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Aguilar also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azevedo was seen at the federal building in Oakland Thursday morning, where he said he was meeting with an attorney. But he declined to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months since former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a>, her partner, Andre Jones, and David and Andy Duong were indicted on bribery, conspiracy and fraud charges, questions have circulated around whether the FBI’s corruption probe extends to Azevedo, whose home was raided by federal agents in January.[aside postID=news_12022900 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00001-1020x681.jpg']Those questions only intensified after federal prosecutors notified the council member in May that he is the target of a federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the contents of Robustelli’s lawsuit, together with documents released by San Leandro in response to a federal grand jury subpoena, give clues as to what the FBI may have been looking for when they raided Azevedo’s home and shed light on where the ongoing investigation could be headed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Jan. 9 indictment charging Thao and the other three defendants describes an alleged pay-to-play scheme involving a housing company that is widely believed to be Evolutionary Homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment alleges Thao promised Oakland would purchase housing units from the company, along with other favors, in exchange for payments to Jones and negative mailers targeting her opponents in the 2022 mayoral election. All four defendants have pleaded not guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week after FBI agents raided Thao’s home in June 2024, Azevedo defended himself from “rumors” tying him to the scandal in a \u003ca href=\"https://0201.nccdn.net/1_2/000/000/0de/bc3/june-27--2024.pdf\">letter to the editor\u003c/a> of the \u003cem>San Leandro Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022840\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Jones, longtime partner of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, leaves the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want to set the record straight. I don’t know anything about this alleged corruption nor do I believe that we should assume that corruption has happened until the facts come out,” Azevedo wrote, adding that he had received and reported a $2,000 campaign contribution from Andy Duong in support of his unsuccessful 2022 mayoral run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors in May notified Azevedo that he was the target of a federal investigation regarding criminal violations of federal laws, including conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds and false statements in a federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are interested in resolving this matter short of an indictment, please have your attorney contact the undersigned,” U.S. attorneys told Azevedo in a May 12 letter. “If no contact is made with our office prior to May 30, 2025, the matter will proceed in the ordinary course of prosecution.”[aside postID=news_11993390 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1020x680.jpg']To date, Azevedo has not been charged with a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Robustelli’s lawsuit, in October 2023, while she was out sick with COVID-19, Aguilar moved to place an urgent item on the council’s agenda to discuss the potential of obtaining an emergency homelessness declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft emergency declaration, the lawsuit alleges, sought to expand the powers of the city manager and staff to bypass the city’s normally required purchasing procedures and more quickly procure tiny homes from the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit alleges Robustelli told Aguilar and other supporters of the declaration that it was neither needed nor financially feasible for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In her role as City Manager, Ms. Robustelli was well informed of the homelessness issues in San Leandro at the time, and there simply was no state of emergency as to homelessness in San Leandro,” the complaint reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city had also obtained funding through the state’s Project Homekey program to renovate a motel into permanent low-rent housing and establish a navigation center, according to the lawsuit, which would provide housing to the city’s homeless population. Aguilar and Azevedo were presumably aware of the funding, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. postal inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences to members of a politically connected family who run the city’s contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Ms. Robustelli later learned, in or around 2024, that Councilmembers Azevedo and Aguilar were being pressured by the Evolutionary Homes vendor,” the lawsuit said. “Representatives for Evolutionary Homes not only pitched the proposed ordinance that would accelerate the City’s ability to purchase and install the container homes, but also wrote the proposed ordinance for City officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro city records released in response to a Jan. 14 federal grand jury subpoena included emails from 2023 between an Evolutionary Homes representative and city staff about an ordinance like the one described in Robustelli’s lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank you so much for chatting with me today,” Julie Wedge, a consultant working with the company, wrote to deputy city manager Eric Engelbart on Sept. 19. “Attached please find the San Leandro presentation, the Evolutionary Homes flyer, and the draft language for the ordinance based on what passed today in Alameda County and what we hope will pass in Oakland later today as well.”[aside postID=news_12022612 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-1020x680.jpg']“Please let me know when we can bring you and any other appropriate staff and Councilmembers to our showroom to see the two model units,” Wedge said. “Looking forward to meeting you in person and please reach out with any questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attached to the email was a template for an emergency ordinance with fill-in-the-blank spaces for statistics on homelessness. Slides showing the interiors of shipping containers converted into apartments were also included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an Aug. 11 phone interview, Wedge said her work with Evolutionary Homes, which is no longer in business, was unpaid. She said the company reached out to multiple California cities and counties, in addition to the California National Guard, to see if they would be interested in the homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was nothing illegal or improper about the proposed ordinance, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know why everybody seems to think that trying to do an emergency shelter ordinance was some shady deal or some problem or issue. It’s actually good public policy,” Wedge said. “Everything around the shelter ordinance was a public process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emails show other city employees were hesitant to approve the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m inclined to hold on passing a local emergency declaration until directed by the County to do so,” Human Services Director Jessica Lobedan responded to Engelbart and San Leandro’s Community Development Director Thomas Liao on Sept. 25. “My understanding of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961820/alameda-county-declares-state-of-emergency-on-homelessness-what-does-that-mean\">County’s declaration\u003c/a> was that it directs County staff to develop an emergency response plan. Until knowing more, it might be premature to do anything locally,” she wrote. Liao agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown San Leandro, on Sept. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Matt Gush/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Liao said he didn’t think the way the ordinance was brought forward by Evolutionary Homes seemed appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t farm out the drafting of ordinances, typically. We would want to have some touch on that as staff,” he said. “We don’t take things wholesale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff ultimately recommended that the city not move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to give you a heads up that some significant changes had to be made to the resolution that you provided to us because the content was not applicable to the City,” Robustelli wrote to Aguilar on Oct. 26. “Staff does not recommend moving forward with this resolution. I did not want you to be surprised about the content of my message for the 11/6 council meeting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 17, 2024, the city council voted to take no action on the declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli eventually left the job, the lawsuit alleges, citing life-threatening health issues.[aside postID=news_12051947 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1246387515-1020x680.jpg']In addition to the allegations surrounding Evolutionary Homes, Robustelli’s lawsuit claims Aguilar and San Leandro city council member Fred Simon repeatedly interfered with her duties as city manager and threatened her when she protested or refused to do their bidding. More often than not, they were assisted by Azevedo, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their actions, the lawsuit alleges, were in retaliation for her refusal to condone unethical behavior or support individual demands she viewed as unethical, improper or unlawful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli alleges Simon submitted for reimbursement for mileage to and from his home and city hall and for non-city travel. Despite having medical benefits from his public employer and one other public agency, Simon also made a claim for medical reimbursement with the city for not electing medical coverage, the lawsuit alleges, enabling him to collect health benefits from three separate public entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Simon and Aguilar made increasingly obscure and demanding requests to Robustelli to force her to resign, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanleandro.org/DocumentCenter/View/11474/Former-CM-Complaint-Inv---1172024-Press-Release-?bidId=\">officially censured\u003c/a> council members Simon and Aguilar for interfering with Robustelli’s duties in violation of the city charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon did not respond to KQED’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pauline Cutter, who was San Leandro’s mayor from 2015 to 2022, recalled Robustelli being frequently upset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI agents are seen at 80 Maiden Lane in Oakland on June 20, 2024, carrying multiple boxes from a residence. After loading the boxes into their vehicles, the agents departed without commenting to reporters, only confirming that they had cleared the scene and no agents remained. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There was pressure against Fran to do kind of the bidding of the three council members. And a city manager can’t do that. They can’t take sides,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2024, FBI agents raided Thao’s home and several other properties associated with the Duongs, including the Oakland offices of the recycling company, California Waste Solutions, which is owned by the Duongs and has contracts with the cities of Oakland and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter to the \u003cem>San Leandro Times\u003c/em> that month, Azevedo denied that he said California Waste Solutions should be awarded a city contract with San Leandro and defended his participation in a 2023 Vietnam trip that Thao and other East Bay officials also attended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedge said she didn’t know Evolutionary Homes was falling apart until FBI agents showed up on her doorstep the same day as the raids in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They thought that I was going to be a witness,” Wedge said. “They thought I knew. They thought I was in those meetings,” she said, referring to meetings described in the indictment that allegedly took place between Thao, Jones and the Duongs about a pay-to-play scheme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not in those meetings. I didn’t know any of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around seven months later, agents raided Azevedo’s home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emails from that week, reviewed by KQED, show San Leandro city officials scrambling to nail down whether the city had ever done business with the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can you please research the following business to see if the City has conducted business with them?” a city spokesperson wrote to the acting finance manager, adding: “Evolutionary Homes, LLC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of payments to the city, business licenses and financial records turned up nothing, according to the emails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/post/bryan-azevedo-department-justice-targets-san-leandro-city-council-member-sheng-thao-corruption-investigation/16649211/\">interview\u003c/a> that was broadcast in June, Azevedo told ABC 7 that he had counted the days between when the FBI raided Thao’s home and when she was indicted. He said he was waiting to see if he would be arrested, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They shouldn’t have as much stuff on me,” Azevedo said. “Because I didn’t do nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether there was an arrangement between him and the Duongs, Azevedo said, “I don’t remember nothing, no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He later added, “I don’t want to comment on that because no, there was no arrangement on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, the lawsuit claims, pitched an ordinance that would allow the city to more quickly purchase homes like the ones the company aimed to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli filed the lawsuit in Alameda County in June, alleging that when she opposed the proposal, Azevedo and Aguilar voiced their unhappiness. Together with another council member, they would harass and intimidate her that year and the following, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has denied the allegations and, on July 28, filed a motion to have the complaint in the case thrown out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052137\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown San Leandro on Sept. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Matt Gush/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The City will respond through the appropriate legal channels,” San Leandro Mayor Juan González said in a statement to KQED. “While we cannot comment on the specifics of pending litigation, I want to reaffirm our commitment to transparency, accountability, and the continued service to our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli declined to comment, citing the advice of her attorney. Aguilar also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azevedo was seen at the federal building in Oakland Thursday morning, where he said he was meeting with an attorney. But he declined to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months since former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a>, her partner, Andre Jones, and David and Andy Duong were indicted on bribery, conspiracy and fraud charges, questions have circulated around whether the FBI’s corruption probe extends to Azevedo, whose home was raided by federal agents in January.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>To date, Azevedo has not been charged with a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Robustelli’s lawsuit, in October 2023, while she was out sick with COVID-19, Aguilar moved to place an urgent item on the council’s agenda to discuss the potential of obtaining an emergency homelessness declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft emergency declaration, the lawsuit alleges, sought to expand the powers of the city manager and staff to bypass the city’s normally required purchasing procedures and more quickly procure tiny homes from the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit alleges Robustelli told Aguilar and other supporters of the declaration that it was neither needed nor financially feasible for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In her role as City Manager, Ms. Robustelli was well informed of the homelessness issues in San Leandro at the time, and there simply was no state of emergency as to homelessness in San Leandro,” the complaint reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city had also obtained funding through the state’s Project Homekey program to renovate a motel into permanent low-rent housing and establish a navigation center, according to the lawsuit, which would provide housing to the city’s homeless population. Aguilar and Azevedo were presumably aware of the funding, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. postal inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences to members of a politically connected family who run the city’s contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Ms. Robustelli later learned, in or around 2024, that Councilmembers Azevedo and Aguilar were being pressured by the Evolutionary Homes vendor,” the lawsuit said. “Representatives for Evolutionary Homes not only pitched the proposed ordinance that would accelerate the City’s ability to purchase and install the container homes, but also wrote the proposed ordinance for City officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro city records released in response to a Jan. 14 federal grand jury subpoena included emails from 2023 between an Evolutionary Homes representative and city staff about an ordinance like the one described in Robustelli’s lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank you so much for chatting with me today,” Julie Wedge, a consultant working with the company, wrote to deputy city manager Eric Engelbart on Sept. 19. “Attached please find the San Leandro presentation, the Evolutionary Homes flyer, and the draft language for the ordinance based on what passed today in Alameda County and what we hope will pass in Oakland later today as well.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Please let me know when we can bring you and any other appropriate staff and Councilmembers to our showroom to see the two model units,” Wedge said. “Looking forward to meeting you in person and please reach out with any questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attached to the email was a template for an emergency ordinance with fill-in-the-blank spaces for statistics on homelessness. Slides showing the interiors of shipping containers converted into apartments were also included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an Aug. 11 phone interview, Wedge said her work with Evolutionary Homes, which is no longer in business, was unpaid. She said the company reached out to multiple California cities and counties, in addition to the California National Guard, to see if they would be interested in the homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was nothing illegal or improper about the proposed ordinance, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know why everybody seems to think that trying to do an emergency shelter ordinance was some shady deal or some problem or issue. It’s actually good public policy,” Wedge said. “Everything around the shelter ordinance was a public process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emails show other city employees were hesitant to approve the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m inclined to hold on passing a local emergency declaration until directed by the County to do so,” Human Services Director Jessica Lobedan responded to Engelbart and San Leandro’s Community Development Director Thomas Liao on Sept. 25. “My understanding of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961820/alameda-county-declares-state-of-emergency-on-homelessness-what-does-that-mean\">County’s declaration\u003c/a> was that it directs County staff to develop an emergency response plan. Until knowing more, it might be premature to do anything locally,” she wrote. Liao agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown San Leandro, on Sept. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Matt Gush/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Liao said he didn’t think the way the ordinance was brought forward by Evolutionary Homes seemed appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t farm out the drafting of ordinances, typically. We would want to have some touch on that as staff,” he said. “We don’t take things wholesale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff ultimately recommended that the city not move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to give you a heads up that some significant changes had to be made to the resolution that you provided to us because the content was not applicable to the City,” Robustelli wrote to Aguilar on Oct. 26. “Staff does not recommend moving forward with this resolution. I did not want you to be surprised about the content of my message for the 11/6 council meeting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 17, 2024, the city council voted to take no action on the declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli eventually left the job, the lawsuit alleges, citing life-threatening health issues.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In addition to the allegations surrounding Evolutionary Homes, Robustelli’s lawsuit claims Aguilar and San Leandro city council member Fred Simon repeatedly interfered with her duties as city manager and threatened her when she protested or refused to do their bidding. More often than not, they were assisted by Azevedo, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their actions, the lawsuit alleges, were in retaliation for her refusal to condone unethical behavior or support individual demands she viewed as unethical, improper or unlawful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli alleges Simon submitted for reimbursement for mileage to and from his home and city hall and for non-city travel. Despite having medical benefits from his public employer and one other public agency, Simon also made a claim for medical reimbursement with the city for not electing medical coverage, the lawsuit alleges, enabling him to collect health benefits from three separate public entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Simon and Aguilar made increasingly obscure and demanding requests to Robustelli to force her to resign, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanleandro.org/DocumentCenter/View/11474/Former-CM-Complaint-Inv---1172024-Press-Release-?bidId=\">officially censured\u003c/a> council members Simon and Aguilar for interfering with Robustelli’s duties in violation of the city charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon did not respond to KQED’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pauline Cutter, who was San Leandro’s mayor from 2015 to 2022, recalled Robustelli being frequently upset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI agents are seen at 80 Maiden Lane in Oakland on June 20, 2024, carrying multiple boxes from a residence. After loading the boxes into their vehicles, the agents departed without commenting to reporters, only confirming that they had cleared the scene and no agents remained. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There was pressure against Fran to do kind of the bidding of the three council members. And a city manager can’t do that. They can’t take sides,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2024, FBI agents raided Thao’s home and several other properties associated with the Duongs, including the Oakland offices of the recycling company, California Waste Solutions, which is owned by the Duongs and has contracts with the cities of Oakland and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter to the \u003cem>San Leandro Times\u003c/em> that month, Azevedo denied that he said California Waste Solutions should be awarded a city contract with San Leandro and defended his participation in a 2023 Vietnam trip that Thao and other East Bay officials also attended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedge said she didn’t know Evolutionary Homes was falling apart until FBI agents showed up on her doorstep the same day as the raids in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They thought that I was going to be a witness,” Wedge said. “They thought I knew. They thought I was in those meetings,” she said, referring to meetings described in the indictment that allegedly took place between Thao, Jones and the Duongs about a pay-to-play scheme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not in those meetings. I didn’t know any of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around seven months later, agents raided Azevedo’s home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emails from that week, reviewed by KQED, show San Leandro city officials scrambling to nail down whether the city had ever done business with the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can you please research the following business to see if the City has conducted business with them?” a city spokesperson wrote to the acting finance manager, adding: “Evolutionary Homes, LLC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of payments to the city, business licenses and financial records turned up nothing, according to the emails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/post/bryan-azevedo-department-justice-targets-san-leandro-city-council-member-sheng-thao-corruption-investigation/16649211/\">interview\u003c/a> that was broadcast in June, Azevedo told ABC 7 that he had counted the days between when the FBI raided Thao’s home and when she was indicted. He said he was waiting to see if he would be arrested, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They shouldn’t have as much stuff on me,” Azevedo said. “Because I didn’t do nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether there was an arrangement between him and the Duongs, Azevedo said, “I don’t remember nothing, no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He later added, “I don’t want to comment on that because no, there was no arrangement on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Never have so few commuters enjoyed so much attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers and passengers trickled into the dingy garage beneath the MacArthur Freeway in Oakland’s Grand Lake neighborhood early Tuesday, hoping to take part in the well-publicized\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051292/casual-carpool-the-bay-areas-quirkiest-commute-is-having-a-2025-revival-relaunch\"> revival of the East Bay’s casual carpool\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews from three TV stations, two radio stations and one online news site greeted them. And by Camille Bermudez, the Alameda resident who has nearly single-handedly organized the carpool relaunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As drivers and riders began to roll into the squat concrete structure on Lake Park Boulevard at 7 a.m., Bermudez played the role of carpool concierge and emcee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bermudez greeted other commuters like old friends, gave newbies a heads-up on how the system is supposed to work at the Lake Park location, and even introduced reporters to arriving carpoolers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just had one successful carpooler!” she said after the first of half a dozen or so carpools rolled out toward a freeway on-ramp. “We’re thrilled to be back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051486\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camille Bermudez in Oakland, near where the Casual Carpool pick-up location will be under the 580 freeway, on Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is Chuy,” she said, introducing a new acquaintance, San Ramon resident Chuy Perez, as he pulled up in an SUV. “Chuy is a casual carpooler from years before, and he just told me he’s been commuting for about 40 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez, a technician for AT&T, said he’s been perplexed that it has taken so long for the carpool to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve periodically been looking online to see what’s been going on,” he said. “I couldn’t understand why it’s taken so long to get it back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Lee, who drives from the East Bay to teach at San Francisco’s A.P. Giannini Middle School, echoed that sentiment.[aside postID=news_12051292 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-Casual-Carpool-MD-11.jpg']“Probably the last two years, occasionally I’d go: ‘Hey, is this still a thing?'” Lee told reporters, who clustered at his driver’s side window. “… So I’m crossing my fingers that this is working out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riders didn’t materialize for Perez and Lee, and both of them wound up leaving for the city solo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers who arrived a little later, however, were luckier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Reiten said he has been waiting to pick up riders for the first time since COVID-19 stay-at-home and social distancing orders ended the four-decade-old casual carpool in March 2020. He said he was drawn back by all the advantages he remembers from the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just loved that it was seemingly always available, inexpensive, often more convenient, often more comfortable than BART or a bus,” Reiten said. “It was a great way to catch up on the news, because often they would have news playing in the car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that rides in the before-times were always perfect. Reiten mentioned one particularly “uncomfortable ride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got into a car, and the woman who was driving had her bird loose in the car,” Reiten said. “When I stepped in, I saw the bird flying around. The bird cage was next to me, in the back. There was bird … mess … all over the place, and I immediately got out and said, ‘I’m not riding in this car.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051481\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars drive along the 580 freeway in Oakland on Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two Oakland residents who caught rides into the city on Tuesday morning said they see casual carpooling as something that can help build and sustain community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a really big advocate of community support and mutual aid,” Brionna Lewis, a marketing strategist, said. “I think this is a way of people helping people in ways that sometimes our government can’t support. 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"content": "\u003cp>On the first Saturday night in August, the sun set on the Chabot Space and Science Center in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a>, a steel-framed, futuristic campus reaching toward the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one of the entrances, a line formed. Spilling down the center’s stairs were patrons dressed head to toe in glittering silvers and golds, some in radiant fabrics that beamed like Technicolor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A passerby might have mistaken the scene for a mini Met Gala — women sashaying in golden sun-shaped crowns, men in silver suits that caught the light and scattered it in a cascade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this wasn’t the Met Gala — it was the 2025 Black Futures Ball, an annual fundraiser hosted by the East Oakland Youth Development Center. Since its founding in 1978, the EOYDC has stood as a beacon of hope and support for Oakland’s youth, offering resources in career development, wellness, college preparation and arts programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gala took place amid a rising tide of investment in East Oakland’s future — most notably, a $100 million community-led initiative known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021914/rise-east-unlocks-100-million-to-reimagine-east-oakland\">Rise East\u003c/a>, aimed at reversing generations of disinvestment. Powered by local leaders and a national funder, the effort centers Black and brown families and aims to transform a 40-block stretch of East Oakland through long-term support for housing, education and public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051410\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_01096_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_01096_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_01096_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_01096_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests dance together at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The EOYDC is part of the 40×40 Council, a coalition of community-based organizations working to improve health and quality of life in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One key EOYDC initiative is the Pathway to College and Careers Program, which helps prospective college students navigate the application process and provides financial scholarships to support their journeys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the fourth year of the Black Futures Ball, which the EOYDC hosts to celebrate those scholars and raise funds to help ensure future generations dream big.[aside postID=news_12021914 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-07-BL-672x372.jpg']On Aug. 2, the past, present and future converged at the gala with the theme Space is the Place — Visionary Dreamwork. Many donors and attendees were once EOYDC participants themselves, giving youth a glimpse of what might await them — futures already mapped among the stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selena Wilson, the EOYDC’s CEO, said the ball’s theme — while futuristic — is grounded in Oakland’s history. She said the 1974 Afrofuturist film \u003cem>Space is the Place \u003c/em>inspired her\u003cem>,\u003c/em> which starred \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931735/sun-ra-where-to-begin\">jazz legend Sun Ra\u003c/a> and was largely shot in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to lean into radical imagination,” Wilson told KQED. “Making space for joy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The theme’s double meaning, Wilson said, is about embracing ambition and breaking boundaries, while also making room to uplift and celebrate each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Jada White, a rising senior at UCLA and an EOYDC scholar, the theme takes on many meanings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051407 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Kahnetah Thomas, Shoshonie Torres, Erin Dixon, and Alexandria Rivera pose for a portrait together at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a Black student, I think I have to remind myself that my journey has a lot more obstacles than somebody else,” White, 21, said. “Me being in the same room as them is a feat within itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, White added, it’s not just about taking up space — it’s about “making sure that we’re allowing space for others like us to enter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why it’s really important to have events like this, because most of these donors are Black scholars,” White said. “They were in our shoes before, and I think that seeing that as a scholar is kind of inspiring and endearing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051388\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlene Richardson (left) and Charlette Richardson (right), also known as The LoveLove Twins, pose for a portrait at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leila Fite, an incoming freshman at Temple University, said radical imagination helped shape her future in public health. At Skyline High School, where many of the scholars attended, Fite did her senior project on Black maternal health and was connected to resources through the EOYDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got to talk to a whole bunch of Black women in very different, specific medical fields that I had never even heard of,” Fite said. “It really just opened up a whole new scope of possibilities for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the banquet hall, students shared their college plans and majors with families and donors before hearing from guest speakers. This year’s honorary guests included Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and Dolores Huerta, the labor leader and activist whose name is synonymous with the national farm workers movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051394\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee (left) and Dolores Huerta (right) pose for a photo at the Black Futures Ball banquet hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tears fell when a scholarship was announced in the memory of Marvin Boomer, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043904/oakland-watchdogs-say-chp-should-follow-opd-pursuit-policy-following-deadly-crash\">beloved Castlemont High School teacher\u003c/a> who was killed in June when he was struck by a driver fleeing from the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tears fell again when Rev. Dereca Blackmon led a libation ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called forth the ancestors “not just to remember them, but to invite them to be with us right here, right now, to bless us as we’ve carved new spaces for our children and our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also invoked “the young ones who are yet to be born, that they may call our names with pride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051392\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee walks up to the stage with a mayoral proclamation at the Black Futures Ball banquet hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lee presented the Ida Louise Jackson Award. She knew the trailblazing educator and philanthropist personally and called the moment “Sankofa” — a Ghanaian concept of reflecting on one’s history and heritage to look toward the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just know that those who had the vision are proud,” Lee told the scholars. “You all are making sure that the world survives, and you are secure in the world, for the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Huerta, now 95, made her way to the podium, the room fell silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Nicole Austin (left) helps Dolores Huerta (right) walk to the stage at the Black Futures Ball banquet hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She reminded the audience of the importance of education and awareness — especially in a time when the federal government has placed those keystone values on a chopping block. Racial and religious divisions, she said, are bolstered by withholding education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si Se Puede,” Huerta said, and the entire room bellowed back: “YES YOU CAN!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other speakers included Tajai and DJ Toure from the Oakland hip-hop collective Hieroglyphics. Tajai described “the beautiful vortex” of movements born in the Bay Area — the Black Panthers, hippies, disability rights — and the homegrown talent that Oakland has gifted the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Y’all are the people that are gonna save us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051398\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlay King hugs a friend at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the speeches and fundraising, the crowd poured onto the dance floor. Lights bounced off space helmets and NASA decals. A brilliant dome glowed overhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd, blending in a mix of silver and neon, traditional African dress and elaborate face paint, bestows upon the present an insignia, the past marrying the future. Local Black and POC artisans filled tables with jewelry, desserts and more in celebration of abundance, art and joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alyce Kareem, an incoming sophomore at Xavier University of Louisiana, has big dreams. A Skyline graduate and lifelong EOYDC participant, Kareem told KQED she wants to pursue both filmmaking and medicine — two passions she is certain can be blended into one path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00828_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00828_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00828_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00828_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Melton poses for a portrait showing off her jewelry at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These spaces push me to express myself and not put myself in a box,” Kareem said, gesturing to the flickering strobe lights and the crowd dancing near her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about her night and her time at the EOYDC, she simply said: “A dream of mine came true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the midnight fog settled over Skyline Boulevard, the Chabot Center still glowed — lights and music spilling from every door — as though the night sky itself were alive and full of stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On Aug. 2, the past, present and future converged at the gala with the theme Space is the Place — Visionary Dreamwork. Many donors and attendees were once EOYDC participants themselves, giving youth a glimpse of what might await them — futures already mapped among the stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selena Wilson, the EOYDC’s CEO, said the ball’s theme — while futuristic — is grounded in Oakland’s history. She said the 1974 Afrofuturist film \u003cem>Space is the Place \u003c/em>inspired her\u003cem>,\u003c/em> which starred \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931735/sun-ra-where-to-begin\">jazz legend Sun Ra\u003c/a> and was largely shot in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to lean into radical imagination,” Wilson told KQED. “Making space for joy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The theme’s double meaning, Wilson said, is about embracing ambition and breaking boundaries, while also making room to uplift and celebrate each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Jada White, a rising senior at UCLA and an EOYDC scholar, the theme takes on many meanings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051407 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Kahnetah Thomas, Shoshonie Torres, Erin Dixon, and Alexandria Rivera pose for a portrait together at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a Black student, I think I have to remind myself that my journey has a lot more obstacles than somebody else,” White, 21, said. “Me being in the same room as them is a feat within itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, White added, it’s not just about taking up space — it’s about “making sure that we’re allowing space for others like us to enter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why it’s really important to have events like this, because most of these donors are Black scholars,” White said. “They were in our shoes before, and I think that seeing that as a scholar is kind of inspiring and endearing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051388\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlene Richardson (left) and Charlette Richardson (right), also known as The LoveLove Twins, pose for a portrait at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leila Fite, an incoming freshman at Temple University, said radical imagination helped shape her future in public health. At Skyline High School, where many of the scholars attended, Fite did her senior project on Black maternal health and was connected to resources through the EOYDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got to talk to a whole bunch of Black women in very different, specific medical fields that I had never even heard of,” Fite said. “It really just opened up a whole new scope of possibilities for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the banquet hall, students shared their college plans and majors with families and donors before hearing from guest speakers. This year’s honorary guests included Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and Dolores Huerta, the labor leader and activist whose name is synonymous with the national farm workers movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051394\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee (left) and Dolores Huerta (right) pose for a photo at the Black Futures Ball banquet hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tears fell when a scholarship was announced in the memory of Marvin Boomer, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043904/oakland-watchdogs-say-chp-should-follow-opd-pursuit-policy-following-deadly-crash\">beloved Castlemont High School teacher\u003c/a> who was killed in June when he was struck by a driver fleeing from the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tears fell again when Rev. Dereca Blackmon led a libation ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called forth the ancestors “not just to remember them, but to invite them to be with us right here, right now, to bless us as we’ve carved new spaces for our children and our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also invoked “the young ones who are yet to be born, that they may call our names with pride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051392\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee walks up to the stage with a mayoral proclamation at the Black Futures Ball banquet hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lee presented the Ida Louise Jackson Award. She knew the trailblazing educator and philanthropist personally and called the moment “Sankofa” — a Ghanaian concept of reflecting on one’s history and heritage to look toward the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just know that those who had the vision are proud,” Lee told the scholars. “You all are making sure that the world survives, and you are secure in the world, for the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Huerta, now 95, made her way to the podium, the room fell silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Nicole Austin (left) helps Dolores Huerta (right) walk to the stage at the Black Futures Ball banquet hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She reminded the audience of the importance of education and awareness — especially in a time when the federal government has placed those keystone values on a chopping block. Racial and religious divisions, she said, are bolstered by withholding education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si Se Puede,” Huerta said, and the entire room bellowed back: “YES YOU CAN!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other speakers included Tajai and DJ Toure from the Oakland hip-hop collective Hieroglyphics. Tajai described “the beautiful vortex” of movements born in the Bay Area — the Black Panthers, hippies, disability rights — and the homegrown talent that Oakland has gifted the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Y’all are the people that are gonna save us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051398\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlay King hugs a friend at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the speeches and fundraising, the crowd poured onto the dance floor. Lights bounced off space helmets and NASA decals. A brilliant dome glowed overhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd, blending in a mix of silver and neon, traditional African dress and elaborate face paint, bestows upon the present an insignia, the past marrying the future. Local Black and POC artisans filled tables with jewelry, desserts and more in celebration of abundance, art and joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alyce Kareem, an incoming sophomore at Xavier University of Louisiana, has big dreams. A Skyline graduate and lifelong EOYDC participant, Kareem told KQED she wants to pursue both filmmaking and medicine — two passions she is certain can be blended into one path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00828_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00828_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00828_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00828_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Melton poses for a portrait showing off her jewelry at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These spaces push me to express myself and not put myself in a box,” Kareem said, gesturing to the flickering strobe lights and the crowd dancing near her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about her night and her time at the EOYDC, she simply said: “A dream of mine came true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the midnight fog settled over Skyline Boulevard, the Chabot Center still glowed — lights and music spilling from every door — as though the night sky itself were alive and full of stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They accused pro-Israel groups and officials of using legal tactics to silence Palestinian voices in the U.S. under the guise of combating hate, all while ignoring or abetting an Israeli assault on Gaza so dire that even the strip’s only \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">remaining\u003ca href=\"https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/announcements/joint-statement-on-gaza-from-afp-ap-bbc-reuters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> journalists\u003c/a>\u003c/span> are starving to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been forced to be traumatized, to witness this genocide, and to not have our government do anything about it,” said U.S. Army veteran and street medic Ethos de Leon, “and in fact what they’re doing is attacking good people that run this coffee shop and provide community resources instead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spring, two separate Jewish patrons filed civil suits claiming that Harara kicked them out for wearing caps emblazoned with the \u003ca href=\"https://brandeiscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/MAN-KICKED-OUT-OF-OAKLAND-CAFE-FOR-BEING-JEWISH-SUES-OWNER-2.pdf\">Star of David,\u003c/a> one with the additional phrase \u003ca href=\"https://www.beneschlaw.com/resources/benesch-and-adl-sue-cafe-for-discriminating-against-jewish-customer.html\">“Am Yisrael Chai”\u003c/a> or “the people of Israel live”. Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice added its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043803/feds-sue-jerusalem-coffee-an-oakland-cafe-that-allegedly-kicked-out-jewish-customers\">claim\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups like \u003ca href=\"https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace\u003c/a> leaped into action, sending out alerts to members, including Peter Truskier, an East Bay resident and descendant of Holocaust survivors from Poland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043849\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-OAKLANDCOFFEESHOP-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-OAKLANDCOFFEESHOP-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-OAKLANDCOFFEESHOP-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-OAKLANDCOFFEESHOP-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jerusalem Coffee House in Oakland on June 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Since then, I’ve become friends with Abdulrahim, and I have to say that there’s no antisemitism I’ve felt at this coffee house,” Truskier said. “In fact, I’ve felt nothing but welcome. It’s like coming to a family establishment. So the main thing that I want to say is that antisemitism and anti-Zionism are not the same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the issue is not political, according to the New York-based attorney representing Jonathan Hirsch, one of the men suing Harara and the East Bay Community Space, which rents the space to the cafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m confident that that’s exactly how they’re going to try to paint Mr. Hirsch,” Brandeis Center senior counsel Omer Wiczyk said. “That’s already what they’re trying to do is paint him as an activist who went there to cause a scene. Unfortunately for them, the evidence totally belies that claim.”[aside postID=news_12043803 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250611-OAKLANDCOFFEESHOP-07-BL-KQED.jpg']Wiczyk said that far from being a provocateur hoping to lay a discrimination trap for Harara, Hirsch was simply looking for a bathroom for his child after getting a hot dog across the street when he went to Jerusalem Coffee House. He said the incident represents a basic violation of civil rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a viral video of part of the October confrontation, Harara is seen telling Hirsch to leave because his hat is violent, not because he is Jewish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not asking you to leave because of that,” Harara said. “Are you a Zionist? Then get out!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harara, whose family is from Gaza and maintains that Israel is committing genocide, told KQED last month he adamantly denies he was being antisemitic in either of the incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an adjacent space, used to host health care worker meetups and self-defense classes for Muslim women, Harara told the diverse crowd on Wednesday that “Zionist lobbying groups masquerading as civil rights organizations” are “terrified of our unity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Death has crept into every crevice of life in Gaza, and yet despite the violence we have endured,” Harara said, “my heart remains faithfully tethered to a justice greater than anything the human mind can comprehend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Dozens of caregivers, nurses and allies rallied at Kaiser Permanente’s San Francisco Medical Center on Friday afternoon to mourn the loss of what they say is critical and life-affirming care for trans and gender-diverse youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days earlier, the California health care giant said it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049555/kaiser-to-stop-gender-affirming-surgeries-for-minors-leaving-trans-kids-with-fewer-options\">pausing surgical treatment for gender dysphoria\u003c/a> for patients who are younger than 19, under mounting political pressure from the Trump administration. All other gender-affirming care, including non-surgical treatment for minors and surgeries for patients 19 and older, will continue, a Kaiser spokesperson said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move sent shockwaves through the Bay Area’s LGBTQ+ community, many of whom turned to Kaiser for gender-affirming care when there was nowhere else to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sydney Simpson, a registered Kaiser nurse and member of the California Nurses Association, said they came to the Golden State from Alabama because of the services their employer formerly provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve heard questions like, ‘Well, where can we go instead?’ And the answer is, I don’t know. And I don’t know that there will be an answer any time soon,” Simpson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-7_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-7_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049935\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-7_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-7_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-7_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Union nurses and community supporters rally outside of Kaiser Permanente, honoring transgender patients affected by Kaiser’s decision to halt gender-affirming care to minors, on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There is nowhere else to go past San Francisco, past Northern California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd, largely made up of Kaiser patients and their supporters, waved transgender pride flags, and carried signs saying, “Transgender rights are human rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Reiger is the parent of a transgender child who says the care they received at Kaiser helped save their life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My kid got the help they needed which they would not get today. But there are other kids who still need it because of Kaiser’s decision today and it is a dereliction of their medical, ethical, professional duties,” Reiger told KQED.[aside postID=news_12049555 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Oakland-based Kaiser Permanente, which serves more than 12 million people across eight states, called the decision to pause treatment a “difficult” one, citing “the significant risks being created for health systems, clinicians, and patients” in the evolving legal and regulatory environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has aggressively targeted gender-related health care for trans youth, beginning with a series of executive orders instructing federal agencies to restrict access to care and funding. Most recently, the U.S. Department of Justice issued more than 20 subpoenas to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/gender-affirming-care-minors\">doctors and clinics\u003c/a> providing gender-affirming care to minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other states have passed laws limiting such care, California has doubled down on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929233/california-becomes-first-sanctuary-state-for-transgender-youth-seeking-medical-care\">protecting medical services for youth\u003c/a>. And in February, California Attorney General Rob Bonta \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-reminds-hospitals-and-clinics-anti-discrimination-laws#:~:text=Electing%20to%20refuse%20services%20to,are%20protected%20under%20state%20laws.&text=California%20has%20a%20number%20of,Health%20Care%27s%20TGI%20Care%20webpage\">warned hospitals\u003c/a> that denying or pausing care for trans youth based on political pressure could violate state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that the President’s executive order on gender affirming care has created some confusion,” Bonta said in a statement. “Let me be clear: California law has not changed, and hospitals and clinics have a legal obligation to provide equal access to healthcare services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kaiser is not the only health care provider in the state to have caved to Trump’s pressure in recent weeks. Palo Alto-based Stanford Medicine scaled back \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997491/stanford-scales-back-trans-care-for-minors-amid-federal-crackdown\">gender-related surgical procedures\u003c/a> for minors last month. And this week, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles closed its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049310/childrens-hospital-los-angeles-ends-transgender-care\">Center for Transyouth Health and Development\u003c/a>, which had been a leader in gender-affirming care for the last 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic State Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, who authored a \u003ca href=\"https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-wieners-historic-bill-provide-refuge-trans-kids-and-their-families-signed-law\">2022 law to make California a safe refuge\u003c/a> for transgender youth seeking medical care, also attended the protest and called Kaiser’s decision illegal under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-26_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-26_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049936\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-26_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-26_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-26_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A counter protester, center, confronts a protester during a rally and vigil honoring transgender patients affected by Kaiser’s decision to halt gender-affirming care to minors, outside of Kaiser Permanente on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a past interview, he acknowledged the challenges facing companies caught in between the needs of patients and the Trump administration’s pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important for us not to just cave in to Donald Trump’s bullying. It’s hard and it’s scary, but this is how fascists succeed, when institutions start backing down and caving in and doing whatever the regime wants,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small group of counter-protesters stood mostly on the outskirts of the crowd, holding signs reading “No child can consent to be sterilized” and “No more profiting off of confused children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At certain points during the rally, counter-protesters interjected to shout down rally speakers, yelling, “Stop sterilizing children.” Tensions briefly escalated between the two sides when counter-protesters tried to move closer to the center of the rally, and advocates quickly moved to block them with their bodies. A brief shoving match ensued, and then quickly fizzled out.[aside postID=arts_13977595 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/2025.04.14_Middleton_SandyStone_15_qed.jpg']Medical interventions for transgender children and youth, which may include puberty blockers, hormones and, in rare cases, surgery, has become a lightning rod issue nationally and globally. Some parents, like Reiger, say that surgical medical care was lifesaving for their child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/ama-press-releases/ama-states-stop-interfering-health-care-transgender-children\">American Medical Association\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/25340/AAP-reaffirms-gender-affirming-care-policy?autologincheck=redirected\">American Pediatrics Association\u003c/a> maintain that gender-affirming care, including surgeries in some cases, can be medically necessary for both children and adults. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sydney Simpson, a registered Kaiser nurse and member of the California Nurses Association, said they came to the Golden State from Alabama because of the services their employer formerly provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve heard questions like, ‘Well, where can we go instead?’ And the answer is, I don’t know. And I don’t know that there will be an answer any time soon,” Simpson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-7_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-7_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049935\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-7_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-7_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-7_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Union nurses and community supporters rally outside of Kaiser Permanente, honoring transgender patients affected by Kaiser’s decision to halt gender-affirming care to minors, on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There is nowhere else to go past San Francisco, past Northern California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd, largely made up of Kaiser patients and their supporters, waved transgender pride flags, and carried signs saying, “Transgender rights are human rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Reiger is the parent of a transgender child who says the care they received at Kaiser helped save their life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My kid got the help they needed which they would not get today. But there are other kids who still need it because of Kaiser’s decision today and it is a dereliction of their medical, ethical, professional duties,” Reiger told KQED.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Most recently, the U.S. Department of Justice issued more than 20 subpoenas to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/gender-affirming-care-minors\">doctors and clinics\u003c/a> providing gender-affirming care to minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other states have passed laws limiting such care, California has doubled down on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929233/california-becomes-first-sanctuary-state-for-transgender-youth-seeking-medical-care\">protecting medical services for youth\u003c/a>. And in February, California Attorney General Rob Bonta \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-reminds-hospitals-and-clinics-anti-discrimination-laws#:~:text=Electing%20to%20refuse%20services%20to,are%20protected%20under%20state%20laws.&text=California%20has%20a%20number%20of,Health%20Care%27s%20TGI%20Care%20webpage\">warned hospitals\u003c/a> that denying or pausing care for trans youth based on political pressure could violate state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that the President’s executive order on gender affirming care has created some confusion,” Bonta said in a statement. “Let me be clear: California law has not changed, and hospitals and clinics have a legal obligation to provide equal access to healthcare services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kaiser is not the only health care provider in the state to have caved to Trump’s pressure in recent weeks. 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It’s hard and it’s scary, but this is how fascists succeed, when institutions start backing down and caving in and doing whatever the regime wants,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small group of counter-protesters stood mostly on the outskirts of the crowd, holding signs reading “No child can consent to be sterilized” and “No more profiting off of confused children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At certain points during the rally, counter-protesters interjected to shout down rally speakers, yelling, “Stop sterilizing children.” Tensions briefly escalated between the two sides when counter-protesters tried to move closer to the center of the rally, and advocates quickly moved to block them with their bodies. A brief shoving match ensued, and then quickly fizzled out.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>We’re used to cold summers in the Bay Area. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997437/why-is-the-bay-area-so-chilly-compared-to-inland-california-blame-karl\">this year has been exceptional.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to measurements taken at San Francisco International Airport, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/article/temperature-bay-area-california-20769865.php\">it’s the coldest Bay summer since 1965\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/KCRAHeather/status/1945259151644614752\">and the coolest in the city itself since 2000. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049692\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049692\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog1.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog1-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog1-1536x1023.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fog settles over Crissy Field in the Marina neighborhood of San Francisco on July 13, 2018. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This in-between weather, not quite rainy, not quite sunny, makes weekend planning tough. It’s not cold enough to seek shelter in a museum or movie theater, but nowhere near summery enough for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13976437/best-swimming-spots-public-pools-rivers-lakes-beaches-holes-bay-area\">dip in a local swimming spot\u003c/a>. It’s also the wrong type of cloud cover for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997579/bay-area-hikes-views-clouds-marine-inversion-layer\">catching an unforgettable “above the fog” view from the Bay Area’s soaring peaks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s true that you could hop in a car or public transit and travel several hours to escape the Bay Area gloom, why get away when we have a wealth of parks, hiking trails and outdoor spaces that are just as good, maybe even better, in cold, overcast weather?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read on for ideas for a weekend spent embracing, not resisting, this cold spell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Take a picnic to Tomales Bay in Point Reyes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many folks’ most obvious choice for a gloomy day is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/index.htm\">Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/a>. You can go for a hike along this rugged terrain — \u003ca href=\"https://www.pointreyesnature.com/coast-trail\">any part of Point Reyes’ iconic Coast Trail\u003c/a> will get you sweeping ocean views — or take your time on a leisurely drive down \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/directions_inpark_sfdb.htm\">Sir Francis Drake Boulevard \u003c/a>to the park’s most iconic stops, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/point-reyes-cypress-tree-tunnel.htm\">Cypress Tree Tunnel\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/lighthouse.htm\">Point Reyes Lighthouse\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/point-reyes-south-beach-overlook.htm\">South Beach Overlook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get the full seashore experience, stop at any one of the markets, bakeries and cafes in Point Reyes Station to pick up fresh bread, cheese, fruits and veggies for your picnic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then head to the S.S. Point Reyes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-14/beloved-but-rotting-this-central-coast-shipwreck-has-to-go\">an abandoned boat slowly rotting on a scenic sandbar\u003c/a> on Tomales Bay in Inverness, to sit and enjoy your meal, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-14/beloved-but-rotting-this-central-coast-shipwreck-has-to-go\">before this local icon is removed forever.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049701\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog-4.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog-4-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog-4-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">S.S. Point Reyes, a dilapidated fishing vessel stuck in the sand along Tomales Bay in the Point Reyes National Seashore in the town of Inverness. \u003ccite>(\tiStock / Getty Images Plus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’re still hungry and you’re willing to splurge, stop by any one of the many world-famous oyster restaurants along Tomales Bay, like \u003ca href=\"https://hogislandoysters.com/\">Hog Island Oyster Farm\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://themarshallstore.com/\">The Marshall Store\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.saltwateroysterdepot.com/\">Saltwater Oyster Depot\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.tomalesbayoystercompany.com/\">Tomales Bay Oyster\u003c/a> Company and top off with a salty snack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Getting more adventurous:\u003c/em> If you’re looking for wildlife, try stopping by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/point_reyes_elephant_seal_overlook.htm\">Elephant Seal Overlook\u003c/a> or brave the long hike to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/thingstodo/tule-elk-viewing-point-reyes.htm\">Tule Elk Reserve.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Watch the waves crash at Devil’s Slide near Pacifica\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Once a very treacherous segment of Highway 1, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/parks/devils-slide-trail\">Devil’s Slide Trail \u003c/a>takes you on the knife’s edge of the coast for a flat 1.3-mile stroll with nonstop views of the stormy ocean below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trail even has benches, interpretive signs and binocular scopes to get a closer look at the cliffs below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a warm cup of Joe, try Pacifica’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.soulgrindcoffee.com/\">Soul Grint Coffee Roasters\u003c/a> — or better yet, a pint from Santa Cruz-based brewery \u003ca href=\"https://humblesea.com/\">Humble Sea Brewing\u003c/a>, which has an outpost here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049697\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049697\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/160809_DevilsSlide_bhs06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/160809_DevilsSlide_bhs06.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/160809_DevilsSlide_bhs06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/160809_DevilsSlide_bhs06-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miles of beautiful coastline stretch out in either direction along the Devil’s Slide hiking trail on the cliffs next to Hwy 1 in Montara, Calif. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Getting more adventurous: \u003c/em>For an extended hike, explore the nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/parks/us/california/pedro-point-headlands\">Pedro Point Headlands\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>If you’d rather get up close and personal with the ocean, head to \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=528\">Gray Whale Cove State Beach\u003c/a>. But stay aware: These waters are dangerous, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1978061/after-their-son-was-swept-into-the-ocean-this-fremont-family-turned-their-grief-into-advocacy\">the cold water can cause cramps and rip currents are present\u003c/a>, so take care.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Learn about plant ecology at Huckleberry Path in Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nestled above Oakland in the East Bay is an unassuming 1.7-mile loop trail with a wealth of biodiversity: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/huckleberry\">Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve\u003c/a>. And on a cold, overcast day, the forest can feel even more immersive and enveloping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049664\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/huckleberriesgetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/huckleberriesgetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/huckleberriesgetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/huckleberriesgetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A huckleberry branch with ripe berries. \u003ccite>(step2626/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As you wind your way along the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/huckleberry-preserve-short-loop\">well-maintained path,\u003c/a> you’ll see ancient rock and resilient chaparral, sweeping views of the East Bay’s rolling hills and, if you’re lucky, a few huckleberries. The trail features 21 interpretive signs so visitors can orient themselves among the blooming plants and their ecological significance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Getting more adventurous: \u003c/em>This preserve is sandwiched in the middle of the sweeping \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/sibley-volcanic\">Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve\u003c/a>, where ample miles of trail can extend your hike up to the \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3e80aa360f98479b92ac4264af0aa04a\">10-million-year-old Round Top volcano.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Get lost in eucalyptus groves at Quarry Park in El Granada\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Light mist, towering trees — this small seaside park has it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just above the community of El Granada near Half Moon Bay’s namesake crescent-shaped \u003ca href=\"https://www.visithalfmoonbay.org/places/pillar-point-harbor/\">Pillar Point Harbor\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/parks/quarry-park\">Quarry Park\u003c/a> not only immerses you in the sights and smells of eucalyptus trees but also reveals small glimpses of the harbor and ocean community below.[aside postID=news_12049405 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Muir-Woods-Exhibit-1.png']Grab sandwiches from \u003ca href=\"http://thepressgrilledcheese.com/\">The Press\u003c/a> in El Granada or a bowl of clam chowder from \u003ca href=\"https://www.hmbbrewingco.com/\">Half Moon Bay Brewing Company\u003c/a> and enjoy the view of the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049696\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049696\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog-3.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog-3-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog-3-1536x1152.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dog carries a stick at Quarry Park in Half Moon Bay on Sept. 24, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, bring a picnic or barbecue to Quarry Park’s parking area, which also has restrooms and even a playground for kids. Dogs are allowed off-leash on the entire network of trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Getting more adventurous: \u003c/em>If you want to enjoy this park to its fullest, bring a mountain bike or \u003ca href=\"https://www.hmbkayak.com/\">rent one at Half Moon Bay Kayak\u003c/a> nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all the trails in the park allow bikes, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/parks/quarry-park-pump-track\">there’s even a pump track\u003c/a> to help riders develop their off-road skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Grab a glass of zin at Picchetti Ranch in Santa Clara County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, wine tasting tends to be a \u003cem>warm\u003c/em>-weather activity. But at \u003ca href=\"https://www.openspace.org/preserves/picchetti-ranch\">Picchetti Ranch Preserve\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.picchetti.com/\">Picchetti Winery\u003c/a> located at its entrance, you can get not just a taste of history (the winery was started in 1880) but also roam nearly 4 miles of trails that wind through old orchards with views of the nearby Sierra Azul range and Mount Umunhum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do your hike and warm up with a glass of wine,” Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District spokesperson Ryan McCauley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s even a trail called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/zinfandel-trail\">Zinfandel Trail\u003c/a> that’s an “homage to the wineowning and vineyards of days past,” as it meanders by the historic winery building and through oak groves that have stood since its founding, McCauley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Getting more adventurous: \u003c/em>The preserve is adjacent to \u003ca href=\"https://parks.santaclaracounty.gov/locations/stevens-creek-county-park\">Stevens Creek County Park\u003c/a> and the Stevens Creek Reservoir, which offer abundant fishing, boating and hiking opportunities and even more wineries in the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCeDp_MY_h4G6VWj_-VPl-BJlQ3Uya2H0vxRZZd_47BpXwVA/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>We’re used to cold summers in the Bay Area. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997437/why-is-the-bay-area-so-chilly-compared-to-inland-california-blame-karl\">this year has been exceptional.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to measurements taken at San Francisco International Airport, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/article/temperature-bay-area-california-20769865.php\">it’s the coldest Bay summer since 1965\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/KCRAHeather/status/1945259151644614752\">and the coolest in the city itself since 2000. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049692\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049692\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog1.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog1-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog1-1536x1023.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fog settles over Crissy Field in the Marina neighborhood of San Francisco on July 13, 2018. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This in-between weather, not quite rainy, not quite sunny, makes weekend planning tough. It’s not cold enough to seek shelter in a museum or movie theater, but nowhere near summery enough for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13976437/best-swimming-spots-public-pools-rivers-lakes-beaches-holes-bay-area\">dip in a local swimming spot\u003c/a>. It’s also the wrong type of cloud cover for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997579/bay-area-hikes-views-clouds-marine-inversion-layer\">catching an unforgettable “above the fog” view from the Bay Area’s soaring peaks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s true that you could hop in a car or public transit and travel several hours to escape the Bay Area gloom, why get away when we have a wealth of parks, hiking trails and outdoor spaces that are just as good, maybe even better, in cold, overcast weather?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read on for ideas for a weekend spent embracing, not resisting, this cold spell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Take a picnic to Tomales Bay in Point Reyes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many folks’ most obvious choice for a gloomy day is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/index.htm\">Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/a>. You can go for a hike along this rugged terrain — \u003ca href=\"https://www.pointreyesnature.com/coast-trail\">any part of Point Reyes’ iconic Coast Trail\u003c/a> will get you sweeping ocean views — or take your time on a leisurely drive down \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/directions_inpark_sfdb.htm\">Sir Francis Drake Boulevard \u003c/a>to the park’s most iconic stops, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/point-reyes-cypress-tree-tunnel.htm\">Cypress Tree Tunnel\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/lighthouse.htm\">Point Reyes Lighthouse\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/point-reyes-south-beach-overlook.htm\">South Beach Overlook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get the full seashore experience, stop at any one of the markets, bakeries and cafes in Point Reyes Station to pick up fresh bread, cheese, fruits and veggies for your picnic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then head to the S.S. Point Reyes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-14/beloved-but-rotting-this-central-coast-shipwreck-has-to-go\">an abandoned boat slowly rotting on a scenic sandbar\u003c/a> on Tomales Bay in Inverness, to sit and enjoy your meal, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-14/beloved-but-rotting-this-central-coast-shipwreck-has-to-go\">before this local icon is removed forever.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049701\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog-4.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog-4-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog-4-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">S.S. Point Reyes, a dilapidated fishing vessel stuck in the sand along Tomales Bay in the Point Reyes National Seashore in the town of Inverness. \u003ccite>(\tiStock / Getty Images Plus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’re still hungry and you’re willing to splurge, stop by any one of the many world-famous oyster restaurants along Tomales Bay, like \u003ca href=\"https://hogislandoysters.com/\">Hog Island Oyster Farm\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://themarshallstore.com/\">The Marshall Store\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.saltwateroysterdepot.com/\">Saltwater Oyster Depot\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.tomalesbayoystercompany.com/\">Tomales Bay Oyster\u003c/a> Company and top off with a salty snack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Getting more adventurous:\u003c/em> If you’re looking for wildlife, try stopping by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/point_reyes_elephant_seal_overlook.htm\">Elephant Seal Overlook\u003c/a> or brave the long hike to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/thingstodo/tule-elk-viewing-point-reyes.htm\">Tule Elk Reserve.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Watch the waves crash at Devil’s Slide near Pacifica\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Once a very treacherous segment of Highway 1, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/parks/devils-slide-trail\">Devil’s Slide Trail \u003c/a>takes you on the knife’s edge of the coast for a flat 1.3-mile stroll with nonstop views of the stormy ocean below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trail even has benches, interpretive signs and binocular scopes to get a closer look at the cliffs below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a warm cup of Joe, try Pacifica’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.soulgrindcoffee.com/\">Soul Grint Coffee Roasters\u003c/a> — or better yet, a pint from Santa Cruz-based brewery \u003ca href=\"https://humblesea.com/\">Humble Sea Brewing\u003c/a>, which has an outpost here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049697\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049697\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/160809_DevilsSlide_bhs06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/160809_DevilsSlide_bhs06.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/160809_DevilsSlide_bhs06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/160809_DevilsSlide_bhs06-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miles of beautiful coastline stretch out in either direction along the Devil’s Slide hiking trail on the cliffs next to Hwy 1 in Montara, Calif. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Getting more adventurous: \u003c/em>For an extended hike, explore the nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/parks/us/california/pedro-point-headlands\">Pedro Point Headlands\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>If you’d rather get up close and personal with the ocean, head to \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=528\">Gray Whale Cove State Beach\u003c/a>. But stay aware: These waters are dangerous, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1978061/after-their-son-was-swept-into-the-ocean-this-fremont-family-turned-their-grief-into-advocacy\">the cold water can cause cramps and rip currents are present\u003c/a>, so take care.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Learn about plant ecology at Huckleberry Path in Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nestled above Oakland in the East Bay is an unassuming 1.7-mile loop trail with a wealth of biodiversity: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/huckleberry\">Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve\u003c/a>. And on a cold, overcast day, the forest can feel even more immersive and enveloping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049664\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/huckleberriesgetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/huckleberriesgetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/huckleberriesgetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/huckleberriesgetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A huckleberry branch with ripe berries. \u003ccite>(step2626/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As you wind your way along the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/huckleberry-preserve-short-loop\">well-maintained path,\u003c/a> you’ll see ancient rock and resilient chaparral, sweeping views of the East Bay’s rolling hills and, if you’re lucky, a few huckleberries. The trail features 21 interpretive signs so visitors can orient themselves among the blooming plants and their ecological significance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Getting more adventurous: \u003c/em>This preserve is sandwiched in the middle of the sweeping \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/sibley-volcanic\">Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve\u003c/a>, where ample miles of trail can extend your hike up to the \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3e80aa360f98479b92ac4264af0aa04a\">10-million-year-old Round Top volcano.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Get lost in eucalyptus groves at Quarry Park in El Granada\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Light mist, towering trees — this small seaside park has it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just above the community of El Granada near Half Moon Bay’s namesake crescent-shaped \u003ca href=\"https://www.visithalfmoonbay.org/places/pillar-point-harbor/\">Pillar Point Harbor\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/parks/quarry-park\">Quarry Park\u003c/a> not only immerses you in the sights and smells of eucalyptus trees but also reveals small glimpses of the harbor and ocean community below.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Grab sandwiches from \u003ca href=\"http://thepressgrilledcheese.com/\">The Press\u003c/a> in El Granada or a bowl of clam chowder from \u003ca href=\"https://www.hmbbrewingco.com/\">Half Moon Bay Brewing Company\u003c/a> and enjoy the view of the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049696\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049696\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog-3.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog-3-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Fog-3-1536x1152.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dog carries a stick at Quarry Park in Half Moon Bay on Sept. 24, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, bring a picnic or barbecue to Quarry Park’s parking area, which also has restrooms and even a playground for kids. Dogs are allowed off-leash on the entire network of trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Getting more adventurous: \u003c/em>If you want to enjoy this park to its fullest, bring a mountain bike or \u003ca href=\"https://www.hmbkayak.com/\">rent one at Half Moon Bay Kayak\u003c/a> nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all the trails in the park allow bikes, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/parks/quarry-park-pump-track\">there’s even a pump track\u003c/a> to help riders develop their off-road skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Grab a glass of zin at Picchetti Ranch in Santa Clara County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, wine tasting tends to be a \u003cem>warm\u003c/em>-weather activity. But at \u003ca href=\"https://www.openspace.org/preserves/picchetti-ranch\">Picchetti Ranch Preserve\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.picchetti.com/\">Picchetti Winery\u003c/a> located at its entrance, you can get not just a taste of history (the winery was started in 1880) but also roam nearly 4 miles of trails that wind through old orchards with views of the nearby Sierra Azul range and Mount Umunhum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do your hike and warm up with a glass of wine,” Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District spokesperson Ryan McCauley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s even a trail called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/zinfandel-trail\">Zinfandel Trail\u003c/a> that’s an “homage to the wineowning and vineyards of days past,” as it meanders by the historic winery building and through oak groves that have stood since its founding, McCauley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Getting more adventurous: \u003c/em>The preserve is adjacent to \u003ca href=\"https://parks.santaclaracounty.gov/locations/stevens-creek-county-park\">Stevens Creek County Park\u003c/a> and the Stevens Creek Reservoir, which offer abundant fishing, boating and hiking opportunities and even more wineries in the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe\n src='https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCeDp_MY_h4G6VWj_-VPl-BJlQ3Uya2H0vxRZZd_47BpXwVA/viewform?embedded=true?embedded=true'\n title='https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCeDp_MY_h4G6VWj_-VPl-BJlQ3Uya2H0vxRZZd_47BpXwVA/viewform?embedded=true'\n width='760' height='500'\n frameborder='0'\n marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After a five-year legal battle, nearly $1 billion generated from an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a> sales tax can finally go toward solving its homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unanimous decision on Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors came amid \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandside.org/2025/07/02/measure-w-alameda-county-homelessness-bas/\">some uncertainty\u003c/a> over whether all the revenue would go toward housing and homelessness — as initially billed to voters, when the measure narrowly passed in 2020 — or if some should go to other county programs, such as mental health or violence prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the board decided to allocate the vast majority of the funds to its original purpose, with a smaller portion going to other county programs. The 10-year half-cent sales tax has accrued about $810 million through June, according to county officials. Those funds will continue to grow through 2031, and officials estimate they could generate a total of more than $1.8 billion, with roughly $1.4 billion dedicated to solving the county’s homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The windfall comes amid federal reductions in other safety net programs, such as \u003ca href=\"https://frac.org/news/senatevotejuly25\">food stamps\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/putting-880-billion-in-potential-federal-medicaid-cuts-in-context-of-state-budgets-and-coverage/\">Medicaid\u003c/a>. At the state level, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a budget late last month, which includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045673/newsom-slashes-funding-for-homelessness-in-state-budget-leaving-cities-scrambling\">no new funding for a key statewide homelessness grant program\u003c/a> in the current fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local leaders argued that the recently released cash from Measure W puts Alameda County in a unique position to continue progress on housing people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t made a dent in the last 20 years, 10 years,” Board President David Haubert said. “We have more needs than we have resources, which is why we have to be smart about the dollars that we’re spending.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985917\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985917\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tent under a freeway overpass in Oakland on Jan. 31, 2017, the day of the point-in-time survey of Alameda County’s homeless population. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Alameda%20County%202024%20PIT%20Homelessness%20Report%20-%20FINAL%20.pdf\">Alameda County’s most recent count,\u003c/a> more than 9,400 people were estimated to be experiencing homelessness in the county, but for the first time since 2013, that number has declined — down 3% compared to 2022. Unsheltered homelessness declined even more — 11% during the same time frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realize that the Trump administration means that there are significant cuts that are coming your way,” Oakland City Council President Kevin Jenkins told supervisors at the meeting. “All of you guys represent an area where people are literally dying in our streets. And so we have the resources with Measure W to start getting people off the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure had been held up in litigation after the Alameda Taxpayers Association sued the county, a\u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2025/a168775.html\">rguing it was actually a special tax\u003c/a>, requiring a two-thirds majority to pass. Voters had only narrowly approved it with a 50.09% majority. Earlier this year, however, a judge ruled the measure was indeed a general tax and released the funds, which had been sitting in escrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco faced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837613/proposition-c-court-win-delivers-nearly-500-million-for-san-franciscos-homeless-but-how-will-it-be-spent\">similar battle\u003c/a> over Proposition C, which voters approved in 2018 and was subsequently tied up in litigation. In 2020, the state supreme court ruled the tax was valid and could be implemented as originally promised. Earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044180/spike-in-homelessness-stalled-after-sf-started-these-programs-lurie-is-slashing-them\">Mayor Daniel Lurie announced plans\u003c/a> to reallocate some of the funds from homelessness prevention programs to interim shelters.[aside postID=news_12044180 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250428_WarrantlessSearches_GC-29_qed.jpg']When Measure W was presented to Alameda County voters, officials estimated it could generate $150 million per year. Since the tax started collection in July 2021, its revenue has mildly exceeded expectations, generating a little more than $160 million per year. County officials expect future years will yield roughly $170 million for the duration of the tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board agreed to allocate 80% of Measure W funds to the county’s Home Together Fund, which is used for a wide range of services, including acquiring and maintaining temporary and permanent housing and providing services for people experiencing or exiting homelessness. And if the tax generates more than $170 million in a given year, any additional funds would also go into the Home Together Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining 20% of Measure W’s revenue will be set aside for safety net programs, including food security, behavioral health care and senior services. And, following a recommendation from county staff, the board created a $170 million reserve, which the county can dip into if economic conditions worsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Alameda supervisors adopted guiding principles for how the fund will be allocated on Tuesday, the granular allocations will be decided at a special meeting next Wednesday. In the meantime, cities are vying for their piece of the pie. Oakland’s newly elected mayor, Barbara Lee, campaigned on a promise to get \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/03/19/oakland-mayor-election-loren-taylor-barbara-lee-difference-comparison/#h-homelessness-and-housing\">her city’s fair share of Measure W\u003c/a> funds. \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Alameda%20County%202024%20PIT%20Homelessness%20Report%20-%20FINAL%20.pdf\">More than half\u003c/a> of Alameda County’s homeless population lives in Oakland, despite its residents making up only a quarter of the county’s total population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044478\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland mayor Barbara Lee speaks to a crowd of protesters at the No Kings protest in Oakland on June 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>As decisions are being made about where those dollars go, it’s important to ground those conversations based on the need,” Lee said at the meeting. “In Oakland, that need is urgent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, who represents Oakland, agreed with Lee, while also emphasizing the need to address racial disparities in the county’s homeless population. According to \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Alameda%20County%202024%20PIT%20Homelessness%20Report%20-%20FINAL%20.pdf\">county data\u003c/a>, the largest racial group experiencing homelessness in Alameda County is Black. Black residents make up 41% of people experiencing homelessness, despite representing only a tenth of the general public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to Measure W, I do agree that we have to invest the funds where there is the most need,” she told KQED. “And we have to work towards eliminating those racial disparities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during the board’s discussion on Tuesday, Haubert challenged the idea that throwing money at the problem will actually solve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In fact, I think it’s kind of the opposite — the more money you pour into something, the less urgency there is to actually perform,” he said. “I wanna see progress on things year by year, so I’d like to see us reallocate this every year based on what’s working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After a five-year legal battle, nearly $1 billion generated from an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a> sales tax can finally go toward solving its homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unanimous decision on Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors came amid \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandside.org/2025/07/02/measure-w-alameda-county-homelessness-bas/\">some uncertainty\u003c/a> over whether all the revenue would go toward housing and homelessness — as initially billed to voters, when the measure narrowly passed in 2020 — or if some should go to other county programs, such as mental health or violence prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the board decided to allocate the vast majority of the funds to its original purpose, with a smaller portion going to other county programs. The 10-year half-cent sales tax has accrued about $810 million through June, according to county officials. Those funds will continue to grow through 2031, and officials estimate they could generate a total of more than $1.8 billion, with roughly $1.4 billion dedicated to solving the county’s homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The windfall comes amid federal reductions in other safety net programs, such as \u003ca href=\"https://frac.org/news/senatevotejuly25\">food stamps\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/putting-880-billion-in-potential-federal-medicaid-cuts-in-context-of-state-budgets-and-coverage/\">Medicaid\u003c/a>. At the state level, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a budget late last month, which includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045673/newsom-slashes-funding-for-homelessness-in-state-budget-leaving-cities-scrambling\">no new funding for a key statewide homelessness grant program\u003c/a> in the current fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local leaders argued that the recently released cash from Measure W puts Alameda County in a unique position to continue progress on housing people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t made a dent in the last 20 years, 10 years,” Board President David Haubert said. “We have more needs than we have resources, which is why we have to be smart about the dollars that we’re spending.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985917\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985917\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tent under a freeway overpass in Oakland on Jan. 31, 2017, the day of the point-in-time survey of Alameda County’s homeless population. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Alameda%20County%202024%20PIT%20Homelessness%20Report%20-%20FINAL%20.pdf\">Alameda County’s most recent count,\u003c/a> more than 9,400 people were estimated to be experiencing homelessness in the county, but for the first time since 2013, that number has declined — down 3% compared to 2022. Unsheltered homelessness declined even more — 11% during the same time frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realize that the Trump administration means that there are significant cuts that are coming your way,” Oakland City Council President Kevin Jenkins told supervisors at the meeting. “All of you guys represent an area where people are literally dying in our streets. And so we have the resources with Measure W to start getting people off the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure had been held up in litigation after the Alameda Taxpayers Association sued the county, a\u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2025/a168775.html\">rguing it was actually a special tax\u003c/a>, requiring a two-thirds majority to pass. Voters had only narrowly approved it with a 50.09% majority. Earlier this year, however, a judge ruled the measure was indeed a general tax and released the funds, which had been sitting in escrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco faced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837613/proposition-c-court-win-delivers-nearly-500-million-for-san-franciscos-homeless-but-how-will-it-be-spent\">similar battle\u003c/a> over Proposition C, which voters approved in 2018 and was subsequently tied up in litigation. In 2020, the state supreme court ruled the tax was valid and could be implemented as originally promised. Earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044180/spike-in-homelessness-stalled-after-sf-started-these-programs-lurie-is-slashing-them\">Mayor Daniel Lurie announced plans\u003c/a> to reallocate some of the funds from homelessness prevention programs to interim shelters.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When Measure W was presented to Alameda County voters, officials estimated it could generate $150 million per year. Since the tax started collection in July 2021, its revenue has mildly exceeded expectations, generating a little more than $160 million per year. County officials expect future years will yield roughly $170 million for the duration of the tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board agreed to allocate 80% of Measure W funds to the county’s Home Together Fund, which is used for a wide range of services, including acquiring and maintaining temporary and permanent housing and providing services for people experiencing or exiting homelessness. And if the tax generates more than $170 million in a given year, any additional funds would also go into the Home Together Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining 20% of Measure W’s revenue will be set aside for safety net programs, including food security, behavioral health care and senior services. And, following a recommendation from county staff, the board created a $170 million reserve, which the county can dip into if economic conditions worsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Alameda supervisors adopted guiding principles for how the fund will be allocated on Tuesday, the granular allocations will be decided at a special meeting next Wednesday. In the meantime, cities are vying for their piece of the pie. Oakland’s newly elected mayor, Barbara Lee, campaigned on a promise to get \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/03/19/oakland-mayor-election-loren-taylor-barbara-lee-difference-comparison/#h-homelessness-and-housing\">her city’s fair share of Measure W\u003c/a> funds. \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Alameda%20County%202024%20PIT%20Homelessness%20Report%20-%20FINAL%20.pdf\">More than half\u003c/a> of Alameda County’s homeless population lives in Oakland, despite its residents making up only a quarter of the county’s total population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044478\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland mayor Barbara Lee speaks to a crowd of protesters at the No Kings protest in Oakland on June 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>As decisions are being made about where those dollars go, it’s important to ground those conversations based on the need,” Lee said at the meeting. “In Oakland, that need is urgent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, who represents Oakland, agreed with Lee, while also emphasizing the need to address racial disparities in the county’s homeless population. According to \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/docs/infographic/Alameda%20County%202024%20PIT%20Homelessness%20Report%20-%20FINAL%20.pdf\">county data\u003c/a>, the largest racial group experiencing homelessness in Alameda County is Black. Black residents make up 41% of people experiencing homelessness, despite representing only a tenth of the general public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to Measure W, I do agree that we have to invest the funds where there is the most need,” she told KQED. “And we have to work towards eliminating those racial disparities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during the board’s discussion on Tuesday, Haubert challenged the idea that throwing money at the problem will actually solve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In fact, I think it’s kind of the opposite — the more money you pour into something, the less urgency there is to actually perform,” he said. “I wanna see progress on things year by year, so I’d like to see us reallocate this every year based on what’s working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:24 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County’s district attorney is blaming her predecessor for policies that she said led to the February release of a man now charged with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048706/california-parole-officer-is-shot-killed-in-east-oakland-office-building\">killing a state parole agent\u003c/a> in Oakland last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan Keith Hall, who was arrested in the fatal shooting of agent Joshua Lemont Byrd at the Division of Adult Parole Operations office in East Oakland on Thursday, faces a first-degree murder charge in the killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall had been on parole in Oakland since early this year after pleading no contest to assault with a deadly weapon for a random stabbing near Lake Merritt in 2022. As part of a plea deal, other charges associated with the attack, including an attempted murder charge and multiple enhancements for repeat offenses, were dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson said Monday that a special directive put in place by her predecessor, Pamela Price — a progressive prosecutor who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017506/these-maps-show-where-pamela-price-lost-the-most-support-from-voters-in-the-recall-election\">recalled last Novembe\u003c/a>\u003cu>r\u003c/u> — prevented the office from considering charge enhancements in Hall’s plea negotiations, including one for great bodily harm and another for his previous felony convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could not use those strikes as it relates to any plea bargaining without permission from the prior administration,” she told reporters ahead of Hall’s arraignment. “There was a plea taken in January of 2025 while that directive was still in place, and sentencing occurred on February 7, 2025, again, while that directive was still in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049206\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/EBT-L-HALLCHARGE-0721-01-scaled-e1753214975639.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryan Keith Hall, who is suspected of opening fire on state parole agent Joshua Lemont Byrd at the Division of Adult Parole Operations office in East Oakland last Thursday. \u003ccite>(Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25038309-special-directive-23-01/\">The directive\u003c/a>, which aimed to decrease prison sentences in favor of alternatives to incarceration, was one of Price’s first major policy shifts after taking office in 2023. The policy said that in most instances, “prosecutors shall not file or require defendants to plead to sentence enhancements or other sentencing allegations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first order of business when I came to this office was to get rid of that directive,” Jones Dickson said. \u003ca href=\"https://substack.com/home/post/p-157524235?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web\">She did so\u003c/a> the day after her inauguration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement issued earlier Monday, Price said the plea was negotiated under the administration of Jones Dickson, who was sworn in on Feb. 18, and called the blame placed on her administration “disinformation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Hall’s crime took place before I was in the office and his negotiated plea deal was made after I left office,” she wrote.[aside postID=news_12048706 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OAKLAND-POLICE-DEPARTMENT-MD-01_qed.jpg']According to Price, the plea decision was made by an attorney in Jones Dickson’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall was paroled immediately after his sentencing, nearly two weeks before Jones Dickson took office, because he had completed the maximum sentence for the crime in county jail, awaiting his conviction, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an evidentiary hearing in the stabbing case in November, Hall’s public defender told the court they believed his attack against that victim was likely “driven by some sort of mental health issues” based on testimony about his behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After initially refusing to appear for his Monday morning arraignment in the shooting case, Hall appeared for a rescheduled arraignment at 2 p.m. but declined to enter a plea. He is currently being held at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin without bail. His arraignment is now set for Aug. 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to charging documents, the shooting occurred after Hall entered the parole office around 12:40 p.m. Thursday and was told to leave because his parole officer was not there. He had missed a scheduled meeting there with his officer the previous day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 12:50 p.m., Byrd was shot. Minutes later, a witness saw Hall leaving the building with a firearm, the charging documents allege. Video footage shows Hall running outside the building before boarding an Alameda County transit bus. He is believed to have committed a robbery on the bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049052\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250721-PAROLESHOOTINGSUSPECT_00912_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250721-PAROLESHOOTINGSUSPECT_00912_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250721-PAROLESHOOTINGSUSPECT_00912_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250721-PAROLESHOOTINGSUSPECT_00912_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Handwritten notes indicate that The CDCR Division of Adult Parole Operations office is closed in Oakland on July 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Department officers found Hall and arrested him hours later near 90th Avenue and International Boulevard, about two miles from the parole office. In a nearby dumpster, they found a firearm and an orange safety jacket that they said Hall was seen stripping off as he fled, according to doorbell camera footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Byrd, 40, died of his injuries after being immediately transferred to a hospital, marking the first line-of-duty death of an officer in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation since 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how Hall was able to bring a firearm into the office, which serves as a common meeting space for parolees and their officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR declined KQED’s request for comment on its security protocols at the site, citing safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Including the 2022 stabbing, Hall has 10 prior felony convictions in California dating back to 1996. They include assault, second-degree robbery, evading police and illegally possessing a firearm as a felon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, he was convicted of illegally taking a vehicle in Contra Costa County. Court records show that while paroled following that conviction, he had his release revoked twice because of parole violations, first in November 2015 and again in April the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR said Byrd was not Hall’s parole officer. It’s unclear if they had a relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Byrd had only joined the Oakland office in October, after 10 years in other roles within CDCR, including as a correctional officer and sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, acting as governor while Newsom was out of the state, commended Byrd’s “integrity and courage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a heartbreaking loss,” they wrote. “We are keeping his family in our prayers and we join the men and women of CDCR in mourning this tragedy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/matthewgreen\">\u003cem>Matthew Green\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to Price, the plea decision was made by an attorney in Jones Dickson’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall was paroled immediately after his sentencing, nearly two weeks before Jones Dickson took office, because he had completed the maximum sentence for the crime in county jail, awaiting his conviction, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an evidentiary hearing in the stabbing case in November, Hall’s public defender told the court they believed his attack against that victim was likely “driven by some sort of mental health issues” based on testimony about his behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After initially refusing to appear for his Monday morning arraignment in the shooting case, Hall appeared for a rescheduled arraignment at 2 p.m. but declined to enter a plea. He is currently being held at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin without bail. His arraignment is now set for Aug. 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to charging documents, the shooting occurred after Hall entered the parole office around 12:40 p.m. Thursday and was told to leave because his parole officer was not there. He had missed a scheduled meeting there with his officer the previous day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 12:50 p.m., Byrd was shot. Minutes later, a witness saw Hall leaving the building with a firearm, the charging documents allege. Video footage shows Hall running outside the building before boarding an Alameda County transit bus. He is believed to have committed a robbery on the bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049052\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250721-PAROLESHOOTINGSUSPECT_00912_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250721-PAROLESHOOTINGSUSPECT_00912_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250721-PAROLESHOOTINGSUSPECT_00912_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250721-PAROLESHOOTINGSUSPECT_00912_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Handwritten notes indicate that The CDCR Division of Adult Parole Operations office is closed in Oakland on July 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Department officers found Hall and arrested him hours later near 90th Avenue and International Boulevard, about two miles from the parole office. In a nearby dumpster, they found a firearm and an orange safety jacket that they said Hall was seen stripping off as he fled, according to doorbell camera footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Byrd, 40, died of his injuries after being immediately transferred to a hospital, marking the first line-of-duty death of an officer in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation since 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how Hall was able to bring a firearm into the office, which serves as a common meeting space for parolees and their officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR declined KQED’s request for comment on its security protocols at the site, citing safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Including the 2022 stabbing, Hall has 10 prior felony convictions in California dating back to 1996. They include assault, second-degree robbery, evading police and illegally possessing a firearm as a felon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, he was convicted of illegally taking a vehicle in Contra Costa County. Court records show that while paroled following that conviction, he had his release revoked twice because of parole violations, first in November 2015 and again in April the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR said Byrd was not Hall’s parole officer. It’s unclear if they had a relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Byrd had only joined the Oakland office in October, after 10 years in other roles within CDCR, including as a correctional officer and sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, acting as governor while Newsom was out of the state, commended Byrd’s “integrity and courage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a heartbreaking loss,” they wrote. “We are keeping his family in our prayers and we join the men and women of CDCR in mourning this tragedy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/matthewgreen\">\u003cem>Matthew Green\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:25 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-coliseum\">Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a> sale has officially passed one of its last major hurdles: Alameda County’s Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036060/oakland-pushes-coliseum-sale-next-year-delaying-funds-again\">of standstill\u003c/a>, waiting for the board’s approval, supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to reassign the county’s interest in the Coliseum property to local developers known as the African American Sports and Entertainment Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an important critical step in a monumental process,” Ray Bobbitt, managing partner of AASEG, said ahead of the vote. “This community has stepped forward and allowed us to be patient, perseverant and to make sure that we have been in prayer. We just want to say thank you so much for the opportunity to move this forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a year ago, AASEG excitedly announced their intent to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987346/oakland-to-sell-coliseum-to-black-led-developer-group-after-as-depart\">buy and redevelop the former home of the Oakland A’s\u003c/a>, but contract negotiations and complicated ownership hang-ups have plagued the deal process, especially with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote to finalize the county’s role in the deal, according to Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, will finally give the group the power and assurance to begin that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032884\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teams prepare the field at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’ll be one organization that will own the entire Coliseum so that redevelopment and revitalization can move forward,” she told KQED ahead of the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s happening:\u003c/strong> Alameda County’s Board of Supervisors has been in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022106/alameda-county-moves-closer-to-oakland-coliseum-sale-final-vote-expected-in-30-days\">monthslong negotiation\u003c/a> with AASEG over the developers’ purchase of the A’s stake in the Coliseum. Even though the county \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742341/alameda-county-oks-plan-to-sell-its-share-of-oakland-coliseum-complex-to-as\">agreed to sell its half\u003c/a> to the Major League Baseball team in 2019, it has to approve the AASEG deal as the original owners, reassigning its interest from the A’s to a group formed by AASEG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s meant a series of closed-door meetings between negotiators, which Bas said have been spent hammering out the “complex” real estate deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, as the board inched closer to finalizing the agreement, Kimberly Gasaway, director of Alameda County’s general services agency, said there were just two outstanding documents that the county needed from AASEG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the board finally voted to reassign its interest in the property to the purchasing company, Oakland Acquisition Company, which is an affiliate of AASEG. Board President David Haubert and Supervisors Elisa Márquez, Nate Miley and Nikki Fortunato Bas all voted in favor of the sale. Board Vice President Lena Tam was excused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12036060 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context: \u003c/strong>In early 2023, AASEG entered into an exclusive negotiating agreement with the city of Oakland to develop the Coliseum site. Over the summer of 2024, as the A’s prepared to play their\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006567/photos-fans-flood-coliseum-to-bid-emotional-farewell-at-as-last-game-in-oakland\"> final game at the Coliseum\u003c/a>, both \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997946/oakland-reaches-deal-on-105-million-coliseum-sale-to-stave-off-budget-cuts\">Oakland\u003c/a> and the team signed deals formalizing sales of their shares to AASEG for $105 million and $125 million, respectively. Shortly after, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\">Oakland renegotiated its deal\u003c/a> with AASEG to increase its revenue by $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sale timelines have been delayed as months went by without Alameda County reassigning its interest in the site to the development company. The A’s deal cannot go through until the county does so, and AASEG has paused payments to Oakland, falling behind on its previously negotiated schedule, until the county deal is done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those deals are set to close in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zoom out: \u003c/strong>Slow-moving negotiations with Alameda County have been far from the only bump in the road for the Coliseum deal since 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, then-Mayor Sheng Thao announced that more than $60 million in revenue from the sale would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cutshttps:/www.kqed.org/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cuts\">used to help patch an even larger hole in Oakland’s budget\u003c/a>. Shortly after AASEG and the city finalized their deal in July 2024, though, the payment timeline was pushed back, forcing the city to institute a bare-bones “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">contingency budget\u003c/a>” that caused fire station closures and police cuts, and eroded public trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AASEG has not made any payments to the city since the start of the year. The projected revenue from the sale is not included in the city’s 2025 budget plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006691\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Packed stands at the Oakland Coliseum for the A’s last home game on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>It’s unclear if AASEG plans to hand Oakland a lump sum for the payments missed due to county delays, or if the deal timeline with either the city or Oakland will be further revised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s $5 billion plan has raised eyebrows — and concerns about feasibility — since it was announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the sole owners, AASEG will also have to begin work on a community benefits agreement, which was required by its city deal. The deal aims to ensure that development \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041329/oaklands-army-base-redevelopment-was-a-win-for-locals-can-the-coliseum-be-the-same\">serves the surrounding East Oakland community\u003c/a>, where decades of disinvestment by businesses and the A’s have decimated the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AASEG has already committed to making 25% of any housing built affordable, and in the next five years, will have to begin to negotiate a bundle of other community benefits with stakeholders like Black Cultural Zone, Brotherhood of Elders, local youth centers and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shonda Scott, one of the entertainment group’s members, told KQED when the deals were being negotiated that AASEG is looking forward to that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s us being of the community, giving back to the community and making sure it’s done equitably, especially for those who have been historically disenfranchised in these sixth and seventh district areas that the Coliseum is a part of,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context: \u003c/strong>In early 2023, AASEG entered into an exclusive negotiating agreement with the city of Oakland to develop the Coliseum site. Over the summer of 2024, as the A’s prepared to play their\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006567/photos-fans-flood-coliseum-to-bid-emotional-farewell-at-as-last-game-in-oakland\"> final game at the Coliseum\u003c/a>, both \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997946/oakland-reaches-deal-on-105-million-coliseum-sale-to-stave-off-budget-cuts\">Oakland\u003c/a> and the team signed deals formalizing sales of their shares to AASEG for $105 million and $125 million, respectively. Shortly after, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\">Oakland renegotiated its deal\u003c/a> with AASEG to increase its revenue by $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sale timelines have been delayed as months went by without Alameda County reassigning its interest in the site to the development company. The A’s deal cannot go through until the county does so, and AASEG has paused payments to Oakland, falling behind on its previously negotiated schedule, until the county deal is done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those deals are set to close in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zoom out: \u003c/strong>Slow-moving negotiations with Alameda County have been far from the only bump in the road for the Coliseum deal since 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, then-Mayor Sheng Thao announced that more than $60 million in revenue from the sale would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cutshttps:/www.kqed.org/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cuts\">used to help patch an even larger hole in Oakland’s budget\u003c/a>. Shortly after AASEG and the city finalized their deal in July 2024, though, the payment timeline was pushed back, forcing the city to institute a bare-bones “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">contingency budget\u003c/a>” that caused fire station closures and police cuts, and eroded public trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AASEG has not made any payments to the city since the start of the year. The projected revenue from the sale is not included in the city’s 2025 budget plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006691\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Packed stands at the Oakland Coliseum for the A’s last home game on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>It’s unclear if AASEG plans to hand Oakland a lump sum for the payments missed due to county delays, or if the deal timeline with either the city or Oakland will be further revised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s $5 billion plan has raised eyebrows — and concerns about feasibility — since it was announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the sole owners, AASEG will also have to begin work on a community benefits agreement, which was required by its city deal. 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