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With half a million kids using the park’s playground, and high demand for its \u003ca href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/venues/VR1400192\">reservable picnic tables\u003c/a>, “what we found is people want more,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new 1.5-acre section, \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/outpost-meadow\">named Outpost Meadow\u003c/a>, opened to the public on Thursday, expanding the park down this Presidio hill all the way to the Sports Basement parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funded by a grant from the California Natural Resources Agency, it features native plants, barbecues, shade umbrellas, bike parking and direct Muni access — so you can spread out, hang out and take in the view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about visiting Outpost Meadow — and how to enjoy one of those new picnic tables before the word gets out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-02-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-02-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Golden Gate Bridge from Outpost Meadow. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#B\">How can I snag a picnic table here?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#C\">How do I get to Outpost Meadow?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#E\">What is there to do nearby?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>What’s new about Outpost Meadow?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Designed by the same group behind New York City’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.thehighline.org/\">The High Line\u003c/a> public park, built on an elevated railway line, Outpost Meadow offers 25 free new picnic tables to the public. Some tables are in their own secluded areas and others surround a big open lawn; many have shade umbrellas, but all tables are wheelchair accessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things we really want to make sure is that people who do have mobility challenges can get out into nature,” Fraser said. “All of us need that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Kennedy, a partner with design firm Field Operations, said the park’s expansion was “an inevitability,” fulfilling the Presidio’s long-term goal to fully connect its park space all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Outpost Meadow widens things up again so that families can now spill out [and] have some decompression space,” Kennedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bicyclist rides by a sign for Outpost Meadow. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>How can I get a picnic table at Outpost Meadows?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new tables are currently free and open for use. And unlike\u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/picnic-place\"> other Tunnel Tops and Crissy Field picnic tables\u003c/a>, you don’t have to reserve any of them right now — although Presidio officials say a reservation system will be \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/outpost-meadow\">implemented online in October\u003c/a> for a portion of the new tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for now, make sure you turn up early to snag your table, especially if it’s for a special occasion or a planned meetup, or if you’re hoping to use one of the four barbecue grills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048573\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family sits at a picnic table at Outpost Meadow. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>How do I get to Outpost Meadow?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new park replaces some of the former Sports Basement parking lot. So if you plan to drive to Outpost Meadow, look out for those parking spaces that have now been moved to the building’s northern side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/30-stockton\">Muni 30 bus turnaround\u003c/a> has also been moved to accommodate the new space and is now located along Mason Street, where both the Tunnel Tops and Sports Basement bus stops reside. You can get off Muni and walk straight to Outpost Meadow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also take the \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/visit/getting-to-and-around-the-park/presidio-go-shuttle/presidio-go-downtown-shuttle-schedule\">free Presidio Shuttle\u003c/a> from downtown San Francisco to the upper portion of the park, and then use the ramp or stairs down to the meadow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, hop on your bike and ride on down — there’s plenty of bike parking available adjacent to the Sports Basement parking lot and next to Mason Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048571\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-10-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-10-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-10-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-10-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign at Outpost Meadow. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>What should I bring to Outpost Meadow?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re coming for lunch, bring a picnic or get grilling on one of the barbecues provided in the park. There are also \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/presidio-pop-up\">food trucks\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"https://ilparcosf.com/\">small cafe\u003c/a> nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the picnic tables are more exposed, facing the meadow, while others are tucked away in clusters, so “depending on your mood or depending on who you’re with or what you’re looking for, you can find that space,” Kennedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bring a blanket, Frisbee and other lawn games for the central meadow space. And don’t forget about San Francisco’s unpredictable weather — roll up with both a jacket and sunscreen, just in case. There are restrooms with water fountains just up the hill, accessible by ramp or by stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048574\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-24-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-24-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-24-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-24-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map shows the location of Outpost Meadow in the Presidio. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"E\">\u003c/a>What is there to do nearby?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Presidio stretches all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge (1.3 miles away) \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/itineraries/getting-to-the-golden-gate-bridge-by-bike\">if you’re looking for a bike ride\u003c/a> or scenic walk. You can bring your own or rent a bike at right there at Sports Basement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Head down to \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/crissy-field\">Crissy Field’s\u003c/a> beach, marsh or open lawn to stretch out and soak in the views. You could also head east to the \u003ca href=\"https://palaceoffinearts.com/\">Palace of Fine Arts\u003c/a> (0.8 miles) or even farther to Fort Mason (2 miles) or Aquatic Park and Ghirardelli Square (2.2 miles) to make a whole day out of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-18-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-18-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-18-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-18-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors gather at Outpost Meadow. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funded by a grant from the California Natural Resources Agency, it features native plants, barbecues, shade umbrellas, bike parking and direct Muni access — so you can spread out, hang out and take in the view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about visiting Outpost Meadow — and how to enjoy one of those new picnic tables before the word gets out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-02-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-02-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Golden Gate Bridge from Outpost Meadow. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#B\">How can I snag a picnic table here?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#C\">How do I get to Outpost Meadow?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#E\">What is there to do nearby?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>What’s new about Outpost Meadow?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Designed by the same group behind New York City’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.thehighline.org/\">The High Line\u003c/a> public park, built on an elevated railway line, Outpost Meadow offers 25 free new picnic tables to the public. Some tables are in their own secluded areas and others surround a big open lawn; many have shade umbrellas, but all tables are wheelchair accessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things we really want to make sure is that people who do have mobility challenges can get out into nature,” Fraser said. “All of us need that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Kennedy, a partner with design firm Field Operations, said the park’s expansion was “an inevitability,” fulfilling the Presidio’s long-term goal to fully connect its park space all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Outpost Meadow widens things up again so that families can now spill out [and] have some decompression space,” Kennedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bicyclist rides by a sign for Outpost Meadow. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>How can I get a picnic table at Outpost Meadows?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new tables are currently free and open for use. And unlike\u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/picnic-place\"> other Tunnel Tops and Crissy Field picnic tables\u003c/a>, you don’t have to reserve any of them right now — although Presidio officials say a reservation system will be \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/outpost-meadow\">implemented online in October\u003c/a> for a portion of the new tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for now, make sure you turn up early to snag your table, especially if it’s for a special occasion or a planned meetup, or if you’re hoping to use one of the four barbecue grills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048573\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family sits at a picnic table at Outpost Meadow. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>How do I get to Outpost Meadow?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new park replaces some of the former Sports Basement parking lot. So if you plan to drive to Outpost Meadow, look out for those parking spaces that have now been moved to the building’s northern side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/30-stockton\">Muni 30 bus turnaround\u003c/a> has also been moved to accommodate the new space and is now located along Mason Street, where both the Tunnel Tops and Sports Basement bus stops reside. You can get off Muni and walk straight to Outpost Meadow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also take the \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/visit/getting-to-and-around-the-park/presidio-go-shuttle/presidio-go-downtown-shuttle-schedule\">free Presidio Shuttle\u003c/a> from downtown San Francisco to the upper portion of the park, and then use the ramp or stairs down to the meadow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, hop on your bike and ride on down — there’s plenty of bike parking available adjacent to the Sports Basement parking lot and next to Mason Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048571\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-10-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-10-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-10-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-10-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign at Outpost Meadow. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>What should I bring to Outpost Meadow?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re coming for lunch, bring a picnic or get grilling on one of the barbecues provided in the park. There are also \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/presidio-pop-up\">food trucks\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"https://ilparcosf.com/\">small cafe\u003c/a> nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the picnic tables are more exposed, facing the meadow, while others are tucked away in clusters, so “depending on your mood or depending on who you’re with or what you’re looking for, you can find that space,” Kennedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bring a blanket, Frisbee and other lawn games for the central meadow space. And don’t forget about San Francisco’s unpredictable weather — roll up with both a jacket and sunscreen, just in case. There are restrooms with water fountains just up the hill, accessible by ramp or by stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048574\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-24-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-24-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-24-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-24-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map shows the location of Outpost Meadow in the Presidio. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"E\">\u003c/a>What is there to do nearby?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Presidio stretches all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge (1.3 miles away) \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/itineraries/getting-to-the-golden-gate-bridge-by-bike\">if you’re looking for a bike ride\u003c/a> or scenic walk. You can bring your own or rent a bike at right there at Sports Basement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Head down to \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/crissy-field\">Crissy Field’s\u003c/a> beach, marsh or open lawn to stretch out and soak in the views. You could also head east to the \u003ca href=\"https://palaceoffinearts.com/\">Palace of Fine Arts\u003c/a> (0.8 miles) or even farther to Fort Mason (2 miles) or Aquatic Park and Ghirardelli Square (2.2 miles) to make a whole day out of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-18-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-18-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-18-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-18-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors gather at Outpost Meadow. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:23 a.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> judge ruled Thursday that ICE cannot redetain a man without the approval of a neutral third party, keeping Bay Area community organizer Guillermo Medina Reyes out of custody until his case can be heard in front of a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin granted a preliminary injunction barring Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from detaining Reyes, a San José tattoo artist who has lived in the U.S. since he was 6 years old, until a judge can decide on the agency’s argument that he is a flight risk or danger to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That came after a Tuesday order extending his temporary reprieve on the day it was set to expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE is sort of saying that they have complete unilateral authority to detain anyone and that it doesn’t matter who the person is, how deserving the person is,” said Pete Weiss, co-director of Pangea Legal Services, which is representing him. “We are asking the court to basically say that [ICE] cannot detain him until he actually has a court hearing where somebody besides ICE should be making this decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates with the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice and other local groups rallied outside of the federal courthouse and packed the courtroom for Medina Reyes’ preliminary injunction hearing amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047397/ice-officers-drive-through-protesters-trying-to-stop-arrest-at-sf-immigration-court\">escalating clashes\u003c/a> between ICE and protesters in San Francisco. Last Tuesday, in one of the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047397/ice-officers-drive-through-protesters-trying-to-stop-arrest-at-sf-immigration-court\"> most violent altercations to date\u003c/a>, about a dozen people outside the city’s immigration court faced off with agents as they tried to detain a man following a hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048132\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Rebecca Solnit (right) joins supporters during a rally outside the U.S. District Court in San Francisco on July 15, 2025, calling on ICE to release Guillermo Medina Reyes ahead of his preliminary injunction hearing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protesters attempted to barricade the agents inside and block their path to a waiting van. They continued to stand in their way as they put the handcuffed man into the vehicle and began to drive away. Video footage captured by journalists and protesters showed people banging on the sides of the van and being shoved in the street by agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One protester, who dove onto the hood of the unmarked black van, clung on for nearly half a block before falling from the vehicle into an intersection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the Montgomery Street court this week, a much larger group gathered, prepared to intervene in the event of ICE action.[aside postID=news_12047506 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg']Weiss said Medina Reyes is one of many immigrants who have been targeted in recent months amid ramped-up ICE enforcement at Bay Area immigration courts and regional office check-in appointments. Since May, officials have begun arresting people following mandatory asylum case hearings — a practice immigration attorneys \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">previously called unprecedented\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asylum seekers who don’t show up to these court dates risk automatically losing their cases and being deported in absentia, attorneys told KQED at the time. People who don’t appear at check-in appointments would likely be detained, according to Weiss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina Reyes, 31, has been arguing for “withholding of removal” — a protection from deportation that is similar to asylum — for more than two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He came to San José with his mother as a child and lived in Santa Clara County until he was convicted of attempted murder as a teen. Medina Reyes spent more than a decade in prison, during which time he focused on rehabilitation and committed to advocating for other immigrants and incarcerated people, Weiss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was released on parole in 2021, Medina Reyes was transferred to ICE custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048129\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048129\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-10-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-10-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-10-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-10-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters rally outside the U.S. District Court in San Francisco on July 15, 2025, calling on ICE to release Guillermo Medina Reyes ahead of his preliminary injunction hearing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ICE didn’t really care about any of that,” Weiss said. “They basically punished him all over again, and said basically, ‘Okay, now it’s our turn.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After opening a case for withholding of deportation, Medina Reyes was released from detention by an immigration judge in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss said the legal team hasn’t been given an explicit reason for ICE’s renewed interest in detaining Medina Reyes this spring, though he was arrested and charged with vandalism in May following a mental health incident.[aside postID=news_12047018 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067.jpg']“An immigration judge already has found that he’s not dangerous and that he is not a flight risk,” he said. The attorneys are arguing “that it would be illegal to re-detain him without another judge reviewing that determination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the hearing, U.S. Department of Justice attorney Pam Johann argued that Media Reyes’ re-detainment would be justified because of his May arrest, which she said changed the circumstances of his release and violated its terms. She said that both when Medina Reyes was convicted of attempted murder as a teen and when he was arrested in May, he had been in possession of a knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lin asked Johann to explain why ICE should have the authority to decide that circumstances had changed — likening the agency’s position to a parole officer who can send a parolee back to jail without a hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The terms of supervision that Johann said Medina Reyes violated come from ICE, not the immigration court that granted his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Medina Reyes’ preliminary injunction hearing, Lin set a two-week deadline for him and the government’s attorneys to submit a timeline to hear the merits of his withholding of removal case, accelerating a final decision on whether he will gain legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048131\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048131\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters rally outside the U.S. District Court in San Francisco on July 15, 2025, calling on ICE to release Guillermo Medina Reyes ahead of his preliminary injunction hearing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Medina Reyes said after the hearing that he felt relief, but that his case is not over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a mission to build all of this support. It was a bigger mission even … just to get out of that place,” he told reporters. “Some people do spend two years, three years [in detention], and they still get deported. I still may get deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would hope that everybody keeps on fighting and pushing. It’s not just for me, but it’s for the people that are going to come, generation after generation, because if we don’t put a stop to it now, it’s going to get worse,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, protesters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043596/protesters-swarm-sf-immigration-court-after-more-ice-arrests\">shut the court down early\u003c/a> after more than 100 rallied outside the downtown building to oppose two arrests made using the novel tactic. Two weeks later, ICE’s office in San Francisco similarly closed early after a protest broke out as agents transferred two people who had been detained that morning in Concord that morning into holding cells, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-protests-clash-ice-immigration-arrests/\">\u003cem>Mission Local \u003c/em>reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 29 people have been detained at San Francisco’s immigration courthouse and ICE office since May, according to Milli Atkinson, director of the Immigrant Legal Defense Program at the San Francisco Bar Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss said that so far in 2025, Rapid Response Networks in San Mateo and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045336/growing-south-bay-ice-fears-lead-to-surge-in-immigrant-hotline-calls\">Santa Clara\u003c/a> counties have recorded at least 28 and 45 detentions, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:38 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Attorney General Pam Bondi visited \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alcatraz-island\">Alcatraz Island\u003c/a> in San Francisco on Thursday morning to announce plans to reopen the former federal prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Department of Justice spokesperson told KQED that Bondi and Burgum toured the prison — which once housed well-known criminals like Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly — and the surrounding island with park police and directed staff to collaborate on the planning needed to rehabilitate and reopen it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Spent the day on Alcatraz Island, a [National Park Service] site, to start the work to renovate and reopen the site to house the most dangerous criminals and illegals,” Burgum \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SecretaryBurgum/status/1945893688338493541\">said on X\u003c/a> Thursday, adding that he was following a directive from President Donald Trump. “This administration is restoring safety, justice, and order to our streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trip comes two months after Trump floated the idea of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038676/trump-says-he-will-reopen-alcatraz-prison\">reopening Alcatraz\u003c/a> on social media. House Republicans are expected to introduce legislation that would make the feat possible, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s office confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The planned announcement to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary is the Trump Administration’s stupidest initiative yet,” Pelosi said in a statement. “Make no mistake: this stupidity is a diversionary tactic to draw attention away from this Administration’s cruelest actions yet in their Big, Ugly Law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047046\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a rally opposing House Republicans’ tax proposal prior to the final House Vote on Capitol Hill on May 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Families Over Billionaires)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In May, Trump announced his desire to re-open the federal prison in a \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114452025916969327\">post on Truth Social\u003c/a>, saying he would direct the Bureau of Prisons and federal safety agencies to reopen “a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reopening of ALCATRAZ will serve as a symbol of Law, Order, and JUSTICE. We will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” the post reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie told reporters Thursday morning that the Trump administration had no “feasible plan” to reopen the prison.[aside postID=news_12048509 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Interior-Secretary-Doug-Burgum.jpg']“If they want to spend billions and billions and billions of dollars, we have many opportunities,” he said. “Tourists come from all over the world to visit Alcatraz. Over 1.5 million visitors, tens of millions of dollars of economic activity to our city and to our region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener expressed concern on social media that Trump might aim to use the island to hold people detained by ICE on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While this idea is absurd on so many levels — and destructive in seeking to destroy one of the most popular tourist sites in the country — Trump has shown that he executes on many of the insane and destructive things that come out of his warped brain,” he \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/scott_wiener/status/1945842201654874359?s=46\">wrote on X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his post on X, Burgum suggested the facility could “house the most dangerous criminals and illegals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reopening the prison would be difficult under current legislation that places the island under the Department of the Interior’s control and designates it as part of a national park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048382\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A National Park Service ranger walks down “Broadway” in the main cell block on Alcatraz Island on June 14, 2007, in San Francisco Bay, California. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly a decade after Alcatraz shuttered in 1963, Congress created the Golden Gate Recreation Area, which includes Alcatraz, Muir Woods in Marin County and the Presidio in San Francisco. All three became part of the newly formed national park, which was transferred to National Park Service control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a part of the Golden Gate Recreation Area, Alcatraz is subject to the Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Protection Act — federal protections that would make operating a prison on the site virtually impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1972 act creating the park requires that the National Park Service and Department of the Interior “shall preserve the recreation area, as far as possible, in its natural setting, and protect it from development and uses which would destroy the scenic beauty and natural character of the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the national park system, the land also has to adhere to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/grba/learn/management/organic-act-of-1916.htm\"> Park Service Organic Act,\u003c/a> which says it must “conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048542\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interior Secretary Doug Burgum (center) visited the Tunnel Tops in San Francisco on Thursday morning after he and Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz, ahead of their announcement to reopen the former federal prison. \u003ccite>(Katie DeBenedetti/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But forthcoming legislation would aim to repeal those requirements. Pelosi’s office confirmed that a House representative is expected to propose a bill that would remove key environmental protections governing the island, allowing it to be transferred out of the National Park Service’s control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should reason not prevail and Republicans bring this absurdity before the Congress, Democrats will use every parliamentary and budgetary tactic available to stop the lunacy,” Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Department of Justice spokesperson told KQED the Bureau of Prisons would operate the facility if it reopens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move builds on an earlier attack on the park, when, in February, Trump signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027864/trump-moves-slash-presidio-trust-agency-runs-historic-sf-park\">DOGE-inspired executive order\u003c/a> requiring the federal agency that runs the Presidio to submit a review of its operations and shut down any non-required functions, aiming to all but eliminate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029842\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Crissy Field in the Presidio, a park and former military outpost, in San Francisco on Feb. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a tour of the Presidio after the Alcatraz trip, Burgum praised the agency that manages the park, calling its revenue-generating operation a “model” for national parks. The Presidio Trust is financially self-sufficient, relying on money from leasing its historic buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reviving a prison on Alcatraz, on the other hand, would be costly — and inefficient, according to critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcatraz was shut down due to high operating costs, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.bop.gov/about/history/alcatraz.jsp\">the BOP estimated\u003c/a> in 1959 were about three times as high as any other federal facility. At the time, the site also required an estimated $3 million to $5 million in restoration and maintenance work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its highest occupancy, the site that now serves as a tourist destination housed less than 1% of federal prisoners in the country, with a usual occupancy between 260 and 275, according to the BOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“If they want to spend billions and billions and billions of dollars, we have many opportunities,” he said. “Tourists come from all over the world to visit Alcatraz. Over 1.5 million visitors, tens of millions of dollars of economic activity to our city and to our region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener expressed concern on social media that Trump might aim to use the island to hold people detained by ICE on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While this idea is absurd on so many levels — and destructive in seeking to destroy one of the most popular tourist sites in the country — Trump has shown that he executes on many of the insane and destructive things that come out of his warped brain,” he \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/scott_wiener/status/1945842201654874359?s=46\">wrote on X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his post on X, Burgum suggested the facility could “house the most dangerous criminals and illegals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reopening the prison would be difficult under current legislation that places the island under the Department of the Interior’s control and designates it as part of a national park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048382\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A National Park Service ranger walks down “Broadway” in the main cell block on Alcatraz Island on June 14, 2007, in San Francisco Bay, California. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly a decade after Alcatraz shuttered in 1963, Congress created the Golden Gate Recreation Area, which includes Alcatraz, Muir Woods in Marin County and the Presidio in San Francisco. All three became part of the newly formed national park, which was transferred to National Park Service control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a part of the Golden Gate Recreation Area, Alcatraz is subject to the Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Protection Act — federal protections that would make operating a prison on the site virtually impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1972 act creating the park requires that the National Park Service and Department of the Interior “shall preserve the recreation area, as far as possible, in its natural setting, and protect it from development and uses which would destroy the scenic beauty and natural character of the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the national park system, the land also has to adhere to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/grba/learn/management/organic-act-of-1916.htm\"> Park Service Organic Act,\u003c/a> which says it must “conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048542\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interior Secretary Doug Burgum (center) visited the Tunnel Tops in San Francisco on Thursday morning after he and Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz, ahead of their announcement to reopen the former federal prison. \u003ccite>(Katie DeBenedetti/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But forthcoming legislation would aim to repeal those requirements. Pelosi’s office confirmed that a House representative is expected to propose a bill that would remove key environmental protections governing the island, allowing it to be transferred out of the National Park Service’s control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should reason not prevail and Republicans bring this absurdity before the Congress, Democrats will use every parliamentary and budgetary tactic available to stop the lunacy,” Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Department of Justice spokesperson told KQED the Bureau of Prisons would operate the facility if it reopens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move builds on an earlier attack on the park, when, in February, Trump signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027864/trump-moves-slash-presidio-trust-agency-runs-historic-sf-park\">DOGE-inspired executive order\u003c/a> requiring the federal agency that runs the Presidio to submit a review of its operations and shut down any non-required functions, aiming to all but eliminate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029842\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Crissy Field in the Presidio, a park and former military outpost, in San Francisco on Feb. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a tour of the Presidio after the Alcatraz trip, Burgum praised the agency that manages the park, calling its revenue-generating operation a “model” for national parks. The Presidio Trust is financially self-sufficient, relying on money from leasing its historic buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reviving a prison on Alcatraz, on the other hand, would be costly — and inefficient, according to critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcatraz was shut down due to high operating costs, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.bop.gov/about/history/alcatraz.jsp\">the BOP estimated\u003c/a> in 1959 were about three times as high as any other federal facility. At the time, the site also required an estimated $3 million to $5 million in restoration and maintenance work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its highest occupancy, the site that now serves as a tourist destination housed less than 1% of federal prisoners in the country, with a usual occupancy between 260 and 275, according to the BOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They’re expected to explain how the Alliance, a nonprofit that worked closely with the city’s Recreation and Parks Department and acted as the fundraising arm for about 80 community groups, misspent nearly $4 million, though Fielder said they plan to appear with attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully we’ll get some answers as to how this all transpired and happened, although it’s unclear … as they’re also going to be there with their lawyers,” Fielder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046160\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250624-PARKFILE-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250624-PARKFILE-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250624-PARKFILE-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250624-PARKFILE-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People row on a rental boat on Blue Heron Lake in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on June 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast: \u003c/strong>Partner organizations began raising concerns about the Parks Alliance’s finances in late April, after struggling to get reimbursements. In May, the board chair, Louise Mozingo, told a donor in leaked emails that the Alliance had used at least $3.8 million earmarked for specific projects to cover operating expenses, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/parks-alliance-20331332.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than $1 million of the misspent money is owed to the city’s Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins launched a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043932/how-a-trusted-sf-nonprofit-unraveled-and-took-millions-with-it\">criminal investigation\u003c/a> into the Parks Alliance. City Attorney David Chiu and Controller Greg Wagner also announced a public integrity review of the nonprofit’s finances. On May 23, Mayor Daniel Lurie directed departments to halt all funding to the organization. The organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042526/sf-parks-alliance-to-shut-down-amid-misspending-scandal-leaving-partners-in-the-lurch\">collapsed\u003c/a> in early June.[aside postID=news_12043932 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250624-PARKFILE-39-BL-KQED.jpg']\u003cstrong>Warning signs: \u003c/strong>This isn’t the first time the Parks Alliance has been mired in scandal. In 2020, former Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru funneled \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839531/report-corrupt-sf-official-directed-nonprofit-to-pay-60k-to-organizations-under-fbi-investigation\">nearly $1 million in donations\u003c/a> from city contractors into a Parks Alliance bank account for personal use. He was convicted of fraud and sentenced to seven years in federal prison two years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Supervisor Connie Chan raised concerns that the nonprofit’s donations were unfairly influencing investment decisions by the parks department. Her concerns prompted a subpoena of financial transactions between the Parks Alliance and the parks department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>One of the biggest questions now is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042526/sf-parks-alliance-to-shut-down-amid-misspending-scandal-leaving-partners-in-the-lurch\">what happens to the Alliance’s many community partners\u003c/a> — groups that coordinate park cleanups, maintain public water fountains and staircases, and perform habitat restoration and trail maintenance, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the groups don’t have tax-exempt status and rely on the Parks Alliance to hold and distribute funds. While many are volunteer-run, a few had employees who were technically employed by the Parks Alliance — and were laid off in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups said in June that about $1.7 million they raised collectively was misappropriated by the nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We put our money that we raised under very difficult circumstances, with trust into San Francisco Parks Alliance. And we’re wondering where that trust has gone and what can be done about it,” Devi Joseph, who founded Friends of Cabrillo Playground, told supervisors at a June oversight committee hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/matthewgreen\">Matthew Green\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027607/sfs-long-history-as-sanctuary-city-faces-renewed-challenges-under-trump\">status as a sanctuary city\u003c/a> goes back to 1989. The city prides itself as a haven for immigrants, regardless of legal status, and a place where local law enforcement is sharply restricted from cooperating with or assisting federal immigration agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a>, the implementation of the policy is facing pressure from Supervisor Jackie Fielder, whose district represents parts of the Mission, Bernal Heights and Portola. Fielder is concerned by two things:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/\">report\u003c/a> that SFPD accessed information from Oakland’s license plate reader database to share with federal law enforcement agencies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Statements made by Deputy Chief Derrick Lew at a town hall in the Castro last week regarding what he described as SFPD’s obligation to \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/sfpd-ice-protesters/\">protect ICE agents\u003c/a> from protesters, to keep them out of harm’s way.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder, who called ICE “a fascist agency doing Trump’s bidding,” \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/65023928e628bd272e752a09/t/687554cccdab921972c25b38/1752519885394/LOI+to+SFPD+Protocols+for+ICE+and+protests.pdf\">sent a letter \u003c/a>to interim SFPD Chief Paul Yep, Sheriff Paul Miyamoto, Lurie and the city controller demanding answers about policies that may conflict with the city’s sanctuary law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although she is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and one of the Board of Supervisors’ most liberal members, Fielder pledged to keep an open mind to Lurie’s programmatic priorities. But as the Trump administration’s actions toward California and sanctuary cities intensify, there are signs that Fielder is growing impatient with the mayor’s approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with Fielder about her concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview has been edited for length and clarity\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer: \u003c/strong>First of all, let’s talk about your letter of inquiry. What prompted you to send it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackie Fielder: \u003c/strong>Last week, we saw a number of protesters clashing with ICE agents outside of a federal government building where immigration court proceedings take place. And according to \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/video-ice-agents-brandish-rifles-drive-through-protesters-at-s-f-immigration-court/\">reporting by \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, protesters were being put in danger as they were trying to basically block ICE agents from coming into or out of the building — to the point where ICE agents used pepper spray, shoved people to the ground and in one instance brandished a rifle on protesters as well as a reporter with \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It came to light through a \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/\">\u003cem>Standard\u003c/em> article\u003c/a> that SFPD has been requesting data from automatic license plate readers in Oakland on behalf of federal law enforcement agencies, which is a violation of state law. And so I have a lot of questions related to all of these different issues that I’d like answers to very quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12024436 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. Mayor Lurie has vowed the city will protect immigrants. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer\u003c/strong>: You mentioned the meeting in the Castro with Deputy Chief Derrick Lew, where he responded to questions about the role or the responsibility that SFPD has when it comes to protesters and ICE. What was it about his answer that concerns you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder: \u003c/strong>What’s concerning is that there’s an equivalency being made between ICE, which is armed, and protesters, who are not. And ICE agents can protect themselves with pepper spray, their guns, their vehicles, their armor as they did July 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have sanctuary city laws. [Lew] was basically also comparing ICE with CHP, where ICE is treated differently by our sanctuary laws. We have prohibited our employees from cooperating with ICE. We cannot prevent them from coming into San Francisco, we cannot prevent them from detaining and deporting people, but what we can do is ensure that they are identifying themselves. We can ensure that they’re following due process and, of course, abiding by our basic local public safety and traffic laws.[aside postID=news_12047506 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> One of the things that Lew said was, essentially, “We can’t just sit by and watch our fellow law enforcement agent or officer get hurt.” Are you saying that, actually, “Yes, you can, and you should step aside and let them defend themselves?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> According to the department’s own directives, they’re allowed to intervene in any federal immigration actions when it appears reasonably necessary to prevent serious injury to persons, whether or not a crime is actively happening. That also has to be reconciled with our sanctuary city law, where we’re not allowed to assist ICE or agents for routine operations, investigations or raids. And so I want SFPD to be transparent with their protocols and decision-making for whether they’re going to intervene in a situation or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> Can you see a role for SFPD in “keeping the peace” and putting themselves between the protesters and the ICE agents?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder: \u003c/strong>Again, SFPD has to intervene wherever there is a threat to people’s safety. And that has to be applied everywhere. What I’m not seeing is questions around how they’re going to protect unarmed and largely defenseless protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> The city is undergoing a search to hire a new police chief, and I would guess that one of the candidates internally could be Lew. Would you say that his comments are disqualifying for him to be the next chief?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043437\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043437\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025, calling for the release of SEIU California President David Huerta. Huerta was arrested by federal agents on June 6 in Los Angeles while serving as a community observer during a workplace Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder: \u003c/strong>I would hope that the next chief takes seriously what they say and communicate around our sanctuary city policies. It’s baffling to me that anyone in leadership would equate our protesters with Trump’s armed ICE agents. They should be seen as an extension of Trump himself. They are carrying out his agenda. And their agenda is to instill fear, is to run roughshod over due process and basic constitutional protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> It seems like Lurie has been very \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">cautious about even mentioning Trump’s name\u003c/a>. He has said that the city will protect immigrants. What would you like to see him do or say that so far he has not?[aside postID=news_12047397 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/immigration-protest-1020x680.jpeg']\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> I think he could be doing more. He could be saying more. Every single elected leader in our city has made a public stand to honor our sanctuary city laws. He will not say the word sanctuary. He will not mention Trump. And I don’t think it’s a practice that is actually saving us from any repercussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other examples across the country of mayors standing up. For example, Mayor [Michelle] Wu in Boston is filing FOIA requests to try to seek some answers on who exactly ICE is detaining in Boston. The point here is compliance. And by not saying a ton about our sanctuary laws, by not mentioning Trump, I think it just gives them exactly what they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in San Francisco, where we have a large immigrant population, that means that ICE is picking up family, neighbors, friends. These are not people with criminal histories. They are mothers, they’re fathers, they’re sisters and, even at some points, children. And so, SFPD leadership, whoever the next police chief is, has to take this responsibility seriously and take our sanctuary city laws seriously as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> When you came into office, you went out of your way to extend an olive branch to Lurie. Is there still a reservoir of goodwill with the mayor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> I’m never gonna close my door to people who change their minds. I’m always open to the possibility of people coming around again. I think we’re headed for a new level of prevalence of ICE agents and terror that we haven’t seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> One of the things that Lew said was, essentially, “We can’t just sit by and watch our fellow law enforcement agent or officer get hurt.” Are you saying that, actually, “Yes, you can, and you should step aside and let them defend themselves?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> According to the department’s own directives, they’re allowed to intervene in any federal immigration actions when it appears reasonably necessary to prevent serious injury to persons, whether or not a crime is actively happening. That also has to be reconciled with our sanctuary city law, where we’re not allowed to assist ICE or agents for routine operations, investigations or raids. And so I want SFPD to be transparent with their protocols and decision-making for whether they’re going to intervene in a situation or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> Can you see a role for SFPD in “keeping the peace” and putting themselves between the protesters and the ICE agents?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder: \u003c/strong>Again, SFPD has to intervene wherever there is a threat to people’s safety. And that has to be applied everywhere. What I’m not seeing is questions around how they’re going to protect unarmed and largely defenseless protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> The city is undergoing a search to hire a new police chief, and I would guess that one of the candidates internally could be Lew. Would you say that his comments are disqualifying for him to be the next chief?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043437\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043437\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025, calling for the release of SEIU California President David Huerta. Huerta was arrested by federal agents on June 6 in Los Angeles while serving as a community observer during a workplace Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder: \u003c/strong>I would hope that the next chief takes seriously what they say and communicate around our sanctuary city policies. It’s baffling to me that anyone in leadership would equate our protesters with Trump’s armed ICE agents. They should be seen as an extension of Trump himself. They are carrying out his agenda. And their agenda is to instill fear, is to run roughshod over due process and basic constitutional protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> It seems like Lurie has been very \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">cautious about even mentioning Trump’s name\u003c/a>. He has said that the city will protect immigrants. What would you like to see him do or say that so far he has not?\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After years of strife over RV dwellers living on San Francisco streets, the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047562/please-just-let-us-be-san-francisco-rv-crackdown-advances-despite-families-pleas\">ban long-term oversized vehicle parking\u003c/a> citywide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial vote by the board means people residing in RVs will soon have to move their vehicles every two hours unless they acquire a permit, leaving hundreds of people at risk of being displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say that someone living in a vehicle does not have a home is malicious when they have no other form of shelter,” Supervisor Shamann Walton, who voted against the ban, said at Tuesday’s board meeting. “This legislation is alluding to supporting brick and mortar as the only possible home in the most expensive city on the planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot condone mass evictions to the streets for people trying to live in their homes — especially at a time when there’s an attack on immigrants, people of color, our LGBTQ community and basically anyone that is not in the one percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast:\u003c/strong> In 2024, city officials attempted to implement targeted parking restrictions in neighborhoods with longstanding RV communities, like the Lake Merced area near \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965352/san-francisco-rv-community-fears-new-parking-rules-could-push-them-closer-to-homelessness\">Stonestown Galleria and San Francisco State University\u003c/a> and Bernal Hill. In the fall, former Mayor London Breed proposed legislation that would allow vehicles parked overnight to be towed citywide if residents had previously refused shelter, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">supervisors blocked it\u003c/a> in December after pushback from community advocates. Last month, Mayor Daniel Lurie revived the ban, proposing a strict two-hour limit for oversized vehicles on all city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members at 16th and Mission Streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">June legislation\u003c/a> takes a citywide approach to address the reshuffling caused by earlier iterations and includes incentives for people moving into housing, his office told the board this month. Some carve-outs will be made for commercial vehicles parked in industrial areas. The proposal received unanimous approval from the city’s Budget and Finance Committee last week, and this week, it passed a first vote, 9–2. Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents the Mission, and Walton, whose district spans the Bayview and Potrero Hill, opposed the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Lurie’s office said the plan “offers a path forward on what has long been an intractable challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With compassion and accountability, we will give those living in vehicles a better option and deliver safe and clean streets for our communities,” he said in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context: \u003c/strong>Other cities across the Bay Area, including Berkeley and Fremont in the East Bay, have also been cracking down on vehicle homelessness. In February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026580/this-bay-area-city-just-passed-the-most-extreme-encampment-ban-in-california\">Fremont passed\u003c/a> what is believed to be the most restrictive overnight camping ban in the state, prohibiting RV parking on public and private property, including residential streets, for more than three consecutive nights.[aside postID=news_12047562 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-023-BL_qed.jpg']In November, Berkeley’s city council directed city workers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014227/progressive-berkeley-new-tough-stance-homeless-encampments\">clean up a known RV community\u003c/a> on Second Street in West Berkeley. The move was in line with a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014227/progressive-berkeley-new-tough-stance-homeless-encampments\">aggressive approach\u003c/a> to sweeping encampments, which allows people to be cleared from streets even if the city cannot offer them housing. Both cities’ new rules came after Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">ordered state agencies\u003c/a> last July to dismantle homeless encampments across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>If Lurie’s legislation passes a second vote in the coming weeks as expected, the new parking regulations will take effect. Homelessness advocates say this could affect residents living in about 475 vehicles, many of whom may not be willing to trade their private mobile homes for the housing options the city can provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents actively looking for housing will be eligible for permits up to six months to remain in their RVs while they wait to relocate. The legislation includes funding to subsidize 65 rapid rehousing slots in addition to more than 300 similar subsidies added to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing’s annual budget this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates are awaiting more details about another incentive to move people off the streets: a vehicle buyback program that will offer people cash for their RVs. It’s unclear how much residents stand to receive, though the legislation includes a $500,000 budget for buybacks. Earlier this year, Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043516/rv-encampments-are-notoriously-hard-to-close-this-city-found-something-that-works\">piloted a similar program\u003c/a> that pays residents $175 per linear foot of an RV, or about $6,000 for a 35-foot vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also unclear if San Francisco is still pursuing a new westside safe parking site similar to one opened in the Bayview during the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, the city was looking for two lots in the area to convert into safe parking, but neither of the sites has been secured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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KQED is disbanding its digital video team and slashing its education department, which produces media literacy curriculum, as part of a plan to sharpen its focus on local news and community events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In these uncertain times, the prudent, responsible thing to do is address what we have control over and to stabilize the organization so we can better navigate whatever challenges and uncertainty comes our way,” President and CEO Michael Isip said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED is operating at a $12 million deficit in the current fiscal year. The reductions are expected to bring down the shortfall by about 90% going into next year, Isip said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to paring back its staff, the nonprofit said it will stop contributing to employees’ retirement accounts and freeze salary increases beginning this fall. The current plan is to restart both next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders with the unions representing many of KQED’s workers said the company will have to negotiate before freezing pay for union members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), which represents radio, digital news and podcast employees, said in a statement that the union is “committed to protecting the rights of our members in accordance with our collective bargaining agreements and ensuring that those impacted are treated fairly and equitably.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A KQED sign in the lobby of the organization’s headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cuts whittle KQED’s workforce to 312, down from 369 full-time employees. An additional 10 vacant positions will go unfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four senior leaders are among those leaving the company, including Chief Operations and Administrative Officer Maria Miller and Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer Eric Abrams. Isip said they were “mutual agreements that this was a good time for them to transition,” and he added that Abrams’ departure was not a response to pressure from the Trump administration to roll back DEI initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petrice Gaskin, KQED’s director of mid-level giving who worked with Abrams as co-chair of the organization’s DEI council, lamented the optics of losing him in this climate. “At the same time, we acknowledge that this is a tough time period for everyone,” she said, “we’re really fighting for survival here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She credited Abrams with building a healthier culture at KQED, in part by making space to navigate difficult conversations. “KQED as a whole, people want to be nice and kind, but sometimes being nice gets in the way of addressing difficult topics that have to be unpacked that aren’t nice,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Devastating’ cuts to some teams\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>KQED’s education department is among those hardest hit; it’s losing eight of its 13 regular members. “It’s pretty devastating. The folks who we are losing … every single one of them has contributed to the success of our work in pretty significant ways,” said Michelle Parker, executive director of education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts mean listeners won’t hear as many young voices on the airwaves, and staff won’t see clusters of teens around the studio each year during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/youthtakeover\">Youth Takeover\u003c/a> week, as the station is ending the eight-year-old tradition of giving swaths of airtime over to local youth once a year. The department will still help young people produce and publish media through the Youth Media Challenge showcase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are still committed to youth voice, and we will still continue to do it in the best ways we can with the resources we have for as long as we are allowed to do that,” Parker said.[aside postID=news_11987176 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg.png']The small remaining team will provide fewer educator workshops and less curriculum development than in the past, but it will keep professional development courses for K–12 teachers available through the \u003ca href=\"https://teach.kqed.org/\">KQED Teach platform\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In dissolving its digital video team, the organization is focusing its online video offerings on expanding the audiences of existing shows and podcasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are really rethinking digital video,” Editor in Chief Ethan Toven-Lindsey said. “In terms of our local and news growth, it made sense for [the team] to be disbanded and to not have this separate, standalone unit, but to be integrated into different units.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The station’s call-in radio show, Forum, already \u003ca href=\"https://video.kqed.org/show/kqedforum/\">produces videos\u003c/a> that stream on KQED’s website and YouTube, while its Political Breakdown podcast team is considering making its own video content. “That’s the map,” Toven-Lindsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The digital video team’s work had centered on the often \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pressroom/11550/kqed-receives-seven-northern-california-emmy-awards\">Emmy-lauded\u003c/a> Deep Look and other resource-intensive programs. Now, just two members of the 13-person team will remain at KQED, with one of them reporting to newsroom leadership. A scaled-back version of Deep Look will live on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separate from the reductions, Chief Content Officer \u003ca href=\"https://wpln.org/post/nashville-public-radio-names-holly-kernan-of-kqed-as-president-and-ceo/\">Holly Kernan left last month to become CEO of Nashville Public Radio\u003c/a>. Rather than replace her, Isip named Toven-Lindsey editor in chief, a new position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an indication that KQED’s future sustainability, our future strategy, our future growth — the backbone is local news,” Toven-Lindsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six of the staff cuts will come from the newsroom, including four layoffs and two people who took voluntary departure offers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Augusta, who took the buyout offer after six years with KQED’s fundraising team, said she “decided to make a total right angle career switch” and open an independent bookstore in Martinez this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she said her team, which works with some of the organization’s largest donors, at times felt under-resourced, she added that “this place also attracts some of the most fascinating, interesting, creative people I’ve ever worked with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A volatile financial picture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The station has been running a board-approved deficit since 2022. Based on revenue projections at the time, leadership expected to get back in the black by fiscal year 2027, according to a KQED spokesperson. The timeline banked on revenue growth of 2.4% a year, but it’s only grown 1.3%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board chair Jennifer Cabalquinto said the broader economic situation has thrown those projections out the window. “The volatility is very real, and that’s really impacted the revenue sources,” she said, noting that the threat of losing federal funding compounds the picture. “It’s a double whammy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is working on multiple fronts to gut federal support for public media. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/15/g-s1-77572/npr-pbs-funding-rescission-congress\">The Senate faces a Friday deadline\u003c/a> to decide whether to claw back $1.1 billion appropriated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a move already approved by the House of Representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/community-report#financials\">KQED received $7.6 million from CPB\u003c/a>. If that’s pulled, Cabalquinto said the organization would likely rely on cash reserves in the short term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, NPR and PBS are suing Trump to block \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media/\">an executive order\u003c/a> that aims to cut off their federal funding, and the Federal Communications Commission is investigating the underwriting practices of local member stations — a move that Isip said has had “a chilling effect” among some corporate sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s financial troubles stem from the organization’s growth in recent years, driven by multimillion-dollar investments, and sluggish revenue growth can no longer support its size. But they are also indicative of the existential challenges bearing down on the nation’s public media system and news industry writ large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New economic headwinds are contributing to a longstanding struggle to find financial footing in a digital environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t just one thing that’s causing this deficit, it’s multiple investments in growing our service,” Isip said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2013 and 2018, the nonprofit added 60 employees, mostly focused on digital services, according to Isip. During that period, the education department nearly tripled in size, he said, and the station added journalists, building among the largest nonprofit newsrooms in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to do that,” Isip said. “Broadcast audiences are declining. If we didn’t expand into new areas, that would threaten our future and our relevancy to our audiences moving forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growth was made possible in part by $45 million in one-time money from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/campaign21\">a fundraising campaign\u003c/a> that also bankrolled a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pressroom/11576/kqed-plan-for-opening\">$94 million building renovation\u003c/a>, and station leaders were betting that expanding services would boost the station’s audience, bringing an uptick in ongoing revenue to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That has been the case,” Isip said. “But our financial support has not grown at the same rate as our expense growth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrie Biggs-Adams, president of NABET Local 51, which represents the company’s radio and television engineers, among many other employees, voiced concerns about leaders’ management of KQED’s assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just stunning to have this happen in a place that had so much money a few years ago,” she said. Four NABET members are being laid off, according to Biggs-Adams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past eight years, KQED’s revenue has grown by 3.2%, while expenses have risen 4.7%, Isip said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He blamed a number of factors, including the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. While individual donations from community members are strong — the May pledge drive brought in an annualized total of about $1.9 million, and the February drive brought in $2.3 million, the biggest since 2018 — corporate sponsorship and underwriting have “softened,” Isip said. Funding from foundations and grants is about flat, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987509/kqed-cuts-34-positions-amid-budget-shortfall\">the company eliminated 34 positions\u003c/a> amid other cuts, with leadership again citing rising costs and flagging expenses. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED is operating at a $12 million deficit in the current fiscal year. The reductions are expected to bring down the shortfall by about 90% going into next year, Isip said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to paring back its staff, the nonprofit said it will stop contributing to employees’ retirement accounts and freeze salary increases beginning this fall. The current plan is to restart both next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders with the unions representing many of KQED’s workers said the company will have to negotiate before freezing pay for union members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), which represents radio, digital news and podcast employees, said in a statement that the union is “committed to protecting the rights of our members in accordance with our collective bargaining agreements and ensuring that those impacted are treated fairly and equitably.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A KQED sign in the lobby of the organization’s headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cuts whittle KQED’s workforce to 312, down from 369 full-time employees. An additional 10 vacant positions will go unfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four senior leaders are among those leaving the company, including Chief Operations and Administrative Officer Maria Miller and Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer Eric Abrams. Isip said they were “mutual agreements that this was a good time for them to transition,” and he added that Abrams’ departure was not a response to pressure from the Trump administration to roll back DEI initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petrice Gaskin, KQED’s director of mid-level giving who worked with Abrams as co-chair of the organization’s DEI council, lamented the optics of losing him in this climate. “At the same time, we acknowledge that this is a tough time period for everyone,” she said, “we’re really fighting for survival here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She credited Abrams with building a healthier culture at KQED, in part by making space to navigate difficult conversations. “KQED as a whole, people want to be nice and kind, but sometimes being nice gets in the way of addressing difficult topics that have to be unpacked that aren’t nice,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Devastating’ cuts to some teams\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>KQED’s education department is among those hardest hit; it’s losing eight of its 13 regular members. “It’s pretty devastating. The folks who we are losing … every single one of them has contributed to the success of our work in pretty significant ways,” said Michelle Parker, executive director of education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts mean listeners won’t hear as many young voices on the airwaves, and staff won’t see clusters of teens around the studio each year during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/youthtakeover\">Youth Takeover\u003c/a> week, as the station is ending the eight-year-old tradition of giving swaths of airtime over to local youth once a year. The department will still help young people produce and publish media through the Youth Media Challenge showcase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are still committed to youth voice, and we will still continue to do it in the best ways we can with the resources we have for as long as we are allowed to do that,” Parker said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Now, just two members of the 13-person team will remain at KQED, with one of them reporting to newsroom leadership. A scaled-back version of Deep Look will live on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separate from the reductions, Chief Content Officer \u003ca href=\"https://wpln.org/post/nashville-public-radio-names-holly-kernan-of-kqed-as-president-and-ceo/\">Holly Kernan left last month to become CEO of Nashville Public Radio\u003c/a>. Rather than replace her, Isip named Toven-Lindsey editor in chief, a new position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an indication that KQED’s future sustainability, our future strategy, our future growth — the backbone is local news,” Toven-Lindsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six of the staff cuts will come from the newsroom, including four layoffs and two people who took voluntary departure offers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Augusta, who took the buyout offer after six years with KQED’s fundraising team, said she “decided to make a total right angle career switch” and open an independent bookstore in Martinez this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she said her team, which works with some of the organization’s largest donors, at times felt under-resourced, she added that “this place also attracts some of the most fascinating, interesting, creative people I’ve ever worked with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A volatile financial picture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The station has been running a board-approved deficit since 2022. Based on revenue projections at the time, leadership expected to get back in the black by fiscal year 2027, according to a KQED spokesperson. 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If that’s pulled, Cabalquinto said the organization would likely rely on cash reserves in the short term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, NPR and PBS are suing Trump to block \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media/\">an executive order\u003c/a> that aims to cut off their federal funding, and the Federal Communications Commission is investigating the underwriting practices of local member stations — a move that Isip said has had “a chilling effect” among some corporate sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s financial troubles stem from the organization’s growth in recent years, driven by multimillion-dollar investments, and sluggish revenue growth can no longer support its size. 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"content": "\u003cp>When I met Rostyslav Fedorko in Kyiv, he was wearing military fatigues and a soft smile. Fatigues, because after three years on the front lines \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030273/if-trump-revokes-ukrainian-refugees-legal-status-many-in-california-fear-deportation\">defending Ukraine from Russian attacks\u003c/a>, he said he doesn’t have many civilian clothes left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The smile because he was playing mahjong. Fedorko, 28, is one of a group of some 25 Ukrainian game enthusiasts who gather at a cozy club called Japan Dojo to play Riichi mahjong, a Japanese variant of the tile-based game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scene at the club was lighthearted on a Saturday in late April, during a friendly tournament. Little bursts of laughter rose above clacking tiles in a soothing rhythmic polyphony. Everyone had traded their shoes for slippers. Someone had brought a cake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was just days after an April 24 Russian missile attack leveled an apartment building in central Kyiv, \u003ca href=\"https://kyivindependent.com/death-toll-of-russias-april-24-strike-on-kyiv-rises-to-13/\">killing 13 civilians\u003c/a> and injuring almost 90 more. But no one was talking about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was in Kyiv thanks to a reporting fellowship with the International Women’s Media Foundation. Over the years, I’d produced many Forum segments on the war in Ukraine, and I jumped at the chance to report from the ground to better understand what daily life is like in a country under siege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also wanted to know how people find laughter and distraction amid war, which is how I ended up at Japan Dojo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047728\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineGetty-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineGetty-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A damaged residential building is pictured at the site of an air strike in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 10, 2025. Russia’s overnight strike on Kyiv on Thursday killed at least two people and injured 16 others, local authorities said. The attack damaged eight of Kyiv’s 10 districts, hitting residential buildings, along with medical, educational, commercial and transport infrastructure. \u003ccite>(Peter Druk/Xinhua via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fedorko wasn’t having his best game, but that wasn’t the point. He said he plays mahjong to relax, “but in a meaningful way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He serves under near-constant Russian bombardment in the eastern province of Donetsk with Ukraine’s International Defense Legion. He had lost many friends in combat. At the time, he was on a two-month break from active duty at a base near Lviv, about 350 miles from Kyiv. Every Friday, he told me, he takes the overnight train from Lviv to play at the club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., like all day,” he said. “I’m here playing mahjong and just talking with people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I understand the impulse to de-stress and connect through mahjong. For years, I’ve played the American version of the game with the same group of San Francisco friends. Mahjong is a great social game — challenging enough to keep us off our phones, but not so challenging that we can’t dish about the world while we play.[aside postID=forum_2010101908775 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/02/PW_Photo-19-1-1020x538.jpg']As we slap down tiles, my friends and I talk about movies, books, our kids, our jobs, our problems. We tackle national politics — or avoid it entirely. And the collective physical rituals involved — the mixing, stacking and laying down of tiles — unite our table of four in common purpose, at least for a couple of hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Japan Dojo, Polina Suprunenko, 17, had thought a lot about the sense of peace games could bring. Her eyes twinkled as she sat wrapped in a bright pink fuzzy blanket. She had come to the club with her older brother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But even if I come up here alone,” she said, “I always have something to do, and I don’t just end up sitting in the corner and crying and stuff like that. There’s always someone who can play with me, who can help me, who can talk to me. It’s a very open space, and that’s wonderful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polina hadn’t seen her father in a year. A doctor, he chose to stay in their hometown of Kherson to treat soldiers on the front lines. After Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022 and occupied Kherson, Polina, her mom and her brother fled to Kyiv. They are among the nearly 4 million Ukrainians that \u003ca href=\"https://www.unrefugees.org/emergencies/ukraine/\">the United Nations estimates\u003c/a> have been internally displaced by war. She said that although Kherson is under constant missile attack, her father is OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047734\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong3-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Riichi mahjong table at Japan Dojo. \u003ccite>(Susan Britton/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He understands that he’s helping more people and he’s dedicated to it,” Polina said. “His life has meaning for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wondered if any of the players felt conflicted about detaching from the war when they immersed themselves in a game. A player named Rina Honcharova, who is also a co-founder of Japan Dojo, said Ukrainians were divided on the subject.[aside postID=news_12042147 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IMG_1030-1020x765.jpg']Some people, she said, “don’t feel like they can just relax and forget that the war is going on, and they feel guilty when they’re just taking some breaks and just trying to relax on weekends.” Others, she added, criticized those who sought out distraction. But to her, “most people, they don’t understand that you really need some breaks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polina may have understood the importance of finding room for breaks better than most. She does not strive to be a doctor like others in her family. Instead, she wants to pursue art and open a cafe where you could relax, sip a coffee and play a game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a while, she felt unsure about her ambition because it didn’t involve saving lives. But then she realized that creating such a space “is what actually saves people,” because it could help reduce the need for mental health care later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like all types of mahjong, Riichi is part skill and part luck. To win a hand, players assemble 14 tiles into four groups of straights or triplets, plus a pair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You also need a \u003cem>yaku\u003c/em>, a special pattern that determines how high you’ll score. Some \u003cem>yaku\u003c/em> are more valuable than others; the rarest are called \u003cem>yakuman\u003c/em>. A regular player could go for a year or more without getting one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong2-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japan Dojo member Yevhen Kolodko displays his fingernails, painted to resemble Riichi mahjong tiles, in April 2025. \u003ccite>(Susan Britton/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Japan Dojo member named Yevhen Kolodko, whose fingernails were exquisitely painted to look like Riichi tiles, said he got a \u003cem>yakuman\u003c/em> a few months earlier: “It was hilarious.” I think he meant it was both thrilling and wildly lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We started talking about luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kolodko told me his family has been fortunate. His brother was drafted but works in tech on a base. His family had to leave their life in Luhansk after Russia seized the Donbas region in 2014, but now they’re OK. Kolodko, a data scientist, thinks about statistics a lot — in mahjong and in war. He reminded me that the chances of being killed in a missile attack in Kyiv, like the one a few days before, remained low in a city with a population of nearly 3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Ukraine, he added, “We play the lottery every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While I was at Japan Dojo, a few players taught me the basics of Riichi. Later, I showed a group how to play American mahjong with a set I’d brought from California. They were quick studies and peppered me with questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d like to say I had profound thoughts about the irony of our easy collaboration while the U.S. government’s support for Ukraine wavered. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some people, she said, “don’t feel like they can just relax and forget that the war is going on, and they feel guilty when they’re just taking some breaks and just trying to relax on weekends.” Others, she added, criticized those who sought out distraction. But to her, “most people, they don’t understand that you really need some breaks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polina may have understood the importance of finding room for breaks better than most. She does not strive to be a doctor like others in her family. Instead, she wants to pursue art and open a cafe where you could relax, sip a coffee and play a game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a while, she felt unsure about her ambition because it didn’t involve saving lives. But then she realized that creating such a space “is what actually saves people,” because it could help reduce the need for mental health care later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like all types of mahjong, Riichi is part skill and part luck. To win a hand, players assemble 14 tiles into four groups of straights or triplets, plus a pair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You also need a \u003cem>yaku\u003c/em>, a special pattern that determines how high you’ll score. Some \u003cem>yaku\u003c/em> are more valuable than others; the rarest are called \u003cem>yakuman\u003c/em>. A regular player could go for a year or more without getting one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong2-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japan Dojo member Yevhen Kolodko displays his fingernails, painted to resemble Riichi mahjong tiles, in April 2025. \u003ccite>(Susan Britton/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Japan Dojo member named Yevhen Kolodko, whose fingernails were exquisitely painted to look like Riichi tiles, said he got a \u003cem>yakuman\u003c/em> a few months earlier: “It was hilarious.” I think he meant it was both thrilling and wildly lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We started talking about luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kolodko told me his family has been fortunate. His brother was drafted but works in tech on a base. His family had to leave their life in Luhansk after Russia seized the Donbas region in 2014, but now they’re OK. Kolodko, a data scientist, thinks about statistics a lot — in mahjong and in war. He reminded me that the chances of being killed in a missile attack in Kyiv, like the one a few days before, remained low in a city with a population of nearly 3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Ukraine, he added, “We play the lottery every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While I was at Japan Dojo, a few players taught me the basics of Riichi. Later, I showed a group how to play American mahjong with a set I’d brought from California. They were quick studies and peppered me with questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d like to say I had profound thoughts about the irony of our easy collaboration while the U.S. government’s support for Ukraine wavered. But we were all too caught up in the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The reporting for this essay was supported by the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.iwmf.org/\">\u003cem>International Women’s Media Foundation’s\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> Women on the Ground: Reporting from Ukraine’s Unseen Frontlines Initiative in partnership with the Howard G. Buffett Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Meanwhile, the unexpected popularity of last year’s market also overwhelmed organizers and local merchants, and highlighted the need for further planning, they added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of pieces to the puzzle that need to come into place before you launch an event,” said Angie Petitt, founder and owner of Sunset Mercantile. “There’s a lot to iron out before we can relaunch it, and it have a positive impact on the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petitt said the event is not canceled and added that organizers are in the process of working with the Office of Employment and Workforce Development to figure out a different date and night market set-up that works better for the area. It’s just on pause, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before its launch in 2023, the Sunset Night Market on Irving Street was expected to be a three-block community event featuring a few merchants and no more than 2,000 visitors. It quickly grew into a behemoth — last year’s market drew more than 10,000 attendees and featured over 100 food and retail vendors spread across seven blocks in the Outer Sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-30-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-30-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-30-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-30-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People grab mochi donuts during Dear Community’s food tour at the Sunset Night market in San Francisco on Sept.15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a community event that we’ve been trying to grow organically, and it kind of became bigger and a little more unwieldy than we expected,” Petitt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community partners, including Sunset Mercantile and the Sunset Chinese Cultural District, secured a grant from the city last year, amounting to $120,000, to put on the night market. The funds have since been fully disbursed, according to the Office of Employment and Workforce Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the department said delays in reimbursement were caused by issues with the paperwork and the office’s severe staffing shortage. With the summer night market on pause, the city is now in conversation with local partners to figure out alternative events for later this year, and $100,000 has been allocated for future activation.[aside postID=news_12042017 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250412_SUNSETDUNESGRANDOPENING_GC-9-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg']“After the last night market in September 2024, the Sunset Night Market Collaborative wanted to learn from the previous events and improve and enhance any future night markets for our Sunset community,” said Lily Wong, director of the Sunset Chinese Cultural District. “We are working with OEWD to create a night market more in scale with our community, and something the Sunset can be proud to have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Leung, co-owner of Pineapple King Bakery, said she was disappointed to hear that the night market had been postponed. Although she had heard some complaints about increased traffic and noise last year, Leung said the event brought more business to her bakery and was a “vibrant” addition to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a win-win for small businesses, as well as for people who attended it,” she said. “People are really happy when they are shopping around, enjoying different types of food. You could get barbecue, dumplings, fresh-pressed sugarcane juice. It’s also very diverse, and what San Francisco is about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leung said she hopes the night market comes back to the Sunset soon, with even more local businesses featured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of this summer’s Sunset Night Market comes as one of its major proponents, San Francisco Supervisor Joel Engardio, faces a wave of political backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961532\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11961532\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-17-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-17-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-17-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-17-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-17-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-17-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Joel Engardio (left), District Attorney Brooke Jenkins (center) and Engardio’s husband Lionel Hsu (right) at the Sunset Night Market. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some residents have speculated that the event was called off because of ongoing tension between Engardio and community members calling for his recall, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/10/sunset-irving-street-night-market-cancelled-recall/\">report\u003c/a> by the \u003cem>San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio shared that article \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/JoelEngardio/status/1943424313258054056\">on social media\u003c/a> on Thursday, saying the night market was “gone — not because of lack of interest, but because the recall campaign poisoned local politics.” His office did not respond to a request for comment on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042017/recall-against-sf-supervisor-joel-engardio-heads-to-the-ballot\">campaign to oust\u003c/a> Engardio began earlier this year after he sponsored a proposition that led to the closure of part of the Great Highway and its conversion to the Sunset Dunes park. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“After the last night market in September 2024, the Sunset Night Market Collaborative wanted to learn from the previous events and improve and enhance any future night markets for our Sunset community,” said Lily Wong, director of the Sunset Chinese Cultural District. “We are working with OEWD to create a night market more in scale with our community, and something the Sunset can be proud to have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Leung, co-owner of Pineapple King Bakery, said she was disappointed to hear that the night market had been postponed. Although she had heard some complaints about increased traffic and noise last year, Leung said the event brought more business to her bakery and was a “vibrant” addition to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a win-win for small businesses, as well as for people who attended it,” she said. “People are really happy when they are shopping around, enjoying different types of food. You could get barbecue, dumplings, fresh-pressed sugarcane juice. It’s also very diverse, and what San Francisco is about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leung said she hopes the night market comes back to the Sunset soon, with even more local businesses featured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of this summer’s Sunset Night Market comes as one of its major proponents, San Francisco Supervisor Joel Engardio, faces a wave of political backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961532\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11961532\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-17-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-17-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-17-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-17-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-17-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-17-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Joel Engardio (left), District Attorney Brooke Jenkins (center) and Engardio’s husband Lionel Hsu (right) at the Sunset Night Market. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some residents have speculated that the event was called off because of ongoing tension between Engardio and community members calling for his recall, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/10/sunset-irving-street-night-market-cancelled-recall/\">report\u003c/a> by the \u003cem>San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio shared that article \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/JoelEngardio/status/1943424313258054056\">on social media\u003c/a> on Thursday, saying the night market was “gone — not because of lack of interest, but because the recall campaign poisoned local politics.” His office did not respond to a request for comment on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042017/recall-against-sf-supervisor-joel-engardio-heads-to-the-ballot\">campaign to oust\u003c/a> Engardio began earlier this year after he sponsored a proposition that led to the closure of part of the Great Highway and its conversion to the Sunset Dunes park. The recall petition garnered thousands of signatures, and a special election for District 4 voters is scheduled for September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albert Chow, a vocal recall supporter and owner of Great Wall Hardware, previously told the \u003cem>Standard \u003c/em>that local businesses had turned away from the night market because of frustrations with Engardio’s leadership. When KQED reached him for comment, he said he did not believe the recall campaign or its supporters were responsible for the event’s postponement, and called it a matter of funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The recall] has nothing to do … with the night market. The night market was a great success and we advocated for it heavily,” Chow said. “The coffers were empty to fund the night market this year, and that is what happened. It wasn’t because of sabotage or subterfuge. It was simply because of bureaucracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Four Bay Area residents were identified Friday as victims of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046998/fireworks-warehouse-in-yolo-county-a-major-bay-area-fireworks-supplier-goes-up-in-smoke\">deadly explosion at a fireworks warehouse\u003c/a> in Yolo County last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neil Justin Li, 41, and Christopher Goltiao Bocog, 45, of San Francisco, as well as brothers Jesus Manaces Ramos, 18, and Jhony Ernesto Ramos, 22, of San Pablo, were among seven victims named by the Yolo County coroner’s office. The three others killed in the blast were Joel Jeremias Melendez, 28, of Sacramento; Angel Mathew Voller, 18, of Stockton; and Carlos Javier Rodriguez-Mora, 43, of San Andreas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The July 1 blast, which released a mushroom cloud of explosives, debris and smoke and started a fire that spread for nearly 80 acres, is believed to have originated at the Esparto warehouse where the San Francisco-based company Devastating Pyrotechnics stored fireworks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days since, local and state officials have been working to determine how the “very rare” incident began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not seen anything like this,” Esparto Fire Protection District Chief Curtis Lawrence said at a news conference the day after the explosion. “This is obviously an incident of great magnitude.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks since, details have been slowly coming to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what we know so far about the explosion and the ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The explosion\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the evening of July 1, the Esparto Fire Protection District and Cal Fire crews responded to reports of a potential fire and explosion at a commercial warehouse near County Roads 23 and 86A, about three miles west of Interstate 505.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawrence said the department arrived around 6 p.m. and worked to put out the blaze into the night. The incident prompted multi-day evacuation orders, and seven people were reported missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047755\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FireworksExplosionEspartoCalFire2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FireworksExplosionEspartoCalFire2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FireworksExplosionEspartoCalFire2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FireworksExplosionEspartoCalFire2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters assisting Yolo County at the scene of a commercial fire that spread into nearby vegetation on Highway 16 and Oakdale Ranch Lane, in Esparto, California, on July 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cal Fire LNU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On July 5, Yolo County sheriff’s officials announced they had found the bodies of the seven individuals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047521/a-week-after-deadly-fireworks-blast-families-wait-for-answers\">multiple of whom had already been identified by relatives\u003c/a>, including Jesus and Jhony Ramos, Contra Costa County residents who formerly attended school in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are deeply saddened to learn that two SFUSD alumni are impacted by the explosion at the fireworks factory in Yolo County. Our thoughts are with their family, friends, and loved ones during this difficult time,” the San Francisco Unified School District wrote on Facebook earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a GoFundMe organized by SFUSD teacher Jeff Steeno, Jhony and Jesus had recently started working at the fireworks warehouse. Jesus, who was also expecting a child, was there for his first shift on the day of the explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both brothers were alumni of Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 School in the Mission District, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/buena-vista-horace-mann-mourns-jesus-and-jhony-ramos-brothers-killed-in-yolo-county-fireworks-explosion/\">according to\u003cem> Mission Local.\u003c/em> \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news outlet reported that the brothers had gotten the jobs at Devastating Pyrotechnics through their step-brother, Joel Melendez, 28, who was an employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A larger investigation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The unusual circumstances of the explosion and \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2025/07/10/this-is-a-huge-red-flag-fireworks-expert-raises-concerns-over-deadly-esparto-explosion/\">concerns from firework experts\u003c/a> have raised questions about the facility’s safety and compliance, especially after the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office told reporters that the incident was being treated as an active crime scene investigation and primarily as a “law enforcement incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, investigators with the Office of the California State Fire Marshal, along with officials from the Yolo and Sacramento county sheriffs’ offices and the San Francisco Police Department, were seen conducting a search at a residence in San Francisco’s Inner Richmond District. The home is listed as Devastating Pyrotechnics’ business address on its state licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco Police Department officer in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Devastating Pyrotechnics owner Kenneth Chee has three state-level fireworks licenses for importing and exporting, wholesale and public display, law enforcement officials said that facilities like the one in Esparto must also meet federal explosive storage requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/fireworks-explosion-20761991.php\">The \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> last week that Chee, who was previously convicted of assault with a firearm and firing a gun from a motor vehicle at a person, was denied a federal license by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.[aside postID=news_12046998 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230628-SAN-FRANCISCO-FIREWORKS-GETTY-SM-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The Chronicle reported that another man, Gary Chan Jr., obtained a federal license to run Devastating Pyrotechnics in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home on the 400 block of 2nd Avenue, where \u003ca href=\"https://hoodline.com/2025/07/bomb-squad-raids-inner-richmond-home-associated-with-devastating-pyrotechnics-after-deadly-blast-kills-seven/\">Hoodline San Francisco\u003c/a> observed officers conducting the search, is a previous address of Chee. The property is owned by Jack Lee, who is named as an employee of Devastating Pyrotechnics in contract proposals and company documents extending over multiple years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of the State Fire Marshal and other agencies KQED contacted for comment would not confirm that they had conducted a search of the site, but said, “Investigators are actively tracking down numerous leads and have served multiple search warrants as part of the investigation process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on Wednesday, Douglas Horngrad, an attorney who is representing Chee, said: “Kenny [Chee] is innocent of any wrongdoing in connection with the Yolo fire. This incident is currently under investigation. Until such investigation is completed, we will have no further public comment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ties to local public safety agencies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Esparto property where Devastating Pyrotechnics’ warehouse was located is also the home base for Blackstar Fireworks, which Craig Cutright, a volunteer with the Esparto Fire Protection District, owns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackstar has an active public display fireworks license, according to Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In text messages to \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc10.com/article/news/investigations/investigating-northern-californias-fireworks-explosion/103-2cae9b54-25c6-4d45-a9c6-9c639d7e1514\">ABC 10\u003c/a> the night of the explosion, Cutright denied that any of his fireworks were involved, the TV station reported. He pointed to Devastating Pyrotechnics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company documents name Cutright as an employee of Devastating Pyrotechnics as recently as 2022. He’s described as a “senior show producer” on proposals for fireworks contracts with city governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property where the warehouses are located is owned by Sam Machado, who operates his own ATF-licensed business, Sam’s Gun Sales, on the site and is a sheriff’s deputy in Yolo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few details about the Office of the State Fire Marshal’s investigation have been made public thus far, but the agency said in a statement that it is ongoing, adding, “Please know that we are committed to conducting a thorough and comprehensive investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: The fire that originated at the Esparto warehouse spread for nearly 80 acres, not miles, as this article previously stated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The incident prompted multi-day evacuation orders, and seven people were reported missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047755\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FireworksExplosionEspartoCalFire2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FireworksExplosionEspartoCalFire2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FireworksExplosionEspartoCalFire2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FireworksExplosionEspartoCalFire2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters assisting Yolo County at the scene of a commercial fire that spread into nearby vegetation on Highway 16 and Oakdale Ranch Lane, in Esparto, California, on July 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cal Fire LNU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On July 5, Yolo County sheriff’s officials announced they had found the bodies of the seven individuals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047521/a-week-after-deadly-fireworks-blast-families-wait-for-answers\">multiple of whom had already been identified by relatives\u003c/a>, including Jesus and Jhony Ramos, Contra Costa County residents who formerly attended school in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are deeply saddened to learn that two SFUSD alumni are impacted by the explosion at the fireworks factory in Yolo County. Our thoughts are with their family, friends, and loved ones during this difficult time,” the San Francisco Unified School District wrote on Facebook earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a GoFundMe organized by SFUSD teacher Jeff Steeno, Jhony and Jesus had recently started working at the fireworks warehouse. Jesus, who was also expecting a child, was there for his first shift on the day of the explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both brothers were alumni of Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 School in the Mission District, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/buena-vista-horace-mann-mourns-jesus-and-jhony-ramos-brothers-killed-in-yolo-county-fireworks-explosion/\">according to\u003cem> Mission Local.\u003c/em> \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news outlet reported that the brothers had gotten the jobs at Devastating Pyrotechnics through their step-brother, Joel Melendez, 28, who was an employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A larger investigation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The unusual circumstances of the explosion and \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2025/07/10/this-is-a-huge-red-flag-fireworks-expert-raises-concerns-over-deadly-esparto-explosion/\">concerns from firework experts\u003c/a> have raised questions about the facility’s safety and compliance, especially after the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office told reporters that the incident was being treated as an active crime scene investigation and primarily as a “law enforcement incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, investigators with the Office of the California State Fire Marshal, along with officials from the Yolo and Sacramento county sheriffs’ offices and the San Francisco Police Department, were seen conducting a search at a residence in San Francisco’s Inner Richmond District. The home is listed as Devastating Pyrotechnics’ business address on its state licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco Police Department officer in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Devastating Pyrotechnics owner Kenneth Chee has three state-level fireworks licenses for importing and exporting, wholesale and public display, law enforcement officials said that facilities like the one in Esparto must also meet federal explosive storage requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/fireworks-explosion-20761991.php\">The \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> last week that Chee, who was previously convicted of assault with a firearm and firing a gun from a motor vehicle at a person, was denied a federal license by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>They say imitation is the highest form of flattery, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-international-airport\">SFO\u003c/a> is not buying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Oakland’s airport announced last month it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046379/oakland-airport-renamed-again-in-ongoing-legal-dispute-with-san-francisco\">change its name for a second time\u003c/a> in just over a year amid a legal battle with San Francisco, the city across the bay still isn’t satisfied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Port of Oakland officials say the latest rebrand — which changes its official title from “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983384/san-francisco-sues-oakland-over-plan-to-change-airport-name\">San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport\u003c/a>” to “Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport” — puts its East Bay roots first. The city of San Francisco, however, has the same problem with the new name as it did with the one Oakland adopted last year, which it alleges infringes on SFO’s trademark privileges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Oakland San Francisco Bay name is just more of the same,” San Francisco International Airport spokesperson Doug Yakel said during public comment at a heated Oakland port commissioners meeting on Thursday afternoon, where the board unanimously approved the second name change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once again, the port has chosen to ignore the city’s rights and the interests of travelers, and the end result will be detrimental to the public,” Yakel said. “Once again, the port has chosen to surprise the city of San Francisco with this latest renaming announcement barely over a week before voting on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985763\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240412-OAKAirport-011-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240412-OAKAirport-011-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240412-OAKAirport-011-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240412-OAKAirport-011-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240412-OAKAirport-011-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240412-OAKAirport-011-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers walk into Oakland International Airport in Oakland on April 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yakel’s comments came after San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu’s office released a statement accusing the Port of Oakland of continuing to try to capitalize on SFO’s international reputation. When he took the public comment podium, commission president Michael Colbruno shot back, welcoming him with faux niceties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Welcome across San Francisco Bay,” he said to laughs from around the meeting room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his comments before the vote, Colbruno slammed SFO as hypocritical and disingenuous, reminding meeting attendees that San Francisco International is actually located in Millbrae — which, he said, is only considered inside the bounds of San Francisco “because you guys got a little carve-out.”[aside postID=news_12046379 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240412-OAKAirport-009-BL_qed.jpg']“In 1927, the San Francisco airport in Millbrae was named Mills Field,” Colbruno said. “They changed the name because people didn’t know where Mills Field and Millbrae was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to be crystal clear, so you can come here and ask about our name change when you did the exact same thing,” he continued. “It’s really upsetting to me … to bring that kind of elitism over here and to talk about us, when you think you’re special and privileged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tension between the airports has built since the Port of Oakland, which operates the city’s airport, announced in a video message last March that the “Metropolitan Oakland International Airport” would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982744/oakland-officials-to-proceed-with-controversial-move-to-rename-airport\">renamed the “San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport.\u003c/a>” The move was meant to improve the public’s geographic awareness and increase the number of flights in and out of the East Bay airport, port officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the first name change was approved by Port of Oakland commissioners in April 2024, it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983384/san-francisco-sues-oakland-over-plan-to-change-airport-name\">quickly slapped with a lawsuit\u003c/a> from Chiu and the city of San Francisco, which operates SFO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the suit, Chiu wrote that the Port of Oakland failed to give San Francisco officials reasonable notice of the coming change and said the move was an escalation of years of “jabs” Oakland’s airport has made toward SFO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Attorney David Chiu speaks during a press conference at City Hall in San Francisco on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Oakland has perceived itself to be in a rivalry with [San Francisco] over airlines and passengers,” Chiu wrote in legal documents. “Oakland’s fixation on and negativity toward SFO is exemplified by a pre-pandemic video ad campaign titled ‘Inferiority Complex,’ which features ‘stereotypical’ San Franciscans touting the superiority of the Oakland airport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For another event with airline partners, OAK also made custom fortune cookies containing paper slips that read “SFO? Just say no,” according to the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Port of Oakland counter-sued San Francisco in May, asking a judge to rule that its new name was not a trademark infringement.[aside postID=news_12043328 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-01_qut-1020x680.jpg']Both of those suits are pending, and in the meantime, each side is growing increasingly hostile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland airport was\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014130/judge-blocks-oakland-from-using-san-francisco-bay-in-airport-name\"> temporarily blocked from calling itself “San Francisco Bay Oakland International”\u003c/a> after a judge granted SFO a preliminary injunction in November. While the Port of Oakland\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018113/oakland-airport-puts-up-fight-keep-san-francisco-bay-new-name\"> continues to appeal that injunction\u003c/a>, officials last month unveiled the second name change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year’s name, like last year’s name, invites traveler confusion and risks jeopardizing the brand identity we have built through decades of investment and service to the region,” Jen Kwart, spokesperson for the San Francisco city attorney’s office, said in a statement ahead of the Port of Oakland’s Thursday meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear whether San Francisco plans to pursue further litigation in response to the now-approved name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwart said the office was still assessing next steps, adding that since the city’s original suit is now tied up with a preliminary injunction appeal, “we can’t drop the lawsuit right now even if we wanted to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A trial for that suit is set for August 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My advice to you is let it be for the benefit of the whole region,” Colbruno said to Yakel. “It’s a benefit to travelers; it’s to the benefit of people coming to the East Bay, who may be going to Livermore or Berkeley or Napa — or San Francisco, which is actually closer [to Oakland] than Millbrae.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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