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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112221\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/23/112216/Oakland-As-AL-West/rs6757_photo-3-hpf/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-112221\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-112221\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/RS6757_photo-3-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland A's celebrate their victory yesterday at the Coliseum. (Nina Thorsen / KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland A's celebrate a victory at the Coliseum. (Nina Thorsen / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In many ways, 2013 ended for Bay Area sports fans in the same way 2012 did. Stanford went to the Rose Bowl, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/12/31/113662/stanford_band_heads_to_pasadena_for_rose_bowl\">just as they did last year\u003c/a>, (though this time they lost). The Raiders are \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/raiders/article/Raiders-Allen-optimistic-about-job-team-5103452.php\">taking stock after a 4-12 season\u003c/a>, just as they did last year. The 49ers are headed for the postseason, just as they did last year – of course, eventually reaching, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/04/were-the-ravens-holding-breaking-down-the-super-bowls-most-controversial-play/\">and losing\u003c/a>, the Super Bowl. A’s fans are enjoying their second consecutive AL West championship, cursing, once again, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2013-10-10/alds-2013-justin-verlander-detroit-tigers-oakland-athletics-as-score-results-game-5-american-league-baseball-series\">the name of Justin Verlander\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/news/article/oak/oakland-as-optimistic-for-more-success-as-calendar-turns-to-2014?ymd=20131226&content_id=66133636&vkey=news_oak\">counting the days\u003c/a> until February 14 when pitchers and catchers report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now for something completely different: the San Francisco Giants followed up their \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/29/photos-video-celebrations-of-giants-world-series-win-get-rowdy/\">2012 championship\u003c/a>, the second in three years, with an unmemorable 2013, tied for third place in their division. At least Giants fans \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/14/barry-zito-san-francisco-giants-farewell-ad\">won’t have Barry Zito starts to agonize over any more\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/28/san-jose-sharks-in-crucial-game/\" target=\"_blank\"> San Jose Sharks\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/17/warri/\">Golden State Warriors\u003c/a> also made it to the postseason in 2013. The San Jose Earthquakes weren’t so fortunate on the field, although the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/San+Jose+Earthquakes+Fans+Compete+with+Chants\">devotion of their fans continued strong\u003c/a>. The World Baseball Classic went off smoothly in San Francisco, introducing new audiences to the term \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/15/are-you-ready-for-some-honkbal-the-world-baseball-classic-heads-to-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">honkbal\u003c/a>. A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/09/death-in-the-americas-cup-drowned-sailors-team-held-capsize-drill-last-fall/\" target=\"_blank\">tragic death\u003c/a> marred the America's Cup, but the race ended with a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/09/death-in-the-americas-cup-drowned-sailors-team-held-capsize-drill-last-fall/\" target=\"_blank\">classic comeback story\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2013 also brought new attention to the issue of football players affected by concussions and head injuries – a story KQED \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/video/sidelined-sports-concussions/\">has been reporting on\u003c/a> since at least 2000, when the late Kathy McAnally \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1068695\">filed this story for NPR\u003c/a> about 49er quarterback Steve Young. This year, local journalists Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada published \"League of Denial,\" a book and \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/league-of-denial/\">companion Frontline documentary;\u003c/a> California schools \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/11/13/how-new-laws-raise-awareness-of-concussion-in-student-athletes/\">took more precautions\u003c/a>; and the NFL settled a lawsuit with \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201309261000\">some retired players\u003c/a> and their families. Baseball is also stepping up \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/12/buster-posey-ray-fosse-baseball-collision-ban\" target=\"_blank\">player protections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, the most consistently engaging story of 2013 in Northern California sports was the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/28/hopeful-sacramento-kings-fans-are-whale-watching/\">battle to keep the Kings NBA franchise in Sacramento\u003c/a>. From the shock felt by Kings fans in January when team owners announced its sale to a group that would move it to Seattle, to the elation when the NBA \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/15/sacramento-kings-fans-rejoice-at/\">officially declared the relocation threat over\u003c/a>, it had more drama, emotion, and suspense than most sports teams generate in an entire season. Under new ownership led by Bay Area tech mogul \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/24/shaq-press-conference-sacramento-kings/\">Vivek Ranadive\u003c/a>, the Kings are looking to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/01/the-sacramento-kings-court-india/\">capture first-time fans in India\u003c/a> and are experiencing the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/12/11/5992920/kings-have-largest-home-attendance.html\" target=\"_blank\">largest attendance boost in the league\u003c/a>. 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The city of San Jose decided to move its fight to take the A’s from Oakland \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/18/san-jose-city-council-votes-to-sue-mlb-over-as-move/\" target=\"_blank\">into the courtroom in June.\u003c/a> While most of it has been dismissed, some charges will likely be \u003ca href=\"http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/federal-court-hearing-san-jose-ballpark-oakland-athletics/\" target=\"_blank\">refiled in state court.\u003c/a> The lawsuit also revealed that Major League Baseball \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/07/major-league-baseball-rejected-oakland-as-move-to-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\">turned down the A's relocation \u003c/a>request, though it's not clear whether that applied only to a specific plan or the whole notion of the move south. Oakland fans took heart from renewed attention and \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/raiders/ci_24209664/deep-pocketed-developers-sign-up-coliseum-city\" target=\"_blank\">new developers for Coliseum City\u003c/a>, which could house new venues for the A's, Raiders, and Warriors, along with a new proposal for a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Oakland-ballpark-backers-tout-waterfront-site-5067603.php\">waterfront stadium in Oakland. \u003c/a> The Warriors ownership, though, continues to be more interested in relocating to San Francisco and their own \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/12/golden-state-warriors-unveil-slightly-downsized-arena-design-for/\" target=\"_blank\">waterfront jewel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction continued on Levi's Stadium, the new home of the 49ers in Santa Clara; it's touted as the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/audio/49ers-tackle-sustainability-with-new-green-stadium/\" target=\"_blank\">greenest in the NFL\u003c/a>. 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From the shock felt by Kings fans in January when team owners announced its sale to a group that would move it to Seattle, to the elation when the NBA \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/15/sacramento-kings-fans-rejoice-at/\">officially declared the relocation threat over\u003c/a>, it had more drama, emotion, and suspense than most sports teams generate in an entire season. Under new ownership led by Bay Area tech mogul \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/24/shaq-press-conference-sacramento-kings/\">Vivek Ranadive\u003c/a>, the Kings are looking to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/01/the-sacramento-kings-court-india/\">capture first-time fans in India\u003c/a> and are experiencing the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/12/11/5992920/kings-have-largest-home-attendance.html\" target=\"_blank\">largest attendance boost in the league\u003c/a>. Plans for a new downtown arena continue, despite an ongoing attempt to force a June 2014 ballot measure on the city's financial contributions to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And in certain circumstances, children will be able to have more than two parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are just some of the hundreds of changes that kick in on Wednesday, when new California laws take effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Gun control\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most far-reaching gun bills in front of lawmakers this year didn’t make it into law. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Jerry-Brown-signs-11-gun-related-laws-vetoes-4889448.php\">Gov. Brown vetoed a measure\u003c/a> banning detachable magazines on rifles, and lawmakers failed to pass a bill \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/02/inside-california-cities-ammunition-laws/\">requiring background checks for ammunition purchases.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We think that more gun owners seeing that this is the law — hey, you can’t put your gun in a place where your child might gain access to it — will incentivize them to follow the law, and result in fewer accidents.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But 11 new laws will impact firearms owners. One measure requires people to keep their guns locked, if they live with someone who’s barred from owning a weapon because of a criminal or mental health record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another law puts tougher penalties on parents who don’t stow their weapons properly. Cody Jacobs, a staff attorney with the gun control-focused Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, pointed out the measure also requires gun stores to post more warnings about proper gun storage in homes with children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so we think that more gun owners seeing that this is the law — hey, you can’t put your gun in a place where your child might gain access to it — we think that will incentivize them to follow the law, and result in fewer accidents,” Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rifles will come under more scrutiny, too. Potential buyers will now need to pass a safety test before they buy long guns. Until now, those tests had only been required for handguns. The state will also start compiling a database of rifle and shotgun purchases. That development has many gun owners agitated, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/12/16/6003230/california-gun-owners-warily-eye.html\">as the Sacramento Bee reported earlier this month.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Protections for undocumented immigrants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s undocumented immigrants will face fewer deportation threats when 2014 begins, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning this week, local police will be barred from turning undocumented immigrants over to federal authorities, except under specific circumstances. But while the so-called TRUST Act got most of the attention in Sacramento this year, it’s not the only new law protecting undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors will be banned from threatening to report an undocumented employee, if the worker is raising legitimate complaints about unfair wages, hours or other workplace rights covered by California’s Labor Code. The state will be able to suspend or revoke a business’ license for reporting an undocumented immigrant simply out of retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new laws are part of a broader push to increase whistle-blower protections at private companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most high-profile new measure affecting undocumented immigrants is a law that allows them to apply for and receive driver’s licenses. It doesn’t actually kick in until 2015. But immigration advocates are urging the state to immediately stop impounding the cars of undocumented immigrants caught driving without licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Three or more parents\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two new laws affecting children generated plenty of “only in California” headlines when they passed this year. SB 274 allows the possibility for more than two adults to be named as the parents of a child. Like many new laws, this was a response to a specific circumstance.\u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/04/local/la-me-brown-bills-parents-20131005\"> As the Los Angeles Times explained when Brown signed the measure:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The bill was partially a reaction to a 2011 court decision involving a lesbian couple that briefly ended their relationship, according to (Senator Mark) Leno’s office. One of the women was impregnated by a man before the women resumed their relationship. A fight broke out, putting one of the women in the hospital and the other in jail, but the daughter was sent to foster care because her biological father did not have parental rights.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The new law is meant to keep children falling into that sort of situation out of the foster care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/10/08/jerry_brown_signs_law_that_allows_children_more_than_two_legal_parents_conservatives.html\">While a handful of socially conservative groups raised complaints\u003c/a> that the new law further erodes the traditional definition of a family, the measure didn’t stir up too much controversy. That wasn’t the case with a new law \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/08/12/transgender-students-rights-bill-on-governors-desk/\">allowing transgender students to self-identify their gender\u003c/a> in California schools, and use the facilities or play on the sports teams of their choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law is already the focus of a referendum campaign. Organizers say they’ve already gathered the signatures needed to put the repeal measure on next year’s ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Big win for bobcats (and mountain lions. … and eventually condors)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2014 will bring a handful of new environmental protections, too. Chief among them: two laws granting increased protection to California’s bobcats and mountain lions. Beginning Wednesday, hunters will be banned from trapping bobcats near Joshua Tree National Park. Similar protections will follow soon at other national and state parks with bobcat populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a response to hunters setting up shop just outside the park’s borders to trap bobcats. “The bobcats don’t know where the boundaries are,” bill sponsor Richard Bloom, an Assembly Democrat,\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201305300850/b\"> told KQED in May. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/field-notes/2013/09/new-california-law-protects-mountain-lions-populated-areas\">Another law limits when game wardens\u003c/a> can shoot and kill mountain lions that wander into populated areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2013’s most high-impact environmental law, a statewide ban on lead bullets, won’t fully kick in until 2019. \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/with-condors-on-the-brink-california-considers-a-lead-bullet-ban-for-hunters/\">It’s meant to protect condors\u003c/a> and other wild animals that eat lead bullet fragments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to the radio report:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/126778978&color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Another 25 percent are undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edmund G. Brown Jr. was first elected governor in 1974, again in 1978, and once more in 2010. Early on, Chicago columnist Mike Royko \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/weekinreview/07mckinley.html?_r=0\">tagged him\u003c/a> \"Governor Moonbeam\" because he was young, idealistic and nontraditional and appealed to the Golden State's young, idealistic and nontraditional. But the latest Jerry Brown, the one who assumed office a few years ago, has taken a back-to-basics approach to governing, focusing on budgetary reforms that have largely erased the $27 billion state deficit he inherited from Arnold Schwarzenegger, and funding the state's public education system through the passage of Prop. 30 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In turn, Californians' approval of Brown has risen significantly, to the highest ratings of his tenure. 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"content": "\u003cp>It wouldn’t be a stretch to say Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard has the toughest job in California politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117027\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117027\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/beard-stockton-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Beard unveiled a new medical prison in Stockton this summer (Scott Detrow / KQED News)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beard unveiled a new medical prison in Stockton this summer (Scott Detrow / KQED News)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/05/110028/california-prison-hunger-strike-ends\">a widespread\u003c/a> hunger \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/30/105074/\">strike\u003c/a> to a never-ending battle with federal judges over control of health care in California’s prisons, Beard has faced crisis after crisis since he joined the Brown Administration late last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all those problems, you’d forgive Beard for having second thoughts about his new job. But the secretary’s response is pretty understated. “You know, I think they make the job just – very interesting,” he told KQED during a lengthy interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a typical response from Beard, who developed a reputation as a policy-obsessed, always-serious technocrat over his four-decade career in corrections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard has been on the job in California since last December. But before that, he spent a decade running Pennsylvania’s prison system. There, he fought many of the same battles he’s fighting in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cleaning up after a riot\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard’s first big test came in October 1989. That’s when \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/28/us/rioters-destroy-nearly-half-the-buildings-in-a-pennsylvania-prison.html\">inmates seized control of an overcrowded suburban Harrisburg prison during two days of vicious riots\u003c/a>. Inmates burned down more than half the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill. They took five hostages. The riot shocked Pennsylvania, and forced Governor Bob Casey to launch a blue-ribbon commission aimed at uncovering where things went wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116966\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 272px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-116966\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/beard93-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"Beard in 1993, when he was rebuilding Pennsylvania's Camp Hill prison after a riot. (Carlisle Sentinel)\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beard in 1993, when he was rebuilding Pennsylvania's Camp Hill prison after a riot. (Carlisle Sentinel)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But before the commission even got started, Beard was charged with cleaning up the mess. He was plucked from an assignment running a Western Pennsylvania prison and named Camp Hill’s acting warden. “I had hostile inmates, I had staff who were very traumatized, and I had a broken institution,” recalled Beard. “So I had to balance all of that and do things to psychologically support the staff, to calm the inmates down, while we were also at the same time rebuilding the facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a near-impossible task, but a job Beard did well. He rebuilt and reorganized the prison. He was soon promoted to a regional management job, and by 2001 he was running Pennsylvania’s entire corrections system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporter Don Gilliland, who covers corrections for the Harrisburg Patriot-News, said Beard got high marks from the corrections community. “Beard consistently was saying the right things,” he said. “He maintained a top-flight data department in the state prison. He really had a good sense of what was happening in the prisons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An uphill fight against prison overcrowding\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard used his position to push for sentencing reforms – less hard time and more treatment for drug offenders. He\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>was one of the first Pennsylvania corrections secretaries to say the state needed less mandatory sentencing and more treatment options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pennsylvania’s prisons were too packed. That’s a lesson Beard learned when he was rebuilding after the Camp Hill riots, which had been largely caused by overcrowding. Three years after the fact, Camp Hill was still above capacity. Beard told a local reporter at the time that the $60 million rebuilding dollar effort wouldn’t work unless the state scaled back mandatory prison sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “We can’t afford to keep locking everybody up.” That’s a battle Beard fought – and for the most part lost – for most of his career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1980 and 2010, the state’s prison population went from about 8,000 inmates to more than 50,000. Beard blamed “tough on crime” sentencing trends, and spent his time as corrections secretary lobbying lawmakers to undo them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilliland doesn’t blame Beard for the spike. “Prisons are like a bucket of water,” he explained. “Where you have a couple of hoses feeding water into the top, you have a variety of spigots letting water out. The problem is the people who control the water coming in are a completely different bureaucracy than [those who] control the spigot coming out. And the secretary of corrections has no control over either bureaucracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard did play a major role in passing a slate of sentencing reforms in 2008 – the first Pennsylvania had seen in decades. But they didn’t quite work. During his last year, Pennsylvania had to export 2 thousand prisoners to other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“Historically, we have overused segregation”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard, of course, is facing much larger population problems in California. He and Gov. Jerry Brown spent most of the year \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/12/court-ruling-on-prisons-a-setback-for-gov-brown/\">losing a series of legal challenges\u003c/a> over federal control of California prisons’ health care. The state now has until mid-February to move more than 8,000 people out of California’s prisons in order to reduce overcrowding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113826\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-113826\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/RS1076_PelicanBaySHU-scr1-e1380903557958-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"A 2011 view of Pelican Bay State Prisons Security Housing Unit. (SHU). August 17, 2011. (Michael Montgomery/KQED) \" width=\"300\" height=\"172\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2011 view of Pelican Bay State Prisons Security Housing Unit. (SHU). August 17, 2011. (Michael Montgomery/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And while Beard and Brown fought with judges this summer, thousands of inmates launched a system-wide hunger strike. The protest was aimed at ending California’s practice of locking up suspected prison gang leaders in segregated housing – sometimes for decades at a time. Critics call it torture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard said he understands why segregated confinement stirs up so much anger. He defended the practice as necessary, to protect other inmates and to control gangs. But in our interview, Beard did make an admission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that probably historically we have overused segregation a little too much everywhere,” he said. “I think we did back in Pennsylvania. I think there’s other states that have done it, perhaps in the past in California. And that’s why California now has the new gang management policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the new plan the state rolled out that re-evaluates who’s being kept in security housing, and provides a years’-long path out of isolation for inmates who cooperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caring for mentally-ill inmates\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117029\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117029\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/beard-stockton-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Beard facing questions from reporters in June (Scott Detrow / KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beard facing questions from reporters in June (Scott Detrow / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hunger strike is now long over, but controversies are still dogging the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. A Sacramento trial is shining a light on how the state treats mentally ill inmates. \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201310020850/a\">Graphic videos aired in court recently\u003c/a>, showing guards dousing screaming prisoners with pepper spray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, Beard faced similar controversy in Pennsylvania. Bob Meek is an attorney with the Disability Rights Network. He spent years investigating how Pennsylvania dealt with mentally-ill inmates. \u003ca href=\"https://www.drnpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RHUFinalComplaint.pdf\">In a lawsuit\u003c/a>, the group alleged the state simply locked many of them up in segregated housing, rather than treat them. “They would just continue to act out and continue to act up, and they would never get out,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard disputed the charge and pointed to programs he launched aimed at treating mentally ill inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Adjusting to California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard is approaching one year on the job here in California. And with all the crises on his plate, he’s yet to really put his stamp on department policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/print/2013/jan/30/local/la-me-ff-prisons-20130129\">Beard came to the job as an outsider and a critic\u003c/a>. He was a key witness in the 2008 trial ordering California to lower its prison population. At the time he blasted the state’s prisons as overcrowded and dangerous — conditions \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/25/ca-corrections-chief-new-medical-center-proves-federal-judges-wrong/\">he now insists the state has since turned around\u003c/a>. After retiring from his Pennsylvania post in 2010, Beard began working with California as a consultant. (The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation denied KQED's public records request for copies of memos Beard produced during this period.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard admitted it’s hard to figure out a new state after 38 years somewhere else. For one thing, he says he doesn’t know the longtime staffers like he did in Pennsylvania. And the rules are different. “A lot of times when something comes up about a policy or something, I have to ask somebody or I have to go and look it up. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cleaning up after a riot\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard’s first big test came in October 1989. That’s when \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/28/us/rioters-destroy-nearly-half-the-buildings-in-a-pennsylvania-prison.html\">inmates seized control of an overcrowded suburban Harrisburg prison during two days of vicious riots\u003c/a>. Inmates burned down more than half the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill. They took five hostages. The riot shocked Pennsylvania, and forced Governor Bob Casey to launch a blue-ribbon commission aimed at uncovering where things went wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116966\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 272px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-116966\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/beard93-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"Beard in 1993, when he was rebuilding Pennsylvania's Camp Hill prison after a riot. (Carlisle Sentinel)\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beard in 1993, when he was rebuilding Pennsylvania's Camp Hill prison after a riot. (Carlisle Sentinel)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But before the commission even got started, Beard was charged with cleaning up the mess. He was plucked from an assignment running a Western Pennsylvania prison and named Camp Hill’s acting warden. “I had hostile inmates, I had staff who were very traumatized, and I had a broken institution,” recalled Beard. “So I had to balance all of that and do things to psychologically support the staff, to calm the inmates down, while we were also at the same time rebuilding the facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a near-impossible task, but a job Beard did well. He rebuilt and reorganized the prison. He was soon promoted to a regional management job, and by 2001 he was running Pennsylvania’s entire corrections system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporter Don Gilliland, who covers corrections for the Harrisburg Patriot-News, said Beard got high marks from the corrections community. “Beard consistently was saying the right things,” he said. “He maintained a top-flight data department in the state prison. He really had a good sense of what was happening in the prisons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An uphill fight against prison overcrowding\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard used his position to push for sentencing reforms – less hard time and more treatment for drug offenders. He\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>was one of the first Pennsylvania corrections secretaries to say the state needed less mandatory sentencing and more treatment options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pennsylvania’s prisons were too packed. That’s a lesson Beard learned when he was rebuilding after the Camp Hill riots, which had been largely caused by overcrowding. Three years after the fact, Camp Hill was still above capacity. Beard told a local reporter at the time that the $60 million rebuilding dollar effort wouldn’t work unless the state scaled back mandatory prison sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “We can’t afford to keep locking everybody up.” That’s a battle Beard fought – and for the most part lost – for most of his career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1980 and 2010, the state’s prison population went from about 8,000 inmates to more than 50,000. Beard blamed “tough on crime” sentencing trends, and spent his time as corrections secretary lobbying lawmakers to undo them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilliland doesn’t blame Beard for the spike. “Prisons are like a bucket of water,” he explained. “Where you have a couple of hoses feeding water into the top, you have a variety of spigots letting water out. The problem is the people who control the water coming in are a completely different bureaucracy than [those who] control the spigot coming out. And the secretary of corrections has no control over either bureaucracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard did play a major role in passing a slate of sentencing reforms in 2008 – the first Pennsylvania had seen in decades. But they didn’t quite work. During his last year, Pennsylvania had to export 2 thousand prisoners to other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“Historically, we have overused segregation”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard, of course, is facing much larger population problems in California. He and Gov. Jerry Brown spent most of the year \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/12/court-ruling-on-prisons-a-setback-for-gov-brown/\">losing a series of legal challenges\u003c/a> over federal control of California prisons’ health care. The state now has until mid-February to move more than 8,000 people out of California’s prisons in order to reduce overcrowding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113826\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-113826\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/RS1076_PelicanBaySHU-scr1-e1380903557958-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"A 2011 view of Pelican Bay State Prisons Security Housing Unit. (SHU). August 17, 2011. (Michael Montgomery/KQED) \" width=\"300\" height=\"172\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2011 view of Pelican Bay State Prisons Security Housing Unit. (SHU). August 17, 2011. (Michael Montgomery/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And while Beard and Brown fought with judges this summer, thousands of inmates launched a system-wide hunger strike. The protest was aimed at ending California’s practice of locking up suspected prison gang leaders in segregated housing – sometimes for decades at a time. Critics call it torture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard said he understands why segregated confinement stirs up so much anger. He defended the practice as necessary, to protect other inmates and to control gangs. But in our interview, Beard did make an admission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that probably historically we have overused segregation a little too much everywhere,” he said. “I think we did back in Pennsylvania. I think there’s other states that have done it, perhaps in the past in California. And that’s why California now has the new gang management policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the new plan the state rolled out that re-evaluates who’s being kept in security housing, and provides a years’-long path out of isolation for inmates who cooperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caring for mentally-ill inmates\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117029\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117029\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/beard-stockton-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Beard facing questions from reporters in June (Scott Detrow / KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beard facing questions from reporters in June (Scott Detrow / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hunger strike is now long over, but controversies are still dogging the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. A Sacramento trial is shining a light on how the state treats mentally ill inmates. \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201310020850/a\">Graphic videos aired in court recently\u003c/a>, showing guards dousing screaming prisoners with pepper spray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, Beard faced similar controversy in Pennsylvania. Bob Meek is an attorney with the Disability Rights Network. He spent years investigating how Pennsylvania dealt with mentally-ill inmates. \u003ca href=\"https://www.drnpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RHUFinalComplaint.pdf\">In a lawsuit\u003c/a>, the group alleged the state simply locked many of them up in segregated housing, rather than treat them. “They would just continue to act out and continue to act up, and they would never get out,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard disputed the charge and pointed to programs he launched aimed at treating mentally ill inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Adjusting to California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard is approaching one year on the job here in California. And with all the crises on his plate, he’s yet to really put his stamp on department policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/print/2013/jan/30/local/la-me-ff-prisons-20130129\">Beard came to the job as an outsider and a critic\u003c/a>. He was a key witness in the 2008 trial ordering California to lower its prison population. At the time he blasted the state’s prisons as overcrowded and dangerous — conditions \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/25/ca-corrections-chief-new-medical-center-proves-federal-judges-wrong/\">he now insists the state has since turned around\u003c/a>. After retiring from his Pennsylvania post in 2010, Beard began working with California as a consultant. (The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation denied KQED's public records request for copies of memos Beard produced during this period.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard admitted it’s hard to figure out a new state after 38 years somewhere else. For one thing, he says he doesn’t know the longtime staffers like he did in Pennsylvania. And the rules are different. “A lot of times when something comes up about a policy or something, I have to ask somebody or I have to go and look it up. 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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2013/11/20131101ctcrmag.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento Kings topped the Denver Nuggets 90-88 in an emotional home-opener Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not many people outside Sacramento thought the Kings would begin the 2013-2014 NBA season there – earlier this year, a move to Seattle was seen as an almost-done deal. That was before Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson launched a full-scale offensive aimed at keeping the basketball team in town, and before the NBA surprised the sports world by backing a Sacramento ownership group led by tech billionaire Vivek Ranadive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kings fans packed Sleep Train Arena Wednesday to celebrate the fact they kept their franchise. Johnson, Ranadive, minority owner Shaquille O’Neal and NBA Commissioner David Stern received ovation after ovation for their roles in keeping the team in California. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But something else was going on, Wednesday -- during timeouts, the scoreboard showed Kings players greeting fans in Hindi. The Kings’ dancers appeared in traditional Indian garb, and danced to Hindi-pop music. And fans were waiving Indian flags in the stands. Before the game, Shaq donned white pads and a sweater vest, and took some cricket swings in front of a wicket. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And most importantly for the team, the home opener was broadcast on an Indian sports network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The not-so-subtle nods to the world’s second-most-populous country were part of a strategy launched by Mumbai-born Ranadive, who’s determined to make his team a household name in India. It’s part of a globalization strategy Ranadive calls “NBA 3.0.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve started that process” of growing the team’s Indian brand, he told reporters before the game. “We’ve launched a Hindi-language website. The game tonight is being broadcast live in India. We had our cheerleading squad – we had them in India this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranadive wants to bring the Kings to India for a barnstorming tour next season. He said the reason for the India strategy is simple: there are more than one billion potential fans there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“People Are Talking About Kobe Bryant”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can the India push work? The Times of India’s sports editor, Alok Sinha), traveled to Sacramento to check it out. He said the country’s basketball fan base is growing, but still relatively marginal. “It’s a very small audience because our sport is cricket,” he said. And after cricket, “football – which you call soccer here – has become very big in India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sinha said more Indians are playing basketball in school, and he thinks the Kings can build an Indian brand over time. Still, the Kings are a small-market team, so it will take some time. “(The) Lakers, everyone knows in India. And people are talking about Kobe Bryant, or people are talking about LeBron James.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s measured in seasons,” said David Carter, the executive director of USC’s Sports Business Institute. “And many seasons at that.” But Carter said the Kings’ approach makes sense, and added the team is simply following a growing trend for American pro sports teams. “The Dallas Cowboys have done a decent job penetrating into Mexico. I think historically some of the baseball teams – the Dodgers – have been involved in Asia for a very long time, from scouting to player development,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the NBA, the Houston Rockets have cultivated a broad fan base in China ever since they drafted Chinese superstar Yao Ming in 2002. The Rockets deepened that tie by signing Chinese-American Jeremy Lin last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“Hey, as many fans as we can get in India, we love them”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what do Kings fans think? Ronnie Garcia was excited enough that he waved an Indian flag during timeouts at Wednesday’s game. “Hey, as many fans as we can get in India, we love them,” he yelled while waiving the flag. “They’re part of Sacramento now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s genius,” said season ticket holder Michael Lucien. “You’ve got a billion people that are craving for a new sport. The fact that we can be the first team to really plant roots there? 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"content": "\u003cp>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Shaquille O'Neal spent the first part of the century smashing Sacramento's dreams of an NBA championship. Now he wants to spend the next part doing anything he can to build the Kings into a winner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Declaring the new name of the city \"Shaqramento,\" O'Neal began by taking steps in his size 22 shoes Tuesday to make amends to Kings fans for his past verbal swipes. The new minority owner of the Kings said he just wanted to rile up people and market the game when he called the franchise the \"Sacramento Queens\" while winning three titles with the Los Angeles Lakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I apologize,\" O'Neal said. \"If you see me around town, come give me a hug, give me a kiss. I'll do whatever you want.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nba.com/kings/kings-livestream-coverage\" target=\"_blank\">Watch today's Shaq press conference here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cobject id=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\">\u003cparam name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=2688656394001&playerID=1684488551001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACC1lKhk~,ZvV6UsgbjjZzy5iAEyU8skbXMqWBZ-rJ&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"base\" value=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\">\u003cparam name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\">\u003cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=2688656394001&playerID=1684488551001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACC1lKhk~,ZvV6UsgbjjZzy5iAEyU8skbXMqWBZ-rJ&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"swliveconnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\">\u003cembed width=\"480\" height=\"270\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1\" flashvars=\"videoId=2688656394001&playerID=1684488551001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACC1lKhk~,ZvV6UsgbjjZzy5iAEyU8skbXMqWBZ-rJ&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" swliveconnect=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 15-time All-Star center promised to use the same brand that bullied Sacramento for years to bring positive attention to California's capital city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Neal's larger-than-life personality did just that on his first day on the job. He attracted a crowd of about 75 reporters, with TV trucks fighting for the closest parking space outside Sacramento's suburban practice facility and about a dozen fans trying to sneak into the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Neal said has no intention of being a silent investor. He wants to be a mentor to volatile center DeMarcus Cousins, give his input on basketball decisions and help the team build the NBA's first \"indoor-outdoor arena.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Neal said he learned decades ago from Hall of Famer and friend Magic Johnson that endorsements \"are good, but you want to own stuff.\" He declined to reveal his stake in the team but said joining an NBA ownership group \"was always one of my dreams and aspirations,\" especially after retiring in 2011 after a 19-year playing career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Kings majority owner Vivek Ranadive said he first approached O'Neal about joining his group after he swayed the league to keep the Kings from moving to Seattle and bought the team from the Maloof family in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranadive's primary partner, 24 Hour Fitness founder Mark Mastrov, is friends with O'Neal. The two partnered in the past to build about 20 gyms, especially in South Florida during O'Neal's time with the Miami Heat. O'Neal said he moved from Los Angeles and couldn't find a place to work out at all hours and found Mastrov by searching his name on Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Make no mistake: Shaq is a shrewd businessman,\" Mastrov said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranadive said the deal came together a few weeks ago while \"shooting hoops\" at his Silicon Valley home with O'Neal and Mastrov.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's one of the most recognizable people on the planet,\" Ranadive said, \"and we are trying to build the Kings into an even bigger global brand.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranadive revealed another one of those plans Tuesday. He said the team's season opener Oct. 30 against Denver will likely be broadcast in his native India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Neal is the latest high-profile former player to join the Kings this summer after the franchise nearly moved to Seattle. Hall of Famer Chris Mullin was hired as a consultant to Ranadive, and Mitch Richmond is part of the ownership group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no member is a bigger surprise than O'Neal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the height of his career with the Lakers, O'Neal fueled the rivalry with the Kings with his play on the court and his personality off of it. He handed Sacramento its biggest blow by rallying the Lakers from a 3-2 deficit to win the 2002 Western Conference finals — which is still a sore spot for Kings fans — and never missed a chance to poke fun at the franchise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted you to be very upset when you came to Arco Arena,\" O'Neal said, speaking to fans through reporters. \"In my mind, if you could survive something like this, then you could win anywhere. You guys had us nervous all the way up until that Game 7.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the opportunity to partner with friends, O'Neal said he wanted to work with one of the NBA's best young centers — and also one of its most troubled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Neal said he's already initiated conversations with Cousins, who has been suspended several times by the NBA and the Kings for his behavior. He said he wants to help Cousins the way Phil Jackson helped O'Neal co-exist with others when he came to coach the Lakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I look at a young DeMarcus Cousins, I see a young Shaquille O'Neal. Very talented, very stubborn in his ways. Wants to do things his way,\" O'Neal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cousins, who is entering his fourth year in the NBA, is eligible for a contract extension before Oct. 31 or he would become a restricted free agent next summer. Kings general manager Pete D'Alessandro said contract negotiations are progressing but offered no further details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Neal declined to discuss what he thinks Cousins will do but said the center has been receptive to his help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The conversations,\" he said, \"have already started.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember when Shaquille O'Neal called the Sacramento Kings the \"Sacramento Queens,\" and not in a good way? Well if you don't, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dx5DmSv3dY\" target=\"_blank\">here it is\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/3Dx5DmSv3dY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps all will be forgiven now that the NBA great is taking a minority stake in the team. In fact, he apologized for the comment a couple of times during a press conference today. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/09/24/5764438/sacramento-kings-introduce-shaq.html\" target=\"_blank\">Story from the Sacramento Bee here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/kings/2013/09/23/shaq-sacramento-kings-shaquille-oneal/2854021/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today story\u003c/a> on O'Neal's new relationship with the Kings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As the Kings continue their image makeover that was sparked by the late May sale of the team to Vivek Ranadive, they have made a big and bold move by adding O'Neal as a minority owner. The TNT analyst once gleaned pleasure in deriding the Kings, whom he owned in a very different way when his Lakers thrice knocked their rival out of the playoffs en route to titles in 2000, 2001 and 2002. Now his joy will come from seeing one of the league's worst-performing franchises turn things around.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nSome speculation from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/09/23/5761079/shaquille-sacramento-kings-owner.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> that O'Neal may be deployed in the battle over a new venue for the Kings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>O’Neal and his outsized personality could be used to sell Sacramentans on the proposed $258 million public subsidy for a new downtown arena, a subsidy that’s being challenged by a citizens group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a well known, engaging personality with considerable star power,” said Doug Elmets, a Sacramento political consultant and veteran of the failed 2006 effort to build a downtown sports arena. “It comes at an important juncture in the effort to build the arena.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings’ new president, Chris Granger, said he wasn’t sure whether O’Neal’s role in the team would affect the arena fight but called O’Neal “a big salesman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group trying to block the arena subsidy, Sacramento Taxpayers Opposed to Pork, has said it’s close to collecting the 22,000 signatures needed to put the subsidy issue on the June ballot. STOP spokesman John Hyde said O’Neal’s ownership stake in the Kings won’t sway voters.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Kings are working hard to turn things around after the era of the Maloofs, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.nba.com/2013/news/05/15/kings-stay-in-sacramento.ap/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">tried to move the team to Seattle but were blocked by the NBA\u003c/a>. They then \u003ca href=\"http://www.nba.com/2013/news/05/17/david-aldridge-on-kings-sell/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">sold the team\u003c/a> to a group headed by high-tech entrepreneur Vivek Ranadivé.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The O'Neal announcement comes after ESPN The Magazine's recent inclusion of the Kings at the top of their lists of best and worst pro sports franchises -- guess which category? Hint: \u003ca href=\"http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2013/09/18/sacramento-kings-named-worst-franchise-in-professional-sports-by-espn/\" target=\"_blank\">It wasn't the \"best.\"\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings responded with a full-page ad, which was tweeted out by News10 Sacramento's Brian May:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-112481\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/kings.jpg\" alt=\"kings\" width=\"400\" height=\"856\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any event, now that the team is playing in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23shaqramento\" target=\"_blank\">#shaqramento\u003c/a>, things are bound to be looking up.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Shaquille O'Neal spent the first part of the century smashing Sacramento's dreams of an NBA championship. Now he wants to spend the next part doing anything he can to build the Kings into a winner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Declaring the new name of the city \"Shaqramento,\" O'Neal began by taking steps in his size 22 shoes Tuesday to make amends to Kings fans for his past verbal swipes. The new minority owner of the Kings said he just wanted to rile up people and market the game when he called the franchise the \"Sacramento Queens\" while winning three titles with the Los Angeles Lakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I apologize,\" O'Neal said. \"If you see me around town, come give me a hug, give me a kiss. I'll do whatever you want.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nba.com/kings/kings-livestream-coverage\" target=\"_blank\">Watch today's Shaq press conference here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cobject id=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\">\u003cparam name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=2688656394001&playerID=1684488551001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACC1lKhk~,ZvV6UsgbjjZzy5iAEyU8skbXMqWBZ-rJ&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"base\" value=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\">\u003cparam name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\">\u003cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=2688656394001&playerID=1684488551001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACC1lKhk~,ZvV6UsgbjjZzy5iAEyU8skbXMqWBZ-rJ&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"swliveconnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\">\u003cembed width=\"480\" height=\"270\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1\" flashvars=\"videoId=2688656394001&playerID=1684488551001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACC1lKhk~,ZvV6UsgbjjZzy5iAEyU8skbXMqWBZ-rJ&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" swliveconnect=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 15-time All-Star center promised to use the same brand that bullied Sacramento for years to bring positive attention to California's capital city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Neal's larger-than-life personality did just that on his first day on the job. He attracted a crowd of about 75 reporters, with TV trucks fighting for the closest parking space outside Sacramento's suburban practice facility and about a dozen fans trying to sneak into the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Neal said has no intention of being a silent investor. He wants to be a mentor to volatile center DeMarcus Cousins, give his input on basketball decisions and help the team build the NBA's first \"indoor-outdoor arena.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Neal said he learned decades ago from Hall of Famer and friend Magic Johnson that endorsements \"are good, but you want to own stuff.\" He declined to reveal his stake in the team but said joining an NBA ownership group \"was always one of my dreams and aspirations,\" especially after retiring in 2011 after a 19-year playing career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Kings majority owner Vivek Ranadive said he first approached O'Neal about joining his group after he swayed the league to keep the Kings from moving to Seattle and bought the team from the Maloof family in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranadive's primary partner, 24 Hour Fitness founder Mark Mastrov, is friends with O'Neal. The two partnered in the past to build about 20 gyms, especially in South Florida during O'Neal's time with the Miami Heat. O'Neal said he moved from Los Angeles and couldn't find a place to work out at all hours and found Mastrov by searching his name on Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Make no mistake: Shaq is a shrewd businessman,\" Mastrov said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranadive said the deal came together a few weeks ago while \"shooting hoops\" at his Silicon Valley home with O'Neal and Mastrov.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's one of the most recognizable people on the planet,\" Ranadive said, \"and we are trying to build the Kings into an even bigger global brand.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranadive revealed another one of those plans Tuesday. He said the team's season opener Oct. 30 against Denver will likely be broadcast in his native India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Neal is the latest high-profile former player to join the Kings this summer after the franchise nearly moved to Seattle. Hall of Famer Chris Mullin was hired as a consultant to Ranadive, and Mitch Richmond is part of the ownership group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no member is a bigger surprise than O'Neal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the height of his career with the Lakers, O'Neal fueled the rivalry with the Kings with his play on the court and his personality off of it. He handed Sacramento its biggest blow by rallying the Lakers from a 3-2 deficit to win the 2002 Western Conference finals — which is still a sore spot for Kings fans — and never missed a chance to poke fun at the franchise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted you to be very upset when you came to Arco Arena,\" O'Neal said, speaking to fans through reporters. \"In my mind, if you could survive something like this, then you could win anywhere. You guys had us nervous all the way up until that Game 7.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the opportunity to partner with friends, O'Neal said he wanted to work with one of the NBA's best young centers — and also one of its most troubled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Neal said he's already initiated conversations with Cousins, who has been suspended several times by the NBA and the Kings for his behavior. He said he wants to help Cousins the way Phil Jackson helped O'Neal co-exist with others when he came to coach the Lakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I look at a young DeMarcus Cousins, I see a young Shaquille O'Neal. Very talented, very stubborn in his ways. Wants to do things his way,\" O'Neal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cousins, who is entering his fourth year in the NBA, is eligible for a contract extension before Oct. 31 or he would become a restricted free agent next summer. Kings general manager Pete D'Alessandro said contract negotiations are progressing but offered no further details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Neal declined to discuss what he thinks Cousins will do but said the center has been receptive to his help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The conversations,\" he said, \"have already started.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember when Shaquille O'Neal called the Sacramento Kings the \"Sacramento Queens,\" and not in a good way? Well if you don't, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dx5DmSv3dY\" target=\"_blank\">here it is\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/3Dx5DmSv3dY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps all will be forgiven now that the NBA great is taking a minority stake in the team. In fact, he apologized for the comment a couple of times during a press conference today. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/09/24/5764438/sacramento-kings-introduce-shaq.html\" target=\"_blank\">Story from the Sacramento Bee here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/kings/2013/09/23/shaq-sacramento-kings-shaquille-oneal/2854021/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today story\u003c/a> on O'Neal's new relationship with the Kings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As the Kings continue their image makeover that was sparked by the late May sale of the team to Vivek Ranadive, they have made a big and bold move by adding O'Neal as a minority owner. The TNT analyst once gleaned pleasure in deriding the Kings, whom he owned in a very different way when his Lakers thrice knocked their rival out of the playoffs en route to titles in 2000, 2001 and 2002. Now his joy will come from seeing one of the league's worst-performing franchises turn things around.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nSome speculation from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/09/23/5761079/shaquille-sacramento-kings-owner.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> that O'Neal may be deployed in the battle over a new venue for the Kings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>O’Neal and his outsized personality could be used to sell Sacramentans on the proposed $258 million public subsidy for a new downtown arena, a subsidy that’s being challenged by a citizens group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a well known, engaging personality with considerable star power,” said Doug Elmets, a Sacramento political consultant and veteran of the failed 2006 effort to build a downtown sports arena. “It comes at an important juncture in the effort to build the arena.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings’ new president, Chris Granger, said he wasn’t sure whether O’Neal’s role in the team would affect the arena fight but called O’Neal “a big salesman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group trying to block the arena subsidy, Sacramento Taxpayers Opposed to Pork, has said it’s close to collecting the 22,000 signatures needed to put the subsidy issue on the June ballot. STOP spokesman John Hyde said O’Neal’s ownership stake in the Kings won’t sway voters.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Kings are working hard to turn things around after the era of the Maloofs, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.nba.com/2013/news/05/15/kings-stay-in-sacramento.ap/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">tried to move the team to Seattle but were blocked by the NBA\u003c/a>. They then \u003ca href=\"http://www.nba.com/2013/news/05/17/david-aldridge-on-kings-sell/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">sold the team\u003c/a> to a group headed by high-tech entrepreneur Vivek Ranadivé.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The O'Neal announcement comes after ESPN The Magazine's recent inclusion of the Kings at the top of their lists of best and worst pro sports franchises -- guess which category? 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/16/air-force-hopes-to-stick-california-city-with-radioactive-waste-dump/rs6688_mcclellan-01-hpf/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111426\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-111426\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/RS6688_McClellan-01-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"A sign warns of radioactive material around large piles of dirt contaminated with radium at the former McClellan Air Force Base, near Sacramento. (Randy Allen for The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign warns of radioactive material around large piles of dirt contaminated with radium at the former McClellan Air Force Base, near Sacramento. (Randy Allen / The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Katharine Mieszkowski and Matt Smith\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If U.S. Air Force official Steve Mayer is bothered by California’s refusal to inherit the radioactive waste dump he’s building outside Sacramento, he doesn’t show it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s plowing ahead with plans at the old McClellan Air Force Base to entomb soil contaminated with radium-226, a glow-in-the-dark substance that can cause cancer, and pass ownership of it to the city of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health has made it clear that state laws don’t permit the move. Even if they did, Sacramento’s city manager says he wants nothing to do with the dump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mayer’s playing the long game. By 2019, when the military wants to hand over the arena-sized dump to the city, he’s hoping he won’t have to deal with the current crop of state regulators and city officials balking at his plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'They have their right to their opinion, and we have ours. We’ll continue to go forward with our plans.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“There will be a different governor then, too, and (regulators) all work for the governor,” said Mayer, the Air Force’s remediation program manager for McClellan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer’s attitude about state and local officials, and his insistence that the Air Force can bulldoze ahead despite the state’s strict environmental laws, highlights an escalating clash between military officials and local communities over the plight of former bases now being converted for civilian use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a case that could affect bases around the state, the Air Force is burying radioactive waste on the site it supposedly is cleaning up, bypassing state environmental regulations because it is on federal land. The state regulators say the dump does not pose a health risk to nearby residents. But by pushing through the unwanted dump, the Air Force might create a precedent for other places where military agencies wish to avoid costly out-of-state hauling fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At McClellan, Mayer said the objections won’t stand in the military's way.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have their right to their opinion, and we have ours,” Mayer said. “We’ll continue to go forward with our plans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are seven Cold War-era facilities in California where radioactive waste has been an ongoing concern. At the former Hunters Point and Treasure Island bases in San Francisco, for example, the Navy has fought with regulators for years over the military’s obligations to remove radioactive soil in preparation for civilian development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just northeast of Sacramento, the former McClellan Air Force Base is now an industrial hub with an airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Looking for a Disposal Site\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government closed McClellan in 2001 as it shrunk the military’s footprint after the Cold War. As the military does with other shuttered bases, it is passing McClellan to local hands for redevelopment. But officials need to find a home for contaminated soil at the facility to finish the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the base, half a dozen giant piles of dirt sit behind a chain-link fence, hidden under black tarps. A sign on the fence reads: “Caution: radioactive materials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the Air Force has tried to make this dirt somebody else’s problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Air Force in 2011 tried to argue that waste of the type at McClellan could be buried in California. The office of Gov. Jerry Brown rejected that legal argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, it got Idaho, which has weaker standards than California on radioactive waste, to accept about 43,000 tons of soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the Air Force is moving forward with its latest plan to simply build its own permanent home for the contaminated dirt right on the former base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s estimated the dump, which can hold 360,000 cubic yards of soil, will cost the Air Force $20 million. If it were forced to dispose of the dirt out of state, the cost would be between $125 million and $200 million, according to the Air Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento Fire Department has operated a training facility on the base next to the landfill site. Once the dump is completed, the Air Force hopes to transfer it and the training facility to the city of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landfill will be just blocks from residential neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento wants the land to train firefighters, but not the dump. City Manager John Shirey said the dump’s inclusion is a deal breaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The United States government just has to accept that it didn’t take very good care of a lot of land on a lot of military bases and will have to be responsible for cleaning it up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who Will Wind Up With the Dump?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health, which administers the state’s Radiation Control Law, has the authority to block the transfer of the landfill into civilian hands by refusing to issue a license or exemption to a new owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the department told The Center for Investigative Reporting that the radioactive waste dump will make it impossible to transfer the land to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But state policy does not apply to land in military facilities such as McClellan as long as it remains in the Air Force’s hands, state regulators say. State authority begins once attempts are made to move the land to local control.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>'\u003c/strong>The United States government just has to accept that it didn’t take very good care of a lot of land on a lot of military bases and will have to be responsible for cleaning it up.\u003cstrong>'\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The dump “would need to remain under federal ownership and control for as long as radioactive material is stored there,” said Ronald Owens, a spokesman for the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer, however, said the state regulators’ objections would not change plans to transfer the land in 2019. He contends that the decision to pour radioactive waste from various spots around the base into a single on-site dump will save taxpayers tens of millions of dollars over shipping it to another state. He said the dump would be safe, a position backed by federal environmental officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California health regulations require that radium-contaminated soil such as McClellan’s be disposed of only in facilities certified to hold that type of material. None exists in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, instead of cleaning up, we’re saying, ‘OK, let’s call it federal and leave it here,’ ” said Daniel Hirsch, a lecturer on nuclear policy at UC Santa Cruz who leads the environmental group Committee to Bridge the Gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decontaminating McClellan has not been easy. Cleanup operations at one point stirred up waste in the bed of a creek that flowed off base to a housing tract. Groundwater contamination was found to be so extensive that it required an operation with wells annually pumping out 1,000 pounds of old industrial solvents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Toxic History \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opened in the 1930s, McClellan was a large industrial maintenance depot for the Air Force, where radioactive materials were used and studied. In a classified program during the Cold War, airplanes flew from the base into nuclear test fallout to gather samples of the radioactive isotopes released by the blasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1930s and ’40s, the military used radium-laced paint on aircraft instruments to make them glow in the dark to help pilots see them at night. Cleanup water or solvents used to wipe down equipment or mop up radium spills may be responsible for the tons of contaminated soil at the base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, much of the radium-contaminated soil, which the Air Force itself has deemed “highly toxic,” lived in industrial landfills on the base in North Highlands, which is part of Sacramento County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At McClellan, already about two-thirds of the 3,000 acres has been handed out of federal control for industrial and commercial uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after decades of careless use of radioactive material, the Air Force might be left with the mess. Mayer acknowledged that the Air Force could end up stuck with the dump. 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Jerry Brown and Democratic and Republican leaders of both the Senate and Assembly say they've reached a compromise on competing plans for meeting a federal court order to reduce prison overcrowding by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, with Republican support, has proposed sending another 9,000 or so prisoners out of state (in addition to 9,000 already in prisons outside California). Democrats, including Senate President pro tem Darrell Steinberg, have proposed seeking more time from the court to meet the reduction order while launching an aggressive program to reduce the rate of inmates returning to prison. They also propose working with inmate lawyers at crafting a prison population cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under an agreement announced today, the Legislature and governor would sign off on major points of both plans, then go with the one that will fit the requirements of the three-judge federal court panel overseeing the overcrowding case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Sacramento Bureau Chief Scott Detrow had this quick take on the deal announced today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>An interesting solution ... : Legislature will pass BOTH plans with language leaving it up to courts. If courts grant extension, it's the Senate plan with recidivism grant funding. If courts stick to hard 12/31 deadline it is the governor's capacity expansion.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Scott Detrow joins KQED's Mina Kim to hash out the details on the compromise:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F109638191\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here's part of the Twitter reportage from our old Sacramento guy, John Myers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>\"We're asking for time\" but \"we will comply with the orders\" of the courts on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23caprison&src=hash\">#caprison\u003c/a> pop, says \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JerryBrownGov\">@JerryBrownGov\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/Ei6ZN7VFmt\">pic.twitter.com/Ei6ZN7VFmt\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— John Myers (@johnmyers) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/johnmyers/statuses/377143646274867201\">September 9, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here's the first Associated Press dispatch on the story: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown and the four leaders of California's Legislature reached a compromise Monday on reducing the state's prison population, offering to spend more money on rehabilitation efforts if a panel of federal judges will extend an end-of-the-year deadline to release thousands of inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal relies on the state persuading three federal judges to give California time to let rehabilitation programs work rather than spend $315 million to lease cells in private prisons and county jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaders agreed that if the judges don't extend the deadline, the state will fall back on Brown's plan to lease the cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's insurance here against early release\" of prisoners, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said at a news conference outside the governor's office, where he was joined by the governor and Democratic and Republican leaders of each chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg had opposed Brown's plan and wanted to ask the judges to delay the deadline for three years while the state gave counties $200 million annually for drug, mental health and other rehabilitation programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement reached Monday resolves the impasse as lawmakers race toward the end of the legislative session this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there is no guarantee the judges will go along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-judge panel ordered the state to lower its prison population by about 9,600 inmates by year's end. Brown is appealing that decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the justices recently declined to delay the deadline set by the lower court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without an alternative, the judges have threatened to order the state to give thousands of inmates good time credits, which would lead to their early release. They have repeatedly threatened to hold Brown in contempt if the state does not meet the deadline to reduce the prison population to about 110,000 inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill to be considered this week includes Brown's original plan to lease cells if the judges stick to the year-end deadline. If they grant an extension of time, a portion of the money that would have been spent to rent cells would instead go to rehabilitation programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has argued that the state already reduced the population by 46,000 inmates to comply with court orders, primarily through a 2-year-old law that sentences lower level offenders to county jails instead of state prisons. He argues that only the most dangerous convicts remain in state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's huge, that's monumental. We can build on that, but not in a month or a year,\" Brown said Monday about previous inmate reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg had orchestrated opposition from Senate Democrats to Brown's plan and wanted the administration to negotiate with attorneys who represent inmates to push back the year-end deadline by three years. Brown rejected those talks, saying he would not let inmates' attorneys help determine the state's public safety policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resulting compromise includes no new proposed deadline for the state to meet the court-ordered population level if an extension is granted, nor does it promise benchmarks or guarantees that the state would comply if granted more time, said Prison Law Office director Don Specter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't believe it's sufficient to meet the court's order or even get a reasonable extension of time,\" said Specter, whose firm is among those that sued to force the state to reduce prison crowding to improve conditions. \"It's not specific enough, it's not certain enough.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he did not know what the three judges would do about the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Brown and Steinberg said they had been seeing \"smoke-signals\" that the judges were willing to consider the state's proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. 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