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Over the coming months KQED will bring you the facts and stories of the Bay Area housing crisis. We'll tell the stories of people struggling and surviving amidst the increasing cost of living. We'll take you into changing neighborhoods and cities, look at who is getting evicted and why, as well as show you what possible solutions look like.
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(James Hosking and Jeremy Lybarger/The Bold Italic)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We asked photographer James Hosking how the project came about, and he wrote us the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The idea for this project came when I was working on an in-progress series profiling transgender sex workers and drag performers. These subjects invited me to shoot them in their SROs, which was the first time I’d been inside such buildings. I was intrigued by people I encountered in the hall and what seemed to be their private economy of bartering and borrowing. Although they were different ages and from different backgrounds, they shared a strong sense of community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find participants, I contacted nonprofits such as the Mission SRO Collaborative, the Chinatown Community Development Center, and the Community Housing Partnership. They allowed me to speak at resident meetings and they distributed fliers on my behalf. 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(Marianne LeVine/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Friday, April 4\u003c/strong>: East Palo Alto's City Council unanimously passed a tenant protection ordinance Tuesday. The proposal has to pass a second vote in the coming weeks before it becomes law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law would tighten restrictions on demolitions, protect renters from landlord harassment and provide relocation benefits for tenants who are displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters turned out in force to support the measure's passage. One common theme among them: In the event of displacement, there's nowhere else to go in the Bay Area because of how expensive housing has become.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can read more at \u003ca href=\"http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2014/04/02/east-palo-alto-unanimously-backs-new-tenant-protection-ordinance\" target=\"_blank\">Palo Alto Online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>East Palo Alto's Biggest Landlord Opposes Tenant Protection Law\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company that controls more than half of East Palo Alto's rental housing market is opposing a proposed city law that would provide relocation benefits to displaced tenants, tighten restrictions on demolishing buildings and offer protection from landlord harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chicago-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.equityapartments.com/corporate/\" target=\"_blank\">Equity Residential\u003c/a>, which in 2011 bought more than 1,800 units in the city, has challenged the proposal as an “unlawful” burden on apartment owners and landlords, stirring fears among community groups and some City Council members that the company aims to force out low-income residents to make room for more affluent tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a history of offering protection for tenants because they’re vulnerable,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofepa.org/directory.aspx?EID=49\" target=\"_blank\">Councilman Ruben Abrica\u003c/a>, a former East Palo Alto mayor. “(Equity) is objecting to the whole concept. They don’t see a need for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within six months of acquiring its properties from Wells Fargo in foreclosure sales, Equity raised the attention of city officials by issuing 706 three-day eviction notices from January to June 2012. Equity’s notices warned tenants who were late on rent that they had three days to pay before they would face eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"e67632a7989cafa28191163425fbebcf\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the city Rent Stabilization Board made those figures public, Equity stopped reporting the notices. Company executive John Hyjer said it was not required by law to notify the city of three-day eviction notices, only of unlawful detainers -- eviction cases filed in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s less onerous on the city of East Palo Alto’s already stretched resources,” Hyjer, Equity’s first vice president of investments, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirley Gibson, a lawyer for \u003ca href=\"http://www.legalaidsmc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">LegalAid San Mateo\u003c/a>, said when the city is not told of all eviction notices, it becomes difficult for organizations like hers to direct tenants toward programs that assist with rent payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'If we have to fight, we will fight'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2010, East Palo Alto voters passed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.east-palo-alto.ca.us/index.aspx?nid=469\" target=\"_blank\">Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Good Cause Ordinance\u003c/a>, designed to protect tenants from “unreasonable rent increases” and “arbitrary, discriminatory or retaliatory evictions,” and to guarantee landlords the “right to fair return.” The proposed law, known as the Tenant Protection Ordinance, would expand tenant rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The landlord also has filed lawsuits challenging city rent control laws in Santa Cruz and San Rafael. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Since Equity Residential objected to the proposed ordinance, city officials have been working with landlord and tenant representatives to make revisions. Equity views the proposed changes as a violation of local and state laws. Larisa Bowman, a lawyer for Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, called such concerns “unfounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equity Residential has opposed other tenant protection efforts in California. Sam Zell, the company chairman, donated $50,000 to Proposition 98, a ballot measure that would have phased out rent control throughout California had it passed in June 2008. He is also the chairman of Equity Lifestyle Properties, which has filed lawsuits challenging city rent control laws in Santa Cruz and San Rafael. Both companies are real estate investment trusts and are publicly traded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Equity Residential’s purchase of its East Palo Alto properties, some tenants have complained about difficulty paying rent -- one type of complaint is that a person will be told by a rent collector to come back the next day and then will be informed the rent is late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman, the community legal representative, said some of the confusion over rent payments is because of the portfolio’s change in ownership, from Page Mill Properties to Wells Fargo to Equity Residential. However, she still remains concerned. “The amount of rent a person is being evicted over is $47,” she said. “Are you after $47 or are you after this unit? I can’t prove that, (but) for tenants it certainly feels that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Webster, a longtime advocate for affordable housing in East Palo Alto and member of the Rent Stabilization Board, said he believes Equity Residential wants to replace long-term tenants paying rent under market rate. “They’re going to exploit every angle that is legally permissible in order to (extract) profits,” he said. “They have a vested interest at this point in making life miserable for long-term tenants, under the Rent Stabilization Program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equity Residential said it does not intend to displace residents. But Hyjer noted “there has been a lot of discussion with the city that a significant amount of housing in Woodland Park has and is becoming functionally obsolete. 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The average market rate per room on new leases has now gone well above $1,000 per month. Spots in shared-living situations with rent-controlled leases that make prices lower are few and coveted. And even some privately run single-room-occupancies (SRO), often a last resort before homelessness, are now charging $1,000 in rent for a room that doesn’t even have its own bathroom or kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bedrooms for under $1,000 a month can still be found on the fringes of some less popular neighborhoods or with students near San Francisco State. But the only way to get a spot in one of the city’s trendier neighborhoods for that price is to convince a master tenant with a rent-controlled lease to let you move in. For these spots, applicants compete against dozens or, in some cases, hundreds of other candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting selected to sublet a room in a shared-living situation depends on the whims of the leaseholders. Applicants send tailored cover letters, fight to win attention at open houses, and attempt to impress potential housemates during one-on-one interviews. The whole thing is a subjective process with little protection against prejudices like ageism, sexism or racism. If the master tenant doesn’t like you, you won’t get picked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To beat the competition and get a hotly coveted room, applicants are trying anything they can. Some advertise themselves on Craigslist as great roommates. Others send LinkedIn and Facebook profiles. Francesco Mursia made a video introducing himself and describing his favorite pastimes. He is not getting many responses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mursia thinks part of the problem is his age. Many of the other applicants are 20-somethings in a period of transition. Mursia is 39. He would like to live alone, but with his budget ($1,000/month) that’s not possible in San Francisco. He’s been looking for a room since September. He checks Craigslist every day, sends out emails and goes to open houses. During this process, he said, “You ask yourself, why don’t I stand out?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even expensive rooms are highly contested. Eun-Joung Lee lives in a three-bedroom on the border between the Mission and Noe Valley. She recently put a room on Craigslist for $1,500 a month. That may sound like a lot, but according to Tracy Ballard from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayarearentaladvisors.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area Rental Advisors\u003c/a>, the average asking rate for a three-bedroom in San Francisco is around $5,000/month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, $1,500 for a room in a hot neighborhood isn’t that bad. Lee got 20 responses to her post, which suggests she could have probably priced the room even higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standard financial advice is to not spend more than a third of your income on rent. For a $1,500 a month room you would need to earn $54,000 a year after taxes. Lexie Scanlon barely makes half that as an hourly employee. She says she cannot find anywhere affordable in the city to live, so she is considering an SRO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scanlon has lived in an SRO before. It was not a pleasant arrangement. The place had bedbugs, she said, but at least it was affordable — only $185 a week. She recently called to inquire about a room at the same place, and the price had gone up to $225 a week. But, $900 a month is too much to pay for those conditions, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scanlon has seen a few shared-living situations she can afford — mostly student houses or apartments that advertise themselves as “tech houses.” These places post on Craigslist as group living arrangements for people with startup ambitions. One such post was titled “the good life 2.0.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reads: “We all went to top schools and work at the companies you read about.” Scanlon doesn’t fit that profile. She is 42 years old, transgender and a veteran. She works in the city and wants to know why there isn’t a place for her here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Harrigan is on the other side of the equation. He is on the lease of an iconic four-bedroom Victorian in the Lower Haight. He could probably rent the rooms out for as much as $1,500 each, but he doesn’t want to be greedy. At the same time, he said, “If I was to rent it out at like $500 I would have hundreds of emails. You would get everyone applying for it, and it wouldn’t be manageable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrigan recently had a room open up in the apartment and he decided to put it up at $1,000 — about double the rent-controlled rate and $500 below what he could have charged. Even with the inflated price, he received about 50 applications for the one room. The odds of getting selected from that pool are worse than obtaining undergraduate admission at Harvard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting an affordable room has not always been so cutthroat. Twenty years ago, John Hattori paid $70 a month to rent on Valencia Street in the Mission. Today he lives in a rent-controlled apartment, which he can afford as a video artist and substitute teacher. “The type of people that moved when I moved here are very different people, and that’s an unfortunate thing. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0107.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-130926\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0107-640x439.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco motorcycle police ride in front of about 500 people marching Saturday from San Francisco's Mission District to Bernal Heights Park, where 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"439\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco motorcycle police ride in front of about 500 people marching Saturday from San Francisco's Mission District to Bernal Heights Park, where 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Family and friends of a 28-year-old San Francisco man shot and killed by police are questioning the official story of the shooting that reverberates with multiple controversies raging in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights&sa=U&ei=Eu84U5bLAvKO2gX_7IDgDA&ved=0CAYQFjAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNFmwnZkJVgMqB0O7YHSwyuSpLyxfA\" target=\"_blank\">Police Chief Greg Suhr said\u003c/a> Alejandro Nieto pointed a Taser stun gun at officers responding to reports of a man with a gun in Bernal Heights Park as the sun was setting on March 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends say Nieto carried the Taser for his job as a nightclub security guard, and he stopped at his neighborhood park to eat a burrito on his way to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-eviction activists say the shooting spotlights a culture clash in the Mission and other San Francisco neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a real wake-up call the other day to realize that evictions and gentrification don’t just mean losing your home but really losing your life as well,\" said Erin McElroy with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.antievictionmappingproject.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Anti-Eviction Mapping Project\u003c/a>. She addressed about 500 people filling the streets of the Mission District Saturday before the crowd marched to Bernal Heights Park, where police shot Nieto. \"It’s really sad that we have to be here because we are losing people from this community to gun violence by the police. We are losing people due to evictions, and we are being replaced by people who are scared of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130924\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0067.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130924 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0067-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Marroquin said evictions and changing demographics in San Francisco's Mission district are related to the fatal police shooting of Alejandro Nieto.\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Marroquin said evictions and changing demographics in San Francisco's Mission district are related to the fatal police shooting of Alejandro Nieto. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Catherine Marroquin lifted a sign that said \"Gentrification = Police Brutality,\" as she marched through drizzling rain toward the Bernal Heights panoramic view of San Francisco's skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Police have much more of a presence in the neighborhood now,\" she said, adding the Mission district youth she works with, some City College students, look just like Nieto. \"They're scared for their lives,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erick Arguella represents Mission District business owners with the merchants association \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcalle24sf.org%2F&ei=du84U7qOIqecyQG_6IDoCw&usg=AFQjCNELzPzMOkxnR-7ogl5Q26I_573OYA&sig2=J6aFEze7FMn1U_lQE0eWkg&bvm=bv.63808443,d.aWc\" target=\"_blank\">Calle 24 SF\u003c/a>. He said Latino ownership of storefronts along 24th Street had dropped to 69 of 130, the lowest ratio in 15 years. Longtime local shops are being pressured by speculators looking to buy, Arguella said, and if they refuse, they get a lot more attention from authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve seen realtors, we’ve seen speculators, we’ve seen individual folks hitting these businesses relentlessly for the last two years,\" he said. \"We’ve seen a pattern of Department of Public Health showing up, the Police Department showing up, different inspectors showing up in an attempt to force them to sell. A lot of times they would have to close if they find some infractions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130923\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0016.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130923 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0016-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Several dozen San Francisco police officers followed Saturday's march.\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several dozen San Francisco police officers followed Saturday's march. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The march was flanked by several dozen police officers with riot gear, but there were no confrontations between protesters and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm glad they were here,\" said Nieto's friend, Ben Bac Sierra. He said police should hear the marchers' message: \"We’re at a new stage, we have a very positive momentum. We’re not trying to hurt anyone, we just want the truth. We want justice for Alex.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was well-known in the Mission and Bernal Heights, where he lived. He was active in the fight to keep \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/city-college-of-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">City College of San Francisco\u003c/a> accredited as he studied criminal justice there. He planned to become a probation officer and completed an internship with the city's juvenile probation department about a year ago, said his mentor and city probation officer, Carlos Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Knowing that he knew a little bit about criminal justice, knowing that he was an intern with us, it just doesn’t make sense to me that he would be that dumb,\" Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was a Buddhist and volunteered with Mission District youth organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130927\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 307px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0295.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130927 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0295-640x421.jpg\" alt=\"3/29/2014 March for Alejandro Nieto Security 1\" width=\"307\" height=\"202\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Del Villar mourned the death of his co-worker, Alejandro Nieto, on Saturday, March 29. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fellow security guards at El Toro nightclub attended the march Saturday and paid respects to Nieto's father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was a real nice guy,\" Luis Del Villar said. \"The first time I met him, he gave me his hand and a hug.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's life was reportedly not without conflict. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-killed-by-S-F-police-was-inspiration-but-5344159.php\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> former friend Arthur Vega filed a restraining order against him after Nieto allegedly shocked him with a stun gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr described elements of a shooting that could point to a \"suicide-by-cop,\" although authorities haven't yet made an official determination on the shooting. Suhr told an angry crowd at a town hall meeting to discuss the shooting last week that Nieto was prohibited from owning a gun for \"mental health reasons.\" He said Nieto acting erratically, then drew a Taser when police confronted him in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They asked Nieto to show his hands, to which he responded, ‘You need to show your hands,’ and then he drew his firearm,” Suhr said, then corrected himself, “the weapon that he drew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of Suhr's remarks on the shooting at a town hall meeting on March 25 are below. Some interruptions have been edited out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's friends don't buy it. Bac Sierra responded to the possibility of Nieto committing \"suicide-by-cop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Bac Sierra said gentrification played a role in the shooting of his friend, with new neighbors quick to call police and officers quick to shoot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"But I don’t really say that with spite -- it’s just they had a different life,\" he said, adding that the diverse crowd that marched Saturday was \"beautiful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"Alejandro would love unity,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130929\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 448px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9890.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130929 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9890-640x408.jpg\" alt=\"Mexica dancers Saturday's march for 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by police officers a week before.\" width=\"448\" height=\"286\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aztec dancers at Saturday's march for 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Nieto's family, and his many supporters in the Mission and Bernal Heights neighborhoods, are mourning him this week. A public rosary is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday at Driscoll’s Valencia Street Serra Mortuary in the Mission. His funeral is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Saint Kevin Catholic Church in Bernal Heights. Supporters are taking donations for Nieto's family, with more information available on the \"Justice for Alex Nieto\" Facebook page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Meanwhile, police and San Francisco's Office of Citizens Complaints and Police Commission will review the shooting, part of which will likely happen Wednesday in a closed-session meeting. The commission will review the chief's decision to \"return or not return officers to duty following an officer-involved shooting.\" Suhr said involved officers were put on administrative leave after the shooting per police department protocol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\n\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0107.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-130926\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0107-640x439.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco motorcycle police ride in front of about 500 people marching Saturday from San Francisco's Mission District to Bernal Heights Park, where 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"439\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco motorcycle police ride in front of about 500 people marching Saturday from San Francisco's Mission District to Bernal Heights Park, where 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Family and friends of a 28-year-old San Francisco man shot and killed by police are questioning the official story of the shooting that reverberates with multiple controversies raging in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights&sa=U&ei=Eu84U5bLAvKO2gX_7IDgDA&ved=0CAYQFjAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNFmwnZkJVgMqB0O7YHSwyuSpLyxfA\" target=\"_blank\">Police Chief Greg Suhr said\u003c/a> Alejandro Nieto pointed a Taser stun gun at officers responding to reports of a man with a gun in Bernal Heights Park as the sun was setting on March 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends say Nieto carried the Taser for his job as a nightclub security guard, and he stopped at his neighborhood park to eat a burrito on his way to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-eviction activists say the shooting spotlights a culture clash in the Mission and other San Francisco neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a real wake-up call the other day to realize that evictions and gentrification don’t just mean losing your home but really losing your life as well,\" said Erin McElroy with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.antievictionmappingproject.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Anti-Eviction Mapping Project\u003c/a>. She addressed about 500 people filling the streets of the Mission District Saturday before the crowd marched to Bernal Heights Park, where police shot Nieto. \"It’s really sad that we have to be here because we are losing people from this community to gun violence by the police. We are losing people due to evictions, and we are being replaced by people who are scared of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130924\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0067.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130924 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0067-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Marroquin said evictions and changing demographics in San Francisco's Mission district are related to the fatal police shooting of Alejandro Nieto.\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Marroquin said evictions and changing demographics in San Francisco's Mission district are related to the fatal police shooting of Alejandro Nieto. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Catherine Marroquin lifted a sign that said \"Gentrification = Police Brutality,\" as she marched through drizzling rain toward the Bernal Heights panoramic view of San Francisco's skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Police have much more of a presence in the neighborhood now,\" she said, adding the Mission district youth she works with, some City College students, look just like Nieto. \"They're scared for their lives,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erick Arguella represents Mission District business owners with the merchants association \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcalle24sf.org%2F&ei=du84U7qOIqecyQG_6IDoCw&usg=AFQjCNELzPzMOkxnR-7ogl5Q26I_573OYA&sig2=J6aFEze7FMn1U_lQE0eWkg&bvm=bv.63808443,d.aWc\" target=\"_blank\">Calle 24 SF\u003c/a>. He said Latino ownership of storefronts along 24th Street had dropped to 69 of 130, the lowest ratio in 15 years. Longtime local shops are being pressured by speculators looking to buy, Arguella said, and if they refuse, they get a lot more attention from authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve seen realtors, we’ve seen speculators, we’ve seen individual folks hitting these businesses relentlessly for the last two years,\" he said. \"We’ve seen a pattern of Department of Public Health showing up, the Police Department showing up, different inspectors showing up in an attempt to force them to sell. A lot of times they would have to close if they find some infractions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130923\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0016.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130923 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0016-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Several dozen San Francisco police officers followed Saturday's march.\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several dozen San Francisco police officers followed Saturday's march. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The march was flanked by several dozen police officers with riot gear, but there were no confrontations between protesters and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm glad they were here,\" said Nieto's friend, Ben Bac Sierra. He said police should hear the marchers' message: \"We’re at a new stage, we have a very positive momentum. We’re not trying to hurt anyone, we just want the truth. We want justice for Alex.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was well-known in the Mission and Bernal Heights, where he lived. He was active in the fight to keep \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/city-college-of-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">City College of San Francisco\u003c/a> accredited as he studied criminal justice there. He planned to become a probation officer and completed an internship with the city's juvenile probation department about a year ago, said his mentor and city probation officer, Carlos Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Knowing that he knew a little bit about criminal justice, knowing that he was an intern with us, it just doesn’t make sense to me that he would be that dumb,\" Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was a Buddhist and volunteered with Mission District youth organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130927\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 307px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0295.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130927 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0295-640x421.jpg\" alt=\"3/29/2014 March for Alejandro Nieto Security 1\" width=\"307\" height=\"202\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Del Villar mourned the death of his co-worker, Alejandro Nieto, on Saturday, March 29. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fellow security guards at El Toro nightclub attended the march Saturday and paid respects to Nieto's father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was a real nice guy,\" Luis Del Villar said. \"The first time I met him, he gave me his hand and a hug.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's life was reportedly not without conflict. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-killed-by-S-F-police-was-inspiration-but-5344159.php\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> former friend Arthur Vega filed a restraining order against him after Nieto allegedly shocked him with a stun gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr described elements of a shooting that could point to a \"suicide-by-cop,\" although authorities haven't yet made an official determination on the shooting. Suhr told an angry crowd at a town hall meeting to discuss the shooting last week that Nieto was prohibited from owning a gun for \"mental health reasons.\" He said Nieto acting erratically, then drew a Taser when police confronted him in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They asked Nieto to show his hands, to which he responded, ‘You need to show your hands,’ and then he drew his firearm,” Suhr said, then corrected himself, “the weapon that he drew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of Suhr's remarks on the shooting at a town hall meeting on March 25 are below. Some interruptions have been edited out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's friends don't buy it. Bac Sierra responded to the possibility of Nieto committing \"suicide-by-cop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Bac Sierra said gentrification played a role in the shooting of his friend, with new neighbors quick to call police and officers quick to shoot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"But I don’t really say that with spite -- it’s just they had a different life,\" he said, adding that the diverse crowd that marched Saturday was \"beautiful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"Alejandro would love unity,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130929\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 448px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9890.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130929 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9890-640x408.jpg\" alt=\"Mexica dancers Saturday's march for 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by police officers a week before.\" width=\"448\" height=\"286\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aztec dancers at Saturday's march for 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Nieto's family, and his many supporters in the Mission and Bernal Heights neighborhoods, are mourning him this week. A public rosary is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday at Driscoll’s Valencia Street Serra Mortuary in the Mission. His funeral is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Saint Kevin Catholic Church in Bernal Heights. Supporters are taking donations for Nieto's family, with more information available on the \"Justice for Alex Nieto\" Facebook page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Meanwhile, police and San Francisco's Office of Citizens Complaints and Police Commission will review the shooting, part of which will likely happen Wednesday in a closed-session meeting. 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"disqusTitle": "Photo Essay: Seniors Fight Eviction From Affordable San Jose Homes",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128450\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4298-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-128450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4298-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"David Tripp and his neighbors printed signs to protest the closure of the Winchester Ranch mobile home park (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Tripp and his neighbors printed signs to protest the closure of Winchester Ranch mobile home park. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When David Tripp moved to the Winchester Ranch mobile home community in the mid-1970s, it was only dirt. In the decades that followed, he watched it develop into one of San Jose's most popular senior communities, with lush gardens, manicured yards and rows of small, colorful homes. But now Tripp and Winchester Ranch's other 145 residents are fighting to stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West San Jose has become one of the city's hottest real estate markets, and rising property values have developers eyeing Winchester Ranch. \"What you see in the area there is just an increase in property values,\" said City Councilman Pete Constant. \"That creates an environment where you have a piece of land that has appreciated at a far higher rate than any other mobile home park in the area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/141754655&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landowner, Cali-Arioto Properties, revealed last year that it wants to sell the land to developer Pulte Homes. Residents of the park don't want to leave, but they might not have a choice. Even though they own their homes, Winchester Ranch residents rent the land on which they stand. That puts them in a vulnerable position, but they haven't given up hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128451\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4576-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-128451\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4576-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Winchester Ranch is no trailer park, said Phyllis Tripp. "They're very different. If you went from one to the other, they would look completely different inside." (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winchester Ranch is no trailer park, said Phyllis Tripp. \"They're very different. If you went from one to the other, they would look completely different inside.\" (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose contains almost 60 mobile home communities, and the city has a mobile-home-park conversion ordinance on the books that governs how landowners can close and redevelop them. The ordinance has never been used, but it requires landowners to compensate residents if they close the park. The owners would also have to provide relocation and rental assistance to residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Winchester Ranch residents learned about Cali-Arioto's plan to sell, they formed a homeowners association in hopes of buying the property themselves. That, too, is covered by the ordinance: The law says that residents must be given an opportunity to make an offer on the property and negotiate with the owner. But Cali-Arioto will not be required to sell the property to the residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Zahradka, an attorney with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lawfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Law Foundation of Silicon Valley\u003c/a>, a community legal services agency, notes that more than 185 mobile home parks across California have converted to residential ownership in the past 40 years. But he acknowledges none of them was located a stone's throw from one of the state's hottest retail markets and that Winchester Ranch residents probably won't be able to match Pulte's offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128453\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4540.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-128453\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4540-640x426.jpg\" alt='\"None of us are probably going to be able to stay in this valley,\" said Mari Jo Pokriots. \"We may have to leave as far away as going to the middle part of the state.\" (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)' width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"None of us are probably going to be able to stay in this valley,\" said Mari Jo Pokriots. \"We may have to leave as far away as going to the middle part of the state.\" (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Margaret Ecker Nanda, an attorney representing Cali-Arioto, said she sympathizes with the residents and that they will be adequately compensated for being relocated. \"I totally understand the reluctance and frustration of people that they have to move. But the ordinance provides protections for the residents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if residents are compensated for their homes, shutting down Winchester Ranch could have lasting impacts. \"This type of housing is one of the only non-subsidized forms of affordable housing that's out there, particularly where the residents have an ownership interest of any kind,\" the Law Foundation's Zahradka says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points out that there are intangible costs associated with evicting more than 100 seniors from their homes. \"I don't know if you can value reputational risk, but if I’m Pulte Homes, I don't know if I want to be seen as a company that's relocating hundreds of seniors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128455\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4485-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-128455\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4485-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Cali, co-founder and resident of Winchester Ranch, stands on the lift at the entrance of her home. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Cali, co-founder and resident of Winchester Ranch, stands on the lift at the entrance of her home. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For his part, Constant sounds pretty certain that Winchester Ranch will be sold. The city can't do anything about that, but it does have a say on whether the property is rezoned for a higher-density development. \"(The residents) have been begging me to stop the sale,\" said Constant. \"But legally and morally, that's not the city's role.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landowner hasn't filed a development application with the city yet, and for now residents and city officials are waiting to see what happens next. \"San Jose has a lot of mobile homes, so we're not only being vigilant about this park, but it may have implications for other mobile home parks,\" said Laurel Prevetti, the city's assistant director of planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of what makes Winchester Ranch so appealing to seniors is that residents are able to modify their homes for special needs. David Tripp, like several of his neighbors, is disabled. He suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, and he's in remission from lupus, leukemia, fibromyalgia and neuropathy. 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But he acknowledges none of them was located a stone's throw from one of the state's hottest retail markets and that Winchester Ranch residents probably won't be able to match Pulte's offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128453\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4540.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-128453\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4540-640x426.jpg\" alt='\"None of us are probably going to be able to stay in this valley,\" said Mari Jo Pokriots. \"We may have to leave as far away as going to the middle part of the state.\" (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)' width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"None of us are probably going to be able to stay in this valley,\" said Mari Jo Pokriots. \"We may have to leave as far away as going to the middle part of the state.\" (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Margaret Ecker Nanda, an attorney representing Cali-Arioto, said she sympathizes with the residents and that they will be adequately compensated for being relocated. \"I totally understand the reluctance and frustration of people that they have to move. But the ordinance provides protections for the residents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if residents are compensated for their homes, shutting down Winchester Ranch could have lasting impacts. \"This type of housing is one of the only non-subsidized forms of affordable housing that's out there, particularly where the residents have an ownership interest of any kind,\" the Law Foundation's Zahradka says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points out that there are intangible costs associated with evicting more than 100 seniors from their homes. \"I don't know if you can value reputational risk, but if I’m Pulte Homes, I don't know if I want to be seen as a company that's relocating hundreds of seniors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128455\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4485-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-128455\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_4485-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Cali, co-founder and resident of Winchester Ranch, stands on the lift at the entrance of her home. 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This is distinct from traditional condominiums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Greedy speculators are reaping millions of dollars,” Mar said. “The city does not even measure or track these types of conversions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/SFPubPress-logo.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-123589\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/SFPubPress-logo.jpg\" alt=\"SFPubPress-logo\" width=\"378\" height=\"146\">\u003c/a>Under Mar’s proposal, the sale of homes under these types of mortgages, which are known as “fractics,” would need to be approved by the city and be subject to other development fees. The houses would need to be brought up to current code before they can be sold, Mar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the added fees and regulations — intended to stifle speculation — would inevitably drive up the cost for such units, which tend to be among the more affordable options for prospective homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I support home ownership, and want to ensure that there will continue to be housing,” Mar said. “We think it will begin to bring a balance to this unregulated market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mar’s legislation is the latest in a series of attempts to reduce displacement and increase housing opportunities in San Francisco. At Tuesday’s board meeting, Supervisor David Campos called on Mayor Ed Lee to join him in writing legislation to regulate “buyouts” of tenants. The cash incentives are routinely offered by property owners as a way to get them to agree to leave without invoking the Ellis Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Scott Weiner unveiled a separate plan to encourage developers to build more affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where Does Ed Lee Stand?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, who decades ago worked as a tenant-rights lawyer, said he supported the idea of regulating tenant buyouts. But he pointed out that courts have struck down three previous attempts by the Board of Supervisors to limit them. “Tenants who accept buyouts often do so with the looming threat of an Ellis Act eviction,” Lee said. He added the city had a very limited supply of affordable housing. “Your buyout money will be gone before you know it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effects of displacement through the Ellis Act are aggravated by the lack of affordable housing being built, Weiner said, despite the accelerated growth of new construction. 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Moser also commented on the plan for a 10-story apartment building across the street: “If a development were to bring more people out who use the plaza for positive uses, as opposed to negative uses, that could have a great impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters on Wednesday argued the cops are only there to protect the gentrifiers coming into the neighborhood — and that the police presence only displaces crime to surrounding streets. At a fall meeting of concerned neighbors, businesses and elected officials, police and others were well aware of the problem of simply moving crime to neighboring streets and \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2013/11/bart-plazas-homelessness-thinking-longer-term/\">were trying to come up with longer term solutions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd Wednesday was mixed in race and age and many told Mission Local they lived in the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-122547\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/MissionLocal.png\" alt=\"MissionLocal\" width=\"381\" height=\"101\">“Cops have turned a blind eye for years to all of the activity from people milling around transit stations,” said Diamond Dave, 76, who hosts a show on Mutiny Radio, while walking with the crowd of about 70 protesters down Mission. “Now, they are cracking down on people, and I think that has been propelled by this wave of new wealth to the neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This enhanced police presence is a symbol of gentrification,” said \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2010/01/life-after-war/\">Eddie Falcon\u003c/a>, a veteran and local activist, through a megaphone to the protesters at a rally in the 24th Street BART Station plaza before they walked into the street. “These plazas used to be a community space, a place for people with nowhere else to go, and now they are vacant except for cops and yuppies.” Falcon went on to claim that new residents of the Mission are ignorant of its cultural significance and history, trashing local eateries like Tacolicious and “Gracias Mama-f—kin-whatever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many carried signs urging for an end to evictions, high rents or new condo development, with individual protesters adding in more provocative digs along the way like “Shoot the cops!” and “We hate you!!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of these chants are silly, I know, but the things that are going on in this neighborhood are not by accident or aberration,” said a woman protester in her 60s who declined to give her name because she says she’s facing eviction. “The cops are not incidental; they are part of an infrastructure to protect the ‘new’ Mission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the cops remained stoic in the face of the taunts, the protesters didn’t go without challengers. One man walked out of the Goodwill at 19th Street with his wife and young son, and yelled “Yay, gentrification!” and got some f-bombs lobbed at him in return, which set off a series of profane exchanges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man said he is a 54-year-old Missionite of 25 years and a landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe in free speech and demonstration and all of that,” he said. “But when people are yelling for us to ‘kill the cops,’ that just isn’t OK. If the cops weren’t here, they wouldn’t be able to do this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“People hate who I am because I am supposedly this evil, rich guy who is ruining people’s lives and evicting them. But I am just someone who planned and worked. I’m not like these people, who are all probably into drugs and alcohol. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS8141_005.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-122464 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS8141_005-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"About 100 protesters and residents welcomed the new year by marching from the 24th Street BART to the 16th Street BART station on New Year's day. They were protesting the police enforcement of evictions and claim the Mission is being turned into "a playground for the rich." (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-gentrification protest in the Mission, Jan 1, 2014. (Photo: Deb Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Heather Mack, \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Mission Local\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-police activists caught up with the Mission gentrification debate Wednesday — with approximately a hundred protesters, according to police, marching down Mission Street, delaying Muni instead of a tech bus, and chanting “Unite the block against the cops!” and “Shoot the cops, tear up coffee shops!” At one point, they yelled directly at apartment residents watching the protest from their balconies: “We know where you live and we will burn this place to the ground!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Some others flung f-bombs at passersby (and some people returned the verbal assault) in the rollicking ramble escorted by dozens of cops on foot, motorcycle and in patrol cars and paddy wagons. San Francisco police told Mission Local Wednesday night that there were no reports of vandalism or physical violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest — organized by street posters and on the web — targeted the amplified presence of San Francisco beat cops around the 16th Street BART plaza in recent months, part of an ongoing effort to clean up the area beleaguered with crime and transients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police have been targeting the plaza \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2009/02/quality-of-life-at-16th-and-mission/\">for several years\u003c/a>, and nearby merchants and community members have continually \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2013/11/bart-plazas-homelessness-thinking-longer-term/\">called for\u003c/a> greater surveillance. \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2013/11/bart-plazas-homelessness-thinking-longer-term/\">For more than a year, \u003c/a>a group of merchants and nearby residents has been working with police and elected officials to diminish the number of incidents at the plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mission District Police Captain Bob Moser recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/10/sfpd-mission-district-captain-says.html\">told the \u003cem>San Francisco Business Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that the foot patrols have helped curb crime in the plaza. Moser also commented on the plan for a 10-story apartment building across the street: “If a development were to bring more people out who use the plaza for positive uses, as opposed to negative uses, that could have a great impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters on Wednesday argued the cops are only there to protect the gentrifiers coming into the neighborhood — and that the police presence only displaces crime to surrounding streets. At a fall meeting of concerned neighbors, businesses and elected officials, police and others were well aware of the problem of simply moving crime to neighboring streets and \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2013/11/bart-plazas-homelessness-thinking-longer-term/\">were trying to come up with longer term solutions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd Wednesday was mixed in race and age and many told Mission Local they lived in the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-122547\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/MissionLocal.png\" alt=\"MissionLocal\" width=\"381\" height=\"101\">“Cops have turned a blind eye for years to all of the activity from people milling around transit stations,” said Diamond Dave, 76, who hosts a show on Mutiny Radio, while walking with the crowd of about 70 protesters down Mission. “Now, they are cracking down on people, and I think that has been propelled by this wave of new wealth to the neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This enhanced police presence is a symbol of gentrification,” said \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2010/01/life-after-war/\">Eddie Falcon\u003c/a>, a veteran and local activist, through a megaphone to the protesters at a rally in the 24th Street BART Station plaza before they walked into the street. “These plazas used to be a community space, a place for people with nowhere else to go, and now they are vacant except for cops and yuppies.” Falcon went on to claim that new residents of the Mission are ignorant of its cultural significance and history, trashing local eateries like Tacolicious and “Gracias Mama-f—kin-whatever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many carried signs urging for an end to evictions, high rents or new condo development, with individual protesters adding in more provocative digs along the way like “Shoot the cops!” and “We hate you!!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of these chants are silly, I know, but the things that are going on in this neighborhood are not by accident or aberration,” said a woman protester in her 60s who declined to give her name because she says she’s facing eviction. “The cops are not incidental; they are part of an infrastructure to protect the ‘new’ Mission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the cops remained stoic in the face of the taunts, the protesters didn’t go without challengers. One man walked out of the Goodwill at 19th Street with his wife and young son, and yelled “Yay, gentrification!” and got some f-bombs lobbed at him in return, which set off a series of profane exchanges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man said he is a 54-year-old Missionite of 25 years and a landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe in free speech and demonstration and all of that,” he said. “But when people are yelling for us to ‘kill the cops,’ that just isn’t OK. If the cops weren’t here, they wouldn’t be able to do this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“People hate who I am because I am supposedly this evil, rich guy who is ruining people’s lives and evicting them. But I am just someone who planned and worked. I’m not like these people, who are all probably into drugs and alcohol. But you know what?” — he said, holding up a bag of clothes — “We all live here, and we all shop at Goodwill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The confrontations grew even more antagonistic when the crowd stopped in front of the new, gleaming Vara apartment complex at 15th and Mission. A few of the new residents came out on their balconies to see what was going on, and a half dozen recorded the spectacle with smartphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">They immediately became the target of the crowd’s class warfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hate you and the Mission hates you!” the crowd chanted in unison. “We know where you live and we will burn this place to the ground!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What did I do?” a young woman yelled back from above the building’s garage. “I just moved here; I don’t know what’s going on!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"> “Go home!” a protester shouted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"> “But I am home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undeterred, the crowd then headed to 16th Street BART plaza for coffee to the accompaniment of a protester beating drum sticks on a bench.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/GRaGYJkmDy0\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Time’s running out on 2013, and it’s time to paw through (or pore over, if you’re the dignified sort) the posts that have piled up over the past 12 months and name our picks for the most important stories of the year. For extra credit, we’ll try to say why we think the stories are important both now and in the future. And we welcome you to tell us where we’ve gone astray or where we’re short-sighted and ignorant. (And above, the view of the year that’s almost past from our colleagues at “KQED Newsroom.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here goes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>[contextly_sidebar id=”6ddfb926ea579e022c87330032e1a10c”]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eviction Crisis/Housing Affordability: A surging tech sector economy in San Francisco is spurring \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/18/total-value-san-francisco-metro-housing-stock-jumps-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new spike in home prices and rents in and around the city\u003c/a>. The hot rental market, in turn, has led to\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/117540/Priced-Out-Ellis-Act-San-Francisco-eviction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a surge in evictions\u003c/a>. That “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Priced Out\u003c/a>” phenomenon has gotten to the point where activist groups have organized to demand action from San Francisco officials to stop certain evictions and to speed up action on creating new affordable housing. The soaring rents and increase in evictions have also accentuated a culture clash between longer-term city residents and the growing number of mostly newly arrived young technology workers. Read on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121543\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/on-the-google-bus-looking-out-at-the-protest/google-bus/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121543\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-121543\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/Google-Bus-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The view from a shuttle bus in West Oakland, headed for Google's Mountain View campus but halted by protesters. (@craigsfrost via Twitter).\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from a shuttle bus in West Oakland, headed for Google’s Mountain View campus but halted by protesters. (\u003ca href=\"http://t.co/VGCyhBLgyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@craigsfrost via Twitter)\u003c/a>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“San Francisco” vs. “The Techies”\u003c/strong>: The leading symbol of the divide between those who fancy themselves the real residents of San Francisco (meaning: they’ve lived and worked here awhile) and recently arrived technology workers is the Google bus. The buses have appeared in increasing numbers throughout the city and East Bay, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one serious cultural critic says\u003c/a>, “I think of them as the spaceships on which our alien overlords have landed to rule over us.” In addition to carrying people who can and do pay top dollar for housing, thus helping drive up rents, many in the city also complain that the buses are using stops reserved for Muni without paying a dime for the privilege. In the final weeks of 2013, the unease with the technology buses — they carry thousands of people to Google, Apple, Facebook and other tech firms — has gone beyond talk. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/eviction-protesters-oakland-san-francisco-target-silicon-valley-buses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twice in the last few weeks\u003c/a>, anti-eviction protesters in the city have blocked the buses. A similar protest in Oakland resulted in vandalism to one of the Silicon Valley-bound motor coaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The BART Strikes: \u003c/strong>BART’s two biggest unions, SEIU Local 1021 and ATU Local 1555, had given up more than $100 million in concessions in 2009 and went into negotiations this year seeking significant wage increases and trying to hold the line on medical insurance and pension plans. They ran into a hard line from a management that sought to limit labor costs and plow as much money as possible into upgrading the aging BART system. The clash led to two four-day strikes, in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/bart-strike-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/18/bart-strike-update-day-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October\u003c/a>, that forced BART’s 200,000 or so weekday riders to find alternative transit and sparked widespread public anger at union workers. Two workers inspecting tracks in Walnut Creek \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/20/ntsb-investigating-bart-train-accident-that-killed-two-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died during the October walkout\u003c/a> when they were struck by a train operated by a management trainee. The strike exposed a deep and so far unhealed rift between management and workers and led to calls for a change in state law \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/19/bart-board-considers-ballot-measure-on-strikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to ban strikes\u003c/a> by public transit workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>[contextly_sidebar id=”c8beeb5d4b7a54b42df6b7509feb5a76″]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police/Oakland Crime: It has not been a good year for crime-weary of Oakland residents and the city’s beleaguered Police Department. The \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak044723.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest city statistics\u003c/a> show robberies are up 16 percent over last year. Robberies committed with firearms are up 27 percent. A federal judge overseeing a civil rights settlement with the city and the Police Department installed \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/05/judge-appoints-director-to-oversee-oakland-police/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new outside “compliance director”\u003c/a> early this year. Shortly afterward, Police Chief Howard Jordan quit (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/09/96633/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for medical reasons, he insisted\u003c/a>). Outside consultant William Bratton issued a report finding that the department was poorly organized and ineffective at dealing with some of the most common crimes, with just one part-time investigator assigned to handle a backlog of 10,000 burglary cases. Just as that report came out, Jordan \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/10/96792/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was replaced by not one, but two interim chiefs\u003c/a>. The second of those stand-in leaders, Sean Whent, has overseen the implementation of new programs designed to build bridges to distrustful residents while more efficiently dealing with violent crime. It’s too early to say what the long-term outcome of those changes will be, but here’s something to note: The city suffered through a resurgence of deadly violence in 2012, with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/12/oaklands-other-homicide-crisis-unsolved-cases/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">131 homicides citywide\u003c/a>. With just a few days to go in 2013, Oakland has recorded 87 homicides for the year. That toll still gives Oakland one of the highest homicide rates in the United States, but it’s a dramatic improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122144\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/27/kqed-news-fix-top-news-stories-for-2013/rs6229_img_5691-lpr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122144\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-122144\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS6229_IMG_5691-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The new Bay Bridge eastern span, left, and the old span, right. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Bay Bridge eastern span, left, and the old span, right. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Bridge Completed:\u003c/strong> Caltrans assured us that 2013 would be the year that, 24 years after the Loma Prieta earthquake that demonstrated the eastern span of the Bay Bridge was seismically unfit, we would finally have a new bridge to drive on. The agency delivered on its promise, years later than promised and at a price, $6.4 billion, that was several times the original estimate. However, the completion of the new eastern span, a self-anchored suspension bridge with a gleaming white tower, was not accomplished without some tense moments. When it came time to fasten two massive seismic stabilizers on the suspension span last March, the huge threaded rods that were supposed to hold them in place \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/27/bay-bridge-bolts-snap-repairs-could-cost-up-to-5-million/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">snapped\u003c/a>. That forced engineers to come up with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/26/bay-bridge-short-term-fix-a-go-but-no-word-on-open-date/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">workarounds\u003c/a> to hold the stabilizers in place, and at one point bridge authorities scrapped plans for the long-planned Labor Day opening of the new span. But when repair work went better than expected and officials expressed concern about the risks of keeping the old span open, the Labor Day plan was reinstated. The new bridge, complete with traffic shoulders and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-admin/post.php?post=109958&action=edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a beautiful bike path\u003c/a>, opened late Labor Day evening. But the saga isn’t yet complete: East Bay state Sen. Mark DeSaulnier is leading \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_24413224/state-sen-mark-desaulnier-launches-legislative-probe-into\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an investigation \u003c/a>into why the bridge took so long and cost so much to complete. And some in the engineering community still express \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/more-questions-about-durability-of-steel-parts-on-new-bay-bridge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concerns about the long-term impact\u003c/a> of the project’s\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/20/97597/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> various construction problems\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121326\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/19/news-pix-2013-in-photos/doma-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121326\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-121326\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/DOMA-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sandra Stier, left, and Kris Perry, are married in San Francisco City Hall after June's U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowed resumption of same-sex marriage in California. (Darlene Bouchard/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Stier, left, and Kris Perry, are married in San Francisco City Hall after June’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowed resumption of same-sex marriage in California. (Darlene Bouchard/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 8 at the Supreme Court\u003c/strong>: In June, the Supreme Court issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-144_8ok0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 5-4 ruling\u003c/a> that had the effect of striking down \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/past/2008/general/title-sum/prop8-title-sum.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 8\u003c/a>, California’s ban on same-sex marriage. “Had the effect of striking down” because in the end, the high court didn’t address the constitutional issues of equal protection and due process raised in the original suit against the initiative. Instead, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/26/what-the-doma-and-prop-8-rulings-mean-and-what-we-still-need-to-know/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the justices found\u003c/a> that the authors of the 2008 initiative lacked standing to defend the measure in court. The tribunal’s ruling left standing\u003ca href=\"https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cand/09cv2292/files/09cv2292-ORDER.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the 2010 decision by U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker\u003c/a> that struck down Prop. 8 as unconstitutional. The effect was immediate: Same-sex marriages resumed in San Francisco two days after the high court spoke, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.freedomtomarry.org/states/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">courts and legislatures in several other states\u003c/a>have cleared the way for gay and lesbian weddings since the June Supreme Court ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rim Fire\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third-biggest wildfire in California history\u003c/a> started in mid-August, reportedly by \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rim-fire-hunter-20131206,0,4531265.story#axzz2oj8fhRj5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a hunter who set an illegal campfire\u003c/a> in Stanislaus National Forest, near the northwestern corner of Yosemite National Park. The fire wasn’t fully contained until late October, and by that time it had burned well into Yosemite, threatened the San Francisco-owned Hetch Hetchy reservoir, destroyed power facilities and burned 257,314 acres — 452 square miles. The latest assessment of damage from the fire says \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rim-fire-damage-study-20131227,0,446155.story#axzz2oj8fhRj5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the total cost could be close to $2 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112866\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/25/americas-cup-live/americas-cup-final-race/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-112866\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-112866\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/cupfinal-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Oracle Team USA celebrates after completing its successful defense of the America's Cup up. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oracle Team USA celebrates after completing its successful defense of the America’s Cup up. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>America’s Cup\u003c/strong>: We still haven’t decided whether \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/profile/larry-ellison/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry Ellison\u003c/a>, the Oracle software billionaire who captured the America’s Cup from \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/sports/global/12bertarelli.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some other billionaire\u003c/a> a few years back and then decided to defend it in San Francisco, wears a white hat or a black hat. But villain/hero categorization aside, the 34th America’s Cup sailed on the bay over the summer is an event to be remembered. The regatta was marked by tragedy when \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/09/death-in-the-americas-cup-drowned-sailors-team-held-capsize-drill-last-fall/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British sailor Andrew “Bart” Simpson, part of the Swedish-sponsored Artemis Racing team, was killed\u003c/a> in a May training accident. Simpson’s death prompted\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/23/safety-recommendations-released-for-americas-cup/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a new emphasis on safety\u003c/a> for the huge 72-foot catamarans that Ellison and his team had chosen for this year’s competition. The series of races among Artemis and two other challengers for the Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand and Italy’s Luna Rossa, were a nonevent, with the Kiwis easily winning the right to face the Oracle team. Before the finals could start,\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/03/oracle-americas-cup-penalty/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> an international jury imposed severe penalties against Oracle\u003c/a> for cheating in an earlier series of races. In the “first-to-nine-wins” format, New Zealand seemed to have the Cup locked up when it took an 8-1 lead in the series. Then \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/25/americas-cup-live/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this happened\u003c/a>— an incredible string of victories that allowed Ellison’s Oracle team to retain the Cup. We’ll get an idea in 2014 whether Ellison will defend the Cup again in San Francisco or take the event elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mustache Wars\u003c/strong>: Those funny “ride-sharing” companies that seemed like a novelty not so long ago — operations like \u003ca href=\"http://www.lyft.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lyft\u003c/a>, whose cars carry pink mustaches, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.side.cr/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sidecar \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uber\u003c/a> — are now entrenched in the local transportation scene. In September, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/19/cpuc-ridesharing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Public Utilities Commission issued regulations\u003c/a> to govern the new companies, which the agency classifies as “transportation network companies,” or TNCs. In San Francisco, the closely regulated taxi industry has long fought attempts to expand the number of cabs on the street even as many would-be customers swear it’s next to impossible to find a cab when you really want one. Now, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/taxis-lyft-ride-service-war-on-streets-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the TNCs appear to have made deep inroads\u003c/a> into the traditional taxi companies’ business — cutting into the customer base and attracting drivers from the old-line cab firms. Among the questions facing the TNCs: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/who-pays-when-ride-share-driver-crashes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whether drivers and their vehicles have adequate insurance coverage\u003c/a>. And among the questions facing the taxi companies: How will they adapt their operations, including \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/11/taxi-drivers-and-whos-taking-money-out-of-their-pockets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the widespread practice of expecting drivers to tip other company employees\u003c/a>, to survive the challenge from the TNCs. Jon Brooks, the former full-time proprietor of News Fix, reported extensively on the story this year and produced three major reports on what’s going on in the industry:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/taxis-lyft-ride-service-war-on-streets-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Will ‘Ride Sharing’ Kill San Francisco’s Taxi Industry? \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/08/how-to-get-a-cab-and-4-other-tips-from-san-francisco-cab-drivers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Confusion Over Insurance for ‘Ride-Sharing’ Drivers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/11/taxi-drivers-and-whos-taking-money-out-of-their-pockets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tip or Bribe? Taxi Drivers Say Illegal Payments to Dispatchers Are Routine\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122140\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/27/kqed-news-fix-top-news-stories-for-2013/rs7674_img_5067-lpr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122140\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-122140\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7674_IMG_5067-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bear tracks on the dry bottom of Shasta Lake in Northern California. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bear tracks on the dry bottom of Shasta Lake in Northern California. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Weather: 2013, the Driest Year\u003c/strong>: And we’ll leave you with what could be the biggest story of 2014 if we don’t see a change in our winter weather: the Bay Area (and most of the state) is just completing its driest calendar year since the first weather observer set up the first rain gauge here during the Gold Rush. In San Francisco, where records go back to 1850, just 5.59 inches of rain has fallen this year. That compares to the 30-year average recorded between 1980 and 2010 of 23.06 inches and the current calendar-year low-rainfall record of 8.73 inches, set in 1976. Other signs we’re very, very dry: The official U.S. Drought Monitor categorizes \u003ca href=\"http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">94 percent of the state as in moderate to extreme drought\u003c/a>, and the California-Nevada River Forecast Center observes that Folsom Lake, the big reservoir just east of Sacramento, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626426660749916&set=a.204261386299781.49442.156316434427610&type=1&theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has fallen below 200,000 acre feet\u003c/a> of storage for just the seventh time since it was created in the 1950s. Any serious California rain watcher will point out that what really matters for us is our seasonal precipitation — and by convention, our rain year runs from July 1 to June 30 to better reflect how much rain and snow comes our way during each wet season, which usually starts in October and ends by early May. We still have our historically wettest months ahead of us, January and February, so there’s hope we’ll see storms arrive to help replenish reservoirs and bulk up the mountain snowpack. But right now, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/fxus07.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long-range outlook for January\u003c/a> calls for below-normal precipitation for California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s \u003cstrong>Stephanie Martin\u003c/strong> spoke with KQED News Fix Editor \u003cstrong>Dan Brekke\u003c/strong> about some of the year’s biggest Bay Area stories. Listen to the conversation below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/127152132&color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/GRaGYJkmDy0\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Time’s running out on 2013, and it’s time to paw through (or pore over, if you’re the dignified sort) the posts that have piled up over the past 12 months and name our picks for the most important stories of the year. For extra credit, we’ll try to say why we think the stories are important both now and in the future. And we welcome you to tell us where we’ve gone astray or where we’re short-sighted and ignorant. (And above, the view of the year that’s almost past from our colleagues at “KQED Newsroom.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here goes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eviction Crisis/Housing Affordability: A surging tech sector economy in San Francisco is spurring \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/18/total-value-san-francisco-metro-housing-stock-jumps-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new spike in home prices and rents in and around the city\u003c/a>. The hot rental market, in turn, has led to\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/117540/Priced-Out-Ellis-Act-San-Francisco-eviction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a surge in evictions\u003c/a>. That “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Priced Out\u003c/a>” phenomenon has gotten to the point where activist groups have organized to demand action from San Francisco officials to stop certain evictions and to speed up action on creating new affordable housing. The soaring rents and increase in evictions have also accentuated a culture clash between longer-term city residents and the growing number of mostly newly arrived young technology workers. Read on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121543\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/on-the-google-bus-looking-out-at-the-protest/google-bus/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121543\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-121543\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/Google-Bus-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The view from a shuttle bus in West Oakland, headed for Google's Mountain View campus but halted by protesters. (@craigsfrost via Twitter).\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from a shuttle bus in West Oakland, headed for Google’s Mountain View campus but halted by protesters. (\u003ca href=\"http://t.co/VGCyhBLgyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@craigsfrost via Twitter)\u003c/a>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“San Francisco” vs. “The Techies”\u003c/strong>: The leading symbol of the divide between those who fancy themselves the real residents of San Francisco (meaning: they’ve lived and worked here awhile) and recently arrived technology workers is the Google bus. The buses have appeared in increasing numbers throughout the city and East Bay, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one serious cultural critic says\u003c/a>, “I think of them as the spaceships on which our alien overlords have landed to rule over us.” In addition to carrying people who can and do pay top dollar for housing, thus helping drive up rents, many in the city also complain that the buses are using stops reserved for Muni without paying a dime for the privilege. In the final weeks of 2013, the unease with the technology buses — they carry thousands of people to Google, Apple, Facebook and other tech firms — has gone beyond talk. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/eviction-protesters-oakland-san-francisco-target-silicon-valley-buses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twice in the last few weeks\u003c/a>, anti-eviction protesters in the city have blocked the buses. A similar protest in Oakland resulted in vandalism to one of the Silicon Valley-bound motor coaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The BART Strikes: \u003c/strong>BART’s two biggest unions, SEIU Local 1021 and ATU Local 1555, had given up more than $100 million in concessions in 2009 and went into negotiations this year seeking significant wage increases and trying to hold the line on medical insurance and pension plans. They ran into a hard line from a management that sought to limit labor costs and plow as much money as possible into upgrading the aging BART system. The clash led to two four-day strikes, in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/bart-strike-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/18/bart-strike-update-day-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October\u003c/a>, that forced BART’s 200,000 or so weekday riders to find alternative transit and sparked widespread public anger at union workers. Two workers inspecting tracks in Walnut Creek \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/20/ntsb-investigating-bart-train-accident-that-killed-two-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died during the October walkout\u003c/a> when they were struck by a train operated by a management trainee. The strike exposed a deep and so far unhealed rift between management and workers and led to calls for a change in state law \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/19/bart-board-considers-ballot-measure-on-strikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to ban strikes\u003c/a> by public transit workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police/Oakland Crime: It has not been a good year for crime-weary of Oakland residents and the city’s beleaguered Police Department. The \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak044723.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest city statistics\u003c/a> show robberies are up 16 percent over last year. Robberies committed with firearms are up 27 percent. A federal judge overseeing a civil rights settlement with the city and the Police Department installed \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/05/judge-appoints-director-to-oversee-oakland-police/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new outside “compliance director”\u003c/a> early this year. Shortly afterward, Police Chief Howard Jordan quit (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/09/96633/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for medical reasons, he insisted\u003c/a>). Outside consultant William Bratton issued a report finding that the department was poorly organized and ineffective at dealing with some of the most common crimes, with just one part-time investigator assigned to handle a backlog of 10,000 burglary cases. Just as that report came out, Jordan \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/10/96792/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was replaced by not one, but two interim chiefs\u003c/a>. The second of those stand-in leaders, Sean Whent, has overseen the implementation of new programs designed to build bridges to distrustful residents while more efficiently dealing with violent crime. It’s too early to say what the long-term outcome of those changes will be, but here’s something to note: The city suffered through a resurgence of deadly violence in 2012, with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/12/oaklands-other-homicide-crisis-unsolved-cases/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">131 homicides citywide\u003c/a>. With just a few days to go in 2013, Oakland has recorded 87 homicides for the year. That toll still gives Oakland one of the highest homicide rates in the United States, but it’s a dramatic improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122144\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/27/kqed-news-fix-top-news-stories-for-2013/rs6229_img_5691-lpr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122144\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-122144\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS6229_IMG_5691-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The new Bay Bridge eastern span, left, and the old span, right. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Bay Bridge eastern span, left, and the old span, right. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Bridge Completed:\u003c/strong> Caltrans assured us that 2013 would be the year that, 24 years after the Loma Prieta earthquake that demonstrated the eastern span of the Bay Bridge was seismically unfit, we would finally have a new bridge to drive on. The agency delivered on its promise, years later than promised and at a price, $6.4 billion, that was several times the original estimate. However, the completion of the new eastern span, a self-anchored suspension bridge with a gleaming white tower, was not accomplished without some tense moments. When it came time to fasten two massive seismic stabilizers on the suspension span last March, the huge threaded rods that were supposed to hold them in place \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/27/bay-bridge-bolts-snap-repairs-could-cost-up-to-5-million/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">snapped\u003c/a>. That forced engineers to come up with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/26/bay-bridge-short-term-fix-a-go-but-no-word-on-open-date/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">workarounds\u003c/a> to hold the stabilizers in place, and at one point bridge authorities scrapped plans for the long-planned Labor Day opening of the new span. But when repair work went better than expected and officials expressed concern about the risks of keeping the old span open, the Labor Day plan was reinstated. The new bridge, complete with traffic shoulders and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-admin/post.php?post=109958&action=edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a beautiful bike path\u003c/a>, opened late Labor Day evening. But the saga isn’t yet complete: East Bay state Sen. Mark DeSaulnier is leading \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_24413224/state-sen-mark-desaulnier-launches-legislative-probe-into\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an investigation \u003c/a>into why the bridge took so long and cost so much to complete. And some in the engineering community still express \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/more-questions-about-durability-of-steel-parts-on-new-bay-bridge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concerns about the long-term impact\u003c/a> of the project’s\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/20/97597/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> various construction problems\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121326\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/19/news-pix-2013-in-photos/doma-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121326\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-121326\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/DOMA-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sandra Stier, left, and Kris Perry, are married in San Francisco City Hall after June's U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowed resumption of same-sex marriage in California. (Darlene Bouchard/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Stier, left, and Kris Perry, are married in San Francisco City Hall after June’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowed resumption of same-sex marriage in California. (Darlene Bouchard/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 8 at the Supreme Court\u003c/strong>: In June, the Supreme Court issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-144_8ok0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 5-4 ruling\u003c/a> that had the effect of striking down \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/past/2008/general/title-sum/prop8-title-sum.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 8\u003c/a>, California’s ban on same-sex marriage. “Had the effect of striking down” because in the end, the high court didn’t address the constitutional issues of equal protection and due process raised in the original suit against the initiative. Instead, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/26/what-the-doma-and-prop-8-rulings-mean-and-what-we-still-need-to-know/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the justices found\u003c/a> that the authors of the 2008 initiative lacked standing to defend the measure in court. The tribunal’s ruling left standing\u003ca href=\"https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cand/09cv2292/files/09cv2292-ORDER.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the 2010 decision by U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker\u003c/a> that struck down Prop. 8 as unconstitutional. The effect was immediate: Same-sex marriages resumed in San Francisco two days after the high court spoke, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.freedomtomarry.org/states/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">courts and legislatures in several other states\u003c/a>have cleared the way for gay and lesbian weddings since the June Supreme Court ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rim Fire\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third-biggest wildfire in California history\u003c/a> started in mid-August, reportedly by \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rim-fire-hunter-20131206,0,4531265.story#axzz2oj8fhRj5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a hunter who set an illegal campfire\u003c/a> in Stanislaus National Forest, near the northwestern corner of Yosemite National Park. The fire wasn’t fully contained until late October, and by that time it had burned well into Yosemite, threatened the San Francisco-owned Hetch Hetchy reservoir, destroyed power facilities and burned 257,314 acres — 452 square miles. 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Before the finals could start,\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/03/oracle-americas-cup-penalty/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> an international jury imposed severe penalties against Oracle\u003c/a> for cheating in an earlier series of races. In the “first-to-nine-wins” format, New Zealand seemed to have the Cup locked up when it took an 8-1 lead in the series. Then \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/25/americas-cup-live/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this happened\u003c/a>— an incredible string of victories that allowed Ellison’s Oracle team to retain the Cup. We’ll get an idea in 2014 whether Ellison will defend the Cup again in San Francisco or take the event elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mustache Wars\u003c/strong>: Those funny “ride-sharing” companies that seemed like a novelty not so long ago — operations like \u003ca href=\"http://www.lyft.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lyft\u003c/a>, whose cars carry pink mustaches, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.side.cr/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sidecar \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uber\u003c/a> — are now entrenched in the local transportation scene. In September, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/19/cpuc-ridesharing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Public Utilities Commission issued regulations\u003c/a> to govern the new companies, which the agency classifies as “transportation network companies,” or TNCs. In San Francisco, the closely regulated taxi industry has long fought attempts to expand the number of cabs on the street even as many would-be customers swear it’s next to impossible to find a cab when you really want one. Now, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/taxis-lyft-ride-service-war-on-streets-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the TNCs appear to have made deep inroads\u003c/a> into the traditional taxi companies’ business — cutting into the customer base and attracting drivers from the old-line cab firms. Among the questions facing the TNCs: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/who-pays-when-ride-share-driver-crashes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whether drivers and their vehicles have adequate insurance coverage\u003c/a>. And among the questions facing the taxi companies: How will they adapt their operations, including \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/11/taxi-drivers-and-whos-taking-money-out-of-their-pockets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the widespread practice of expecting drivers to tip other company employees\u003c/a>, to survive the challenge from the TNCs. Jon Brooks, the former full-time proprietor of News Fix, reported extensively on the story this year and produced three major reports on what’s going on in the industry:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/taxis-lyft-ride-service-war-on-streets-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Will ‘Ride Sharing’ Kill San Francisco’s Taxi Industry? \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/08/how-to-get-a-cab-and-4-other-tips-from-san-francisco-cab-drivers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Confusion Over Insurance for ‘Ride-Sharing’ Drivers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/11/taxi-drivers-and-whos-taking-money-out-of-their-pockets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tip or Bribe? Taxi Drivers Say Illegal Payments to Dispatchers Are Routine\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122140\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/27/kqed-news-fix-top-news-stories-for-2013/rs7674_img_5067-lpr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122140\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-122140\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7674_IMG_5067-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bear tracks on the dry bottom of Shasta Lake in Northern California. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bear tracks on the dry bottom of Shasta Lake in Northern California. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Weather: 2013, the Driest Year\u003c/strong>: And we’ll leave you with what could be the biggest story of 2014 if we don’t see a change in our winter weather: the Bay Area (and most of the state) is just completing its driest calendar year since the first weather observer set up the first rain gauge here during the Gold Rush. In San Francisco, where records go back to 1850, just 5.59 inches of rain has fallen this year. That compares to the 30-year average recorded between 1980 and 2010 of 23.06 inches and the current calendar-year low-rainfall record of 8.73 inches, set in 1976. 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We still have our historically wettest months ahead of us, January and February, so there’s hope we’ll see storms arrive to help replenish reservoirs and bulk up the mountain snowpack. But right now, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/fxus07.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long-range outlook for January\u003c/a> calls for below-normal precipitation for California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s \u003cstrong>Stephanie Martin\u003c/strong> spoke with KQED News Fix Editor \u003cstrong>Dan Brekke\u003c/strong> about some of the year’s biggest Bay Area stories. Listen to the conversation below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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