworkers feel free to come out of the shadows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they have security, that means they are also going to invest even more so in the state by buying homes and buying cars and becoming a regular part of California’s economy and its future,” Rodriguez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal also calls for sophisticated border surveillance systems, including drones, fences and thousands of new agents patrolling the border with Mexico. That may have visceral appeal to some Americans, but a number of experts argue a quasi-military approach to border security can’t deliver on its promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University of San Diego political science professor David Shirk is one of those critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A very significant percentage of undocumented immigrants never cross the border, because they never see the border, because they come here in an airplane or they come by other legal means and then they overstay their visas,” Shirk said. “You’re not going to solve that aspect of the problem by improving border security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirk said the system the United States has in place now has as much to do with employers hungry for cheap labor as it does with immigrants looking for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Silicon Valley Gives a ‘Conditional Thumbs Up’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Silicon Valley leaders are encouraged by the Senate’s framework for immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Lam, with the \u003ca href=\"http://svlg.org/\">Silicon Valley Leadership Group\u003c/a>, gave the bill a conditional thumbs-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The green cards, the entrepreneur visa and, of course, lifting of the H1B cap — all those things are really good. So, it addresses all the major concerns. We want to see details, so that’s of course my only hesitation,” Lam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>More on immigration in California\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/22/tech-companies-push-to-expand-skilled-worker-visas-rankles-critics/\">Tech Companies’ Push to Expand Skilled Worker Visas Rankles Critics\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/21/is-silicon-valley-losing-its-foreign-talent/\">Why Silicon Valley Is Losing Foreign-Born Talent\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/05/on-immigration-high-tech-and-ag-dont-meet-literally/\">On Immigration, High Tech and Ag Don’t Meet, Literally\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/immigration-reform-would-look-different-for-africans-and-afro-caribbeans/\">Immigration Reform Would Look Different for Africans and Afro-Caribbeans\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dan Turrentine is vice president of government relations and business development at \u003ca href=\"http://www.technet.org/\">TechNet\u003c/a>, a trade group that includes Google, Facebook, Apple and Yahoo. Turrentine said the Senate proposal should increase the total number of green cards going to high-tech workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Overall it’s a thumbs up,” Turrentine said. “But there are things that we want to see improved. Ultimately the system has to be workable for our companies. Otherwise increases in certain numbers are meaningless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate framework lifts the cap on H1B visas for foreign tech workers and creates more green cards for engineers and scientists who get graduate degrees here. It’s unclear whether giving visas to one group will mean taking them from another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The framework also includes the first-ever visa for start-up entrepreneurs. But Craig Montuori of Politihacks worries Congress will add requirements like a master’s degree, which would be contrary to the intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell — these were all college dropouts,” Montuori said. “And there’s not a strong correlation between advanced degrees and entrepreneurial success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivek Wadhwa, a legal fellow at Stanford, worries the Senate’s comprehensive reform proposes so many things, it won’t win enough votes to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tech industry can’t look at this and start celebrating saying, ‘Hey we got what we wanted.’ There’s nothing clear cut in it,” Wadhwa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Silicon Valley lobbyists have signed on to comprehensive reform, but they agree it’s a fragile framework that could unravel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Early Opposition to the Bill\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people are already lining up to oppose the bill before all the details are hashed out in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raymond Herrera is the founder of the group \u003ca href=\"http://californiascrusader.com/\">We the People\u003c/a>. He opposes any legislation that would include a path to citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The American people do not stand with Obama, McCain, the Gang of Eight, either the Senate nor the House,” Herrera said. “These people are actually working to subvert our government, our way of life, our culture and we will resurrect the American democracy in the favor of the American people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/immigration-bill-filed-in-senate-opponents-hope-to-use-delays-to-kill-it/2013/04/17/2254c9a6-a74c-11e2-8302-3c7e0ea97057_story.html?hpid=z2\">Washington Post\u003c/a>, opponents of the proposal on Capitol Hill are “coalescing around a strategy to kill the bill by delaying the legislative process as long as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would provide the time and the opportunity to lard the bill with “poison pill” amendments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how the immigration proposal of 2007 sank before it came to the floor for a vote, under the weight of unpopular amendments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Barack Obama is urging fast passage this time around. Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York says the hope is to have the Judiciary Committee open the bill for amendments in early May and get it to the Senate floor by early June.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A bipartisan group of lawmakers known as the “Gang of Eight” formally filed an 844-page immigration bill on the U.S. Senate floor Wednesday. California has a lot at stake in the outcome — and not just because it’s home to many of the estimated 11 million people living in the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94614\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/schumermccain20130417.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-94614\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/schumermccain20130417-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Chuck Schumer, D-NY, speaks to reporters as Senator John McCain (L), R-AZ, looks on after a meeting with US President Barack Obama to brief him on the draft of a bipartisan immigration reform bill outside of the West Wing of the White House on April 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters as Sen. John McCain (L), R-Ariz., looks on after a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama to brief him on the draft of a bipartisan immigration reform bill. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bill contains several major components, including a 13-year pathway to citizenship, new visa programs for low-skilled and high-skilled workers, tweaks to family-based visas and a greater emphasis on employment and education skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The eight senators should be commended for trying to hammer out some concrete proposals dealing with these very complex issues, and there’s room for discussion and debate, criticism and dialogue,” UC Davis law professor and immigration expert Kevin Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill has potentially big impacts on California agriculture. Growers and farmworker advocates are applauding provisions that would provide farmworkers already in U.S. fields with an expedited path to citizenship, compared with the traditional green card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arturo Rodriguez, president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/\">United Farm Workers\u003c/a>, said the entire state would benefit, should farmworkers feel free to come out of the shadows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they have security, that means they are also going to invest even more so in the state by buying homes and buying cars and becoming a regular part of California’s economy and its future,” Rodriguez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal also calls for sophisticated border surveillance systems, including drones, fences and thousands of new agents patrolling the border with Mexico. That may have visceral appeal to some Americans, but a number of experts argue a quasi-military approach to border security can’t deliver on its promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University of San Diego political science professor David Shirk is one of those critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A very significant percentage of undocumented immigrants never cross the border, because they never see the border, because they come here in an airplane or they come by other legal means and then they overstay their visas,” Shirk said. “You’re not going to solve that aspect of the problem by improving border security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirk said the system the United States has in place now has as much to do with employers hungry for cheap labor as it does with immigrants looking for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Silicon Valley Gives a ‘Conditional Thumbs Up’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Silicon Valley leaders are encouraged by the Senate’s framework for immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Lam, with the \u003ca href=\"http://svlg.org/\">Silicon Valley Leadership Group\u003c/a>, gave the bill a conditional thumbs-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The green cards, the entrepreneur visa and, of course, lifting of the H1B cap — all those things are really good. So, it addresses all the major concerns. We want to see details, so that’s of course my only hesitation,” Lam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>More on immigration in California\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/22/tech-companies-push-to-expand-skilled-worker-visas-rankles-critics/\">Tech Companies’ Push to Expand Skilled Worker Visas Rankles Critics\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/21/is-silicon-valley-losing-its-foreign-talent/\">Why Silicon Valley Is Losing Foreign-Born Talent\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/05/on-immigration-high-tech-and-ag-dont-meet-literally/\">On Immigration, High Tech and Ag Don’t Meet, Literally\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/immigration-reform-would-look-different-for-africans-and-afro-caribbeans/\">Immigration Reform Would Look Different for Africans and Afro-Caribbeans\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dan Turrentine is vice president of government relations and business development at \u003ca href=\"http://www.technet.org/\">TechNet\u003c/a>, a trade group that includes Google, Facebook, Apple and Yahoo. Turrentine said the Senate proposal should increase the total number of green cards going to high-tech workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Overall it’s a thumbs up,” Turrentine said. “But there are things that we want to see improved. Ultimately the system has to be workable for our companies. Otherwise increases in certain numbers are meaningless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate framework lifts the cap on H1B visas for foreign tech workers and creates more green cards for engineers and scientists who get graduate degrees here. It’s unclear whether giving visas to one group will mean taking them from another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The framework also includes the first-ever visa for start-up entrepreneurs. 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He opposes any legislation that would include a path to citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The American people do not stand with Obama, McCain, the Gang of Eight, either the Senate nor the House,” Herrera said. “These people are actually working to subvert our government, our way of life, our culture and we will resurrect the American democracy in the favor of the American people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/immigration-bill-filed-in-senate-opponents-hope-to-use-delays-to-kill-it/2013/04/17/2254c9a6-a74c-11e2-8302-3c7e0ea97057_story.html?hpid=z2\">Washington Post\u003c/a>, opponents of the proposal on Capitol Hill are “coalescing around a strategy to kill the bill by delaying the legislative process as long as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would provide the time and the opportunity to lard the bill with “poison pill” amendments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how the immigration proposal of 2007 sank before it came to the floor for a vote, under the weight of unpopular amendments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Barack Obama is urging fast passage this time around. 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"content": "\u003cp>The attack at the Boston Marathon might have you pondering an unsettling question: What if I had been there? What would I have done? Would I know what to do? And if I have no idea what to do, how would I even learn -- other than becoming a paramedic?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94568\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/17/learning-how-to-respond-to-a-boston-style-emergency/san-francisco-holds-drill-to-prepare-for-terror-attack-on-golden-gate-bridge/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94568\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-94568\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/3462061-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Crews from the San Francisco Fire and Police Departments, the National Park Service, U.S. Coast Guard, California Highway Patrol, Presidio Fire Department, and San Mateo Harbor Patrol take part in an aquatic multicasualty exercise on San Francisco Bay. (David Paul Morris/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crews from the San Francisco Fire and Police Departments, the National Park Service, U.S. Coast Guard, California Highway Patrol, Presidio Fire Department, and San Mateo Harbor Patrol take part in an aquatic multicasualty exercise on San Francisco Bay. (David Paul Morris/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the Bay Area and the nation, everyday people know what to do when disaster strikes. They learned through hands-on training from police and firefighters. On Saturday, April 20, San Francisco's Neighborhood Emergency Response Team, or NERT, will hold its citywide disaster drill. Participants learn skills such as risk awareness, preparing disaster supplies, dealing with utilities and pre-planning before disaster strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Fire Lt. Erica Arteseros coordinates the city's NERT program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JOSHUA JOHNSON, HOST:\u003c/strong> Suppose the attack had happened at the Bay to Breakers race rather than the Boston Marathon. What would a NERT volunteer know or do that would make a difference in that situation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ERICA ARTESEROS:\u003c/strong> The skills that we teach are all hazards. While we would activate volunteers for a disaster that has been declared, if they find themselves in a situation like a car accident or a bombing, they have skills in how to save lives by stopping bleeding. By responding immediately with calm in the neighborhood or the area where things are going on. Also, how to clear an area and provide an evacuation zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/nert_130417.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to the story.\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/nert_130417.mp3]\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>JOHNSON:\u003c/strong> Describe the citywide drill? What kinds of things will be going on this Saturday?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ARTESEROS:\u003c/strong> The citywide drill will be filled with people who have been through 20 hours of basic training through our Fire Department in preparedness and response. They will be setting up their neighborhood staging area and setting up that command center for the neighborhood of trained volunteers. From that command post and the mock neighborhood that we set up in the schoolyard, they will have volunteers who go out and perform rescue for our mock-damaged buildings -- areas such as parts of the school where many victims have been found, areas where people may have been trapped. We establish this faux-disaster city at Everett Middle School and the volunteers work in the command center, as well as going out into the field in teams to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JOHNSON:\u003c/strong> This drill is only for current NERT members, not for newcomers, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ARTESEROS:\u003c/strong> Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JOHNSON:\u003c/strong> What kinds of people does NERT training attract? Does it appeal to certain segments of the population more than others?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ARTESEROS:\u003c/strong> It’s really across the board. We have a mother of three who is actively involved and started when she was pregnant with her first because her co-worker told her, “You need to do this for your children.” We have people from the public defender’s office. We have students from City College who are interested in becoming firefighters. We really do have a broad cross section. That’s important because your neighborhood has a broad cross section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JOHNSON:\u003c/strong> NERT is often called CERT in many communities: Community Emergency Response Training. How does NERT or CERT training work? What is it like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ARTESEROS:\u003c/strong> We start out by giving people that “personal preparedness.” If you are going to respond in a disaster that is broad-based, you need to have personally prepared so you take care of yourself and your family first. We spend quite a bit of time on that. Then we talk about response skills that people have that are lifesaving. 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Staying involved and really building that community in their neighborhood because it is who you know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JOHNSON:\u003c/strong> Give me a few basic, all-purpose disaster response tips that everyone should have -- whether it’s for an earthquake or fire or terror attack or flood or anything like that. Some all-purpose tips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ARTESEROS:\u003c/strong> The No. 1 tip is to have a personal communication plan with your family. Have an out-of-state contact. 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