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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. So the churches that really feel the squeeze are those with afternoon services, such as St. Mark’s Institutional Baptist Church, located in the heart of the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In midafternoon, Deacon Theodore Bennett stood outside in the street waiting to welcome guests for the 3 p.m. service. The city lets the church’s members park in the middle of the street, but Bennett said there is not enough space for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of members are not coming because they are on fixed income and they don’t have the money to pay for parking,\" Bennett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this neighborhood, the meter costs $4.50 an hour. That’s $9 for two hours. 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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>\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\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/3RJMKk6NmHM?rel=0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/3RJMKk6NmHM?rel=0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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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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. 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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. 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"content": "\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>[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. 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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. 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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. 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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. 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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. 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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. 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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. How do you stop bleeding if you come across somebody who has been injured? How do you keep calm in an area? How do you rescue somebody underneath a heavy object that is in a safe area for you to perform the rescue? And, of course, rescuer safety is paramount in our training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JOHNSON:\u003c/strong> You do begin with personal preparedness? This is not about learning how to make yourself a martyr in an emergency situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ARTESEROS:\u003c/strong> Personal preparedness and safety are the No. 1 and 2 things we talk about in our training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JOHNSON:\u003c/strong> What would you say is the biggest revelation people take away from this training? 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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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. 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"content": "\u003cp>Jerry Brown once called reforming \u003ca href=\"http://www.dfg.ca.gov/habcon/ceqa/ceqapolicy.html\" target=\"_blank\">CEQA\u003c/a>, California's 43-year-old landmark environmental impact law, \"doing the Lord's work.\" Well, if that's the case, looks like we're in the day-of-rest period...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>From AP\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown said Tuesday it's unlikely that changes he's seeking to the state's environmental protection law can be accomplished this year, although a top Senate Democrat said he's still pursuing reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94404\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/ceqa.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-94404\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/ceqa.jpg\" alt=\"Construction takes place on a new housing development in San Francisco, Mar, 2012. (Justin Sullivan/Getty)\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction takes place on a new housing development in San Francisco, Mar, 2012. (Justin Sullivan/Getty)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown told California reporters traveling with him in China that interest in changing the California Environmental Quality Act is stronger among groups outside the state Capitol than among Democratic lawmakers, who control the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not something you get done in a year, but I believe before I depart this stage we will see reform in CEQA,\" he told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said the law has support from key Democratic Party constituencies and making changes would be difficult for the Legislature, The Sacramento Bee reported. During their convention last weekend, California Democrats adopted a resolution affirming their support for the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor called for streamlining the law in his State of the State address. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the 4-decade-old law is being used by unions, activist groups and rival developers to delay or stop projects they don't like, often at great legal expense to developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of revising the environmental act acknowledge criticism that the law has been misused. But they argued that the law's benefits outweigh the number of times it has been used for frivolous lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an unrelated news conference in Sacramento, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said he is continuing to push forward on changing the environmental law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not sure why the governor would say that,\" said Steinberg, D-Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg said he has introduced a bill, SB 731, \"and it is going to be a full and comprehensive effort to update the California Environmental Quality Act. And it is going to find that elusive middle ground between those who think the statute is perfect and doesn't need to be fixed, and those who think it needs to be dramatically revamped.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts in the state Senate to reform the law had been led by Sen. Michael Rubio, D-Bakersfield. Rubio, who was appointed chairman of the Senate Environmental Quality Committee, resigned in February to take a job with Chevron.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>There were about 2,000 California competitors at the Boston Marathon, with hundreds from the Bay Area. Many of them witnessed \u003ca href=\"http://www.wbur.org/2013/04/15/live-blog-multiple-explosions-at-boston-marathon-finish-line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monday’s explosions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94255\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/15/boston-marathon-blasts-bay-area-witnesses-share-their-stories/multiple-people-injured-after-explosions-near-finish-line-at-boston-marathon/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94255\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-94255\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/166666091-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A runner reacts near Kenmore Square after two bombs exploded during the 117th Boston Marathon. 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And even as I stand here with my finishing medal around my neck, it’s almost a tragedy to put it around my neck knowing other people were injured or killed during the event—it just takes something away from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim McNevin of San Diego\u003c/strong> a coach with PR Marathon training, had completed the course and was resting about two blocks away when the explosions happened:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody’s in shock. You know, I’ve done the Boston Marathon nine years in a row now, and at the end of the race we all get together and it’s a celebration, and no one’s celebrating … it’s awful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lucretia Ausse of Berkeley\u003c/strong> just crossed the finish line three minutes before the first explosion went off:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was at the third station getting my medal when the first explosion occurred, and we all gasped and turned and saw a huge plume of white smoke. And then, not too long after that, a second one occurred, and there was another huge plume of white smoke. And about that time, people started to get panicked. … The first explosion — this is really wild — the first explosion sounded like a water cannon. I thought, ‘Wow, why would they be doing water cannon now?’ You know, sometimes they do water cannons at the beginning of a race, but the first explosion sounded like a water cannon and it was really odd. Why would they do that now? … So, the race officials immediately had us moving away. People did get panicked. They were nervous, they were on their phones, they were trying to reach people, they really wanted to get their gear checked quickly. So, we didn’t know what was going on. All we knew was we were told to move away from the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really disturbing, I came to do the Boston Marathon, and the marathon went swimmingly. It was a fabulous marathon. It’s really well organized. And there’s so many spectators and such incredible crowd support that it’s a joy to be out on the race course and then to have this happen — it chilled my heart. Because the first thing that I thought of was: There are so many spectators down there, not just runners, but so many spectators lining the streets that if an explosion occurred near the spectators, it’s going to be serious. And, as we’re speaking, the sirens still haven’t stopped.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Phillip Kent\u003c/strong> was one of about 20 people running with the L.A. Leggers. He was 20 yards from the finish line during the first explosion:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was coming up on the finishing line, about 20 yards from the finishing line, the explosion was right there to the left. I was 20 yards away. I felt the concussion on my lungs and my ears. I looked up and saw parts of the building, major chunks of cement, just pouring down on the sidewalk on top of people. It was very devastating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then ten seconds later another explosion went off just behind me about 20 yards about the same level. At that point chaos broke out. Spectators were pouring out onto the race course trying to get away from the buildings and other explosions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Beth Goldstein of San Francisco\u003c/strong> was retrieving her belongings a few blocks from the finish line when she heard two explosions and then…nothing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was pretty much dead silence after that. I mean everyone, no one spoke and the sirens didn’t start for probably about three to five minutes but it felt longer. But it was just this eerie dead silence. And then some people started to cry, I don’t know if there were just — had just run a marathon or were frazzled already, but there was definitely a dread feeling that some people immediately had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dino Piacentini of San Francisco\u003c/strong> heard the explosions, but did not know what had happened until friends and family began contacting him: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You think about what should be this really euphoric, thrilling moment and when something like this happens…there are people who didn’t get to finish, and that’s fine. But can you imagine being held and saying ‘oh we’re stopping the race’, and knowing that your family is waiting for you at this square to cheer you on and that something may have happened to them? I couldn’t even imagine and it’s just devastating, it’s horrible…I want [to] come back. I feel like I’ve got to come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvin Wong of Cupertino\u003c/strong> attends Boston University. 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Once we got about a mile out of that area … by the time we ran and got about a mile outside the perimeter, the area, people were still running and cheering, as if, you know, they were still going. There were still people running along the marathon, on the street, and a lot of people were still cheering on their friends and family. It seems like there was nothing really going on out there. And then you can see people who know about it, and people who don’t know about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jonathan Zingman of Oakland\u003c/strong> heard the explosion after he finished the race. But then he had to find his wife, daughter and father who were closer to the blasts:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just everybody’s absolutely in shock. We were watching the local news and they repeated over and over it is a huge party; the city shuts down. Twenty-seven thousand runners ran today. Everybody is out there to have a good time, and everybody was in shock. We were in the common room in the dorm and all the kids were just in shock seeing this kind of thing…You just can’t imagine that someone would want to ruin this great event. And its just so sad that it’s going to have spoiled it and destroyed it and I think the other marathons becausee nobody is going to want to risk it again, but who knows what they’re going to do about it. 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And about that time, people started to get panicked. … The first explosion — this is really wild — the first explosion sounded like a water cannon. I thought, ‘Wow, why would they be doing water cannon now?’ You know, sometimes they do water cannons at the beginning of a race, but the first explosion sounded like a water cannon and it was really odd. Why would they do that now? … So, the race officials immediately had us moving away. People did get panicked. They were nervous, they were on their phones, they were trying to reach people, they really wanted to get their gear checked quickly. So, we didn’t know what was going on. All we knew was we were told to move away from the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really disturbing, I came to do the Boston Marathon, and the marathon went swimmingly. It was a fabulous marathon. It’s really well organized. And there’s so many spectators and such incredible crowd support that it’s a joy to be out on the race course and then to have this happen — it chilled my heart. Because the first thing that I thought of was: There are so many spectators down there, not just runners, but so many spectators lining the streets that if an explosion occurred near the spectators, it’s going to be serious. And, as we’re speaking, the sirens still haven’t stopped.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Phillip Kent\u003c/strong> was one of about 20 people running with the L.A. Leggers. He was 20 yards from the finish line during the first explosion:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was coming up on the finishing line, about 20 yards from the finishing line, the explosion was right there to the left. I was 20 yards away. I felt the concussion on my lungs and my ears. I looked up and saw parts of the building, major chunks of cement, just pouring down on the sidewalk on top of people. It was very devastating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then ten seconds later another explosion went off just behind me about 20 yards about the same level. At that point chaos broke out. Spectators were pouring out onto the race course trying to get away from the buildings and other explosions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Beth Goldstein of San Francisco\u003c/strong> was retrieving her belongings a few blocks from the finish line when she heard two explosions and then…nothing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was pretty much dead silence after that. I mean everyone, no one spoke and the sirens didn’t start for probably about three to five minutes but it felt longer. But it was just this eerie dead silence. And then some people started to cry, I don’t know if there were just — had just run a marathon or were frazzled already, but there was definitely a dread feeling that some people immediately had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dino Piacentini of San Francisco\u003c/strong> heard the explosions, but did not know what had happened until friends and family began contacting him: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You think about what should be this really euphoric, thrilling moment and when something like this happens…there are people who didn’t get to finish, and that’s fine. But can you imagine being held and saying ‘oh we’re stopping the race’, and knowing that your family is waiting for you at this square to cheer you on and that something may have happened to them? I couldn’t even imagine and it’s just devastating, it’s horrible…I want [to] come back. I feel like I’ve got to come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvin Wong of Cupertino\u003c/strong> attends Boston University. 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Once we got about a mile out of that area … by the time we ran and got about a mile outside the perimeter, the area, people were still running and cheering, as if, you know, they were still going. There were still people running along the marathon, on the street, and a lot of people were still cheering on their friends and family. It seems like there was nothing really going on out there. And then you can see people who know about it, and people who don’t know about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jonathan Zingman of Oakland\u003c/strong> heard the explosion after he finished the race. But then he had to find his wife, daughter and father who were closer to the blasts:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just everybody’s absolutely in shock. We were watching the local news and they repeated over and over it is a huge party; the city shuts down. Twenty-seven thousand runners ran today. Everybody is out there to have a good time, and everybody was in shock. We were in the common room in the dorm and all the kids were just in shock seeing this kind of thing…You just can’t imagine that someone would want to ruin this great event. And its just so sad that it’s going to have spoiled it and destroyed it and I think the other marathons becausee nobody is going to want to risk it again, but who knows what they’re going to do about it. 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"content": "\u003cp>If last month’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201303040850/a\">gathering of California Republicans\u003c/a> had the feel of a postmortem, this weekend’s California Democratic convention seemed much more like a three-day end-zone dance. Speaker after speaker took to the podium to tout the party’s 2012 victories: supermajorities in both the Assembly and Senate, winning six House seats from Republicans, and the passage of Gov. 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In that sense, the weekend offered a preview of what a post-Brown gubernatorial primary might look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The convention was highlighted by passionate speeches from two Democrats with clear ambition for higher office: Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom began his speech by joking about the six-day old “Newsom Administration” (he’s serving as acting governor with Brown abroad). Then he launched into a call for issues like the legalization of marijuana and repeal of the death penalty. “It’s not a deterrent. It’s not fool-proof. It is racially biased,” he said of capital punishment. “It costs more. And there’s no way to reverse a mistake when you put a wrongly accused person to death.” \u003c!--more-->Newsom has clashed publicly with Brown, and at times he sounded more like an opposition candidate than a member of a governing administration. He burst the Democrats’ feel-good bubble by calling for action to address the state’s economic problems. “We not only have the highest homeless rate in America, but the highest poverty rate. Think about this: California has three of the top five impoverished metro areas in the entire nation: Fresno, Modesto and Bakersfield. … 1.8 million Californians actively seeking employment that cannot find work. Statewide unemployment rate of 9.6 percent. The nation’s highest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to Use a Supermajority\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom wasn’t the only speaker calling for Democrats to use their majority to push for legislation on big, liberal issues. Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer, who bankrolled last year’s successful \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/politics/election2012/statepropositions-guide.jsp#10\">Proposition 39 \u003c/a>campaign, wants Democrats to use their two-thirds majority to pass an oil-severance tax. The issue is timely, he said, because of an anticipated rush to exploit Central California’s Monterey shale formation. “There has been a shale oil find in the state of California that is the biggest in the United States. It’s 15 billion barrels. Now, I have no idea if that can be safely or profitably extracted. 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Bryan Ladlow with the Napa County Young Democrats said he felt the same way. “Of course progressive issues are important,” he said. “But I want to make sure we don’t go too far to the left and alienate the people in the middle who helped us get where we are right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone wants Democrats to keep the brakes on, of course. Barbara Wilson of Los Angeles County urged legislators to hike corporate and drilling taxes and to fund social programs. “Now that we have a two-thirds majority let’s get it done,” she said. “Let’s get that money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“The Waiting Is Over”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Newsom focused on state issues during his speech, Attorney General Kamala Harris talked about national topics. Addressing \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/26/audio-transcript-of-supreme-court-proposition-8-oral-arguments/\">the United States Supreme Court’s impending decision on same-sex marriage\u003c/a>, Harris said Proposition 8 supporters “want to tell the 50,000 California children of loving same-sex couples that their families don’t count as real families. The message to these families … if they want their fundamental rights, they’re going to have to wait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we know justice cannot be served cold,” Harris continued. “We know each day is not equal. Dr. King said it best: the word ‘wait’ rings with a piercing familiarity for those who have long been denied their fundamental rights. We know ‘wait’ is just a substitute for ‘never.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And sticking with a theme that “the waiting is over,” Harris made her way through a list of high-profile national issues. “We need to tell Congress this year—this month—it’s time. It’s time for comprehensive immigration reform. It’s time to stand with the people of Newtown for common-sense gun laws. 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