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Last year, McFadden ordered Blauser to pay a $500 fine but didn’t sentence him to any term of incarceration or probation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-politics-legal-proceedings-kane-donald-trump-e572f6124ff386b1c1a71d0b8c2e9270\">McFadden convicted Bauer of all five counts\u003c/a> in her indictment, including a felony charge that she obstructed the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress that certified President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorney Komron Jon Maknoon said Bauer never intended to interfere with the process of certifying the electoral college vote. She “genuinely regrets her past actions” and doesn’t pose a threat to the public, her lawyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The international spotlight showcasing her at her worst has deeply affected her,” \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.232028/gov.uscourts.dcd.232028.183.0_1.pdf\">Maknoon wrote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said Bauer lied during her trial testimony, giving a bogus explanation for her confrontation with police and claiming she didn’t remember threatening Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bauer has used “sovereign citizen” extremist rhetoric and filed “nonsense” court documents while defending herself, prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a year before the trial, McFadden ordered Bauer to be jailed for several months for violating conditions of her release. 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Californians deserve better,” Republican Assembly Leader James Gallagher said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deficit is small compared to the cash crunch the state faced during the last recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since taking office in 2019, Newsom’s biggest budget fights with the Democratic-controlled state Legislature have been how to spend California’s record-breaking surpluses. Agreeing on what to cut could be much more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s plan in January was to cut money for \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/politics-california-state-government-gavin-newsom-b37eff81737c25479987385dd1dd8d54\">flood protection projects\u003c/a>, delaying an expansion of a subsidized \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-child-care-budget-low-income-newsom-cf0f7d5a27b2df6dd9042a97acb8ccca\">child care program\u003c/a> and canceling a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-deficit-newsom-unemployment-debt-taxes-f6588e0376703fca4398375e11639838\">$500 million plan\u003c/a> to help small businesses pay higher tax rates associated with some state debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom now plans to restore money for flood protection projects and introduce another $250 million in new spending, which includes raising \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982460/southern-central-valley-counties-brace-for-flooding-as-heat-wave-melts-sierra-snowpack\">a levee to protect the Central Valley community of Corcoran\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not yet clear if he can or will relent on his other proposed cuts. Newsom signed off on an expansion of a subsidized child care program last year that would pay to help an extra 20,000 families. But because of the deficit, Newsom proposed delaying that funding for one year. He argued that the state was having trouble filling the child care slots it already had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That angered some Democratic lawmakers, who said the reason the state was having trouble filling its child care slots is there aren’t enough child care workers. On Monday, Democrats in the Assembly proposed $1 billion in new spending to increase the pay of child care workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, we just need to put a little pressure on the governor to make sure he’s on board,” Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Gómez-Reyes said on Wednesday while speaking to a rally of parents and child care workers at the state Capitol.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]‘This was not an easy budget, but I hope you see we will try to do our best to hold the line and take care of the most vulnerable and most needy, but still maintain prudence.’[/pullquote]It’s not just child care, though. Democrats in the state Senate \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-business-taxes-gavin-newsom-nancy-skinner-4cc2ed58a503c8a1365ed98cbb3bd095\">want to raise taxes on 2,500 of the largest companies so they can cut taxes by about 25% for most other businesses\u003c/a> — a plan that Newsom has already said he opposes. And environmental groups want Newsom to reverse his planned $6 billion cut to some of his climate proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has maintained most of those cuts in his revised proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s also protected spending in other key priority areas, such as expanding Medicaid to everyone who is eligible regardless of their immigration status and allowing people to use Medicaid money to pay for rent. Likewise Newsom said he planned to maintain spending to address the state’s housing and homelessness crisis and K–12 education spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also some new spending. Newsom wants to add 14 positions at the California Energy Commission to track and oversee oil prices as part of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-gas-prices-gavin-newsom-oil-profits-penalty-price-gouging-c13eeb714b903c753882752c435dbe63\">an effort to crack down on high gas prices\u003c/a>. He also wants to redirect 10 existing positions to that project, creating the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s budget challenges are due in large part to lower tax collections due to a sagging stock market. About half of the state’s money comes from just 1% of earners. That means that the state is vulnerable to big swings in the stock market, which is the source of wealth for most rich people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downward turn has had the biggest impact on California’s massive technology industry as companies like \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-sundar-pichai-covid-pandemics-c85c45231712709582b1d3fe46be5ffe\">Google\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/facebook-meta-layoffs-283a6e1c1a2e02a439d177a7acdf4296\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-paypal-holdings-inc-san-jose-business-a400968b107a791564d67f9e24d7b4d2\">PayPal\u003c/a> have laid off thousands of workers. Earlier this year, Silicon Valley Bank — one of the nation’s largest financial institutions, whose clients were mostly in the tech industry — failed and was bought by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/svb-banks-fdic-first-citizen-silicon-f6958f1fa87b0991cb525b0424c7a1cd\">North Carolina-based First Citizens Bank\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of intense winter storms that brought widespread damage also prompted state officials to give many people until October, not April, to file their taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delayed tax collection means Newsom and lawmakers will have to make a plan without knowing how much money they have to spend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday evening unanimously passed a resolution urging District Attorney Brooke Jenkins to release police reports, witness accounts and video footage related to the killing of Banko Brown, a 24-year-old Black transgender man who was shot and killed outside a Market Street Walgreens by a store security guard on April 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 1, Jenkins \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/sf-walgreens-fatal-shooting-da-drops-charges-18000633.php\">declined to file charges against Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony\u003c/a>, the security guard who shot Brown, saying Anthony had acted in self-defense. But after public outcry over the decision grew following \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/banko-brown-unarmed-michael-earl-wayne-anthony-jenkins-release-evidence/\">confirmation from law enforcement that Brown was not armed\u003c/a> and reporting indicating Anthony had followed Brown outside and shot him in the chest after ejecting him from the store, as \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/walgreens-banko-brown-michael-earl-wayne-anthony-video/\">one witness told Mission Local\u003c/a>, Jenkins changed course on May 8, stating that the investigation is ongoing and she has not ruled out filing charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors voted on the nonbinding resolution that urges Jenkins and the San Francisco Police Department to release more information. City residents made impassioned pleas for the release of videos during public comment at the supervisors’ meeting, before the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tory, San Francisco resident at Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting\"]‘Being hungry is not a crime. Being homeless is not a crime. Being Black is not a crime … Release the tapes.’[/pullquote]“Please, please insist this DA show the evidence. It’s time for her to stop rationalizing inappropriate behavior,” said Yulanda Williams, vice president of the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP. “I’ve been a police officer for 32 years. I’m now retired. I never would have thought to use my gun on someone stealing some type of merchandise out of a store.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being hungry is not a crime. Being homeless is not a crime. Being Black is not a crime,” said Tory, a resident of San Francisco’s Western Addition neighborhood. “We want to see the tapes immediately. Release the tapes and justice for Banko Brown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another public commenter referenced intense recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/technology/cash-app-founder-stabbed-san-francisco.html\">regional and national coverage\u003c/a> of a different San Francisco killing, that of Cash App creator Bob Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here for the same reason everyone else is here … Banko Brown’s case is just as important as the Cash App case,” said Jalen Clark, who added that his sister had worked with Brown. “My people are important … This is not just a situation here in San Francisco, this is all over the U.S. and we need to start somewhere. Why not right here, right now?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin on Tuesday evening said the resolution to urge the release of evidence in the “beyond tragic” situation was one that united the city’s progressive and moderate factions. He also refuted allegations made by Jenkins that the resolution interferes with an active investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Supervisor Shamann Walton wrote a letter of inquiry to Jenkins requesting that she reevaluate the case. Jenkins fired back in a letter to Walton on Monday saying his comments could disrupt the investigation and a fair judicial process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I disagree with the District Attorney’s opinions and have been informed by our Deputy City Attorney that my request has no interference with the investigation and it is not at all unethical,” wrote Walton. “Videos are released all the time during investigations and in some cases even required. We are asking for transparency around the killing of Banko Brown and release of this video will most certainly help with that transparency. I hope the district attorney will reconsider her decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday evening, Walton said supporters of Brown “still need to organize” to put pressure on the District Attorney’s Office and on Walgreens to release footage of Brown’s shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody has to give us that video,” he said. “If there was evidence on that video that led to the assessment from the DA, everybody should have the opportunity to view that video.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, who is said to have been unhoused at the time of his death, died shortly after Anthony shot him. Peskin, who called for the case to be reopened, told the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> that Brown had allegedly stolen $14 worth of candy from the pharmacy before Anthony opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13928870 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/008_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-1020x680.jpg']The tragedy is not uncommon in the United States, where gun-related deaths have increased 23% since 2019, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While the majority of those deaths are suicide, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/\">gun murders in particular increased 45% from 2019 to 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/vvsogi1720.pdf\">People who are transgender are 2.5 times more likely to face violence than people who align with the gender they were assigned at birth (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to 2022 data from the U.S. Department of Justice. Trans youth are also disproportionately likely to be unhoused, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Trevor-Project-Homelessness-Report.pdf\">nearly 40% saying they have experienced homelessness at some point in their lives (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to a 2021 national survey from The Trevor Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The killing has since sparked outrage from Brown’s family, Bay Area community members and advocates for the transgender community around the country. A memorial to Brown’s life now sits outside the Walgreens on Market Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The killing also has ignited debate over whether security guards should carry guns. Supervisor Dean Preston on Tuesday also announced legislation that would limit use of guns by security guards and using lethal force for shoplifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also need to take some action and make sure this never happens again,” the District 5 supervisor said in a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DeanPreston/status/1656023543333933057\">video posted to social media\u003c/a> on Tuesday. “Human life is more important than property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins said that releasing the information prematurely could “compromise” the investigation. She said the charging decision on May 1 was made to comply with a law that requires charges to be filed for suspects who are in custody within 72 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hear and understand the concerns from people calling for transparency, but releasing any evidence before the investigation is complete could compromise the investigation and is unethical,” Jenkins said in a press release. “I have asked SFPD investigators to locate and interview additional witnesses and gather additional evidence. A final charging decision will be made when the investigation is complete.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her letter to Walton, Jenkins personally called out the supervisor for pointing out that Brown was Black, but not acknowledging that the Walgreens security guard is also Black. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday evening unanimously passed a resolution urging District Attorney Brooke Jenkins to release police reports, witness accounts and video footage related to the killing of Banko Brown, a 24-year-old Black transgender man who was shot and killed outside a Market Street Walgreens by a store security guard on April 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 1, Jenkins \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/sf-walgreens-fatal-shooting-da-drops-charges-18000633.php\">declined to file charges against Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony\u003c/a>, the security guard who shot Brown, saying Anthony had acted in self-defense. But after public outcry over the decision grew following \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/banko-brown-unarmed-michael-earl-wayne-anthony-jenkins-release-evidence/\">confirmation from law enforcement that Brown was not armed\u003c/a> and reporting indicating Anthony had followed Brown outside and shot him in the chest after ejecting him from the store, as \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/walgreens-banko-brown-michael-earl-wayne-anthony-video/\">one witness told Mission Local\u003c/a>, Jenkins changed course on May 8, stating that the investigation is ongoing and she has not ruled out filing charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors voted on the nonbinding resolution that urges Jenkins and the San Francisco Police Department to release more information. City residents made impassioned pleas for the release of videos during public comment at the supervisors’ meeting, before the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The tragedy is not uncommon in the United States, where gun-related deaths have increased 23% since 2019, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While the majority of those deaths are suicide, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/\">gun murders in particular increased 45% from 2019 to 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/vvsogi1720.pdf\">People who are transgender are 2.5 times more likely to face violence than people who align with the gender they were assigned at birth (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to 2022 data from the U.S. Department of Justice. Trans youth are also disproportionately likely to be unhoused, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Trevor-Project-Homelessness-Report.pdf\">nearly 40% saying they have experienced homelessness at some point in their lives (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to a 2021 national survey from The Trevor Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The killing has since sparked outrage from Brown’s family, Bay Area community members and advocates for the transgender community around the country. A memorial to Brown’s life now sits outside the Walgreens on Market Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The killing also has ignited debate over whether security guards should carry guns. Supervisor Dean Preston on Tuesday also announced legislation that would limit use of guns by security guards and using lethal force for shoplifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also need to take some action and make sure this never happens again,” the District 5 supervisor said in a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DeanPreston/status/1656023543333933057\">video posted to social media\u003c/a> on Tuesday. “Human life is more important than property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins said that releasing the information prematurely could “compromise” the investigation. 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She stated how “many historic injustices that our community has faced can be traced back to politically motivated prosecutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948982\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65169_005_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"candles, photos and posters sit against a chain link fence in the background as the blurry feet of a pedestrian walk past in the foreground\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65169_005_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65169_005_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65169_005_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65169_005_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65169_005_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person walks past a memorial for Banko Brown on May 9, outside the Market Street Walgreens in downtown San Francisco where Brown was killed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, other government officials and legal experts have pushed back on Jenkins’ decision not to release evidence in the case, as well as her earlier decision not to prosecute the security guard for shooting and killing someone over alleged shoplifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In recent days, a steady stream of information has become public regarding the shooting death of Banko Brown, resulting in significant public doubt about the security guard’s claim of self-defense,” said state Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>California \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/04/hospital-closures-california/\">hospitals in financial trouble\u003c/a> will soon be able to apply for interest-free state loans, although key questions about the selection process aren’t yet resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature on Thursday approved \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB112\">a bill that will allocate a one-time sum of $150 million from the general fund to aid hospitals\u003c/a> that are facing severe financial distress and are at risk of closure, or that have closed but have a plan to reopen. The loans would have to be paid back within six years, although loans may be forgiven for hospitals that meet certain requirements. Gov. Gavin Newsom needs to sign the bill to enact the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators and hospital administrators have acknowledged a loan program is only a stopgap for a number of hospitals that for months have warned of their precarious fiscal situations. Legislators fast-tracked action following \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/01/hospital-closure/\">the closure of Madera Community Hospital\u003c/a> at the start of this year, which left this San Joaquin Valley county of 160,000 people without a local emergency room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, another hospital, Beverly Hospital in the city of Montebello, has filed for bankruptcy.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"science_1981588,news_11947640,news_11937928\"]“This bill, this money, will keep them (Beverly Hospital) open long enough to be able to perhaps sell, regroup, whatever, but they will keep their doors open,” Sen. 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Hospitals that apply will have to demonstrate need and viability to the California Department of Health Care Access and Information, which will oversee the program in conjunction with the state’s health department and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.treasurer.ca.gov/chffa/introduction.asp\">California Health Facilities Financing Authority\u003c/a>, a financing program within the State Treasurer’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear exactly how many hospitals could qualify and how much each would get, according to officials from the state Department of Finance who testified in a budget committee hearing earlier this week. That will be determined by the agencies in charge, who will have to create eligibility criteria for these loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In hearings leading to Thursday’s vote, lawmakers asked why the state wasn’t conducting its own analysis of hospitals’ current situation so that the Legislature knows exactly which hospitals are in immediate need of relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know how many hospitals, we don’t know which hospitals. We don’t know which areas those hospitals are (in), we don’t know anything. And now we’re asked to approve $150 million to be doled out without access to plans, without access to the finances that would give us the evidence to feel comfortable with this,” said Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, a Los Angeles Democrat, during a Senate budget committee hearing on Tuesday.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"State Sen. 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The association has also not identified facilities, noting that when a hospital announces its financial troubles it can prematurely begin to lose workers and patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But aside from the now defunct Madera Community Hospital, at least seven other hospitals have publicly spoken about their financial troubles, either through op-ed pieces, news reports, notices on their website or communication to their staff. 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The temporary emergency operation lasted 90 days and the center stayed open for 11 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without a replacement (for the Tenderloin Center), and then to instead focus on policing people, it’s no surprise to me that there are more overdoses this year than last year,” Kral said. “There’s no surprise to me that things will get worse with this approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Residents say help is needed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s intervention comes alongside serious concerns about safety in the Tenderloin and in SoMa and complaints about street conditions that some feel are out of control. Residents who spoke to KQED said they are desperate for solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob Thornton, 32, lives at Trinity Place in SoMa and said he has been held up at knifepoint twice outside his building. 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I mean, wow,” said Thornton outside his building on May 1, the day the latest operation was set to begin. “I have not seen any National Guard yet, but I’m very excited for them to come if they are coming, because this block in particular is just absolutely wild and no one seems to do anything about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley Hampton splits her time between her home in the city of Richmond, where her kids and grandmother live, and a room on Jones Street in the Tenderloin to be closer to her son, who was recently released from prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She too welcomed the additional attention to the neighborhood, but was skeptical that it would lead to lasting change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m out here every night making sure that no one is in the corner overdosing or drowning from their alcohol,” she said. Sending in CHP “can make a difference only if they include the community that it wants to change. 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Canada, which is also grappling with fentanyl, opened ATM-like machines that can dispense safe amounts of opioids in controlled settings, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The machines helped reduce overdose deaths and drug dealing by regulating what is in the supply, and by limiting the demand for users to buy drugs illegally. The Canadian government in 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/news/2021/03/government-of-canada-supports-expansion-of-innovative-safer-supply-project-to-operate-in-four-cities-across-canada.html\">expanded the service program to four cities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 200 safe consumption sites also operate globally in more than a dozen countries, including France, Denmark, Canada, Australia, Switzerland and others. The facilities offer a space where people can use drugs and trained staff can reverse an overdose if it occurs, while also connecting people with other health and social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York City has found early success with reversing overdoses and reducing public drug use by operating two safe consumption sites at a private nonprofit called OnPoint NYC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Rhode Island became the first state to legalize supervised drug consumption services, and now has a state-approved plan to open a site in Providence in early 2024. The state has allocated $2.6 million from opioid settlement funds to pay for the first year of operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Breed has said she supports opening safe consumption sites and has support from the Board of Supervisors. But last year, Gov. 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San Francisco has a projected $130 million in funding coming in through settlements with pharmacies, drug manufacturers and distributors for their role in the overdose crisis, and the money is earmarked specifically for overdose prevention, such as purchasing and distributing Narcan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney David Chiu has not yet agreed to use the funds for supervised consumption sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only is the U.S. not up to international standards on overdose prevention, but San Francisco and California as a whole are not up to national standards,” Ciccarone said, referring to the steps that some states are taking to address fentanyl overdoses and street-level problems related to drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/can-a-new-san-francisco-drug-testing-program-help-keep-users-safe/article_f289ddaa-4a53-11ed-a8ae-879e236a7de2.html\">San Francisco has been piloting a drug testing program\u003c/a>, but on a small scale. 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Some of the bills seek to ramp up prison sentences for fentanyl dealers, while others focus on education and prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who represents the SoMa neighborhood, has repeatedly called for increased police presence to deter drug use and dealing.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11947448,science_1982214,news_11945418\"]“San Francisco is on the precipice of a potentially catastrophic police staffing shortage, and there are too many public safety problems we’ll be helpless to solve if we don’t start solving SFPD’s understaffing crisis first,” Dorsey stated earlier this year when \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/23.01.23_Dorsey%20pushes%20police%20recruitment%20bonus%20matching%20policy%20to%20avoid%20%E2%80%98catastrophic%E2%80%99%20SFPD%20staffing%20shortage.pdf\">advocating for police recruitment bonuses (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju said he fears that would lead to negative outcomes similar to the crack cocaine and heroin epidemics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know from 50 years of the war on drugs that the people who are likely to be targeted by any forthcoming operations will be in low-income and Black and Brown communities, including those who have been trafficked or coerced into the drug trade under threat to themselves and their families,” Raju said in a press release after the new plan was announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Providing housing and places where people can leave the street for safer settings to use drugs can be closer to the win-win politicians are looking for, Kral said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s an economic incentive, too, Kral added. 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"content": "\u003cp>In 1993, shortly after becoming California’s first female senator, Dianne Feinstein joined the embattled Senate Judiciary Committee, breaking its all-male stronghold. She went on to become the top-ranking Democrat on the panel — the first woman to assume that role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, three decades later, it’s her \u003cem>absence\u003c/em> from that key committee that is making headlines and causing headaches for her fellow Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 89-year-old senator from San Francisco has been out of work since she was \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dianne-feinstein-shingles-hospitalized/\">diagnosed with a case of shingles\u003c/a> in late February. Her prolonged recovery has prevented her from returning to the Senate, where her vote is essential to advancing President Biden’s judicial nominees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.acslaw.org/judicial-nominations/\">currently 36 pending judicial nominees\u003c/a>, according to the American Constitution Society. Of those, 12 — including four from California — must first be voted on in the Judiciary Committee before receiving a final confirmation vote in the Senate. Feinstein’s absence makes that more difficult, if not impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein reportedly spoke to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday and assured him she’d return to work soon, but her office hasn’t indicated exactly when she’ll be strong enough to fly back to Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, Feinstein’s D.C. office has also lost several key members, including her chief of staff, David Grannis, who left to become executive director of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before her departure in February, Feinstein, who is California’s longest-serving senator, announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941047/sen-dianne-feinstein-wont-seek-reelection-ending-groundbreaking-political-career\">she would not run for reelection\u003c/a> next year, but plans to remain in office through the end of her term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, amid mounting pressure for her to return, Feinstein asked Schumer to appoint another Democrat to temporarily replace her on the committee. Ordinarily that would be fairly routine, but apparently it’s not in this case, where a key Democratic goal of confirming more judges hangs in the balance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Senate is very arcane in terms of its procedures,” said Carl Tobias, professor at the University of Richmond School of Law. “And it turns out that one senator can block that type of request unless you have 60 votes for cloture (a process for ending debate) to pass a resolution that allows something like that replacement to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobias says the issue could also be resolved if a Republican member of the committee were to vote in favor of the judicial nominees, which would break any deadlock in Feinstein’s absence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And they’re not controversial,” Tobias said of the dozen nominees now awaiting a committee vote. “There weren’t any problems with them from the Republican side I think even in committee, when they had the hearings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One possible yes vote, Tobias notes, could come from South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the ranking Republican on the committee, whom Tobias calls “an institutionalist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he was saying nice things about Sen. Feinstein and has a good relationship with her,” Tobias said. “And so it could all work out well without dragging on for a long time yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"dianne-feinstein\"]But at least two Republican senators on the committee — Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee — have said they would not join a unanimous consent vote, which would be the fastest way to replace Feinstein on the committee. And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who also was recently in the hospital — for a concussion — and just returned to the Senate Monday after more than a month’s absence, has not yet indicated whether he will cooperate with Schumer’s request to replace Feinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among California’s Democratic congressional delegation, only Ro Khanna, from Fremont, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946577/feinsteins-prolonged-absence-frustrates-senate-democrats\">publicly called on Feinstein to retire\u003c/a>. “Because Sen. Feinstein has been absent since February, I said enough is enough,” Khanna said last week. “We’ve got to tell the truth that Sen. Feinstein simply hasn’t been doing her job. And that’s why I called on her to resign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other high-profile Democrats, including House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, have stood by her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s interesting to me. I don’t know what political agendas are at work that are going after Sen. Feinstein in that way,” Pelosi said last week, suggesting some degree of sexism was at play. “I’ve never seen them go after a man who was sick in the Senate in that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand also pushed back on those calling for Feinstein’s resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s a team player, and she’s an extraordinary member of the Senate. It’s her right,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/04/16/kirsten-gillibrand-dianne-feinstein-resignation-calls-sotu-tapper-vpx.cnn\">Gillibrand told CNN on Sunday\u003c/a>. “She’s been voted by her state to be senator for six years. She has the right, in my opinion, to decide when she steps down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>With a growing backlog of unconfirmed judicial nominees bottled up in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941047/sen-dianne-feinstein-wont-seek-reelection-ending-groundbreaking-political-career\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein\u003c/a> issued a statement Wednesday saying she’s asked Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to temporarily name another Democrat to the panel until she is able to return to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was first diagnosed with shingles, I expected to return by the end of the March work period. Unfortunately, my return to Washington has been delayed due to continued complications related to my diagnosis,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that my absence could delay the important work of the Judiciary Committee, so I’ve asked Leader Schumer to ask the Senate to allow another Democratic senator to temporarily serve until I’m able to resume my committee work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pressure on Feinstein to step aside more permanently is mounting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area Democrat Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) on Wednesday called on Feinstein to give up the seat she has held for more than 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna, who has endorsed East Bay U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee in the race to replace Feinstein after she leaves at the end of next year, called on Feinstein to resign to enable the Senate to confirm a backlog of judicial nominations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946548 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Indian man with dark hair and eyes wears a light blue business suit and busy orange and green tie sits on a wooden bench outside. He sits crossed-legged with his arms folded on his knee. He looks to the right of the camera. Crowds of people and children are pictured behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS38646_IMG_0438-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Rep. Ro Khanna of California’s 17th District on Aug. 24, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We need to put the country ahead of personal loyalty. While she has had a lifetime of public service, it is obvious she can no longer fulfill her duties,” Khanna said on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna noted the recent decision from a Trump-appointed judge to reverse the FDA’s 2000 approval of the drug mifepristone, which is used in medical abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ruling by an extremist judge in Texas has made it clear that Democrats must act with speed and urgency to confirm judicial nominees who will protect the right to an abortion. Senator Feinstein is unable to fulfill her duties and for the good of the people, she should resign,” Khanna said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"US Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont)\"]‘Senator Feinstein is unable to fulfill her duties and for the good of the people, she should resign.’[/pullquote]Even if Schumer appoints another Democrat to take Feinstein’s spot on the Judiciary Committee, it’s by no means certain that would fix the problem with confirming judges. Senate rules require unanimous consent from all senators to change a committee member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem with that is that any Republican can object to that,” said Khanna. “I anticipate they will object to that. And that is what is my concern. Now, what happens if they object to it and we have the same problem, that we don’t have our judges being confirmed?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without unanimous consent to replace Feinstein on the committee, Democrats would need to pursue another track, which would require 60 votes, meaning several Republicans would need to cooperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna is often out of lockstep with his party. In 2021, he was the last Democrat in California’s congressional delegation to endorse U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, who was up for election after being appointed to the job by Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked for her thoughts on Feinstein’s status and whether she should step aside, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi pushed back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s interesting to me, I don’t know what political agendas are at work that are going after Senator Feinstein in that way,” Pelosi said in San Francisco Wednesday. “I’ve never seen them go after a man who was sick in the Senate in that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Khanna is the first elected Democrat from California to openly call on Feinstein to step down, he is unlikely to be the last. Her absence from the evenly divided Senate Judiciary Committee blocks Democrats’ ability to move President Joe Biden’s nominations for the federal bench to a confirmation vote of the full Senate floor.[aside label='More on California' tag='california']Feinstein’s legacy as a groundbreaking Democrat — she was the first woman to serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee — has kept most Democrats from speaking out. But for more than a year, there have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940460/long-before-feinstein-another-california-senator-faced-questions-about-mental-fitness\">whispers from her Senate colleagues\u003c/a> — mostly unnamed — that the 89-year-old senator has been losing her mental acuity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been some deterioration in her mental acuity. Many senators, many of her colleagues, have mentioned that to me,” said congressional scholar Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot force her to resign,” he added. “You cannot expel her. But what you can do is move her off the [Judiciary] committee. Replace her with another Democrat to get that necessary one-vote margin to begin to move these confirmations through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein has missed most of the Senate votes this year, which includes more than two dozen for judicial nominations with some of those from California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be very, very difficult to fill those vacancies,” said Jessica Levinson of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. “So for the Democrats, I think it makes every sense in the world to take the steps necessary to be able to move these judicial nominations,” especially given that “there’s this looming clock that just is starting to tick faster and faster and faster\u003ci>” \u003c/i>as the 2024 election approaches.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Norman Ornstein, congressional scholar, American Enterprise Institute\"]‘We need to have judges confirmed so that we can recapture some of the balance of the federal judiciary. And right now, Dianne Feinstein, not because of her own choosing, nonetheless, is an obstacle.’[/pullquote]“We need to have judges confirmed so that we can recapture some of the balance of the federal judiciary,” Ornstein said. “And right now, Dianne Feinstein, not because of her own choosing, nonetheless, is an obstacle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Constitution Society (ACS) tracks vacancies in the federal judiciary and the progress of judicial nominations. According to the ACS, there are now 36 pending vacancies awaiting a vote by the Judiciary Committee and 18 awaiting a vote on the Senate floor. Six more nominees are waiting for a hearing by the Judiciary Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ongoing absences are impairing not only the Senate’s ability to confirm judges, but the Senate Judiciary Committee’s ability to advance nominations,” said ACS President Russ Feingold, a former U.S. senator from Wisconsin who served with Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee before he was defeated in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946594 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684.jpg\" alt=\"An older white woman with light, brown hair and a blue business suit stands next to another man with gray hair and a gray suit. He holds a yellow folder and is showing the woman a document inside a government building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1247142684-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) chats with a staffer as she leaves the Senate chamber following a vote at the US Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, in Washington, DC. Feinstein, California’s longest-serving senator, announced she will not run for reelection next year, marking the end of one of the state’s most storied political careers. Despite ongoing health concerns, she plans to remain in office through the end of her term. \u003ccite>(Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If Senator Feinstein expects to be unable to participate in Judiciary Committee activities much longer, she could significantly help the situation by taking the necessary steps to enable another senator to take her seat on the Committee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Feinstein is vowing to return to work in Washington, it’s by no means certain that she’ll be able to. If she decides to resign before her term ends, Newsom could choose someone to fill out her term. In 2021, Newsom said he would name a Black woman to the seat if he had the opportunity. At the time, Rep. Barbara Lee’s name was floated as a possible appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the 2024 Senate campaign now in full swing, however, and Lee one of three prominent Democrats running, along with Congressmembers Adam Schiff and Katie Porter, it’s unlikely Newsom would want to upend voters’ opportunity to choose a successor. But he could name a caretaker who promised not to run for a full six-year term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Senate will reconvene Monday, April 17, after a two-week recess, and if Schumer can move quickly to name another Democrat to the Judiciary Committee, it could name pending nominations as soon as Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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