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She worked with Dugar installing the North Richmond community garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say that the positive things Dugar was doing in the community, specifically with young men — encouraging them to volunteer on Election Day and participate in community events — got the attention of some local parents and guardians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way that they found out about the home was by word of mouth,” Richmond police Sgt. Matt Stonebraker said. “Their guardians have dropped them off there and they’ve heard he’s doing positive things and they thought that it would be a safe place for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, Dugar had half a dozen boys living in his group home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stonebraker said Dugar was registered as a sex offender, but was not under any type of supervision because he had served out his sentence. 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In 2009 and 2011 he was sent back to prison for parole violations, he was released in 2013, according to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost immediately after his last release from prison, Dugar started making a name for himself around Richmond as a committed community activist. Many in Richmond knew Dugar had done time, but he seemed to have turned his life around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dugar started three group homes, all unlicensed: one for the formerly incarcerated, one for the homeless and one for teenage boys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dugar showed up at City Council meetings. He started a group called \u003ca href=\"https://businessfilings.sos.ca.gov/frmDetail.asp?CorpID=03776084\">The Remember Us People Project\u003c/a> dedicated to helping formerly incarcerated people in the city. Dugar planted trees on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/20/bay-area-turns-out-to-honor-mlk-day/img_0801\">Martin Luther King\u003c/a> Day. He volunteered at events sponsored by NBA star \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedrewgooden.com/video/nba-player-drew-gooden-brings-school-supplies-advice-to-richmond-kids/\">Drew Gooden\u003c/a>, who grew up in Richmond and now plays for the Washington Wizards. Dugar fed the homeless at Thanksgiving. City and county officials awarded Dugar a \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracosta.ca.gov/documentcenter/view/37664\">$25,000 grant\u003c/a> to build a community garden in North Richmond. \u003ca href=\"http://nutiva.com/community/outreach/\">Nutiva\u003c/a>, a natural food company based in Richmond, sponsored $10,000 for garden projects at Dugar’s transitional homes. And \u003ca href=\"http://www.saffronstrand.org/\">Saffron Strand\u003c/a>, a local nonprofit dedicated to ending homelessness, gave Dugar an award for his work in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now some residents are asking how Dugar managed to get a group home for boys up and running in Richmond despite his criminal record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The allegations against Mr. Dugar, if true, are shocking and profoundly disappointing,” Nutiva spokeswoman Megan Farina wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a betrayal,” said Linda Schneider, who runs the nonprofit Self-Sustaining Communities. She worked with Dugar installing the North Richmond community garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say that the positive things Dugar was doing in the community, specifically with young men — encouraging them to volunteer on Election Day and participate in community events — got the attention of some local parents and guardians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way that they found out about the home was by word of mouth,” Richmond police Sgt. Matt Stonebraker said. “Their guardians have dropped them off there and they’ve heard he’s doing positive things and they thought that it would be a safe place for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, Dugar had half a dozen boys living in his group home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stonebraker said Dugar was registered as a sex offender, but was not under any type of supervision because he had served out his sentence. Stonebraker said the boys are now all staying in a safe place and are being provided any counseling or treatment they might need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dugar was often seen at Kennedy High School, where he attended sports events and practices. The West Contra Costa Unified School District confirmed that Dugar was allowed on school ground because he was listed as a guardian on school enrollment forms signed by parents or legal guardians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamisha Torres is formerly incarcerated herself and now helps people rebuild their lives after incarceration. She said she’s been asking the city for a year to come up with better regulations for transitional housing and group homes like those Dugard has been running. Now, she worries no one in Richmond will want to house formerly incarcerated people at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the number one fears that people have around housing people who are formerly incarcerated or with felonies is housing a possible Barry Dugar,” she said. “He has just become the poster child of the bogeyman that everybody is afraid of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres said she hopes this case won't further stigmatize people coming out of jail or prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing that I wanted to do when I came home was have an opportunity to just be successful and get my kids back and rebuild my family,” Torres said. “That’s the hope of a lot of folks.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Richmond Police Officer Jennifer Cortez rolls through downtown in her black and white cruiser when her radio crackles to life. The call is from dispatch -- a burglary in progress. Responding to the call, Cortez crosses into the city’s south side, parking well out of sight of the address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond police have been getting a lot of these calls lately. Armed robberies are up 26 percent this year. And a shooting death last week brings the number of 2015 homicides in the city to 11 -- the total for all of last year. While Richmond’s community policing strategy has been a bright spot in the national conversation about race and police, the current uptick in violent crime has residents and police on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Nicole Abetkov says she can't identify a single cause that explains the crime spike. She thinks new laws like \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/18/prop-47-sentencing-reform-reaps-savings/\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 47\u003c/a> and public safety \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/realignment/\" target=\"_blank\">realignment\u003c/a> have put more low-level offenders on the streets. But there are very few statistics to rely on. One thing is known: Amid what it says is a shortage of police officers that's affecting many departments, Richmond is 11 officers short of being fully staffed, less 14 more who are injured, pregnant or otherwise not fit for active duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/218999393\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On any given day you can have one team who is short four spots,” Abetkov says, “which has an effect on a whole bunch of things: response to calls, customer service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the department is in the process of hiring five officers and working with a federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives task force to combat the robberies, Abetkov says there are still systemic problems in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re always going to have a drug problem,” she says. “You’re always going to have the problem where two factions of different areas aren’t going to get along, and that’s just history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Devone Boggan, the director of Richmond’s Office of Neighborhood Safety, agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The greatest challenge in this city is history and time,” he says, sitting in the antechamber of his office, just above the City Council chambers. “You’ve got a lot of lost lives in this war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of Neighborhood Safety is unique among city departments across the country in that it tries to break this cycle of violence and history. Boggan and his staff reach out to those who are most likely to commit gun violence and be killed by it. These young people are offered a stipend of $1,000 per month to put down their weapons and follow a \"life map\" created with the help of office staff. They're mentored and taken on trips far away from their struggles at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.nccdglobal.org/publications/process-evaluation-for-the-office-of-neighborhood-safety\" target=\"_blank\">evaluation\u003c/a> by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency found that the program seems to be working for most of the people that buy into it: They aren’t ending up dead or in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Boggan says for every 50 people he sits down with, “You have five to 10 folks who will say, ‘Mr. Boggan, man I love what you’re trying to do. I love what your team is trying to do, but quite frankly, I ain’t ready to change. And I got some people I want to take out. And the police are going to have to earn their living.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the robbery in progress, a few neighbors wander out of their houses to see what’s happening. Five police cars are blocking the end of the street. A man drives by on his bike. He doesn’t want to be identified but does have something to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All they [the police] do is drive around and harass poor people,” he says. “They don’t never do nothing to the rich people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just then Cortez comes jogging back and jumps into the car parked nearby. She’s out of breath from a foot chase with one of the robbery suspects -- a race she won. The suspect is now in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another officer drives up alongside and rolls down his window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did you catch the guy that outran me?” he asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, one,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s my girl.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But that’s because you cornered him out,” she says. “Flushed him out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10640979\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10640979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4.jpg\" alt=\"Richmond Police Officer Jennifer Cortez.\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/photo-4-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richmond Police Officer Jennifer Cortez. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cortez explains that most of the time her job isn’t this dramatic. She isn’t a beat cop; she’s on special projects like keeping drunks out of the park, towing RVs that leave sewage in people’s yards, and checking on illegal dumping spots. She says this is what community policing means -- taking care of residents in a lot of small ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She rolls past a popular dump site that’s right next to a row of very tidy apartments. Three stained mattresses lie askew on the ground alongside a broken mirror and a busted headboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is pretty minimal,” she says. “Usually there’s a pile up there. I just feel bad for the people that live here.” Later, she’ll notify public works and get the trash hauled away. While these issues might seem mundane, she says they have a big effect on people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can work together on low-level crime such as that,” she says, “which creates a stronger bond between the police and the community because they trust that you can take care of problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some residents still don’t trust police, Cortez says there are others who appreciate what she’s doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This woman came up to me. She said, ‘From the bottom of my heart, I really just wanted to tell you that I appreciate you coming out to work for the city when you don’t know if you’re going to go home that day,’ and I was like, ‘Oh my God, don’t make me cry right now.’ I was like, ‘Get out of here lady!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortez pauses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really, really touched, you know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department says community policing isn’t going to solve all of Richmond’s problems. It hasn’t prevented the current crime spike. But Cortez says it’s still the best way to do her job.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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She isn’t a beat cop; she’s on special projects like keeping drunks out of the park, towing RVs that leave sewage in people’s yards, and checking on illegal dumping spots. She says this is what community policing means -- taking care of residents in a lot of small ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She rolls past a popular dump site that’s right next to a row of very tidy apartments. Three stained mattresses lie askew on the ground alongside a broken mirror and a busted headboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is pretty minimal,” she says. “Usually there’s a pile up there. I just feel bad for the people that live here.” Later, she’ll notify public works and get the trash hauled away. 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One yardstick used to determine the program’s success: Nearly all of its participants are still alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most social service programs do not count outcomes such as mortality or injury,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.nccdglobal.org/sites/default/files/publication_pdf/ons-report-highlights.pdf\">the NCCD report acknowledges\u003c/a>, but “using these measures is paramount for an effort designed to reduce lethal violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Launched as a public-private partnership in 2007 after years of unsuccessful attempts to curb violent crime, Richmond’s Office of Neighborhood Safety specifically targets youth identified by police data and other sources as the most likely to be involved in gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ONS has received praise and criticism for its intensive 18-month training and mentoring program, known as the Operation Peacemaker Fellowship. As part of that effort, participants -- predominantly African-American youth ages 14 to 25 -- become eligible to earn $1,000-per-month stipends after six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to get them to stop shooting,” ONS Director DeVone Boggan explained in a Tuesday\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201507280900\"> interview on KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. But he said critics who latch onto \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/richmond-california-murder-rate-gun-death\">the notion that ONS is paying people not to kill\u003c/a> are missing the bigger picture. “We’re not simply calling the city’s most lethal, active firearm offenders … and saying, 'Please stop shooting, and if you do we’ll give you $1,000 a month.' 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Going through airport security can be a relief to ONS fellows, Boggan pointed out, since they can rest easy knowing nobody aboard the flight is armed, unlike in their everyday realities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our fellowship focuses only on those individuals that are considered to be the most lethal active firearm offenders … and those who may be coming home from some incarceration, that we feel may provide some threat to the community,” Boggan explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ONS operates independently from law enforcement, and often relies on information provided by street outreach workers, who can be more knowledgeable than police, to supplement police data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What separates ONS from other efforts to address gun violence “is the daily, high dosage of authentic relationships,” Boggan said on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>. “We are hunting these young men down -- forgive the terminology of hunting, but it’s their terminology -- we are hunting them down every day, typically like they hunt their enemies down, and we are giving them a great deal of positive attention, affording them a healthier diet, and more healthy information, to negotiate conflict. They typically reference this fellowship as a family to them,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s per-capita homicide rate reached an all-time low in 2013, and the number of firearm assaults has trended downward since 2010. While the NCCD evaluation credits ONS as a contributing factor in this shift, it noted that “ONS strategies are having an impact, but it is impossible to disentangle the ONS approach from other concurrent citywide violence reduction interventions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, violence started to creep back up more recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for ONS' role in the decline, “It is a promising approach,” NCCD Director of Justice Strategies Angie Wolf, who conducted the study, said on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>. “Providing this long-term intervention plan gives the young person both the opportunity to make mistakes and test boundaries ... and it gives them time to implement changes in thinking and changes in behaviors in a variety of settings. 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"content": "\u003cp>The city of Richmond has a zombie problem -- that is, zombie houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are houses left abandoned and in extreme states of disrepair for years, some stuffed full of refuse and crumbling, others completely gutted by fire. It's not easy to fix them because in many cases the owners have died or were forced to walk away due to \u003ca href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/06/real_estate/zombie-foreclosure/\" target=\"_blank\">foreclosure. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond estimates that there are 1,000 such homes, each one costing the city $7,000 on average per year in cleanup and policing. They're also a major eyesore in otherwise well-maintained neighborhoods. Now the city has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/31212\" target=\"_blank\">plan\u003c/a> to tackle the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/209009191\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Richmond City Council voted to issue $3 million in social impact bonds to private investors. They're low-interest loans that will allow funders, including banks, to front the money for the city to purchase the houses and renovate or rebuild them. Once they sell, the investors get paid back and Richmond has more money to funnel into revitalizing more houses. The city can collect property taxes on the lived-in homes, and the property values in those neighborhoods rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond Code Enforcement Superintendent Denée Evans says that because the homes are empty, they've become prime targets for illegal dumping and squatters. In the winter people build fires to keep warm, Evans says, and end up nearly burning them down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's one such house on A Street in the Iron Triangle. It's been empty for a decade, but caught fire only this past year. Nearly the entire structure is charred, and the lot is open and full of trash and tall grass. Evans is worried about curious neighborhood kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They like these type of structures they can go in and play,\" she says. \"But it's unsafe. You can see the roof is collapsing , the floors are probably unsafe and unsteady. To be honest with you, before this is acquired, we'll probably have to put up a fence because this is a safety issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10552298\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10552298 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15395_RS15393_RS15390_20150603_104739.jpg-alt_272-1-qut-800x496.jpg\" alt=\"RS15395_RS15393_RS15390_20150603_104739.jpg-alt_272-(1)-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15395_RS15393_RS15390_20150603_104739.jpg-alt_272-1-qut-800x496.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15395_RS15393_RS15390_20150603_104739.jpg-alt_272-1-qut-400x248.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15395_RS15393_RS15390_20150603_104739.jpg-alt_272-1-qut-1440x893.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15395_RS15393_RS15390_20150603_104739.jpg-alt_272-1-qut-1180x731.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15395_RS15393_RS15390_20150603_104739.jpg-alt_272-1-qut-960x595.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15395_RS15393_RS15390_20150603_104739.jpg-alt_272-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another 'zombie' house. Someone was asleep on the porch as this photo was taken. We've removed the address from this abandoned house to prevent easy location. \u003ccite>(Amanda Font/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Acquiring the homes is the tough part. The\u003ca href=\"http://www.richmondcf.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> Richmond Community Foundation\u003c/a> is helping to facilitate purchasing the properties. Jim Becker is the president and CEO of the nonprofit. He says many of the properties have stood empty because the previous owner died and heirs either couldn't be found or didn't want to take over the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program will have to navigate the tricky world of probate to reclaim such houses from unresolved estates. Others were abandoned after the 2008 housing bust and will have to be purchased from the banks that hold the mortgages. It's going to take some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the houses are returned to a livable state, Becker's organization will partner with another nonprofit, SparkPoint, to sell them to low- and middle-income families through a \u003ca href=\"http://chdcnr.com/programs-services/first-time-homebuyer-program/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">First Time Homebuyer\u003c/a> program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Clients that graduate from these programs will have the first opportunity to purchase these homes,\" says Becker, \"without competition.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council expects the bonds to be filled within 30 to 60 days. They've got between 10 and 15 houses in their sights to start with, but plan to roll out the revitalization program to many more. In this way, they hope to bring new life to those zombie homes and many of Richmond's neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This post is followed by a \u003ca href=\"#editorsnote\">clarification\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:55 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Here's more detail on the malfunction that led to the spectacular flare at Chevron's Richmond refinery on Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local officials have said the problem occurred in the refinery's solvent deasphalting unit. That's a part of the refinery that receives the heaviest material, or fraction, left over from the crude oil distillation process, and then treats it with solvents to help break it down further into components like lube oil, fuel oil and tar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Sawyer, the chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer for Contra Costa County, has a simpler description of the material the solvent deasphalting unit, or SDA, handles: \"real heavy, oily, tarry stuff.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawyer, one of the local officials looking into what happened at the refinery Thursday night, said a malfunction in the SDA caused some of that tarry material to flow into pipes routed through a cooling unit. That caused the material to solidify, plugging up the pipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When that happened, pressure began building up,\" Sawyer said, triggering safety devices that relieved the pressure by venting and burning off gases that had built up in the unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flaring \"is actually a protection so that the unit would not overpressurize. The gases all went to the flare instead,\" Sawyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that burning off gases through the flares produces substances \"that could be toxic or could be hazardous to people's health.\" He added that the process is intended to disperse toxins so they don't reach hazardous levels for surrounding communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The advantage of the flares is that they're way up in the air and ... basically, the gases were going straight up in the air that night because there was very little wind, and then what there was was going over the bay,\" Sawyer said. \"So, by the time it got to the ground, wherever that might have been, it would have been dissipated to where there's no expected health concerns for the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District said Friday it has opened an investigation into the Thursday night \"plant upset\" -- the industry term for incidents like this. The inquiry is expected to last a month or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron spokesman Braden Reddall said that while the flaring was not a normal part of how the refinery functions, \"you'll see all refineries have to do it from time to time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to what led to the flaring, Reddall said, \"We usually don't discuss the exact details of refinery operations. That's due to commercial sensitivity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia, a Richmond resident, criticized Chevron for its initial public statements about the flare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seemed to me that Chevron was downplaying the seriousness of this flaring event,\" Gioia said Friday. \"They were calling it normal flaring and normal operations. It was not normal flaring. It was flaring due to a problem in a unit, and this [measure] was taken for safety reasons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Via Twitter and Facebook, the company at first merely acknowledged that the flaring, which could be seen for miles in Marin, Contra Costa, Alameda and San Francisco counties, was visible outside the refinery:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ChevronRichmond/status/545786528635441152\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two hours later, the company issued another statement on social media that suggested the flaring was not producing smoke. Here's one of a series of four tweets from the company:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ChevronRichmond/status/545821141856571392\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denny Larson, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.gcmonitor.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Global Community Monitor\u003c/a>, an El Cerrito environmental organization that contracted with the city of Richmond to help set up half a dozen air monitors near the refinery, said it was \"absolutely clear\" that the flaring caused elevated levels of particulate matter, black carbon and hydrogen sulfide on Thursday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larson said he believes the impact was local, not just up and over the bay. \"What goes up must come down,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County's Sawyer confirmed that air monitors in the vicinity of the refinery had detected fine particulates -- microscopic bits of carbon and other material that can cause respiratory problems and other health issues -- on Thursday evening. But he added that the source of the particulates was still being investigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said a county response team did smell smoke during the incident, \"but it was like wood smoke, like ... from a [fireplace] fire. And that could be causing the particulates, but we don't know that yet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: \u003c/strong> An official with Chevron's Richmond refinery says the company is investigating a Thursday night malfunction that prompted a shutdown of part of the facility and produced a flare that could be seen in much of the central Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area air quality regulators are also investigating the incident and expect to release a preliminary report later Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company official, whose name we've agreed not to use, said a problem in the refinery's \"solvent deasphalting unit\" led to the flaring operation. That's a section of the refinery that uses solvents to break down the heaviest material produced in the crude oil distillation process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official said it was unclear Friday why the unit malfunctioned. Flaring began about 6:30 p.m. and continued through about 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company said in statements Thursday evening that the event did not represent a health or safety threat to the community. Contra Costa County health officials reported elevated levels of fine particulates at monitors around the refinery, but not high enough to prompt a shelter-in-place order. Long-term exposure to fine particulates -- tiny bits of carbon and other material that can be inhaled deep into the lungs -- can lead to respiratory and heart disease and other health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main reason for widespread public concern over the flare -- beyond the fact that huge flames were leaping high into the night sky -- is the August 2012 fire at the refinery. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/21/how-the-chevron-richmond-fire-happened-feds-release-blow-by-blow-animation-of-accident\" target=\"_blank\">That incident\u003c/a>, triggered when a deteriorating section of pipe in the facility ruptured, led to about 15,000 people in the area seeking medical treatment, mostly for breathing problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the company and people in the community took to Facebook as Thursday night's event unfolded. The company statement \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/chevronrichmond/posts/10152758324934039\" target=\"_blank\">posted there\u003c/a> said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>There has been visible flaring from the Richmond refinery this evening. We understand that the community has been concerned about the flaring activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We had a process unit that needed to be depressurized, creating a visible flare. The flare is part of a safety system which enables us to safely shut down a unit. We are in the process of shutting down this unit now.\u003cbr>\nIn flaring conditions, it is normal practice to release quantities of water vapor (steam) to assist with the flare quality. This can take on the appearance of smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flaring has now stopped. There may be intermittent flaring this evening as we continue to safely bring down the unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has been no impact to the community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia, a Richmond resident, was also on Facebook \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/johngioia1958/posts/10205569783309080\" target=\"_blank\">responding to the incident:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Some observations of the Chevron flaring event -- this is not a normal flaring event. It is emergency flaring. According to the Contra Costa Hazardous Materials Division, there was a problem in the de-asphalting unit at the refinery. Gases were sent out through multiple flares. There is a more extensive network of fenceline/ground level air monitors in place around the refinery that did not exist during the 2012 Chevron fire. 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(Photo courtesy Rich City Rides)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The longer you’ve had a bike, the more connected you are to it,” Smith said. “It’s like all the memories of everywhere you’ve ridden on that bike. Getting a new bike just isn’t the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rich City Rides runs a handful of programs to promote biking and bicycle culture in Richmond, but its newest program started spontaneously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A community member told Rich City Rides that their bike had been stolen. The organization posted a picture on its Facebook page, and a few people in the community saw the bike around town. They approached the person riding the bike, let them know it was stolen, and were able to recover it and return it to its owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silva, a third-generation Richmond resident, has become a community ambassador for Rich City Rides since being reunited with his bike. 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"content": "\u003cp>As Richmond prepared to enter the 1960s, the city was about to encounter an era of rapid change. In November of 1959, readers opened the pages of the city’s daily newspaper, the Richmond Independent, to be confronted with Thanksgiving sales and headlines about next fall’s presidential race (“State GOP Supports Nixon”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advertisements reflected an idyllic version of late 1950s America: A well-dressed businessman, hands clasped in his lap, dozes with a smile as a cherubic young boy gazes up in admiration from the next seat above the headline, “rest assured,” with Greyhound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a time of expansion. The Richmond-San Rafael Bridge had been finished three years earlier, and the post-World War II shipbuilding boom was still driving Richmond’s economy. The city was solidly middle class. The city’s median household income exceeded both the state and national medians. New developments were popping up, spreading out into areas like El Sobrante, where new three-bedroom, two-bath houses were advertised in the newspaper for as little as $16,950, a little less than $140,000 in today’s dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the city’s commercial life took place in the central part of town, around Macdonald Avenue. Auto showrooms were commonplace. A new sedan at Plymouth Motors on Macdonald Avenue, where a 7-Eleven convenience store now stands next to Casper’s Famous Hot Dogs, cost $1,995, or about $16,400 today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several grocery stores dotted Richmond’s main thoroughfare, such as Nelson’s Shopping Center at 23rd and Macdonald Avenue, where Alta Coffee cost 47 cents a pound ($3.84 in today’s dollars) and three pounds of hamburger meat sold for a dollar ($8.22 today). A little further down the road, the downtown area boasted shopping at Macy’s and other boutiques, as well as movie theaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the next 20 years, a combination of poor planning decisions, tragic events, and broader economic and social trends would push Richmond into a radical transformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s many of the better-paying manufacturing and industrial jobs disappeared, and were replaced by lower-paying service sector jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1980, the city’s demographics had virtually flipped. Whites abandoned the city in large numbers for the suburbs, dropping from 77 percent of the population in 1960 to 37 percent in 1980. Richmond became a majority-minority city, as the percentage of African-American residents (47) and Hispanic residents (11) grew rapidly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By this time, Richmond’s median household income had dropped almost 15 percent below the California median income, a stunning change from just 20 years before when it exceeded the state level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Median-Household-Income-1024x705.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10376641\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Median-Household-Income-1024x705.png\" alt=\"Median-Household-Income-1024x705\" width=\"1024\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Median-Household-Income-1024x705.png 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Median-Household-Income-1024x705-400x275.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Median-Household-Income-1024x705-800x550.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reasons for this shift are complex and not given to simple explanation, but one event that still resonates with longtime residents is a riot on Macdonald Avenue in 1968 that occurred after police shot a 15-year-old African-American youth. Coming shortly after the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, the conflict has traditionally been characterized as a race riot, although the exact origins are somewhat unclear. The riot affected businesses between Second and 15th streets on Macdonald Avenue, and caused police to temporarily implement a curfew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever lingering impact the riot had for downtown, the opening of Hilltop Mall in 1976 presented new and ultimately long-lasting problems. It drew the city’s business district out of central Richmond 5 miles north to the freeway, taking with it easy access to many basic goods and services for lower- and middle-class residents in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effects of those planning decisions continue to be felt today. At the same time middle-class wages stagnated, meaning buying power for middle-class households began to weaken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2010, at the height of the Great Recession, the median Richmond household took in 19 percent less than the typical household in California, reaching its lowest ebb. Richmond households also trailed the typical national household income, despite the high cost of living in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the cost of basic goods such as groceries has remained relatively even or dropped over the decades, other metrics indicate the average Richmond resident faces more challenges than he or she did 55 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1959, a typical household could put a student through a year of college at UC Berkeley on 2 percent of its annual income. By 2010, the same academic year at Berkeley would cost 23 percent of the median Richmond household’s income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Richmond is its own story. But it also tells a story not only of California, but of how the buying power for the middle class nationwide has steadily eroded, leaving people working just as hard for less. Middle-class status is harder to come by than it used to be.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the next 20 years, a combination of poor planning decisions, tragic events, and broader economic and social trends would push Richmond into a radical transformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s many of the better-paying manufacturing and industrial jobs disappeared, and were replaced by lower-paying service sector jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1980, the city’s demographics had virtually flipped. Whites abandoned the city in large numbers for the suburbs, dropping from 77 percent of the population in 1960 to 37 percent in 1980. Richmond became a majority-minority city, as the percentage of African-American residents (47) and Hispanic residents (11) grew rapidly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By this time, Richmond’s median household income had dropped almost 15 percent below the California median income, a stunning change from just 20 years before when it exceeded the state level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Median-Household-Income-1024x705.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10376641\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Median-Household-Income-1024x705.png\" alt=\"Median-Household-Income-1024x705\" width=\"1024\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Median-Household-Income-1024x705.png 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Median-Household-Income-1024x705-400x275.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Median-Household-Income-1024x705-800x550.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reasons for this shift are complex and not given to simple explanation, but one event that still resonates with longtime residents is a riot on Macdonald Avenue in 1968 that occurred after police shot a 15-year-old African-American youth. Coming shortly after the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, the conflict has traditionally been characterized as a race riot, although the exact origins are somewhat unclear. The riot affected businesses between Second and 15th streets on Macdonald Avenue, and caused police to temporarily implement a curfew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever lingering impact the riot had for downtown, the opening of Hilltop Mall in 1976 presented new and ultimately long-lasting problems. It drew the city’s business district out of central Richmond 5 miles north to the freeway, taking with it easy access to many basic goods and services for lower- and middle-class residents in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effects of those planning decisions continue to be felt today. At the same time middle-class wages stagnated, meaning buying power for middle-class households began to weaken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2010, at the height of the Great Recession, the median Richmond household took in 19 percent less than the typical household in California, reaching its lowest ebb. Richmond households also trailed the typical national household income, despite the high cost of living in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the cost of basic goods such as groceries has remained relatively even or dropped over the decades, other metrics indicate the average Richmond resident faces more challenges than he or she did 55 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1959, a typical household could put a student through a year of college at UC Berkeley on 2 percent of its annual income. By 2010, the same academic year at Berkeley would cost 23 percent of the median Richmond household’s income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Richmond is its own story. But it also tells a story not only of California, but of how the buying power for the middle class nationwide has steadily eroded, leaving people working just as hard for less. Middle-class status is harder to come by than it used to be.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/FXC/wxstory.php?wfo=mtr\" target=\"_blank\">More beneficial rainfall this week\u003c/a> (National Weather Service):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Aside from a few lingering showers today, a majority of the region will remain dry ahead of a developing upper level storm system offshore. This system will bring widespread rainfall, heavy at times, and a slight chance of thunderstorms to the San Francisco/Monterey Bay Area Tuesday and Wednesday as the low approaches the coast. Strong and locally gusty winds will be a possibility along the coast and in higher elevations Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/FXC/wxstory.php?wfo=mtr\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Muir-Woods-coho-salmon-vanish-fanning-fears-of-5925337.php\" target=\"_blank\">Muir Woods coho salmon vanish, fanning fears of extinction\u003c/a> (San Francisco Chronicle):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The cherished coho salmon that historically wriggled their way past beachgoers up Redwood Creek into Muir Woods vanished this year and are now on the verge of extinction, prompting a last-ditch attempt by fisheries biologists to save the genetically unique species. No salmon eggs were spotted in the shade of the world-famous redwood grove this past winter, and not a single baby coho could be found in the summer. The situation was so bad in August that 105 juvenile salmon had to be removed from the creek and brought to a hatchery. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Muir-Woods-coho-salmon-vanish-fanning-fears-of-5925337.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/us/where-grass-is-greener-a-push-to-share-droughts-burden.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Where grass is greener, a push to share hardships of drought\u003c/a> (New York Times):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego, the only indication of the continuing drought — now among the worst in California’s recorded history — is the perpetually cloudless sky. Private lemon groves hark back to the area’s agricultural past, before it became home to some of Southern California’s wealthiest residents; horses roam through grassy pastures; palatial homes are surrounded by rolling grass lawns and, in at least one case, a three-hole putting green owned by the golfer Phil Mickelson. And all that greenery sucks down hundreds of gallons of water each day. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/us/where-grass-is-greener-a-push-to-share-droughts-burden.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/west-county-times/ci_27034796/low-turnout-helped-doom-chevron-candidates-richmond-but\" target=\"_blank\">Low turnout helped doom Chevron in Richmond, but questions linger for 2016\u003c/a> (Contra Costa Times):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>While Richmond commanded a national spotlight as a key battleground in the debate over unlimited campaign spending, voters in economically depressed neighborhoods collectively shrugged on Election Day, an apathy that likely helped tilt the city's balance of power. And while the election results were interpreted by many as a rejection of Chevron Corp.'s campaign tactics, the turnout data indicate that many of the voters who might have been swayed by the oil giant's spending simply stayed home in a nonpresidential election year -- raising the question of whether such spending will be more effective in two years.\u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/west-county-times/ci_27034796/low-turnout-helped-doom-chevron-candidates-richmond-but\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/12/01/367703789/amazon-unleashes-robot-army-to-send-your-holiday-packages-faster\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon unleashes robot army to send your holiday packages faster\u003c/a> (NPR/KQED):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For many online retailers, Cyber Monday is likely to be the peak shopping day of the year. To handle the onslaught of orders, Amazon has begun rolling out a new robot army. The Amazon order-fulfillment center in Tracy, Calif., is more than a million square feet — or 28 football fields, if you prefer — filled with orange and yellow bins flying this way and that on conveyor belts. Chances are, if you ordered a bunch of items in the San Francisco Bay Area recently, Amazon put that box together here. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/12/01/367703789/amazon-unleashes-robot-army-to-send-your-holiday-packages-faster\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/News/ci_27040372/Levine-poised-to-unveil-resolution-to-rename-Waldo-Tunnel-after-Robin-Williams\" target=\"_blank\">Legislator to introduce measure to rename Marin's Waldo Tunnel after Robin Williams\u003c/a> (Marin Independent Journal):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A resolution to rename the rainbow-striped Waldo Tunnel in Southern Marin after Robin Williams is expected to be introduced Monday by Assemblyman Marc Levine. D-San Rafael. \"We have written the language of the resolution and are ready to introduce it,\" Levine said last week. ... Williams committed suicide Aug. 11 at his home in Tiburon. He was 63. \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/News/ci_27040372/Levine-poised-to-unveil-resolution-to-rename-Waldo-Tunnel-after-Robin-Williams\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_27040183/san-jose-may-ban-sidewalk-bicycling-downtown-contentious\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose may ban sidewalk bicycling downtown\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Facing a delicate safety dilemma, San Jose leaders are set to decide whether to ban sidewalk bicycle riding downtown -- forcing anxious cyclists to share the road with cars so they don't pose a threat to pedestrians. The city is desperately trying to encourage its car-crazy citizenry to ride bicycles more often, but bike riders scared of getting seriously hurt or killed by drivers have been taking to the safety of downtown sidewalks at an astounding rate. That leaves the most unprotected of travelers -- walkers -- left to fend off occasionally aggressive bike riders who have also hit pedestrians. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_27040183/san-jose-may-ban-sidewalk-bicycling-downtown-contentious\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Environmental-groups-try-again-for-microbead-ban-5926360.php\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental groups try again for a ban on microbeads \u003c/a>(San Francisco Chronicle):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Rinse and repeat — that’s how environmental groups are responding to their narrow defeat this year in the California Legislature on a bill to ban microbeads, the tiny plastic particles in a wide variety of skin cleansing products. Next year, expect to see a second application in California at banning the bead, said Stiv Wilson, associate director of the 5 Gyres Institute in Santa Monica, which studies marine plastic debris and is backing bills that phase out microbeads. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Environmental-groups-try-again-for-microbead-ban-5926360.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/3175527-181/drakes-bay-oyster-farm-fight?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">Drakes Bay Oyster Co. fight headed for final chapter \u003c/a>(Santa Rosa Press-Democrat):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The two-year legal battle over the future of Drakes Bay Oyster Co. appears headed for closure with U.S. Department of Interior attorneys seeking dismissal of a related case that a federal judge is virtually certain to grant. \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/3175527-181/drakes-bay-oyster-farm-fight?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Strong and locally gusty winds will be a possibility along the coast and in higher elevations Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/FXC/wxstory.php?wfo=mtr\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Muir-Woods-coho-salmon-vanish-fanning-fears-of-5925337.php\" target=\"_blank\">Muir Woods coho salmon vanish, fanning fears of extinction\u003c/a> (San Francisco Chronicle):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The cherished coho salmon that historically wriggled their way past beachgoers up Redwood Creek into Muir Woods vanished this year and are now on the verge of extinction, prompting a last-ditch attempt by fisheries biologists to save the genetically unique species. No salmon eggs were spotted in the shade of the world-famous redwood grove this past winter, and not a single baby coho could be found in the summer. The situation was so bad in August that 105 juvenile salmon had to be removed from the creek and brought to a hatchery. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Muir-Woods-coho-salmon-vanish-fanning-fears-of-5925337.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/us/where-grass-is-greener-a-push-to-share-droughts-burden.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Where grass is greener, a push to share hardships of drought\u003c/a> (New York Times):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego, the only indication of the continuing drought — now among the worst in California’s recorded history — is the perpetually cloudless sky. 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And while the election results were interpreted by many as a rejection of Chevron Corp.'s campaign tactics, the turnout data indicate that many of the voters who might have been swayed by the oil giant's spending simply stayed home in a nonpresidential election year -- raising the question of whether such spending will be more effective in two years.\u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/west-county-times/ci_27034796/low-turnout-helped-doom-chevron-candidates-richmond-but\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/12/01/367703789/amazon-unleashes-robot-army-to-send-your-holiday-packages-faster\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon unleashes robot army to send your holiday packages faster\u003c/a> (NPR/KQED):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For many online retailers, Cyber Monday is likely to be the peak shopping day of the year. To handle the onslaught of orders, Amazon has begun rolling out a new robot army. The Amazon order-fulfillment center in Tracy, Calif., is more than a million square feet — or 28 football fields, if you prefer — filled with orange and yellow bins flying this way and that on conveyor belts. Chances are, if you ordered a bunch of items in the San Francisco Bay Area recently, Amazon put that box together here. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/12/01/367703789/amazon-unleashes-robot-army-to-send-your-holiday-packages-faster\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/News/ci_27040372/Levine-poised-to-unveil-resolution-to-rename-Waldo-Tunnel-after-Robin-Williams\" target=\"_blank\">Legislator to introduce measure to rename Marin's Waldo Tunnel after Robin Williams\u003c/a> (Marin Independent Journal):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A resolution to rename the rainbow-striped Waldo Tunnel in Southern Marin after Robin Williams is expected to be introduced Monday by Assemblyman Marc Levine. D-San Rafael. \"We have written the language of the resolution and are ready to introduce it,\" Levine said last week. ... 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"content": "\u003cp>After days of heavy rains, Jason Myers’ house looked more like an island. He and his wife had unwittingly just purchased a home at the bottom of a flood basin in the Richmond Annex. Water was up to the doors on their ’63 Ford Falcon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myers wrote to City Council members to send out a crew to fix the storm water drains. He complained at meetings, made a series of YouTube videos, started a blog. He was also a brief media sensation, garnering national coverage as an example of a citizen slighted. Still, he said, the Richmond council and city manager turned a blind eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized that without districts, nobody gives a crap about your neighborhood,” he said, having finally moved in 2013. “We had no representatives advocating on our behalf, so we just get lost in the shuffle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is one of the few major (100,000-plus population) Bay Area cities still electing its council and school board members on an at-large basis, a 100-year old system that’s been under attack throughout California and the country as minority-repressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the now-common ward system, where purposefully drawn districts each select their own representative to look out for their interests, at-large systems elect officials who represent all of the city, inevitably scattering their focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When looking at the very visible political dysfunction of Richmond, political experts, activists and longtime residents say the city has a representation problem — from the “pork barrel” level, where potholes and flooding go untended, to widespread ethnic and geographic disenfranchisement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They point to a broken political and electoral structure that favors wealthy constituencies and certain geographical areas over all others, compounded by what many consider to be symptoms of the system: deflated voter enthusiasm, low voter registration and even lower turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, there are no lower-income constituencies [in Richmond],” said Robert Smith, a political scientist at San Francisco State University who’s been watching Richmond closely. “No one is representing their interests and frustrations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flooding certainly isn’t a concern at the moment, but revisiting how the city represents itself may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On last Tuesday, Election Day, Richmond’s trending hashtag across social media was #RichmondVotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, it doesn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to 2012 census estimates, Richmond has a population of about 104,000 people: 40,500 Latinos, 27,500 African-Americans, 19,000 whites, 15,000 Asians and about 2,000 “other” (not including unincorporated North Richmond).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the city’s 43,000 registered voters, fewer than 17,000 of them turned up at the polls—a sixth of the city’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Butt won the mayoral seat with 8,500 votes. The Richmond Progressive Alliance slate swept the council election; outgoing mayor Gayle McLaughlin, incumbent Jovanka Beckles and Eduardo Martinez were elected with around 7,000 votes each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with the last midterm election in 2010, voter participation has gone down. And in the 2012 primary election 14,300 voters came out, about 2,000 less than this year’s midterm total of 16,500. The 2012 fall election however, which had Barack Obama at the head of the Democratic ticket, brought out 34,000 voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/turnout-by-precinct.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10347874\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/turnout-by-precinct.png\" alt=\"turnout by precinct\" width=\"900\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/turnout-by-precinct.png 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/turnout-by-precinct-400x288.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/turnout-by-precinct-800x576.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low turnout appears to offer the advantage to a small group of highly engaged voters and well-connected politicians (see charts). Incumbents, slate members and seasoned politicos play musical chairs in Richmond, a preservation of the status quo enabled by a fatigued, indifferent and often absent electorate. Before Tuesday’s defeat, council member Nat Bates had been in office for almost three decades, and he still has another two years on the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A LATINO MAJORITY IN NAME ONLY\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his concession speech Tuesday night, Bates pointed to poor voter turnout for the day’s disappointment. Shields-Reid Community Center near the North Richmond border had just 17 ballots cast by 5:30 p.m. “The African-American community doesn’t turn out unless it’s a national election,” Bates said. “There was no Obama this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Tuesday’s voting demographics aren’t yet available, history says Latinos likely cast the fewest percentage of ballots relative to their population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, Richmond’s African American community—the majority a decade ago—has been well represented on the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today, as in many cities in California and the Southwest, Latinos have become the majority in Richmond. But that majority shrinks to a small minority at the voting booths, according to an analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau and 2012 voter data from the Contra Costa County elections division, courtesy of UC Berkeley’s Statewide Database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are about 41,000 Latinos in Richmond, and some 7,000 (by surname) are registered to vote. But only 1,600 showed up to vote in 2012 (the latest year with available data). Among the other 63,000 non-Latinos in the city, 35,000 are registered and about 12,700 of those voted in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino turnout represents just 4 percent of its population while the rest of the city—white, African American, Asian and other residents—sees 20 percent representation at the polls. The number of Latino ballots cast hardly reflects its majority in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/latino-voters.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10347876\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/latino-voters.png\" alt=\"latino voters\" width=\"900\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/latino-voters.png 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/latino-voters-400x255.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/latino-voters-800x510.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just an issue of turnout, which compares voters at the polls to those registered. Many Latinos can’t register. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates a Latino citizen, voting-age population of about 12,500 in Richmond after excluding people under 18, those in prison or on parole, and the undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quickly, the Latino majority turns to a minority come Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their part of the pie gets smaller and smaller,” said Nicole Boyle, a data analyst at Statewide Database, and the more consistently voting (white) demographics “fill in what’s left.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining sliver of Latinos on the City Council rarely come from the same stock or the same neighborhoods as the rest of the Latino population. “It’s a predominantly Latino population and a predominately white electorate,” said Andrés Soto, a progressive activist and longtime resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last term, Jovanka Beckles was the only Latino with a council seat. In December, fellow Richmond Progressive Alliance member Eduardo Martinez will join her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FLAWS IN AT-LARGE SYSTEM ATTRACT LEGAL CHALLENGES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond votes at-large, an election system in which voters choose from a citywide pool of candidates who are meant to represent the entire city. For example, a voter in the Santa Fe area (20 percent voter turnout) sees the same ballot of candidates as a voter in the Point (54 percent turnout).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coastal communities to the west and the Richmond Heights to the east -- similar in demographics and high in voter registration and turnout -- comprise the highlands that edge along the city’s border. Latinos make up less than 7 percent of registered voters in these areas; about 3 percent in the Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last term, four of the seven council members lived in the wealthier edges. Mayor McLaughlin lives in the southern annex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving towards the city’s center, turnout plummets as the Latino population rises. Their heaviest per capita concentration is along the 23rd Street business corridor, where half of registered voters have Latino surnames. The area is a business hub of several tightly packed pockets of small shops: mechanics, bodegas, taquerias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/latino-by-precinct.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10347878\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/latino-by-precinct.png\" alt=\"latino by precinct\" width=\"900\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/latino-by-precinct.png 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/latino-by-precinct-400x288.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/latino-by-precinct-800x576.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyle said there are many socioeconomic factors also correlated with low-voter enthusiasm in Latino communities, including lower income levels, lower educational attainment, less home ownership and linguistic isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the exact precedent under which many activist groups have sued California cities, citing the state’s 2002 Voting Rights Act. The law, an expansion on the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, makes it easier for California minorities to claim disenfranchisement in at-large systems that dilute their vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the passage of the California Voting Rights Act, it’s become increasingly popular for ethnic populations -- the sleeping giants -- to mobilize and sue for districts. And Richmond’s 41,000 Latinos could make a strong case for severe underrepresentation, said Karin Mac Donald, director of the Statewide Database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Southern California has been the nexus of these legal actions. From Compton to Palmdale, cities have dropped their at-large school board and council elections. Modesto was the first to fall in 2007, after a trial court ruled that minorities were being disenfranchised there, setting a precedent for several other cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cultural factors, too, contribute to the disconnect between the Latino majority and a voice in government. Soto, the progressive activist, said the mostly immigrant Latino community in Richmond has long been disenchanted by politics. The corruption and violence associated with government in some Central American countries has turned them off to the whole idea of it. A citywide lawsuit isn’t something he sees them spurring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Their experiences] really inhibited their belief in the political system,” Soto said. “It’s a take-care-of-yourself sort of thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sergio Rios, vice president of the 23rd Street Merchant Association and owner of Bob’s Cleaners, said he and the other mostly Latino business owners started the group because they thought it’d be an effective vehicle for getting things done without going through the city’s bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to have this for ourselves,” he said earlier this fall. “I care about what the merchants think, not somebody high up downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Richmond were divided into districts, line drawers would, in theory, place common interest groups like the 23rd Street merchants inside of one district to give them direct voting power and a distinct voice on the council, said Mac Donald.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is to compartmentalize the needs and frustrations of an entire community, one at a time, represented by one council seat accountable to that small constituency. Their voices would become one, loud and present, instead of another part of the city’s cacophony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>WHO SPEAKS FOR THE IRON TRIANGLE?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hugged between rail lines, Richmond’s Iron Triangle is one of the city’s most populous neighborhoods. Almost 13,000 mostly Latinos and African-Americans pack into less than a square mile in the heart of the flatlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A near perfect equilateral -- save for its Christmas-tree stump that dips down to Ohio Avenue -- the Iron Triangle is home to the city’s only hospital and a handful of parks and playlots. The BART station is tucked into the bottom right corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s cut off from the rest of town by Interstate 80, a thin stretch of industrial desert, and the converging iron tracks themselves, which account for, in part, the neighborhood’s name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people living between the tracks share something in common with the greater Latino community: the electorate, and in turn the council seats they choose, do not represent their population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the dense concentrations of residents, low-income neighborhoods of the city don’t put locals on the council. The Iron Triangle hasn’t had one in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most successful candidates come from the city’s edges. And the wealthier Richmond hill communities to the east and along the coast have cast a shadow over the flatlands, leaving tens of thousands without proportional representation—or, as in the case of the Iron Triangle, no representation at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith, the SFSU political scientist, said at-large systems tend to favor wealthier neighborhoods, where voter turnout is higher; more people who are registered to vote do indeed cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coastal precincts south of Freeway 580, voter turnout is 47 percent; 3,853 voters registered and 1,807 cast ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Iron Triangle precincts, turnout is 23 percent. Of 13,000 residents (8,000 of them Latinos) there are only about 2,900 total registered voters and fewer than 800 go to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than one in 16 people in the neighborhood actually vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/iron-triangle.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10347879\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/iron-triangle.gif\" alt=\"iron triangle\" width=\"374\" height=\"640\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said it’s like a negative feedback loop, where a history of underrepresentation and failed candidates begets voter apathy, which, in turn, lowers the next new candidate’s chances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At-large elections preclude the representation of distinct ethnic and geographic areas,” he said. “And they’re less favored today in terms of good government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Smith (no relation), an East Richmond activist, has called at-large elections “the antithesis of participatory democracy … the middle class freely manipulating poor people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the same story in North Richmond, the notorious unincorporated slice of land, often lumped together with the Iron Triangle in conversations about drugs, violence and poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Kenneth Davis, who tried to run for City Council as a write-in candidate, said these neighborhoods are off the government’s radar because nobody holds a personal stake there. Seventy-four votes went to the council write-in on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t give a damn about us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just south in the Iron Triangle, another reverend has similar feelings of abandonment. “Many of these people are suffering in silence,” said the Rev. Andre Shumake, an African-American community leader and anti-violence activist. “There isn’t that voice advocating on their behalf on the council.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We deserve a voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The more than 12,000 unheard in the Iron Triangle—unregistered residents and Nov. 4 no-shows—make up what would be constituencies for local candidates running in the district system. Political scientists call this “the base,” and underfunded grass-roots candidates typically focus on building it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the Iron Triangle, there’s not much to build on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it’s not uncommon for brave would-be representatives to emerge in the race, hopeful underdogs that have lived in Richmond’s toughest neighborhoods their whole life and made it. They are the success stories that try to inspire areas in desperate need of inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday, one such candidate from the Iron Triangle was on the council ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Running for a long-term council seat, Dameion King had plans to change the way things are. But two weeks ago he knew he didn’t have much of a chance. “I’m realistic, but I want to get into the conversation,” the newcomer said. “There’s no education, no empowerment, and no dialogue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t make an effort to educate the people, then you’ll have a deaf, dumb and blind community of people who don’t vote,” he said. “[Politicians] don’t want to inform and educate because that’s a sleeping giant, that’s an apathetic vote turned around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King got trounced, of course, hardly a blip on the electorate radar with 1,370 votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AT-LARGE VOTING HAS ROOTS IN IMMIGRATION BACKLASH\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of today’s low-income residents are the grandchildren of Richmond’s immigrant waves of the 1910s and 1940s. And the sudden arrival of migrant workers from the South -- including King’s grandparents -- created a fierce political reaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bringing with them … socialist sympathies, immigrant workers helped spark a radical movement that challenged local business leadership,” writes Marilynn S. Johnson in \"The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in WWII.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Richmond, those workers were Southern sharecroppers, aggressively recruited by Henry Kaiser to drive his behemoth WWII shipbuilding endeavor at the port. The black immigrants were out from under Jim Crow, but still very much subordinate to white elites, who installed a political system that would ensure a concentration of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson writes that cities all over the East Bay forbade the use of party labels on the ballot, “replacing the ward [district] system with citywide [at-large] elections.” This form of government, still in place today in Richmond (where it was first implemented in the 1909 charter) but abandoned by most of the Bay Area, “diluted the electoral power of ethnic and working-class voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betty Reid Soskin, a 93-year-old park ranger at the Rosie the Riveter National Park in the port, agrees that the city’s polarization is entrenched in its relatively brief history. Richmond’s modern birth was during the roaring 1940s, when the population boomed from just over 20,000 to almost 130,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still searching for an identity,” she said of the relatively young city. “It’s the story of California, but in Richmond it’s particularly stark.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a collection of peoples with very little that binds us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DRAWING LINES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drawing lines might be Richmond’s best chance of coming together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Districts elections divide the city -- first by population, then by other criteria like “communities of interest” and language background -- said Mac Donald of the Statewide Database, which does redistricting for the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then a small group of candidates, two or three from within that defined area, vie for one seat on the council. Usually the mayor, and possibly another seat, is still elected on an at-large basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are different ways to do it so everybody gets a neighborhood,” Mac Donald said. “Different ways to slice the pie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her book \"Tyranny of the Majority,\" Harvard Law School professor Lani Guinier compares the at-large and district systems with a high school prom committee:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Ten students need to choose a five-song playlist for prom. Six like rock. Four want hip-hop.\u003cbr>\n• Under normal (district) circumstances, the group might choose three rock and two hip-hop songs.\u003cbr>\n• If they voted using the winner-take-all voting (at-large) method, all five songs would be hip-hop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some argue that the rest of the school might actually want hip-hop. A Point Richmond resident, who asked not to be named, said people voted in at-large “can better represent the needs of the whole city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not a new sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District elections were put on the ballot once in 1991, lumped in with the other election reforms under “Measure K,” and ultimately rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Point Richmond political group spearheaded that measure at a time when the council was held by a majority of African-American politicians from the old “South Richmond,” who fought tooth-and-nail to keep it from passing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/save-voting-rights.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10347881\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/save-voting-rights.jpg\" alt=\"save voting rights\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, as the locus of political control shifted across the freeway, the conversation has floated around but never made it to the ballot again. The measure would be an amendment to the city’s charter, requiring either majority council support or about 4,200 signatures (10 percent of registered voters) to reach the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve years ago, then-Councilman Tom Butt told the Richmond Post, “I don’t particularly like the idea. …Whatever the city does should be what is best for the entire city not just parts of the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The narrative of close-guarded power has repeated throughout the years -- those elected on at-large basis defend the ladder they climbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Mayor-elect Butt, a Point Richmond native, still has misgivings. “I’m not sure there’s a significant group that’s not adequately represented,” he said. “You’d be setting up for a fight, neighborhood on neighborhood, and we don’t need to exacerbate that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echoing some of its opponents, Douglas Johnson, president and founder of the research firm National Demographics Corp., said he’s noticed some divisive enclaves forming in cities that have recently dropped their at-large elections. “Districts can drive a wedge and pit neighborhoods against each other,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But McLaughlin said districts could create “truer democracy,” though it first merits conversations with the 35 neighborhood councils, she added. The small groups of civically engaged citizens can be powerful lobbying agents in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Iron Triangle neighborhood council president Shumake said districts “would see a groundswell of support” at the street level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cited the BART station and Macdonald Avenue revitalization projects as examples of rank-and-file, neighborhood council-led initiatives that have benefited all of Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you give each community someone exclusively responsible to them, that community will thrive,” Shumake said. “Then the whole city will thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Graphics by Jeremy C.F. Lin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story originally appeared on KQED News Associate site \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2014/11/07/has-at-large-voting-outlived-its-usefulness-in-richmond/\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond Confidential\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When looking at the very visible political dysfunction of Richmond, political experts, activists and longtime residents say the city has a representation problem — from the “pork barrel” level, where potholes and flooding go untended, to widespread ethnic and geographic disenfranchisement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They point to a broken political and electoral structure that favors wealthy constituencies and certain geographical areas over all others, compounded by what many consider to be symptoms of the system: deflated voter enthusiasm, low voter registration and even lower turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, there are no lower-income constituencies [in Richmond],” said Robert Smith, a political scientist at San Francisco State University who’s been watching Richmond closely. “No one is representing their interests and frustrations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flooding certainly isn’t a concern at the moment, but revisiting how the city represents itself may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On last Tuesday, Election Day, Richmond’s trending hashtag across social media was #RichmondVotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, it doesn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to 2012 census estimates, Richmond has a population of about 104,000 people: 40,500 Latinos, 27,500 African-Americans, 19,000 whites, 15,000 Asians and about 2,000 “other” (not including unincorporated North Richmond).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the city’s 43,000 registered voters, fewer than 17,000 of them turned up at the polls—a sixth of the city’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Butt won the mayoral seat with 8,500 votes. The Richmond Progressive Alliance slate swept the council election; outgoing mayor Gayle McLaughlin, incumbent Jovanka Beckles and Eduardo Martinez were elected with around 7,000 votes each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with the last midterm election in 2010, voter participation has gone down. And in the 2012 primary election 14,300 voters came out, about 2,000 less than this year’s midterm total of 16,500. The 2012 fall election however, which had Barack Obama at the head of the Democratic ticket, brought out 34,000 voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/turnout-by-precinct.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10347874\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/turnout-by-precinct.png\" alt=\"turnout by precinct\" width=\"900\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/turnout-by-precinct.png 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/turnout-by-precinct-400x288.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/turnout-by-precinct-800x576.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low turnout appears to offer the advantage to a small group of highly engaged voters and well-connected politicians (see charts). Incumbents, slate members and seasoned politicos play musical chairs in Richmond, a preservation of the status quo enabled by a fatigued, indifferent and often absent electorate. Before Tuesday’s defeat, council member Nat Bates had been in office for almost three decades, and he still has another two years on the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A LATINO MAJORITY IN NAME ONLY\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his concession speech Tuesday night, Bates pointed to poor voter turnout for the day’s disappointment. Shields-Reid Community Center near the North Richmond border had just 17 ballots cast by 5:30 p.m. “The African-American community doesn’t turn out unless it’s a national election,” Bates said. “There was no Obama this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Tuesday’s voting demographics aren’t yet available, history says Latinos likely cast the fewest percentage of ballots relative to their population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, Richmond’s African American community—the majority a decade ago—has been well represented on the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today, as in many cities in California and the Southwest, Latinos have become the majority in Richmond. But that majority shrinks to a small minority at the voting booths, according to an analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau and 2012 voter data from the Contra Costa County elections division, courtesy of UC Berkeley’s Statewide Database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are about 41,000 Latinos in Richmond, and some 7,000 (by surname) are registered to vote. But only 1,600 showed up to vote in 2012 (the latest year with available data). Among the other 63,000 non-Latinos in the city, 35,000 are registered and about 12,700 of those voted in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino turnout represents just 4 percent of its population while the rest of the city—white, African American, Asian and other residents—sees 20 percent representation at the polls. The number of Latino ballots cast hardly reflects its majority in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/latino-voters.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10347876\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/latino-voters.png\" alt=\"latino voters\" width=\"900\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/latino-voters.png 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/latino-voters-400x255.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/latino-voters-800x510.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just an issue of turnout, which compares voters at the polls to those registered. Many Latinos can’t register. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates a Latino citizen, voting-age population of about 12,500 in Richmond after excluding people under 18, those in prison or on parole, and the undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quickly, the Latino majority turns to a minority come Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their part of the pie gets smaller and smaller,” said Nicole Boyle, a data analyst at Statewide Database, and the more consistently voting (white) demographics “fill in what’s left.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining sliver of Latinos on the City Council rarely come from the same stock or the same neighborhoods as the rest of the Latino population. “It’s a predominantly Latino population and a predominately white electorate,” said Andrés Soto, a progressive activist and longtime resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last term, Jovanka Beckles was the only Latino with a council seat. In December, fellow Richmond Progressive Alliance member Eduardo Martinez will join her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FLAWS IN AT-LARGE SYSTEM ATTRACT LEGAL CHALLENGES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond votes at-large, an election system in which voters choose from a citywide pool of candidates who are meant to represent the entire city. For example, a voter in the Santa Fe area (20 percent voter turnout) sees the same ballot of candidates as a voter in the Point (54 percent turnout).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coastal communities to the west and the Richmond Heights to the east -- similar in demographics and high in voter registration and turnout -- comprise the highlands that edge along the city’s border. Latinos make up less than 7 percent of registered voters in these areas; about 3 percent in the Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last term, four of the seven council members lived in the wealthier edges. Mayor McLaughlin lives in the southern annex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving towards the city’s center, turnout plummets as the Latino population rises. Their heaviest per capita concentration is along the 23rd Street business corridor, where half of registered voters have Latino surnames. The area is a business hub of several tightly packed pockets of small shops: mechanics, bodegas, taquerias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/latino-by-precinct.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10347878\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/latino-by-precinct.png\" alt=\"latino by precinct\" width=\"900\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/latino-by-precinct.png 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/latino-by-precinct-400x288.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/latino-by-precinct-800x576.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyle said there are many socioeconomic factors also correlated with low-voter enthusiasm in Latino communities, including lower income levels, lower educational attainment, less home ownership and linguistic isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the exact precedent under which many activist groups have sued California cities, citing the state’s 2002 Voting Rights Act. The law, an expansion on the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, makes it easier for California minorities to claim disenfranchisement in at-large systems that dilute their vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the passage of the California Voting Rights Act, it’s become increasingly popular for ethnic populations -- the sleeping giants -- to mobilize and sue for districts. And Richmond’s 41,000 Latinos could make a strong case for severe underrepresentation, said Karin Mac Donald, director of the Statewide Database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Southern California has been the nexus of these legal actions. From Compton to Palmdale, cities have dropped their at-large school board and council elections. Modesto was the first to fall in 2007, after a trial court ruled that minorities were being disenfranchised there, setting a precedent for several other cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cultural factors, too, contribute to the disconnect between the Latino majority and a voice in government. Soto, the progressive activist, said the mostly immigrant Latino community in Richmond has long been disenchanted by politics. The corruption and violence associated with government in some Central American countries has turned them off to the whole idea of it. A citywide lawsuit isn’t something he sees them spurring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Their experiences] really inhibited their belief in the political system,” Soto said. “It’s a take-care-of-yourself sort of thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sergio Rios, vice president of the 23rd Street Merchant Association and owner of Bob’s Cleaners, said he and the other mostly Latino business owners started the group because they thought it’d be an effective vehicle for getting things done without going through the city’s bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to have this for ourselves,” he said earlier this fall. “I care about what the merchants think, not somebody high up downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Richmond were divided into districts, line drawers would, in theory, place common interest groups like the 23rd Street merchants inside of one district to give them direct voting power and a distinct voice on the council, said Mac Donald.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is to compartmentalize the needs and frustrations of an entire community, one at a time, represented by one council seat accountable to that small constituency. Their voices would become one, loud and present, instead of another part of the city’s cacophony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>WHO SPEAKS FOR THE IRON TRIANGLE?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hugged between rail lines, Richmond’s Iron Triangle is one of the city’s most populous neighborhoods. Almost 13,000 mostly Latinos and African-Americans pack into less than a square mile in the heart of the flatlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A near perfect equilateral -- save for its Christmas-tree stump that dips down to Ohio Avenue -- the Iron Triangle is home to the city’s only hospital and a handful of parks and playlots. The BART station is tucked into the bottom right corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s cut off from the rest of town by Interstate 80, a thin stretch of industrial desert, and the converging iron tracks themselves, which account for, in part, the neighborhood’s name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people living between the tracks share something in common with the greater Latino community: the electorate, and in turn the council seats they choose, do not represent their population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the dense concentrations of residents, low-income neighborhoods of the city don’t put locals on the council. The Iron Triangle hasn’t had one in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most successful candidates come from the city’s edges. And the wealthier Richmond hill communities to the east and along the coast have cast a shadow over the flatlands, leaving tens of thousands without proportional representation—or, as in the case of the Iron Triangle, no representation at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith, the SFSU political scientist, said at-large systems tend to favor wealthier neighborhoods, where voter turnout is higher; more people who are registered to vote do indeed cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coastal precincts south of Freeway 580, voter turnout is 47 percent; 3,853 voters registered and 1,807 cast ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Iron Triangle precincts, turnout is 23 percent. Of 13,000 residents (8,000 of them Latinos) there are only about 2,900 total registered voters and fewer than 800 go to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than one in 16 people in the neighborhood actually vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/iron-triangle.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10347879\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/iron-triangle.gif\" alt=\"iron triangle\" width=\"374\" height=\"640\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said it’s like a negative feedback loop, where a history of underrepresentation and failed candidates begets voter apathy, which, in turn, lowers the next new candidate’s chances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At-large elections preclude the representation of distinct ethnic and geographic areas,” he said. “And they’re less favored today in terms of good government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Smith (no relation), an East Richmond activist, has called at-large elections “the antithesis of participatory democracy … the middle class freely manipulating poor people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the same story in North Richmond, the notorious unincorporated slice of land, often lumped together with the Iron Triangle in conversations about drugs, violence and poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Kenneth Davis, who tried to run for City Council as a write-in candidate, said these neighborhoods are off the government’s radar because nobody holds a personal stake there. Seventy-four votes went to the council write-in on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t give a damn about us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just south in the Iron Triangle, another reverend has similar feelings of abandonment. “Many of these people are suffering in silence,” said the Rev. Andre Shumake, an African-American community leader and anti-violence activist. “There isn’t that voice advocating on their behalf on the council.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We deserve a voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The more than 12,000 unheard in the Iron Triangle—unregistered residents and Nov. 4 no-shows—make up what would be constituencies for local candidates running in the district system. Political scientists call this “the base,” and underfunded grass-roots candidates typically focus on building it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the Iron Triangle, there’s not much to build on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it’s not uncommon for brave would-be representatives to emerge in the race, hopeful underdogs that have lived in Richmond’s toughest neighborhoods their whole life and made it. They are the success stories that try to inspire areas in desperate need of inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday, one such candidate from the Iron Triangle was on the council ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Running for a long-term council seat, Dameion King had plans to change the way things are. But two weeks ago he knew he didn’t have much of a chance. “I’m realistic, but I want to get into the conversation,” the newcomer said. “There’s no education, no empowerment, and no dialogue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t make an effort to educate the people, then you’ll have a deaf, dumb and blind community of people who don’t vote,” he said. “[Politicians] don’t want to inform and educate because that’s a sleeping giant, that’s an apathetic vote turned around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King got trounced, of course, hardly a blip on the electorate radar with 1,370 votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AT-LARGE VOTING HAS ROOTS IN IMMIGRATION BACKLASH\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of today’s low-income residents are the grandchildren of Richmond’s immigrant waves of the 1910s and 1940s. And the sudden arrival of migrant workers from the South -- including King’s grandparents -- created a fierce political reaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bringing with them … socialist sympathies, immigrant workers helped spark a radical movement that challenged local business leadership,” writes Marilynn S. Johnson in \"The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in WWII.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Richmond, those workers were Southern sharecroppers, aggressively recruited by Henry Kaiser to drive his behemoth WWII shipbuilding endeavor at the port. The black immigrants were out from under Jim Crow, but still very much subordinate to white elites, who installed a political system that would ensure a concentration of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson writes that cities all over the East Bay forbade the use of party labels on the ballot, “replacing the ward [district] system with citywide [at-large] elections.” This form of government, still in place today in Richmond (where it was first implemented in the 1909 charter) but abandoned by most of the Bay Area, “diluted the electoral power of ethnic and working-class voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betty Reid Soskin, a 93-year-old park ranger at the Rosie the Riveter National Park in the port, agrees that the city’s polarization is entrenched in its relatively brief history. Richmond’s modern birth was during the roaring 1940s, when the population boomed from just over 20,000 to almost 130,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still searching for an identity,” she said of the relatively young city. “It’s the story of California, but in Richmond it’s particularly stark.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a collection of peoples with very little that binds us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DRAWING LINES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drawing lines might be Richmond’s best chance of coming together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Districts elections divide the city -- first by population, then by other criteria like “communities of interest” and language background -- said Mac Donald of the Statewide Database, which does redistricting for the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then a small group of candidates, two or three from within that defined area, vie for one seat on the council. Usually the mayor, and possibly another seat, is still elected on an at-large basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are different ways to do it so everybody gets a neighborhood,” Mac Donald said. “Different ways to slice the pie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her book \"Tyranny of the Majority,\" Harvard Law School professor Lani Guinier compares the at-large and district systems with a high school prom committee:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Ten students need to choose a five-song playlist for prom. Six like rock. Four want hip-hop.\u003cbr>\n• Under normal (district) circumstances, the group might choose three rock and two hip-hop songs.\u003cbr>\n• If they voted using the winner-take-all voting (at-large) method, all five songs would be hip-hop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some argue that the rest of the school might actually want hip-hop. A Point Richmond resident, who asked not to be named, said people voted in at-large “can better represent the needs of the whole city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not a new sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District elections were put on the ballot once in 1991, lumped in with the other election reforms under “Measure K,” and ultimately rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Point Richmond political group spearheaded that measure at a time when the council was held by a majority of African-American politicians from the old “South Richmond,” who fought tooth-and-nail to keep it from passing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/save-voting-rights.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10347881\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/save-voting-rights.jpg\" alt=\"save voting rights\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, as the locus of political control shifted across the freeway, the conversation has floated around but never made it to the ballot again. The measure would be an amendment to the city’s charter, requiring either majority council support or about 4,200 signatures (10 percent of registered voters) to reach the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve years ago, then-Councilman Tom Butt told the Richmond Post, “I don’t particularly like the idea. …Whatever the city does should be what is best for the entire city not just parts of the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The narrative of close-guarded power has repeated throughout the years -- those elected on at-large basis defend the ladder they climbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Mayor-elect Butt, a Point Richmond native, still has misgivings. “I’m not sure there’s a significant group that’s not adequately represented,” he said. “You’d be setting up for a fight, neighborhood on neighborhood, and we don’t need to exacerbate that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echoing some of its opponents, Douglas Johnson, president and founder of the research firm National Demographics Corp., said he’s noticed some divisive enclaves forming in cities that have recently dropped their at-large elections. “Districts can drive a wedge and pit neighborhoods against each other,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But McLaughlin said districts could create “truer democracy,” though it first merits conversations with the 35 neighborhood councils, she added. The small groups of civically engaged citizens can be powerful lobbying agents in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Iron Triangle neighborhood council president Shumake said districts “would see a groundswell of support” at the street level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cited the BART station and Macdonald Avenue revitalization projects as examples of rank-and-file, neighborhood council-led initiatives that have benefited all of Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you give each community someone exclusively responsible to them, that community will thrive,” Shumake said. “Then the whole city will thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Graphics by Jeremy C.F. Lin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:25 a.m.\u003c/strong> Wednesday: With all of Richmond's 53 precincts reporting, it appears that City Councilman Tom Butt has been elected mayor of Richmond. Butt, backed by the city's progressive faction, has 51.4 percent of the vote. Nat Bates, a longtime councilman backed by Chevron, has 35.4 percent of the vote. Butt can avoid a runoff by finishing with over 50 percent; final numbers won't be known until unprocessed mail ballots are processed -- probably sometime later this week. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the City Council race, a slate of progressive candidates appears to have swept the three available seats. Gayle McLaughlin, the city's termed-out mayor, finished with 16.9 percent, ahead of Jovanka Beckles (16.2) and Eduardo Martinez (14.6).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> With about half of the city's 53 precincts reporting, progressive-backed City Councilman Tom Butt is widening his lead in the race for mayor. He now has 50.6 percent of the vote, a 14-point lead over Nat Bates, a longtime councilman heavily funded by Chevron. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third candidate, Uche Uwahemu, has just over 12 percent of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council race has changed dramatically as votes: Termed-out Mayor Gayle McLaughlin now holds the lead, with over 16 percent of the vote. Her fellow Richmond Progressive Alliance candidates, incumbent Jovanka Beckles and newcomer Eduardo Martinez are in second and third place. Chevron-backed Donna Powers has dropped to fifth place, putting her out of a seat if the results hold. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Incumbent Jim Rogers currently is in fourth place and out of a winning spot, with just under 14 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the race for a two-year term on the City Council, RPA-backed Jael Myrick, an incumbent, is holding a sizable lead against fellow Councilman Corky Booze, who was also backed by Chevron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means there are currently no Chevron-backed candidates in position to win. There are still a lot of votes to be counted, but if the results hold this will be a big loss for the oil giant, which poured at least $3.1 million into this election in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:20 p.m.: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first results for the Richmond City Council and mayoral races are trickling in, and so far the results are tight. With nearly 4,300 votes counted (mostly vote-by-mail), Councilman Tom Butt has a 300-vote lead over fellow Councilman Nat Bates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butt's campaign manager, Alex Knox, said he's cautiously optimistic at this point, but he thinks it might be a close race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So far it's really good. Our initial results are great, but nobody's taking that as any sort of serious indication yet,\" Knox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the results are very early --probably just 20 percent of the total expected-- this might not be good news for Chevron, which spent over $500,000 on billboards, mailers and television ads supporting Bates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the council races, current Mayor Gayle McLaughlin is holding second place spot for now. She's a member of the Richmond Progressive Alliance, and was the target of a large-scale negative campaign funded by Chevron. The two other RPA candidates --including incumbent Jovanka Beckles-- are behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron-backed council candidate Donna Powers is in third place. If those results hold, she would win a seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a mayoral race in Richmond this election season, and current Mayor Gayle McLaughlin is termed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLaughlin, the first Green Party candidate elected mayor of a major city, is part of the Richmond Progressive Alliance, or RPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the group behind a lot of attention-getting stories out of Richmond recently, like the soda tax bill and the attempt to use eminent domain to buy up underwater mortgages. But no one from the RPA is running for mayor this time around. Instead, two long-time city councilmen are squaring off: Nat Bates and Tom Butt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346545\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/bates-butt-richmond-mayor.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10346545 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/bates-butt-richmond-mayor-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Nat Bates and Tom Butt square off in the Richmond Mayors race. \" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/bates-butt-richmond-mayor-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/bates-butt-richmond-mayor.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nat Bates and Tom Butt square off in the Richmond Mayors race.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bates is 82 years old, and part of an established faction of pro-business, moderate politicians in the city. He served on the council in the '60s and '70s, and was re-elected in 1995. Bates is heavily supported by Chevron in this race, which has a large refinery in Richmond. The company would like to see someone more sympathetic at the head of the City Council, after McLaughlin took a decidedly adversarial stance against the oil giant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butt is 72, and he's been on the council since 1995. McLaughlin and the RPA are endorsing him in this race because he often votes with the progressives on the council, even if he's not officially part of the alliance. He has often worked on compromising with Chevron, most recently on the company's $1 billion refinery modernization project. In that case, he and two other council members helped secure a $90 million community benefits package from the company in exchange for the votes to approve the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men have been on the City Council for a combined 54 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The candidates in some ways are more similar than not,\" said Robert C. Smith, a political science professor at San Francisco State. He’s been following Richmond politics for decades. \"So it’s not like to elect either one is going to bring about change, so to speak.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fresh face in this race is Uche Uwahemu, a businessman and former social worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’ve had their opportunity to lead,\" Uwahemu said, referring to Bates and Butt. \"You can’t keep recycling the same folks all the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346539\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/uwahemu.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10346539\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/uwahemu.jpg\" alt=\"Candidate Uche Justin Uwahemu. Courtesty Uche for Richmond Mayor 2014.\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candidate Uche Justin Uwahemu. (Courtesy Uche for Richmond Mayor 2014).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Uwahemu has got a lot of ideas, from a technical high school that teaches computer skills to a technology incubator that would fund tech startups in Richmond. But when it comes to funding those ideas, he’s a bit fuzzy. He also wants to beef up Richmond's port, which he says is underutilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Uwehamu has little campaign cash to spend, and really, little chance of winning this race. Bates, on the other hand, is getting a big chunk of funds from a \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2014/10/10/3-million-in-chevrons-moving-forward-war-chest/\" target=\"_blank\">$1.3 million super PAC created by Chevron to influence Richmond politics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has poured a total of $3 million into super PACs. A lot of that money is going to negative campaigning against McLaughlin --who's running for council -- and the other RPA council candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think if Bates and those forces win, it will be evidence the money made the difference,\" Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates is running on a pro-business platform and promises to get Richmond out of its $7 million deficit, even if it means laying off city workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can’t move a city and you can’t operate a city if you have that kind of tremendous deficit. It’s just like a household,\" he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In years past Bates has attracted support from many of Richmond’s African-American voters, who make up 14 percent of the city's registered voters -- like Frances Adams, an elementary school teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's always been there when we need things for the school, he's always been there to come and talk to the children at school, and I feel that he's served the city of Richmond very well,\" Adams said after a debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butt has prioritized building and maintaining parks, preserving historical buildings and adding bike lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are all things that make Richmond attractive to businesses, attractive to residents and make Richmond thrive -- at least thrive better than they would without them,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Butt's supporters, Jessie West, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The progressive government we’ve had these last years has done wonderful things for Richmond and we’re really on a roll,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that if Bates gets elected, the progressive agenda will fade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has been attacking that agenda relentlessly with messages on billboards, the airwaves and mailboxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corporation would like to see McLaughlin fail at her bid for City Council and for Bates to take over as mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But residents have seen their city improve under McLaughlin, as the economy has picked up. Unemployment has dropped to 10 percent, though it's still higher than the rest of the Bay Area. And the crime rate has dropped. 2013 had the \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/west-county-times/ci_24856239/richmond-reports-lowest-homicide-total-33-years-credits\" target=\"_blank\">fewest homicides in over 30 years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is really no hot-button issue this time around, like the soda tax that failed two years ago. Smith predicts turn out will be low. And that usually benefits the progressives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not clear where that vote comes from in terms of ethnically, class or whatever,\" Smith said about the RPA's constituency. \"But it is clear that on the basis of past elections that they have a pretty good grass-roots mobilization get-out-the-vote campaign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith says that if you look at Richmond’s politics over time, the rise of McLaughlin and her Richmond Progressive Alliance has actually been surprising. He says the winner of this election will signify whether the city wants to continue this progressive agenda, or return to a more moderate, pro-business leadership.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:25 a.m.\u003c/strong> Wednesday: With all of Richmond's 53 precincts reporting, it appears that City Councilman Tom Butt has been elected mayor of Richmond. Butt, backed by the city's progressive faction, has 51.4 percent of the vote. Nat Bates, a longtime councilman backed by Chevron, has 35.4 percent of the vote. Butt can avoid a runoff by finishing with over 50 percent; final numbers won't be known until unprocessed mail ballots are processed -- probably sometime later this week. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the City Council race, a slate of progressive candidates appears to have swept the three available seats. Gayle McLaughlin, the city's termed-out mayor, finished with 16.9 percent, ahead of Jovanka Beckles (16.2) and Eduardo Martinez (14.6).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> With about half of the city's 53 precincts reporting, progressive-backed City Councilman Tom Butt is widening his lead in the race for mayor. He now has 50.6 percent of the vote, a 14-point lead over Nat Bates, a longtime councilman heavily funded by Chevron. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third candidate, Uche Uwahemu, has just over 12 percent of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council race has changed dramatically as votes: Termed-out Mayor Gayle McLaughlin now holds the lead, with over 16 percent of the vote. Her fellow Richmond Progressive Alliance candidates, incumbent Jovanka Beckles and newcomer Eduardo Martinez are in second and third place. Chevron-backed Donna Powers has dropped to fifth place, putting her out of a seat if the results hold. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Incumbent Jim Rogers currently is in fourth place and out of a winning spot, with just under 14 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the race for a two-year term on the City Council, RPA-backed Jael Myrick, an incumbent, is holding a sizable lead against fellow Councilman Corky Booze, who was also backed by Chevron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means there are currently no Chevron-backed candidates in position to win. There are still a lot of votes to be counted, but if the results hold this will be a big loss for the oil giant, which poured at least $3.1 million into this election in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:20 p.m.: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first results for the Richmond City Council and mayoral races are trickling in, and so far the results are tight. With nearly 4,300 votes counted (mostly vote-by-mail), Councilman Tom Butt has a 300-vote lead over fellow Councilman Nat Bates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butt's campaign manager, Alex Knox, said he's cautiously optimistic at this point, but he thinks it might be a close race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So far it's really good. Our initial results are great, but nobody's taking that as any sort of serious indication yet,\" Knox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the results are very early --probably just 20 percent of the total expected-- this might not be good news for Chevron, which spent over $500,000 on billboards, mailers and television ads supporting Bates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the council races, current Mayor Gayle McLaughlin is holding second place spot for now. She's a member of the Richmond Progressive Alliance, and was the target of a large-scale negative campaign funded by Chevron. The two other RPA candidates --including incumbent Jovanka Beckles-- are behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron-backed council candidate Donna Powers is in third place. If those results hold, she would win a seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a mayoral race in Richmond this election season, and current Mayor Gayle McLaughlin is termed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLaughlin, the first Green Party candidate elected mayor of a major city, is part of the Richmond Progressive Alliance, or RPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the group behind a lot of attention-getting stories out of Richmond recently, like the soda tax bill and the attempt to use eminent domain to buy up underwater mortgages. But no one from the RPA is running for mayor this time around. Instead, two long-time city councilmen are squaring off: Nat Bates and Tom Butt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346545\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/bates-butt-richmond-mayor.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10346545 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/bates-butt-richmond-mayor-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Nat Bates and Tom Butt square off in the Richmond Mayors race. \" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/bates-butt-richmond-mayor-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/bates-butt-richmond-mayor.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nat Bates and Tom Butt square off in the Richmond Mayors race.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bates is 82 years old, and part of an established faction of pro-business, moderate politicians in the city. He served on the council in the '60s and '70s, and was re-elected in 1995. Bates is heavily supported by Chevron in this race, which has a large refinery in Richmond. The company would like to see someone more sympathetic at the head of the City Council, after McLaughlin took a decidedly adversarial stance against the oil giant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butt is 72, and he's been on the council since 1995. McLaughlin and the RPA are endorsing him in this race because he often votes with the progressives on the council, even if he's not officially part of the alliance. He has often worked on compromising with Chevron, most recently on the company's $1 billion refinery modernization project. In that case, he and two other council members helped secure a $90 million community benefits package from the company in exchange for the votes to approve the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men have been on the City Council for a combined 54 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The candidates in some ways are more similar than not,\" said Robert C. Smith, a political science professor at San Francisco State. He’s been following Richmond politics for decades. \"So it’s not like to elect either one is going to bring about change, so to speak.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fresh face in this race is Uche Uwahemu, a businessman and former social worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’ve had their opportunity to lead,\" Uwahemu said, referring to Bates and Butt. \"You can’t keep recycling the same folks all the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346539\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/uwahemu.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10346539\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/uwahemu.jpg\" alt=\"Candidate Uche Justin Uwahemu. Courtesty Uche for Richmond Mayor 2014.\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candidate Uche Justin Uwahemu. (Courtesy Uche for Richmond Mayor 2014).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Uwahemu has got a lot of ideas, from a technical high school that teaches computer skills to a technology incubator that would fund tech startups in Richmond. But when it comes to funding those ideas, he’s a bit fuzzy. He also wants to beef up Richmond's port, which he says is underutilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Uwehamu has little campaign cash to spend, and really, little chance of winning this race. Bates, on the other hand, is getting a big chunk of funds from a \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2014/10/10/3-million-in-chevrons-moving-forward-war-chest/\" target=\"_blank\">$1.3 million super PAC created by Chevron to influence Richmond politics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has poured a total of $3 million into super PACs. A lot of that money is going to negative campaigning against McLaughlin --who's running for council -- and the other RPA council candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think if Bates and those forces win, it will be evidence the money made the difference,\" Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates is running on a pro-business platform and promises to get Richmond out of its $7 million deficit, even if it means laying off city workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can’t move a city and you can’t operate a city if you have that kind of tremendous deficit. It’s just like a household,\" he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In years past Bates has attracted support from many of Richmond’s African-American voters, who make up 14 percent of the city's registered voters -- like Frances Adams, an elementary school teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's always been there when we need things for the school, he's always been there to come and talk to the children at school, and I feel that he's served the city of Richmond very well,\" Adams said after a debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butt has prioritized building and maintaining parks, preserving historical buildings and adding bike lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are all things that make Richmond attractive to businesses, attractive to residents and make Richmond thrive -- at least thrive better than they would without them,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Butt's supporters, Jessie West, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The progressive government we’ve had these last years has done wonderful things for Richmond and we’re really on a roll,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that if Bates gets elected, the progressive agenda will fade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has been attacking that agenda relentlessly with messages on billboards, the airwaves and mailboxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corporation would like to see McLaughlin fail at her bid for City Council and for Bates to take over as mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But residents have seen their city improve under McLaughlin, as the economy has picked up. Unemployment has dropped to 10 percent, though it's still higher than the rest of the Bay Area. And the crime rate has dropped. 2013 had the \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/west-county-times/ci_24856239/richmond-reports-lowest-homicide-total-33-years-credits\" target=\"_blank\">fewest homicides in over 30 years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is really no hot-button issue this time around, like the soda tax that failed two years ago. Smith predicts turn out will be low. And that usually benefits the progressives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not clear where that vote comes from in terms of ethnically, class or whatever,\" Smith said about the RPA's constituency. \"But it is clear that on the basis of past elections that they have a pretty good grass-roots mobilization get-out-the-vote campaign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In the previous decade, the city often saw homicide totals of more than 40 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average age of the 46 people killed since Jan. 1, 2012 is about 31. The three youngest victims were all 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of the victims have been women.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I definitely hear less shooting, but I still don't feel safe walking around at night.'\u003ccite>Oscar Garcia\u003cbr>\nRichmond resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>African-American victims make up 61 percent of the total, more than double that of Latinos at 24 percent. The city as a whole is 40 percent Latino and 26 percent African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, 11 of the victims were black. Last year 10 of the victims were black. This year, eight out of 12 victims are black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decline in homicides in the last three years reflects a bigger trend; in the last decade, homicides have dropped almost 70 percent, and the current number is the lowest in 33 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"600\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18jpiN4_kO2CjF2XYVjZvn7NQZjBO3O1SyQalY_FgZbw/pubchart?oid=1582026155&format=interactive\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, along with her council colleagues, has worked on several initiatives to reduce the violence since she took office in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLaughlin said a collective effort has been responsible for the reduction in violence, including efforts from community organizations, the city administration and the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And of course our community at large has been fully involved by way of looking out for one another and by being active residents through Neighborhood Watch Groups and other efforts,” McLaughlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way to continue this reduction of violence is to continue our community policing efforts and our prevention programs; continue to strengthen our neighborhoods as vibrant quality-of-life places […], and to continue to build our re-entry services for those formerly incarcerated,” McLaughlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLaughlin also credited the Office of Neighborhood Safety (ONS) in helping to reduce homicides by reaching out to those most likely to commit gun-violence. 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