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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Michael Montgomery, Lisa Pickoff-White and Suzie Racho\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little more than a year ago, Californians voted to allow the release of third strikers convicted of non-violent, non-serious crimes. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/a-year-after-three-strikes-california/\">Since then, about 1,000 people have been released.\u003c/a> KQED followed three men from prison to their new lives outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Brown\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RichardBrown11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118324\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RichardBrown11.jpg\" alt=\"From left, Minard and Vivian Roorda, with Richard Brown. (Sarah Rice/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Minard and Viviane Roorda, with Richard Brown. (Sarah Rice/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richard Brown, 61, was sentenced to 25 years to life in 1995 after he was arrested while stealing two car alarms from a Walgreens store in Stockton. Brown, a former heroin addict, served prison time for assault in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120203629\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most three strikers who are released have served so much extra time that they’re not placed on parole or probation. Often that means they don’t have access to substance abuse, mental health and other re-entry programs as well as housing. Brown, who served 17 years for a 5-year sentence, finds the lack of assistance insulting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just get the regular $200 that everyone else gets, with no transitional programs. No type of assistance, no consideration of families being lost, families being separated, people dying, things happening in our lives over the years, or getting older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have any type of transitional programs for people that are getting released that have served a lot of extra time for the crimes that were committed. So it is unfair, the way we’re being treated. I’m… blessed because of the support system that I have and the people that’s been right there for me throughout the course of these 18 years that I was in prison. Everyone doesn’t have this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownfather.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118322\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownfather.jpg\" alt=\"Brown, at home, reads a letter from his friend Shorty, who's still in San Quentin, out loud to Roorda. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED) \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown, at home in Ripon with Roorda, reads a letter from his friend Shorty, who’s still in San Quentin. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown met Minard and Vivian Roorda in 1995 after his conviction. They became friends, and the Roordas visited Brown regularly in prison. They visited Brown one night after church. Brown saw their visit as a sign:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went back to my cell and cried like a baby and thanked the Lord because he answered a prayer that I asked. I said, ‘Lord, I’m going to prison with 25 years to life for this petty theft offense and I don’t want to go in there with an attitude, rambunctious. I want to go in there to serve you. So let me know if you’re real in my life and that you hear this prayer.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Brown’s release, the Roordas helped him settle in Ripon, where they own a farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownweld.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118323\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownweld.jpg\" alt=\"Brown operates a forklift, moving almond harvesting equipment. He also welds and paints. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown operates a forklift, moving almond-harvesting equipment. He also welds and paints. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A longtime singer, Brown formed a gospel group, Neu Dae, while serving time in San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got together with two other prisoners, Rico and Shorty, and we formed this gospel group. …All we had, basically, was a keyboard that we operated with, that had a drum machine set in and all, but for the most part our voices would complement one another when we sang, and we knew that it had to be a gift, which it was a gift, and is a gift, from God.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robert Watts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7607_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7607_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts in Berkeley. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts in Berkeley. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Robert Watts, 41, was sentenced to life under California’s Three Strikes law for possession of stolen property. He had been in and out of prison on assault and robbery charges. He was released from San Quentin and currently is enrolled in a re-entry program in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120204283\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors can challenge Prop. 36 petitions, arguing that the inmates pose an unacceptable public-safety risk. Watts felt his hearing had gone poorly, and was shocked when a parole officer took him to the bus station instead of San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[They took me to the] Greyhound bus station, and the cop asked me when he opened the door, he goes ‘You’re from Kern County?’ and I said ‘Yeah.’ He goes ‘You just walk.’ He walked off. I just went to the phone and called my dad and my dad freaked out. It was kind of weird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know if it was real or not. They dropped me off, but I’m standing there, and he walks away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/watts03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118354\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/watts03.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts in Kern County Prison. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"813\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts in Kern County Prison. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/wattsfam.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/wattsfam.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts' son, Nicky, and father, Tom, wait before his hearing. (Gregory Cook/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts’ son Nicky, and father, Tom, wait before his hearing. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Watts’ parents have been raising his 13-year-old son, Nicky, in Bakersfield. Since his release, Watts has moved to Berkeley and into a re-entry program, but he is still having a hard time readjusting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think anybody owes me anything. I don’t want to put that off on anybody, but I wish there was some kind of structure. … Like ‘Here, just get out. Here’s $200, leave.’ If you’re on parole, you have somebody looking over you, and if you don’t have no place to stay, parole is going to find you an address because they need an address for you to stay, so you’ve got some place to stay. Right now, you’re done. You’re over it. So in the back of my mind, if I could get a 16-month term, half-time, I’d probably go back real quick so I could be on parole. Just so I could come back and be on parole and I’d have all this funding. Eight months wouldn’t be anything in prison, and I’d be on parole then, and then I’d have this funding to help me through basic needs, I guess, without trying to bother my family for other things that I don’t really want to bother them for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pete Marin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7603_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118369\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7603_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Pete Marin served 18 years for petty theft. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Marin served 18 years for petty theft. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pete Marin, 52, served 18 years for petty theft under Three Strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120203941\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin says that some inmates feel that their Three Strikes sentences helped them live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What would happen to us if we didn’t get this life sentence? There’s a saying that God rescued us. He sent a black-and-white, and that’s how God rescued us… A police car. I probably would have either OD’d or maybe died, got killed… The lifestyle that we had, I used to do drugs. If I had more money, I’d do more drugs, and keep doing it and doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re facing a life sentence, that really is a rude awakening. It awakens you, and it’s for real.\u003cbr>\nWhen I got busted, and I was in jail, and they told me that I was a Three Strike candidate, it really shook me. It broke me; it really broke me. A lot of things developed that night that I got busted, in my life. It was part of my testimony, how God revealed himself to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118370\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Marin at his sister's home. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marin at his sister’s home. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since his release, Marin spends time helping other former third strikers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got out, my mind was running so fast. It was kind of hard to explain. When I was trying to read, I couldn’t read. I caught myself thinking; my mind was running, and it was hard for me to concentrate, because there were so many things happening. I was a little shy and reserved, being amazed at a lot of things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For instance, when we got off the freeway, the area where I grew up at, I didn’t even recognize it. They did sidewalks and trees; I couldn’t believe where I was at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cell phone thing; I would be in my cell, and we would see TV, and we would see people, everyone texting and using the cell phone. I would think in my mind, ‘I would never do that. I’ll be out there, and I’ll be talking to people, and have conversations one-on-one with people.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Marin’s nieces and nephews are teaching him how to text. While Marin’s family is supportive, he says his prison time makes many people uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was talking to a gentleman the other day, and he realized that I was in prison. His demeanor changed. I knew what it was. He was uncomfortable. It kind of hurt a little bit. I could understand his not feeling comfortable. I could understand it. I know, every time I was in prison, I realized that a lot of people who are on the streets, they believe that we’re the scum of the earth. That’s one of the reasons why I am sitting here in this interview. There are a lot of good people that had addictions, and that have come out; that have changed their life, and the system did do its job. There’s men that have changed, that have came out, and they’ve changed their life. I would like to be a representative, so to speak, to let them know that there are men that have changed their life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”b486dc817180f8c947cbadcbec3ee55c”]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most three strikers who are released have served so much extra time that they’re not placed on parole or probation. Often that means they don’t have access to substance abuse, mental health and other re-entry programs as well as housing. Brown, who served 17 years for a 5-year sentence, finds the lack of assistance insulting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just get the regular $200 that everyone else gets, with no transitional programs. No type of assistance, no consideration of families being lost, families being separated, people dying, things happening in our lives over the years, or getting older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have any type of transitional programs for people that are getting released that have served a lot of extra time for the crimes that were committed. So it is unfair, the way we’re being treated. I’m… blessed because of the support system that I have and the people that’s been right there for me throughout the course of these 18 years that I was in prison. Everyone doesn’t have this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownfather.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118322\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownfather.jpg\" alt=\"Brown, at home, reads a letter from his friend Shorty, who's still in San Quentin, out loud to Roorda. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED) \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown, at home in Ripon with Roorda, reads a letter from his friend Shorty, who’s still in San Quentin. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown met Minard and Vivian Roorda in 1995 after his conviction. They became friends, and the Roordas visited Brown regularly in prison. They visited Brown one night after church. Brown saw their visit as a sign:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went back to my cell and cried like a baby and thanked the Lord because he answered a prayer that I asked. I said, ‘Lord, I’m going to prison with 25 years to life for this petty theft offense and I don’t want to go in there with an attitude, rambunctious. I want to go in there to serve you. So let me know if you’re real in my life and that you hear this prayer.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Brown’s release, the Roordas helped him settle in Ripon, where they own a farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownweld.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118323\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownweld.jpg\" alt=\"Brown operates a forklift, moving almond harvesting equipment. He also welds and paints. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown operates a forklift, moving almond-harvesting equipment. He also welds and paints. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A longtime singer, Brown formed a gospel group, Neu Dae, while serving time in San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got together with two other prisoners, Rico and Shorty, and we formed this gospel group. …All we had, basically, was a keyboard that we operated with, that had a drum machine set in and all, but for the most part our voices would complement one another when we sang, and we knew that it had to be a gift, which it was a gift, and is a gift, from God.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robert Watts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7607_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7607_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts in Berkeley. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts in Berkeley. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Robert Watts, 41, was sentenced to life under California’s Three Strikes law for possession of stolen property. He had been in and out of prison on assault and robbery charges. He was released from San Quentin and currently is enrolled in a re-entry program in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120204283\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors can challenge Prop. 36 petitions, arguing that the inmates pose an unacceptable public-safety risk. Watts felt his hearing had gone poorly, and was shocked when a parole officer took him to the bus station instead of San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[They took me to the] Greyhound bus station, and the cop asked me when he opened the door, he goes ‘You’re from Kern County?’ and I said ‘Yeah.’ He goes ‘You just walk.’ He walked off. I just went to the phone and called my dad and my dad freaked out. It was kind of weird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know if it was real or not. They dropped me off, but I’m standing there, and he walks away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/watts03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118354\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/watts03.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts in Kern County Prison. (Gregory D. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/24/news-pix-giants-sign-lincecum-sleeper-waves-hit-bay-area-and-bart-strike-finally-ends/berkeleyskyline/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-115968\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/berkeleyskyline.jpg\" alt=\"The view from the Berkeley Hills. Several Berkeley ZIP codes were included in the East Bay 'Super Zip,' a collection of ZIP Codes whose residents rank near the top nationwide in both education and income. Daniel Parks/Berkeleyside\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115968\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from the Berkeley Hills. Several Berkeley ZIP Codes were included in the East Bay 'Super Zip,' a collection of ZIP codes whose residents rank near the top nationwide in both education and income. Daniel Parks/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We know, we know. There are a lot of rich, smart people around here. Not that we're boasting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But consider some of the recent supporting evidence: Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported on \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2013/11/09/washington-a-world-apart/\">\"Super Zips,\"\u003c/a> ZIP codes ranking highest on residents' income and college education. Two of the nation's largest collections of contiguous Super Zips are found in the South Bay (No. 3) and East Bay (No. 5). And if that's note enough to convince you we're darn special, check out \u003ca href=\"http://www.fastcoexist.com/3021592/the-10-smartest-cities-in-north-america?partner=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+fastcoexist/feed+%28Co.Exist%29\">Fast Company's list of the smartest U.S. cities\u003c/a>: San Francisco tied for second with Boston (Seattle is ranked No. 1). The magazine defines \"smart\" as \"doing the most to become the sustainable, connected, innovative city of the future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The clustering of the educated wealthy has been increasing, and is resulting in deeper stratification of socioeconomic classes.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Using the latest census data, the Post ranked ZIP codes from 0 to 99, representing the average of each area’s percentile rankings for median household income and for the share of adults with college degrees. Those with a rank of 95 or higher are \"Super Zips\" (the phrase was coined by \u003ca href=\"http://www.aei.org/scholar/charles-murray/\">Charles Murray\u003c/a>, an American Enterprise Institute scholar and author). Typical household income in one of the 650 Super Zips is $120,272, and 68 percent of adults hold college degrees. By comparison, household income in the remaining 23,925 zips is $53,962, with 27 percent holding college degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Super Zip numbers are way higher than others, of course. Atherton, for example, tallies a median household income of $240,833, and 82 percent of Athertonians are college grads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118307\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 436px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/118235/Bay-Area-high-income-college-educated-smart/bayareasuperzips/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118307\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-118307 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/BayAreaSuperZips.jpg\" alt='The Washington Post identified two \"Super Zips\" in the Bay Area — contiguous ZIP codes with high numbers of wealthy, educated residents. The Super Zips are indicated in yellow.' width=\"436\" height=\"416\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Washington Post identified two \"Super Zips\" in the Bay Area — contiguous ZIP codes with high numbers of wealthy, educated residents. The Super Zips are indicated in yellow.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Post story that accompanies its Super Zip map notes that the clustering of the educated wealthy has been increasing, and is resulting in deeper stratification of socioeconomic classes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Although the wealthiest Americans have always lived in their own islands of privilege, sociologists and demographers say the degree to which today’s professional class resides in a world apart is a departure from earlier generations. People of widely different incomes and professions commonly lived close enough that they mingled at stores, sports arenas and school. In an era in which women had fewer educational and professional opportunities, lawyers married secretaries and doctors married nurses. Now, lawyers and doctors marry each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent analysis of census data by sociologists Sean Reardon of Stanford and Kendra Bischoff of Cornell highlighted how middle-income neighborhoods have been fading away as more people live in areas that are either poor or affluent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1970, 65 percent of families lived in middle-income neighborhoods; four decades later, 42 percent did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the share of families living in affluent neighborhoods doubled, from 7 percent to 15 percent, as did families living in poor neighborhoods, from 8 percent to 18 percent.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The trend toward stratification is not a positive one, say sociologists, in part because it impedes the upward mobility that has always been a part of the American Dream. Again from the Post story:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As the affluent become more isolated, the working class and the poor become confined “to communities where no one has a college education and no one has connections to the world,” said Stephen Klineberg, a Rice University sociologist. “The social capital that’s so necessary for upward mobility is more difficult to come by than it was in the old days when there was broad-based prosperity.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And, the Post notes, the impact on children, particularly those from affluent families who grow up knowing only their privileged world, could be substantial and long-lasting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We ought to worry about what this means for society when kids who are the most advantaged don’t grow up with much experience or understanding of how the other 95 percent live, particularly the bottom half,” said Reardon, who studies the consequences of income inequality. “Will they be less empathetic? Do they understand what it’s like to grow up poor?”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But let us move on to \u003ca href=\"http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680538/what-exactly-is-a-smart-city\">smartness\u003c/a>. This is the third year that Fast Company has ranked cities according to their \"broad, integrated approach to improving the efficiency of city operations, the quality of life for its citizens, and growing the local economy.\" Author Boyd Cohen has even developed a rubric for smart cities, which he calls the Smart Cities Wheel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118309\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/118235/Bay-Area-high-income-college-educated-smart/smartcity/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118309\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-118309 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/smartcity-e1384478703751.jpg\" alt=\"The Smart Cities Wheel, by Fast Company's Boyd Cohen.\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Smart Cities Wheel, by Fast Company's Boyd Cohen.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the story points out, portentously, \"The survival of our species on planet earth is largely going to be determined by what happens in our cities. By 2050, 70 percent of the world's population will live in them. We are observing a mass migration to cities at an unprecedented rate. The growing urbanization places high demands on infrastructure such as transportation and building as well as increased demand for resources such as food, water, and energy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast Company says San Francisco and Boston are second only to Seattle in delivering more services via mobile tech, optimizing existing infrastructure, and leveraging citizen participation to both make better land-use decisions and stimulate a strong, entrepreneurial ecosystem. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, hey, we already knew that.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Atherton, for example, tallies a median household income of $240,833, and 82 percent of Athertonians are college grads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118307\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 436px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/118235/Bay-Area-high-income-college-educated-smart/bayareasuperzips/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118307\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-118307 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/BayAreaSuperZips.jpg\" alt='The Washington Post identified two \"Super Zips\" in the Bay Area — contiguous ZIP codes with high numbers of wealthy, educated residents. The Super Zips are indicated in yellow.' width=\"436\" height=\"416\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Washington Post identified two \"Super Zips\" in the Bay Area — contiguous ZIP codes with high numbers of wealthy, educated residents. The Super Zips are indicated in yellow.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Post story that accompanies its Super Zip map notes that the clustering of the educated wealthy has been increasing, and is resulting in deeper stratification of socioeconomic classes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Although the wealthiest Americans have always lived in their own islands of privilege, sociologists and demographers say the degree to which today’s professional class resides in a world apart is a departure from earlier generations. People of widely different incomes and professions commonly lived close enough that they mingled at stores, sports arenas and school. In an era in which women had fewer educational and professional opportunities, lawyers married secretaries and doctors married nurses. Now, lawyers and doctors marry each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent analysis of census data by sociologists Sean Reardon of Stanford and Kendra Bischoff of Cornell highlighted how middle-income neighborhoods have been fading away as more people live in areas that are either poor or affluent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1970, 65 percent of families lived in middle-income neighborhoods; four decades later, 42 percent did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the share of families living in affluent neighborhoods doubled, from 7 percent to 15 percent, as did families living in poor neighborhoods, from 8 percent to 18 percent.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The trend toward stratification is not a positive one, say sociologists, in part because it impedes the upward mobility that has always been a part of the American Dream. Again from the Post story:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As the affluent become more isolated, the working class and the poor become confined “to communities where no one has a college education and no one has connections to the world,” said Stephen Klineberg, a Rice University sociologist. “The social capital that’s so necessary for upward mobility is more difficult to come by than it was in the old days when there was broad-based prosperity.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And, the Post notes, the impact on children, particularly those from affluent families who grow up knowing only their privileged world, could be substantial and long-lasting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We ought to worry about what this means for society when kids who are the most advantaged don’t grow up with much experience or understanding of how the other 95 percent live, particularly the bottom half,” said Reardon, who studies the consequences of income inequality. “Will they be less empathetic? Do they understand what it’s like to grow up poor?”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But let us move on to \u003ca href=\"http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680538/what-exactly-is-a-smart-city\">smartness\u003c/a>. This is the third year that Fast Company has ranked cities according to their \"broad, integrated approach to improving the efficiency of city operations, the quality of life for its citizens, and growing the local economy.\" Author Boyd Cohen has even developed a rubric for smart cities, which he calls the Smart Cities Wheel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118309\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/118235/Bay-Area-high-income-college-educated-smart/smartcity/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118309\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-118309 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/smartcity-e1384478703751.jpg\" alt=\"The Smart Cities Wheel, by Fast Company's Boyd Cohen.\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Smart Cities Wheel, by Fast Company's Boyd Cohen.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the story points out, portentously, \"The survival of our species on planet earth is largely going to be determined by what happens in our cities. By 2050, 70 percent of the world's population will live in them. We are observing a mass migration to cities at an unprecedented rate. The growing urbanization places high demands on infrastructure such as transportation and building as well as increased demand for resources such as food, water, and energy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Sam Harnett\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/13/118127/Mission-District-landlord-Casa-Sanchez-gentrification/casa-sanchez/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118143\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118143 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Casa-Sanchez-e1384398917297.jpg\" alt=\"Ayutla restaurant now operates in the old Casa Sanchez space in San Francisco's Mission District. (Sam Harnett / KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayutla restaurant now operates in the old Casa Sanchez space in San Francisco’s Mission District. (Sam Harnett / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s longtime tenants count on rent control to keep their housing costs down. But if you’re a small business owner in a hot neighborhood, there’s not much to stop a landlord from jacking up your rent once the lease is up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Mission District, many landlords of commercial spaces \u003cem>are\u003c/em> raising rents. They’re cashing in on the demand for new businesses that serve tech workers. But at least one pair of landlords in the neighborhood is not going that route — Bob and Marta Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When their mother passed away two years ago, Bob and his sister Marta inherited the old \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Sanchez_Foods\">Casa Sanchez\u003c/a> restaurant on 24th Street, between York and Hampshire streets. The siblings decided they didn’t want to just rent to the highest bidder. Instead, they rented to a local family of Latino restaurateurs who had been displaced from their previous restaurant, also on 24th Street, when the owner redeveloped the building. Marta Sanchez says she and her brother wanted to give them one last shot in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”2dcf7643b4fd8844333c808eacce71e7″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lower 24th Street, where 89-year-old Casa Sanchez sits and which still has the highest concentration of Latino-owned businesses in the city, is the heart of the Latino Mission district. It stretches from the BART station on Mission Street east to Potrero Hill. It runs perpendicular to Valencia Street, which has seen rapid gentrification and an influx of new restaurants and shops over the last decade. And it is now at the front line in the city’s growing turmoil over tech-driven gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This stretch of 24th Street has had a tumultuous past. It was known in previous decades for gang violence and drug dealing. Marta Sanchez says that in the ‘80s, tortilla companies fought for turf at the street’s taco joints in what came to be called the “tortilla wars.” She says it grew so heated that tortilla delivery men were said to carry guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those years also saw a burst of Latino pride and activism on the street. Community and arts organizations sprang up, like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.precitaeyes.org/\">Precita Eyes Mural Arts and Visitor Center\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.galeriadelaraza.org/\">Galeria de la Raza\u003c/a>, a gallery that displays Latino and Chicano art. The alleyways and storefronts up and down the street are still covered with giant murals painted by graffiti artists during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118152\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/13/118127/Mission-District-landlord-Casa-Sanchez-gentrification/24th-street-033/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118152\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118152 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/24th-street-033-e1384406845841.jpg\" alt='Outdoor art at Galeria de la Raza depicts the \"death\" of the Mission due to evictions. (Sam Harnett / KQED)' width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outdoor art at Galeria de la Raza depicts the “death” of the Mission due to evictions. (Sam Harnett / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, upscale restaurants and cafes have popped up. On weekends, a long line forms at Wise Sons, a Jewish-inspired deli where Mark Zuckerberg has been seen dining — he is reported to have bought a house several blocks west toward Noe Valley. Tour groups now come through to see the murals, and Google employee buses stop near the BART station on their way to the tech campuses on the Peninsula and in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2013/10/live-anti-evictions-protest-on-24th-street/\">rally \u003c/a>last month, protesters marched down 24th Street to call attention to the impact of the Mission’s rapid gentrification. “24th Street is not for sale!” they chanted. “No more evictions!” One speaker demanded that “the city provide incentives to keep long-term businesses in the Mission.” The message was clear: This isn’t just about displaced residents, but displaced businesses. The march started by Casa Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marta Sanchez says the restaurant has always been a \u003ca href=\"http://www.casasanchez.com/Index.html\">family business\u003c/a>. Her grandparents made tortillas initially, but during the tortilla wars, they concentrated on chips and salsa instead. It was safer. They concocted their first batches at a table inside the restaurant. Later, the company made national headlines by offering free lunches for life to anyone who got a tattoo of the Casa Sanchez logo — a boy in a sombrero riding a corn cob rocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez’s mother ran the restaurant for years. A neighborhood matriarch, she held sway from a chair in the corner of the room – she actually died while sitting in that chair. When she passed away in 2011, they made a shrine for her in one of the patio booths out back. Inside the restaurant, there’s a picture of her up on the wall, painted like an old Mexican fresco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Marta Sanchez says she and her brother have been flooded with offers to lease or sell the place. She says a chef from a famous San Francisco restaurant came in and offered her $200,000 up front just to sign the lease. But she and Bob decided to turn it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a family meeting,” Sanchez says, “and I just gave a lot of credit to my brother, because he was paying the mortgage after my mom passed away and he didn’t have to do that — he could have taken the $200,000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, they decided to go with the Banuelos family, who opened a taqueria called Ayutla in the Casa Sanchez space in mid-2012. The family is paying far less than market rate to rent the space. But Marta Sanchez and Maria Elena Banuelos knew each other from grade school, and knew each other on 24th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘If you have to pay a mortgage and you really need the money, and people keep waving money at you, eventually you are going to take it.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Emilia Estrada is part of the Banuelos family. She says “the owner Bob Sanchez, he’s a very nice man, and he was able to accommodate us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Banuelos have run restaurants in the Mission for almost 40 years. Their most recent was La Posta, on 24th Street. “It was so sad when they demolished La Posta,” Estrada says. “That one was really, really nice.” Now, where the restaurant used to be, are condos and new retail spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erick Arguello runs the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lower24thstreet.org/english/index.html\">Lower 24th Street Merchant & Neighbors Association\u003c/a>. To illustrate the rapid gentrification, he points out two properties side by side on the street. One was left to a brother and the other to a sister. The brother’s property was turned into condos, while the sister kept her building as an independently owned boutique. All up and down the street you can see this kind of uneven development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguello says the reason 24th Street hasn’t changed entirely is because many businesses actually own their buildings — that’s how the Latino barber shops, churches and knickknack shops can afford to stay. Without them, Arguello says, this would be the Mission in name only. Maybe it would be called “Mission Viejo” (Old Mission), he says, or some other kind of made-up real estate term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sanchezes made an emotional decision about renting Casa Sanchez, not an economic one. They are keeping the rent low so a local business can stay in the neighborhood. But not everyone has the resources to rent below market rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118153\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/13/118127/Mission-District-landlord-Casa-Sanchez-gentrification/marta/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118153\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118153 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Marta-e1384406454610.jpg\" alt=\"Marta Sanchez at Casa Sanchez. (Sam Harnett / KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marta Sanchez at Casa Sanchez. (Sam Harnett / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not easy,” Marta Sanchez says, “because if you have to pay a mortgage and you really need the money, and people keep waving that amount of money at you, eventually you are going to take it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t be blamed for it,” she says, “because there is only so much you can do on behalf of your values with the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the bay, Berkeley became one of the few U.S. cities \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Quotaorigin.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to ever attempt to impose commercial rent control\u003c/a> in the late 1970s and 1980s. But its laws, which denied landlords the right to occupy their own property when leases expired, were \u003ca href=\"http://www.leagle.com/decision/19871475655FSupp820_11339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struck down\u003c/a> in federal court for violating the U.S. Constitution’s \u003ca href=\"http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/a1_10_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contract clause\u003c/a>. Berkeley amended its ordinances to satisfy that shortcoming, but the state then enacted a law pre-empting further local attempts at commercial rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Ammiano-Wants-to-End-Ban-on-Commercial-Rent-2951202.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impact of the law\u003c/a> is that in San Francisco, as elsewhere, businesses live or die at the whim of their landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casa Sanchez has been hosting punk music and other live music events at nights, free for patrons of Ayutla, and partly to help make ends meet. Marta Sanchez says what the Banuelos family pays in rent barely covers the mortgage. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This stretch of 24th Street has had a tumultuous past. It was known in previous decades for gang violence and drug dealing. Marta Sanchez says that in the ‘80s, tortilla companies fought for turf at the street’s taco joints in what came to be called the “tortilla wars.” She says it grew so heated that tortilla delivery men were said to carry guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those years also saw a burst of Latino pride and activism on the street. Community and arts organizations sprang up, like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.precitaeyes.org/\">Precita Eyes Mural Arts and Visitor Center\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.galeriadelaraza.org/\">Galeria de la Raza\u003c/a>, a gallery that displays Latino and Chicano art. The alleyways and storefronts up and down the street are still covered with giant murals painted by graffiti artists during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118152\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/13/118127/Mission-District-landlord-Casa-Sanchez-gentrification/24th-street-033/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118152\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118152 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/24th-street-033-e1384406845841.jpg\" alt='Outdoor art at Galeria de la Raza depicts the \"death\" of the Mission due to evictions. (Sam Harnett / KQED)' width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outdoor art at Galeria de la Raza depicts the “death” of the Mission due to evictions. (Sam Harnett / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, upscale restaurants and cafes have popped up. On weekends, a long line forms at Wise Sons, a Jewish-inspired deli where Mark Zuckerberg has been seen dining — he is reported to have bought a house several blocks west toward Noe Valley. Tour groups now come through to see the murals, and Google employee buses stop near the BART station on their way to the tech campuses on the Peninsula and in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2013/10/live-anti-evictions-protest-on-24th-street/\">rally \u003c/a>last month, protesters marched down 24th Street to call attention to the impact of the Mission’s rapid gentrification. “24th Street is not for sale!” they chanted. “No more evictions!” One speaker demanded that “the city provide incentives to keep long-term businesses in the Mission.” The message was clear: This isn’t just about displaced residents, but displaced businesses. The march started by Casa Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marta Sanchez says the restaurant has always been a \u003ca href=\"http://www.casasanchez.com/Index.html\">family business\u003c/a>. Her grandparents made tortillas initially, but during the tortilla wars, they concentrated on chips and salsa instead. It was safer. They concocted their first batches at a table inside the restaurant. Later, the company made national headlines by offering free lunches for life to anyone who got a tattoo of the Casa Sanchez logo — a boy in a sombrero riding a corn cob rocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez’s mother ran the restaurant for years. A neighborhood matriarch, she held sway from a chair in the corner of the room – she actually died while sitting in that chair. When she passed away in 2011, they made a shrine for her in one of the patio booths out back. 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