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He \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/sheriff-villanueva-subpoena-continues-to-defy\">downplayed the severity of the department’s deputy gang problem.\u003c/a> And he opened a criminal investigation into \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/villanueva-abuse-of-power-subpoena-criminal-investigations-huntsman-oversight\">the inspector general who oversees the sheriff’s department\u003c/a> — among other controversies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the latest season of Imperfect Paradise: The Sheriff, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/people/frank-stoltze\">Frank Stoltze\u003c/a>, LAist’s civics and democracy correspondent, looks at Villanueva’s tenure as sheriff and asks: How could someone who ran as a progressive reformer end up as a darling of Fox News? How could LA County voters end up with someone so completely different from who they thought they were voting for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>[\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/alex-villanuevas-unlikely-rise-to-power-7-takeaways-from-our-new-podcast-about-the-sheriff\">7 Takeaways From the Podcast\u003c/a>]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IPS3-Ad-Newsletter-Banner-970x2501-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11928910\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IPS3-Ad-Newsletter-Banner-970x2501-1-800x206.jpg\" alt=\"A banner illustration for the podcast.\" width=\"800\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IPS3-Ad-Newsletter-Banner-970x2501-1-800x206.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IPS3-Ad-Newsletter-Banner-970x2501-1-160x41.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IPS3-Ad-Newsletter-Banner-970x2501-1.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over five episodes, Stoltze and his team of producers explore how Villanueva became head of the largest law enforcement agency west of the Mississippi, and how his leadership has left him vulnerable ahead of this fall’s election. The show draws on extensive interviews from \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/news/are-la-sheriffs-deputies-harassing-the-families-of-people-they-shoot-and-kill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">families affected by deputy shootings and alleged harassment\u003c/a>, current and former department officials, LA County supervisors, the inspector general, and whistleblowers who are afraid to speak out without anonymity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filled with new reporting on the sheriff’s department, an exclusive sit-down with Villanueva,\u003cb> \u003c/b>and hosted by a reporter with 30 years of experience covering criminal justice in LA County, Imperfect Paradise: The Sheriff provides an unprecedented look at Villanueva and his legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first two episodes are set to air on October 5, with the rest released on a weekly basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen & subscribe to Imperfect Paradise: The Sheriff, now on\u003c/em>\u003ca title=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/LE0gCYEM4NtkyW1gC0Ycp6?domain=podcasts.apple.com\" href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/LE0gCYEM4NtkyW1gC0Ycp6?domain=podcasts.apple.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> \u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cu>\u003ca title=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/LE0gCYEM4NtkyW1gC0Ycp6?domain=podcasts.apple.com\" href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/LE0gCYEM4NtkyW1gC0Ycp6?domain=podcasts.apple.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>\u003c/u>,\u003c/em>\u003ca title=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/qwwcCZ6W5NuPWq4xFjed4M?domain=open.spotify.com\" href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/qwwcCZ6W5NuPWq4xFjed4M?domain=open.spotify.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> \u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cu>\u003ca title=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/qwwcCZ6W5NuPWq4xFjed4M?domain=open.spotify.com\" href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/qwwcCZ6W5NuPWq4xFjed4M?domain=open.spotify.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify\u003c/a>\u003c/u> or wherever you listen to podcasts.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Former Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez on Wednesday announced she was resigning her seat amid recently revealed racist remarks she made last year during a closed-door meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-09/city-council-leaked-audio-nury-martinez-kevin-de-leon-gil-cedillo\">In the leaked recording\u003c/a>, which surfaced online this weekend, Martinez crudely disparaged the Black son of a white council member, among a slew of other racist snipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her resignation statement did not mention those remarks, though in words directed at her daughter, she said: “I know I have fallen short recently of the expectations we have for our family. I vow to you that I will strive to be a better woman to make you proud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez’s press release follows three days of angry protests at LA City Hall, with a growing number of local and national leaders, including President Biden, calling for her and the two other Democratic council members involved in the conversation to step down.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mitch O'Farrell, acting president, LA City Council\"]‘For Los Angeles to heal, and for its City Council to govern, there must be accountability … I repeat my call on Councilmembers De León and Cedillo to also resign. There is no other way forward.’[/pullquote]The resignation also comes just hours after California Attorney General Rob Bonta said \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-12/california-attorney-general-rob-bonta-redistricting-investigation-leaked-audio\">he would investigate Los Angeles’ redistricting process\u003c/a> that Martinez was discussing with fellow Councilmembers Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo, in which they schemed to protect Latino political strength in council districts. Bonta said the investigation could lead to civil liability or criminal charges, depending on what is found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear an investigation is sorely needed to help restore confidence in the redistricting process for the people of LA,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez, the first Latina to lead the Council, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-city-council-nury-martinez-resignation-19571bf8ce0524dfa84b5784ce30f65d\">had stepped down as president on Monday\u003c/a> while still holding onto her seat. At the time, she said she was ashamed of her racist language, but stopped short of resigning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the recorded conversation, Martinez said that Councilmember Mike Bonin, who is white, handled his young Black son as if he were an “accessory” and said “parece changuito,” or “he’s like a monkey,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-09/city-council-leaked-audio-nury-martinez-kevin-de-leon-gil-cedillo\">The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday\u003c/a>. She also referred to Bonin as a “little bitch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At another point on the hour-long recording, Martinez called Indigenous immigrants from the Mexican state of Oaxaca ugly, and made crass remarks about Jews and Armenians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council reconvened Wednesday, possibly to censure the three members, but it was unable to do business because a crowd of about 50 protesters drowned out the acting president, chanting slogans like, “No meeting without resignation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928686\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11928686\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243898841-1.jpg\" alt=\"An angry crowd raise their fists in the City Hall Council chamber with a black woman in the center and foreground\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243898841-1.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243898841-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243898841-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243898841-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters calling for the resignation of LA City Council members Nury Martinez, Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo at the Council meeting at City Hall on Tuesday. \u003ccite>(Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A minimum of 10 out of 15 members necessary for a quorum had assembled, but the meeting was adjourned after one left. None of the three embattled council members showed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Council cannot expel its own members. But acting Council President Mitch O’Farrell said that with no sign of anger subsiding, he didn’t think the body could resume its work until all three members stepped down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For Los Angeles to heal, and for its City Council to govern, there must be accountability,” he said in a statement. “I repeat my call on Councilmembers De León and Cedillo to also resign. There is no other way forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scene at City Hall was similarly raucous on Tuesday, when a large group of mostly African American and Latino protesters packed the Council chamber, chanting, “Resign, resign, resign,” and carrying signs with messages like “Take out the Trash” and “Shame on You!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These council members have to go! Their career needs to end,” said LA resident William Gude, one of the first to arrive that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was joined by fellow resident Orma Mendez, who said, “We don’t need racists! We have to stand up and fight for our rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the session, Councilmember Bonin fought back tears when describing his reaction to the recording, and the emotional toll it had taken on his family and the city as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a dad who loves his son in ways that words cannot capture,” he said. “And I take a lot of hits and, hell, I know I invite a bunch of them. But my son? Man, that makes my soul bleed and it makes my temper burn. And I know I’m not alone because Los Angeles has spoken and it feels the same way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928688\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11928688\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243902379-1.jpg\" alt=\"A white man in a suit with no tie wipes a tear from his eye as he stands behind a dais with people in the council chamber looking on\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243902379-1.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243902379-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243902379-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243902379-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LA City Council member Mike Bonin sheds tears as he speaks about the racist comments directed toward his son during Tuesday’s council meeting. \u003ccite>(Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Martinez made history in 2019 when she became the first Latina elected to the Council presidency and described herself as “a glass-ceiling shattering leader who brings profound life experience as the proud daughter of working-class immigrants” on her website. She is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scandal and its aftermath have inevitably resurfaced a larger conversation in Los Angeles about race, politics and power. The nation’s second largest city has a long history of political alliances built on racial, religious and geographic tensions and rivalries that often spill over into housing, education, jobs and prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have already been discussions about expanding the city’s 15-member City Council. At its current size, each Council member represents well over a quarter of a million people. A bigger Council, like those in New York or Chicago, some argue, would make it easier for elected officials to represent LA’s kaleidoscope of communities. Some reform advocates have also pushed to reexamine how the current City Council districts were drawn up, and to consider adopting new ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing is we want to evaluate the redistricting process and ensure that redistricting isn’t used for City Council members to keep their seats safe but rather to ensure that everybody’s voices are heard,” said LA resident Shekinah Deocares, who attended Tuesday’s Council meeting. “We also want to create a system of accountability to make sure things like this don’t happen again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Tuesday, Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer said, “It should be clear to everyone by now that leaving the power to draw their own district lines in the hands of the politicians who stand to benefit from how those lines are drawn is a massive conflict of interest and an invitation to the sort of backroom dealing this outrageous conversation revealed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Saul Gonzalez and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The resignation also comes just hours after California Attorney General Rob Bonta said \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-12/california-attorney-general-rob-bonta-redistricting-investigation-leaked-audio\">he would investigate Los Angeles’ redistricting process\u003c/a> that Martinez was discussing with fellow Councilmembers Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo, in which they schemed to protect Latino political strength in council districts. Bonta said the investigation could lead to civil liability or criminal charges, depending on what is found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear an investigation is sorely needed to help restore confidence in the redistricting process for the people of LA,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez, the first Latina to lead the Council, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-city-council-nury-martinez-resignation-19571bf8ce0524dfa84b5784ce30f65d\">had stepped down as president on Monday\u003c/a> while still holding onto her seat. At the time, she said she was ashamed of her racist language, but stopped short of resigning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the recorded conversation, Martinez said that Councilmember Mike Bonin, who is white, handled his young Black son as if he were an “accessory” and said “parece changuito,” or “he’s like a monkey,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-09/city-council-leaked-audio-nury-martinez-kevin-de-leon-gil-cedillo\">The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday\u003c/a>. She also referred to Bonin as a “little bitch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At another point on the hour-long recording, Martinez called Indigenous immigrants from the Mexican state of Oaxaca ugly, and made crass remarks about Jews and Armenians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council reconvened Wednesday, possibly to censure the three members, but it was unable to do business because a crowd of about 50 protesters drowned out the acting president, chanting slogans like, “No meeting without resignation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928686\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11928686\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243898841-1.jpg\" alt=\"An angry crowd raise their fists in the City Hall Council chamber with a black woman in the center and foreground\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243898841-1.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243898841-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243898841-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243898841-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters calling for the resignation of LA City Council members Nury Martinez, Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo at the Council meeting at City Hall on Tuesday. \u003ccite>(Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A minimum of 10 out of 15 members necessary for a quorum had assembled, but the meeting was adjourned after one left. None of the three embattled council members showed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Council cannot expel its own members. But acting Council President Mitch O’Farrell said that with no sign of anger subsiding, he didn’t think the body could resume its work until all three members stepped down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For Los Angeles to heal, and for its City Council to govern, there must be accountability,” he said in a statement. “I repeat my call on Councilmembers De León and Cedillo to also resign. There is no other way forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scene at City Hall was similarly raucous on Tuesday, when a large group of mostly African American and Latino protesters packed the Council chamber, chanting, “Resign, resign, resign,” and carrying signs with messages like “Take out the Trash” and “Shame on You!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These council members have to go! Their career needs to end,” said LA resident William Gude, one of the first to arrive that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was joined by fellow resident Orma Mendez, who said, “We don’t need racists! We have to stand up and fight for our rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the session, Councilmember Bonin fought back tears when describing his reaction to the recording, and the emotional toll it had taken on his family and the city as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a dad who loves his son in ways that words cannot capture,” he said. “And I take a lot of hits and, hell, I know I invite a bunch of them. But my son? Man, that makes my soul bleed and it makes my temper burn. And I know I’m not alone because Los Angeles has spoken and it feels the same way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928688\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11928688\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243902379-1.jpg\" alt=\"A white man in a suit with no tie wipes a tear from his eye as he stands behind a dais with people in the council chamber looking on\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243902379-1.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243902379-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243902379-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1243902379-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LA City Council member Mike Bonin sheds tears as he speaks about the racist comments directed toward his son during Tuesday’s council meeting. \u003ccite>(Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Martinez made history in 2019 when she became the first Latina elected to the Council presidency and described herself as “a glass-ceiling shattering leader who brings profound life experience as the proud daughter of working-class immigrants” on her website. She is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scandal and its aftermath have inevitably resurfaced a larger conversation in Los Angeles about race, politics and power. The nation’s second largest city has a long history of political alliances built on racial, religious and geographic tensions and rivalries that often spill over into housing, education, jobs and prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have already been discussions about expanding the city’s 15-member City Council. At its current size, each Council member represents well over a quarter of a million people. A bigger Council, like those in New York or Chicago, some argue, would make it easier for elected officials to represent LA’s kaleidoscope of communities. Some reform advocates have also pushed to reexamine how the current City Council districts were drawn up, and to consider adopting new ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing is we want to evaluate the redistricting process and ensure that redistricting isn’t used for City Council members to keep their seats safe but rather to ensure that everybody’s voices are heard,” said LA resident Shekinah Deocares, who attended Tuesday’s Council meeting. “We also want to create a system of accountability to make sure things like this don’t happen again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Tuesday, Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer said, “It should be clear to everyone by now that leaving the power to draw their own district lines in the hands of the politicians who stand to benefit from how those lines are drawn is a massive conflict of interest and an invitation to the sort of backroom dealing this outrageous conversation revealed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Saul Gonzalez and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When singer Marina Crouse was a child in Southern California, Spanish surrounded her but was not a language she spoke. She’s a fourth-generation Californian and a Chicana, but when she was born, in the late 1960s, speaking English was heavily prioritized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People now value being bilingual, but at that time, and before that, it was not necessarily valued,” says Crouse, who now lives in El Cerrito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, as an adult, she made a concerted effort to learn Spanish. It was a pursuit she became so committed to that she has since become a Spanish professor at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Crouse’s study of language and literature came only after she pursued a career in music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916613\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11916613 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464-800x640.jpg\" alt=\"A women sings into a microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464-800x640.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464-1920x1536.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Singer Marina Crouse is well-known for her throaty blues. But her new album features Spanish songs originally sung by ‘crossover‘ artist Eydie Gormé. \u003ccite>(R Hakins/Freight and Salvage)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I studied classical music [in college] and I thought I was going to be maybe an opera singer,” says Crouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was expensive to hire a teacher, and Crouse’s family couldn’t afford to help support her education. Crouse, who grew up in a lower-income, single-parent home, needed financial security, and wasn’t sure her love of music would translate into a true career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, after college, graduate school, and a divorce, Crouse’s daughter encouraged her to return to music. She discovered that her bold, brassy voice was perfect for singing blues, and released her first album, “Never Too Soon,” in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/O1-xmJmLTCQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Crouse is back with a new album , “\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinacrouse.com/music\">Canto de Mi Corazón\u003c/a>” (released by the Bay Area’s Little Village Foundation), that celebrates her love of the Spanish language. It’s also a tribute to an artist whose work has long inspired her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916683\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8543.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11916683 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8543.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds a record cover of an album called 'Amor' by Eydie Gormé and The Trio Los Panchos.\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8543.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8543-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marina Crouse holds a copy of the album ‘Amor’ performed by Eydie Gormé and The Trio Los Panchos. Crouse remembers her grandmother playing the record whenever she would visit her as a child in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Marina Crouse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like Crouse, the renowned singer \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eydie_Gorm%C3%A9\">Eydie Gormé\u003c/a> — who rose to stardom in the 1950s and 1960s — recorded in both English and Spanish. But Gormé’s background was a bit different: Her parents were Turkish-born Jews who emigrated to New York and spoke Ladino, a language derived from Spanish by Jews who were expelled from their homeland during the Spanish Inquisition. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQeGLk4nGus&ab_channel=iTubeNL\">Gormé performed in Spanish\u003c/a> with a group called The Trio Los Panchos, becoming among the earliest so-called “crossover” artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her music, and the music she did in Spanish with Trio Los Panchos, was probably the most memorable music for me growing up,” says Crouse, whose new album pays tribute to Gormé, with versions of the songs “Piel Canela, Sabor a Mi” and “Cuando Vuelva a tu Lado.” She sings the entire album in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crouse, who grew up in Los Angeles, says her childhood was difficult. She moved around a lot and attended many different schools, she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she was a child, her grandmother’s house was an anchor for her. And that’s where she first encountered Gormé’s music, immediately noticing how happy it made her grandmother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916611\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 232px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Granny-.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11916611\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Granny-.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl and a baby sit on an elderly woman's lap.\" width=\"232\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Granny-.jpg 451w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Granny--160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marina Crouse (left) says listening to Eydie Gormé’s records in Spanish with her grandmother is among her favorite memories from a childhood that was otherwise turbulent. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Marina Crouse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She had one of these big stereos that look like a 1960s TV console,” Crouse says. “And you would lift up the heavy top and put the records on in there and then the speakers were on each side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crouse remembers studying the album covers, reading the names of songs and looking at the pictures. Even though she didn’t understand the lyrics back then, the music — and the experience — left a lasting impression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was this sort of magical thing. And the music was so beautiful,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Piel Canela” is one of Crouse’s favorite tracks on the new album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lyrics are just so gorgeous,” she says. “It’s about brown skin, and the beauty of brown skin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crouse says singing in Spanish “feels incredible” after the frustration she experienced as a child, when people often assumed she spoke Spanish, and she sometimes felt ashamed because she didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to sort of phonetically sing along, but I didn’t really understand what they were talking about,” she says. “After spending all these years studying Spanish and teaching literature and poetry and really, you know, sinking into words, it just feels … it sounds very cliché — it just feels like home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/p046AdGMDc4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Marina Crouse plans to celebrate her new album at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bandsintown.com/artist-rsvp/11902503?event_id=103493680&utm_campaign=event&utm_medium=api&app_id=WIX_marina-crouse-sings&utm_source=public_api&came_from=267&spn=0&signature=ZZea27e3c573a72de12bebfee46904818726858739fbb90311044b19ab85c27f88\">record release party \u003c/a>July 23 at The Sound Room in Oakland. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When singer Marina Crouse was a child in Southern California, Spanish surrounded her but was not a language she spoke. She’s a fourth-generation Californian and a Chicana, but when she was born, in the late 1960s, speaking English was heavily prioritized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People now value being bilingual, but at that time, and before that, it was not necessarily valued,” says Crouse, who now lives in El Cerrito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, as an adult, she made a concerted effort to learn Spanish. It was a pursuit she became so committed to that she has since become a Spanish professor at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Crouse’s study of language and literature came only after she pursued a career in music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916613\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11916613 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464-800x640.jpg\" alt=\"A women sings into a microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464-800x640.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464-1920x1536.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Singer Marina Crouse is well-known for her throaty blues. But her new album features Spanish songs originally sung by ‘crossover‘ artist Eydie Gormé. \u003ccite>(R Hakins/Freight and Salvage)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I studied classical music [in college] and I thought I was going to be maybe an opera singer,” says Crouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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She discovered that her bold, brassy voice was perfect for singing blues, and released her first album, “Never Too Soon,” in 2018.\u003c/p>\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/O1-xmJmLTCQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/O1-xmJmLTCQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Now, Crouse is back with a new album , “\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinacrouse.com/music\">Canto de Mi Corazón\u003c/a>” (released by the Bay Area’s Little Village Foundation), that celebrates her love of the Spanish language. It’s also a tribute to an artist whose work has long inspired her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916683\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8543.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11916683 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8543.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds a record cover of an album called 'Amor' by Eydie Gormé and The Trio Los Panchos.\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8543.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8543-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marina Crouse holds a copy of the album ‘Amor’ performed by Eydie Gormé and The Trio Los Panchos. Crouse remembers her grandmother playing the record whenever she would visit her as a child in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Marina Crouse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like Crouse, the renowned singer \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eydie_Gorm%C3%A9\">Eydie Gormé\u003c/a> — who rose to stardom in the 1950s and 1960s — recorded in both English and Spanish. But Gormé’s background was a bit different: Her parents were Turkish-born Jews who emigrated to New York and spoke Ladino, a language derived from Spanish by Jews who were expelled from their homeland during the Spanish Inquisition. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQeGLk4nGus&ab_channel=iTubeNL\">Gormé performed in Spanish\u003c/a> with a group called The Trio Los Panchos, becoming among the earliest so-called “crossover” artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her music, and the music she did in Spanish with Trio Los Panchos, was probably the most memorable music for me growing up,” says Crouse, whose new album pays tribute to Gormé, with versions of the songs “Piel Canela, Sabor a Mi” and “Cuando Vuelva a tu Lado.” She sings the entire album in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crouse, who grew up in Los Angeles, says her childhood was difficult. She moved around a lot and attended many different schools, she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she was a child, her grandmother’s house was an anchor for her. And that’s where she first encountered Gormé’s music, immediately noticing how happy it made her grandmother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916611\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 232px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Granny-.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11916611\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Granny-.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl and a baby sit on an elderly woman's lap.\" width=\"232\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Granny-.jpg 451w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Granny--160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marina Crouse (left) says listening to Eydie Gormé’s records in Spanish with her grandmother is among her favorite memories from a childhood that was otherwise turbulent. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Marina Crouse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She had one of these big stereos that look like a 1960s TV console,” Crouse says. “And you would lift up the heavy top and put the records on in there and then the speakers were on each side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crouse remembers studying the album covers, reading the names of songs and looking at the pictures. Even though she didn’t understand the lyrics back then, the music — and the experience — left a lasting impression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was this sort of magical thing. And the music was so beautiful,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Piel Canela” is one of Crouse’s favorite tracks on the new album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lyrics are just so gorgeous,” she says. “It’s about brown skin, and the beauty of brown skin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crouse says singing in Spanish “feels incredible” after the frustration she experienced as a child, when people often assumed she spoke Spanish, and she sometimes felt ashamed because she didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to sort of phonetically sing along, but I didn’t really understand what they were talking about,” she says. “After spending all these years studying Spanish and teaching literature and poetry and really, you know, sinking into words, it just feels … it sounds very cliché — it just feels like home.”\u003c/p>\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/p046AdGMDc4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/p046AdGMDc4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Marina Crouse plans to celebrate her new album at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bandsintown.com/artist-rsvp/11902503?event_id=103493680&utm_campaign=event&utm_medium=api&app_id=WIX_marina-crouse-sings&utm_source=public_api&came_from=267&spn=0&signature=ZZea27e3c573a72de12bebfee46904818726858739fbb90311044b19ab85c27f88\">record release party \u003c/a>July 23 at The Sound Room in Oakland. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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While scatting wasn’t his forte, he could belt the blues with authority, or take a pop tune like James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain” and turn it into a jazz epic. Yet for much of his career he was overlooked by record labels and, sadly, under-documented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/hvis7fL7RCs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The confounding thing about Andrews isn’t that he was underappreciated. That’s pretty much the rule rather than the exception when it comes to male jazz singers. What’s so frustrating is that he seemed to come close to popular acclaim so many times. In hindsight, touring and recording as a member of trumpeter Harry James's band during his prime years from the late 1950s through the mid-'60s undermined Andrews’s ability to establish himself as a solo act. 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"content": "\u003cp>The worst day of Koi Finley’s life happened last January when she learned her father had just been struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in downtown Los Angeles during his regular weekend bike ride. He was 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the craziest thing that anyone can tell you, that your father was literally hit by somebody,” Finley said. “‘Somebody killed your dad.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a year later, Finley, 19, is still grappling with the senselessness of her dad’s death, and the understanding that it is part of a larger, ongoing tragedy playing out on California’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were an estimated 3,246 traffic fatalities across the state during the first nine months of 2021, a 17% increase from the same time period the previous year, \u003ca href=\"https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/813240\">according to just-released National Traffic Highway Safety Administration data.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uptick was even sharper in Los Angeles, where Finley’s father was one of nearly 300 non-motorists killed in traffic accidents in 2021 — an increase of 20% from 2020. Of those deaths, 132 people were pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/unnamed-2-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11903813 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/unnamed-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman standing in a walkway.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/unnamed-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/unnamed-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/unnamed-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/unnamed-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/unnamed-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/unnamed-2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/unnamed-2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Koi Finley in Los Angeles on Jan. 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Every single one of those numbers is a tragedy,” said LA Department of Transportation General Manager Seleta Reynolds. “If we cannot get people from A to B and guarantee that they are safe, and that when somebody leaves in the morning, they’ll come home safely at night, then we haven’t fulfilled sort of a basic responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynolds says her most important tool to reduce traffic injuries and deaths is a program called Vision Zero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspired by traffic safety initiatives in Europe, and adopted by LA in 2015, the initiative has set the ambitious goal of eliminating all traffic-related fatalities in the city by the year 2025.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Seleta Reynolds, general manager, LA Department of Transportation\"]‘Every single one of those numbers is a tragedy. If we cannot get people from A to B and guarantee that they are safe, and that when somebody leaves in the morning, they’ll come home safely at night, then we haven’t fulfilled sort of a basic responsibility.’[/pullquote]Similar programs exist in other major urban areas around the state, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.visionzerosf.org/\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiego.gov/vision-zero\">San Diego\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To reach their goal, LA officials are focused on improving what they call “high-injury network streets” — the 6% of all streets in the city that account for 70% of pedestrian deaths and injuries. Most are concentrated in the San Fernando Valley and South LA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do these streets have in common? They’re flat and wide, with relatively few traffic lights and crosswalks — all factors that often entice motorists to speed. Reynolds says speed is the No. 1 determinant of the severity of a car crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through Vision Zero, the city is trying to remove lanes of traffic, widen bike lanes, and install additional crosswalks with big signs and flashing beacons to more effectively alert drivers to pedestrians and cyclists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example of these changes is a stretch of Adams Boulevard, south of the 10 Freeway in the city’s West Adams neighborhood. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2022/01/la-escasez-de-trabajadores-sociales-podria-bloquear-la-estrategia-para-indigentes-en-california/\">\u003cem>Leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the middle of March last year,\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-03-13/echo-park-encampment-exposes-bigger-la-homeless-issues\"> Los Angeles officials were gearing up to clear an encampment of 200 unhoused persons\u003c/a> at Echo Park Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Denise Velazquez, 53, then an outreach worker with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, her task was clear: Get 10 people indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She helped her clients — who were cold, tired and desperate to shower — pack their bags and sign intake forms. She gave them hope that warmth was around the corner: hotel rooms under \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/01/california-homeless-permanent-supportive-housing/\">Project Roomkey, the state’s program to shelter unhoused people most at risk of catching COVID-19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But orders changed overnight. Her agency had access to only three beds, and when she told her clients, they yelled, spit and lunged at her partner. Velazquez says she broke their trust — and that broke her heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My stomach is feeling so uncomfortable and heart broken,” Velazquez wrote in an email to her supervisor on March 18, 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAHSA spokesperson Ahmad Chapman said various local service providers placed 176 of those at the Echo Park encampment in interim housing programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks that followed, Velazquez said her health deteriorated. Her blood pressure spiked, her diabetes worsened, and her anxiety and depression spiraled. Her employer granted her a medical leave of absence, but therapy revealed that the only way to heal, she said, was to quit. Abandoning her clients broke her heart all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903130\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11903130\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN03.jpg\" alt=\"Two hands hold up a pair of boots. The boots are very worn out and stained with dirt and water.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN03.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN03-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN03-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Velazquez holds the boots she got when she started working in homelessness outreach. \u003ccite>(Raquel Natalicchio/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Turnover has long plagued the homeless services field. COVID-19 has only made the problem worse as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/series/california-workers-covid/\">the omicron surge causes worker shortages across California’s economy\u003c/a>. And without enough service workers, the state’s ambitious, multibillion-dollar strategy for reducing homelessness is unlikely to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people who enter social work know to expect small paychecks; they’re driven by compassion and a desire for positive change. But caring too much can be crushing when \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homeless/2021/11/california-homeless-camps-clearing-plan/\">housing is elusive\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/mentally-ill-forced-treatment-conservatorship-california-debate/\">mental health services scant\u003c/a>, and communication splintered among the myriad entities who decide the fate of the unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re paying these folks pennies on the dollar to burn themselves out completely,” said Tami McVay, assistant program director at \u003ca href=\"https://www.selfhelpenterprises.org/\">Self-Help Enterprises\u003c/a>, which serves lower-income communities in the San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11901253\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/021_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-1020x680.jpg\"]When you bring up staff turnover or vacancies with any provider or advocate, they nod vigorously. The mostly government-contracted private organizations serving people experiencing homelessness have waged an uphill battle to recruit and retain workers into their fast-growing workforce, including some formerly homeless individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA-based \u003ca href=\"https://epath.org/\">People Assisting the Homeless\u003c/a>, or PATH, which serves about a fifth of the state’s unhoused population, has hired seven recruiters to help fill 340 vacancies, out of 1,100 jobs, said CEO Jennifer Hark Dietz. It’s now taking an average of four months to fill any given spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s before the latest homelessness budget, approved last summer by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/#a5795160-28e3-11ea-963d-8304ae9d247c\">floods providers with $12 billion over the next two years\u003c/a>. The state says the funding will require thousands of new positions in the homeless response system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have all this money,” said Farrah McDaid Ting, a senior legislative representative with the California State Association of Counties. “Can we really do this if we don’t have the people? I think there could be a real limitation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903126\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11903126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN05.jpg\" alt=\"Mel Tillekeratne stands against one of the walls of a Shower of Hope facility.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN05.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN05-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN05-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN05-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mel Tillekeratne, executive director of The Shower of Hope. \u003ccite>(Raquel Natalicchio/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Good jobs wanted\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At the root of the worker shortage — which advocates say is really a shortage of good jobs — is low wages. Most homeless services organizations CalMatters spoke with pay starting frontline workers between $16 and $18 an hour, barely higher than minimum wage. They openly admit it’s far too little for the grueling labor, and often isn’t enough to live in expensive California cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the homeless services sector, it’s like: You didn’t get this paperwork in on time, I lost my housing, or my legs are hurting, I think I might have a blood clot,” said Mel Tillekeratne, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://theshowerofhope.org/\">The Shower of Hope, which runs 22 mobile shower sites across Los Angeles County\u003c/a>. “It’s an unbelievably high amount of stress. I’ve seen so many outreach workers completely checked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, people employed in emergency and other relief services — including homeless service providers — \u003ca href=\"https://data.bls.gov/PDQWeb/en\">made an average annual salary of $49,616 in 2020\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Earl Edwards, doctoral candidate at UCLA\"]‘A lot of individuals didn’t see a pathway for them to stay doing this work.’[/pullquote]Why not pay more? Tillekeratne says government contracts usually cap personnel costs. He had to raise money privately, for example, to offer hazard pay at the start of the pandemic. Federal and state grants usually come in bursts and have short timelines, forcing organizations to fill temporary positions before they expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they don’t leave homeless services completely, workers will switch jobs for $1 or $2 more an hour. Or, if they get promoted, they often lose direct contact with clients, adding to a sense that frontline work is undervalued, said Earl Edwards, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles \u003ca href=\"https://www.capolicylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Inequity-in-the-PSH-System-in-Los-Angeles.pdf\">who interviewed 11 case managers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of individuals didn’t see a pathway for them to stay doing this work,” Edwards said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most organizations that serve unhoused individuals often hire people who are just exiting homelessness themselves: “That also adds an additional level of trauma,” he said. Shelter workers in Fresno constantly reach out about “unstable living arrangements of their own, asking for housing,” said Katie Wilbur, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.rhcommunitybuilders.com/\">RH Community Builders\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903133\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11903133\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/012622-Homeless-Services-RN-CM-11.jpg\" alt=\"A person receives a haircut outdoors. The barber touches the hair of the person receiving the haircut.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/012622-Homeless-Services-RN-CM-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/012622-Homeless-Services-RN-CM-11-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/012622-Homeless-Services-RN-CM-11-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/012622-Homeless-Services-RN-CM-11-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/012622-Homeless-Services-RN-CM-11-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/012622-Homeless-Services-RN-CM-11-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer barber cuts an unhoused person’s hair at Trinity Church in Riverside. Those who are unhoused come once a week to the church where they are offered haircuts, clothes, food and a shower. \u003ccite>(Raquel Natalicchio/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fewer employees with master’s degrees in social work often earn higher salaries, but even those aren’t high enough to keep them from more lucrative jobs, explains \u003ca href=\"https://www.apu.edu/bas/faculty/dgallup/\">Donna Gallup\u003c/a>, an assistant professor at Azusa Pacific’s Department of Social Work, who runs a pilot program to recruit more students into the homeless services field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have an opportunity as a graduate student, with student debt, you may select a school, a hospital or another nonprofit where you are not having to work with a stigmatized population that is very demanding, and the work conditions, especially with COVID,” Gallup said. “It has been a challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11877585\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49286_002_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/01/california-budget-newsom/\">proposed 2022 budget, which still has to be negotiated with the Legislature\u003c/a>, includes $1.7 billion over three years to expand the state’s health and human services workforce “with improved diversity, wages and health equity outcomes,” said Rodger Butler, a spokesperson for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/\">California Health and Human Services Agency\u003c/a>. But even that may not be enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until … funding is commensurate to offer living wages across positions in the sector, it’ll be hard to train our way out of this crisis,” said Mari Castaldi, senior legislative advocate on homelessness at \u003ca href=\"https://www.housingca.org/\">Housing California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To increase the wages of the lowest-paid workers, the nonprofit is calling for a supplemental appropriation — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/#a5795160-28e3-11ea-963d-8304ae9d247c\">on top of $2 billion over two years in flexible spending in last year’s budget\u003c/a> that cities and counties will use to pay nonprofit partners to run most of these homelessness programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t think it makes sense to say to service providers, ‘You get to choose between serving the number of clients that you set forth to serve, or increasing wages,’” Castaldi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11903124\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN12.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN12-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN12-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Underpaid and burned out\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But pay is only one part of the problem, says Deborah Son, executive director of the National Association of Social Workers’ California chapter. She represents 9,000 of the state’s roughly 75,000 certified social workers — and says all of them are affected by\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/housing-costs-high-california/\"> the severe shortage of affordable housing in California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can bulk up the workforce and get people jobs and create jobs,” she said, “but if we don’t create the housing structures that are necessary, and we’re talking about the intricate systems necessary, your efforts become moot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following her stint at LAHSA, Velazquez found a new job at homeless services nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://unionstationhs.org/\">Union Station Homeless Services\u003c/a> as a care coordinator, earning $24 an hour. Half of her 20 clients are in housing, and her job is to keep them there. Her other clients are trying — unsuccessfully since September — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2019/08/section-8-voucher-discrimination-california-housing-crisis/\">to get into a place using housing vouchers, which cover two-thirds of the rent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11870625\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS43040_011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]“There’s not enough apartments, and landlords don’t want them,” she said. “Legally [landlords] can’t say, ‘No, I’m not going to take a voucher.’ But they can say, ‘Oh, but your client has to have 650 credit score, and no evictions, and no criminal record.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where the burnout comes,” she added. “It’s like, a case manager can do and do and do and we still feel we’re not doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her new job, Velazquez said she feels heard when she brings up concerns. She gets a day off every two weeks to unwind, checks in with her supervisor regularly and participates in training and meditation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her own self-care is essential, too, she explains, holding up an angel aura quartz around her neck, which she uses to steel herself for difficult encounters. “This is like my sanctuary, away from everything,” she said, gesturing around her two-bedroom in Monterey Park. “When I sit in that chair, I feel like I’m getting a hug from my grandpa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11903128\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN11.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN11-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN11-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN11-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The impact on clients\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Clients feel the brunt of turnover just as acutely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study found that in the last decade, \u003ca href=\"https://www.capolicylab.org/inequity-in-the-psh-system-in-los-angeles/\">more than a fifth of the 16,026 people in Los Angeles placed in permanent supportive housing\u003c/a> — which pairs rental assistance with case management, substance use programs and mental health treatment — plunged back into homelessness. Black tenants were the most likely to return to the streets or a shelter, and they cited high case-manager turnover as one of several factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have a case manager who is trying to help you create long-term goals, but they’re only staying for three to six months, it prevents you from actually being able to follow through,” said Edwards of UCLA, a co-author of the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='housing']Some tenants he spoke with were already on their sixth or seventh case manager while in permanent housing. In turn, some clients didn’t bother to learn their case manager’s names for a couple of months, making their jobs that much harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once you have one you can actually work with, next thing you know, you get a notice on your door, ‘Oh, well, hi, this will be my last week.’ And you’re like, ‘Damn. You just got here,’” said Theresa Winkler, who lives with her husband in permanent supportive housing in downtown LA’s Skid Row neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winkler, 58, said she has been living in permanent supportive housing for about a decade and was unhoused for about half her life before that. She said she has been clean from crack, heroin and alcohol for 15 years, and continues to seek help for post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression. But cycling through caseworker after caseworker — at least three in the last two years — is “straight frustrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903122\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11903122\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN09.jpg\" alt=\"A wide shot of a multi-story residential structure.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN09.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN09-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN09-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN09-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residences in the Skid Row Housing Trust in Skid Row in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Raquel Natalicchio/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“With addiction, a relapse happens weeks before you pick up,” she explained. “If you know yourself and you see it coming, you’re able to go downstairs, talk to your caseworker, and tell her, ‘Hey, look, can I talk to you for a few minutes?’ But if you don’t have anybody you can trust to go in and talk to — because that’s the biggest word right there, trust — then hey, I’m back out there doing what I was doing in the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her husband, her doctors and her 12-step recovery program have helped her stay on track and find solace. So has reflecting on her progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s nice for me to finally say, ‘You know what? I finally found peace,’” she said. “Because it’s hard to find peace. Look at where I’m at. I’m in the pits of hell.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When you bring up staff turnover or vacancies with any provider or advocate, they nod vigorously. The mostly government-contracted private organizations serving people experiencing homelessness have waged an uphill battle to recruit and retain workers into their fast-growing workforce, including some formerly homeless individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA-based \u003ca href=\"https://epath.org/\">People Assisting the Homeless\u003c/a>, or PATH, which serves about a fifth of the state’s unhoused population, has hired seven recruiters to help fill 340 vacancies, out of 1,100 jobs, said CEO Jennifer Hark Dietz. It’s now taking an average of four months to fill any given spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s before the latest homelessness budget, approved last summer by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/#a5795160-28e3-11ea-963d-8304ae9d247c\">floods providers with $12 billion over the next two years\u003c/a>. The state says the funding will require thousands of new positions in the homeless response system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have all this money,” said Farrah McDaid Ting, a senior legislative representative with the California State Association of Counties. “Can we really do this if we don’t have the people? I think there could be a real limitation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903126\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11903126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN05.jpg\" alt=\"Mel Tillekeratne stands against one of the walls of a Shower of Hope facility.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN05.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN05-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN05-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN05-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mel Tillekeratne, executive director of The Shower of Hope. \u003ccite>(Raquel Natalicchio/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Good jobs wanted\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At the root of the worker shortage — which advocates say is really a shortage of good jobs — is low wages. Most homeless services organizations CalMatters spoke with pay starting frontline workers between $16 and $18 an hour, barely higher than minimum wage. They openly admit it’s far too little for the grueling labor, and often isn’t enough to live in expensive California cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the homeless services sector, it’s like: You didn’t get this paperwork in on time, I lost my housing, or my legs are hurting, I think I might have a blood clot,” said Mel Tillekeratne, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://theshowerofhope.org/\">The Shower of Hope, which runs 22 mobile shower sites across Los Angeles County\u003c/a>. “It’s an unbelievably high amount of stress. I’ve seen so many outreach workers completely checked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, people employed in emergency and other relief services — including homeless service providers — \u003ca href=\"https://data.bls.gov/PDQWeb/en\">made an average annual salary of $49,616 in 2020\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/01/california-budget-newsom/\">proposed 2022 budget, which still has to be negotiated with the Legislature\u003c/a>, includes $1.7 billion over three years to expand the state’s health and human services workforce “with improved diversity, wages and health equity outcomes,” said Rodger Butler, a spokesperson for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/\">California Health and Human Services Agency\u003c/a>. But even that may not be enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until … funding is commensurate to offer living wages across positions in the sector, it’ll be hard to train our way out of this crisis,” said Mari Castaldi, senior legislative advocate on homelessness at \u003ca href=\"https://www.housingca.org/\">Housing California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To increase the wages of the lowest-paid workers, the nonprofit is calling for a supplemental appropriation — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/#a5795160-28e3-11ea-963d-8304ae9d247c\">on top of $2 billion over two years in flexible spending in last year’s budget\u003c/a> that cities and counties will use to pay nonprofit partners to run most of these homelessness programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t think it makes sense to say to service providers, ‘You get to choose between serving the number of clients that you set forth to serve, or increasing wages,’” Castaldi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11903124\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN12.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN12-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN12-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Underpaid and burned out\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But pay is only one part of the problem, says Deborah Son, executive director of the National Association of Social Workers’ California chapter. She represents 9,000 of the state’s roughly 75,000 certified social workers — and says all of them are affected by\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/housing-costs-high-california/\"> the severe shortage of affordable housing in California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can bulk up the workforce and get people jobs and create jobs,” she said, “but if we don’t create the housing structures that are necessary, and we’re talking about the intricate systems necessary, your efforts become moot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following her stint at LAHSA, Velazquez found a new job at homeless services nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://unionstationhs.org/\">Union Station Homeless Services\u003c/a> as a care coordinator, earning $24 an hour. Half of her 20 clients are in housing, and her job is to keep them there. Her other clients are trying — unsuccessfully since September — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2019/08/section-8-voucher-discrimination-california-housing-crisis/\">to get into a place using housing vouchers, which cover two-thirds of the rent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some tenants he spoke with were already on their sixth or seventh case manager while in permanent housing. In turn, some clients didn’t bother to learn their case manager’s names for a couple of months, making their jobs that much harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once you have one you can actually work with, next thing you know, you get a notice on your door, ‘Oh, well, hi, this will be my last week.’ And you’re like, ‘Damn. You just got here,’” said Theresa Winkler, who lives with her husband in permanent supportive housing in downtown LA’s Skid Row neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winkler, 58, said she has been living in permanent supportive housing for about a decade and was unhoused for about half her life before that. She said she has been clean from crack, heroin and alcohol for 15 years, and continues to seek help for post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression. But cycling through caseworker after caseworker — at least three in the last two years — is “straight frustrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903122\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11903122\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN09.jpg\" alt=\"A wide shot of a multi-story residential structure.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN09.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN09-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN09-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/01262022-HOMELESS-SERVICES-RN09-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residences in the Skid Row Housing Trust in Skid Row in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Raquel Natalicchio/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“With addiction, a relapse happens weeks before you pick up,” she explained. “If you know yourself and you see it coming, you’re able to go downstairs, talk to your caseworker, and tell her, ‘Hey, look, can I talk to you for a few minutes?’ But if you don’t have anybody you can trust to go in and talk to — because that’s the biggest word right there, trust — then hey, I’m back out there doing what I was doing in the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her husband, her doctors and her 12-step recovery program have helped her stay on track and find solace. So has reflecting on her progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s nice for me to finally say, ‘You know what? I finally found peace,’” she said. “Because it’s hard to find peace. Look at where I’m at. I’m in the pits of hell.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When night falls, you can stand almost anywhere in the San Gabriel Valley, look to the north at Mt. Wilson in the distance, and see the glowing lights of TV and radio antennae spiking into the darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not all that’s up there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the pine trees and coyotes, high above the humdrum, terra firma existence of Los Angeles mortals, sits the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mtwilson.edu/\">Mt. Wilson Observatory\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For over a century, it’s been a gateway to the heavens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The twin, chalk-white domes atop the ridge are home to two aging but still mighty telescopes. The 60- and 100-inch machines are arguably the most important in the history of astronomy.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nSuperstars of astro science like Edwin Hubble, George Ellery Hale and Albert Einstein have looked through them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you can, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, anyone can rent the scopes for the whole night. The rental includes an astronomer to guide your trip through the astonishing wonders of the dark and endless firmament. And snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 100-ton dome wails like a metallic banshee as it slowly turns to accommodate the view of the 60-inch telescope, a move it’s been making since things began here so long ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 1908, it was the largest telescope in the world,” said telescope operator Tom Mason. He’s one of a devoted cadre of amateur astronomers and retired engineers who keep things going atop Mt. Wilson. He’s been volunteering at the observatory for 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899383\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899383 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52421_IMG_3416-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing glasses sits on a chair in front of a desk and several computer screens. He looks at the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52421_IMG_3416-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52421_IMG_3416-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52421_IMG_3416-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52421_IMG_3416-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52421_IMG_3416-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Mason has been guiding visitors through the heavens for 17 years. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was the first telescope placed on a mountain this size,” he continued. “It was the first real enactment of the mirror-reflecting-type telescope. So you have a lot of history here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early part of the 20th century, conventional wisdom held that refracting telescopes were the only professional-grade instruments. Mt. Wilson’s mirror-based, reflecting technology proved that notion untrue, setting a new industry standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The telescope is a sight to behold. It’s an industrial latticework of tubular steel angled toward a crack in the dome like a cannon. It’s about the size of a crouching Tyrannosaurus rex. It’s painted baby blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tube got here 113 years ago on the back of a truck that barely made it up the winding dirt road from Pasadena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899385\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1705px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899385 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52424_p15150coll2_1549_full-qut-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Albert Einstein wears a suit and stands on the steps leading to the Observatory\" width=\"1705\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52424_p15150coll2_1549_full-qut-scaled.jpg 1705w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52424_p15150coll2_1549_full-qut-800x1201.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52424_p15150coll2_1549_full-qut-1020x1532.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52424_p15150coll2_1549_full-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52424_p15150coll2_1549_full-qut-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52424_p15150coll2_1549_full-qut-1364x2048.jpg 1364w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1705px) 100vw, 1705px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Albert Einstein at the Mt. Wilson Observatory in 1931 on one of his many research visits. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The unbelievably delicate, 60-inch mirror that’s the reflecting heart of the scope arrived by a team of pack mules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the machine opened its enormous eye on the skies, it’s lived to become the grandparent of virtually every modern scope in existence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Los Angeles constantly grows and mutates upon itself, demolishing and building, again and again, year after year, on Mt. Wilson, things barely change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, do we have the technology to hook this up to a computer and guide it?” asks Mason. “Yes. But Mt. Wilson is not willing to trust it to a computer and that’s why we still operate it by hand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>They don’t trust it to a computer.\u003c/em> It’s a notion that’s absolutely breathtaking in this day and age. The observatory operates on a DC power system that’s been refurbished over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operator’s desk is a simple control center that features buttons. Buttons you press to make things move. That’s it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And don’t even think about cell reception up here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means you can look down the scope’s eyepiece at an ancient, long-dead star still beaming its ghost light toward Earth, but you can’t text anyone about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899370\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11899370\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52420_IMG_3395-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A large metallic building wit a dome on top of the ceiling in a green, rural setting.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52420_IMG_3395-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52420_IMG_3395-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52420_IMG_3395-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52420_IMG_3395-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52420_IMG_3395-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The home of the 60-inch telescope atop Mt. Wilson, one of the most historic scopes on the planet. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>This little dust spot, Earth\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many celestial mysteries were solved at the observatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientist Harlow Shapley worked at Mt. Wilson from 1914 to 1921. He used the telescopes to determine the size of the Milky Way galaxy. Yes, the size of the galaxy. This guy you’ve never heard of did that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tom Mason, telescope operator\"]‘So as big as it is out there, and everything that’s out there, you just keep going.’[/pullquote]He also found that Earth was not the center of that galaxy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So what did that do? That moved us out here off one of the arms of the galaxy,” said Mason. “Great discovery right here with the 60-inch telescope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a blow to the ego of those who thought Earth was king of the hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, our ego’s been blown a couple of times up here, ’cause we thought we were the only galaxy, and then Edwin Hubble came along and discovered that, yes, there is another galaxy out there. And now we’re in the billions-of-galaxies type thing,” said Mason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s enough to make a person feel a bit tiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, it does,” Mason said. “Because of how big this is, but also as a Christian, it also brings my attention to something. The Scripture says, ‘Oh, Lord, oh, Lord, what is man that you are mindful of him, compared to this great universe you made?’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So as big as it is out there, and everything that’s out there, you just keep going and keep going and keep going, and we keep learning about it. And [there’s] this little dust spot, the Earth, and then I’m a dust spot on that Earth. And He’s mindful of me. That’s also exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Stories' tag='science']Mason is a member of Christ Community Church in West Covina. Tonight some of his fellow church members are renting the telescope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicki Heim is part of the congregation. When it comes to her favorite heavenly sighting, she doesn’t hesitate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, I just love Saturn. That’s my favorite,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Heim, the God-versus-science question is a nonissue. “To me, it just couldn’t be anything else but God’s creation,” she said. “Just no possibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that includes the telescope? Heim glances at the contraption peeping at the heavens. “Yeah,” she said, laughing. “Yeah.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A sanctuary of science\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For the 60-inch scope, your rental tab is $1,050 for a half-night and $1,700 for the entire night. Plus, you get coffee, cold cuts and brownies to go with the quasars, nebulas and white dwarfs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how did this sanctuary of science become a fun night out for anyone with a credit card? Just too much light. Astronomy loves the darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the late 1990s, Los Angeles had become ground zero for light pollution. As scientific research was moving from Mt. Wilson to low-wattage places like Chile, the decision was made to open the facility to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This rare opportunity has drawn all kinds of people up the mountain. Some come to marvel, and — though there’s a strict no-booze policy — others come to party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a matter of fact, in the other dome tonight, there’s even a birthday party going on,” said Mason. “We’ve had engagements here, we’ve even had a wedding party that stopped by after the wedding before they started their honeymoon. Now, they didn’t stay too long, but that’s up to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A “divine order to things”\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sunshine Daye came from Long Beach with an open mind and no real idea of what she would experience. She’s not part of the church group. A friend gave her a ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she stepped away from gazing through the telescope, she looked stunned — even with her mask on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899388\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899388 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52422_IMG_3417-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person stands in front of a very large telescope and holds their face mask in their hands.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52422_IMG_3417-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52422_IMG_3417-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52422_IMG_3417-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52422_IMG_3417-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52422_IMG_3417-qut-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52422_IMG_3417-qut-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Like Albert Einstein before her, Sunshine Daye traveled up Mt. Wilson to gaze through the scope. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Wow. I’m looking at what appears to be like dots, but they’re actually the planets, and as I fine-tune the eyepiece, I can actually see how different the two planets are. It’s amazing to be able to see that far,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, looking through this mountaintop window into the distant reaches of space, what does she think about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think about what’s happening out there in the sky is actually happening inside of me. Like all my cells and capillaries, my organs, how things are just kind of orbiting and rotating, how my lungs fill with air. There’s just like this divine order to things,” said Daye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are things I get to think about when I come to places like this. Having it to rent out and to be able to come and see this is absolutely awesome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally broadcast on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/observatory-la-sheriff-alex-villanueva-oc\">KCRW’s Greater LA\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nSuperstars of astro science like Edwin Hubble, George Ellery Hale and Albert Einstein have looked through them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you can, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, anyone can rent the scopes for the whole night. The rental includes an astronomer to guide your trip through the astonishing wonders of the dark and endless firmament. And snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 100-ton dome wails like a metallic banshee as it slowly turns to accommodate the view of the 60-inch telescope, a move it’s been making since things began here so long ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 1908, it was the largest telescope in the world,” said telescope operator Tom Mason. He’s one of a devoted cadre of amateur astronomers and retired engineers who keep things going atop Mt. Wilson. He’s been volunteering at the observatory for 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899383\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899383 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52421_IMG_3416-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing glasses sits on a chair in front of a desk and several computer screens. He looks at the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52421_IMG_3416-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52421_IMG_3416-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52421_IMG_3416-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52421_IMG_3416-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52421_IMG_3416-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Mason has been guiding visitors through the heavens for 17 years. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was the first telescope placed on a mountain this size,” he continued. “It was the first real enactment of the mirror-reflecting-type telescope. So you have a lot of history here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early part of the 20th century, conventional wisdom held that refracting telescopes were the only professional-grade instruments. Mt. Wilson’s mirror-based, reflecting technology proved that notion untrue, setting a new industry standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The telescope is a sight to behold. It’s an industrial latticework of tubular steel angled toward a crack in the dome like a cannon. It’s about the size of a crouching Tyrannosaurus rex. It’s painted baby blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tube got here 113 years ago on the back of a truck that barely made it up the winding dirt road from Pasadena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899385\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1705px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11899385 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52424_p15150coll2_1549_full-qut-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Albert Einstein wears a suit and stands on the steps leading to the Observatory\" width=\"1705\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52424_p15150coll2_1549_full-qut-scaled.jpg 1705w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52424_p15150coll2_1549_full-qut-800x1201.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52424_p15150coll2_1549_full-qut-1020x1532.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52424_p15150coll2_1549_full-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52424_p15150coll2_1549_full-qut-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52424_p15150coll2_1549_full-qut-1364x2048.jpg 1364w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1705px) 100vw, 1705px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Albert Einstein at the Mt. Wilson Observatory in 1931 on one of his many research visits. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The unbelievably delicate, 60-inch mirror that’s the reflecting heart of the scope arrived by a team of pack mules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the machine opened its enormous eye on the skies, it’s lived to become the grandparent of virtually every modern scope in existence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Los Angeles constantly grows and mutates upon itself, demolishing and building, again and again, year after year, on Mt. Wilson, things barely change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, do we have the technology to hook this up to a computer and guide it?” asks Mason. “Yes. But Mt. Wilson is not willing to trust it to a computer and that’s why we still operate it by hand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>They don’t trust it to a computer.\u003c/em> It’s a notion that’s absolutely breathtaking in this day and age. The observatory operates on a DC power system that’s been refurbished over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operator’s desk is a simple control center that features buttons. Buttons you press to make things move. That’s it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And don’t even think about cell reception up here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means you can look down the scope’s eyepiece at an ancient, long-dead star still beaming its ghost light toward Earth, but you can’t text anyone about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899370\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11899370\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52420_IMG_3395-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A large metallic building wit a dome on top of the ceiling in a green, rural setting.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52420_IMG_3395-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52420_IMG_3395-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52420_IMG_3395-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52420_IMG_3395-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52420_IMG_3395-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The home of the 60-inch telescope atop Mt. 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"content": "\u003cp>A congressional map that splits Long Beach into two. The city of Fresno divided into three congressional districts. A state Assembly district in the Central Valley that could reduce the power of Latino voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are only a few of the potential flash points as California’s independent redistricting commission slogs through its third week of working on early drafts of new legislative and congressional districts for the 2022 election and beyond — and as it prepares to release its official preliminary maps today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11894003\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Bay_Area_by_Sentinel-2_2019-03-11_small_version-1020x720.jpeg\"]But redrawing lines in response to public comments, advocacy groups’ pleas and commissioners’ own concerns can require cascading changes elsewhere, or could even mean blowing up entire statewide maps. And the pressure is on because commissioners face a compressed timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their foremost duty is to ensure every district in the state — 52 for Congress, 80 for state Assembly and 40 for state Senate — has about the same number of people. That’s about 761,000 Californians in each congressional district, about 988,000 in state Senate districts and 494,000 in Assembly districts. That can get complicated fast while trying to meet other requirements, such as not diluting any ethnic group’s vote and keeping districts geographically compact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s even more complex this year because California is losing a congressional seat for the first time ever — and much of the tension centers on those maps. A series of marathon and at-times confusing meetings isn’t helping matters, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commissioners have been discussing rounds of regional “visualizations” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/11_7_9_21\">hypothetical scenarios based on their direction to the line-drawers\u003c/a> — while trying to incorporate some of the public input they’ve been receiving along the way, and in some cases going back to the drawing board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first round of visualizations, for example, two longtime Black members of Congress were put in the same district in Los Angeles. That was fixed in the second round, but had ripple effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel is reviewing \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/10/attachments/original/1636074960/Agenda_-_Line_Drawing_Meetings_11.7-11.9.21_Final.pdf?1636074960\">the fourth set of these visualizations\u003c/a>, and worked late into Tuesday night. But there were apparently so many issues with \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mQLTaP34jpKCHNLrR1rIcLur0WAB3Tja/view\">the third set of congressional districts\u003c/a> — where the biggest changes from existing districts are expected — that after a closed session Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1457470063573749761?s=20\">the commission removed them from its website\u003c/a> until Monday.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size='large' align='right']Redrawing lines in response to public comments, advocacy groups’ pleas and commissioners’ own concerns can require cascading changes elsewhere.[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\n“Basically what we’re saying is, ‘The map is a hot mess.’ Is that correct?” Commissioner Sara Sadhwani said at Monday’s meeting, referring to congressional districts in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, the commission still plans to release its \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WeDrawTheLines/status/1458227353285324804?s=20\">official preliminary maps on Wednesday\u003c/a>, ahead of a \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/10/attachments/original/1635536062/Agenda_11.15.21_%28DRAFT_-1%29_%281%29.pdf?1635536062\">November 15 deadline\u003c/a>. After that, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/meetings\">no changes can be made for two weeks as public comment meetings start November 17\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, there could still be significant changes between the preliminary maps and the final maps, which are due to the secretary of state’s office by a court-ordered deadline of December 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/WeDrawTheLines/status/1456381250441134089\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Especially given the condensed timeline, the preliminary maps won’t be perfect, said Fredy Ceja, communications director for the commission. The \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1458206538867175425?s=20\">commission is already acknowledging\u003c/a> that some districts still need a lot of work and that it will be doing \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/meetings\">a lot of line-drawing next month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Fredy Ceja, communications director, California Citizens Redistricting Commission\"]‘You get instances where there’s conflicting public opinion or comment, where members of a community say they want to either go northeast, south or west.’[/pullquote]“The commissioners have been very, very responsive to the community. So if the community has said, ‘Hey, we want to stay lumped together with this community,’ they try to make that a possibility,” he told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And of course, you get instances where there’s conflicting public opinion or comment, where members of a community say they want to either go northeast, south or west. They’re trying to weigh those conflicting opinions. But they’ve done it with a smile on their face nonetheless. I think they’re pretty excited to be at this juncture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others aren’t as thrilled — either by the potential districts or \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1457580057010978822?s=20\">the convoluted deliberations so far\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Partisan jockeying\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the mapping being done by an independent commission with a mix of Republicans, Democrats and independent members, the changes in districts still have ramifications for both parties — and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/09/california-congressional-districts-hidden-partisanship/\">hidden partisanship that continues to creep in\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11895368\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52162_IMG_3608-qut.jpg\"]And with control of Congress up for grabs, a lot of attention in California and across the country is focused on any built-in advantages for Democrats or Republicans in the new U.S. House districts heading into the 2022 election. That focus heightened after Republican wins in the Nov. 2 elections, including Glenn Youngkin flipping the Virginia governor seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Democratic Party chair \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rustyhicks/status/1456335589779943438?s=20\">Rusty Hicks warned that Republicans could take the House\u003c/a> by flipping only \u003ca href=\"https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown\">five seats nationally\u003c/a>, which they could achieve through gerrymandering, and said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rustyhicks/status/1457835888197529601?s=20\">some of the most competitive races are in the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Kevin McCarthy — a Bakersfield Republican who hopes to replace Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco as House speaker — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article255545466.html\">claimed that any Democrat who won in 2020 by 16 percentage points or less would have to fight for their seat next year\u003c/a>. That would include six California House Democrats. But McCarthy, himself, could have a mostly new district, based on the latest draft maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_United_States_Representatives_from_California\">Republicans hold 11 of California’s 53 U.S. House seats\u003c/a>. The second round of maps suggested nine seats with an advantage for Republicans, according to an analysis by California Target Book, a political data firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third set of lines showed nine districts where incumbents — some Republicans including Rep. Devin Nunes, as well as Democrats including Rep. Mike Levin — \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/15day-recall-2021/congressional.pdf\">could face more competitive races, based on voter registration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872220\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11872220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS45480_028_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A voter check-in tent at the Alameda County Registrar of Voters on Oct. 27, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Diluting voting power?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Of the many challenges that the census data delay caused, the Voting Rights Act data analysis may have been one of the most consequential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After population numbers, the second highest criteria is that the district lines must comply with the federal Voting Rights Act — specifically, ensuring that people of color have equal access to electing representatives of their choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the initial scenarios, observers quickly flagged that longtime Reps. Karen Bass and Maxine Waters — both prominent Black Democrats — ended up in the same Los Angeles district. While that potential conflict was lessened because Bass is already running for Los Angeles mayor, the draft map resulted in only one L.A. district with at least 30% African American voters and likely to elect a Black representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That criticism was resolved in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/myBlackCounts/status/1455699739651969027?s=20\">the second round of visualizations\u003c/a> released and debated last week, which included two LA districts with at least 30% Black voter registration. The latest maps keep those lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But James Woodson, policy director for the California Black Census and Redistricting Hub, said concerns remain about congressional districts that split Black communities throughout the Bay Area, particularly in Pittsburg and Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important that Black communities are kept together in this area,” Woodson said, pointing to the lack of resources for lower-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodson said the Hub also remains concerned about the “packing” of Black voters in Los Angeles into fewer Assembly districts and limiting their “political voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After releasing draft maps for the Central Valley, the commission was inundated with calls from residents of both Kern and Fresno counties, who were strongly opposed to being grouped together in a congressional district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern County residents spoke of concerns about competing water interests, as well as health equity, while residents from Fresno raised issues with the dilution of Latino votes by combining them with Kern County. But in the latest maps, they’re still together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno County residents also called in with their opposition to the city of Fresno being split into three different congressional districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Defining community\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the cascading effects of preserving two Los Angeles congressional districts with sizable Black populations was breaking up Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioners noted the community input they heard from a broad swath of people in Long Beach, including the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/eqca/status/1457461426159697920?s=20\">LGBTQ+\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://smallpdf.com/file#s=0c5a5a4e-768b-45d2-91b3-d69c04149535\">Latinx communities\u003c/a>, asking to unite the city in one congressional district. Now, Democrats Alan Lowenthal and Nanette Diaz Barragán represent parts of Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this week’s maps, Long Beach was split into two congressional districts. While commissioners acknowledged that wasn’t ideal, they said they wanted to be fair to other cities that were divided, including Irvine and other smaller cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If commissioners want to preserve the districts in Los Angeles and keep Long Beach together, however, they may need to cross county lines, something they initially tried to avoid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any changes to Long Beach could have a domino effect on the Vietnamese community in Orange County, which, despite residents’ calls to be grouped together as a community of interest, is primarily in a congressional district that divides Westminster and Garden Grove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another flash point is San Diego, where commissioners on Monday tried to create more Voting Rights Act districts with at least 50% voting-age populations of people of color, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2021-11-07/state-redistricting\">including one to preserve a Latino voting bloc in the southern part of the county\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='politics']This week’s discussions did yield wins for some groups. The commission was able to keep the Hmong community in Central California together. Across congressional and legislative maps, most Native American tribes also were kept together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the lines could change, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/eqca/status/1457401281274777601?s=20\">Equality California, the largest LGBTQ+ civil rights group, hailed the congressional districts in San Francisco\u003c/a> for keeping the community together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a good draft for reactions,” commission Chair Trena Turner said Monday night after completing the latest round of congressional maps. “We feel better about the reactions.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A congressional map that splits Long Beach into two. The city of Fresno divided into three congressional districts. A state Assembly district in the Central Valley that could reduce the power of Latino voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are only a few of the potential flash points as California’s independent redistricting commission slogs through its third week of working on early drafts of new legislative and congressional districts for the 2022 election and beyond — and as it prepares to release its official preliminary maps today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But redrawing lines in response to public comments, advocacy groups’ pleas and commissioners’ own concerns can require cascading changes elsewhere, or could even mean blowing up entire statewide maps. And the pressure is on because commissioners face a compressed timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their foremost duty is to ensure every district in the state — 52 for Congress, 80 for state Assembly and 40 for state Senate — has about the same number of people. That’s about 761,000 Californians in each congressional district, about 988,000 in state Senate districts and 494,000 in Assembly districts. That can get complicated fast while trying to meet other requirements, such as not diluting any ethnic group’s vote and keeping districts geographically compact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s even more complex this year because California is losing a congressional seat for the first time ever — and much of the tension centers on those maps. A series of marathon and at-times confusing meetings isn’t helping matters, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commissioners have been discussing rounds of regional “visualizations” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/11_7_9_21\">hypothetical scenarios based on their direction to the line-drawers\u003c/a> — while trying to incorporate some of the public input they’ve been receiving along the way, and in some cases going back to the drawing board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first round of visualizations, for example, two longtime Black members of Congress were put in the same district in Los Angeles. That was fixed in the second round, but had ripple effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel is reviewing \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ccrc/pages/10/attachments/original/1636074960/Agenda_-_Line_Drawing_Meetings_11.7-11.9.21_Final.pdf?1636074960\">the fourth set of these visualizations\u003c/a>, and worked late into Tuesday night. But there were apparently so many issues with \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mQLTaP34jpKCHNLrR1rIcLur0WAB3Tja/view\">the third set of congressional districts\u003c/a> — where the biggest changes from existing districts are expected — that after a closed session Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1457470063573749761?s=20\">the commission removed them from its website\u003c/a> until Monday.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The commissioners have been very, very responsive to the community. So if the community has said, ‘Hey, we want to stay lumped together with this community,’ they try to make that a possibility,” he told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And of course, you get instances where there’s conflicting public opinion or comment, where members of a community say they want to either go northeast, south or west. They’re trying to weigh those conflicting opinions. But they’ve done it with a smile on their face nonetheless. I think they’re pretty excited to be at this juncture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others aren’t as thrilled — either by the potential districts or \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1457580057010978822?s=20\">the convoluted deliberations so far\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The latest maps keep those lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But James Woodson, policy director for the California Black Census and Redistricting Hub, said concerns remain about congressional districts that split Black communities throughout the Bay Area, particularly in Pittsburg and Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important that Black communities are kept together in this area,” Woodson said, pointing to the lack of resources for lower-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodson said the Hub also remains concerned about the “packing” of Black voters in Los Angeles into fewer Assembly districts and limiting their “political voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After releasing draft maps for the Central Valley, the commission was inundated with calls from residents of both Kern and Fresno counties, who were strongly opposed to being grouped together in a congressional district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern County residents spoke of concerns about competing water interests, as well as health equity, while residents from Fresno raised issues with the dilution of Latino votes by combining them with Kern County. 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"content": "\u003cp>Redistricting — the redrawing of maps for congressional, legislative and local seats — happens every 10 years after the census. Its goal? To make sure everyone is represented equally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, California voters took redistricting for state offices away from the Legislature — which often drew maps to the advantage of elected officials or one political party — and gave the power to an independent commission. In 2010, voters added congressional maps to the commission’s duties. One of the cardinal rules that voters set: Consider diversity, including abiding by the Voting Rights Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The track record of the Citizens Redistricting Commission is mixed on that score. Statewide, Latinos make up 30% of the voting age population, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/redistricting-opens-new-opportunities-for-communities-of-color/?utm_source=ppic&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blog_subscriber\">are a majority in just 19% of the 173 congressional and legislative districts\u003c/a>, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the Public Policy Institute of California. And that’s only a slight increase from the 15% under the old maps. Asian Americans are nearly 15% of the population, but a majority in just one district, while there is still no district where African Americans are the majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, between 2012 and 2020, the commission’s new districts largely succeeded in helping to \u003ca href=\"http://schwarzeneggerinstitute.com/images/files/FINALRELEASE_USC_Schwarzenegger_Redistricting_Commission_Diversity_Report.pdf\">add elected officials of color\u003c/a> in California, according to a study by the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy: The number of Latinos and Asian Americans elected to Congress doubled, and the numbers of Latino, Black and Asian American legislators also increased, compared to election results from the maps drawn by the Legislature after the 2000 census.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ariana Marmolejo, communications associate, Communities for a New California Education Fund\"]'When communities are divided, they can't advocate for the things they need and for themselves.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This round of redistricting is the first under a new state law that prioritizes keeping “communities of interest,” including ethnic enclaves, together. The 2019 FAIR MAPS Act \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/helpful-resources/redistricting\">also requires public input\u003c/a> at every step of the process, so across California, local advocacy groups are banding together to propose maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even these advocates say it’s impossible to take partisanship out of the process entirely. And this time around, the priority on diverse representation — and the fight for political power — is being complicated by several factors:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>For the first time ever, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/04/california-congress-census/\">California is losing a congressional seat\u003c/a>. Experts say it will likely be carved out of Los Angeles County, where the population grew more slowly than the rest of the state. 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Facing delays, the Census Bureau has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/08/1043506293/2020-census-results-accuracy-undercount-populations-post-enumeration-survey\">extended into early next year a follow-up door-to-door survey\u003c/a> to check possible undercounts, NPR reports.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And a sped-up redistricting timeline due to the delay of census data means less time for all involved to come up with proposed maps and to state their case.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The commission is \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/meetings\">holding a series of public hearings\u003c/a>, including today and Friday. It \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/10_4_21_handouts\">plans to release preliminary maps\u003c/a> for 52 U.S. House districts and 120 state Assembly and Senate districts by Nov. 15 and has until Dec. 27 to submit its final districts so they can be used for the June 2022 primaries. Here’s a look at some key community movements to shape the districts:\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-los-angeles-county\">Los Angeles County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The People’s Bloc — an alliance of 34 groups working to ensure that ethnic communities in Los Angeles County aren’t divided — was born with the 2020 census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bloc includes the Community Coalition of Los Angeles, founded by U.S. Rep. Karen Bass in 1990 to address substance addiction, poverty and crime in South Los Angeles. With a federal grant, Bass organized against \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rep-karen-bass-fought-for-blacks-and-latinos-in-south-los-angeles-now-shes-on-bidens-vp-shortlist/2020/07/31/6d224a58-d1d3-11ea-8c55-61e7fa5e82ab_story.html\">a surplus of liquor stores\u003c/a> and for better land-use policies, school funding and foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_211483\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-211483\" src=\"https://calmatters.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/101221_Rep_Karen_Bass_AP_CM_01.jpg\" alt='A woman with short hair, glasses, and a blue blazer, sitting behind a podium with a \"Ms. Bass\" nameplate, speaks before two American flags. ' width=\"780\" height=\"515\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Karen Bass of Los Angeles speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington. D.C., on June 10, 2020. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The six-term representative and former Congressional Black Caucus chairperson \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1040906831/rep-karen-bass-launches-campaign-to-be-the-next-mayor-of-los-angeles\">announced Sept. 27 that she’s running for L.A. mayor\u003c/a> this year. That has fueled speculation that, given the need to drop a district, the 37th District she represents could be redrawn in a way that dilutes the power of Black voters. The district includes the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Crenshaw, Baldwin Hills, Pico-Robertson and South Los Angeles, among others, as well as Culver City and the unincorporated communities of View Park and Ladera Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, 29% of the district’s voting-age population is African American, 27% is Latino and 11% is Asian, according to the new PPIC analysis. The neighboring 43rd District, represented by Maxine Waters, is 28% Black, and the 44th District, represented by Nanette Barragán, is 22% Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a redistricting commission meeting Wednesday, a consultant said that Black people often vote in concert with Latinos so they would be adequately represented in a coalition district. But several commissioners said based on public input, they would consider a Black majority congressional district in Los Angeles County. There are also maps that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1448472822209155073?s=20\">would create as many as five Latino majority districts\u003c/a> in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11892353\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM.png\" alt=\"A map of congressional districts in LA county with shading of representative ethnic populations who vote. \" width=\"1622\" height=\"1550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM.png 1622w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM-800x764.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM-1020x975.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM-160x153.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM-1536x1468.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1622px) 100vw, 1622px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the need to keep Black communities together became clear during the 2003 flooding of Watts: In 2001, the neighborhood was divided into three different congressional and legislative districts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.commoncause.org/california/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2021/01/Kathay-Redistricting-101.pdf\">confusing residents as to which representatives to turn to for help\u003c/a>, according to Common Cause, a government watchdog group. In the 2011 redistricting, the neighborhood was brought together into one district, the 44th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to that history, the need for the People’s Bloc became clear during the efforts last year to get people to fill out the census forms, said Kirk Samuels, director of civic engagement with the Community Coalition. The Trump administration’s move to add a citizenship question on the form deterred people from filling it out, as did COVID-19. The protests after the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd were another factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new alliance is involved not only in the congressional map, but new city council districts \u003ca href=\"https://laccrc2021.org/\">being drawn by a local commission\u003c/a> appointed by council members and the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to make sure that the Black community was protected throughout this redistricting process, that they are included in the process by having representatives that reflect their interests and their communities,” Samuels said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fair representation will help Black neighborhoods have access to funding and resources, he said: “We want to make sure that when these lines are drawn that they’re drawn in a way that brings assets back to these communities, that brings investment back to these communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Fresno County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Fresno County isn’t the same county it was 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago. Its total population grew from 930,450 in 2010 to more than 1 million in the last decade, and its Hispanic/Latino population grew to 53.6% from 50.3%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides in the unsuccessful effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-recall-latino-voters/\">focused on Latino voters\u003c/a>, who comprise California’s largest ethnic group, at 39% of the statewide population, and an increasing share of registered voters, at 28%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the changing population, it’s no surprise there was backlash to comments by some Fresno County supervisors, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.fresno.ca.us/home/showpublisheddocument/59806\">adopt the board districts\u003c/a>, about their intent to keep them largely the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kirk Samuels, director of civic engagement, Community Coalition of Los Angeles\"]'We wanted to make sure that the Black community was protected throughout this redistricting process.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the ACLU sent a letter to supervisors on Sept. 16 warning that they would be violating the law, two \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article254619397.html#storylink=cpy\">told The Fresno Bee\u003c/a> that they would follow the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But activists are still wary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Twenty years ago they put a rubber stamp, and now they’re just fiddling around the edges,” said Pablo Rodriguez, founding executive director of Communities for a New California Education Fund, a group focused on civic engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That can result in gerrymandering, either through “packing” — concentrating blocs of voters to limit their power to one district — or “cracking” — spreading voters out so that their influence is diluted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ariana Marmolejo, communications associate with the fund, said in the current proposed supervisor maps, every community of interest in the coalition is split. “When communities are divided, they can’t advocate for the things they need and for themselves,” Marmolejo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fresno County, that means being part of decisions on public health, public works projects and, in the bigger picture, the region’s growing inequality. Census data from 2019 showed that about 1 in every 5 residents was living in extreme poverty. And a history of exclusionary housing policies means that extreme poverty is concentrated into certain areas at \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article209826869.html\">one of the highest rates in the nation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without significant changes in supervisor districts, that cycle is likely to continue, Marmolejo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Neighborhoods are going to change, kids are going to grow old. And then you’ve entirely disenfranchised a new generation of people,” Marmolejo said. “This has shaped Fresno. This is why we are where we are today.” [aside tag=\"politics\" label=\"More political reporting\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while many of these community groups have long been organizing for representation, Marmolejo said the FAIR MAPS Act gives them support and legal protection. Another thing that helps: technology that lets groups share proposed maps and coordinate within the alliance, or even with other groups in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even at the state level, because we lost a congressional district, everything in California is going to look different,” said Rodriguez. “There’s going to be a lot of tension … There are incredible ramifications. And we have to balance federal law with making sure we keep communities of interest whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Orange and San Diego counties\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While this year’s redistricting process fosters a more grassroots approach, it has its obstacles. Sometimes a single map can’t meet all the desires of every community. There are also limitations of the census data itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange County is home to “Little Arabia,” where there is a large Arab population, including immigrants and refugees. But according to census data, Arab Americans are counted as white. That means Arab American communities don’t always see the resources they need, said Rashad Al-Dabbagh, founder and executive director of the Arab American Civic Council in Anaheim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_211591\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-211591\" src=\"https://calmatters.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/101321_Redistricting-LA_Little-Arabia_DM_CM_-03.jpg\" alt=\"Flags fly and hang from the roof tiles of a one-story shopping center, with sun rising on a tiered cement fountain in the parking lot.\" width=\"780\" height=\"515\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A parking plaza in the Little Arabia neighborhood of Anaheim is adorned with various flags from countries in the Middle East on Oct. 13, 2021. (Photo by Deric Mendes for CalMatters)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As in the Central Valley, the demographics in Orange County have changed over the last 20 years, and the maps should reflect that, Al-Dabbagh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the whole point of the census and redistricting — to ensure that communities have a say in this process,” he said. “We’re not a rich, white county like people assume, or how it used to be. We’re very diverse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council is one of the 16 groups that make up the People’s Redistricting Alliance, which, like the other coalitions in the state, aims to make sure redistricting isn’t driven by partisanship or solely by race, but instead leads to representation of struggles of community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These include people who are struggling to pay rent, or who need services from a community center. “Those are the experiences that we wanted to be able to uplift, which are the experiences that are often erased from the process,” said Jonathan Paik, executive director of the Orange County Civic Engagement Table, which spearheaded the formation of the alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego County, how residents’ different experiences should be considered in redistricting is up for debate. There has been a push for wealthier coastal cities to be grouped together, separate from inland communities, as well as a push to keep the military communities close to Camp Pendleton together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the process is meant to be free of partisanship, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/09/california-congressional-districts-hidden-partisanship/\">it can still creep into public hearings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes sense to me that people would be calling to ensure that there are districts that are drawn that will ensure their interests in farming, or equestrian desires, or parks or waterways or fire concerns,” said Citizens Redistricting Commissioner Trena Turner. “All of that makes sense — that you want a district drawn where an elected official will become one that understands your issues. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public comments that give Turner pause, though, are ones with threads of racism or prejudice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me it’s one of those eyebrow-raising comments. Does that have to do anything with the issues you want to protect? Or are you making a judgment call about the people in that area?”\u003cimg id=\"republication-tracker-tool-source\" style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px\" src=\"https://calmatters.network/?republication-pixel=true&post=163557&ga=UA-59722930-8\"> she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This round of redistricting is the first under a new state law that prioritizes keeping “communities of interest,” including ethnic enclaves, together. The 2019 FAIR MAPS Act \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/helpful-resources/redistricting\">also requires public input\u003c/a> at every step of the process, so across California, local advocacy groups are banding together to propose maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even these advocates say it’s impossible to take partisanship out of the process entirely. And this time around, the priority on diverse representation — and the fight for political power — is being complicated by several factors:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>For the first time ever, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/04/california-congress-census/\">California is losing a congressional seat\u003c/a>. Experts say it will likely be carved out of Los Angeles County, where the population grew more slowly than the rest of the state. And that could set up a conflict between Latino and African American advocacy groups.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The challenges of conducting the 2020 census during the pandemic, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/911960963/how-trump-officials-cut-the-2020-census-short-amid-the-pandemic\">decisions made by the Trump administration\u003c/a>, may have resulted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/10/13/2020-census-black-undercount/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter\">undercounting African Americans at significantly higher rates than usual\u003c/a>. Facing delays, the Census Bureau has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/08/1043506293/2020-census-results-accuracy-undercount-populations-post-enumeration-survey\">extended into early next year a follow-up door-to-door survey\u003c/a> to check possible undercounts, NPR reports.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And a sped-up redistricting timeline due to the delay of census data means less time for all involved to come up with proposed maps and to state their case.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The commission is \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/meetings\">holding a series of public hearings\u003c/a>, including today and Friday. It \u003ca href=\"https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/10_4_21_handouts\">plans to release preliminary maps\u003c/a> for 52 U.S. House districts and 120 state Assembly and Senate districts by Nov. 15 and has until Dec. 27 to submit its final districts so they can be used for the June 2022 primaries. Here’s a look at some key community movements to shape the districts:\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-los-angeles-county\">Los Angeles County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The People’s Bloc — an alliance of 34 groups working to ensure that ethnic communities in Los Angeles County aren’t divided — was born with the 2020 census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bloc includes the Community Coalition of Los Angeles, founded by U.S. Rep. Karen Bass in 1990 to address substance addiction, poverty and crime in South Los Angeles. With a federal grant, Bass organized against \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rep-karen-bass-fought-for-blacks-and-latinos-in-south-los-angeles-now-shes-on-bidens-vp-shortlist/2020/07/31/6d224a58-d1d3-11ea-8c55-61e7fa5e82ab_story.html\">a surplus of liquor stores\u003c/a> and for better land-use policies, school funding and foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_211483\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-211483\" src=\"https://calmatters.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/101221_Rep_Karen_Bass_AP_CM_01.jpg\" alt='A woman with short hair, glasses, and a blue blazer, sitting behind a podium with a \"Ms. Bass\" nameplate, speaks before two American flags. ' width=\"780\" height=\"515\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Karen Bass of Los Angeles speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington. D.C., on June 10, 2020. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The six-term representative and former Congressional Black Caucus chairperson \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1040906831/rep-karen-bass-launches-campaign-to-be-the-next-mayor-of-los-angeles\">announced Sept. 27 that she’s running for L.A. mayor\u003c/a> this year. That has fueled speculation that, given the need to drop a district, the 37th District she represents could be redrawn in a way that dilutes the power of Black voters. The district includes the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Crenshaw, Baldwin Hills, Pico-Robertson and South Los Angeles, among others, as well as Culver City and the unincorporated communities of View Park and Ladera Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, 29% of the district’s voting-age population is African American, 27% is Latino and 11% is Asian, according to the new PPIC analysis. The neighboring 43rd District, represented by Maxine Waters, is 28% Black, and the 44th District, represented by Nanette Barragán, is 22% Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a redistricting commission meeting Wednesday, a consultant said that Black people often vote in concert with Latinos so they would be adequately represented in a coalition district. But several commissioners said based on public input, they would consider a Black majority congressional district in Los Angeles County. There are also maps that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CATargetBook/status/1448472822209155073?s=20\">would create as many as five Latino majority districts\u003c/a> in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11892353\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM.png\" alt=\"A map of congressional districts in LA county with shading of representative ethnic populations who vote. \" width=\"1622\" height=\"1550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM.png 1622w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM-800x764.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM-1020x975.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM-160x153.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-14-at-3.19.27-PM-1536x1468.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1622px) 100vw, 1622px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the need to keep Black communities together became clear during the 2003 flooding of Watts: In 2001, the neighborhood was divided into three different congressional and legislative districts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.commoncause.org/california/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2021/01/Kathay-Redistricting-101.pdf\">confusing residents as to which representatives to turn to for help\u003c/a>, according to Common Cause, a government watchdog group. 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The protests after the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd were another factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new alliance is involved not only in the congressional map, but new city council districts \u003ca href=\"https://laccrc2021.org/\">being drawn by a local commission\u003c/a> appointed by council members and the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to make sure that the Black community was protected throughout this redistricting process, that they are included in the process by having representatives that reflect their interests and their communities,” Samuels said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fair representation will help Black neighborhoods have access to funding and resources, he said: “We want to make sure that when these lines are drawn that they’re drawn in a way that brings assets back to these communities, that brings investment back to these communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Fresno County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Fresno County isn’t the same county it was 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago. Its total population grew from 930,450 in 2010 to more than 1 million in the last decade, and its Hispanic/Latino population grew to 53.6% from 50.3%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides in the unsuccessful effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-recall-latino-voters/\">focused on Latino voters\u003c/a>, who comprise California’s largest ethnic group, at 39% of the statewide population, and an increasing share of registered voters, at 28%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the changing population, it’s no surprise there was backlash to comments by some Fresno County supervisors, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.fresno.ca.us/home/showpublisheddocument/59806\">adopt the board districts\u003c/a>, about their intent to keep them largely the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while many of these community groups have long been organizing for representation, Marmolejo said the FAIR MAPS Act gives them support and legal protection. Another thing that helps: technology that lets groups share proposed maps and coordinate within the alliance, or even with other groups in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even at the state level, because we lost a congressional district, everything in California is going to look different,” said Rodriguez. “There’s going to be a lot of tension … There are incredible ramifications. And we have to balance federal law with making sure we keep communities of interest whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Orange and San Diego counties\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While this year’s redistricting process fosters a more grassroots approach, it has its obstacles. Sometimes a single map can’t meet all the desires of every community. There are also limitations of the census data itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange County is home to “Little Arabia,” where there is a large Arab population, including immigrants and refugees. But according to census data, Arab Americans are counted as white. That means Arab American communities don’t always see the resources they need, said Rashad Al-Dabbagh, founder and executive director of the Arab American Civic Council in Anaheim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_211591\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-211591\" src=\"https://calmatters.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/101321_Redistricting-LA_Little-Arabia_DM_CM_-03.jpg\" alt=\"Flags fly and hang from the roof tiles of a one-story shopping center, with sun rising on a tiered cement fountain in the parking lot.\" width=\"780\" height=\"515\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A parking plaza in the Little Arabia neighborhood of Anaheim is adorned with various flags from countries in the Middle East on Oct. 13, 2021. (Photo by Deric Mendes for CalMatters)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As in the Central Valley, the demographics in Orange County have changed over the last 20 years, and the maps should reflect that, Al-Dabbagh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the whole point of the census and redistricting — to ensure that communities have a say in this process,” he said. “We’re not a rich, white county like people assume, or how it used to be. We’re very diverse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council is one of the 16 groups that make up the People’s Redistricting Alliance, which, like the other coalitions in the state, aims to make sure redistricting isn’t driven by partisanship or solely by race, but instead leads to representation of struggles of community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These include people who are struggling to pay rent, or who need services from a community center. “Those are the experiences that we wanted to be able to uplift, which are the experiences that are often erased from the process,” said Jonathan Paik, executive director of the Orange County Civic Engagement Table, which spearheaded the formation of the alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego County, how residents’ different experiences should be considered in redistricting is up for debate. There has been a push for wealthier coastal cities to be grouped together, separate from inland communities, as well as a push to keep the military communities close to Camp Pendleton together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the process is meant to be free of partisanship, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/09/california-congressional-districts-hidden-partisanship/\">it can still creep into public hearings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes sense to me that people would be calling to ensure that there are districts that are drawn that will ensure their interests in farming, or equestrian desires, or parks or waterways or fire concerns,” said Citizens Redistricting Commissioner Trena Turner. “All of that makes sense — that you want a district drawn where an elected official will become one that understands your issues. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public comments that give Turner pause, though, are ones with threads of racism or prejudice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me it’s one of those eyebrow-raising comments. Does that have to do anything with the issues you want to protect? Or are you making a judgment call about the people in that area?”\u003cimg id=\"republication-tracker-tool-source\" style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px\" src=\"https://calmatters.network/?republication-pixel=true&post=163557&ga=UA-59722930-8\"> she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Mauricio Hernández met Arnold Schwarzenegger, the then-governor of California had just vetoed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-sep-23-me-bill23-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2004 bill\u003c/a> that would have allowed undocumented immigrants like him to get driver’s licenses. At the time, Hernández worked for a well-known body shop in Los Angeles called West Coast Customs, where Hollywood celebrities like Sylvester Stallone, Snoop Dogg and Paris Hilton often brought their cars to for repairs and customizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Schwarzenegger came to pick up his car, I drove it and handed him the keys,” Hernández said, chuckling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in Mexico City, Hernández dreamed of being on television and becoming famous. He used to watch a kids’ show called “Chiquilladas” and aspired to be invited to be a part of the cast. When he was 8 years old, he learned that the show was offering acting lessons for kids. But his family didn’t have extra money to pay for them, so his dream was pushed to the back burner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/H2yUzmGAOxo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In high school Hernández started working at an auto repair shop to earn extra money. He liked working on cars — almost as much as he liked the idea of being on TV. He decided that he wanted to work on cars professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1991, as a teenager, he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with his brother. He then got a job working as a janitor at a body shop in Westchester, near the Los Angeles International Airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first time I seen a lowrider, I really went crazy,” Hernández said. “They used to make them dance and get up and spin around. And I was like, ‘How’d they do that?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884872\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11884872 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50618_Photo_2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50618_Photo_2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50618_Photo_2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50618_Photo_2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50618_Photo_2-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50618_Photo_2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mauricio Hernández grew up in a Mexico City neighborhood lined with mechanic shops and auto parts stores. (Photo courtesy Levi Bridges)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon Hernández started picking up odd jobs fixing up cars. He had a cousin who was doing some gigs for \u003ca href=\"https://westcoastcustoms.com/\">West Coast Customs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\">Hernández and his cousin spent a long weekend doing the exterior work on a rickety old van for West Coast Customs. As they worked, a camera crew came out to film them. Hernández figured they were shooting a documentary, but he didn’t ask any questions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here to do the job. Our thing was the money. Never mind the cameras,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following week, Hernández found out that they were filming the pilot episode of “\u003ca href=\"http://www.mtv.com/news/series/pimp-my-ride/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pimp My Ride\u003c/a>” — the MTV reality show hosted by the rapper Xzibit. Each episode featured West Coast Customs tricking out an old clunker and adding wild features like an Xbox or a jacuzzi. Hernández went on to work on many of the cars that appeared on the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/EYtGosGqsZs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We ended up doing ‘Pimp My Ride’ for six years,” he said. “Those six years were the happiest years of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The body shop soon launched its own reality show called “Street Customs.” Hernández became one of the show’s main characters — living his childhood fantasy on national TV in the United States. But he was also in California as an undocumented immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When his boss offered to sponsor Hernández with a U.S. visa if he returned to Mexico to open a West Coast Customs franchise, he jumped on the opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the winter of 2009, Hernández said goodbye to his partner and three kids and flew to Mexico City.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The world of “Tunéame la nave”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Hernández left Los Angeles, it was the first time in nearly 20 years that he had been back to Mexico City — the place where he grew up dreaming about being on television. And what’s extraordinary is that this dream of appearing on TV came true again, just not on the California side of the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Hernández worried that perhaps he’d made the wrong choice, and that this whole business venture in Mexico might fail. He promised his kids that he’d be back in California before the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once he’d returned to Mexico, the investors who brought the West Coast Customs brand there came up with the idea to launch a version of “Pimp My Ride” in Spanish. Hernández became the show’s host, and they called the show “Tunéame la nave,” a direct translation of “Pimp My Ride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/E3FFB9Pcmis\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández designed most of “Tunéame la nave” himself. The premise of the show was that people would send in pictures of their cars each week. Hernández would choose which one would get tuned up. He wanted the show to be funny — less formal than “Pimp My Ride” — and something that Mexicans could identify with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to put the salsa in it,” Hernández recalled. “Mexicans, we always want to put chile in it, we want to put lemon in it, we want to put salt in it. So I wanted to put the spices in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Mauricio Hernández\"]‘I had a promise to my kids in the States … that I was going to come back on Christmas Eve so I could be with them.’[/pullquote]Soon “Tunéame la nave” was broadcast to every state in Mexico. For years, Hernández had done the grunt work on cars that appeared on “Pimp My Ride” — but he was always behind the scenes. Now he became famous in his own country, the Xzibit of Mexico’s version of “Pimp My Ride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández said that his success in Mexico created a rift between him and Ryan Friedlinghaus, the owner of West Coast Customs in Los Angeles. Hernández arrived in Mexico believing that his former boss would sponsor him with a U.S. visa, which would allow him to return to his children in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hernández said that Friedlinghaus cut off communication with him in Mexico — he never helped Hernández get a visa. After multiple attempts to interview Friedlinghaus for this story, Friedlinghaus’s publicist sent an email saying they wish Hernández “our very best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885688\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11885688 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50727_Photo_4-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50727_Photo_4-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50727_Photo_4-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50727_Photo_4-qut.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mauricio Hernández still regularly holds events around Mexico for fans of his show “Tunéame la nave,” which was based on MTV’s hit show “Pimp My Ride.” (Photo courtesy Mauricio Hernández) \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mauricio Hernández)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But despite the fame he acquired from “Tunéame la nave,” Hernández didn’t want to stay in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a promise to my kids in the States,” Hernández said, “that I was gonna come back on Christmas Eve so I could be with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The crossing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='immigration']Hernández traveled to Tecate, a Mexican town on the border with California, and hired a coyote to take him to the United States. One night he set off with a group of about a dozen other migrants from Central America and Mexico around midnight and they began walking through the mountains into California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was hard to cross at that moment,” Hernández said. “They had like so much security around the border.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández was a smoker and out of shape, so he had trouble keeping up with the group. Eventually, they all stopped in a cave up in the mountains. Mauricio collapsed on the ground and fell asleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t remember sleeping for a long time. But I do remember when I woke up. There was nobody at the cave,” Hernández said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández started walking through the darkness trying to find his way back to civilization. Soon, it started to rain. Hernández walked through the freezing cold, tripping and falling in these deep depressions in the earth that bruised his arms and legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was preparing myself to die,” Hernández said. “I remember I told God, ‘I don’t want to die like this, please.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández had an old flip phone in his pocket that still had some battery left. He managed to call a Mexican emergency hotline. When the sun rose the next morning, an operator on the other end of the line was able to give Hernández directions back to Tecate based on landmarks he saw. A group of paramedics met Hernández at the edge of the city. Later, they told him that he nearly died from hypothermia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández never tried crossing the U.S. border again. Although his show, “Tunéame la nave” was eventually canceled, Hernández has formed a fulfilling life for himself in Mexico, where he runs his own body shop and regularly attends events where fans of the show come to get his autograph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885687\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11885687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50726_Photo_6-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50726_Photo_6-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50726_Photo_6-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50726_Photo_6-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50726_Photo_6-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50726_Photo_6-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Today Mauricio Hernández runs his own body shop in Mexico City that does personal customization on cars. 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