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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#A\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every arrival and departure of an Alcatraz ferry brings a flurry of activity to San Francisco’s Pier 33. As tourists shuffle in and out of the busy terminal, bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors are there, drumming up customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air is perfumed with the intoxicating smell of onions, peppers and bacon-wrapped hot dogs sizzling on makeshift cooktops. A normal day brings around a dozen vendors who click their tongs and yell “hot dog, hot dog, hot dog!” as they try to make a buck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a scene. But the Embarcadero isn’t the only place you can find a bacon-wrapped hot dog in the Bay Area these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hot dog people are everywhere,” Bay Curious listener Olivia Godfrey said. “You see them every time you leave a venue, anytime you’re walking around the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Godfrey works as an usher at Bay Area music venues like the Fox Theater and Bill Graham Auditorium, and it’s at those places that she began to suspect that the number of people selling bacon-wrapped hot dogs has grown in recent years. That got her wondering:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How much money do they make every year? What’s the history of them? How do they organize?” Godfrey asked, “I’d love to know how they came to be and how they’ve become such a Bay Area staple.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This simple street food has a complicated legacy. The history crosses international borders, and there’s a fierce controversy around how these vendors work in the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk past The Dog House, a hot dog stand, in Fisherman’s Wharf on April 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Where do bacon-wrapped hot dogs come from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just south of the Arizona border in the Mexican State of Sonora, there is an especially famous type of hot dog. It’s known as a Sonoran dog, or a \u003cem>dogo, \u003c/em>as the locals call it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important to them that the hot dogs are a big meal with all these flavors,” said Bill Esparza, a food writer and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.eater.com/authors/bill-esparza\">senior contributor at Eater LA.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s got a big wheat bun, like a lobster roll. But what really makes it stand out are the condiments people put on top, such as canned mushrooms, pickled jalapenos, and liquid cheese, to name a few, according to Esparza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrival of the hot dog in Sonora can be traced back to one person. \u003ca href=\"https://oem.com.mx/elsoldehermosillo/tendencias/como-llegaron-los-dogos-a-hermosillo-te-contamos-la-historia-19055503\">A Sonoran man named Don Cipriano Lucero\u003c/a>, who had worked in the United States and brought hot dogs back to the city of Hermosillo. He opened a restaurant there in 1947 called Cafe KiKi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040596\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2158959446.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2158959446.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2158959446-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2158959446-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2158959446-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Sonoran Hot Dog — or ‘dogo’ — photographed in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Scott Suchman with food styling by Lisa Cherkasky for The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Don Cipriano served regular hot dogs, American style. But while Americans might be content with just a little mustard or ketchup, Esparza said the locals probably found it a little boring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mexicans want spice, and also Mexicans very much like sweet,” Esparza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they started tinkering, perfecting the hot dog for their taste buds by adding spice, and flavor, and richness. There’s a Spanish word for this process — \u003cem>tropicalizado\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the bacon came on, who knows, but it started to become a thing in the colleges, probably starting in the sixties,” Esparza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as hot dogs were brought from the United States to Mexico, it was only a matter of time before \u003cem>dogos \u003c/em>made it back to the United States, shedding the wheat bun and all the extra toppings for the pared-down version on Bay Area streets today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037929\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vendors sell bacon-wrapped hot dogs at Fisherman’s Wharf on April 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A day on the wharf\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>And these dogs are popular. A vendor named Exania works a cart outside Pier 33 in San Francisco. She asked KQED not to share her full name due to fears about her immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I work so that my children can continue studying, and to help my mother,” Exania said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she left her home and family in Nicaragua in 2021 and made an asylum claim upon getting to the U.S. She’s been selling bacon-wrapped hot dogs at Pier 33 for the past three years. Much of her earnings go to paying back the $14,000 debt she took on in order to pay for her journey here. She owes, not a bank, but a person that money. And she said she had to put up her mother’s house as collateral for the loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why you will see me here every day, no matter if it’s sunny, rainy, or cold,” Exania said. “If I don’t pay my debt, my family will end up in the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she doesn’t pay every month, the person who loaned her the money threatens to take her mom’s house. There’s a running tab of how much she owes on a WhatsApp thread with the collector. She still owes about $12,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very painful, but it’s reality,” Exania said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Side-by-side-Downpage-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Side-by-side-Downpage-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bacon-wrapped hot dogs from a vendor at Fisherman’s Wharf on April 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A friend sold her a cart for cheap and showed her the ropes, she said. She insisted she works for herself and said she feels good selling at Pier 33. She owns three hot dog carts and sometimes loans them to people who need work. They split the earnings 50–50. She also drives a van to move them all around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sales can be fickle. In winter, it’s slow, so she might only sell one or two hot dogs in a day, barely enough to cover parking and supplies. On a good day, she could sell more than 20, which would get her over $200. She buys her ingredients at stores like Restaurant Depot and Chef’s Stores, where she can buy 50 hot dogs for less than a dollar a piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tension on the Embarcadero\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the area where Exania works, merchants of all kinds compete with each other for tourists’ attention and money. Some said the bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors unfairly take business from them.[aside postID=news_12004487 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/IMG_2406_qed-1020x680.jpg']Erik has been driving a pedicab for eight years and said Pier 33 used to be one of the best places for pedicabbers to make money. But, around 2021, as the COVID-19 pandemic started to ease, he said bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors started showing up in large numbers outside the terminal. He declined to give his full name due to fear of repercussion if he spoke out against the hot dog vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of the challenge of our job is to engage people so they’ll get in the bike with us,” Erik explained. “And if the vendors are yelling ‘hot dog, hot dog, hot dog,’ so loud that people can’t hear us, then we get drowned out. We get moved to the back row.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik said it’s unfair that many, if not all, bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors don’t carry any kind of license with the city, when pedicabbers and other businesses on the wharf have to carry permits and pass inspections. He claimed that if people buy a bacon-wrapped hot dog, they don’t patronize restaurants, and they’re less likely to hire a pedicab to take them to a place to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That not only hurts us, the pedicabbers, but that hurts all the restaurants at Pier 39 and North Beach,” Erik said. “So find a way to do it in a legal and healthy, safe way. I’m all in, but that’s not what we have today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040599\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-04-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-04-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-04-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-04-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-04-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-04-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-04-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vendors sell bacon-wrapped hot dogs at Fisherman’s Wharf on April 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The rise of street vending — and crackdowns\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since 2022, San Francisco has been conducting regular inspections of unpermitted street vending seven days a week, including food vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The main issues are foodborne illness, and that is what we are really concerned about,” said Dr. Susan Philip, the director of the population health division at the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040608\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12040608 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_5828-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_5828-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_5828-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_5828-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_5828-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_5828-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_5828-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco city worker confiscated a hot dog vendor’s cart. \u003ccite>(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Philip said the inspections are to make sure that food vendors comply with state health laws, like having adequate refrigeration and handwashing, which she said many bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors lack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philip said that when SFDPH workers do unpermitted vending inspections, they lead with education and information about how to come into compliance with the health code. However, if vendors continue to sell in an unsafe manner, city workers can confiscate their food and equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Because we want to decrease the chance that it will end up being sold to someone who could potentially get sick,” Philip said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From July 1, 2023, to Dec. 19, 2024, Philip said SFDPH had carried out enforcement action against 239 vendors in which the city impounded unsafe food or unsafe equipment. The department does not keep track of how many of those actions are related specifically to bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has seen a rise in street vending of all kinds in recent years, not just bacon-wrapped hot dogs, partly because of the passage of two statewide bills. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB946\">Senate Bill 946\u003c/a>, passed in 2018, broadly decriminalized street vending throughout the state. And \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB972\">SB 972,\u003c/a> which went into effect in 2023, reduced enforcement of sidewalk food vending from a criminal offense to one that can only incur administrative citations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that timeline is consistent with some of the increase that we’re seeing,” Philip said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-01-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-01-BL_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-01-BL_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-01-BL_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-01-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-01-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-01-BL_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A customer holds a bacon-wrapped hot dog from a vendor at Fisherman’s Wharf on April 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The only option\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the inspectors confiscate a vendor’s cart, they take it to the San Francisco Port property, where it’s held for 30 days. Vendors are allowed to recover their carts, but SFDPH can issue hefty fines — almost $3,000, in some cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania said that when her cart gets confiscated, she just buys a new one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if we pay the fine, they would just come back and fine us again, only that time the fine would be more expensive,” Exania said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the day, this is her only option for work. She said everywhere else she has tried, they want proof of residency, something she can’t provide. So she keeps working here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katrina Schwartz: You smell them before you see them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Hot dog, hot dog, hot dog!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katrina Schwartz: The scent is almost heavenly and they’ve become a Bay Area staple outside of sporting events, concerts, and late night bars. We’re talking of course about the bacon-wrapped hot dog. Chances are, if you live in the Bay Area, you’ve seen people selling this iconic street food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Godfrey: It’s like an ice cream cart, but for hot dogs with just like their griddle on top and they always just have a stock of bacon-wrapped hot dogs, like ready to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katrina Schwartz: That’s Olivia Godfrey. She grew up in Alameda, now lives in Oakland, and works as an usher at local venues like the Fox and the Greek Theatre. It’s in those places that she started to notice just how abundant these vendors are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Godfrey: The hot dog people are everywhere. You see them every time you leave a venue, anytime you’re walking around the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katrina Schwartz: She felt like their numbers had grown in recent years, and that got her wondering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Godfrey: How much money do they make every year? Kind of like, what’s the history of them? How do they organize? I’d love to know how they like kind of came to be and like how they’ve become such a Bay Area staple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katrina Schwartz: I’m Katrina Schwartz, and today on Bay Curious, bacon-wrapped hot dogs! The roots of this culinary tradition, who sells them, what it’s like to do this work, and why some city governments are trying to stop them. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katrina Schwartz: These days, it seems like bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors are anywhere there’s a crowd, concerts, sports games, touristy areas. It’s not uncommon to see dozens of people selling them from identical carts. For some, the relatively cheap, easy salty delicious snack is just what they’re craving. Others see issues with the fact that many of these vendors are unpermitted. KQED’s Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman looked into the controversy surrounding this porky problem, and how bacon-wrapped hot dogs became such a part of Bay Area street food culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Hot dog, amigo hot dog!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: It’s 11 a.m. on a Saturday and Exania just got her first customers of the day. Her hot dog cart is one of about a dozen, parked outside the Alcatraz Ferry Terminal on San Francisco’s Embarcadero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Ketchup, mustard, mayo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customer: Umm, I’m not going to do any of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Only onions?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customer: Uhhh, yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Okay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Nick and Cameron Nelson just got off the Alcatraz Ferry and they’re hungry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customer: Oh, look at that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Even my mouth starts to water as we watch the onions, peppers, and bacon-wrapped hot dogs heat up over a propane flame. Exania skillfully assembles the greasy delicious mess onto a bun and hands it over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customer: Do you take cards?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: For $10 a pop. Nick and Cameron walk away with a quick bite to eat. Nick is stoked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Nelson: I mean, all the onions on them are cool. I didn’t put all, like, the mayonnaise and ketchup on that, but I just, you know, who doesn’t like a bacon-wrapped hot dog? I feel like that’s, that’s really good, so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Cameron, the dad, also appreciates a cheap meal in an expensive city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cameron Nelson: Yeah, going out to restaurants, this is sitting down, you’re looking at $80, can just keep walking and keep doing what we’re doing for $20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: They amble off towards Pier 39. But Exania’s got work to do. We’re only using her first name due to fears about her immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Tengo tres años de vender acá y pues me siento bien.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She says she has been selling at this exact spot for the past three years. Basically the whole time she has been in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Cuando nosotros entramos acá por migración, nosotros pedimos asilo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She says she left her home in Nicaragua in 2021, and made an asylum claim upon getting to the U.S. She says she was frightened to make the journey, but a lack of work and the political situation there left her few options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Tenemos miedo, porque tú sabes cuántas cosas uno pasa para venir a este país.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She’s working to send money to her mother and three children back home in Nicaragua. But she says she’s also paying back the debt to the people who helped bring her here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Aqui nosotros venimos endeudada. Con una deuda que dejamos en nuestro país y es una deuda que tenemos que pagarla, sino que quedamos en la calle. Mi familia quedaría en la calle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: To pay for the trip, she says she took out a $14,000 loan. According to Exania, this loan wasn’t from a bank, but from a person. To get the loan, she had to use her mother’s house as collateral. If she doesn’t pay every month, the person who loaned her the money threatens to take her mom’s house. She showed me a WhatsApp thread where they keep a running tab. She still owes about $12,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Es algo muy, muy penoso, pero es la realidad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She says when she first got to the U.S., the people who brought her here supposedly had a job for her. But she says she was treated badly, working long hours selling things like jewelry and ponchos on the street and making just $600 a month.\u003cbr>\nExania: Bajo lluvia, bajo sol, con hambre, con frío que tuve trabajando y en la temporada que yo le estuve trabajando a ella y yo me enfermé muchísimo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She started selling bacon-wrapped hot dogs, she says, when a friend told her she was being exploited, and that she should start her own business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Y me dice no le sigas ayudando a ella. Te está explotando. Ella está viviendo de ti. No sé. Y entonces, pues ya fue cuando él me animó a meterme a este negocio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She says a friend sold her a cart for cheap, showed her the ropes, and she got started selling hot dogs. Exania says now she works for herself, she owns three hot dog carts and sometimes loans them to people who need work. They split the earnings 50,50. She also drives a van to move them all around.\u003cbr>\nShe says she feels good working at Pier 33, but sales can be fickle. In winter, it’s slow, she might only sell one or two hot dogs in a day, barely enough to cover parking and supplies. On a good day, she could sell more than 20, which would get her over $200 in a day. She buys her ingredients at stores like Restaurant Depot and chef stores, where she can buy 50 hot dogs for less than a dollar a piece.\u003cbr>\nThe area around the Embarcadero where Exania works is kind of like one big tourist attraction. Businesses of all kinds compete with each other. Of course there’s restaurants and museums, but there are also people who work outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Street Entertainer: Everybody’s say, woo. Everybody’s say, wow. Ladies and gentlemen….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: And pedicabbers who earn their living by giving people bike rides up and down the wharf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: Rides up to the sourdough, the sea lions, the chowder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: And I quickly learned, there’s tension between the pedicabbers and the hot dog vendors. As I’m interviewing Exania, one pedicab driver approaches me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedicab Driver: Are you going to go and interview legitimate businesses who pay taxes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Am I going to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedicab Driver: Yeah, I would hope you do. I’d hope you go to the restaurants that have been closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: The atmosphere becomes pretty tense. He asks me if I am going to interview legitimate businesses who pay taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedicab Driver: These guys cost me about $5,000 a year. How do they, how do they? Because when they buy a hot dog, they don’t go to the wharf. Okay? Yeah, I pay taxes. I pay for a license. We pay permits. F*** these people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: It’s a pretty open display of hostility. I can tell there is some bad blood. But I wanted to find out why so I asked another pedicab driver. He offered to fill me in, but suggested we go somewhere quieter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: We’re going for a pedicab ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Where better to talk, than the back seat of a pedicab?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: I had a passenger once describe it as, uh, it’s like riding a couch down the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: This is Erik. He told me he’s been a pedicabber for eight years. He declined to give his last name because of fear of repercussions to his business if he spoke out against the hot dog vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: They’re playing their music loud. They’re making a lot of noise soliciting the selling of hot dogs. Um, and they’ve crowded out the prime spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: You might be thinking how would the pedicab business be affected by bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors? Well, Erik says many of his best customers are hungry tourists headed to eat out. Pier 33 used to be his number one place to pick people up and make some money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: We’re not just bike riders, we’re tour guides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: But around 2021, as the COVID-19 pandemic started to ease, he says bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors started showing up in large numbers outside the terminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: Part of our job, part of our challenge is to engage people. So they’ll get in the bike with us. And, um, if they’re playing their music really loud, so they can’t hear us or if they’re yelling hot dog, hot dog, hot dog, so loud that they can’t hear us, then yeah, we, we get drowned out. We get, uh, moved to the back row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Instead of getting a ride to lunch at a restaurant with a pedicabber, he says people at the ferry terminal started choosing to buy a bacon-wrapped hot dog instead, and just keep walking. Much like Nick and Cameron Nelson did at the beginning of this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: And that not only hurts us, the pedicabbers, but that hurts all the restaurants at Pier 39, all the restaurants down here, all the restaurants up at North Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Erik says it’s unfair that many, if not all bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors don’t carry any kind of license with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: We all have permits, the bikes have permits, we’re doing everything by regulation and they’re not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Erik pays a yearly fee of $347 for a pedicab operator’s license. And his employer likely spends more. Other brick and mortar shops on the wharf have to pass health inspections and pay for building permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: So there’s a lot of local businesses that are paying the price for those people to be out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Erik says he supports the hot dog vendors’ right to make a living and hustle on the wharf just like he does. But he says it has to be fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: So find a way to do it right and legal and in a healthy, safe way. I’m all in, but that’s not what we have today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: We take a ride back to Pier 33.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: Rickshaw rides, rides up to where you should be having lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Erik points out that the sidewalk outside the Ferry Terminal is covered in grease splatters from all the hot dog carts. He raises another complaint commonly leveled against the hot dog vendors. Many don’t have adequate handwashing and refrigeration, and that’s a violation of food safety laws. Just then, something illustrates his point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: Oh, look, look, look. See what happened over there. That knife hit the ground. It’s on that greasy sidewalk and wipe it with a napkin and let’s cut some more tomatoes or onions or whatever. That’s, it’s a health issue. Nobody, nobody at the city is doing anything about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Erik clearly isn’t satisfied with how the city is responding, but since 2022, the city has been conducting regular inspections of unpermitted street vending seven days a week, including food vendors. That work is done by a multi-agency task force, which includes the San Francisco Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Susan Philip: The main issues are, are foodborne, foodborne illness, and that that is what we are really concerned about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Dr. Susan Philip is the director of the population health division at the San Francisco Department of Public Health. She says the main purpose of these inspections is to make sure that food vendors are in compliance with state health laws. Things like having adequate refrigeration and handwashing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Susan Philip: Which many of the carts do not have those capabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: I’ve seen pictures on social showing hot dogs for sale kept in moldy cardboard boxes below the carts. Dr. Philip says when DPH workers do unpermitted vending inspections, they lead with education and information about how to come into compliance with the health code. But if vendors are not willing to do that, city workers can confiscate their food and equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Susan Philip: Because we want to decrease the chance that It will end up being sold to someone who could potentially get sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She says in a roughly year and a half period, 239 vendors had an enforcement action carried out against them, where the city impounded unsafe food or unsafe equipment. The department does not keep track of how many of those actions related specifically to bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors. Dr. Philip said these inspections aren’t just about food safety, city teams also look out for people selling stolen goods, or people blocking the public right of way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Susan Philip: That is why this task force came about. And it really also is because of this, uh, increase, increase in overall vending that has been occurring in the city, um, as you know, the result of some of the, the changes in the state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Senate Bill 946, passed in 2018, broadly decriminalized street vending throughout the state. And SB 972 which went into effect in 2023, reduced enforcement of sidewalk food vending from a criminal offense to one that can only incur administrative citations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Susan Philip: So that timeline is, is consistent with some of the increase that we’re, that we are seeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: So our question asker Olivia, is right: there has been an increase in street vending over the past few years. She also wanted to know where these hot dogs came from and while you might think of a hot dog as the classic all American food, to understand the origins of bacon-wrapped hot dogs, you have to check out Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Esparza: It has been one of my goals as I travel to new Latin American countries all the time is to try their local version of the hot dog and, and I’ve never been disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: This is Bill Esparza, he’s a food writer, senior contributor at Eater LA, and a bit of a hot dog expert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Esparza: I went to Brazil and I was having hot dogs there and there’s are also very full of ingredients and wild toppings, you know, they put quail eggs on the hot dogs in Colombia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: He says just south of the Arizona border in the Mexican State of Sonora, there is an especially famous type of hot dog. It’s known as a Sonoran dog, or a Dogo as the locals call it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Esparza: It’s like really important to them that, that the hot dogs are just like this. They’re like this big meal with all these flavors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: It’s got a big wheat bun, think like a lobster roll. But what really makes it stand out are the condiments people put on top. Here are just some them:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Esparza: Canned mushrooms, pickled jalapenos , liquid cheese, ruffles potato chips, black olives, sweet corn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: The list goes on. Esparza says as best as we can tell, the arrival of the hot dog in Sonora can be traced back to one person. A Sonoran man named Don Cipriano Lucero, who opened a restaurant called Cafe KiKi in Hermosillo in 1947.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Esparza: So Don Cipriano Lucero brought the hot dog back from the United States and, um, started serving them there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Don Cipriano served regular hot dogs, American style. But while Americans might be content with just a little mustard or ketchup, Esparza says the locals probably found it a little boring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Esparza: Mexicans want spice and also Mexican very much like sweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: And there’s a Spanish word for what he says people did next. Tropicalizado. It means tropicalized. Over the years people in Sonora perfected the hot dog for their taste buds. They made the American hot dog to be more, well, Mexican. By adding spice, flavor, and richness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Esparza: When the bacon came on, who knows, but it started to become a thing in the colleges in, uh, probably starting in the sixties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Just as hot dogs were brought from the United States to Mexico, it was only a matter of time before dogos that had been tropicalizado and made it back to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Esparza: So it’s very possible that once hot dogs became popular in Sonora, that somebody came and brought them to Tijuana because those, those people are connected. Those two states are so connected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Once in Tijuana, people traveling from Mexico into California might bring this culinary tradition with them. When it makes this cross-border journey, the dog changes again. Shedding the big wheaty bun and all the extra toppings for a pared down version you can see on Bay Area streets today.\u003cbr>\nBacon-wrapped hot dogs are celebrated in places like Hermosillo, but back at Pier 33, the vendors are constantly on the lookout for city inspection teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johanna: ¿Alo? Aquí bajo, no, no, hay aquí venta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: I’m speaking with a bacon-wrapped hot dog vendor named Johanna when she gets a call from another vendor down the street. They exchange information about sales, and also if anyone has seen city inspection teams around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johanna: No amiga, esta más abajo, por que como ayer cayó abajo, entonces nos avisaron que había la cuidad y nos movimos todo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She asked to use her middle name due to fears about her immigration status. Johanna says it varies how often the city inspection teams come, sometimes as many as four times a day, sometimes not at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johanna: Ayer cayeron dos veces y anteayer cayeron cuatro veces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: There’s this strange sort of rhythm to the area around where the vendors work. It’s almost tidal. Every 30 minutes or so, a ferry from Alcatraz arrives at the pier, and drops off a boatload of tourists. As they exit the terminal, the pedicabbers and the hot dog vendors hock their wares, rides to the wharf, a quick snack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johanna: Algunos barcos son buenos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Johanna says some boats are good, People are hungry. But others, nobody buys anything. Once the tourists leave, a strange quiet settles over the place. Vendors idly click their tongs. People joke with their neighbors, the pedicabbers take a nap in the back of their cab. They wait for the next boat. But city inspection teams can also come at any moment. When that happens it’s chaos.\u003cbr>\nJohanna shows me a video of one enforcement action by the city in March. City staff roll up in vehicles, Johanna and others run away, pushing their carts ahead of them. Johanna got caught, city workers took her cart, and that’s the third time that’s happened in about a year of vending. She says she had a panic attack and city workers called an ambulance for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johanna: Llamaron a los bomberos primero, vinieron y me tomaron el pulso y dijeron de que no, que y había entrado, dicen en un pánico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: When the inspectors confiscate a vendor’s cart, they take it to SF Port property where it’s held for 30 days. Vendors can try to get their carts back, but SFDPH can issue hefty fines, almost $3,000 in some cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Preferimos que se pierda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Standing next to Johanna is Exania. Exania says when her cart gets confiscated, she just buys a new one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Porque igual compramos otros los quitan. Aunque vayamos a pagar esa multa, vienen de nuevo y los quitan entonces, ¿qué hacemos?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She says even if she was to pay the fine and get her cart back, the city would just come and take it again, only this time with a heftier fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: De todas maneras nos agarran nuestros nombres y en otra nos viene una multa más cara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She shows me the Amazon listing for these exact carts. It’s a $50 tool cart, but outfitting it with a stove and cooktop and everything else they need brings the price up to around $450. Exania says it can take a while to get the money and supplies together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Hay que hacer un proceso primero a juntar dinero para armarlo, porque a veces cuando nos dejan sin nada, imaginate, tenemos que ver por otro lado, para comprar el material\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: But at the end of the day, she says this is her only option for work. She says everywhere else she has tried, they want proof of residency. Something she can’t provide. So she keeps working here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Es la única manera que tenemos para trabajar. Sí, porque donde quiera que vayamos, nos piden papeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Exania says she’s well aware that she’s working without permits from the city, but says she tries to follow the health code as best she can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Compramos diarios lo que podemos vender y lo que ya sobra, lo metemos a la hielera, a la refri, para que no se nos dañe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She brings fresh ingredients, the hot dogs are frozen at the start of the day, and she refrigerates what she doesn’t sell. Exania says if she could say one thing to the city, it would be this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Que nos dejen de maltratar, de seguirnos. Porque aquí nosotros trabajamos decentemente, no le robamos a nadie, no dañamos a nadie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Stop treating us badly. We’re just here to work decently. We’re not robbing anybody, and we’re not hurting anyone.\u003cbr>\nAfter all this, I caught back up with Olivia Godfrey, the question asker. I told her about Exania, and the pedicabbers, and the health department, and the history of bacon-wrapped hot dogs, and everything else. When she asked this question, she came from a place of wanting to know how to support these vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Godfrey: I think we should be able to support our community around us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: But I raised the pedicabbers’ concerns, that many local businesses say they’re hurting because of these vendors. And aren’t they also part of our community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: How can we support both? Or like, like do you think that like supporting a bacon-wrapped hot dog vendor is to the detriment of other businesses?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Godfrey: Oh man, that’s so tough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: I also asked her about the food safety aspect. Knowing that these hot dogs likely weren’t up to the food code, did she feel safe eating them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Godfrey: Oh, no, that’s definitely something that you’re aware of, of like, you might take your chances on like maybe not feeling well afterwards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: I know what she means, growing up in San Francisco, my friends and I called them Danger Dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Knowing what you know now, do you think that you would still buy a bacon-wrapped hot dog?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Godfrey: Yes, definitely. I kind of sympathize with people like the industry or the other folks in that like Pier 39 area that might be struggling because of this, but where I’m frequenting them is like concert venues and things like that. And I’ll of course support those folks because who doesn’t love a good bacon-wrapped hot dog after a concert?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: There’s some people who definitely don’t love them. But the bacon-wrapped hot dog has undeniably become an iconic Bay Area Street food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katrina Schwartz: That was KQED’s Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman. Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Our show is produced by: Gabriela Glueck, Christopher Beale, and me, Katrina Schwartz. With extra support from Alana Walker, Maha Sanad, Katie Springer, Jen Chien, Holly Kernan, and everyone on team KQED. Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003cbr>\nThanks for listening. Have a great week!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#A\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every arrival and departure of an Alcatraz ferry brings a flurry of activity to San Francisco’s Pier 33. As tourists shuffle in and out of the busy terminal, bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors are there, drumming up customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air is perfumed with the intoxicating smell of onions, peppers and bacon-wrapped hot dogs sizzling on makeshift cooktops. A normal day brings around a dozen vendors who click their tongs and yell “hot dog, hot dog, hot dog!” as they try to make a buck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a scene. But the Embarcadero isn’t the only place you can find a bacon-wrapped hot dog in the Bay Area these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hot dog people are everywhere,” Bay Curious listener Olivia Godfrey said. “You see them every time you leave a venue, anytime you’re walking around the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Godfrey works as an usher at Bay Area music venues like the Fox Theater and Bill Graham Auditorium, and it’s at those places that she began to suspect that the number of people selling bacon-wrapped hot dogs has grown in recent years. That got her wondering:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How much money do they make every year? What’s the history of them? How do they organize?” Godfrey asked, “I’d love to know how they came to be and how they’ve become such a Bay Area staple.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This simple street food has a complicated legacy. The history crosses international borders, and there’s a fierce controversy around how these vendors work in the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk past The Dog House, a hot dog stand, in Fisherman’s Wharf on April 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Where do bacon-wrapped hot dogs come from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just south of the Arizona border in the Mexican State of Sonora, there is an especially famous type of hot dog. It’s known as a Sonoran dog, or a \u003cem>dogo, \u003c/em>as the locals call it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important to them that the hot dogs are a big meal with all these flavors,” said Bill Esparza, a food writer and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.eater.com/authors/bill-esparza\">senior contributor at Eater LA.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s got a big wheat bun, like a lobster roll. But what really makes it stand out are the condiments people put on top, such as canned mushrooms, pickled jalapenos, and liquid cheese, to name a few, according to Esparza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrival of the hot dog in Sonora can be traced back to one person. \u003ca href=\"https://oem.com.mx/elsoldehermosillo/tendencias/como-llegaron-los-dogos-a-hermosillo-te-contamos-la-historia-19055503\">A Sonoran man named Don Cipriano Lucero\u003c/a>, who had worked in the United States and brought hot dogs back to the city of Hermosillo. He opened a restaurant there in 1947 called Cafe KiKi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040596\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2158959446.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2158959446.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2158959446-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2158959446-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2158959446-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Sonoran Hot Dog — or ‘dogo’ — photographed in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Scott Suchman with food styling by Lisa Cherkasky for The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Don Cipriano served regular hot dogs, American style. But while Americans might be content with just a little mustard or ketchup, Esparza said the locals probably found it a little boring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mexicans want spice, and also Mexicans very much like sweet,” Esparza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they started tinkering, perfecting the hot dog for their taste buds by adding spice, and flavor, and richness. There’s a Spanish word for this process — \u003cem>tropicalizado\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the bacon came on, who knows, but it started to become a thing in the colleges, probably starting in the sixties,” Esparza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as hot dogs were brought from the United States to Mexico, it was only a matter of time before \u003cem>dogos \u003c/em>made it back to the United States, shedding the wheat bun and all the extra toppings for the pared-down version on Bay Area streets today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037929\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250424-DANGERDOGS-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vendors sell bacon-wrapped hot dogs at Fisherman’s Wharf on April 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A day on the wharf\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>And these dogs are popular. A vendor named Exania works a cart outside Pier 33 in San Francisco. She asked KQED not to share her full name due to fears about her immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I work so that my children can continue studying, and to help my mother,” Exania said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she left her home and family in Nicaragua in 2021 and made an asylum claim upon getting to the U.S. She’s been selling bacon-wrapped hot dogs at Pier 33 for the past three years. Much of her earnings go to paying back the $14,000 debt she took on in order to pay for her journey here. She owes, not a bank, but a person that money. And she said she had to put up her mother’s house as collateral for the loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why you will see me here every day, no matter if it’s sunny, rainy, or cold,” Exania said. “If I don’t pay my debt, my family will end up in the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she doesn’t pay every month, the person who loaned her the money threatens to take her mom’s house. There’s a running tab of how much she owes on a WhatsApp thread with the collector. She still owes about $12,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very painful, but it’s reality,” Exania said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Side-by-side-Downpage-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Side-by-side-Downpage-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bacon-wrapped hot dogs from a vendor at Fisherman’s Wharf on April 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A friend sold her a cart for cheap and showed her the ropes, she said. She insisted she works for herself and said she feels good selling at Pier 33. She owns three hot dog carts and sometimes loans them to people who need work. They split the earnings 50–50. She also drives a van to move them all around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sales can be fickle. In winter, it’s slow, so she might only sell one or two hot dogs in a day, barely enough to cover parking and supplies. On a good day, she could sell more than 20, which would get her over $200. She buys her ingredients at stores like Restaurant Depot and Chef’s Stores, where she can buy 50 hot dogs for less than a dollar a piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tension on the Embarcadero\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the area where Exania works, merchants of all kinds compete with each other for tourists’ attention and money. Some said the bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors unfairly take business from them.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Erik has been driving a pedicab for eight years and said Pier 33 used to be one of the best places for pedicabbers to make money. But, around 2021, as the COVID-19 pandemic started to ease, he said bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors started showing up in large numbers outside the terminal. He declined to give his full name due to fear of repercussion if he spoke out against the hot dog vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of the challenge of our job is to engage people so they’ll get in the bike with us,” Erik explained. “And if the vendors are yelling ‘hot dog, hot dog, hot dog,’ so loud that people can’t hear us, then we get drowned out. We get moved to the back row.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik said it’s unfair that many, if not all, bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors don’t carry any kind of license with the city, when pedicabbers and other businesses on the wharf have to carry permits and pass inspections. He claimed that if people buy a bacon-wrapped hot dog, they don’t patronize restaurants, and they’re less likely to hire a pedicab to take them to a place to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That not only hurts us, the pedicabbers, but that hurts all the restaurants at Pier 39 and North Beach,” Erik said. “So find a way to do it in a legal and healthy, safe way. I’m all in, but that’s not what we have today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040599\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-04-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-04-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-04-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-04-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-04-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-04-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-04-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vendors sell bacon-wrapped hot dogs at Fisherman’s Wharf on April 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The rise of street vending — and crackdowns\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since 2022, San Francisco has been conducting regular inspections of unpermitted street vending seven days a week, including food vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The main issues are foodborne illness, and that is what we are really concerned about,” said Dr. Susan Philip, the director of the population health division at the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040608\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12040608 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_5828-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_5828-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_5828-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_5828-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_5828-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_5828-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_5828-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco city worker confiscated a hot dog vendor’s cart. \u003ccite>(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Philip said the inspections are to make sure that food vendors comply with state health laws, like having adequate refrigeration and handwashing, which she said many bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors lack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philip said that when SFDPH workers do unpermitted vending inspections, they lead with education and information about how to come into compliance with the health code. However, if vendors continue to sell in an unsafe manner, city workers can confiscate their food and equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Because we want to decrease the chance that it will end up being sold to someone who could potentially get sick,” Philip said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From July 1, 2023, to Dec. 19, 2024, Philip said SFDPH had carried out enforcement action against 239 vendors in which the city impounded unsafe food or unsafe equipment. The department does not keep track of how many of those actions are related specifically to bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has seen a rise in street vending of all kinds in recent years, not just bacon-wrapped hot dogs, partly because of the passage of two statewide bills. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB946\">Senate Bill 946\u003c/a>, passed in 2018, broadly decriminalized street vending throughout the state. And \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB972\">SB 972,\u003c/a> which went into effect in 2023, reduced enforcement of sidewalk food vending from a criminal offense to one that can only incur administrative citations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that timeline is consistent with some of the increase that we’re seeing,” Philip said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-01-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-01-BL_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-01-BL_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-01-BL_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-01-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-01-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250424-DangerDogs-01-BL_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A customer holds a bacon-wrapped hot dog from a vendor at Fisherman’s Wharf on April 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The only option\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the inspectors confiscate a vendor’s cart, they take it to the San Francisco Port property, where it’s held for 30 days. Vendors are allowed to recover their carts, but SFDPH can issue hefty fines — almost $3,000, in some cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania said that when her cart gets confiscated, she just buys a new one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if we pay the fine, they would just come back and fine us again, only that time the fine would be more expensive,” Exania said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the day, this is her only option for work. She said everywhere else she has tried, they want proof of residency, something she can’t provide. So she keeps working here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katrina Schwartz: You smell them before you see them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Hot dog, hot dog, hot dog!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katrina Schwartz: The scent is almost heavenly and they’ve become a Bay Area staple outside of sporting events, concerts, and late night bars. We’re talking of course about the bacon-wrapped hot dog. Chances are, if you live in the Bay Area, you’ve seen people selling this iconic street food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Godfrey: It’s like an ice cream cart, but for hot dogs with just like their griddle on top and they always just have a stock of bacon-wrapped hot dogs, like ready to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katrina Schwartz: That’s Olivia Godfrey. She grew up in Alameda, now lives in Oakland, and works as an usher at local venues like the Fox and the Greek Theatre. It’s in those places that she started to notice just how abundant these vendors are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Godfrey: The hot dog people are everywhere. You see them every time you leave a venue, anytime you’re walking around the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katrina Schwartz: She felt like their numbers had grown in recent years, and that got her wondering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Godfrey: How much money do they make every year? Kind of like, what’s the history of them? How do they organize? I’d love to know how they like kind of came to be and like how they’ve become such a Bay Area staple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katrina Schwartz: I’m Katrina Schwartz, and today on Bay Curious, bacon-wrapped hot dogs! The roots of this culinary tradition, who sells them, what it’s like to do this work, and why some city governments are trying to stop them. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katrina Schwartz: These days, it seems like bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors are anywhere there’s a crowd, concerts, sports games, touristy areas. It’s not uncommon to see dozens of people selling them from identical carts. For some, the relatively cheap, easy salty delicious snack is just what they’re craving. Others see issues with the fact that many of these vendors are unpermitted. KQED’s Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman looked into the controversy surrounding this porky problem, and how bacon-wrapped hot dogs became such a part of Bay Area street food culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Hot dog, amigo hot dog!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: It’s 11 a.m. on a Saturday and Exania just got her first customers of the day. Her hot dog cart is one of about a dozen, parked outside the Alcatraz Ferry Terminal on San Francisco’s Embarcadero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Ketchup, mustard, mayo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customer: Umm, I’m not going to do any of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Only onions?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customer: Uhhh, yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Okay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Nick and Cameron Nelson just got off the Alcatraz Ferry and they’re hungry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customer: Oh, look at that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Even my mouth starts to water as we watch the onions, peppers, and bacon-wrapped hot dogs heat up over a propane flame. Exania skillfully assembles the greasy delicious mess onto a bun and hands it over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customer: Do you take cards?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: For $10 a pop. Nick and Cameron walk away with a quick bite to eat. Nick is stoked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Nelson: I mean, all the onions on them are cool. I didn’t put all, like, the mayonnaise and ketchup on that, but I just, you know, who doesn’t like a bacon-wrapped hot dog? I feel like that’s, that’s really good, so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Cameron, the dad, also appreciates a cheap meal in an expensive city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cameron Nelson: Yeah, going out to restaurants, this is sitting down, you’re looking at $80, can just keep walking and keep doing what we’re doing for $20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: They amble off towards Pier 39. But Exania’s got work to do. We’re only using her first name due to fears about her immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Tengo tres años de vender acá y pues me siento bien.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She says she has been selling at this exact spot for the past three years. Basically the whole time she has been in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Cuando nosotros entramos acá por migración, nosotros pedimos asilo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She says she left her home in Nicaragua in 2021, and made an asylum claim upon getting to the U.S. She says she was frightened to make the journey, but a lack of work and the political situation there left her few options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Tenemos miedo, porque tú sabes cuántas cosas uno pasa para venir a este país.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She’s working to send money to her mother and three children back home in Nicaragua. But she says she’s also paying back the debt to the people who helped bring her here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Aqui nosotros venimos endeudada. Con una deuda que dejamos en nuestro país y es una deuda que tenemos que pagarla, sino que quedamos en la calle. Mi familia quedaría en la calle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: To pay for the trip, she says she took out a $14,000 loan. According to Exania, this loan wasn’t from a bank, but from a person. To get the loan, she had to use her mother’s house as collateral. If she doesn’t pay every month, the person who loaned her the money threatens to take her mom’s house. She showed me a WhatsApp thread where they keep a running tab. She still owes about $12,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Es algo muy, muy penoso, pero es la realidad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She says when she first got to the U.S., the people who brought her here supposedly had a job for her. But she says she was treated badly, working long hours selling things like jewelry and ponchos on the street and making just $600 a month.\u003cbr>\nExania: Bajo lluvia, bajo sol, con hambre, con frío que tuve trabajando y en la temporada que yo le estuve trabajando a ella y yo me enfermé muchísimo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She started selling bacon-wrapped hot dogs, she says, when a friend told her she was being exploited, and that she should start her own business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Y me dice no le sigas ayudando a ella. Te está explotando. Ella está viviendo de ti. No sé. Y entonces, pues ya fue cuando él me animó a meterme a este negocio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She says a friend sold her a cart for cheap, showed her the ropes, and she got started selling hot dogs. Exania says now she works for herself, she owns three hot dog carts and sometimes loans them to people who need work. They split the earnings 50,50. She also drives a van to move them all around.\u003cbr>\nShe says she feels good working at Pier 33, but sales can be fickle. In winter, it’s slow, she might only sell one or two hot dogs in a day, barely enough to cover parking and supplies. On a good day, she could sell more than 20, which would get her over $200 in a day. She buys her ingredients at stores like Restaurant Depot and chef stores, where she can buy 50 hot dogs for less than a dollar a piece.\u003cbr>\nThe area around the Embarcadero where Exania works is kind of like one big tourist attraction. Businesses of all kinds compete with each other. Of course there’s restaurants and museums, but there are also people who work outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Street Entertainer: Everybody’s say, woo. Everybody’s say, wow. Ladies and gentlemen….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: And pedicabbers who earn their living by giving people bike rides up and down the wharf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: Rides up to the sourdough, the sea lions, the chowder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: And I quickly learned, there’s tension between the pedicabbers and the hot dog vendors. As I’m interviewing Exania, one pedicab driver approaches me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedicab Driver: Are you going to go and interview legitimate businesses who pay taxes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Am I going to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedicab Driver: Yeah, I would hope you do. I’d hope you go to the restaurants that have been closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: The atmosphere becomes pretty tense. He asks me if I am going to interview legitimate businesses who pay taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedicab Driver: These guys cost me about $5,000 a year. How do they, how do they? Because when they buy a hot dog, they don’t go to the wharf. Okay? Yeah, I pay taxes. I pay for a license. We pay permits. F*** these people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: It’s a pretty open display of hostility. I can tell there is some bad blood. But I wanted to find out why so I asked another pedicab driver. He offered to fill me in, but suggested we go somewhere quieter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: We’re going for a pedicab ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Where better to talk, than the back seat of a pedicab?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: I had a passenger once describe it as, uh, it’s like riding a couch down the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: This is Erik. He told me he’s been a pedicabber for eight years. He declined to give his last name because of fear of repercussions to his business if he spoke out against the hot dog vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: They’re playing their music loud. They’re making a lot of noise soliciting the selling of hot dogs. Um, and they’ve crowded out the prime spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: You might be thinking how would the pedicab business be affected by bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors? Well, Erik says many of his best customers are hungry tourists headed to eat out. Pier 33 used to be his number one place to pick people up and make some money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: We’re not just bike riders, we’re tour guides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: But around 2021, as the COVID-19 pandemic started to ease, he says bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors started showing up in large numbers outside the terminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: Part of our job, part of our challenge is to engage people. So they’ll get in the bike with us. And, um, if they’re playing their music really loud, so they can’t hear us or if they’re yelling hot dog, hot dog, hot dog, so loud that they can’t hear us, then yeah, we, we get drowned out. We get, uh, moved to the back row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Instead of getting a ride to lunch at a restaurant with a pedicabber, he says people at the ferry terminal started choosing to buy a bacon-wrapped hot dog instead, and just keep walking. Much like Nick and Cameron Nelson did at the beginning of this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: And that not only hurts us, the pedicabbers, but that hurts all the restaurants at Pier 39, all the restaurants down here, all the restaurants up at North Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Erik says it’s unfair that many, if not all bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors don’t carry any kind of license with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: We all have permits, the bikes have permits, we’re doing everything by regulation and they’re not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Erik pays a yearly fee of $347 for a pedicab operator’s license. And his employer likely spends more. Other brick and mortar shops on the wharf have to pass health inspections and pay for building permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: So there’s a lot of local businesses that are paying the price for those people to be out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Erik says he supports the hot dog vendors’ right to make a living and hustle on the wharf just like he does. But he says it has to be fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: So find a way to do it right and legal and in a healthy, safe way. I’m all in, but that’s not what we have today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: We take a ride back to Pier 33.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: Rickshaw rides, rides up to where you should be having lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Erik points out that the sidewalk outside the Ferry Terminal is covered in grease splatters from all the hot dog carts. He raises another complaint commonly leveled against the hot dog vendors. Many don’t have adequate handwashing and refrigeration, and that’s a violation of food safety laws. Just then, something illustrates his point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik: Oh, look, look, look. See what happened over there. That knife hit the ground. It’s on that greasy sidewalk and wipe it with a napkin and let’s cut some more tomatoes or onions or whatever. That’s, it’s a health issue. Nobody, nobody at the city is doing anything about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Erik clearly isn’t satisfied with how the city is responding, but since 2022, the city has been conducting regular inspections of unpermitted street vending seven days a week, including food vendors. That work is done by a multi-agency task force, which includes the San Francisco Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Susan Philip: The main issues are, are foodborne, foodborne illness, and that that is what we are really concerned about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Dr. Susan Philip is the director of the population health division at the San Francisco Department of Public Health. She says the main purpose of these inspections is to make sure that food vendors are in compliance with state health laws. Things like having adequate refrigeration and handwashing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Susan Philip: Which many of the carts do not have those capabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: I’ve seen pictures on social showing hot dogs for sale kept in moldy cardboard boxes below the carts. Dr. Philip says when DPH workers do unpermitted vending inspections, they lead with education and information about how to come into compliance with the health code. But if vendors are not willing to do that, city workers can confiscate their food and equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Susan Philip: Because we want to decrease the chance that It will end up being sold to someone who could potentially get sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She says in a roughly year and a half period, 239 vendors had an enforcement action carried out against them, where the city impounded unsafe food or unsafe equipment. The department does not keep track of how many of those actions related specifically to bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors. Dr. Philip said these inspections aren’t just about food safety, city teams also look out for people selling stolen goods, or people blocking the public right of way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Susan Philip: That is why this task force came about. And it really also is because of this, uh, increase, increase in overall vending that has been occurring in the city, um, as you know, the result of some of the, the changes in the state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Senate Bill 946, passed in 2018, broadly decriminalized street vending throughout the state. And SB 972 which went into effect in 2023, reduced enforcement of sidewalk food vending from a criminal offense to one that can only incur administrative citations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Susan Philip: So that timeline is, is consistent with some of the increase that we’re, that we are seeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: So our question asker Olivia, is right: there has been an increase in street vending over the past few years. She also wanted to know where these hot dogs came from and while you might think of a hot dog as the classic all American food, to understand the origins of bacon-wrapped hot dogs, you have to check out Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Esparza: It has been one of my goals as I travel to new Latin American countries all the time is to try their local version of the hot dog and, and I’ve never been disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: This is Bill Esparza, he’s a food writer, senior contributor at Eater LA, and a bit of a hot dog expert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Esparza: I went to Brazil and I was having hot dogs there and there’s are also very full of ingredients and wild toppings, you know, they put quail eggs on the hot dogs in Colombia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: He says just south of the Arizona border in the Mexican State of Sonora, there is an especially famous type of hot dog. It’s known as a Sonoran dog, or a Dogo as the locals call it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Esparza: It’s like really important to them that, that the hot dogs are just like this. They’re like this big meal with all these flavors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: It’s got a big wheat bun, think like a lobster roll. But what really makes it stand out are the condiments people put on top. Here are just some them:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Esparza: Canned mushrooms, pickled jalapenos , liquid cheese, ruffles potato chips, black olives, sweet corn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: The list goes on. Esparza says as best as we can tell, the arrival of the hot dog in Sonora can be traced back to one person. A Sonoran man named Don Cipriano Lucero, who opened a restaurant called Cafe KiKi in Hermosillo in 1947.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Esparza: So Don Cipriano Lucero brought the hot dog back from the United States and, um, started serving them there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Don Cipriano served regular hot dogs, American style. But while Americans might be content with just a little mustard or ketchup, Esparza says the locals probably found it a little boring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Esparza: Mexicans want spice and also Mexican very much like sweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: And there’s a Spanish word for what he says people did next. Tropicalizado. It means tropicalized. Over the years people in Sonora perfected the hot dog for their taste buds. They made the American hot dog to be more, well, Mexican. By adding spice, flavor, and richness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Esparza: When the bacon came on, who knows, but it started to become a thing in the colleges in, uh, probably starting in the sixties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Just as hot dogs were brought from the United States to Mexico, it was only a matter of time before dogos that had been tropicalizado and made it back to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Esparza: So it’s very possible that once hot dogs became popular in Sonora, that somebody came and brought them to Tijuana because those, those people are connected. Those two states are so connected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Once in Tijuana, people traveling from Mexico into California might bring this culinary tradition with them. When it makes this cross-border journey, the dog changes again. Shedding the big wheaty bun and all the extra toppings for a pared down version you can see on Bay Area streets today.\u003cbr>\nBacon-wrapped hot dogs are celebrated in places like Hermosillo, but back at Pier 33, the vendors are constantly on the lookout for city inspection teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johanna: ¿Alo? Aquí bajo, no, no, hay aquí venta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: I’m speaking with a bacon-wrapped hot dog vendor named Johanna when she gets a call from another vendor down the street. They exchange information about sales, and also if anyone has seen city inspection teams around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johanna: No amiga, esta más abajo, por que como ayer cayó abajo, entonces nos avisaron que había la cuidad y nos movimos todo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She asked to use her middle name due to fears about her immigration status. Johanna says it varies how often the city inspection teams come, sometimes as many as four times a day, sometimes not at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johanna: Ayer cayeron dos veces y anteayer cayeron cuatro veces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: There’s this strange sort of rhythm to the area around where the vendors work. It’s almost tidal. Every 30 minutes or so, a ferry from Alcatraz arrives at the pier, and drops off a boatload of tourists. As they exit the terminal, the pedicabbers and the hot dog vendors hock their wares, rides to the wharf, a quick snack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johanna: Algunos barcos son buenos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Johanna says some boats are good, People are hungry. But others, nobody buys anything. Once the tourists leave, a strange quiet settles over the place. Vendors idly click their tongs. People joke with their neighbors, the pedicabbers take a nap in the back of their cab. They wait for the next boat. But city inspection teams can also come at any moment. When that happens it’s chaos.\u003cbr>\nJohanna shows me a video of one enforcement action by the city in March. City staff roll up in vehicles, Johanna and others run away, pushing their carts ahead of them. Johanna got caught, city workers took her cart, and that’s the third time that’s happened in about a year of vending. She says she had a panic attack and city workers called an ambulance for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johanna: Llamaron a los bomberos primero, vinieron y me tomaron el pulso y dijeron de que no, que y había entrado, dicen en un pánico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: When the inspectors confiscate a vendor’s cart, they take it to SF Port property where it’s held for 30 days. Vendors can try to get their carts back, but SFDPH can issue hefty fines, almost $3,000 in some cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Preferimos que se pierda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Standing next to Johanna is Exania. Exania says when her cart gets confiscated, she just buys a new one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Porque igual compramos otros los quitan. Aunque vayamos a pagar esa multa, vienen de nuevo y los quitan entonces, ¿qué hacemos?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She says even if she was to pay the fine and get her cart back, the city would just come and take it again, only this time with a heftier fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: De todas maneras nos agarran nuestros nombres y en otra nos viene una multa más cara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She shows me the Amazon listing for these exact carts. It’s a $50 tool cart, but outfitting it with a stove and cooktop and everything else they need brings the price up to around $450. Exania says it can take a while to get the money and supplies together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Hay que hacer un proceso primero a juntar dinero para armarlo, porque a veces cuando nos dejan sin nada, imaginate, tenemos que ver por otro lado, para comprar el material\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: But at the end of the day, she says this is her only option for work. She says everywhere else she has tried, they want proof of residency. Something she can’t provide. So she keeps working here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Es la única manera que tenemos para trabajar. Sí, porque donde quiera que vayamos, nos piden papeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Exania says she’s well aware that she’s working without permits from the city, but says she tries to follow the health code as best she can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Compramos diarios lo que podemos vender y lo que ya sobra, lo metemos a la hielera, a la refri, para que no se nos dañe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: She brings fresh ingredients, the hot dogs are frozen at the start of the day, and she refrigerates what she doesn’t sell. Exania says if she could say one thing to the city, it would be this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exania: Que nos dejen de maltratar, de seguirnos. Porque aquí nosotros trabajamos decentemente, no le robamos a nadie, no dañamos a nadie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Stop treating us badly. We’re just here to work decently. We’re not robbing anybody, and we’re not hurting anyone.\u003cbr>\nAfter all this, I caught back up with Olivia Godfrey, the question asker. I told her about Exania, and the pedicabbers, and the health department, and the history of bacon-wrapped hot dogs, and everything else. When she asked this question, she came from a place of wanting to know how to support these vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Godfrey: I think we should be able to support our community around us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: But I raised the pedicabbers’ concerns, that many local businesses say they’re hurting because of these vendors. And aren’t they also part of our community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: How can we support both? Or like, like do you think that like supporting a bacon-wrapped hot dog vendor is to the detriment of other businesses?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Godfrey: Oh man, that’s so tough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: I also asked her about the food safety aspect. Knowing that these hot dogs likely weren’t up to the food code, did she feel safe eating them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Godfrey: Oh, no, that’s definitely something that you’re aware of, of like, you might take your chances on like maybe not feeling well afterwards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: I know what she means, growing up in San Francisco, my friends and I called them Danger Dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: Knowing what you know now, do you think that you would still buy a bacon-wrapped hot dog?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Godfrey: Yes, definitely. I kind of sympathize with people like the industry or the other folks in that like Pier 39 area that might be struggling because of this, but where I’m frequenting them is like concert venues and things like that. And I’ll of course support those folks because who doesn’t love a good bacon-wrapped hot dog after a concert?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: There’s some people who definitely don’t love them. But the bacon-wrapped hot dog has undeniably become an iconic Bay Area Street food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katrina Schwartz: That was KQED’s Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman. Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Our show is produced by: Gabriela Glueck, Christopher Beale, and me, Katrina Schwartz. With extra support from Alana Walker, Maha Sanad, Katie Springer, Jen Chien, Holly Kernan, and everyone on team KQED. Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has tapped some of the city’s richest people to run a new nonprofit aimed at raising money to revitalize the city’s downtown, and also recently announced a fund that will use private dollars to help address homelessness. But how much power should the city’s ultrarich have over the city’s comeback?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1859134600\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. 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And it’s no secret, actually an explicit part of his transition plan, to make public-private partnerships and business alliances help restore trust and fill vacant storefronts downtown and to fund things like shelter beds that the city needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:42] And recently, Lurie announced the Downtown Development Corporation or DDC, what is that set up to do exactly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:02:50] Yeah, the DDC is a private nonprofit group and their main north star is to raise money from wealthy people to revitalize the city’s central business core. Members of the group include Meg Whitman, who’s the former CEO of eBay and Hewlett-Packard. Crypto billionaire Chris Larson, also Bob Fisher of the Gap Retail Company. 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A novel public-private partnership that will help us accelerate the work of expanding interim housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:04:09] So this is a public fund that the city can use to raise private dollars for things like building shelter to get people off the street quicker. Even though this Breaking the Cycle fund is not part of the DDC, there are some similar goals, you know, in terms of wanting to have sort of the optics of homelessness change really fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daniel Lurie \u003c/strong>[00:04:34] The people of this city have given us a clear mandate. To create a safe, clean and thriving San Francisco. That begins with clean and safe streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:04:47] So when Lurie announced the Breaking the Cycle fund, he said that the group had already raised more than $37 million, and that came from groups like the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation. A group called Crankstart, which was founded by Michael Moritz, who you’ll recall is a billionaire who’s very much involved in San Francisco politics. Also, Lurie’s own nonprofit, the Tipping Point Community contributed $11 million to that fund. That was the largest donation in this initial kind of announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:20] What does Lurie say about why he is doing this this way, like what is the rationale behind tapping san Francisco’s super wealthy elite?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:05:31] Lurie is staring down a massive budget deficit that could balloon even larger if federal funds are withheld from San Francisco as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daniel Lurie \u003c/strong>[00:05:43] We can no longer invest in the same solutions and expect different outcomes. Our system and services must become more effective. And the opportunity to invest in private resources for public good must deliver tangible results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:06:02] Supporters of this model say, you know, the city desperately needs money injected into these kinds of efforts and services and that the business community should step up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Stiepleman \u003c/strong>[00:06:17] The DDC is going to be a helper. It’s going to raise money in order to supplement those plans and go and execute those plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:06:26] I spoke with David Stiepelman, who is the chief organizer behind the DDC. He’s also co-president of Sixth Street, which is an investment firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Stiepleman \u003c/strong>[00:06:37] We’ll plant trees, we’ll do some greening, we will help restaurants with outdoor seating and figuring that out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:06:44] He said that this is really going to be used to quickly get some things moving. And I think that there, as we saw in this last election cycle, was frustration from a lot of voters over, you know, this sluggish recovery downtown. So folks like Stiepleman are saying that, you know, they can raise some of these monies and actually start to make some changes that voters will see in their day-to-day commutes and walks to school and whatever it may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Stiepleman \u003c/strong>[00:07:16] If we’ve done our job correctly, this becomes a sustained generational kind of effort. And I think eventually that has to be something that’s generated from public funds, but in the meantime we’re gonna get a going with the substantial private capital base to make sure that downtown is vibrant and resilient and is you know, re-imagined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:47] What is new about this approach? Is this a unique way of addressing the city’s problems?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:07:54] Yeah, I think that’s a great question because it’s not like private money has never been a part of politics. It certainly has and it certainly has here in San Francisco. What is new is that we have a mayor who ra the most expensive mayoral campaign in the city’s history, largely funded through his own wealth. And we’re seeing his connections to the business class, to philanthropy, to technology really come with him to City Hall in some very direct relationship building and direct fundraising from his connections in tech and business and real estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:53] What kind of authority do the people in charge of these funds actually have? Are they deciding how this money is then used to beautify downtown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:09:06] It’s a little vague, and that’s partly because some of the actual projects and things that they’re going to be doing are somewhat vague still. We don’t know. You know, so it depends, like if there’s, you know, potential housing or shelter project that they’re funding, that is something that would need to go through City Hall you know, likely pass certain approvals. There are still some guardrails. 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And so this group is focused on raising large amounts of money for anything from beautification, you know, restaurant outdoor seating, planting trees, to potentially even housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:36] And it’s not just downtown revitalization being funded in this sort of way, right, Sydney?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:03:47] Just last week, Lurie announced a new fund as part of his, quote, “Breaking the Cycle” program, which is targeting largely street homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daniel Lurie \u003c/strong>[00:03:57] Today I am proud to launch the Breaking the Cycle Fund. A novel public-private partnership that will help us accelerate the work of expanding interim housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:04:09] So this is a public fund that the city can use to raise private dollars for things like building shelter to get people off the street quicker. Even though this Breaking the Cycle fund is not part of the DDC, there are some similar goals, you know, in terms of wanting to have sort of the optics of homelessness change really fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daniel Lurie \u003c/strong>[00:04:34] The people of this city have given us a clear mandate. To create a safe, clean and thriving San Francisco. That begins with clean and safe streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:04:47] So when Lurie announced the Breaking the Cycle fund, he said that the group had already raised more than $37 million, and that came from groups like the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation. A group called Crankstart, which was founded by Michael Moritz, who you’ll recall is a billionaire who’s very much involved in San Francisco politics. Also, Lurie’s own nonprofit, the Tipping Point Community contributed $11 million to that fund. That was the largest donation in this initial kind of announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:20] What does Lurie say about why he is doing this this way, like what is the rationale behind tapping san Francisco’s super wealthy elite?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:05:31] Lurie is staring down a massive budget deficit that could balloon even larger if federal funds are withheld from San Francisco as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daniel Lurie \u003c/strong>[00:05:43] We can no longer invest in the same solutions and expect different outcomes. Our system and services must become more effective. And the opportunity to invest in private resources for public good must deliver tangible results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:06:02] Supporters of this model say, you know, the city desperately needs money injected into these kinds of efforts and services and that the business community should step up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Stiepleman \u003c/strong>[00:06:17] The DDC is going to be a helper. It’s going to raise money in order to supplement those plans and go and execute those plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:06:26] I spoke with David Stiepelman, who is the chief organizer behind the DDC. He’s also co-president of Sixth Street, which is an investment firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Stiepleman \u003c/strong>[00:06:37] We’ll plant trees, we’ll do some greening, we will help restaurants with outdoor seating and figuring that out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:06:44] He said that this is really going to be used to quickly get some things moving. And I think that there, as we saw in this last election cycle, was frustration from a lot of voters over, you know, this sluggish recovery downtown. So folks like Stiepleman are saying that, you know, they can raise some of these monies and actually start to make some changes that voters will see in their day-to-day commutes and walks to school and whatever it may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Stiepleman \u003c/strong>[00:07:16] If we’ve done our job correctly, this becomes a sustained generational kind of effort. And I think eventually that has to be something that’s generated from public funds, but in the meantime we’re gonna get a going with the substantial private capital base to make sure that downtown is vibrant and resilient and is you know, re-imagined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:47] What is new about this approach? Is this a unique way of addressing the city’s problems?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:07:54] Yeah, I think that’s a great question because it’s not like private money has never been a part of politics. It certainly has and it certainly has here in San Francisco. What is new is that we have a mayor who ra the most expensive mayoral campaign in the city’s history, largely funded through his own wealth. And we’re seeing his connections to the business class, to philanthropy, to technology really come with him to City Hall in some very direct relationship building and direct fundraising from his connections in tech and business and real estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:53] What kind of authority do the people in charge of these funds actually have? Are they deciding how this money is then used to beautify downtown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:09:06] It’s a little vague, and that’s partly because some of the actual projects and things that they’re going to be doing are somewhat vague still. We don’t know. You know, so it depends, like if there’s, you know, potential housing or shelter project that they’re funding, that is something that would need to go through City Hall you know, likely pass certain approvals. There are still some guardrails. But it is somewhat vague also when you consider that people who are putting a lot of money towards these things are probably gonna care where it goes to, so even if there’s not a memo attached to the check you know, it’s likely that there’s some sort of conversation and there’s convincing that needs to be done to get people to open up their pockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:51] Yeah, I mean, it sounds like this public-private approach is normal, but perhaps the scale of it and the embrace of it is what is maybe different. I mean, is anyone concerned about this approach of of tapping san Francisco’s wealthy elite to solve these problems?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:10:13] Absolutely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sean McMorris \u003c/strong>[00:10:15] It’s not that it’s not a worthy cause, but it always raises the issue of purchasing Influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:10:21] I spoke with Sean McMorris, who follows money in politics for a nonprofit called Common Cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sean McMorris \u003c/strong>[00:10:28] I’m sure the people who are going to, he’s going to be soliciting, are probably pretty well healed and probably have their own interests within the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:10:38] We are definitely seeing a real close alliance between the mayor and the city’s wealthy elite class. And that alone, I think, concerns plenty of people. Sean McMorris also talked about this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sean McMorris \u003c/strong>[00:10:55] It’s kind of this game that gets played where the politicians know the people who have the special interests and they reach out to those people. And in return, those people understand that, I do a good thing here, I’m going to be putting myself in good stead with the mayor you know when certain issues come before us or those people are looking for contracts or they’re looking for zone tax change amendments or they’re just looking for certain things that might benefit them individually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:11:28] Another concern that I’ve heard from folks across the political spectrum is you know, what happens when private investment dries up? Or when private donors are not as generous, are not willing to give? Even if you agree and understand that the city needs money right now to function and pay its employees and provide the services that it does, the question of sustainability comes up if that’s not coming through tax revenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:04] And I mean, do we know anything about whether some of the people that Lurie is tapping to fund the Downtown Redevelopment Fund, or this homelessness fund, if they do, in fact, have any sort of political agendas ?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:12:21] One that gets mentioned a lot in the media is Chris Larson. He was the founder of Ripple, which is a major cryptocurrency company. And he, for a long time, has been very involved in the city’s politics, has put a lot of money into different candidates and ballot measures. And yeah, I think that it’s fair to say that folks who are, you know, using their money in order to get certain ballot measures passed or get certain candidates elected have interests that go beyond just goodwill of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:01] Well, Sydney, what is, I guess, the timeline here with these funds? What’s next, and when will we actually see these funds, I guess, turning into actual action like, are changes to downtown or are shelters being built?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:13:18] Yeah, for the DDC. In particular, it’s a little vague still. In terms of the Breaking the Cycle Fund, some of that money is already being put to use. Like I mentioned before, the Tipping Point’s, $11 million donation is being used for family homelessness prevention. 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"content": "\u003cp>Scores of Bay Area nonprofits are scrambling after hundreds of AmeriCorps staff members who filled crucial support roles were abruptly terminated last month, amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038670/trump-administration-slashes-400-million-in-americorps-funding\">sweeping cuts to the national service program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers, who are paid a modest monthly stipend to work on education, anti-poverty and disaster recovery initiatives in low-income communities, received notice from the program in late April instructing them not to come back in the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The note was essentially like, ‘Don’t report to work tomorrow,’” said Bita Nazarian, executive director of 826 Valencia, whose youth centers in San Francisco’s Mission, Tenderloin and Mission Bay neighborhoods offer free writing workshops and tutoring to low-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit, co-founded by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13969159/dave-eggers-international-youth-library-san-francisco\">Bay Area novelist Dave Eggers\u003c/a>, has for years relied on 15 AmeriCorps members to lead the tutoring services that form the core of its mission to provide students with the kind of individualized academic support they often don’t receive in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although 826 Valencia scraped together funds to continue paying AmeriCorps members through July, when their terms were set to end, Nazarian said she isn’t sure if they can afford to do so for future cohorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re paying our people from our own budget just to maintain our programs and keep them whole,” she said. “They had committed to us, so I felt committed to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040498\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-06-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-06-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">AmeriCorps member Dylan Lalanne-Perkins works with San Francisco Unified School District students during a Poetry Lab and Podcasting Field Trip at 826 Valencia’s Tenderloin Center in San Francisco on May 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But many other organizations don’t have the financial leeway to do that, Nazarian said. She described a recent call with other local nonprofits in which a number said they couldn’t continue paying their AmeriCorps members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were freaking out,” she said. “How do you deliver the services that you have committed to delivering without your people?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A domestic version of the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps was created three decades ago to foster public service and volunteerism, primarily drawing young people fresh out of college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are people who are signing up to help their own country, because we have needs, there’s gaps to be filled,” said Adolfo Rivera, the director of national service programs at Bay Area Community Resources. “People always think that the way to serve the country is the military. But there are other ways too.”[aside postID=news_12040042 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-002_qed-1020x680.jpg']Rivera’s nonprofit manages AmeriCorps programs in about 30 educational and disaster relief organizations in the region — including 826 Valencia. He had the unfortunate job of informing the roughly 600 AmeriCorps members he oversees that their positions had been cut, effective immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included a group that was dispatched to Los Angeles after the devastating January wildfires and has been there since to help with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029129/volunteers-rush-to-save-historic-tiles-from-bulldozers-in-wake-of-altadena-fires\">recovery efforts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that one to me is almost the most heartbreaking,” said Rivera, who’s been involved with AmeriCorps since the agency’s inception in 1994. “These folks lived in hotels for months, serving people at their lowest moments, not making a lot of money, and then get an email saying the federal government has cut your grant. That their service was no longer needed or wanted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after watching the Trump administration ransack other government agencies, Rivera said he never expected AmeriCorps, a program that has always garnered bipartisan support, to be on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s in red states, it’s in blue states. It’s in rural counties, it’s in urban counties,” he said. “AmeriCorps is everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disruption to AmeriCorps comes after the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency on April 25 quietly ordered the national service agency to \u003ca href=\"https://www.statecommissions.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=342:asc-statement-on-the-termination-of-americorps-grants&catid=23:news&Itemid=191\">cancel nearly $400 million in grants\u003c/a> — about 40% of its remaining funding — which paid for its members’ stipends, health care and education awards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040497\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">AmeriCorps member Emely Baisa works with San Francisco Unified School District students during a Poetry Lab and Podcasting Field Trip at 826 Valencia’s Tenderloin Center in San Francisco on May 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It has been determined that the award no longer meets agency priorities and you must immediately cease all award activities,” AmeriCorps wrote in an email on April 27 to national and regional organizations that help distribute grant funding, according to communications shared with KQED. “This is a final agency action, and it is not administratively appealable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts have already prompted a number of local nonprofits to scale back or fully suspend their services, \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/01/sfusd-americorps-cuts-gardening-san-francisco/\">including some garden programs\u003c/a> in San Francisco schools that AmeriCorps members primarily staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, the sudden termination could shutter more than 1,000 programs and cut short the terms of over 32,000 service members, who will immediately lose their health care benefits and only receive a percentage of the education grants they had been promised, according to America’s Service Commissions, a nonprofit organization that helps support AmeriCorps programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AmeriCorps did not respond to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several states, including California, which has long been one of the biggest recipients of the AmeriCorps grants, had their entire funding cut, ASC said.[aside postID=news_12040025 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1020x680.jpg']Within days, California joined more than 20 other states in \u003ca href=\"http://ers.com/world/us/us-states-sue-block-trump-dismantling-americorps-2025-04-29/\">suing the Trump administration\u003c/a> over the cut, calling it “an unauthorized decision by the administration to dismantle” an agency that was formed, and is funded, by Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate lawsuit, filed more than a month before the cuts were announced, the San Francisco Unified School District and the city of Santa Fe \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/2025/04/01/federal-court-blocks-trump-administrations-illegal-conditions-on-americorps-funding/\">also sued the administration\u003c/a> for making AmeriCorps funding contingent on compliance with its anti-DEI policy agenda — an action that a court order temporarily blocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While DOGE and the Trump administration say they are seeking to root out wasteful government spending, Rivera said that what’s often misunderstood about AmeriCorps is that it relies on matching funds from private donors and the states, and is only partially funded by the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For an administration that’s talking about making cuts to increase efficiency and decrease waste, there is no world where AmeriCorps should be part of that equation,” said Eddie Kaufman, the executive director of Mission Graduates, an education equity organization in San Francisco that until last month 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Rivera’s nonprofit manages AmeriCorps programs in about 30 educational and disaster relief organizations in the region — including 826 Valencia. He had the unfortunate job of informing the roughly 600 AmeriCorps members he oversees that their positions had been cut, effective immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included a group that was dispatched to Los Angeles after the devastating January wildfires and has been there since to help with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029129/volunteers-rush-to-save-historic-tiles-from-bulldozers-in-wake-of-altadena-fires\">recovery efforts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that one to me is almost the most heartbreaking,” said Rivera, who’s been involved with AmeriCorps since the agency’s inception in 1994. “These folks lived in hotels for months, serving people at their lowest moments, not making a lot of money, and then get an email saying the federal government has cut your grant. That their service was no longer needed or wanted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after watching the Trump administration ransack other government agencies, Rivera said he never expected AmeriCorps, a program that has always garnered bipartisan support, to be on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s in red states, it’s in blue states. It’s in rural counties, it’s in urban counties,” he said. “AmeriCorps is everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disruption to AmeriCorps comes after the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency on April 25 quietly ordered the national service agency to \u003ca href=\"https://www.statecommissions.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=342:asc-statement-on-the-termination-of-americorps-grants&catid=23:news&Itemid=191\">cancel nearly $400 million in grants\u003c/a> — about 40% of its remaining funding — which paid for its members’ stipends, health care and education awards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040497\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250516-AMERICORPS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">AmeriCorps member Emely Baisa works with San Francisco Unified School District students during a Poetry Lab and Podcasting Field Trip at 826 Valencia’s Tenderloin Center in San Francisco on May 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It has been determined that the award no longer meets agency priorities and you must immediately cease all award activities,” AmeriCorps wrote in an email on April 27 to national and regional organizations that help distribute grant funding, according to communications shared with KQED. “This is a final agency action, and it is not administratively appealable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts have already prompted a number of local nonprofits to scale back or fully suspend their services, \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/01/sfusd-americorps-cuts-gardening-san-francisco/\">including some garden programs\u003c/a> in San Francisco schools that AmeriCorps members primarily staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, the sudden termination could shutter more than 1,000 programs and cut short the terms of over 32,000 service members, who will immediately lose their health care benefits and only receive a percentage of the education grants they had been promised, according to America’s Service Commissions, a nonprofit organization that helps support AmeriCorps programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AmeriCorps did not respond to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several states, including California, which has long been one of the biggest recipients of the AmeriCorps grants, had their entire funding cut, ASC said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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However, this is incorrect for several important reasons,” the message from Bouchot reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bouchot said that while Dunn did send some board members communication late last year discussing a possible “transition in leadership,” she never sent any resignation to Peterson, as required by the organization’s bylaws, and later followed up with a “clear decision to remain as chair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peterson’s spokesperson said Bouchot was hired by Dunn hired and does not work for the zoo.[aside postID=news_12036582 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PandaGetty-1020x764.jpg']Dunn declined to comment on whether or not there is a vote next week, citing an employment matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hallman said the vote is coming. Since hearing of the meeting, he said, current and former employees and community organizations have begun a “grassroots movement” asking the board to remove Peterson after a few rough years for her and the zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors requested an audit of the facility following a scathing report produced by the Animal Control and Welfare Commission, which found that it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101907448/sf-zoo-is-unsafe-for-visitors-and-animals-according-to-city-report\">“unsafe for visitors and animals.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2024, the union took a vote of no confidence in Peterson, passed by 93% of voting members, after news that a grizzly bear had briefly chased a zookeeper raised alarms in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the controversy, Peterson has been leading the charge to bring a pair of giant pandas to San Francisco in an effort to revive the zoo’s declining attendance and profitability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989335/sf-mayors-bid-to-raise-25-million-for-pandas-spurs-skepticism-amid-budget-crunch\">Launched\u003c/a> in partnership with then-Mayor London Breed last year, the $25 million plan to borrow the pair of pandas from China for three years is not a done deal, even though they’re expected to be on exhibit by next spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036582/sf-zoo-says-on-track-pandas-no-tariffs-endangered-species\">hesitant to promise their arrival\u003c/a> since his election, and increasingly tense relations between the federal government and China could mean reversing course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the pandas arrive in San Francisco or whether Peterson will be around to welcome them is unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just hopeful that the board makes the right decision,” Hallman told KQED. 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"content": "\u003cp>Kaitlyn Chen has had a busy spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just weeks after she hoisted the NCAA \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/womens-basketball\">women’s basketball\u003c/a> championship trophy with her University of Connecticut teammates, the point guard, originally from Southern California, was drafted by the WNBA’s newest team, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986061/get-ready-for-the-golden-state-valkyries-bay-areas-new-wnba-team\">Golden State Valkyries\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been hectic,” Chen told KQED during preseason training camp in Oakland to determine the team’s final 12-player roster ahead of the May 16 home opener at Chase Center. “The best part is how much everyone cares and everyone really wants you to succeed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she makes the team, Chen’s first game with the Valkyries will be against the Los Angeles Sparks — a team she grew up watching play at Crypto.com Arena, formerly Staples Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely a surreal experience,” she said, smiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been about a year since the Golden State Valkyries were officially named a WNBA franchise in the league’s first expansion in 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge deal,” said Dr. Bonnie Morris, professor of women’s history at UC Berkeley and author of the book \u003cem>What’s the Score? 25 Years of Teaching Women’s Sports History\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038785\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-VALKYRIESOPENERTEAMPROFILE-36-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-VALKYRIESOPENERTEAMPROFILE-36-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-VALKYRIESOPENERTEAMPROFILE-36-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-VALKYRIESOPENERTEAMPROFILE-36-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-VALKYRIESOPENERTEAMPROFILE-36-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-VALKYRIESOPENERTEAMPROFILE-36-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-VALKYRIESOPENERTEAMPROFILE-36-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden State Valkyries’ Kaitlyn Chen speaks with the press during training camp held at the Sephora Performance Center in Oakland on May 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Morris, the expansion of the league increases opportunities for women to make a living from the professional sports industry — not just as athletes, but in support roles that range from media to officiating to management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have more women playing sports than ever before, but we haven’t seen the same revolution in terms of staffing,” Morris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women make up much of the Valkyries’ senior leadership, including the president, vice presidents, general manager, director of player development, director of performance, head athletic trainer and head coach.[aside postID=news_12040376 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-VALKYRIESOPENERTEAMPROFILE-21-BL-KQED.jpg']“We get to write our own story,” head coach Natalie Nakase said during a press event on May 1. “I think that’s one of the coolest things. But I’m also telling our players to just be present. Just be where your feet are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eighteen players were invited to the 19-day training camp at the Sephora Performance Center in downtown Oakland. Many players have played with or against each other in college, the WNBA and international leagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all have been in each other’s spheres in one way or the other throughout the years. 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Currently, just 18 of the system’s total 33 cameras are operational. The system launched on March 20 with 12 cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hake said the agency will wait until all 33 of the cameras pass the 60-day warning period before issuing citations to avoid potential confusion among drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Our intent from the beginning of the program has always been to have one moment when every camera switches from the warning period to the citation period,” Hake said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA has said that speed is the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/media/39052/download?inline\"> leading cause of death\u003c/a> and serious injury on San Francisco’s streets, and that speed safety cameras are a “proven tool to address excessive speeding and reduce severe and fatal injury traffic collisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six pedestrians have been killed in San Francisco so far this year. 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"content": "\u003cp>The three-way syringe hisses — a dry \u003cem>pssst\u003c/em> followed by the rhythmic \u003cem>chik-chik-chik\u003c/em> of the metal dental scaler on enamel, as hardened tartar is scraped from my teeth, a sound I can almost feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It had been four years since I last saw my dentist, Dr. Jessica Ngo, and a lot had happened since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the safety glasses I wore to shield my eyes from splashes and debris, I caught sight of her dark eyes and the mole on the skin fold below her left eye. She wore Orascoptic dental loupes — high-powered lenses designed for spotting what eludes the naked eye. I hummed along with Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” as I followed the stray wisps of black hair slipping from beneath the satin headgear she wore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you really wearing a bonnet?” I asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ngo — or Dr. J, as I call her — laughed behind her surgical mask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I told her I also wear a bonnet to protect my locs while sleeping. It’s a hair thing. I \u003cem>get\u003c/em> it. We laughed together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe you could use some more laughter these days. National Smile Month, an annual campaign to promote \u003ca href=\"https://www.dentalhealth.org/national-smile-month\">oral health\u003c/a>, began Tuesday, but in 2025, there hasn’t been much to smile about for the people I care for. The ripple effects of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034478/federal-workers-fired-thousands-california-wants-hire-them\">mass layoffs\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037889/trump-administration-considers-immigration-detention-bay-area-military-base-records-show\">detentions\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030273/if-trump-revokes-ukrainian-refugees-legal-status-many-in-california-fear-deportation\">deportations\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034742/california-students-visa-cancellations-sue-trump-administration\">visa cancellations\u003c/a>, trade threats, and the volatility of the stock market and retirement accounts leave many people stressed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Author-finds-happiness-not-misery-loves-company-9961102.php\">anxious\u003c/a> — and kissing their teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039305\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Jessica Ngo, a dentist at Total Health Dental Care, talks with patient Otis R. Taylor Jr. in the Berkeley offices on May 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I returned to Dr. J’s office at \u003ca href=\"https://totalhealthdentalcare.com/jessica-ngo\">Total Health Dental Care\u003c/a> on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley because I’ve been grinding my teeth. And eating too many Skittles. And I missed the care she offers — the kind of sensitivity I haven’t found elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poor oral health is closely linked to chronic diseases such as stroke, heart disease and diabetes. Proper oral hygiene can extend life expectancy. However, for people without dental insurance to reduce out-of-pocket expenses, preventative care is inaccessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually had terrible teeth growing up,” Dr. J, a San Francisco native and one of five children raised by Chinese immigrants, told me. “I probably have over 20 fillings, and I have a root canal, a few crowns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wait, what?[aside postID=news_12039102 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg']“They were working all the time,” she said of her parents. “I don’t think we had very much supervision. They didn’t double-check if we were brushing properly. They didn’t really restrict us on what we were eating, so we ate a lot of junk food and had a lot of candy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. J, who is married with two young daughters, told me she doesn’t recall her family having insurance when she was a child growing up in the Ingleside neighborhood. If she did go to the dentist, it was an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a result of that, I had a lot of cavities that probably went untreated for a period of time before I saw dentists in my teenage years, and that’s when I needed all of that dental work,” she said. “I actually enjoyed going to the dentist, because it was something that wasn’t always available to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is why she does what she does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is why I go to see her: My mother, who once dug through the garbage for a baby tooth I wanted to put under my pillow for the tooth fairy, has always stressed the importance of a healthy mouth. Going to the dentist wasn’t always available to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I balked at braces, because I didn’t want to get teased, even though my misaligned central incisors — buck teeth — were clowned. Braces gave me a straighter smile — and made me less prone to gum disease, which slowly erodes the bone and tissue that anchor your teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chusang Nhasang talks with patient Otis Taylor at the front desk of the Total Health Dental Care Berkeley offices on May 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If left untreated, gum disease can lead to tooth loss and lingering bad breath. The problems can go far beyond your mouth. The bacteria behind gum disease can enter the bloodstream, traveling to organs like the heart, lungs and kidneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gum issues, if you’re not taking care of it, become a lot more complicated to treat as time goes on, so your mom was definitely right in that regard,” Dr. J, 36, said. “It’s rare to have that prevention or preventative care if there is a financial barrier or the patient isn’t covered, and so lower-income individuals have a harder time with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans in Congress are debating how to cut billions from Medicaid over the next decade — known as Medi-Cal in California — the safety-net program that covers health care for low-income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities. In California, roughly 15 million people rely on it.[aside postID=news_12039390 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_1018-1020x765.jpg']According to one IGS poll, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039465/medicaid-cuts-divide-california-house-members-as-budget-deadline-looms\">more than half — 56% — of California voters\u003c/a> believe the state will be negatively impacted by proposed changes to Medi-Cal, which offers preventative and restorative dental benefits to children and adults. More than two-thirds of Medi-Cal recipients express concern about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039102/californians-worried-about-medi-cal-congressional-republicans-consider-cuts\">their own health insurance coverage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And get this: The prevalence of periodontal disease is higher among Black and Mexican American adults age 30 and older, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/research/oralhealthinamerica\">Oral Health in America: Advances and Challenges\u003c/a> — a report from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, part of the National Institutes of Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">California Reparations Task Force\u003c/a>, the first statewide body to study reparations for Black people, released a report with 115 policy recommendations, including a section on \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ch29-ca-reparations.pdf\">remedying disparities\u003c/a> in oral health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What kept me away from Dr. J’s office was insurance — Total Health didn’t take KQED’s plan. That changed this year when KQED switched providers. With age, I’ve come to value doctors I can truly connect with — where care feels human, not just clinical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. J’s office has been renovated with slat wood paneling and wood floors, but the energy remains the same. I crack jokes with Chusang Nhasang, the financial manager. The music is from personal playlists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039306\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Jessica Ngo, a dentist at Total Health Dental Care, holds her Orascoptic dental loupes in Berkeley on May 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s the kind of place where dental anxiety melts away like butter on a pancake fresh off the griddle, a dental office where talk of sneaker collecting feels just as natural as a cleaning. Dental hygienists and dental assistants move around the office on lightweight performance shoes, such as On or Hoka. Dr. J said Adidas Ultraboosts are her go-to, but the last time I saw her, she was rocking the orange-accented Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 V2 Beluga Reflective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At some point, I was a major collector,” she said as she peeled off her gloves and pulled out her phone to play Jubel’s electronic dance cover of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYwBRlgeK9Q\">Dancing in the Moonlight\u003c/a>,” a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5JqPxmYhlo\">1972 hit by King Harvest\u003c/a>. “I had shoe boxes — a line of them. I actually have a ton of shoes I’ve never opened, and so I became more practical. I don’t buy them just to store them anymore. I buy them to wear them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s going to give the shoes to her daughters, who, like me, love going to the dentist. Dr. J pointed out my Air Max 1 Dirty Denim. I clean my sneakers with a toothbrush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. J guided a pen-like intraoral scanner over my molars, its soft, mechanical hum rising as it created 3D images of my teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to show you — that crack is dangerous,” she said, pointing to a monitor. “We’re hoping that we put the crown over and it stops the crack, but sometimes when they’re too deep, it can still propagate. So we shall see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I floss after every snack and meal. Sometimes I walk around the newsroom handing out chocolate after lunch. I have a devastating sweet tooth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Otherwise, your teeth are beautiful,” she said, swiveling to take off her gloves. “You’re taking good care of them. The gum looks really healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she peeled the plastic from her wrist, a soft, suctioned \u003cem>shffft\u003c/em> gave way to a crisp \u003cem>snap\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“They were working all the time,” she said of her parents. “I don’t think we had very much supervision. They didn’t double-check if we were brushing properly. They didn’t really restrict us on what we were eating, so we ate a lot of junk food and had a lot of candy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. J, who is married with two young daughters, told me she doesn’t recall her family having insurance when she was a child growing up in the Ingleside neighborhood. If she did go to the dentist, it was an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a result of that, I had a lot of cavities that probably went untreated for a period of time before I saw dentists in my teenage years, and that’s when I needed all of that dental work,” she said. “I actually enjoyed going to the dentist, because it was something that wasn’t always available to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is why she does what she does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is why I go to see her: My mother, who once dug through the garbage for a baby tooth I wanted to put under my pillow for the tooth fairy, has always stressed the importance of a healthy mouth. Going to the dentist wasn’t always available to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I balked at braces, because I didn’t want to get teased, even though my misaligned central incisors — buck teeth — were clowned. Braces gave me a straighter smile — and made me less prone to gum disease, which slowly erodes the bone and tissue that anchor your teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chusang Nhasang talks with patient Otis Taylor at the front desk of the Total Health Dental Care Berkeley offices on May 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If left untreated, gum disease can lead to tooth loss and lingering bad breath. The problems can go far beyond your mouth. The bacteria behind gum disease can enter the bloodstream, traveling to organs like the heart, lungs and kidneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gum issues, if you’re not taking care of it, become a lot more complicated to treat as time goes on, so your mom was definitely right in that regard,” Dr. J, 36, said. “It’s rare to have that prevention or preventative care if there is a financial barrier or the patient isn’t covered, and so lower-income individuals have a harder time with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans in Congress are debating how to cut billions from Medicaid over the next decade — known as Medi-Cal in California — the safety-net program that covers health care for low-income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities. In California, roughly 15 million people rely on it.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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More than two-thirds of Medi-Cal recipients express concern about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039102/californians-worried-about-medi-cal-congressional-republicans-consider-cuts\">their own health insurance coverage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And get this: The prevalence of periodontal disease is higher among Black and Mexican American adults age 30 and older, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/research/oralhealthinamerica\">Oral Health in America: Advances and Challenges\u003c/a> — a report from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, part of the National Institutes of Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">California Reparations Task Force\u003c/a>, the first statewide body to study reparations for Black people, released a report with 115 policy recommendations, including a section on \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ch29-ca-reparations.pdf\">remedying disparities\u003c/a> in oral health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What kept me away from Dr. J’s office was insurance — Total Health didn’t take KQED’s plan. That changed this year when KQED switched providers. With age, I’ve come to value doctors I can truly connect with — where care feels human, not just clinical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. J’s office has been renovated with slat wood paneling and wood floors, but the energy remains the same. I crack jokes with Chusang Nhasang, the financial manager. The music is from personal playlists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039306\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-NATIONALSMILESMONTH-25-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Jessica Ngo, a dentist at Total Health Dental Care, holds her Orascoptic dental loupes in Berkeley on May 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s the kind of place where dental anxiety melts away like butter on a pancake fresh off the griddle, a dental office where talk of sneaker collecting feels just as natural as a cleaning. 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