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The whole world is watching and horrified by what we have uncovered,” Price said. “Our effort to hold prosecutors accountable for this kind of misconduct and other ethical lapses has been met with resistance from the prosecutors’ union before we arrived and certainly since we’ve been here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, there are currently 37 people on death row who were convicted in Alameda County, including Dykes. Price’s office told KQED it is reviewing 35 cases. The review could lead to resentencing or retrials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are under the mandate to review all of the cases,” Price said. “We’re continuing to meet with Judge Chhabria as well as the California Attorney General’s office, as well as defense counsel in the cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price announced that Otis Bruce, the chief assistant DA, had resigned. 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The whole world is watching and horrified by what we have uncovered,” Price said. “Our effort to hold prosecutors accountable for this kind of misconduct and other ethical lapses has been met with resistance from the prosecutors’ union before we arrived and certainly since we’ve been here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, there are currently 37 people on death row who were convicted in Alameda County, including Dykes. Price’s office told KQED it is reviewing 35 cases. The review could lead to resentencing or retrials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are under the mandate to review all of the cases,” Price said. “We’re continuing to meet with Judge Chhabria as well as the California Attorney General’s office, as well as defense counsel in the cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price announced that Otis Bruce, the chief assistant DA, had resigned. 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Earlier this month, Price and the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988718/alameda-county-sheriffs-office-and-district-attorney-take-to-facebook-to-air-charging-dispute\">disputed a charging decision\u003c/a> publicly on Facebook. At the center of the conflict was a federal parole violation hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 12, Patricia Lee, a former public information officer for Price, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990321/lawsuit-claims-alameda-county-da-is-biased-against-asians-how-will-it-impact-the-recall\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> against Alameda County and Price, alleging Price made anti-Asian remarks and fired her in retaliation for speaking up about violations of public transparency laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 19, 14 people were shot near Lake Merritt after a Juneteenth celebration. 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I know that all of us are traumatized by the events that we have observed, starting with Wednesday night’s mass shooting and then followed by the raid on Thursday morning,” Price said. “I think that we all should reserve judgment until we know the facts, and I think we should all pray for our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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She read from a statement and did not take questions from reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao, who faces a recall election and mounting pressure from some community leaders to resign, had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991429/after-oakland-fbi-raids-and-juneteenth-shooting-where-is-mayor-sheng-thao\">silent\u003c/a> in the days since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">Thursday morning’s FBI raids\u003c/a>, which came just hours after over a dozen people were shot following a Juneteenth celebration near Lake Merritt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Monday that she will continue to lead Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing is going to distract me from building on the progress that we have made in the last 18 months. I am going to focus on doing what I came here to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao was already under scrutiny before the FBI raid. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989214/ethics-probe-hangs-over-campaign-to-recall-oakland-mayor-as-it-files-signatures\">campaign to recall her\u003c/a> qualified for November’s ballot early last week as organizers blame the mayor for the city’s high crime, delay in hiring a police chief and disappointing departure of the Oakland A’s baseball team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The raids targeted Thao’s home; the offices of California Waste Solutions, Oakland’s curbside recycling provider; and two homes linked to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991426/oakland-fbi-raids-also-targeted-this-powerful-family-heres-what-we-know\">the family that owns and operates the company\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal authorities have not disclosed what they are investigating, but Thao is also among officials named in an investigation by local and state political watchdog agencies that allege Cal Waste used straw donors to illegally fund political campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao said that she would cooperate with the FBI, maintaining that she was confident that the investigation was not targeting her. During her statement, she raised questions about the timing of the raid and the recall effort against her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to know more about the handful of billionaires from San Francisco and from Piedmont who are hell-bent on running me out of office,” she said. “I want to know why the day following the qualification of a recall election, funded by some of the richest people in the Bay Area, seemed like the right day to execute a warrant?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao also asked what probable cause the FBI had to raid her home, saying authorities gave no notice or “the courtesy of a conversation.” Through tears, she said she felt confident that the situation would have unfolded differently if she had a different background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991714\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11991714 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-THAO-FBI-PRESSER-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao wipes a tear from her eye during a press conference at Oakland City Hall on June 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I know that for sure because former elected officials are sitting safely in their houses in the hills right now with campaign finance violations piling up, mountains of evidence that prove actual wrongdoing,” said Thao, whose parents fled Laos during the Vietnam War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their front doors remain intact, their reputations preserved, their innocence presumed until proven guilty. They will never face this indignity. This I know for sure because I was born poor in America, and that teaches you a lot about the world from day one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao said that her office would continue to focus on daily operations and the city’s recovery in the wake of last Wednesday’s shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am sickened by these senseless acts of violence, and I want every Oaklander to know that we will work hard to ensure that those responsible are held accountable,” Thao said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My heart goes out to all of those who are battling injuries, their families and our whole city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The next morning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">federal agents raided\u003c/a> Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home, throwing the embattled leader into further turmoil as she faces an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989214/ethics-probe-hangs-over-campaign-to-recall-oakland-mayor-as-it-files-signatures\">upcoming recall election\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI also searched the waterfront offices of California Waste Solutions, Oakland’s curbside recycling provider, as well as two Oakland Hills homes linked to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991426/oakland-fbi-raids-also-targeted-this-powerful-family-heres-what-we-know\">the politically connected family\u003c/a> that owns and operates the company, which political watchdogs have accused of funneling illegal campaign contributions to Thao and other elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of terrible things [are] happening in Oakland right about now,” Jackson told KQED on Friday morning. “It’s so sad because Oakland, to me, is just a great place to live. It’s a wonderful place and just didn’t deserve all this negative press.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the raids, Thao has remained silent — even on the Juneteenth shootings — causing political strategists, city residents and political opponents to raise speculation about her future in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we are more than 24 hours since residents saw FBI agents moving boxes out of the mayor’s house, and she still hasn’t spoken,” said Justin Berton, a media strategist and the former director of communications for Mayor Libby Schaaf. “That suggests to me she’s not going to release a statement. Rather, she’s considering how to resign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When contacted for comment on Friday afternoon, Anthony Brass, a San Francisco-based attorney representing Thao, said the mayor is willing to cooperate fully with federal investigators — and that she will continue to do her job. He said Thao will address the public next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has nothing to hide,” he said in a text message to KQED. “It’s unfortunate that she has had to endure the bad optics of having this search warrant executed on her home. She would have cooperated with this investigation without the need for this search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She will continue to do the work Oakland expects from their mayor and provide the federal government with whatever information they are seeking. We have no information that she is or will be the target of this or any investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao’s problems were mounting before the FBI raid. Donations to her campaign, among others, came under investigation by state and local political watchdog agencies, which alleged Cal Waste was illegally funneling them. 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It’s going to be a distraction, and we need someone who can give Oakland [their] full-time attention. We’re hoping that she will consider resigning and not delay the inevitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If she were to do that, she would send the message that she can put Oaklanders first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson, who also believes Thao should resign, said the mayor’s absence is concerning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is the mayor? Is she even around?” Jackson said. “No one seems to have heard from her, and she hasn’t made a sound about anything that’s been going on. … It feels kind of bad that we really don’t have the leadership in the city of Oakland that we really need and desperately need at these trying times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it’s unclear whether Thao has done any official city business since the raids, a spokesperson for the city of Oakland said in a statement on Friday that City Administrator Jestin Johnson is responsible for day-to-day administrative and fiscal operations to carry out the mayor’s policy goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who was appointed by Thao in May 2023, noted in an email sent Thursday to city workers that Oakland has had challenging moments since he began working for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, like every day, our community needs, and rightfully expects, the high-quality public services we provide,” Johnson wrote. “Through every challenge we face together, we demonstrate our dedication to that service. All City services are being provided, and the mission continues. I know that our community can continue to expect our best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on Thursday, Oakland City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas expressed sympathy for the victims and their families after the shooting following Wednesday’s Juneteenth celebration, which gave way to a raucous sideshow where fights broke out before gunfire sent partygoers running for cover. She said her focus was on ensuring Oakland’s government continues to serve residents without interruption, a point echoed by other officials and advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loren Taylor, former City Council member and founder of Empower Oakland, an organization focused on neutralizing the impact of wealthy special interest groups in the city’s politics, expressed frustration that Oakland hasn’t been able to solve public safety issues and now faces a potential public corruption case, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then to compound that with the other news that is crowding out everything, which is the raid on the mayor’s house and other places across the city, that throws even more confusion, doubt and skepticism on Oakland,” said Taylor, who lost the 2022 Oakland mayor’s race to Thao by \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Mayoral_election_in_Oakland,_California_(2022)\">677 votes\u003c/a>. “I know that the entire city is feeling it. 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Although the FBI has not disclosed what it is investigating, such search warrants require law enforcement agents to show they have probable cause to believe there is evidence of a federal crime at the location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, the family and its company have faced allegations of ethics violations in the past, drawing the attention of political watchdogs for their close relationships with political figures and accusations that they funneled tens of thousands of dollars through straw donors to political campaigns, including Thao’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what we know about the Duongs and their company so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the Duongs arrived in Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to David, he and 15 family members came to San Francisco after fleeing the Vietnam War by small boat, spending two years in a refugee camp in the Philippines before eventually landing in the city in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told KQED in 2017 that when they first arrived, he and his siblings would take walks around the Financial District, sorting recyclables out of people’s trash waiting to be collected on city streets — the start of the family business, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few years, the family saved enough to buy a small recycling plant in West Oakland, and in 1992, they started Cal Waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the continuing leadership of David and his siblings Kristina and Victor, who are also the majority stockholders of the company, Cal Waste has grown to the largest waste management company in Northern California, according to its website, with multiple plants and over 300 employees in Oakland and San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2015, the company has had the “exclusive right to provide Oakland residents residential recycling collection services,” according to a City Council ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the Duongs have become powerful political players in Oakland. They’ve also found themselves in some hot water with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A campaign finance investigation into the company\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In August 2019, California’s Fair Political Practices Commission launched an investigation into Andy Duong, David Duong’s son and a purchasing agent and public relations officer for the family company, along with Cal Waste, accusing him and the company of using the names of others to donate to local campaign committees illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the FPPC and Oakland Public Ethics Commission published a 30-page probable cause report alleging that Cal Waste was the “true source” of at least 93 donations between 2016 and 2018 that were filed under different peoples’ names in a “campaign contribution laundering scheme,” totaling over $76,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirteen of the donations, totaling $9,900, were to Thao’s 2018 campaign for City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report concluded that probable cause exists to believe Andy and Cal Waste, or alternately, just Andy, violated the state’s Political Reform Act, which prohibits using the name of another to make a donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation looked at donations made between 2016 and 2018, during which time the city of Oakland prohibited campaign contributions from any contractors providing services that require City Council approval. At the time, Cal Waste was involved in ongoing negotiations with the city to purchase and lease land for recycling facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FPPC investigation is pending, according to the commission’s case portal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A warning letter from the FPPC in July 2023, addressed to David Duong and Duong Family Investments, states that the company failed to disclose its status as a major donor committee during two reporting periods in 2018, as well as “late contributions” of more than $1,000 made to a candidate committee within 90 days of an election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An agency representative told KQED that “a warning letter from the FPPC Enforcement Division is a finding of a violation of the Political Reform Act. The penalty for violations can range from a warning letter up to $5,000 per violation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the July 2023 warning letter, an individual or entity that donates more than $10,000 is considered a major donor committee. Duong Family Investments surpassed that threshold in February 2018 and made additional contributions in the latter half of the year, neither of which were reported in a timely manner, the FPPC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cal Waste slapped with overcharging lawsuit\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cal Waste first got into legal heat with Oakland in 2017, when the city filed a lawsuit alleging that the company overcharged residents for bringing recycling bins to multi-family dwellings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Waste countersued, accusing the city of miscalculating how many housing units it would service and hurting the company’s revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2021, the lawsuit and countersuit were settled, with Cal Waste agreeing to correct its service charges and refund all of residents’ previous overpayments. The city paid the company $1.7 million and gave it $1.5 million of cost reductions for its obligations under the city contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Funding an expensive — and lavish — business trip\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>David Duong is also president of the Vietnamese American Business Association, housed in the same office building as Cal Waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The business group co-sponsored a 2023 trip to Vietnam for Oakland officials — including Thao — to the tune of $12,000 per person, according to reporting from the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>. The costs included business class flights, five-star hotel stays and meals and transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association also helped plan the trip’s itinerary, which aimed to promote Oakland’s trade relations with Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the office building at 1211 Embarcadero was among the locations searched by FBI agents on Thursday, a spokesperson for the FBI’s San Francisco media team could not disclose which suites within the building were raided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of the five top Vietnamese American Business Association leadership positions are held by Duongs — including all three of Cal Waste’s primary owners, David, Victor, and Krista, along with Michael.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Another legal battle and more campaign donations in San José\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cal Waste has a pending lawsuit against the city of San José, where it also has a contract to collect curbside recycling for about a third of the city’s residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company sued San José in April 2023, claiming the city was not doing enough to help prevent residents from putting extra trash in their recycling bins, forcing the recycler to “collect and process massive amounts of garbage at an extra cost to [Cal Waste] of tens of millions of dollars,” court filings said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The misplaced garbage made it “impossible” to meet required recycling minimums, leading to millions of dollars worth of diversion penalties on the company, the lawsuit said. It also claims the city is discriminating against Cal Waste because it is an immigrant-owned business and treating it differently than other non-minority waste contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José has refuted the claims, contending it has done extensive work to support Cal Waste and educate residents on proper trash and recycling disposal. It also has increased the company’s annual compensation and offered financial incentives worth millions, but Cal Waste’s “historically deficient performance” has continued, the city said in a recent court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FPPC’s probe into Andy Duong and Cal Waste also includes several donations made to campaign committees in San José, including two funding City Council incumbent Tam Nguyen and Santa Clara County supervisor candidate Don Rocha in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rocha, a member of the Santa Clara County Board of Education, is a former San José City Councilmember. He told KQED he was not aware of a laundering scheme by the Duongs to donate to his campaign for supervisor in 2018.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That was never conveyed to me or discussed with me or presented to me,” Rocha said. “I would not have accepted those checks.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rocha said he knows Victor Duong through his work in the public sector.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’ve worked at (San José) city hall on and off for 30 years. Anybody who has worked that long is going to run into him, especially if you work in city government,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rocha said the FPPC previously asked him for a list of who donated to his campaign for supervisor and inquired about some of them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“And that was where it ended,” Rocha said, noting he hasn’t heard from the FPPC since.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nguyen declined to comment when reached.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ongoing political donations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the open FPPC investigation, the family is still very much involved with political campaigns. This year, David Duong has donated more than $41,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and $9,100 to the Democratic Party of Virginia. In total, his contributions to state and federal campaign committees are more than $100,000 since January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Duong has also contributed to multiple election campaign committees this year, racking up over $7,000 in donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED emailed Steven Churchwell, an attorney who received an FPPC warning \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/documents/enf_letter/2023/09-15-23/Duong-Family-Investments-202000403.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">letter\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on behalf of David Duong for violating campaign finance rules, to ask about the violations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“California Waste Solutions is aware that federal agents executed search warrants at a number of locations in Oakland yesterday related to CWS,” he said in response. “The company is fully cooperating with the government’s investigation and is confident that the government will conclude that the company and its owners were not involved in any unlawful or improper activity.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Joseph Geha contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note:\u003c/strong> An earlier version referred incorrectly to a pending FPPC lawsuit. 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They’ve also found themselves in some hot water with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A campaign finance investigation into the company\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In August 2019, California’s Fair Political Practices Commission launched an investigation into Andy Duong, David Duong’s son and a purchasing agent and public relations officer for the family company, along with Cal Waste, accusing him and the company of using the names of others to donate to local campaign committees illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the FPPC and Oakland Public Ethics Commission published a 30-page probable cause report alleging that Cal Waste was the “true source” of at least 93 donations between 2016 and 2018 that were filed under different peoples’ names in a “campaign contribution laundering scheme,” totaling over $76,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirteen of the donations, totaling $9,900, were to Thao’s 2018 campaign for City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report concluded that probable cause exists to believe Andy and Cal Waste, or alternately, just Andy, violated the state’s Political Reform Act, which prohibits using the name of another to make a donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation looked at donations made between 2016 and 2018, during which time the city of Oakland prohibited campaign contributions from any contractors providing services that require City Council approval. At the time, Cal Waste was involved in ongoing negotiations with the city to purchase and lease land for recycling facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FPPC investigation is pending, according to the commission’s case portal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A warning letter from the FPPC in July 2023, addressed to David Duong and Duong Family Investments, states that the company failed to disclose its status as a major donor committee during two reporting periods in 2018, as well as “late contributions” of more than $1,000 made to a candidate committee within 90 days of an election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An agency representative told KQED that “a warning letter from the FPPC Enforcement Division is a finding of a violation of the Political Reform Act. The penalty for violations can range from a warning letter up to $5,000 per violation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the July 2023 warning letter, an individual or entity that donates more than $10,000 is considered a major donor committee. Duong Family Investments surpassed that threshold in February 2018 and made additional contributions in the latter half of the year, neither of which were reported in a timely manner, the FPPC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cal Waste slapped with overcharging lawsuit\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cal Waste first got into legal heat with Oakland in 2017, when the city filed a lawsuit alleging that the company overcharged residents for bringing recycling bins to multi-family dwellings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Waste countersued, accusing the city of miscalculating how many housing units it would service and hurting the company’s revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2021, the lawsuit and countersuit were settled, with Cal Waste agreeing to correct its service charges and refund all of residents’ previous overpayments. The city paid the company $1.7 million and gave it $1.5 million of cost reductions for its obligations under the city contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Funding an expensive — and lavish — business trip\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>David Duong is also president of the Vietnamese American Business Association, housed in the same office building as Cal Waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The business group co-sponsored a 2023 trip to Vietnam for Oakland officials — including Thao — to the tune of $12,000 per person, according to reporting from the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>. The costs included business class flights, five-star hotel stays and meals and transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association also helped plan the trip’s itinerary, which aimed to promote Oakland’s trade relations with Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the office building at 1211 Embarcadero was among the locations searched by FBI agents on Thursday, a spokesperson for the FBI’s San Francisco media team could not disclose which suites within the building were raided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of the five top Vietnamese American Business Association leadership positions are held by Duongs — including all three of Cal Waste’s primary owners, David, Victor, and Krista, along with Michael.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Another legal battle and more campaign donations in San José\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cal Waste has a pending lawsuit against the city of San José, where it also has a contract to collect curbside recycling for about a third of the city’s residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company sued San José in April 2023, claiming the city was not doing enough to help prevent residents from putting extra trash in their recycling bins, forcing the recycler to “collect and process massive amounts of garbage at an extra cost to [Cal Waste] of tens of millions of dollars,” court filings said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The misplaced garbage made it “impossible” to meet required recycling minimums, leading to millions of dollars worth of diversion penalties on the company, the lawsuit said. It also claims the city is discriminating against Cal Waste because it is an immigrant-owned business and treating it differently than other non-minority waste contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José has refuted the claims, contending it has done extensive work to support Cal Waste and educate residents on proper trash and recycling disposal. It also has increased the company’s annual compensation and offered financial incentives worth millions, but Cal Waste’s “historically deficient performance” has continued, the city said in a recent court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FPPC’s probe into Andy Duong and Cal Waste also includes several donations made to campaign committees in San José, including two funding City Council incumbent Tam Nguyen and Santa Clara County supervisor candidate Don Rocha in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rocha, a member of the Santa Clara County Board of Education, is a former San José City Councilmember. He told KQED he was not aware of a laundering scheme by the Duongs to donate to his campaign for supervisor in 2018.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That was never conveyed to me or discussed with me or presented to me,” Rocha said. “I would not have accepted those checks.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rocha said he knows Victor Duong through his work in the public sector.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’ve worked at (San José) city hall on and off for 30 years. 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While we cannot comment on the details, this violation occurred prior to Michael joining the A’s organization and we fully support MLB’s sports betting policy and the need to adhere to all provisions of Rule 21,” the Oakland Athletics said in a statement to KQED. “We will continue to educate all members of our organization regarding their obligations under the policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MLB said Marcano placed 387 baseball bets totaling more than $150,000 in October 2022 and from last July through November with a legal sportsbook. He became the first active player in a century to be banned for life because of gambling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland A’s pitcher Michael Kelly was suspended for one year for betting on baseball while in the minor leagues and three minor leaguers also were banned for one year for betting on big league games: pitchers Jay Groome of San Diego and Andrew Saalfrank of Arizona, and infielder José Rodríguez of Philadelphia. Each of those four players wagered under $1,000. Saalfrank and Rodríguez played previously in the majors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The strict enforcement of Major League Baseball’s rules and policies governing gambling conduct is a critical component of upholding our most important priority: protecting the integrity of our games for the fans,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. “The longstanding prohibition against betting on Major League Baseball games by those in the sport has been a bedrock principle for over a century. We have been clear that the privilege of playing in baseball comes with a responsibility to refrain from engaging in certain types of behavior that are legal for other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano is the first active major leaguer banned for life under the sport’s gambling provision since New York Giants outfielder Jimmy O’Connell in 1924. 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Now 24, Marcano has not played since tearing his right ACL last July 24 and was receiving medical treatment at PNC Park last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano bet almost exclusively on the outcomes of games and lost all of his parlay bets involving the Pirates, winning just 4.3% of his MLB-related bets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano made his major league debut on April 1, 2021, and has a .217 average with five homers, 34 RBIs and seven stolen bases in\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>149 games. 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The company, she notes, already has existing contracts with smaller Southern California districts as well as contracts with San Francisco and Los Angeles school districts. “Our goal is to expand the program and have 10,000 electric school buses deployed across the country over the next several years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E worked with Zum for two years to complete the large East Oakland charging site for the bus fleet, a project that required significant infrastructure upgrades, including the installation of a new transformer and 171 feet of underground infrastructure, according to Paul Doherty, a spokesperson for the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although OUSD is ahead of the curve in its bus electrification efforts, the district’s move marks a transition that most school districts in California will have to start making within the next decade. That’s due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AB-579-Signing-Message.pdf\">a 2023 state law\u003c/a> requiring all new or leased state school buses to be zero-emission beginning in 2035 — with extensions for rural school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing for the state to spend $1.8 billion over the next five years to help districts acquire more zero-emission buses and charging equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Legislature had initially committed $500 million annually toward electric school buses for the next two school years. Newson’s budget plan would add nearly $400 million more to the pot for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987992\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987992\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a green shirt and a man wearing a dark shirt stand in between two school buses and a charging station.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zum CEO Ritu Narayan (front) and COO Vivek Garg pose with the first of the 74 electric school buses it will be running in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Zum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, that \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/newsom-prioritizes-electric-school-buses-over-preschool-for-children-with-disabilities/712445\">proposal has proven controversial\u003c/a> among some education advocates and parents, as the money would come at the expense of the state’s Inclusive Early Education Expansion Program, which helps train preschool teachers to better serve children with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a special education administrator and somebody who’s been in the special education field, I think students with disabilities are more important than electric buses,” Anthony Rebelo, chair of the Coalition for Adequate Funding for Special Education, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/newsom-prioritizes-electric-school-buses-over-preschool-for-children-with-disabilities/712445\">recently told EdSource\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School bus driver Marjorie Urbina has been picking up and dropping off students in San Francisco for decades and has experience driving more than a dozen different types of school buses. She began working in Oakland two years ago and now drives for Zum on a contract basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urbina said the Zum buses are much quieter and easier to clean, and the driver’s seat is more comfortable than other buses she’s driven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new buses also have driver-side tablets that display navigation tools and allow drivers and dispatchers to connect in real-time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the new buses, we asked for certain things, like making the ceiling more soundproof to help diffuse the noise of the kids,” Urbina said, noting that those improvements have made her job a bit easier. “That atmosphere of having a quiet bus keeps the environment inside a little more relaxed.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland Unified will soon become the first major district in the country to host an all-electric fleet of school buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 1,300 special education students in the district, who have the option of riding the buses, can look forward to quieter and cleaner rides starting at the beginning of the next school year, in August. (Unlike some other Bay Area districts, OUSD does not offer busing for most of its students.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ousdnews/posts/pfbid0KE5MdV5nv4LbQ993mYiZ7ZttedxMoJXF72n4LgaSx3ocPsneydKqp973nRiyHbwfl\">a Facebook post last month\u003c/a>, the district announced its new partnership with school transportation company Zum (pronounced ZOOM), based in Redwood City, which is providing and managing the 74-bus fleet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ridezum.com/blog/zum-launches-nations-first-100-electrified-bidirectional-v2g-school-bus-fleet-in-oakland-ca/\">Zum estimates\u003c/a> the buses will prevent about 25,000 tons of greenhouse gases from entering the environment each year — the amount it said that 74 diesel buses would likely produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vehicles are all equipped with bidirectional chargers that replenish the buses overnight but can also enable them to serve as power sources when needed. Zum said its AI technology monitors the buses’ energy use and determines the best times to return power back to the grid while calculating the most efficient bus routes based on traffic patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families will also be able to use an app to track the buses their children are riding on and receive updates about delays, the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its initial five-year contract, OUSD will pay Zum $11.2 million a year to run the buses, according to Kimberly Raney, OUSD’s transportation director. About half of the district’s total costs for the service will be covered by federal, state and private grants, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a true partnership of how we do what’s right for the kids,” Raney said. “Oakland is really the perfect place for this. We have a lot of special education kids who need to travel to school using our bus systems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diesel exhaust is one of the main air pollutants in California and has been linked to an increased risk of lung cancer and aggravated asthma, among other negative health impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=mcnair#:~:text=Visits%20in%20Oakland,-There%20is%20an&text=For%20West%20Oakland%20children%20aged,rate%20of%20421.9%20per%20100%2C000\">2017 study\u003c/a> found significantly elevated rates of asthma among children in West and East Oakland living near freeways, the port and other high-traffic corridors, with Black and Latino children making up more than 60% of Alameda County’s asthma-related hospitalizations.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“OUSD is the first, but there is an eagerness from federal, state, and local partners across the country to electrify their school bus fleets,” Ritu Narayan, Zum’s CEO and co-founder, said in an email. The company, she notes, already has existing contracts with smaller Southern California districts as well as contracts with San Francisco and Los Angeles school districts. “Our goal is to expand the program and have 10,000 electric school buses deployed across the country over the next several years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E worked with Zum for two years to complete the large East Oakland charging site for the bus fleet, a project that required significant infrastructure upgrades, including the installation of a new transformer and 171 feet of underground infrastructure, according to Paul Doherty, a spokesperson for the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although OUSD is ahead of the curve in its bus electrification efforts, the district’s move marks a transition that most school districts in California will have to start making within the next decade. That’s due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AB-579-Signing-Message.pdf\">a 2023 state law\u003c/a> requiring all new or leased state school buses to be zero-emission beginning in 2035 — with extensions for rural school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing for the state to spend $1.8 billion over the next five years to help districts acquire more zero-emission buses and charging equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Legislature had initially committed $500 million annually toward electric school buses for the next two school years. Newson’s budget plan would add nearly $400 million more to the pot for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987992\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987992\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a green shirt and a man wearing a dark shirt stand in between two school buses and a charging station.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/Zum_0307_highres-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zum CEO Ritu Narayan (front) and COO Vivek Garg pose with the first of the 74 electric school buses it will be running in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Zum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, that \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/newsom-prioritizes-electric-school-buses-over-preschool-for-children-with-disabilities/712445\">proposal has proven controversial\u003c/a> among some education advocates and parents, as the money would come at the expense of the state’s Inclusive Early Education Expansion Program, which helps train preschool teachers to better serve children with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a special education administrator and somebody who’s been in the special education field, I think students with disabilities are more important than electric buses,” Anthony Rebelo, chair of the Coalition for Adequate Funding for Special Education, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/newsom-prioritizes-electric-school-buses-over-preschool-for-children-with-disabilities/712445\">recently told EdSource\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School bus driver Marjorie Urbina has been picking up and dropping off students in San Francisco for decades and has experience driving more than a dozen different types of school buses. 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"content": "\u003cp>The last few weeks have seen astonishing changes at West Oakland’s Raimondi Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Ballers have turned the park’s historic baseball field, which city officials described just two months ago as “unplayable” due to years of neglect, into an instant stadium that will welcome a sellout crowd of 4,000 for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pioneerleague.com/landing/index\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pioneer League\u003c/a> team’s first home game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the facilities the team says will be ready for those fans are three parking lots adjacent to the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s about a thousand parking spaces in total,” says Paul Freedman, co-founder of the Oakland Ballers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988460\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling man wearing a black hoodie, holding a green helmet with a baseball diamond behind him, along with a green warehouse in the distance painted with a white 'B's'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Ballers co-founder Paul Freedman talks with members of the Oakland Department of Transportation after a bicycle ride from City Hall to Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in West Oakland on May 28. The purpose of the ride was to observe and discuss improvements made to infrastructure in the area ahead of the Ballers Opening Day. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But while the team is providing parking at prices ranging from $8 to $20, Freedman says he hopes many fans leave their cars at home and find other ways to the ballpark. This season, the team says its goal is to have 25% of fans get to the ballpark without driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freedman says the team’s transit goals are both climate-conscious and practical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been told by people who do parking and transportation management for the city that if we didn’t do anything, as many as 80 to 90% of people would drive,” Freedman says.[aside postID=\"news_11986294,arts_13956931,news_11968536\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preventing traffic jams has been an important part of planning for the ballpark. Freedman says he’s met with neighborhood groups about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We heard tremendous excitement about the idea of activating this park with baseball, and then, concerns about parking, transportation and traffic,” Freedman says. “And the best way to solve those problems is to encourage people to use other methods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On game days, the Ballers are running a \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandballers.com/information/transportation-and-parking\">free shuttle\u003c/a> to Raimondi Park from West Oakland BART. They’re providing a free bike and scooter valet for those who want to roll to the stadium and encouraging people to use AC Transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, the city of Oakland has repaved pothole-ridden streets, repaired sidewalks, removed derelict train tracks, and added high-visibility crosswalks in the immediate vicinity of the ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of smiling people riding bicycles along a tree-lined street approaches the camera\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Oakland Department of Transportation lead a bicycle ride from City Hall to Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in Oakland on May 28. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland resident Tripper Ortman told KQED he plans to organize a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ballersbiketotheballpark/\">Bike to the Ballpark\u003c/a>” group bicycle ride from Rockridge BART on weekend game days. He’s had success with this sort of thing before, as an organizer of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rootsmarchtothematch/\">March to the Match\u003c/a>”, a 3.8-mile walk from Rockridge to Laney College to see Oakland Roots games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a lot of bad press around biking in Oakland,” Ortman says. “I don’t know that I feel totally safe at night riding around, but in a big caravan during the day on the weekends, it feels like something safe you can do. And it’s fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brian Culbertson, a member of the traffic safety advocacy group Traffic Violence Rapid Response who lives near Raimondi Park, people’s decisions on walking or biking to the game will be based on safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland has a traffic violence crisis where a lot of people who are walking or biking are being hit by cars,” Culbertson says, “It is a difficult decision to say, ‘I’m going to take my family and bike across Oakland and put myself in threat by the cars.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/CityofOakland_CrashAnalysis_Infographic_08.29.18.pdf\">citywide crash analysis \u003c/a>from the city, people who walk, bike or take public transit make up fewer than 30% of commute trips in the city but experience nearly 50% of severe and fatal injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culbertson points to “multilane arterial streets,” of which there are more than one in the area around Raimondi, as the main problem areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988461\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand at a railing with the green grass of a baseball diamond behind them\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Oakland Department of Transportation look at Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in West Oakland on May 28, after a bicycle ride from City Hall to observe and discuss improvements made to infrastructure in the area ahead of the Ballers Opening Day. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you have a lot of people on game day driving here, then you have a lot more people with cars interacting with people walking and biking,” Culbertson says. “So then a street like 18th, which is only really safe because hardly anyone uses it, will suddenly become a place for people to speed down and will become more dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culbertson says Oakland needs to install traffic-calming infrastructure, such as speed bumps, roundabouts, and concrete curbs, to slow drivers down not just in West Oakland but throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just up to the Ballers. It’s also up to the city of Oakland to plan that network of safe ways to get around Oakland to get here,” Culbertson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic safety advocates hope improvements made to nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/projects/8th-st-project\">8th Street\u003c/a>, where a soon-to-be-completed project has installed a number of traffic calming elements on a 1.1-mile stretch between Market and Pine streets, can become a template for future street redesigns in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few blocks away from Raimondi is Kilovolt Coffee. Andrea Mallea is the manager, and she takes the bus to work. Her advice for Ballers fans who want to take AC Transit to a game?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988457\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people ride bicycles around a roundabout in a residential neighborhood\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Oakland Department of Transportation lead a bicycle ride from City Hall to Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in Oakland on May 28. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’d say plan your time wisely because sometimes things get kind of dicey as far as buses even arriving on schedule,” Mallea says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four AC Transit routes, running every 15 to 30 minutes, depending on the day, will get you within walking distance of the ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really think that there just needs to be an increase in routes and service if people are going to find that option to even be viable or appealing,” Mallea says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, it remains to be seen just how Ballers fans decide to get to the ballpark and how the neighborhood accommodates the new crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ballers plan to use parking data to track how many people drive to the opening game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballers’ co-founder Freedman says he’d love it if the new team could get fans excited about coming out to the ballpark during this first season while minimizing traffic impacts to the Raimondi neighborhood. If the Ballers can do that, he says, it would be a home run for the team and the community.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The last few weeks have seen astonishing changes at West Oakland’s Raimondi Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Ballers have turned the park’s historic baseball field, which city officials described just two months ago as “unplayable” due to years of neglect, into an instant stadium that will welcome a sellout crowd of 4,000 for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pioneerleague.com/landing/index\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pioneer League\u003c/a> team’s first home game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the facilities the team says will be ready for those fans are three parking lots adjacent to the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s about a thousand parking spaces in total,” says Paul Freedman, co-founder of the Oakland Ballers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988460\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling man wearing a black hoodie, holding a green helmet with a baseball diamond behind him, along with a green warehouse in the distance painted with a white 'B's'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Ballers co-founder Paul Freedman talks with members of the Oakland Department of Transportation after a bicycle ride from City Hall to Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in West Oakland on May 28. The purpose of the ride was to observe and discuss improvements made to infrastructure in the area ahead of the Ballers Opening Day. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But while the team is providing parking at prices ranging from $8 to $20, Freedman says he hopes many fans leave their cars at home and find other ways to the ballpark. This season, the team says its goal is to have 25% of fans get to the ballpark without driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preventing traffic jams has been an important part of planning for the ballpark. Freedman says he’s met with neighborhood groups about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We heard tremendous excitement about the idea of activating this park with baseball, and then, concerns about parking, transportation and traffic,” Freedman says. “And the best way to solve those problems is to encourage people to use other methods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On game days, the Ballers are running a \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandballers.com/information/transportation-and-parking\">free shuttle\u003c/a> to Raimondi Park from West Oakland BART. They’re providing a free bike and scooter valet for those who want to roll to the stadium and encouraging people to use AC Transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, the city of Oakland has repaved pothole-ridden streets, repaired sidewalks, removed derelict train tracks, and added high-visibility crosswalks in the immediate vicinity of the ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of smiling people riding bicycles along a tree-lined street approaches the camera\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Oakland Department of Transportation lead a bicycle ride from City Hall to Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in Oakland on May 28. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland resident Tripper Ortman told KQED he plans to organize a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ballersbiketotheballpark/\">Bike to the Ballpark\u003c/a>” group bicycle ride from Rockridge BART on weekend game days. He’s had success with this sort of thing before, as an organizer of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rootsmarchtothematch/\">March to the Match\u003c/a>”, a 3.8-mile walk from Rockridge to Laney College to see Oakland Roots games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a lot of bad press around biking in Oakland,” Ortman says. “I don’t know that I feel totally safe at night riding around, but in a big caravan during the day on the weekends, it feels like something safe you can do. And it’s fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brian Culbertson, a member of the traffic safety advocacy group Traffic Violence Rapid Response who lives near Raimondi Park, people’s decisions on walking or biking to the game will be based on safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland has a traffic violence crisis where a lot of people who are walking or biking are being hit by cars,” Culbertson says, “It is a difficult decision to say, ‘I’m going to take my family and bike across Oakland and put myself in threat by the cars.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/CityofOakland_CrashAnalysis_Infographic_08.29.18.pdf\">citywide crash analysis \u003c/a>from the city, people who walk, bike or take public transit make up fewer than 30% of commute trips in the city but experience nearly 50% of severe and fatal injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culbertson points to “multilane arterial streets,” of which there are more than one in the area around Raimondi, as the main problem areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988461\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand at a railing with the green grass of a baseball diamond behind them\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Oakland Department of Transportation look at Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in West Oakland on May 28, after a bicycle ride from City Hall to observe and discuss improvements made to infrastructure in the area ahead of the Ballers Opening Day. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you have a lot of people on game day driving here, then you have a lot more people with cars interacting with people walking and biking,” Culbertson says. “So then a street like 18th, which is only really safe because hardly anyone uses it, will suddenly become a place for people to speed down and will become more dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culbertson says Oakland needs to install traffic-calming infrastructure, such as speed bumps, roundabouts, and concrete curbs, to slow drivers down not just in West Oakland but throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just up to the Ballers. It’s also up to the city of Oakland to plan that network of safe ways to get around Oakland to get here,” Culbertson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic safety advocates hope improvements made to nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/projects/8th-st-project\">8th Street\u003c/a>, where a soon-to-be-completed project has installed a number of traffic calming elements on a 1.1-mile stretch between Market and Pine streets, can become a template for future street redesigns in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few blocks away from Raimondi is Kilovolt Coffee. Andrea Mallea is the manager, and she takes the bus to work. Her advice for Ballers fans who want to take AC Transit to a game?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988457\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people ride bicycles around a roundabout in a residential neighborhood\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Oakland Department of Transportation lead a bicycle ride from City Hall to Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in Oakland on May 28. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’d say plan your time wisely because sometimes things get kind of dicey as far as buses even arriving on schedule,” Mallea says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four AC Transit routes, running every 15 to 30 minutes, depending on the day, will get you within walking distance of the ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really think that there just needs to be an increase in routes and service if people are going to find that option to even be viable or appealing,” Mallea says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, it remains to be seen just how Ballers fans decide to get to the ballpark and how the neighborhood accommodates the new crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ballers plan to use parking data to track how many people drive to the opening game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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