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The move came after the city controller projected that San Francisco would face a $936.6 million budget deficit over the next two years. 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Lurie’s budget calls for a total of 550 positions to be eliminated, including those already issued. Most of the remaining job cuts will be vacant positions, according to Sophia Kittler, the mayor’s budget director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, nine filled positions could be cut this year, according to a spokesperson for the mayor’s office, pending approval from the Board of Supervisors. 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And when the federal government cuts funding, those costs fall to the city of San Francisco — unless we help people keep the benefits they need,” Lurie said. “This budget strengthens the work happening right here, using funding from the emergency reserve we set up last year to respond to sweeping federal cuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates for city workers and services impacted by proposed cuts say Lurie’s administration should focus on raising more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The underlying concern here is the strategy of making cuts to get us out of this deficit instead of raising revenue. And it’s just utterly concerning that they’re sticking to this no matter what,” said Anya Worley-Ziegmann, an organizer with the People’s Budget Coalition, a group of nonprofit organizations, unions and community advocates working to shape the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is calling for the passage of the Overpaid CEO Tax, or Proposition D, which is on the June primary ballot. The proposition would increase taxes on the city’s largest corporations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has come out against Proposition D and its opposing measure, Proposition C, saying that the city needs to focus on attracting more companies and their tax dollars to the city. If Proposition D does pass, it would raise the tax rate for certain businesses beginning in 2027, after the current budget is approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075899\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/250418-SFPDFile-02-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/250418-SFPDFile-02-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/250418-SFPDFile-02-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/250418-SFPDFile-02-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Department headquarters in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to the city’s Human Services Agency, law enforcement also saw a boost in the mayor’s budget proposal, with $20 million earmarked for public safety equipment like a new fleet of police cars and fire trucks, along with a 14% pay increase over four years for both police officers and firefighters. It also includes $1.9 million to coordinate the city’s street violence reduction program, as well as targeted funds for the city’s new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081889/not-a-jail-not-an-emergency-room-what-is-daniel-luries-new-reset-center\">RESET Center\u003c/a>, a police-run sobering center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie also wants to invest $71 million in street resurfacing projects to fill potholes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On housing, the mayor’s plan puts $120 million toward \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081593/homeless-funding-plan-raises-concerns-as-san-francisco-looks-to-narrow-budget-deficit\">homelessness prevention\u003c/a> and legal services for families at risk of losing their housing and directs $90 million to shelter and other temporary housing, including some specifically for families, which saw the largest increase in homelessness in the city’s latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12083310/fewer-people-are-sleeping-on-san-francisco-streets-but-family-homelessness-is-up\">federal survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups following the mayor’s budget process closely expressed relief that the proposal did not come with a bloodbath of layoffs. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> Mayor Daniel Lurie wants to preserve the city’s law enforcement spending and boost benefits programs as departments across the city face cuts to close the city’s multimillion-dollar budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Lurie released his anticipated \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/FY2027__FY2028_-_MAYORS_PROPOSED_INTERIM_AAO.pdf\">$16.9 billion budget proposal\u003c/a> for the next two fiscal years. It reduces the city’s more than $600 million projected budget shortfall by $300 million through a combination of department reorganizations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075213/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-looks-to-eliminate-500-city-jobs\">eliminating positions\u003c/a> and other spending reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan has sparked pushback from some worker advocates, who say the cuts will harm residents. But Lurie said failing to address the gaping deficit now would mean even steeper reductions in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under my administration, we will not fall back on temporary fixes that force deeper cuts year after year,” Lurie said as he announced his proposal on Monday outside one of the city’s Human Services Agency offices, which could receive a major boost in the budget to address federal funding cuts. “I know these decisions have very real impacts. But if we fail to act now, our structural deficit will grow to $1 billion, and the difficult choices before us today will become even more painful and costly tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget now goes before the Board of Supervisors, who can request and negotiate changes. The final budget must be approved by Aug. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last December, the mayor directed departments to determine areas where spending could be reduced. The move came after the city controller projected that San Francisco would face a $936.6 million budget deficit over the next two years. That projection improved in May to around $600 million, in part due to improvements in areas like hotel revenue, as well as hiring freezes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079133\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-18-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-18-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-18-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-18-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vehicles pass by City Hall in San Francisco on Aug. 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city has already moved to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12079126/more-layoffs-ahead-as-san-franciscos-budget-woes-persist\">lay off 127 public employees\u003c/a> in an effort to reduce personnel spending by $100 million. Lurie’s budget calls for a total of 550 positions to be eliminated, including those already issued. Most of the remaining job cuts will be vacant positions, according to Sophia Kittler, the mayor’s budget director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, nine filled positions could be cut this year, according to a spokesperson for the mayor’s office, pending approval from the Board of Supervisors. Future layoffs could also be on the table next year as the city looks to reduce salary and benefits spending by an additional $81.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In practical terms, this means that city departments must develop a plan to reduce personnel costs by limiting management structures and span of control, improving workflow processes and exploring shared service models,” the budget reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the cuts will not eliminate the structural deficit completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rising healthcare costs, cost of living adjustments and inflation on materials and supplies will continue to rise faster than projected revenues,” the budget proposal reads. “Future budgets will need to continue reductions and consolidations, pending overall fiscal health, local revenues and state and federal revenue outlook.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While most departments are expected to be impacted by budget cuts, the mayor is proposing injecting more funding into programs that enroll residents in public benefits programs like CalFresh and Medi-Cal, which have been targeted for cuts by the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, the city’s Human Services Agency would receive $34 million to hire more caseworkers in preparation for changes to benefits enrollments and work requirements implemented at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people lose healthcare coverage, they turn to our public hospitals. And when the federal government cuts funding, those costs fall to the city of San Francisco — unless we help people keep the benefits they need,” Lurie said. “This budget strengthens the work happening right here, using funding from the emergency reserve we set up last year to respond to sweeping federal cuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates for city workers and services impacted by proposed cuts say Lurie’s administration should focus on raising more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The underlying concern here is the strategy of making cuts to get us out of this deficit instead of raising revenue. And it’s just utterly concerning that they’re sticking to this no matter what,” said Anya Worley-Ziegmann, an organizer with the People’s Budget Coalition, a group of nonprofit organizations, unions and community advocates working to shape the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is calling for the passage of the Overpaid CEO Tax, or Proposition D, which is on the June primary ballot. The proposition would increase taxes on the city’s largest corporations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has come out against Proposition D and its opposing measure, Proposition C, saying that the city needs to focus on attracting more companies and their tax dollars to the city. If Proposition D does pass, it would raise the tax rate for certain businesses beginning in 2027, after the current budget is approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075899\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/250418-SFPDFile-02-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/250418-SFPDFile-02-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/250418-SFPDFile-02-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/250418-SFPDFile-02-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Department headquarters in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to the city’s Human Services Agency, law enforcement also saw a boost in the mayor’s budget proposal, with $20 million earmarked for public safety equipment like a new fleet of police cars and fire trucks, along with a 14% pay increase over four years for both police officers and firefighters. It also includes $1.9 million to coordinate the city’s street violence reduction program, as well as targeted funds for the city’s new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081889/not-a-jail-not-an-emergency-room-what-is-daniel-luries-new-reset-center\">RESET Center\u003c/a>, a police-run sobering center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie also wants to invest $71 million in street resurfacing projects to fill potholes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On housing, the mayor’s plan puts $120 million toward \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081593/homeless-funding-plan-raises-concerns-as-san-francisco-looks-to-narrow-budget-deficit\">homelessness prevention\u003c/a> and legal services for families at risk of losing their housing and directs $90 million to shelter and other temporary housing, including some specifically for families, which saw the largest increase in homelessness in the city’s latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12083310/fewer-people-are-sleeping-on-san-francisco-streets-but-family-homelessness-is-up\">federal survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups following the mayor’s budget process closely expressed relief that the proposal did not come with a bloodbath of layoffs. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12083599/disrespectful-and-really-chaotic-san-francisco-downsizes-public-arts-galleries-staff\">ongoing concerns about other cuts\u003c/a> have kept many residents, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12080889/with-cost-of-living-rising-cuts-to-housing-programs-put-san-francisco-on-edge\">nonprofit workers\u003c/a> and city employees on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are still fighting to keep our SFDPH community clinics open — Michael Baxter Larkin Street Youth Clinic, Cole Street Youth Clinic, and South East Mission Geriatric Clinic — because they are absolutely vital to the clients who receive services there, who are some of the city’s most vulnerable residents,” said SEIU 1021 San Francisco Vice President Kristin Hardy. “We want to ensure that nonprofits providing critical public services have the funding they need to retain the frontline workers who do that hard work every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>At India Basin Waterfront Park on Saturday, kids readied up their life vests and hitched a ride on a rowboat as part of the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\"> San Francisco\u003c/a> Recreation and Park Department and YMCA of Greater San Francisco-hosted Splash Bash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth from the historically Black Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhoods in San Francisco were there to celebrate their new swimming skills, thanks to the Bayview Safety Swim and Splash Program, a four-year-old program that looks to close the racial disparity in incidents of drowning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/drowning/health-equity/index.html\">the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a>, Black children between the ages of 5 and 9 face rates of drowning deaths that are 2.6 times higher than white children of the same age. Black children are also more likely than their white peers to have no or little swimming ability, according to the USA Swimming Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Made up of predominantly Black swimmers under the age of 14, the Bayview Safety Swim and Splash program offers free swimming lessons to kids with a Bayview zip code. It began in 2022, after parents in the community expressed interest in having their children learn how to swim through the development of the India Basin Waterfront Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event, which overlapped with a resource fair for families, featured dozens of children riding on rowboats to celebrate their accomplishments. Tamara Barak Aparton, spokesperson for the Recreation and Parks Department, said that around 100 kids are in each program cohort and, since the program’s creation, more than 1,000 have participated overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabrina Hall’s son, Brandon, was one of the young swimmers. She said part of what drew her to the program was ensuring he didn’t continue the negative associations with water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085620\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim00922_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim00922_TV_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim00922_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim00922_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Hall (left) and her son Brandon (right) pose for a portrait together at the Bayview Splash Bash in San Francisco on May 30, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of racial disparities in sports and a lot of African Americans are scared of the water, so I said I didn’t want that stigma on my son because I did have it as well,” Hall said. “At first, I didn’t want him to be in the program, but I said go ahead and push him because this is a new generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall said that Brandon hadn’t been exposed to the water before enrolling in the program, in part because of her personal negative associations with swimming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not going to be a part of that stigma, that count or that statistic,” Hall added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085621\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085621\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim01100_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim01100_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim01100_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim01100_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People row their boats at the Bayview Splash Bash in San Francisco on May 30, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dee Hillman, who has three daughters, echoed that experience. Before the program, Hillman said she had trauma associated with the water and her daughters, all of whom are enrolled in Safety Swim and Splash, had minimal exposure to the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, it was, ‘I want my kids to have better swim skills than I do,’” Hillman said. “And they have completely surpassed my comfortability in the water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hillman’s daughter Sarah expressed a simpler take on the program: It’s fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085622\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085622\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim01171_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim01171_TV_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim01171_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim01171_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Danielle Hillman, Abigail Hillman, Tyrone Hillman, Dee Hillman, and Sarah Hillman pose for a portrait at the Bayview Splash Bash in San Francisco on May 30, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We do dolphin kicks, elementary backstroke and a lot of other things,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bayview resident and father Rhett Burden said he heard about the event through an email, and that he’s considering enrolling his daughter in the swimming program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Programs like this are extremely important, especially as you’re focusing on racial and ethnic disparities. It is fairly stark that Black communities in particular don’t have the same level of exposure to the sort of outdoor activities so they can gain the skills necessary not just for survival but to have fun,” Burden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12085623 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim00802_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim00802_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim00802_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim00802_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Hall (left) makes bubbles with her daughter Harleigh-Quin (center) and niece London (right) at the Bayview Splash Bash in San Francisco on May 30, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there’s a waitlist, Vicky Carrillo, YMCA director of equity and aquatics, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s limited and it’s popular,” Carrillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrillo said they want to expand the program to offer more services, but that comes with challenges of its own. San Francisco doesn’t have a lot of pools and, because of the racial disparities in swimming, older generations with the skills needed to teach kids are limited, Carrillo added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents of Black children also have less experience in the water than white parents. Seventy eight percent of Black parents lack swimming skills compared to 67% of white parents, data from the USA Swimming Foundation shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The YMCA is trying to help with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrillo said the YMCA is using a workforce program to train older kids in the neighborhood to swim and then have them train younger kids in turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really building the water safety from the community down through the generations,” Carrillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At India Basin Waterfront Park on Saturday, kids readied up their life vests and hitched a ride on a rowboat as part of the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\"> San Francisco\u003c/a> Recreation and Park Department and YMCA of Greater San Francisco-hosted Splash Bash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth from the historically Black Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhoods in San Francisco were there to celebrate their new swimming skills, thanks to the Bayview Safety Swim and Splash Program, a four-year-old program that looks to close the racial disparity in incidents of drowning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/drowning/health-equity/index.html\">the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a>, Black children between the ages of 5 and 9 face rates of drowning deaths that are 2.6 times higher than white children of the same age. Black children are also more likely than their white peers to have no or little swimming ability, according to the USA Swimming Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Made up of predominantly Black swimmers under the age of 14, the Bayview Safety Swim and Splash program offers free swimming lessons to kids with a Bayview zip code. It began in 2022, after parents in the community expressed interest in having their children learn how to swim through the development of the India Basin Waterfront Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event, which overlapped with a resource fair for families, featured dozens of children riding on rowboats to celebrate their accomplishments. Tamara Barak Aparton, spokesperson for the Recreation and Parks Department, said that around 100 kids are in each program cohort and, since the program’s creation, more than 1,000 have participated overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabrina Hall’s son, Brandon, was one of the young swimmers. She said part of what drew her to the program was ensuring he didn’t continue the negative associations with water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085620\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim00922_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim00922_TV_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim00922_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim00922_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Hall (left) and her son Brandon (right) pose for a portrait together at the Bayview Splash Bash in San Francisco on May 30, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of racial disparities in sports and a lot of African Americans are scared of the water, so I said I didn’t want that stigma on my son because I did have it as well,” Hall said. “At first, I didn’t want him to be in the program, but I said go ahead and push him because this is a new generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall said that Brandon hadn’t been exposed to the water before enrolling in the program, in part because of her personal negative associations with swimming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not going to be a part of that stigma, that count or that statistic,” Hall added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085621\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085621\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim01100_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim01100_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim01100_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim01100_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People row their boats at the Bayview Splash Bash in San Francisco on May 30, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dee Hillman, who has three daughters, echoed that experience. Before the program, Hillman said she had trauma associated with the water and her daughters, all of whom are enrolled in Safety Swim and Splash, had minimal exposure to the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, it was, ‘I want my kids to have better swim skills than I do,’” Hillman said. “And they have completely surpassed my comfortability in the water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hillman’s daughter Sarah expressed a simpler take on the program: It’s fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085622\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085622\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim01171_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim01171_TV_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim01171_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim01171_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Danielle Hillman, Abigail Hillman, Tyrone Hillman, Dee Hillman, and Sarah Hillman pose for a portrait at the Bayview Splash Bash in San Francisco on May 30, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We do dolphin kicks, elementary backstroke and a lot of other things,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bayview resident and father Rhett Burden said he heard about the event through an email, and that he’s considering enrolling his daughter in the swimming program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Programs like this are extremely important, especially as you’re focusing on racial and ethnic disparities. It is fairly stark that Black communities in particular don’t have the same level of exposure to the sort of outdoor activities so they can gain the skills necessary not just for survival but to have fun,” Burden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12085623 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim00802_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim00802_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim00802_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260530-bayviewswim00802_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Hall (left) makes bubbles with her daughter Harleigh-Quin (center) and niece London (right) at the Bayview Splash Bash in San Francisco on May 30, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there’s a waitlist, Vicky Carrillo, YMCA director of equity and aquatics, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s limited and it’s popular,” Carrillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrillo said they want to expand the program to offer more services, but that comes with challenges of its own. 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"content": "\u003cp>Pro-Palestinian protesters who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084403/golden-gate-bridge-protest-trial-opens-in-san-francisco\">halted traffic across the Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/a> in 2024 say they believed their actions were necessary to save lives amid Israel’s military strikes on Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists facing more than a decade in prison told a San Francisco court on Friday that they felt they had exhausted other options to oppose the U.S.’s involvement in the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believed that it was an emergency; we needed to act very quickly,” said Conrad de Jesus, one of the seven defendants charged in connection with an April 15, 2024, protest that shut down travel across the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defendants face felony conspiracy and several misdemeanors, including unlawful assembly, willful restriction of free movement and multiple counts of false imprisonment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Jesus’ testimony marked the first time he has spoken publicly about his involvement in the protest more than two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office argues that the defendants’ actions “clearly” broke the law: they planned to block traffic and trapped commuters when they chained themselves to parked vehicles and each other across the southbound lanes of the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085595\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085595\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260529-GGBTRIALTESTIMONY00445_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260529-GGBTRIALTESTIMONY00445_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260529-GGBTRIALTESTIMONY00445_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260529-GGBTRIALTESTIMONY00445_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Superior Courthouse in San Francisco on May 29, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The demonstration was part of a multi-city effort to disrupt local and global economies and put pressure on the U.S. government to halt support for Israel’s war in Gaza. Protesters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982940/protesters-shut-down-880-freeway-in-oakland-as-part-of-economic-blockade-for-gaza\">shut down traffic on Interstate 880 in Oakland\u003c/a> and staged similar actions in San Diego, Seattle, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Chicago and Tallahassee, Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witnesses who took the stand earlier this week said that they were stalled in traffic trying to cross the Golden Gate Bridge, they missed shifts at work and went hours without access to bathrooms and water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regina Schneider said she was taking U.S. Interstate 101 from Marin into San Francisco for a doctor’s appointment. Sitting in her car, she was anxious and short of breath, she said.[aside postID=news_12084628 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GlobalSumudFlotillaGetty-scaled.jpg']But attorneys for the protesters are trying to prove that their clients believed their actions were justified under a necessity defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ll need to show that the activists believed they were facing a real, specific and imminent threat to themselves or others; had no reasonable alternative to the action they took; did not create a greater danger than the danger they avoided; and did not contribute to or cause the threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Jesus said that, at the time of the protest, he’d already been involved with pro-Palestinian activism and had “exhausted” other means of trying to get the attention of political forces, including attending marches and writing to his local U.S. representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said at the time Israel was weighing whether to invade Rafah, a city along Gaza’s southern border where 1 million displaced Palestinians were seeking refuge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew there were talks in the Israeli government to attack Rafah, and we knew it was a good time to take action,” he said on the stand on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he understands people’s anger and that the protest was inconvenient, but believed his actions were justified “because it was to prevent a greater evil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260529-GGBTRIALTESTIMONY00210_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260529-GGBTRIALTESTIMONY00210_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260529-GGBTRIALTESTIMONY00210_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260529-GGBTRIALTESTIMONY00210_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manan Kocher, one of dozens of people who blocked the Golden Gate Bridge for a pro-Palestinian protest, poses for a portrait at the San Francisco Superior Courthouse in San Francisco on May 29, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I believed that, in doing so, we would be saving lives,” he testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sara Cantor, who faces the steepest sentence of the protesters for her role as their “police liaison,” testified that she believed her actions “would save at least one life, for at least one day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she believed the coordinated day of action had the possibility to be more impactful than any individual protest, and that she saw herself as a “lightning rod” in the operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt important for me to try to keep people safe, and I knew as a white woman, I am typically treated with respect by the police,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution focused much of its cross-examination of the protesters, trying to clarify the timeline of events that led up to the protest on April 15, angling to develop a record of conspiracy by the defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant District Attorney Angela Roze asked de Jesus about a call he’d gotten from a friend the day prior to the protest, telling him where to meet in the morning. She asked if de Jesus knew where he would be going and what the action was going to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He testified that he didn’t recall and said the first time he knew he was going to the Golden Gate Bridge was that day, at the meeting location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cantor testified that protesters decided to target the bridge during a planning meeting in West Berkeley the night before the demonstration, attended by roughly 50 people, including all of the other defendants except de Jesus, where participants volunteered for specific roles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085592\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260529-GGBTRIALTESTIMONY00301_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260529-GGBTRIALTESTIMONY00301_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260529-GGBTRIALTESTIMONY00301_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260529-GGBTRIALTESTIMONY00301_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait at the San Francisco Superior Courthouse in San Francisco on May 29, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011165/felony-charges-against-golden-gate-bridge-protesters-can-go-to-trial-judge-rules\">felony conspiracy\u003c/a> carries the longest sentence and is one of the harshest brought against activists involved in similar actions in the past. Six of the protesters could face 14 years in prison. Cantor could face 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters who shut down westbound travel on the Bay Bridge in November 2023 were charged with misdemeanors and reached a deal with the San Francisco DA’s office to avoid jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys asked a judge last year to downgrade the felonies to misdemeanors, arguing that the protesters had been overcharged and targeted for their political beliefs, but the judge allowed the charges to stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charges against another 19 protesters, who rounded out the group that refers to itself as the “Golden Gate 26,” have been dropped or thrown out over the last year and a half. Sixteen defendants’ cases were dismissed after they agreed to a diversion program, which included paying restitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:11] Hi, I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to The Bay. This is our monthly news roundup for May 2026. As always, we discuss stories that we’ve been following this month that we haven’t talked about on the show. I’m here in the studio with KQED political correspondent, Guy Marzorati. Hello, Guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:00:29] Hey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:30] And KQED reporter, Sydney Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:00:32] Hey, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:35] Well, this news roundup is gonna be an all-election episode. The California primary is this coming Tuesday. You’ve both been covering it, reporting, interviewing candidates. How does this primary feel compared to years past?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:00:51] I mean, I would say the fact that we have a very competitive governor’s race in California makes us feel a bit different. We haven’t had that in many, many years. And so I think that’s dominated, it sucked up a lot of the oxygen in the overall primary and actually led to like, I think some changes in voting trends. Like we’ve seen Democrats in California return their ballots more slowly than in past midterm primaries, most likely because they’re still kind of weighing the options in the governor’s race, but that kind of trickles down to all these other elections we’re talking about where there’s still a lot of ballots out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:01:26] Yeah, and I mean, I think across the ballot, both here in the Bay Area and statewide, you’re seeing a lot of change, right? Like, I’ve been covering the House race and Nancy Pelosi has been our representative for almost four decades. You know, plenty of people who live here have not even been alive for a period of time where Nancy Pelosi wasn’t the representative in Congress. And now we are making decisions around who is going to replace her when she retires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:01:51] Guy, there are four days left to vote in the primary. Before we jump into the news, I wanna run it through a couple of last minute voting questions. So my ballot is still sitting on my kitchen table, half finished. I imagine a lot of people are in that position. If I still want to mail my ballot, how much time do I have to do that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:10] You know, you can still mail your ballot at this point through the USPS. There is a lot of anxiety, I think people feel, because there have been some changes to postal pickups and deliveries and post-marking. My general guidance to folks, like if you at all have anxiety about whether or not your ballot will be counted, the way to absolutely assure that, go to a Dropbox. There’s plenty of them in every county. You can also go in-person voting centers or open across the Bay Area. You can return your ballot there. I would say as we get like to election day, then you really I think are best off using a ballot drop box or going to vote in person or just dropping off your ballot in person. And there’s plenty of options available to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:02:54] And if you prefer to vote in person, you can still do that, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:57] Yeah, and you still get, if you bring your ballot in you still get the sticker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:03:02] Thank God. That’s the important info.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:03:04] Well, for folks who haven’t heard the roundup before, each of us has brought a story to discuss with the rest of the group. In this case, these are all primary related and I’m gonna start with you, Sydney Johnson. You’ve been covering the race for California’s 11th Congressional District, AKA the race for San Francisco, AKA the race to replace Representative Nancy Pelosi, who is retiring. And as a reminder, the top two finishers advance to November. So you’ve been cover this race. How are things looking right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:03:33] Yeah, I mean, this, first of all, has just been a really exciting race to cover, just given the inherent generational change that’s taking place, you know, no matter who advances. The leading candidates, there are three of them. We have State Senator Scott Weiner, who’s represented San Francisco in California. He’s a prolific lawmaker at the state level, has been really focused on cutting red tape and building housing. Former member of the Jewish caucus, you know, sort of known as this YIMBY crusader. And he kind of gets labeled more moderate by San Francisco standards, but in Congress, he would probably still be pretty progressive by national standards. Then we have Supervisor Connie Chan, who represents the Richmond district. She’s a former aide to Kamala Harris, has a lot of union backing and ties to the Chinese-speaking community, and has worked in government for years and is currently a sitting supervisor. Then we have Saikat Chakrabarti. He is positioning himself sort of as the outsider in this race. Chakrabarti is a former tech engineer and he worked at Stripe. This was before he was the chief of staff for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and founded the progressive group Justice Democrats in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:51] As far as I can tell Senator Weiner has been considered the front runner for this race for most of basically the whole time. Is that right? And if so, why is that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:05:00] That’s right, you know, at least according to polls. One of the more recent polls at the San Francisco Chronicle put Weiner at 40% of the vote. I mean, Scott Weiner has been around for years. He is a former supervisor. He has done a lot for San Francisco in at the state level. I mean specifically around housing. And we know that housing is, if not one of like the biggest issue to a lot of San Francisco voters. And, you know plenty of people disagree with the way that Weiner has approached housing legislation. It’s been a lot of focus on cutting red tape and just making it easier for developers to build, creating new requirements for cities to build more housing. But you can’t deny that he has passed so many bills. And I think that that resonates for people who want to see a lawmaker representing San Francisco who gets stuff done. And for a while, it seemed like Chakrabarti had a pretty solid shot at that number two spot. But that same poll from The Chronicle actually put Chan and Chakrabarti pretty neck and neck. We’ve seen a big boost in Chan’s presence online. She also recently got an endorsement from Pelosi herself, which carries a lot of weight in this race. But I think you’re spot on. Weiner has pretty much across the board in terms of polling. Showed that he’s likely to advance in November and that this June primary really appears to be between Chan and Chakrabarti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:06:30] It’s interesting that, I mean, I think on a policy level, Chan and Chakrabarti are competing for kind of the progressive voters in San Francisco. You moderated a debate between those three candidates where it seemed like all of the attention was on Scott Wiener. What are Chakrabarti and Chan doing to say, like, here’s the difference between us two?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:06:47] Well, Guy, it’s funny you ask. I just had a story go up today kind of on this very topic. But yeah, I think when you look at the platforms between Chan and Chakrabarti, there is a lot of overlap, a lot of similarity. They both are kind of trying to position themselves against corporate Democrats. They are supportive of Medicare for all. They have been outspoken on the war in Gaza. And when it comes down to what’s differentiating them in this race. It’s really their background and the way that they’re selling themselves to voters, you know Chakrabarti has poured close to ten million dollars of his own wealth into this campaign, which is largely self-funded and you know, it’s it’s hard to go on social media in San Francisco and not come across one of his ads. They are these like fast-paced, you, know bright, he’s looking at you directly and into the camera, you know saying “I’m the guy who’s gonna change the Democratic Party,” you know, “this is the only way that we defeat the Trump administration.” Chan, on the other hand, you know, first of all, she doesn’t have as much money in her campaign. But she’s kind of leaning into that. You know, a lot of her social media presence is her out in the community, you’re talking about things that she’s done to protect tenants in San Francisco, you know, and really just the hyper local community based work that she has done. She’s really relying on those labor unions that she received endorsements from to support her. And that’s appealed to some people so I think it’ll be interesting to see really where that that falls after Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:22] Well, we’ll see what happens. Sydney Johnson, thanks so much. No problem. We’re going to take a quick break. When we come back, we will continue The Bay’s Monthly News Roundup. By the way, if you like these Monthly New Roundup episodes, consider becoming a member of KQED. We can’t do this work without support from the community, so please consider joining the hundreds of thousands of your Bay Area neighbors today. You can do that at kqed.org slash donate. All right, Guy Marzorati, you wanted to talk about two different local ballot measures that have to do with taxes. What do you got?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:09:02] So measure A San Jose is a proposed increase in the city’s hotel tax and measure E in Oakland is a proposed parcel tax. What’s interesting big picture about this? Local governments across the Bay Area are in a bad place financially. We’ve made it through the pandemic when there was all this federal aid that was trickling down to the cities. That’s largely dried up. You have the state government dealing with its own you know, budget balancing issues, there’s less money coming from the state on issues like homelessness, and then you have federal budget cuts. So all of that adds up to cities like Oakland, like SF, like San Jose, looking for ways to get more money and then potentially also having to make cuts. And in the case of San Jose I’ll start there with Measure A, the city is facing a $50 million shortfall and is basically relying in part on this hotel tax passing in order to balance the budget. So measure A would increase the city’s hotel tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:10:01] Just to be clear, so hotel tax, like the extra tax on a bill if you’re staying at a hotel in San Jose?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:10:07] Exactly. So this would increase that from like 10% to 12%. It’s expected to bring in about $10 million a year. And the city manager, when she put together the spending plan for the year, basically put in a spending plan if Measure A passes and a spending planning if Measure a doesn’t pass. It’s basically creating kind of a stark choice for voters. If you don’t pass this, life is gonna get worse in the city. In the case of Measure A, it’s pretty uncontested. The entire city council supported putting it on the ballot. The argument generally was like, San Jose is trying to attract more events downtown. They have the Super Bowl, World Cup coming up, March Madness. There’s going to be more visitors. They’re gonna have an impact on city services. Let’s bring in more money from those visitors to supplement what we pay for city services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:10:57] So that’s San Jose, hotel tax increase from 10 to 12% seems not super contentious. What about Measure E in Oakland?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:07] Measure E in Oakland, slightly more contentious. So this would be a parcel tax that averages about roughly $200 for homes. It would bring in more than $30 million every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:18] What’s a parcel-tax again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:19] Parcel tax is basically like a, you can think of it like a property tax. But what we’ve seen in Oakland is residents have had to pick up more and more local taxes, whether through sales tax, parcel tax on properties in order to fund city services because there have been so many issues with the budget. And finding ways to actually bring in business tax revenue and kind of economic vitality in the city. So unions collected signatures, they put Measure E on the ballot. This would raise the parcel tax in order to bring in money for city services. The way this has been championed, and Barbara Lee, the mayor, is the main proponent of this, along with unions, they’ve said of the roughly 30 million this is gonna bring in, 10 million towards fire engines, trucks and ambulance, 10 million for police. $6 million for cleaning streets and $3 million for homeless shelters. But it faces some opposition from realtors, there’s some more moderate political groups opposing it, so this one is not necessarily a slam dunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:12:19] I think this brings this bigger question for me, which is between Measure E and Oakland and then potentially other tax measures coming down the line, like the potential tax increases to fund transit, are we in a political environment where voters are willing to vote to tax themselves essentially when on the one hand, there’s an understanding that there are a lot of federal cuts, state budgets are tight, but also it’s already really expensive to live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:12:44] Yeah. And we’re seeing, you know, in the case of Oakland, like repeatedly campaigns going to the ballot, asking voters to shoulder more of the burden to pay for these kind of local services. And there is organized opposition against this. We’ve seen, like I mentioned, realtors, developers, but also Empower Oakland, which has become this somewhat powerful, moderate political group led in part by Loren Taylor, who lost the last mayoral election to Barbara Lee. They’ve spent about $200,000 against this measure. The support, there’s a lot more money being spent in support, I think almost 700,000 by unions, but it is a somewhat competitive campaign for this. And I see this as like a real political test for Barbara Lee. She’s been in office a little bit more than a year. This will be a good measure to me of like how Oaklanders are viewing, how she’s moving the city forward. If she is by far the face of this campaign to get measure E passed, will it pass? Will they trust her to raise this money? That could also be a test of how much voters see, you know, what they think of the mayor as a guide to how they’ll vote in the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:13:46] This question of whether voters want higher taxes is really interesting, because in San Francisco, we have these two competing tax measures. I won’t get too in the weeds here, but the overpaid CEO tax, that is a pretty simple message, right? It’s saying, chief executives are making a ton of money, we’re losing federal funding, let’s take some more for them, make them pay their fair share. But when you have something like a parcel tax, like that is… A little bit harder to sell, especially in the Bay Area where there are a lot of people who are quote unquote like house rich, cash poor, like maybe they inherited a house or like, you know, spent every single dime of their savings on a house and, you know, any type of tax increase is going to cut into other parts of their their budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:32] And it’s not just somebody else, somewhere else paying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:14:34] Right, right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:14:36] So it’s this interesting mix of, I guess, do you trust the government with more tax revenue, and do you like the mayor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:42] Yeah and you know what an easier case for her to make with homelessness down and crime down in Oakland than I think maybe it would have been a year or two ago to go to the voters and ask for more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:14:52] Guy thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:53] Yep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:15:00] All right, and we will wrap up with my story. I wanna talk about the city of Richmond, which is having a mayoral election as we speak. Four years ago, the city elected Eduardo Martinez, which was a huge win for the progressive wing of Richmond politics. But now he’s facing four challengers, including a fellow progressive on the city council. This is also the first time in decades Richmond is doing a top two primary system. So in past years, the person with the most votes would win. Now, the top two advance to November unless someone gets majority on election day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:15:32] Alan, I got to admit, you know, I’m on the other side of the bay. Just catch me up. Tell me a bit about this candidate and sort of like what’s making the difference between these two progressives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:15:41] I’ll run down the full list of candidates first, and then I’ll talk about this potential progressive split. So we have the incumbent mayor, Eduardo Martinez. We have, I would say, two moderate candidates, Demlas Johnson, former city council member, Ahmaud Anderson, former chair of the Richmond Economic Development Commission. We also have a conservative Mark Wasburg, who is a frequent candidate, says he’s a filmmaker and talk show host. And then the other progressive in this race is Claudia Jimenez. Who is also on the city council. And what’s interesting about this is she was actually endorsed by the Richmond Progressive Alliance, which is a prominent left-wing political group in Richmond that had endorsed the mayor in the last election. So we’re now in a situation where the incumbent progressive mayor is fending off a challenge from within his own kind of political camp. So why is the Richmond progressive alliance backing a challenger against an incumbent? One big reason for that is that late last year, Mayor Eduardo Martinez shared posts on LinkedIn shortly after the Bondi Beach massacre in Sydney, Australia. Two gunmen killed 15 people during a Hanukkah celebration. These posts were widely considered to be anti-Semitic. One of the posts said, the root cause of anti-semitism is the behavior Israel and Israelis. There was another post that claimed that the shooting was a false flag attack, basically that it was staged. Huge outcry. Jewish groups called for his resignation. Martinez apologized and he survived a censure in city council. But in the months after that, according to reporting by Richmond side, some of the mayor’s supporters, other members of the progressive alliance started to worry that it could really hurt his chances of winning reelection, maybe distract from the other local priorities that he’s pursued as mayor. And so the candidates and the progressive Alliance have been a little mum on exactly what their thinking was in the endorsement process, but, you know, in many ways the proof is in the pudding. They’ve now endorsed Claudia Jimenez, who has been on the council for about six years. She’s pretty well known in the community as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:17:42] Interesting, we’ve gone this far talking about a Richmond mayoral race and have not brought up Chevron This is a real company town. Chevron’s been a big player in local politics and RPA, Richmond Progressive Alliance in large part was like founded as a counterweight. Where where does Chevron stand in in the mayor’s race?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:17:59] Well, in terms of campaign spending, Chevron is not super active, actually. They haven’t really spent much money in local politics for a few years now. But in terms local issues, one topic of conversation in this race that I find really interesting is this question of what to do with the settlement money that Chevron has paid to the city of Richmond. So, quick context, two years ago, Chevron agreed to pay Richmond $550 million over 10 years. So that’s about 50 to 60 million dollars that Chevron is paying to Richmond on top of its regular taxes. So one interesting question throughout this mayor’s race, and really for whoever the next mayor is, is how do we spend that money? Should it go to, you know, directly to impacted communities who’ve been hurt by pollution? Should it to infrastructure? Should it going to paying down debt? In theory, it could be spent on anything. So this question looming over the city of Richmond, no matter who becomes mayor, is this recognition that A, we have this money, what do we do with it? And B. What should the city’s future be after Chevron? There’s no immediate plans for Chevron to leave, but what is the next phase of Richmond’s local economy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:19:07] What way do you think Richmond’s going to go?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:19:09] It’s so hard to predict these things on the local level. And then even more so, I would say, in smaller cities. You know, currently, we have a conservative, two moderates, two progressives. Last time around, Eduardo Martinez won the race outright with 36% of the vote. This time, it’s a primary system. So it’s really… It’s hard to know. Tom Butt, the former mayor of Richmond, told the Richmond side, quote, I’ve never understood Richmond politics. I don’t and I’ve never been able to predict it. So if Tom Butt doesn’t know how this election’s gonna go, I certainly don’t. All right, and that’s it for the Bayes Monthly News Roundup. KQED political correspondent, Guy Marzorati, thank you, and KQED reporter, Sydney Johnson, thank you.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:11] Hi, I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to The Bay. This is our monthly news roundup for May 2026. As always, we discuss stories that we’ve been following this month that we haven’t talked about on the show. I’m here in the studio with KQED political correspondent, Guy Marzorati. Hello, Guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:00:29] Hey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:30] And KQED reporter, Sydney Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:00:32] Hey, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:35] Well, this news roundup is gonna be an all-election episode. The California primary is this coming Tuesday. You’ve both been covering it, reporting, interviewing candidates. How does this primary feel compared to years past?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:00:51] I mean, I would say the fact that we have a very competitive governor’s race in California makes us feel a bit different. We haven’t had that in many, many years. And so I think that’s dominated, it sucked up a lot of the oxygen in the overall primary and actually led to like, I think some changes in voting trends. Like we’ve seen Democrats in California return their ballots more slowly than in past midterm primaries, most likely because they’re still kind of weighing the options in the governor’s race, but that kind of trickles down to all these other elections we’re talking about where there’s still a lot of ballots out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:01:26] Yeah, and I mean, I think across the ballot, both here in the Bay Area and statewide, you’re seeing a lot of change, right? Like, I’ve been covering the House race and Nancy Pelosi has been our representative for almost four decades. You know, plenty of people who live here have not even been alive for a period of time where Nancy Pelosi wasn’t the representative in Congress. And now we are making decisions around who is going to replace her when she retires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:01:51] Guy, there are four days left to vote in the primary. Before we jump into the news, I wanna run it through a couple of last minute voting questions. So my ballot is still sitting on my kitchen table, half finished. I imagine a lot of people are in that position. If I still want to mail my ballot, how much time do I have to do that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:10] You know, you can still mail your ballot at this point through the USPS. There is a lot of anxiety, I think people feel, because there have been some changes to postal pickups and deliveries and post-marking. My general guidance to folks, like if you at all have anxiety about whether or not your ballot will be counted, the way to absolutely assure that, go to a Dropbox. There’s plenty of them in every county. You can also go in-person voting centers or open across the Bay Area. You can return your ballot there. I would say as we get like to election day, then you really I think are best off using a ballot drop box or going to vote in person or just dropping off your ballot in person. And there’s plenty of options available to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:02:54] And if you prefer to vote in person, you can still do that, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:57] Yeah, and you still get, if you bring your ballot in you still get the sticker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:03:02] Thank God. That’s the important info.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:03:04] Well, for folks who haven’t heard the roundup before, each of us has brought a story to discuss with the rest of the group. In this case, these are all primary related and I’m gonna start with you, Sydney Johnson. You’ve been covering the race for California’s 11th Congressional District, AKA the race for San Francisco, AKA the race to replace Representative Nancy Pelosi, who is retiring. And as a reminder, the top two finishers advance to November. So you’ve been cover this race. How are things looking right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:03:33] Yeah, I mean, this, first of all, has just been a really exciting race to cover, just given the inherent generational change that’s taking place, you know, no matter who advances. The leading candidates, there are three of them. We have State Senator Scott Weiner, who’s represented San Francisco in California. He’s a prolific lawmaker at the state level, has been really focused on cutting red tape and building housing. Former member of the Jewish caucus, you know, sort of known as this YIMBY crusader. And he kind of gets labeled more moderate by San Francisco standards, but in Congress, he would probably still be pretty progressive by national standards. Then we have Supervisor Connie Chan, who represents the Richmond district. She’s a former aide to Kamala Harris, has a lot of union backing and ties to the Chinese-speaking community, and has worked in government for years and is currently a sitting supervisor. Then we have Saikat Chakrabarti. He is positioning himself sort of as the outsider in this race. Chakrabarti is a former tech engineer and he worked at Stripe. This was before he was the chief of staff for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and founded the progressive group Justice Democrats in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:51] As far as I can tell Senator Weiner has been considered the front runner for this race for most of basically the whole time. Is that right? And if so, why is that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:05:00] That’s right, you know, at least according to polls. One of the more recent polls at the San Francisco Chronicle put Weiner at 40% of the vote. I mean, Scott Weiner has been around for years. He is a former supervisor. He has done a lot for San Francisco in at the state level. I mean specifically around housing. And we know that housing is, if not one of like the biggest issue to a lot of San Francisco voters. And, you know plenty of people disagree with the way that Weiner has approached housing legislation. It’s been a lot of focus on cutting red tape and just making it easier for developers to build, creating new requirements for cities to build more housing. But you can’t deny that he has passed so many bills. And I think that that resonates for people who want to see a lawmaker representing San Francisco who gets stuff done. And for a while, it seemed like Chakrabarti had a pretty solid shot at that number two spot. But that same poll from The Chronicle actually put Chan and Chakrabarti pretty neck and neck. We’ve seen a big boost in Chan’s presence online. She also recently got an endorsement from Pelosi herself, which carries a lot of weight in this race. But I think you’re spot on. Weiner has pretty much across the board in terms of polling. Showed that he’s likely to advance in November and that this June primary really appears to be between Chan and Chakrabarti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:06:30] It’s interesting that, I mean, I think on a policy level, Chan and Chakrabarti are competing for kind of the progressive voters in San Francisco. You moderated a debate between those three candidates where it seemed like all of the attention was on Scott Wiener. What are Chakrabarti and Chan doing to say, like, here’s the difference between us two?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:06:47] Well, Guy, it’s funny you ask. I just had a story go up today kind of on this very topic. But yeah, I think when you look at the platforms between Chan and Chakrabarti, there is a lot of overlap, a lot of similarity. They both are kind of trying to position themselves against corporate Democrats. They are supportive of Medicare for all. They have been outspoken on the war in Gaza. And when it comes down to what’s differentiating them in this race. It’s really their background and the way that they’re selling themselves to voters, you know Chakrabarti has poured close to ten million dollars of his own wealth into this campaign, which is largely self-funded and you know, it’s it’s hard to go on social media in San Francisco and not come across one of his ads. They are these like fast-paced, you, know bright, he’s looking at you directly and into the camera, you know saying “I’m the guy who’s gonna change the Democratic Party,” you know, “this is the only way that we defeat the Trump administration.” Chan, on the other hand, you know, first of all, she doesn’t have as much money in her campaign. But she’s kind of leaning into that. You know, a lot of her social media presence is her out in the community, you’re talking about things that she’s done to protect tenants in San Francisco, you know, and really just the hyper local community based work that she has done. She’s really relying on those labor unions that she received endorsements from to support her. And that’s appealed to some people so I think it’ll be interesting to see really where that that falls after Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:22] Well, we’ll see what happens. Sydney Johnson, thanks so much. No problem. We’re going to take a quick break. When we come back, we will continue The Bay’s Monthly News Roundup. By the way, if you like these Monthly New Roundup episodes, consider becoming a member of KQED. We can’t do this work without support from the community, so please consider joining the hundreds of thousands of your Bay Area neighbors today. You can do that at kqed.org slash donate. All right, Guy Marzorati, you wanted to talk about two different local ballot measures that have to do with taxes. What do you got?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:09:02] So measure A San Jose is a proposed increase in the city’s hotel tax and measure E in Oakland is a proposed parcel tax. What’s interesting big picture about this? Local governments across the Bay Area are in a bad place financially. We’ve made it through the pandemic when there was all this federal aid that was trickling down to the cities. That’s largely dried up. You have the state government dealing with its own you know, budget balancing issues, there’s less money coming from the state on issues like homelessness, and then you have federal budget cuts. So all of that adds up to cities like Oakland, like SF, like San Jose, looking for ways to get more money and then potentially also having to make cuts. And in the case of San Jose I’ll start there with Measure A, the city is facing a $50 million shortfall and is basically relying in part on this hotel tax passing in order to balance the budget. So measure A would increase the city’s hotel tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:10:01] Just to be clear, so hotel tax, like the extra tax on a bill if you’re staying at a hotel in San Jose?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:10:07] Exactly. So this would increase that from like 10% to 12%. It’s expected to bring in about $10 million a year. And the city manager, when she put together the spending plan for the year, basically put in a spending plan if Measure A passes and a spending planning if Measure a doesn’t pass. It’s basically creating kind of a stark choice for voters. If you don’t pass this, life is gonna get worse in the city. In the case of Measure A, it’s pretty uncontested. The entire city council supported putting it on the ballot. The argument generally was like, San Jose is trying to attract more events downtown. They have the Super Bowl, World Cup coming up, March Madness. There’s going to be more visitors. They’re gonna have an impact on city services. Let’s bring in more money from those visitors to supplement what we pay for city services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:10:57] So that’s San Jose, hotel tax increase from 10 to 12% seems not super contentious. What about Measure E in Oakland?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:07] Measure E in Oakland, slightly more contentious. So this would be a parcel tax that averages about roughly $200 for homes. It would bring in more than $30 million every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:18] What’s a parcel-tax again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:19] Parcel tax is basically like a, you can think of it like a property tax. But what we’ve seen in Oakland is residents have had to pick up more and more local taxes, whether through sales tax, parcel tax on properties in order to fund city services because there have been so many issues with the budget. And finding ways to actually bring in business tax revenue and kind of economic vitality in the city. So unions collected signatures, they put Measure E on the ballot. This would raise the parcel tax in order to bring in money for city services. The way this has been championed, and Barbara Lee, the mayor, is the main proponent of this, along with unions, they’ve said of the roughly 30 million this is gonna bring in, 10 million towards fire engines, trucks and ambulance, 10 million for police. $6 million for cleaning streets and $3 million for homeless shelters. But it faces some opposition from realtors, there’s some more moderate political groups opposing it, so this one is not necessarily a slam dunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:12:19] I think this brings this bigger question for me, which is between Measure E and Oakland and then potentially other tax measures coming down the line, like the potential tax increases to fund transit, are we in a political environment where voters are willing to vote to tax themselves essentially when on the one hand, there’s an understanding that there are a lot of federal cuts, state budgets are tight, but also it’s already really expensive to live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:12:44] Yeah. And we’re seeing, you know, in the case of Oakland, like repeatedly campaigns going to the ballot, asking voters to shoulder more of the burden to pay for these kind of local services. And there is organized opposition against this. We’ve seen, like I mentioned, realtors, developers, but also Empower Oakland, which has become this somewhat powerful, moderate political group led in part by Loren Taylor, who lost the last mayoral election to Barbara Lee. They’ve spent about $200,000 against this measure. The support, there’s a lot more money being spent in support, I think almost 700,000 by unions, but it is a somewhat competitive campaign for this. And I see this as like a real political test for Barbara Lee. She’s been in office a little bit more than a year. This will be a good measure to me of like how Oaklanders are viewing, how she’s moving the city forward. If she is by far the face of this campaign to get measure E passed, will it pass? Will they trust her to raise this money? That could also be a test of how much voters see, you know, what they think of the mayor as a guide to how they’ll vote in the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:13:46] This question of whether voters want higher taxes is really interesting, because in San Francisco, we have these two competing tax measures. I won’t get too in the weeds here, but the overpaid CEO tax, that is a pretty simple message, right? It’s saying, chief executives are making a ton of money, we’re losing federal funding, let’s take some more for them, make them pay their fair share. But when you have something like a parcel tax, like that is… A little bit harder to sell, especially in the Bay Area where there are a lot of people who are quote unquote like house rich, cash poor, like maybe they inherited a house or like, you know, spent every single dime of their savings on a house and, you know, any type of tax increase is going to cut into other parts of their their budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:32] And it’s not just somebody else, somewhere else paying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:14:34] Right, right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:14:36] So it’s this interesting mix of, I guess, do you trust the government with more tax revenue, and do you like the mayor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:42] Yeah and you know what an easier case for her to make with homelessness down and crime down in Oakland than I think maybe it would have been a year or two ago to go to the voters and ask for more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:14:52] Guy thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:53] Yep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:15:00] All right, and we will wrap up with my story. I wanna talk about the city of Richmond, which is having a mayoral election as we speak. Four years ago, the city elected Eduardo Martinez, which was a huge win for the progressive wing of Richmond politics. But now he’s facing four challengers, including a fellow progressive on the city council. This is also the first time in decades Richmond is doing a top two primary system. So in past years, the person with the most votes would win. Now, the top two advance to November unless someone gets majority on election day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:15:32] Alan, I got to admit, you know, I’m on the other side of the bay. Just catch me up. Tell me a bit about this candidate and sort of like what’s making the difference between these two progressives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:15:41] I’ll run down the full list of candidates first, and then I’ll talk about this potential progressive split. So we have the incumbent mayor, Eduardo Martinez. We have, I would say, two moderate candidates, Demlas Johnson, former city council member, Ahmaud Anderson, former chair of the Richmond Economic Development Commission. We also have a conservative Mark Wasburg, who is a frequent candidate, says he’s a filmmaker and talk show host. And then the other progressive in this race is Claudia Jimenez. Who is also on the city council. And what’s interesting about this is she was actually endorsed by the Richmond Progressive Alliance, which is a prominent left-wing political group in Richmond that had endorsed the mayor in the last election. So we’re now in a situation where the incumbent progressive mayor is fending off a challenge from within his own kind of political camp. So why is the Richmond progressive alliance backing a challenger against an incumbent? One big reason for that is that late last year, Mayor Eduardo Martinez shared posts on LinkedIn shortly after the Bondi Beach massacre in Sydney, Australia. Two gunmen killed 15 people during a Hanukkah celebration. These posts were widely considered to be anti-Semitic. One of the posts said, the root cause of anti-semitism is the behavior Israel and Israelis. There was another post that claimed that the shooting was a false flag attack, basically that it was staged. Huge outcry. Jewish groups called for his resignation. Martinez apologized and he survived a censure in city council. But in the months after that, according to reporting by Richmond side, some of the mayor’s supporters, other members of the progressive alliance started to worry that it could really hurt his chances of winning reelection, maybe distract from the other local priorities that he’s pursued as mayor. And so the candidates and the progressive Alliance have been a little mum on exactly what their thinking was in the endorsement process, but, you know, in many ways the proof is in the pudding. They’ve now endorsed Claudia Jimenez, who has been on the council for about six years. She’s pretty well known in the community as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:17:42] Interesting, we’ve gone this far talking about a Richmond mayoral race and have not brought up Chevron This is a real company town. Chevron’s been a big player in local politics and RPA, Richmond Progressive Alliance in large part was like founded as a counterweight. Where where does Chevron stand in in the mayor’s race?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:17:59] Well, in terms of campaign spending, Chevron is not super active, actually. They haven’t really spent much money in local politics for a few years now. 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Last spring, they put their house in Berkeley on the market and drove to Santa Fe with a cat, Molly, and a chihuahua, Felice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers at Joint Venture Silicon Valley confirm what many already feel: the region’s economy is generating enormous wealth, but also growing impossibly unaffordable for most people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970120\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2121px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970120\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1092771432.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a city, with a large body of water in the bakground.\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1092771432.jpg 2121w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1092771432-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1092771432-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1092771432-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1092771432-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1092771432-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1092771432-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2121px) 100vw, 2121px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Redwood City. \u003ccite>(Sundry Photography via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even well-paid tech workers are being forced to choose between the Bay Area and the rest of their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It distills to a few key points,” said Russell Hancock, President and CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley, at the organization’s annual State of the Valley conference in late February. “We have a very hot economy. It’s creating a lot of wealth. It’s not creating as many jobs. And our housing is too expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s creating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12078615/how-skyrocketing-housing-costs-and-policy-choices-reshaped-the-bay-area\">demographic churn\u003c/a> — young people move in while older folks move out.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ani and Alex\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ani and Alex Vecchi met about 10 years ago in physics class while studying software engineering at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She went into front-end, customer interface work. She’s now a senior software engineer for Banquet Health, a startup software platform for hospital meals. “Using tech for a good cause is huge for me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They came to the Bay Area in June of 2024 because Alex’s weather monitoring startup Sorcerer landed a \u003ca href=\"https://tracxn.com/d/companies/sorcerer/__iyp8-DoCQBPMaBMs4MjSSHaiRmAA4xVBX44YQJARrto\">$500,000 grant\u003c/a> from Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley accelerator that launched Airbnb, Dropbox and DoorDash. It was, in startup terms, a golden ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085149\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260413-SILICON-VALLEY-CHURN-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260413-SILICON-VALLEY-CHURN-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260413-SILICON-VALLEY-CHURN-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260413-SILICON-VALLEY-CHURN-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Vecchi and Mushu enjoy a sunny day in San Francisco’s Alamo Square. Alex and his wife, Ani, came to the city two years ago to pursue careers in tech. Now 30, the unaffordable housing market raises uncomfortable questions about whether and how they plan to raise children in the years to come. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ani and Alex Vecchi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Starting a company here, you have to do it here,” Alex said. The investors are here, or a short drive down the Peninsula. Scheduling a Zoom call? “It’s not the same,” he said. “Things spark here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sorcerer closed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2025/06/12/sorcerer-seed-weather-balloons\">$3.9 million seed round\u003c/a> last year. “That data is what powers, essentially, the forecasts on your phone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have been having the time of their lives in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of greenery,” Ani said. “There’s a lot of people out and about. You have that drive [to succeed in business], but it’s also peaceful, in some ways.” They love walking and picnics and meals with friends. “There’s a lot going on here,” Ani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing is, the Vechhis are starting to think about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075761/when-child-care-costs-half-a-paycheck-bay-area-parents-must-choose-kids-or-career\">having children\u003c/a>. But it’s complicated. They need both salaries, and both sets of parents, who could help them with childcare, live in Florida. And they’re not ready to make that move.[aside postID=news_12080289 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260420-SLEEP-PODS-MD-01-KQED_1.jpg']\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061802/how-are-child-care-costs-affecting-the-lives-of-bay-area-families-you-told-us\">Rising child care costs in the Bay Area\u003c/a> are forcing parents to make painful tradeoffs, either by passing up career opportunities, cutting back work hours, or quitting altogether. For families with multiple young children, these expenses can surpass a parent’s entire salary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vecchis also shy away from the idea of leaving San Francisco for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081761/in-the-bay-area-raising-kids-comes-with-compromise\">Bay Area suburb with nominally cheaper real estate\u003c/a>. “If we were to move out of the city, we might as well move back to Florida.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you gave me the option and I had the money, I would stay here 100%,” Alex said. And the family back in Florida? “They understand. They want us to be happy where we are. They know that we’re doing a bunch of great things here. When we think about moving back, we think, ‘But we’re not going to be happy over there.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research from \u003ca href=\"https://jointventure.org/news-and-media/blog/2790-a-region-in-motion-who-s-leaving-silicon-valley-and-why?mc_cid=4aada55384&mc_eid=9b006466f1\">Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/a> provides statistical confirmation of personal experience. For years, the Bay Area has created jobs faster than it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755545/google-pledges-1-billion-to-help-fight-bay-area-housing-crisis-it-helped-create\">builds housing\u003c/a>, fueling relentless price pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Silicon Valley, just 28% of Millennials own homes, compared to 68% of Baby Boomers, giving older residents an asset to rely on even in tough times. The Vecchis, like most people their age here, are still scrambling for a financial foothold, even though they both work in tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these things have implications for community, and now we’re seeing it. We’re living it,” Hancock told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mark and Melanie\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In some ways, Ani and Alex Vecchi and Mark Wogulis and Melanie Bowden are living the same story twenty years apart. Young people arrive, fall in love with a place, build a life. Then something shifts, and the place that felt like home starts to feel like a problem to be solved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After decades in California, Mark Wogulis and Melanie Bowden felt the sting of leaving somewhere that felt like home. “It does hit differently,” Wogulis said, “when it’s not your choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wogulis and Bowden met decades ago when they were teachers in San Francisco. He was teaching science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cj4-T9ovDc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was teaching math. They started a family. He pivoted from teaching to pharmaceuticals, then got a doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pharmaceuticals and biotech are notoriously volatile, but he worked at Elan Pharmaceuticals in South San Francisco for nearly eight years, then at Novozymes in Davis for nearly 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there, he moved to Amyris in Emeryville, which at the time specialized in developing sustainable alternatives for chemicals traditionally derived from petroleum or wildlife that were used in the beauty, flavor and fragrance industries. “Turned out everything they were selling, they were losing money on,” Wogulis said. “When the money ran out, they went bankrupt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were three rounds of layoffs, but Wogulis remained optimistic. “I thought I had made it,” he said, because he hadn’t been laid off, even as the company went into and emerged from bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he got axed during a fourth round of layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Wogulis thought he’d find another job, like he always had. But now in his 60s, his experience and longevity made him more expensive relative to other prospective employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079650\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079650\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260413-SILICON-VALLEY-CHURN-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260413-SILICON-VALLEY-CHURN-02-KQED.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260413-SILICON-VALLEY-CHURN-02-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260413-SILICON-VALLEY-CHURN-02-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Wogulis and Melanie Bowden in front of the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco in 2022. A layoff in biotech forced the couple to sell their home in Berkeley and move to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in May of 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mark Wogulis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way to prove it, but there was no doubt in my mind that there was age discrimination involved,” Bowdon said. “He would be fully qualified for a job and hear nothing on many, many, many jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were people older than me at Amyris,” Wogulis said, “but not very many.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also true that, thanks to LinkedIn and artificial intelligence, Wogulis was competing with biochemists from all over the world, many of them willing to relocate to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, there just was nothing,” Wogulis said. “I applied for a bunch of stuff that either I was over- or under-qualified for. I mean, I got a couple of rejections. Most of them just went off into the void.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the layoff came, the couple was living in Berkeley, in a 1,570 square foot Craftsman-style home they bought after raising their family in Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We loved the location. So close to BART and bus stops, and lots of good restaurants within walking distance. I could bike to work. We also liked the charm of such an old house,” Wogulis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they crunched the numbers and realized they didn’t have much financial runway before they’d have to take off for someplace cheaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We needed to get out of there. We couldn’t afford that house,” Bowden said. That’s how they decided to retire early at age 62 and move to Santa Fe, with their cat and dog in tow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple, born on the tail end of the Baby Boom, had the benefit of owning homes for much of their working lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proceeds from the sale of their house in Davis became the down payment for the house in Berkeley, so their mortgage was only $3,000 a month. Still, their utilities and property taxes added up to about $19,000 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They moved to Santa Fe knowing nobody but their real estate agents, who helped them find a house for $600,000— half what they paid in Berkeley, even though it’s roughly the same size. They don’t even have a mortgage, something that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985468/map-what-you-need-to-earn-to-afford-a-median-priced-home-in-your-county-in-california\">seems wild\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101911013/tech-layoffs-and-higher-than-average-unemployment-a-close-look-at-the-bay-areas-job-market\">most Bay Area homeowners\u003c/a> today. The property taxes are smaller, too: about $4,000 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did it out of necessity,” Wogulis said. “I would have felt a lot better if I’d totally chosen to come here, I didn’t feel \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11933511/mass-bay-area-tech-layoffs-thrust-thousands-of-h-1b-visa-holders-into-frantic-job-hunt\">under the gun\u003c/a> to do something. Yeah, that was difficult. It does hit differently when it’s…” he said, giving Bowden a chance to finish his sentence, the way longtime partners often do. “…When it’s not your choice. We had to move. We had to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-18-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-18-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-18-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-18-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A “For Rent” sign in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know, there’s people I miss, definitely,” Bowden said. “Our neighbors are very nice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just takes time,” Wogulis said. “It took time in Berkeley, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Luckily, Santa Fe is a very cultural and artistic city. There’s so many museums, plays, concerts,” Bowden said. Their grown kids came to visit at Christmas. She is keeping up with masters swimming and cat rescue. They got a second cat through Felines and Friends. His name is Cyrus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the Bay Area, the AI revolution continues the region’s long tradition of minting new millionaires and billionaires. The question is whether everyone else can hold on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ani and Alex Vecchi, both software engineers, live in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley with their orange cat, Mushu. They haven’t been in the Bay Area long, but already, both aged 30, they’re starting to worry that the city they love may be too expensive for raising a family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Wogulis and Melanie Bowden, both 62, raised their family in Northern California, but a layoff made it impossible for them to stay. Last spring, they put their house in Berkeley on the market and drove to Santa Fe with a cat, Molly, and a chihuahua, Felice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers at Joint Venture Silicon Valley confirm what many already feel: the region’s economy is generating enormous wealth, but also growing impossibly unaffordable for most people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970120\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2121px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970120\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1092771432.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a city, with a large body of water in the bakground.\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1092771432.jpg 2121w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1092771432-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1092771432-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1092771432-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1092771432-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1092771432-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1092771432-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2121px) 100vw, 2121px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Redwood City. \u003ccite>(Sundry Photography via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even well-paid tech workers are being forced to choose between the Bay Area and the rest of their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It distills to a few key points,” said Russell Hancock, President and CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley, at the organization’s annual State of the Valley conference in late February. “We have a very hot economy. It’s creating a lot of wealth. It’s not creating as many jobs. And our housing is too expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s creating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12078615/how-skyrocketing-housing-costs-and-policy-choices-reshaped-the-bay-area\">demographic churn\u003c/a> — young people move in while older folks move out.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ani and Alex\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ani and Alex Vecchi met about 10 years ago in physics class while studying software engineering at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She went into front-end, customer interface work. She’s now a senior software engineer for Banquet Health, a startup software platform for hospital meals. “Using tech for a good cause is huge for me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They came to the Bay Area in June of 2024 because Alex’s weather monitoring startup Sorcerer landed a \u003ca href=\"https://tracxn.com/d/companies/sorcerer/__iyp8-DoCQBPMaBMs4MjSSHaiRmAA4xVBX44YQJARrto\">$500,000 grant\u003c/a> from Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley accelerator that launched Airbnb, Dropbox and DoorDash. 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Now 30, the unaffordable housing market raises uncomfortable questions about whether and how they plan to raise children in the years to come. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ani and Alex Vecchi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Starting a company here, you have to do it here,” Alex said. The investors are here, or a short drive down the Peninsula. Scheduling a Zoom call? “It’s not the same,” he said. “Things spark here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sorcerer closed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2025/06/12/sorcerer-seed-weather-balloons\">$3.9 million seed round\u003c/a> last year. “That data is what powers, essentially, the forecasts on your phone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have been having the time of their lives in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of greenery,” Ani said. “There’s a lot of people out and about. You have that drive [to succeed in business], but it’s also peaceful, in some ways.” They love walking and picnics and meals with friends. “There’s a lot going on here,” Ani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing is, the Vechhis are starting to think about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075761/when-child-care-costs-half-a-paycheck-bay-area-parents-must-choose-kids-or-career\">having children\u003c/a>. But it’s complicated. They need both salaries, and both sets of parents, who could help them with childcare, live in Florida. And they’re not ready to make that move.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061802/how-are-child-care-costs-affecting-the-lives-of-bay-area-families-you-told-us\">Rising child care costs in the Bay Area\u003c/a> are forcing parents to make painful tradeoffs, either by passing up career opportunities, cutting back work hours, or quitting altogether. For families with multiple young children, these expenses can surpass a parent’s entire salary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vecchis also shy away from the idea of leaving San Francisco for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081761/in-the-bay-area-raising-kids-comes-with-compromise\">Bay Area suburb with nominally cheaper real estate\u003c/a>. “If we were to move out of the city, we might as well move back to Florida.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you gave me the option and I had the money, I would stay here 100%,” Alex said. And the family back in Florida? “They understand. They want us to be happy where we are. They know that we’re doing a bunch of great things here. When we think about moving back, we think, ‘But we’re not going to be happy over there.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research from \u003ca href=\"https://jointventure.org/news-and-media/blog/2790-a-region-in-motion-who-s-leaving-silicon-valley-and-why?mc_cid=4aada55384&mc_eid=9b006466f1\">Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/a> provides statistical confirmation of personal experience. For years, the Bay Area has created jobs faster than it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755545/google-pledges-1-billion-to-help-fight-bay-area-housing-crisis-it-helped-create\">builds housing\u003c/a>, fueling relentless price pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Silicon Valley, just 28% of Millennials own homes, compared to 68% of Baby Boomers, giving older residents an asset to rely on even in tough times. The Vecchis, like most people their age here, are still scrambling for a financial foothold, even though they both work in tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these things have implications for community, and now we’re seeing it. We’re living it,” Hancock told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mark and Melanie\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In some ways, Ani and Alex Vecchi and Mark Wogulis and Melanie Bowden are living the same story twenty years apart. Young people arrive, fall in love with a place, build a life. Then something shifts, and the place that felt like home starts to feel like a problem to be solved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After decades in California, Mark Wogulis and Melanie Bowden felt the sting of leaving somewhere that felt like home. “It does hit differently,” Wogulis said, “when it’s not your choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wogulis and Bowden met decades ago when they were teachers in San Francisco. He was teaching science.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/6cj4-T9ovDc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/6cj4-T9ovDc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>She was teaching math. They started a family. He pivoted from teaching to pharmaceuticals, then got a doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pharmaceuticals and biotech are notoriously volatile, but he worked at Elan Pharmaceuticals in South San Francisco for nearly eight years, then at Novozymes in Davis for nearly 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there, he moved to Amyris in Emeryville, which at the time specialized in developing sustainable alternatives for chemicals traditionally derived from petroleum or wildlife that were used in the beauty, flavor and fragrance industries. “Turned out everything they were selling, they were losing money on,” Wogulis said. “When the money ran out, they went bankrupt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were three rounds of layoffs, but Wogulis remained optimistic. “I thought I had made it,” he said, because he hadn’t been laid off, even as the company went into and emerged from bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he got axed during a fourth round of layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Wogulis thought he’d find another job, like he always had. But now in his 60s, his experience and longevity made him more expensive relative to other prospective employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079650\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079650\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260413-SILICON-VALLEY-CHURN-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260413-SILICON-VALLEY-CHURN-02-KQED.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260413-SILICON-VALLEY-CHURN-02-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260413-SILICON-VALLEY-CHURN-02-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Wogulis and Melanie Bowden in front of the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco in 2022. A layoff in biotech forced the couple to sell their home in Berkeley and move to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in May of 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mark Wogulis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way to prove it, but there was no doubt in my mind that there was age discrimination involved,” Bowdon said. “He would be fully qualified for a job and hear nothing on many, many, many jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were people older than me at Amyris,” Wogulis said, “but not very many.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also true that, thanks to LinkedIn and artificial intelligence, Wogulis was competing with biochemists from all over the world, many of them willing to relocate to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, there just was nothing,” Wogulis said. “I applied for a bunch of stuff that either I was over- or under-qualified for. I mean, I got a couple of rejections. Most of them just went off into the void.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the layoff came, the couple was living in Berkeley, in a 1,570 square foot Craftsman-style home they bought after raising their family in Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We loved the location. So close to BART and bus stops, and lots of good restaurants within walking distance. I could bike to work. We also liked the charm of such an old house,” Wogulis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they crunched the numbers and realized they didn’t have much financial runway before they’d have to take off for someplace cheaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We needed to get out of there. We couldn’t afford that house,” Bowden said. That’s how they decided to retire early at age 62 and move to Santa Fe, with their cat and dog in tow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple, born on the tail end of the Baby Boom, had the benefit of owning homes for much of their working lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proceeds from the sale of their house in Davis became the down payment for the house in Berkeley, so their mortgage was only $3,000 a month. Still, their utilities and property taxes added up to about $19,000 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They moved to Santa Fe knowing nobody but their real estate agents, who helped them find a house for $600,000— half what they paid in Berkeley, even though it’s roughly the same size. They don’t even have a mortgage, something that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985468/map-what-you-need-to-earn-to-afford-a-median-priced-home-in-your-county-in-california\">seems wild\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101911013/tech-layoffs-and-higher-than-average-unemployment-a-close-look-at-the-bay-areas-job-market\">most Bay Area homeowners\u003c/a> today. The property taxes are smaller, too: about $4,000 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did it out of necessity,” Wogulis said. “I would have felt a lot better if I’d totally chosen to come here, I didn’t feel \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11933511/mass-bay-area-tech-layoffs-thrust-thousands-of-h-1b-visa-holders-into-frantic-job-hunt\">under the gun\u003c/a> to do something. Yeah, that was difficult. It does hit differently when it’s…” he said, giving Bowden a chance to finish his sentence, the way longtime partners often do. “…When it’s not your choice. We had to move. We had to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-18-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-18-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-18-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-18-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A “For Rent” sign in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know, there’s people I miss, definitely,” Bowden said. “Our neighbors are very nice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just takes time,” Wogulis said. “It took time in Berkeley, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Luckily, Santa Fe is a very cultural and artistic city. There’s so many museums, plays, concerts,” Bowden said. Their grown kids came to visit at Christmas. She is keeping up with masters swimming and cat rescue. They got a second cat through Felines and Friends. His name is Cyrus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the Bay Area, the AI revolution continues the region’s long tradition of minting new millionaires and billionaires. The question is whether everyone else can hold on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Warm sunny days in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> can be hard to come by in May. But the city’s historic Kezar Stadium basked in a rare stretch of afternoon sunshine on a recent Sunday as hundreds of soccer fans sat down ahead of the match between San Francisco City FC and Davis Legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stands filled up with yellow and black, the colors of home team San Francisco City FC, which plays in the semi-professional men’s USL League Two. Even before the referee blew the whistle for kickoff, fans waved flags and scarves emblazoned with the message “fierro y oro” — “iron and gold” in Spanish — alluding to the motto on \u003ca href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_San_Francisco,_California.svg\">San Francisco’s official flag\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others wore jerseys from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952578/san-francisco-soccer-team-city-fc-muni-hollis-callas-collaboration\">previous seasons\u003c/a> that featured \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11185731/where-did-the-wild-parrots-of-san-francisco-come-from\">the wild parrots\u003c/a> that fly all over the city, in a full-color design. One fan even came with a handmade replica of Sutro Tower crowning the top of her head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, for many SF City fans, rooting for their team means embodying the spirit of San Francisco itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SF City is grassroots. It’s DIY,” said Ozzy Palacio, a fan who also helps run \u003ca href=\"https://www.canva.com/design/DAG1WWBv4EI/YRSpNQX7YJMw9KAxqjXlkg/view\">a zine for club members\u003c/a>. They were surrounded by the loudest group of fans in the stadium. Drums beat nonstop, kids and adults alike started chants and banners identified the team’s supporter groups — \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/northsiderssfcityfc\">Northsiders\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kezarunionsf/\">Kezar Union\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/faultlineoffenders/\">Faultline Offenders\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/the_yofc/\">YOFC\u003c/a> — each with their own identity and history, but rallying under the banner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/labahiadefrisco/\">Bahía de Frisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many fans have team memberships, which give them the right to vote on almost every major decision. Similar to what professional teams in Germany do, SF City runs on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/the-501-rule-in-german-football-what-you-need-to-know/a-72952820\">50+1 ownership model\u003c/a>, where club members hold a majority of team shares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Players from the San Francisco City Football Club face off with the opposing Davis Legacy Soccer Club during a game at Kezar Stadium on May 17. 2026. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Choosing SF City was never a question for me,” Palacio said. A fourth-generation Bay Area resident, they grew up surrounded by lovers of the beautiful game. Palacio’s father played for the Oakland Stompers, and they themselves played soccer for more than a decade before becoming SF City fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much love here,” Palacio said. “It’s sharing beers and giving somebody a scarf to borrow that doesn’t have one —and teaching somebody what offside means.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thunderous cheers cut off Palacio. Forward Kai Oppenheim scored the team’s first goal before the third minute of the match. Boosted by this momentum, SF City went on to win 3-0.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fantastic home opener was also a bittersweet reminder for the team that this will be its last full season based at Kezar Stadium: the first home of the San Francisco 49ers on the southeast corner of Golden Gate Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next year, an entirely new team funded by private investors and backed by city officials will take over, leaving SF City without a home field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many SF City supporters, the change is evidence that soccer in the Bay Area is becoming more beholden to financial and political interests — something they say is also happening on a global stage ahead of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup. And unlike other teams in the region, SF City is not promoting the tournament, which includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12083101/world-cup-2026-bay-area-games-where-is-fifa-world-cup-santa-clara-levis-stadium-tickets-fan-zone-watch-parties\">six matches at Levi’s Stadium\u003c/a> in Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, fans say that supporting existing local soccer teams will help keep the sport accessible for all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Take me home to Kezar Stadium?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kezar Stadium stands as a survivor of San Francisco’s sporting past, a physical link to the eras of the now-demolished Candlestick Park and Seals Stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opened in 1925, it has hosted the city’s high school football championship game — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Turkey-Bowl-a-San-Francisco-football-tradition-3209449.php\">the legendary Turkey Bowl\u003c/a> — for almost a century, along with dozens of different professional and amateur teams over the decades. And SF City fans relish being part of this history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Muni bus, take me home … to the place I belong,’ supporters sang throughout the match against Davis Legacy to the tune of John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads”: “Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, take me home … Muni bus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084951\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084951\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans of the San Francisco City Football Club rise and cheer as they score their second goal against the Davis City Legacy Soccer Club during their game at Kezar Stadium on May 17. 2026. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While SF City has called Kezar Stadium home for the past decade, it’s part of a long line of soccer teams that have used the space as a launching pad to grow the sport’s popularity — in a city where baseball and American football usually dominate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next year, the field will welcome Golden City FC, which will play in the MLS Next Pro league. (In the United States soccer league system, this is \u003ca href=\"https://ussoccerparent.com/wp-content/smush-webp/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-08-at-11.57.32%E2%80%AFAM.png.webp\">one rung “above”\u003c/a> the USL League Two, which is where SF City plays.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie himself broke the news of Golden City FC’s arrival last year through \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJb3KiHxwKh/\">a social media video\u003c/a>. The new team, Lurie said, would invest in renovating the historic stadium. “It’s going to make Kezar even better.[aside postID=news_12084228 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GettyImages-2271403567.jpg']This is good news for San Francisco,” he insisted. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news-mayor-lurie-marks-new-era-for-san-francisco-sports-announces-plan-for-new-professional-soccer-team\">press release\u003c/a>, the Mayor’s office called it “a landmark public-private partnership” that would also help boost local businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials soon after negotiated a permit agreement with Golden City FC ownership — which the Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7402091&GUID=B4E96FD9-99E0-4453-A17E-592AC77F0357&Options=&Search=\">approved unanimously\u003c/a> — giving the team the right to use the stadium for all regular season home games and playoff matches. In return, Golden City FC is expected to invest $10 million in upgrades, with over half going to renovating the field turf, and some spent on improving the seating areas and scoreboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But questions have dogged Golden City FC since Lurie’s announcement. The San Francisco Standard \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/16/san-francisco-nonprofit-daniel-lurie-tipping-point-ethics/\">reported\u003c/a> a few days later that one of the team’s co-owners is a longtime donor to Tipping Point — a nonprofit founded by Lurie, which raised some ethical concerns about potential conflicts of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And most recently, SFGATE \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/mystery-sf-soccer-team-22243133.php\">looked into\u003c/a> whether the team will actually be able to meet the city’s Sept. 30, 2027, deadline to complete 50% of the required stadium improvements and play their first match by that same date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team is on track to start work on the field in December after the end of the high school football season, said Tamara Aparton, deputy director of communications for the city’s Recreation and Park Department. “It’s a little tricky because there are windows they can work in,” she said. “There haven’t been any changes to the schedule.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084948\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ozzy Palacio holds up a sweatshirt supporting the San Francisco City Football Club at Kezar Stadium on May 17. 2026. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Golden City FC also confirmed to KQED that the team is on track to start improvements in December and aims to compete in the 2027 MLS Next Pro season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the team has kept its online presence minimal. Its \u003ca href=\"https://goldencityfootballclub.org/\">website\u003c/a> only shows the team’s initials and contact information, while its \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/gcfc_sf/\">Instagram account\u003c/a> had not posted anything by late May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really quiet, and it’s very intentional,” a team spokesperson told KQED. “We’ve been working behind the scenes on go-to-market strategies … But to be fair, we won’t hit the on button until probably sometime late first quarter [of 2027].”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Why this is our home’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Golden City FC establishes itself at Kezar Stadium next year, SF City will get a lot less playing time on the field. Team leadership said next season may include only one game at Kezar Stadium — down from four this current season. Cox Stadium at San Francisco State University will host most of SF City’s home games next season, but details are still being finalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Players will adapt to this change to keep giving their best, SF City head coach Berdi Merdanov said. “I like to think that we’re here to expand our territory. Cox Stadium is new territory,” he said, adding that he’s very optimistic about the team’s athletic potential. As of this story’s publishing, the team remains undefeated and is leading its division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084944\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084944\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Diaz records footage for his upcoming documentary on the San Francisco City Football Club at Kezar Stadium on May 17. 2026. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Home is home in San Francisco,” Merdanov said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans like Palacio say they’ll stick with the team when it moves to new turf. But there’s also some uncertainty from losing a space that’s so beloved by supporters, they added. “The uncertainty comes from not knowing where we’re going to play,” they said. “If our team and everybody’s going to be able to get there. Because it’s a point of access at the end of the day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others see SF City’s move away from Kezar as an outright injustice. “This is very clearly the community club, the San Francisco club,” said fan Asa Vaziri, who throughout the 90-minute game did not stop waving the team’s massive banner above his head. “We’re kind of just being kicked out by money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I strongly believe football should be accessible,” he explained, adding that teams like SF City provide affordable opportunities to watch a live soccer game in a time when more visible soccer tournaments, like the World Cup, are out of reach for those who cannot afford ticket prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think [FIFA] has proven it’s more about profits,” he said. “It’s just so blatant this year that I really have no desire to partake. I’m glad that SF City offers something else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084947\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelley Estelle sports a prop hat designed after Sutro Tower during a soccer game at Kezar Stadium on May 17. 2026. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>FIFA has frustrated many soccer lovers over how it has managed the 2026 World Cup, which starts June 11 in Mexico City. Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara will host five group stage matches and one from the knockout phase of the competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gianni Infantino, who heads the sport’s governing body, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/18/embarrassment-fifa-donald-trump-peace-prize\">was criticized\u003c/a> for mixing sports with politics when he awarded President Donald Trump the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the price of game tickets, he’s said that demand has been unpredictable and that \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cn4d41p7v2zo\">revenues go to support\u003c/a> soccer programs around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, California state officials have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084228/dont-fall-for-world-cup-ticket-scams-in-california\">begun an investigation\u003c/a> of FIFA’s ticketing system following reports from ticketholders who say they were assigned seats in a different category than what was advertised when they bought their tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 2022 World Cup held in Qatar, SF City announced it would not participate in any events related to that tournament, citing the host country’s history of labor rights violations and criminalization of homosexuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are totally vocally anti-fascist,” team board member Pete Bogdis told KQED earlier this year. “The club doesn’t like the way the World Cup has turned into a giant ‘sportswashing’ machine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professional teams like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjearthquakes.com/news/san-jose-earthquakes-the-san-jose-sports-authority-and-bay-area-host-committee-to-transform-san-pedro-square-market-into-official-soccer-celebration-venue-this-summer\">San Jose Earthquakes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://bayfc.com/articles/bay-fc-in-the-community-2026-fifa-mens-world-cup-events/\">Bay FC\u003c/a> are helping organize watch parties for the tournament. SF City, on the other hand, is not promoting any of the matches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084945\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084945\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arthur Roberts hangs on the spectator railing during a tense first few minutes of the San Francisco City Football Club vs. Davis Legacy Soccer Club game at Kezar Stadium on May 17. 2026. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you want to pay thousands of dollars to watch a game outside the city, you’re happy to go watch FIFA,” team board member Isaiah Cornejo said. “If you want to spend $8-$12 to come join a community and watch a good sport inside the city, come to an SF City game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For fan and filmmaker Daniel Diaz, the fight to keep soccer accessible is both global — at the World Cup level — and local — making sure a smaller, supporter-owned team can keep playing close to its fans. Winning their home opener is a victory in that fight, too, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Laying claim to our home, packing out the stadium, a lot of familiar faces, singing familiar songs and joined by a whole crew of new people,” he said. “That energy shows why this is our home and why we’ll follow our club wherever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, for many SF City fans, rooting for their team means embodying the spirit of San Francisco itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SF City is grassroots. It’s DIY,” said Ozzy Palacio, a fan who also helps run \u003ca href=\"https://www.canva.com/design/DAG1WWBv4EI/YRSpNQX7YJMw9KAxqjXlkg/view\">a zine for club members\u003c/a>. They were surrounded by the loudest group of fans in the stadium. Drums beat nonstop, kids and adults alike started chants and banners identified the team’s supporter groups — \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/northsiderssfcityfc\">Northsiders\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kezarunionsf/\">Kezar Union\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/faultlineoffenders/\">Faultline Offenders\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/the_yofc/\">YOFC\u003c/a> — each with their own identity and history, but rallying under the banner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/labahiadefrisco/\">Bahía de Frisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many fans have team memberships, which give them the right to vote on almost every major decision. Similar to what professional teams in Germany do, SF City runs on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/the-501-rule-in-german-football-what-you-need-to-know/a-72952820\">50+1 ownership model\u003c/a>, where club members hold a majority of team shares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Players from the San Francisco City Football Club face off with the opposing Davis Legacy Soccer Club during a game at Kezar Stadium on May 17. 2026. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Choosing SF City was never a question for me,” Palacio said. A fourth-generation Bay Area resident, they grew up surrounded by lovers of the beautiful game. Palacio’s father played for the Oakland Stompers, and they themselves played soccer for more than a decade before becoming SF City fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much love here,” Palacio said. “It’s sharing beers and giving somebody a scarf to borrow that doesn’t have one —and teaching somebody what offside means.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thunderous cheers cut off Palacio. Forward Kai Oppenheim scored the team’s first goal before the third minute of the match. Boosted by this momentum, SF City went on to win 3-0.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fantastic home opener was also a bittersweet reminder for the team that this will be its last full season based at Kezar Stadium: the first home of the San Francisco 49ers on the southeast corner of Golden Gate Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next year, an entirely new team funded by private investors and backed by city officials will take over, leaving SF City without a home field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many SF City supporters, the change is evidence that soccer in the Bay Area is becoming more beholden to financial and political interests — something they say is also happening on a global stage ahead of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup. And unlike other teams in the region, SF City is not promoting the tournament, which includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12083101/world-cup-2026-bay-area-games-where-is-fifa-world-cup-santa-clara-levis-stadium-tickets-fan-zone-watch-parties\">six matches at Levi’s Stadium\u003c/a> in Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, fans say that supporting existing local soccer teams will help keep the sport accessible for all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Take me home to Kezar Stadium?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kezar Stadium stands as a survivor of San Francisco’s sporting past, a physical link to the eras of the now-demolished Candlestick Park and Seals Stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opened in 1925, it has hosted the city’s high school football championship game — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Turkey-Bowl-a-San-Francisco-football-tradition-3209449.php\">the legendary Turkey Bowl\u003c/a> — for almost a century, along with dozens of different professional and amateur teams over the decades. And SF City fans relish being part of this history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Muni bus, take me home … to the place I belong,’ supporters sang throughout the match against Davis Legacy to the tune of John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads”: “Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, take me home … Muni bus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084951\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084951\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans of the San Francisco City Football Club rise and cheer as they score their second goal against the Davis City Legacy Soccer Club during their game at Kezar Stadium on May 17. 2026. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While SF City has called Kezar Stadium home for the past decade, it’s part of a long line of soccer teams that have used the space as a launching pad to grow the sport’s popularity — in a city where baseball and American football usually dominate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next year, the field will welcome Golden City FC, which will play in the MLS Next Pro league. (In the United States soccer league system, this is \u003ca href=\"https://ussoccerparent.com/wp-content/smush-webp/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-08-at-11.57.32%E2%80%AFAM.png.webp\">one rung “above”\u003c/a> the USL League Two, which is where SF City plays.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie himself broke the news of Golden City FC’s arrival last year through \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJb3KiHxwKh/\">a social media video\u003c/a>. The new team, Lurie said, would invest in renovating the historic stadium. “It’s going to make Kezar even better.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This is good news for San Francisco,” he insisted. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news-mayor-lurie-marks-new-era-for-san-francisco-sports-announces-plan-for-new-professional-soccer-team\">press release\u003c/a>, the Mayor’s office called it “a landmark public-private partnership” that would also help boost local businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials soon after negotiated a permit agreement with Golden City FC ownership — which the Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7402091&GUID=B4E96FD9-99E0-4453-A17E-592AC77F0357&Options=&Search=\">approved unanimously\u003c/a> — giving the team the right to use the stadium for all regular season home games and playoff matches. In return, Golden City FC is expected to invest $10 million in upgrades, with over half going to renovating the field turf, and some spent on improving the seating areas and scoreboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But questions have dogged Golden City FC since Lurie’s announcement. The San Francisco Standard \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/16/san-francisco-nonprofit-daniel-lurie-tipping-point-ethics/\">reported\u003c/a> a few days later that one of the team’s co-owners is a longtime donor to Tipping Point — a nonprofit founded by Lurie, which raised some ethical concerns about potential conflicts of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And most recently, SFGATE \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/mystery-sf-soccer-team-22243133.php\">looked into\u003c/a> whether the team will actually be able to meet the city’s Sept. 30, 2027, deadline to complete 50% of the required stadium improvements and play their first match by that same date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team is on track to start work on the field in December after the end of the high school football season, said Tamara Aparton, deputy director of communications for the city’s Recreation and Park Department. “It’s a little tricky because there are windows they can work in,” she said. “There haven’t been any changes to the schedule.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084948\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ozzy Palacio holds up a sweatshirt supporting the San Francisco City Football Club at Kezar Stadium on May 17. 2026. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Golden City FC also confirmed to KQED that the team is on track to start improvements in December and aims to compete in the 2027 MLS Next Pro season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the team has kept its online presence minimal. Its \u003ca href=\"https://goldencityfootballclub.org/\">website\u003c/a> only shows the team’s initials and contact information, while its \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/gcfc_sf/\">Instagram account\u003c/a> had not posted anything by late May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really quiet, and it’s very intentional,” a team spokesperson told KQED. “We’ve been working behind the scenes on go-to-market strategies … But to be fair, we won’t hit the on button until probably sometime late first quarter [of 2027].”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Why this is our home’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Golden City FC establishes itself at Kezar Stadium next year, SF City will get a lot less playing time on the field. Team leadership said next season may include only one game at Kezar Stadium — down from four this current season. Cox Stadium at San Francisco State University will host most of SF City’s home games next season, but details are still being finalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Players will adapt to this change to keep giving their best, SF City head coach Berdi Merdanov said. “I like to think that we’re here to expand our territory. Cox Stadium is new territory,” he said, adding that he’s very optimistic about the team’s athletic potential. As of this story’s publishing, the team remains undefeated and is leading its division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084944\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084944\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Diaz records footage for his upcoming documentary on the San Francisco City Football Club at Kezar Stadium on May 17. 2026. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Home is home in San Francisco,” Merdanov said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans like Palacio say they’ll stick with the team when it moves to new turf. But there’s also some uncertainty from losing a space that’s so beloved by supporters, they added. “The uncertainty comes from not knowing where we’re going to play,” they said. “If our team and everybody’s going to be able to get there. Because it’s a point of access at the end of the day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others see SF City’s move away from Kezar as an outright injustice. “This is very clearly the community club, the San Francisco club,” said fan Asa Vaziri, who throughout the 90-minute game did not stop waving the team’s massive banner above his head. “We’re kind of just being kicked out by money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I strongly believe football should be accessible,” he explained, adding that teams like SF City provide affordable opportunities to watch a live soccer game in a time when more visible soccer tournaments, like the World Cup, are out of reach for those who cannot afford ticket prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think [FIFA] has proven it’s more about profits,” he said. “It’s just so blatant this year that I really have no desire to partake. I’m glad that SF City offers something else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084947\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelley Estelle sports a prop hat designed after Sutro Tower during a soccer game at Kezar Stadium on May 17. 2026. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>FIFA has frustrated many soccer lovers over how it has managed the 2026 World Cup, which starts June 11 in Mexico City. Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara will host five group stage matches and one from the knockout phase of the competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gianni Infantino, who heads the sport’s governing body, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/18/embarrassment-fifa-donald-trump-peace-prize\">was criticized\u003c/a> for mixing sports with politics when he awarded President Donald Trump the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the price of game tickets, he’s said that demand has been unpredictable and that \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cn4d41p7v2zo\">revenues go to support\u003c/a> soccer programs around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, California state officials have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084228/dont-fall-for-world-cup-ticket-scams-in-california\">begun an investigation\u003c/a> of FIFA’s ticketing system following reports from ticketholders who say they were assigned seats in a different category than what was advertised when they bought their tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 2022 World Cup held in Qatar, SF City announced it would not participate in any events related to that tournament, citing the host country’s history of labor rights violations and criminalization of homosexuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are totally vocally anti-fascist,” team board member Pete Bogdis told KQED earlier this year. “The club doesn’t like the way the World Cup has turned into a giant ‘sportswashing’ machine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professional teams like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjearthquakes.com/news/san-jose-earthquakes-the-san-jose-sports-authority-and-bay-area-host-committee-to-transform-san-pedro-square-market-into-official-soccer-celebration-venue-this-summer\">San Jose Earthquakes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://bayfc.com/articles/bay-fc-in-the-community-2026-fifa-mens-world-cup-events/\">Bay FC\u003c/a> are helping organize watch parties for the tournament. SF City, on the other hand, is not promoting any of the matches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084945\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084945\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-SF-City-FC-vs.-Davis-Legacy-AC-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arthur Roberts hangs on the spectator railing during a tense first few minutes of the San Francisco City Football Club vs. Davis Legacy Soccer Club game at Kezar Stadium on May 17. 2026. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you want to pay thousands of dollars to watch a game outside the city, you’re happy to go watch FIFA,” team board member Isaiah Cornejo said. “If you want to spend $8-$12 to come join a community and watch a good sport inside the city, come to an SF City game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For fan and filmmaker Daniel Diaz, the fight to keep soccer accessible is both global — at the World Cup level — and local — making sure a smaller, supporter-owned team can keep playing close to its fans. 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"content": "\u003cp>On April 15, 2024, dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the Golden Gate Bridge, in an attempt to pressure the U.S. government into ending military aid for Israel’s bombing and invasion of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, seven of those protesters are on trial facing felony charges in San Francisco. If convicted, they could face a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.\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=KQINC4975303124&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Episode Transcript\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\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>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:00] \u003c/em>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. Sara Cantor grew up learning a lot about the Holocaust. Being Jewish, she learned about how much of German life just went on, as Jewish people were displaced, put in camps, and murdered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sara Cantor: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:24] \u003c/em>As a child I was really obsessed with and disturbed by the question of who would I have been during that time period, how would I had acted?\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:37] \u003c/em>On April 15th, 2024, Cantor was among 26 protesters who stopped traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge to highlight Israel’s siege of Gaza. Now she, along with six others, are on trial in San Francisco, facing felony conspiracy charges for their actions on the bridge that day. If convicted, they could face up to 15 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sara Cantor: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:09] \u003c/em>I resolved that if I had been in that situation, or if I were to ever be in a similar situation, that I would resist, that I wouldn’t turn away, that I make sure to fight for the humanity of all people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:30] \u003c/em>Today, the Golden Gate Bridge protesters on trial in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:41] \u003c/em>Let’s start back in April of 2024. What happened on the Golden Gate Bridge?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:53] \u003c/em>Just before 8am, basically a group of cars drove southbound through Marin onto the Golden Gate Bridge and then stopped about halfway through. At that point some protestors got out of those cars and stopped up all southbound traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:12] \u003c/em>Juan Carlos Lara is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:16] \u003c/em>A few of those people kind of connected themselves into these devices, essentially chaining themselves to their cars and to each other, and then others unfurled a big banner that read Stop the World for Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Protester: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:28] \u003c/em>Stop funneling U.S. Tax dollars to the Israeli occupation forces to continue the atrocities and genocide of the Palestinian people!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:44] \u003c/em>From before this point, they’d been describing Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide, and this was part of an international kind of day of action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:56] \u003c/em>Tax day. Is that right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:57] \u003c/em>Yeah, so this specifically happened on the tax filing deadline in the US. Protesters were hoping to apply economic pressure on the US to get US leaders to end military aid to Israel and, in effect, pressure Israel to stop its bombings of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:17] \u003c/em>And how did this protest eventually end?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:21] \u003c/em>There were dozens of people out there. 26 were charged, and they ended up blocking traffic for about four hours. 18 of them were charged with misdemeanors. There was one who initially was faced with felony charges, but whose charges were dismissed. And then there were seven who were charged with felonies. These are six who allegedly chained themselves to their cars and to each other using these things called. Lockboxes or sleeping dragon devices that makes it really hard to remove protestors and then there was a seventh who was allegedly the police liaison going back and forth between uh the police and those protesters and these seven are the ones going through trial facing a series of charges chief among them there’s felony conspiracy there’s also a series of misdemeanors including false imprisonment and refusal to disperse\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:10] \u003c/em>And I actually remember that day and in particular, I remember social media just being sort of a big mess. A lot of people being really upset about the traffic in the Bay Area on that particular day. Again, it was one of many actions, but it’s not an unprecedented thing to see a protest on the Golden Gate Bridge, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:35] \u003c/em>Yeah, that’s right. The bridge has been a frequent site of protest. There was actually another bridge shut down just two months prior to this in February, but that one only lasted for like 45 minutes and dispersed very quickly, so it didn’t make as big headlines. There was a Black Lives Matter march that crossed the bridge in 2020. There was an anti-war protest that happened there in 2002. Two other really big ones in 1996. Woody Harrelson and a bunch of other people engaged in this like Save the Redwoods protest and they climbed the cables and hung a huge banner. And there was also a protest over the US’s response to the AIDS crisis in the 80s. It’s an iconic structure, obviously, and people hoping to… Bring a lot of attention to what they feel is an urgent cause often see it as a great place to stage these demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:28] \u003c/em>This happened more than two years ago now. What was the response at the time and how did we get to this point where there are now seven people facing these felony charges?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:41] \u003c/em>I’d say the response at the time was pretty divided. This has been a contentious issue, not just in the Bay Area, but kind of internationally. This was kind of at the fever pitch of pro-Palestinian protests in the bay area. Like I said, this was just two months after a smaller bridge shut down. At this time, the student encampments across college campuses were starting to wind down, but we’re still present on at least a few campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brooke Jenkins: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:09] \u003c/em>I want to make clear that San Francisco, as well as myself as the district attorney, support free speech. But where we must draw the line is when acts of free speech endanger public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:23] \u003c/em>In terms of local officials, San Francisco’s District Attorney Brooke Jenkins came out with very strong statements about this. She said that, you know, she encouraged people’s right to protest and to freedom of speech, but that this threatened the safety of people on the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brooke Jenkins: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:38] \u003c/em>And we must make sure that public safety is observed in San Francisco. And that is what we are committed to doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:46] \u003c/em>So the district attorney ended up filing, like I said, felony conspiracy charges against seven and then a slew of misdemeanors against the other 18 involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:57] \u003c/em>And as I understand it, some of these protesters also had to pay the Golden Gate Bridge district for some of the interruptions that happened in terms of traffic that day, is that right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:12] \u003c/em>Yeah, so after the bridge shut down, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins and the California Highway Patrol both put out messages essentially soliciting people to come forward if they feel like they were victims and that they may be entitled to restitution. The Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District filed a restitution claim for just over $160,000, arguing that that was the lost toll revenue that they had suffered for the shutdown. That was seen as a somewhat unprecedented move. As far as we can tell, the Bridge District has never filed a restitution claim against other protesters who have shut down the bridge. Ultimately, the bridge district and the protesters settled for an unspecified amount. And then the group of protesters who did not ultimately face felony charges, who were just facing a series of misdemeanors, settled with private individuals who said they suffered losses, mostly the day’s lost wages, and they ended up paying out a group of those claimants for just over five grand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:22] \u003c/em>Coming up, inside the courtroom for the Golden Gate Bridge protesters’ trial. By the way, if you appreciate these deep dives into local news in the Bay Area, consider becoming a KQED member. We can’t do this work without our listener donations, so consider joining the hundreds of thousands of your Bay Area neighbors today. KQed.org slash donate is the place to do it. We’ll be right back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:57] \u003c/em>So let’s talk about this trial. What is the district attorney’s office arguing in court? And have they said anything in the media about how they’re approaching this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:06] \u003c/em>So in court, the prosecution’s main argument is they’ve been asking jurors to set aside how they feel about Gaza or how they feel about Israel’s war in Gaza and to just focus specifically on the actions and the consequences of those actions. In its opening statement, the prosecution argued that people were pretty significantly impacted, that they were trapped on the bridge for hours that people were late to work, including nurses at local hospitals, that people missed doctor’s appointments. And so they argue that these people really were kind of trapped on there. And so false imprisonment is a fitting charge for that reason. The DA’s office has been pretty tight-lipped outside of court. While the district attorney did make a public statement on this initially, not long after the first protest and did put out a statement explaining some of the charges. Uh, in recent months, the DA’s office has declined to comment. They said they’re not really going to litigate this in the media and they’re just going to focus on court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:06] \u003c/em>Walk me through the defense argument here, Juan Carlos. It sounds like they do feel like the consequences are perhaps unfair, and that these protesters were just exercising their First Amendment right, just as has been done on the bridge for many years before. Who’s defending these protesters, and what are they saying in court?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:27] \u003c/em>There are seven defendants and each one of them has their own attorney, which does make for a bit of a circus act in court because there are seven kind of all clamoring to object around the same time. And we heard seven opening statements kind of each tailored to each individual defendant. The protesters and their attorneys have definitely argued that these charges are unprecedented, that charges like false imprisonment or felony conspiracy should be reserved for very serious crimes, not people engaging in acts of civil disobedience. A good example of kind of the defense that they’ve been putting on so far came from Shafi Mouil, who’s the attorney for one of the defendants, and she went first during opening statements. The first words that she spoke when addressing the jury were, necessary, urgent, and life-saving. And essentially, the argument that she made was that her client and all of the other clients there had really made an earnest effort to try to engage with the government and try to facilitate some kind of change that they had, you know, written letters to their member of Congress and that they have participated in kind of permitted sit-ins and other kinds of acceptable protest and that nothing that they’d done had created the change that they thought was needed. And that they sincerely thought that by engaging in this act of protest that they could apply pressure to the government and successfully create some change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Manan Kocher: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:56] \u003c/em>My seven co-defendants are amongst the bravest, most beautiful and brilliant people that I know and they are in unwavering solidarity of Palestine always.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:10] \u003c/em>Manan Kocher was one of the misdemeanor defendants whose case was ultimately diverted and they are serving as sort of a communications person for the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Manan Kocher: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:20] \u003c/em>We’re here to remind everyone that we are more in solidarity, we are stronger together than we were two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:28] \u003c/em>They, you know, like the defense have argued that the protesters had good intentions that they were hoping to create a positive change and that their intention was not to break the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Manan Kocher: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:39] \u003c/em>What the overprosecution in this case is intended to do is stifle dissent and prevent people from standing up against the U.S. War machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:53] \u003c/em>And Juan Carlos, you’ve been in the courtroom the past few days. You were there for opening statements. I mean, what was it, what’s it like in there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:02] \u003c/em>Yeah, things in the courtroom have been, for the most part, pretty standard. The first day of trial before the jury, a large group of supporters for the protesters came out and sat in trial for most of the morning. And this was a group of people that I had recognized from many other demonstrations that I’ve covered in the last three years, including protests calling on local universities that I’ve asked from weapons manufacturers. There is this kind of undercurrent of tension because the judge, it seems, would prefer to focus on the specific acts of the case. But the defense is hoping to talk about the broader crisis in Gaza in order to justify the actions of their defendants. The judge at one point even said while talking to both sides, we’re not going to decide in this courtroom whether the U.S. Is violating international law. And so it seems like there is an effort to try to avoid the trial from being. Sucked up into this broader debate about the legality of the U.S. And Israel’s actions in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:08] \u003c/em>What happens if they’re found guilty?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:11] \u003c/em>If they’re found guilty the group of seven face up to 14 or 15 years in prison. Wow. We don’t know for sure whether the prosecution will seek such a steep sentence but their charge is taken together that is the that is the maximum that they’re facing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:30] \u003c/em>You’re going back to the courtroom today, Juan Carlos. What are you gonna be watching for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:35] \u003c/em>This week the prosecution is expected to wrap up the witnesses that they’re gonna be calling. My understanding is that the remaining witnesses are going to be a few more law enforcement who can speak to kind of just asserting the basic facts of the case. But more significantly, the prosecution is expected to call people who were trapped on the bridge who were stuck in their cars To speak to the way that this impacted them And so really this is going to be a question of how much the that testimony impacts the jury\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:08] \u003c/em>I mean, what are the potential implications of this trial if these protesters are in fact found guilty of felony charges?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:17] \u003c/em>What some activists and lawyers for the defendants have argued is that this presents an effort by the district attorney’s office to create a chilling effect on similar demonstrations to essentially make an example out of these protesters and deter other protesters from engaging in similarly disruptive acts in the future. But protesters and Manan Kutcher argue that if that is the intention that it’s not going to work and that they won’t allow something like this to deter them from continuing to advocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:51] \u003c/em>I have to say I’m talking to you now about this trial, Juan Carlos, but it reminds me a lot of the trial that happened for protesters in Stanford and this feeling that Gaza seems to be the exception, that the hand is sort of coming down heavy when it comes to protesters on this particular political issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:12] \u003c/em>That’s definitely something that some of the protesters involved in these demonstrations have also pointed out and argued, that they feel like the reactions to these demonstrations are disproportional and that it’s partially because of what they believe is a disagreement on, you know, perspectives regarding Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:36] \u003c/em>Well Juan Carlos, thank you so much for joining us on the show, I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:40] \u003c/em>Thank you for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"\" title=\"\">\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/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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If convicted, they could face up to 15 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sara Cantor: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:09] \u003c/em>I resolved that if I had been in that situation, or if I were to ever be in a similar situation, that I would resist, that I wouldn’t turn away, that I make sure to fight for the humanity of all people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:30] \u003c/em>Today, the Golden Gate Bridge protesters on trial in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:41] \u003c/em>Let’s start back in April of 2024. What happened on the Golden Gate Bridge?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:53] \u003c/em>Just before 8am, basically a group of cars drove southbound through Marin onto the Golden Gate Bridge and then stopped about halfway through. At that point some protestors got out of those cars and stopped up all southbound traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:12] \u003c/em>Juan Carlos Lara is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:16] \u003c/em>A few of those people kind of connected themselves into these devices, essentially chaining themselves to their cars and to each other, and then others unfurled a big banner that read Stop the World for Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Protester: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:28] \u003c/em>Stop funneling U.S. Tax dollars to the Israeli occupation forces to continue the atrocities and genocide of the Palestinian people!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:44] \u003c/em>From before this point, they’d been describing Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide, and this was part of an international kind of day of action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:56] \u003c/em>Tax day. Is that right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:57] \u003c/em>Yeah, so this specifically happened on the tax filing deadline in the US. Protesters were hoping to apply economic pressure on the US to get US leaders to end military aid to Israel and, in effect, pressure Israel to stop its bombings of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:17] \u003c/em>And how did this protest eventually end?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:21] \u003c/em>There were dozens of people out there. 26 were charged, and they ended up blocking traffic for about four hours. 18 of them were charged with misdemeanors. There was one who initially was faced with felony charges, but whose charges were dismissed. And then there were seven who were charged with felonies. These are six who allegedly chained themselves to their cars and to each other using these things called. Lockboxes or sleeping dragon devices that makes it really hard to remove protestors and then there was a seventh who was allegedly the police liaison going back and forth between uh the police and those protesters and these seven are the ones going through trial facing a series of charges chief among them there’s felony conspiracy there’s also a series of misdemeanors including false imprisonment and refusal to disperse\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:10] \u003c/em>And I actually remember that day and in particular, I remember social media just being sort of a big mess. A lot of people being really upset about the traffic in the Bay Area on that particular day. Again, it was one of many actions, but it’s not an unprecedented thing to see a protest on the Golden Gate Bridge, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:35] \u003c/em>Yeah, that’s right. The bridge has been a frequent site of protest. There was actually another bridge shut down just two months prior to this in February, but that one only lasted for like 45 minutes and dispersed very quickly, so it didn’t make as big headlines. There was a Black Lives Matter march that crossed the bridge in 2020. There was an anti-war protest that happened there in 2002. Two other really big ones in 1996. Woody Harrelson and a bunch of other people engaged in this like Save the Redwoods protest and they climbed the cables and hung a huge banner. And there was also a protest over the US’s response to the AIDS crisis in the 80s. It’s an iconic structure, obviously, and people hoping to… Bring a lot of attention to what they feel is an urgent cause often see it as a great place to stage these demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:28] \u003c/em>This happened more than two years ago now. What was the response at the time and how did we get to this point where there are now seven people facing these felony charges?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:41] \u003c/em>I’d say the response at the time was pretty divided. This has been a contentious issue, not just in the Bay Area, but kind of internationally. This was kind of at the fever pitch of pro-Palestinian protests in the bay area. Like I said, this was just two months after a smaller bridge shut down. At this time, the student encampments across college campuses were starting to wind down, but we’re still present on at least a few campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brooke Jenkins: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:09] \u003c/em>I want to make clear that San Francisco, as well as myself as the district attorney, support free speech. But where we must draw the line is when acts of free speech endanger public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:23] \u003c/em>In terms of local officials, San Francisco’s District Attorney Brooke Jenkins came out with very strong statements about this. She said that, you know, she encouraged people’s right to protest and to freedom of speech, but that this threatened the safety of people on the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brooke Jenkins: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:38] \u003c/em>And we must make sure that public safety is observed in San Francisco. And that is what we are committed to doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:46] \u003c/em>So the district attorney ended up filing, like I said, felony conspiracy charges against seven and then a slew of misdemeanors against the other 18 involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:57] \u003c/em>And as I understand it, some of these protesters also had to pay the Golden Gate Bridge district for some of the interruptions that happened in terms of traffic that day, is that right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:12] \u003c/em>Yeah, so after the bridge shut down, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins and the California Highway Patrol both put out messages essentially soliciting people to come forward if they feel like they were victims and that they may be entitled to restitution. The Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District filed a restitution claim for just over $160,000, arguing that that was the lost toll revenue that they had suffered for the shutdown. That was seen as a somewhat unprecedented move. As far as we can tell, the Bridge District has never filed a restitution claim against other protesters who have shut down the bridge. Ultimately, the bridge district and the protesters settled for an unspecified amount. And then the group of protesters who did not ultimately face felony charges, who were just facing a series of misdemeanors, settled with private individuals who said they suffered losses, mostly the day’s lost wages, and they ended up paying out a group of those claimants for just over five grand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:22] \u003c/em>Coming up, inside the courtroom for the Golden Gate Bridge protesters’ trial. By the way, if you appreciate these deep dives into local news in the Bay Area, consider becoming a KQED member. We can’t do this work without our listener donations, so consider joining the hundreds of thousands of your Bay Area neighbors today. KQed.org slash donate is the place to do it. We’ll be right back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:57] \u003c/em>So let’s talk about this trial. What is the district attorney’s office arguing in court? And have they said anything in the media about how they’re approaching this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:06] \u003c/em>So in court, the prosecution’s main argument is they’ve been asking jurors to set aside how they feel about Gaza or how they feel about Israel’s war in Gaza and to just focus specifically on the actions and the consequences of those actions. In its opening statement, the prosecution argued that people were pretty significantly impacted, that they were trapped on the bridge for hours that people were late to work, including nurses at local hospitals, that people missed doctor’s appointments. And so they argue that these people really were kind of trapped on there. And so false imprisonment is a fitting charge for that reason. The DA’s office has been pretty tight-lipped outside of court. While the district attorney did make a public statement on this initially, not long after the first protest and did put out a statement explaining some of the charges. Uh, in recent months, the DA’s office has declined to comment. They said they’re not really going to litigate this in the media and they’re just going to focus on court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:06] \u003c/em>Walk me through the defense argument here, Juan Carlos. It sounds like they do feel like the consequences are perhaps unfair, and that these protesters were just exercising their First Amendment right, just as has been done on the bridge for many years before. Who’s defending these protesters, and what are they saying in court?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:27] \u003c/em>There are seven defendants and each one of them has their own attorney, which does make for a bit of a circus act in court because there are seven kind of all clamoring to object around the same time. And we heard seven opening statements kind of each tailored to each individual defendant. The protesters and their attorneys have definitely argued that these charges are unprecedented, that charges like false imprisonment or felony conspiracy should be reserved for very serious crimes, not people engaging in acts of civil disobedience. A good example of kind of the defense that they’ve been putting on so far came from Shafi Mouil, who’s the attorney for one of the defendants, and she went first during opening statements. The first words that she spoke when addressing the jury were, necessary, urgent, and life-saving. And essentially, the argument that she made was that her client and all of the other clients there had really made an earnest effort to try to engage with the government and try to facilitate some kind of change that they had, you know, written letters to their member of Congress and that they have participated in kind of permitted sit-ins and other kinds of acceptable protest and that nothing that they’d done had created the change that they thought was needed. And that they sincerely thought that by engaging in this act of protest that they could apply pressure to the government and successfully create some change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Manan Kocher: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:56] \u003c/em>My seven co-defendants are amongst the bravest, most beautiful and brilliant people that I know and they are in unwavering solidarity of Palestine always.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:10] \u003c/em>Manan Kocher was one of the misdemeanor defendants whose case was ultimately diverted and they are serving as sort of a communications person for the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Manan Kocher: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:20] \u003c/em>We’re here to remind everyone that we are more in solidarity, we are stronger together than we were two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:28] \u003c/em>They, you know, like the defense have argued that the protesters had good intentions that they were hoping to create a positive change and that their intention was not to break the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Manan Kocher: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:39] \u003c/em>What the overprosecution in this case is intended to do is stifle dissent and prevent people from standing up against the U.S. War machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:53] \u003c/em>And Juan Carlos, you’ve been in the courtroom the past few days. You were there for opening statements. I mean, what was it, what’s it like in there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:02] \u003c/em>Yeah, things in the courtroom have been, for the most part, pretty standard. The first day of trial before the jury, a large group of supporters for the protesters came out and sat in trial for most of the morning. And this was a group of people that I had recognized from many other demonstrations that I’ve covered in the last three years, including protests calling on local universities that I’ve asked from weapons manufacturers. There is this kind of undercurrent of tension because the judge, it seems, would prefer to focus on the specific acts of the case. But the defense is hoping to talk about the broader crisis in Gaza in order to justify the actions of their defendants. The judge at one point even said while talking to both sides, we’re not going to decide in this courtroom whether the U.S. Is violating international law. And so it seems like there is an effort to try to avoid the trial from being. Sucked up into this broader debate about the legality of the U.S. And Israel’s actions in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:08] \u003c/em>What happens if they’re found guilty?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:11] \u003c/em>If they’re found guilty the group of seven face up to 14 or 15 years in prison. Wow. We don’t know for sure whether the prosecution will seek such a steep sentence but their charge is taken together that is the that is the maximum that they’re facing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:30] \u003c/em>You’re going back to the courtroom today, Juan Carlos. What are you gonna be watching for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:35] \u003c/em>This week the prosecution is expected to wrap up the witnesses that they’re gonna be calling. My understanding is that the remaining witnesses are going to be a few more law enforcement who can speak to kind of just asserting the basic facts of the case. But more significantly, the prosecution is expected to call people who were trapped on the bridge who were stuck in their cars To speak to the way that this impacted them And so really this is going to be a question of how much the that testimony impacts the jury\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:08] \u003c/em>I mean, what are the potential implications of this trial if these protesters are in fact found guilty of felony charges?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:17] \u003c/em>What some activists and lawyers for the defendants have argued is that this presents an effort by the district attorney’s office to create a chilling effect on similar demonstrations to essentially make an example out of these protesters and deter other protesters from engaging in similarly disruptive acts in the future. But protesters and Manan Kutcher argue that if that is the intention that it’s not going to work and that they won’t allow something like this to deter them from continuing to advocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:51] \u003c/em>I have to say I’m talking to you now about this trial, Juan Carlos, but it reminds me a lot of the trial that happened for protesters in Stanford and this feeling that Gaza seems to be the exception, that the hand is sort of coming down heavy when it comes to protesters on this particular political issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:12] \u003c/em>That’s definitely something that some of the protesters involved in these demonstrations have also pointed out and argued, that they feel like the reactions to these demonstrations are disproportional and that it’s partially because of what they believe is a disagreement on, you know, perspectives regarding Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:36] \u003c/em>Well Juan Carlos, thank you so much for joining us on the show, I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:40] \u003c/em>Thank you for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Between volunteer and paid signature gatherers, representatives from the Connect Bay Area campaign said they had collected more than 300,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Connect Bay Area Act would create a half-cent sales tax in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, and a one-cent sales tax in San Francisco County for 14 years, which is expected to generate around $1 billion annually for BART, Muni, AC Transit and Caltrain, among others Bay Area agencies, which are facing steep budget deficits due to pandemic-related drops in ridership and revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign officials said they planned to submit the signatures to county elections departments on Tuesday, which will verify whether the signatures are valid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”This is the culmination of what is the largest grassroots transit advocate organizing effort I’ve ever seen in the region,” said Jeff Cretan, a spokesperson for Connect Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 1,000 volunteers collected some 77,000 signatures, more than double the goal for the volunteer side of the campaign, according to Cyrus Hall, manager for volunteer signature gatherers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084850\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260123-signaturekickoff00066_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260123-signaturekickoff00066_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260123-signaturekickoff00066_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260123-signaturekickoff00066_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City officials and supporters of public transit attend a press conference about California Senate Bill 63 at Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on Jan. 23, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ What was really magical about this was the energy and the number of people who volunteered to be a part of this,” Cretan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organized labor and business groups support the campaign and have so far seen no formal opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”The business community has invested significant resources to ensure that this campaign is successful because they know our economy depends on our ability to get people to and from work,” said Emily Loper, the Senior Vice President of Public Policy at the Bay Area Council, which represents some of the largest employers in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The top funders of the campaign include Salesforce, Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen and the Service Employees International Union Local 1021. Cretan said the campaign has raised around $5.5 million, about $4 million of which has so far supported paid signature gathering and volunteer efforts.[aside postID=news_12081663 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260428-TRANSITRIDERSHIPREBOUND00494_TV-KQED.jpg']When people expressed hesitation about signing the petition, Hall said it usually had to do with a concern about how the transit agencies handle their finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a feeling that the budget may not be getting spent optimally,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under SB 63, the 2025 state law that authorized the regional sales tax measure, authored by state Sens. Jesse Arreguín and Scott Weiner, AC Transit, BART, Caltrain and the SFMTA must undergo a two-stage fiscal-efficiency review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”This is a way to actually get to that accountability that people want to have,” Hall said. “ When you explain that, some people literally got excited because they’re like, ‘Oh, that’s amazing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first phase of the review, a report released last week by the transportation planning and engineering firm Nelson Nygaard, found that the four agencies had saved over $1 billion cumulatively between July 2019 and June 2025 through efficiencies and revenue-enhancing measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also makes recommendations for further efficiency gains and rider improvements that the agencies should make. SB 63 requires the agencies to adopt some of these recommendations by July 1, 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second phase of the financial review will happen only if voters approve the Connect Bay Area Act in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12080719\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12080719\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/BARTSFGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1391\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/BARTSFGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/BARTSFGetty-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/BARTSFGetty-1536x1068.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A commuter looks for a less crowded section of a westbound BART train at the West Oakland station in Oakland, California, on Friday, Feb. 16, 2018. BART officials will begin a study on the feasibility of a second transbay tube. \u003ccite>(Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If it fails to make it to the November ballot or is rejected by a simple majority of voters in the five affected counties, Bay Area transit agencies have warned of service cuts that would render the systems unrecognizable. AC Transit, BART, Muni and Caltrain have floated shortening nighttime service, cutting lines and reducing service frequency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Either we make the decision to keep these services, or we face a very long and costly rebuilding process,” Hall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate signature-gathering effort focused solely on shoring up the SFMTA’s budget is still underway. The Stronger Muni For All campaign would create a parcel tax in the city to fund Muni service, in addition to the Connect Bay Area campaign. 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"content": "\u003cp>Huge crowds flocked to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s Mission District to celebrate the culture and diversity of the Latin American diaspora at the city’s annual Carnaval festival and parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12083056/carnaval-san-francisco-turns-music-memory-and-resistance-into-celebration\">celebration\u003c/a>, hosted this year on May 23 and 24, capped off with a Grand Parade that saw dozens of performers dancing and singing from 24th and Bryant streets to 15th and Harrison. The parade was lined on both sides by families, couples and others walking by to get a look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carnaval’s theme this year, La Copa Del Pueblo, or the People’s Cup, celebrates soccer in anticipation of the upcoming World Cup. That theme resonated with many in attendance, several of whom wore soccer jerseys and pointed out soccer-related parade participants to their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa Almaguer, who joined in the parade, said that she comes out every year because “we want to set intentions for peace, for love, for security for our families and for our culture to stay in this neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12085112 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-23_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-23_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-23_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, 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https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-12_qed-1536x1114.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1838px) 100vw, 1838px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Flores, 2, second to right, bangs a drum during the 2026 Carnaval parade on May 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important to love and honor all the places that the immigrant communities in this community come from because we built this neighborhood,” she said. “We need to honor and celebrate all that diversity, all that culture, all that richness, all that joy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085115\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-24_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" 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srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-15_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-15_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-15_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers with Cumbiamba Colombiana dance during the 2026 Carnaval parade on May 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We all know there’s been a lot of displacement, a lot of gentrification,” Almaguer said. “We have to continue working to make sure the people who built this neighborhood can stay here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085120\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085120\" 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second to right, bangs a drum during the 2026 Carnaval parade on May 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important to love and honor all the places that the immigrant communities in this community come from because we built this neighborhood,” she said. “We need to honor and celebrate all that diversity, all that culture, all that richness, all that joy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085115\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-24_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-24_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-24_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-24_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spectators cheer during the 2026 Carnaval parade on May 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085116\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085116\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-18_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-18_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-18_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-18_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" 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https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An individual in a lowrider holds a “Mission” sign during the 2026 Carnaval parade on May 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085118\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085118\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-15_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-15_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-15_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-15_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers with Cumbiamba Colombiana dance during the 2026 Carnaval parade on May 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We all know there’s been a lot of displacement, a lot of gentrification,” Almaguer said. “We have to continue working to make sure the people who built this neighborhood can stay here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085120\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085120\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-5_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260524_Carnaval2026-GC-5_qed.jpg 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"content": "\u003cp>Twenty women incarcerated in\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\"> San Francisco\u003c/a> sued the city and sheriff over alleged civil rights violations on Friday, one year after they were allegedly forced to participate in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065232/advocates-demand-investigation-after-women-say-sf-jail-deputies-recorded-strip-searches\">mass strip search\u003c/a> that they say was part of a coordinated pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class action claim in U.S. District Court accuses Sheriff Paul Miyamoto and multiple named deputies of a pattern of “deliberately degrading” and retaliatory strip searches, in violation of the First, Fourth and 14th amendments, as well as California state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened one year ago did not happen in a vacuum,” San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju said during a vigil in support of the victims. “It happened in a system with processes that dehumanize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are not bugs in the system, these are the system, and we are here today to challenge that system,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint alleges that in May of 2025, 12 sheriff’s deputies entered the women’s housing unit at the San Francisco jail at 425 Seventh St. and ordered women into the common area, where they were instructed one by one to participate in a search under armed guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women say they were forced to remove their clothing, lift their breasts and spread their buttocks in front of male deputies, who were stationed as “partitions” on the staircase and upper tier of the housing unit, and in other positions with direct views of the women being searched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085076\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Formerly incarcerated people and advocates rally outside of San Francisco County Jail 2 on May 22, 2026, one year after women incarcerated at the jail alleged they were subjected to illegal strip searches by sheriff’s deputies in a women’s housing unit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Multiple women allege that they heard the supervising officer, Sgt. Ibarra, instruct a deputy not to deactivate her body-worn camera during the searches. According to their reports, Ibarra told the women that the footage might be “used for training purposes,” but would blur their genitalia before the footage was “released publicly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco sheriff’s policy manual \u003ca href=\"https://sfsheriff.com/sites/default/files/2025-08/2025%20August%20Custody%20and%20Court%20Operations%20Policy%20Manual.pdf\">states\u003c/a> that strip searches should be conducted in a private location, and that all employees present should be of the same gender identity as the person being searched, except in emergency situations. Department policy also prohibits body-worn cameras during such searches, the suit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Sheriff’s own policies forbid male staff during women’s strip searches and forbid body cameras during them. Both rules were broken on May 22, on a supervisor’s order,” said Anthony Label, one of the women’s lead attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not rogue conduct. It is institutional policy, carried out by an agency that then punished the women who spoke up.”[aside postID=news_12084403 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260520-GGB-PROTEST-01-KQED.jpg']The lawsuit follows an official claim the women filed with the city in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s Office denied that male deputies strip-searched the women and said that the searches were conducted individually in a private setting. They said the Department of Police Accountability had conducted an investigation, and its findings were consistent with the Sheriff’s Office’s initial review. An administrative review process is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Sheriff’s Office has continued to work collaboratively with the Department on the Status of Women, the Human Rights Commission, the Department of Police Accountability, the Sheriff’s Oversight Board, the Public Defender’s Office, and other community stakeholders to review services and resources available to female inmates and identify opportunities to expand access to supportive programming and city services,” the department said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City attorney spokesperson Jen Kwart said the office would respond to the suit in court once it was filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges that women continued to be strip-searched following the May 22 incident, after court appearances, medical appointments and family visitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One woman alleges that in June 2025, she was subjected to an “orifice search,” and in July, women said that deputies used flashlights to illuminate the interior of their genitalia. Another plaintiff said that in September 2025, male deputies entered her hospital room while she received pelvic examinations and while she was breastfeeding her newborn son, despite medical personnel asking them to leave. According to the suit, the deputies said they were required to maintain a line of sight of the woman per the agency’s policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085080\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju speaks during a rally outside of San Francisco County Jail 2 on May 22, 2026, one year after women incarcerated at the jail alleged they were subjected to illegal strip searches by sheriff’s deputies in a women’s housing unit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the lawsuit, when two women organized others to file tort claims over the policy violations, they were placed in segregation, and that in November, Ibarra threatened to continue the searches if the women continued “disrespecting officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite their fear, despite the retaliation, despite the fact they have to be in the very county jail with the perpetrators who did this, they still are speaking out,” said Elizabeth Bertolino, another of the women’s attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not going away,” she said. “This is not going to be slipped under the rug. 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