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Police said he had previously been arrested for DUI in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta-Palacios did not suffer any major injuries, but he was taken to a hospital for an “unrelated medical issue” and will be booked into county jail upon his discharge, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation into the crash is still active.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan asked all community members to be mindful of the risks of dangerous driving or driving under the influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to look out for each other and honor the memory of Long and so many others like him in our community and across our country. Because if we don’t, we risk taking someone else’s life,” Mahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rest assured, the person responsible for Long’s death and Veronica’s injuries will be held accountable. This crime will not go unpunished. There will be justice for this reckless act,” Mahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident marks the first-ever line-of-duty death of a community service officer in the department’s history, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We pray it will be the last,” Joseph said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The closures could also have “cascading negative effects” on the broader county health system, a county report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates called on state officials, including Attorney General Rob Bonta, to intervene, though Bonta’s office has declined to comment on the situation other than to say it is reviewing the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital company said Friday that instead of eliminating its serious heart attack services, it is “revamping” its acute heart attack program “to feature around-the-clock cardiologist availability and a daytime catheterization laboratory.” The hospital currently has a full-time catheterization laboratory, where cardiologists insert catheters to help diagnose heart issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital will also operate a stroke center with “enhanced interventional capabilities to address the needs of 97% of stroke patients,” with the remaining patients expected to be transferred to other health care facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital statement didn’t clarify what specific level of service would ultimately be offered in the stroke center. 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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of hotel workers marched the streets of downtown San José Tuesday evening, calling for increased wages, affordable health care and job security from the chains that employ them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unionized workers include housekeepers, dishwashers, bellmen, front desk clerks, servers and engineers, among other critical service roles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are members of a local chapter of the massive hospitality union called Unite Here, which said the contracts for these workers expired in June with the management of five hotels in San José, including ones owned by Hilton, Marriott and Hyatt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-25-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996007\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-25-KQED.jpg\" alt='Several people hold signs that read \"One Job Should Be Enough\" and \"Respect Our Guests, Respect Our Work.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-25-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-25-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-25-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-25-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-25-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosa Lopez (center), a housekeeper of over 20 years, stands in front of the Marriott hotel during a march calling for better wages, more affordable health care and job security in San José on July 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am here because I want a fair contract,” Anamaria Rodriguez told KQED, speaking through a union organizer who translated her words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez has worked as a housekeeper at Hilton San José for 23 years, she said, and in recent years, the workload has increased for her, and she has too many rooms to clean each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposals have been put on the negotiating table, and I want to show the managers that we are here as a union in solidarity,” she said. “I hope that the company is listening to the workers because we are not going to give up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-24-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996006\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-24-KQED.jpg\" alt='A man wearing a black t-shirt that says \"Unite Here\" stands in front of a group of people holding signs near a hotel building.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-24-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-24-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-24-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-24-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of workers march in front of the Marriott hotel. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unite Here said there are about 650 workers employed by the San José hotels who are currently negotiating for a new contract. Across the U.S. and Canada, more than 40,000 hotel workers in more than 20 cities also have contracts up for renegotiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raquel Alvarez, president of Unite Here Local 19, said the union issued its first proposal to the hotels last week and expects to hear back in the next couple of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union said many hotels have maintained lower levels of staffing stemming from cuts made at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, even as profits have rebounded since 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers are upset about what the union described as heavy workloads, reduced hours, and pay that’s not enough to cover the cost of living in the pricey Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our workers are very proud of the services that they provide. They’re pushing themselves. They love their jobs,” Alvarez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that the march early in the negotiating process will help make sure that the hotel owners “take into consideration all the hard work that the workers do every single day to make sure that the guest is happy when they are here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the union’s biggest asks is for a “substantial” raise for workers. Alvarez said the average worker in their union is currently earning about $27 per hour, about $56,000 annually, while the median rent for a 1-bedroom apartment in the Bay Area is $2,925, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/bay-area-ca/?bedrooms=1\">Zillow\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is asking hotels to raise wages, restore pre-COVID staffing levels and guest services and offer protection against future cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hotels maintain a cooperative and productive relationship with Unite Here Local 19,” a spokesperson for Hilton told KQED in an emailed statement. “We remain committed to negotiating in good faith to reach a fair and reasonable agreement that is beneficial to both our valued team members and to our hotels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A roughly 10-month period of multiple strikes by hotel workers in Los Angeles and Orange counties wrapped up \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-05-24/more-striking-hotel-workers-edge-toward-finish-line-but-some-dtla-pasadena-hotels-hold-out\">earlier this year\u003c/a>, with as many as 15,000 workers seeking improved contracts from a bevy of hotels in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996003\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt='Several people with neon safety vests walk in the street holding signs that say \"Unite Here.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1288\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-1-KQED-800x515.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-1-KQED-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-1-KQED-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-1-KQED-1536x989.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-1-KQED-1920x1236.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers march in front of the Hilton San José. Unite Here says about 650 workers employed by the San José hotels that are currently negotiating a new contract. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Unite Here representatives involved in those negotiations said improved pay and benefits were at the core of newly inked deals, helping workers who keep the industry running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. hotel industry saw big rebounds in 2022 and subsequent years coming out of the pandemic. While occupancy rates overall were still below 2019 levels, the average daily room rates and revenue per available room were the highest for any year on record in 2022, according to data from Smith Travel Research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research group noted that even though the recovery for hotels has been uneven and not linear, the industry also saw year-over-year growth in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José, demand is at 95% of pre-pandemic levels, according to Frances Wong, the director of marketing for Team San José, a nonprofit tourism bureau for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-3-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996004\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Several people walk on a sidewalk in front of a building holding signs.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-3-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-3-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-3-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers march in front of the Hilton San José as hotel guests watch from above. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wong said more new hotels have recently opened outside of the downtown core, while full-service downtown hotel room inventory has contracted somewhat. While weekend demand is almost fully recovered, weekday bookings are still lagging due to slowdowns in business travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing rapid improvements year after year,” Wong said, noting San Jose is a top performer in Bay Area hotel demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorge Zamudio has worked at the former Fairmont Hotel, now Signia by Hilton, for nearly 36 years. He’s currently a server for banquets and other events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love my work, but I’m very concerned,” Zamudio said. He lived in San José for many years before moving to Modesto because it is more affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He still rents a room in San José some nights so he can get to work more easily, and plans to retire in December. But he said he is marching for his colleagues who are struggling to afford high rents and other necessities for their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hotels charge a lot for banquets, and they charge good money on the rooms. So the (staff) deserves better salary and better benefits,” Zamudio said. “Everything is getting expensive in San José, and it’s very hard for the people.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposals have been put on the negotiating table, and I want to show the managers that we are here as a union in solidarity,” she said. “I hope that the company is listening to the workers because we are not going to give up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-24-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996006\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-24-KQED.jpg\" alt='A man wearing a black t-shirt that says \"Unite Here\" stands in front of a group of people holding signs near a hotel building.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-24-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-24-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-24-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-24-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of workers march in front of the Marriott hotel. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unite Here said there are about 650 workers employed by the San José hotels who are currently negotiating for a new contract. Across the U.S. and Canada, more than 40,000 hotel workers in more than 20 cities also have contracts up for renegotiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raquel Alvarez, president of Unite Here Local 19, said the union issued its first proposal to the hotels last week and expects to hear back in the next couple of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union said many hotels have maintained lower levels of staffing stemming from cuts made at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, even as profits have rebounded since 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers are upset about what the union described as heavy workloads, reduced hours, and pay that’s not enough to cover the cost of living in the pricey Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our workers are very proud of the services that they provide. They’re pushing themselves. They love their jobs,” Alvarez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that the march early in the negotiating process will help make sure that the hotel owners “take into consideration all the hard work that the workers do every single day to make sure that the guest is happy when they are here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the union’s biggest asks is for a “substantial” raise for workers. Alvarez said the average worker in their union is currently earning about $27 per hour, about $56,000 annually, while the median rent for a 1-bedroom apartment in the Bay Area is $2,925, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/bay-area-ca/?bedrooms=1\">Zillow\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is asking hotels to raise wages, restore pre-COVID staffing levels and guest services and offer protection against future cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hotels maintain a cooperative and productive relationship with Unite Here Local 19,” a spokesperson for Hilton told KQED in an emailed statement. “We remain committed to negotiating in good faith to reach a fair and reasonable agreement that is beneficial to both our valued team members and to our hotels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A roughly 10-month period of multiple strikes by hotel workers in Los Angeles and Orange counties wrapped up \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-05-24/more-striking-hotel-workers-edge-toward-finish-line-but-some-dtla-pasadena-hotels-hold-out\">earlier this year\u003c/a>, with as many as 15,000 workers seeking improved contracts from a bevy of hotels in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996003\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt='Several people with neon safety vests walk in the street holding signs that say \"Unite Here.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1288\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-1-KQED-800x515.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-1-KQED-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-1-KQED-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-1-KQED-1536x989.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-1-KQED-1920x1236.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers march in front of the Hilton San José. Unite Here says about 650 workers employed by the San José hotels that are currently negotiating a new contract. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Unite Here representatives involved in those negotiations said improved pay and benefits were at the core of newly inked deals, helping workers who keep the industry running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. hotel industry saw big rebounds in 2022 and subsequent years coming out of the pandemic. While occupancy rates overall were still below 2019 levels, the average daily room rates and revenue per available room were the highest for any year on record in 2022, according to data from Smith Travel Research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research group noted that even though the recovery for hotels has been uneven and not linear, the industry also saw year-over-year growth in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José, demand is at 95% of pre-pandemic levels, according to Frances Wong, the director of marketing for Team San José, a nonprofit tourism bureau for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-3-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996004\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Several people walk on a sidewalk in front of a building holding signs.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-3-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-3-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240716_SANJOSEHOTELWORKERSMARCH_GC-3-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers march in front of the Hilton San José as hotel guests watch from above. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wong said more new hotels have recently opened outside of the downtown core, while full-service downtown hotel room inventory has contracted somewhat. While weekend demand is almost fully recovered, weekday bookings are still lagging due to slowdowns in business travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing rapid improvements year after year,” Wong said, noting San Jose is a top performer in Bay Area hotel demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorge Zamudio has worked at the former Fairmont Hotel, now Signia by Hilton, for nearly 36 years. He’s currently a server for banquets and other events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love my work, but I’m very concerned,” Zamudio said. He lived in San José for many years before moving to Modesto because it is more affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He still rents a room in San José some nights so he can get to work more easily, and plans to retire in December. But he said he is marching for his colleagues who are struggling to afford high rents and other necessities for their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hotels charge a lot for banquets, and they charge good money on the rooms. So the (staff) deserves better salary and better benefits,” Zamudio said. “Everything is getting expensive in San José, and it’s very hard for the people.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A high-profile recount \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984495/evan-low-takes-second-place-in-silicon-valley-congressional-race-after-recount-breaks-historic-tie\">that broke a tie in a Silicon Valley congressional election\u003c/a> was paid for by allies of former San José Mayor Sam Liccardo, according to new fundraising reports made public late Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo will face Assemblymember Evan Low in a head-to-head general election matchup after the recount broke \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981809/in-extraordinary-tie-evan-low-and-joe-simitian-both-advance-in-race-for-silicon-valley-house-seat\">a deadlock for second place\u003c/a> in the primary between Low and Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recount organizers have denied any collaboration with Liccardo, stating they initiated the new count to ensure a proper tally and prevent a three-candidate general election in which only a plurality of votes would be needed to win the seat. But the latest filings show that only Liccardo supporters rallied to the recount fundraising cause — suggesting that they may have seen a political advantage for their candidate if the recount narrowed the field to two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast:\u003c/strong> The reports are the first fundraising disclosures from Count the Vote, the political committee that financed the recount. The recount occurred over 13 days in parts of San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, requiring election workers to rescan ballots. During the process, officials added ballots that were erroneously left out of the initial count and removed ballots that were counted twice by mistake. As a result of the recount, Low moved ahead of Simitian by five votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Driving the story: \u003c/strong>The recount was marked with intrigue and recriminations between the Low campaign and the backers of the recount. It was requested by Jonathan Padilla, a former Liccardo staffer, leading to accusations and ethics complaints that the campaign and recount group were illegally coordinating, which both have denied. Low, meanwhile, opposed the recount, and his lawyers pushed to stop it from taking place. California does not have a law triggering automatic recounts, but any voter in the district can request one – and must place a daily deposit to cover the costs of the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By the numbers: \u003c/strong>Count the Vote reported raising $271,500 through June 30 and spending $268,000 on recount costs and legal fees. A pro-Liccardo super PAC called Neighbors for Results gave $102,000 to the recount effort. Neighbors for Results received significant funding from former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whom Liccardo endorsed in his 2020 run for president. Chris Larsen, the former CEO of Ripple Labs who has endorsed Liccardo’s congressional run, contributed $100,000 to the recount. Other backers include Padilla, along with Nick Josefowitz, a former BART director, and Daniel J. Warmenhoven, the former CEO of NetApp. All three had previously donated to Liccardo’s campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What they’re saying: \u003c/strong>The Low campaign blasted the recount on Tuesday as “nothing more than a dirty trick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s now clear Liccardo’s billionaire donors funded it, which hamstrung our fundraising and gave Trump Republicans a playbook to continue to undermine our democracy,” the campaign said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the recount committee’s goals and the donors being Liccardo supporters, Padilla said, “Counting votes matters, and Evan tried to stop it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Evan’s a hypocrite because he wants immediate disclosure of donors to recount committees but not to special interest IE [independent expenditure] committees that spent $750K on him,” Padilla added. “We need people of substance and not glib showmen to ensure the promise of our democracy endures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s next:\u003c/strong> The race between Liccardo and Low will be one of the most closely watched elections in the Bay Area this November. The winner will hold a reliably blue seat with no term limits — and could instantly become a sought-after voice in Congress on issues related to Silicon Valley. Before Monday’s disclosure deadline, Liccardo reported bringing in more than $1.6 million in the second quarter, while Low raised $751,279.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sam’s strong support from the people of this district is a testament to his record as an effective independent leader and to our community’s demands for Congress to get moving,” said Gil Rubinstein, spokesperson for the Liccardo campaign, in a statement. “In contrast, Evan Low does what all establishment, insider-funded candidates do: fundraising in Washington D.C., Sacramento and L.A. because he cannot generate meaningful support from the people he’s represented for a decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest round of fundraising left Liccardo with $1.9 million and Low with $846,497 on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José’s long-running and recently refreshed waterpark is set to open on the Fourth of July amid a punishing heat wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The waterpark formerly known as Raging Waters, a city-owned facility that has operated annually for nearly four decades, is reopening under new management as CaliBunga Waterpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opening couldn’t come a moment too soon, with temperatures in the city set to reach 100 degrees on Thursday and remain in the mid-90s through the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re in the high 90s or 100 degrees, it’s usually our peak attendance because where else would you want to be than a water park?” Mel Sells, CaliBunga’s general manager, told KQED. “So we’re gearing up and looking forward to a busy weekend ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CaliBunga’s opening was initially slated for June 29, but park officials said some last-minute electrical equipment failures pushed the schedule back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we rebuilt 14 of the 22 pumps and replaced every piece of kitchen equipment in here, and made major changes to the water supplies and the sewer, some of the equipment is just old, and once we turned everything on, it gave up, so we had to go back in,” CEO Steve Dooner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of like the movie \u003cem>The Money Pit\u003c/em>. Every time you turn something on, something else breaks,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Dooner said the park’s new operators, a private investment group based in Sacramento called California Dreamin’ Entertainment Inc., have put about $6.5 million into making repairs, upgrades and touch-ups to help refresh the park and make it run smoothly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New paint has been applied, new furniture is being put in place, including cabanas, umbrellas, shade structures, and hundreds of new lounge chairs, and the attractions including slides, rivers and pools have been checked closely for function and safety, Dooner and Sells said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regulars will notice we have gone through and reinforced all the structural aspects of all the towers and attractions. So where the staircases used to be wobbly in the past, they’re rigid, all the mounts that the slides are on have been reinforced, and basically, it’s been set up to last for another 25 years,” Dooner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two rides won’t be available on opening day due to ongoing upgrades, including Barracuda, a raft ride planned to open later this month, Sells said, and the Bombs Away ride will open next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve just been working around the clock to get the park open, and we’re excited to welcome the San José area,” Sells said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raging Waters closed in September, as its parent company, Palace Entertainment, walked away early from their lease with the city after running the park since 1985. The company also gave up operations of the Raging Waters location in Sacramento at the state’s Cal Expo site in 2022, where Dooner said California Dreamin’ is eventually planning to completely demolish the prior park and rebuild a new park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palace still owns Raging Waters Los Angeles in San Dimas, Los Angeles County, Dooner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CaliBunga, at 2333 S White Rd., spans about 23 acres on a portion of the city’s Lake Cunningham property. In late February, the city council voted to award California Dreamin’ a temporary contract to run the park through September 2025, with an option to extend it by six months after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city will collect rent from the park operators equal to 6% of total sales. In the first year, California Dreamin’ expects to have total sales of about $6.4 million, city reports said. If California Dreamin’ hits its revenue goals, the city could see $350,000 in rent payments and an estimated nearly $50,000 in additional income from parking fees, all of which the city said will go to operations, maintenance and improvements to Lake Cunningham Regional Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late 2024 or early 2025, the city council plans to consider proposals from contractors to operate the park for a longer-term lease, including California Dreamin’, city reports said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"science_1993132,news_11886628,news_11878134\"]Other upgrades to the park are envisioned for the future if CaliBunga can secure the long-term contract, Dooner said, including expansions of attractions and dining offerings, a surf pool and lighting for after-hours operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to submitting regular financial reports to the city, California Dreamin’ must also hand over all “state safety inspection reports to ensure all attractions are maintained and safe for operations,” city reports said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sells, the general manager, said the park has undergone inspections by structural engineers to ensure safety and received permits from the state to operate the rides, and has also updated its permits with the county for all the pools and food and beverage services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daily admission tickets for CaliBunga can be purchased in advance online or at the entry gate, though prices are lower online, and there are also season passes available for purchase, for those planning to attend more often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park will be open daily through July, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and open on weekends in August and September, Sells said. 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It was pretty amazing; he was a very remarkable guy,” Fukuda said. “There’ll be a long time before there’s another person like him, I’ll say that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the direction of the man known as Sensei Uchida, Coach Uchida, or more affectionately, “Yosh,” San José State has dominated judo since the early 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When judo made its Olympic debut at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games, Uchida coached the inaugural U.S. team. Since then, 22 San José State Spartans from several different countries and territories have emerged as Olympians from the school’s judo program, with four collecting medals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was so proud to be the first judo coach for the United States, and especially for the Japanese Americans who endured so much. 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He grew up in Garden Grove, and in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660424/san-joses-own-grandfather-of-judo-still-kicking-at-98\">a 2018 interview with KQED\u003c/a>, he said his parents noticed his zeal for American culture. They introduced him to judo as a way to connect him with his heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not learning any Japanese culture. They said, ‘We gotta change that!’” Uchida said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a freshman at San José State in 1940, Uchida obliged a request to teach judo as a student coach, which he did for two years before being drafted into the Army during World War II. While he was on duty, his own family was being separated and put into incarceration camps across the American West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After returning in 1947, he helped San José State organize and sponsor the first nationwide Amateur Athletic Union championship in 1953. Since then, San José State has won more competitions than university clubs in the rest of the country combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While supporting the growth of judo, Uchida also studied biology at the university, graduating in 1947. He worked as a laboratory technician at O’Connor Hospital and then at San José Hospital and eventually bought a medical lab, growing the business before selling it more than 30 years later, according to the federation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uchida gave back to his community, helping students when needed and he “became a driving force in investing more than $80 million into housing and commercial businesses to revitalize San José’s Japantown,” Tenitente-Matson said. He also founded the Japanese American Chamber of Silicon Valley in 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He founded the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjbjudo.org/\">San José Buddhist Judo Club\u003c/a> because Japanese Americans were discriminated against and frequently barred from patronizing local gyms and health clubs, Dan Kikuchi, an instructor at the club, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kikuchi grew up with Uchida as a neighbor, later becoming his student, family friend and mentee. He worked with him as a judo teacher at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was all about bringing rights and recognition to a generation that were interned in camps, their own sons had to serve in the U.S. military. And coming out of that, there was so much prejudice against them,” Kikuchi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kikuchi recalled when he fought in the 1974 national collegiate championship judo competition. Under Uchida, the San José State team had a 12-year consecutive winning streak on the line, and they were struggling in the final rounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these coaches were yelling and jeering at him saying, ‘You’re finished, you’re done.” Kikuchi began to cry as he remembered feeling like he and his teammates had let Uchida down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kikuchi said Uchida proudly ignored the other coaches while walking through the gym, and it inspired Kikuchi and two others to win their matches, catapulting the team into another title.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s always kept his head up, always forged ahead and said, ‘You know, we could do this, we could do this.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uchida in 2018 said he believes sports can help people grow outside the dojo as well. “As students work out and get better and better, it gives confidence to push forward,” the coach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outpourings of love, admiration and respect were spreading across social media on Friday from people who knew Uchida, and who were coached by him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has impacted so many aspects of not only USA Judo, but the world wide Judo,” David Williams, a former student of Uchida’s, judo coach, and San José State professor, wrote in an Instagram tribute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is okay to be sad to a degree, but I would hope that we would decide it is better to applaud all the wonderful things he has done and the lives that he has influenced and mentored,” Williams wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arash Soofiani, a former student of Uchida and the owner of Westside Judo in Southern California, thanked Uchida in an Instagram post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What a legendary life. 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Later that year, he was declared “factually innocent” by the \u003ca href=\"https://ncip.org/lionel-rubalcava/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Clara County Superior Court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/29/san-jose-man-exonerated-after-17-years-behind-bars-sues-for-wrongful-conviction/\">Rubalcava sued the city in 2020\u003c/a>, claiming he was wrongfully convicted. His attorneys said the conviction was based largely on the identifications San Jose police garnered by threatening, pressuring and coercing witnesses, including the victim of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are supposed to be able to trust police officers for our protection and safety,” Rubalcava said in a statement on Tuesday. “In my case, the San José Police Department singled me out and framed me for a crime I didn’t commit. My family and I are grateful we can now put this nightmare behind us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no physical evidence or motive tying Rubalcava to the 2002 shooting on Mastic Street, south of downtown, that left a man paralyzed. He was convicted despite his strong alibi, backed by cell phone data, that he was headed to a date in Hollister when the shooting occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rubalcava’s attorneys asserted in the lawsuit that police investigators “fabricated police reports” that claimed three witnesses identified him “instantaneously and without any police suggestion.” In reality, “none of the witnesses independently made positive identifications of anyone, let alone the innocent Rubalcava,” his attorneys argued.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"san-jose-police\"]Witnesses also later admitted that police pressured them to make their statements, the lawsuit claimed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Brustin, one of Rubalcava’s attorneys, called his client an amazing and resilient person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all the things that he has been through, a lot of people would have lost hope and would be angry. He’s none of those things,” Brustin said. “He came out of prison and completely rebuilt his life. 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So to be able to see this resolve for him is just an incredible feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city attempted to have the entire case thrown out, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/san-jose-cops-to-face-trial-on-falsifying-evidence-claims/\">a federal judge in March\u003c/a> allowed the lawsuit against San José Police Detective Joe Perez and Officers Steven Spillman and Topui Fonua, who investigated the case, to go to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A jury reasonably could infer that Perez, Fonua, and Spillman falsified the police reports for the purpose of depriving Rubalcava of constitutional rights,” U.S. District Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman noted in her March order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city strongly believes the officers who investigated this case did so objectively and fairly,” San José City Attorney Nora Frimann said in an email on Tuesday after the vote. “Unfortunately, police officers often become the object of blame and are really the only people in the system against whom a lawsuit can be brought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frimann said because the monetary awards in wrongful conviction cases “have the potential to have a devastating impact to city budgets, it is prudent for cities to manage these claims by resolving them as best they can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brustin said the money compensates Rubalcava for all he has been through and will help him readjust to his new life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to acknowledge that the city has finally done the right thing and has compensated Lionel, and that sends a strong message both on his innocence and what happened to him,” Brustin said. “But for many years, they fought tooth and nail, wouldn’t concede his innocence, attacked him and his character in ways that just were not helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brustin said the large payout should be painful for the city and should push its leaders to openly assess their internal practices to identify systemic issues that may have affected other cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frimann said in the years since the Rubalcava’s criminal trial, “investigative techniques and practices have evolved and changed, but not in response to this case.” She said the review by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office that led to Rubalcava being found factually innocent “did not conclude that police acted wrongfully.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara University law professor Linda Starr, co-founder of the Northern California Innocence Project, who oversaw research on Rubalcava’s case, said she is extremely happy this long and arduous chapter in his life is finally over, though she is cognizant that no amount of money can give back so much lost time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s a wonderful thing,” Starr said. “It’s time for him to be able to just live his life.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Because transit connectivity creates opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990510\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan said transit projects take collective effort and vision to complete during a groundbreaking event for VTA’s BART Silicon Valley Phase II project in Santa Clara on Friday. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The project has faced significant timeline delays and massive cost increases long before any of the golden-colored shovels wielded by politicians and project leaders hit the ground on Friday in the hot sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An original VTA estimate in 2014 put the project cost at $4.7 billion, hoping to open the new stations to riders by 2026, which is more than two-and-a-half times cheaper than the current estimate and about 11 years sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2020 and 2021, the cost increased to $6.9 billion, then to $9.1 billion, in part due to evaluations from federal officials overseeing the project. VTA later revised its own estimate to $12.2 billion in October 2023, and another federal estimate earlier this year pegged the current cost and timeline, which VTA has not refuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11989983,news_11988365,news_11986396\"]But local and regional leaders have largely held firm in calling for the project to push ahead, despite the hurdles and fumbles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t imagine what our valley will look like in 50 or 100 years, but we can be confident that connecting rail around the Bay and helping millions of people access the heart of Silicon Valley, where most of the region’s growth is expected to happen in the coming decades, is going to create opportunity for so many,” Mahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to a new BART station, the site of the groundbreaking in Santa Clara near the border of San José is where a huge hole will be dug to eventually allow a $76 million tunnel boring machine being assembled in Germany to be dropped into the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once in place, it will begin eating away at millions of cubic yards of dirt to make way for the largely underground extension. 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"content": "\u003cp>As the planned closure of the only trauma center on the east side of Santa Clara County draws nearer, a coalition of health care workers, advocates and community leaders are ramping up their efforts to halt it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backed by thousands of people who have signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/stop-closure-of-trauma-comp-stroke-code-heart-at-regional-med-ctr-san-jose-immediately\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an online petition\u003c/a>, the group is urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to step in and prevent what they call the life-threatening closure of the trauma center and other service cuts at Regional Medical Center, a hospital in East San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a choice but to fight,” Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez said Thursday at a rally just steps from the entrance to Regional Medical Center. “Because if the state understood the impacts to this community, they already would have weighed in to say no to HCA removing these critical services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990292\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990292\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez speaks at a rally outside Regional Medical Center in East San José on Thursday. Chavez and a coalition of advocates are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to halt the closure of the hospital’s trauma center. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hospital’s ownership group, Hospital Corporation of America, or HCA Healthcare, is planning on Aug. 12 to shutter the Level II trauma center at Regional and eliminate its ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) program, which handles severe heart attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also plans to downgrade its stroke services from the “comprehensive” level, which can care for all types of stroke patients and has 24/7 availability for complex neurosurgery, to “primary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of staff members, including surgeons, doctors and other medical personnel at the hospital, recently started receiving termination notices tied to the planned cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the closure were to proceed, patients who needed such services would need to be transported to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, run by the county, or Stanford Hospital, which would have a “negative cascading effect” on the county health care system, the county said previously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The calls on Thursday to halt the cuts follow earlier requests by the group and county officials asking \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987665/advocates-urge-state-to-intervene-in-closure-of-san-jose-trauma-center\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Attorney General Rob Bonta\u003c/a> and the California Department of Public Health to investigate the planned cuts and to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general’s office on Thursday said it is reviewing the matter but is unable to comment on a potential or ongoing investigation “to protect its integrity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Governor’s office deferred comment to the California Health and Human Services Agency, who did not immediately respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez, as well as other elected leaders, doctors, nurses and patient advocates, are raising alarms over the cuts, which they say will lead to more deaths and worse health outcomes for people all over the region who rely on the critical services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990289\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990289\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Regional Medical Center in East San José is planning to close its trauma center and cut back other critical services on Aug. 12. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The changes happening are discriminatory, the group said, as they will hit hardest in the area around the hospital, an area of the county with larger proportions of families with low income and of people of color who are more likely to have a harder time accessing health care in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, on the west side of San José, HCA is planning a major expansion and remodel of its Good Samaritan Hospital near the Cambrian Park neighborhood, where there are more hospitals to address health care needs in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“HCA has yet again decided to place profits over patients,” Melissa Gong, a registered nurse at Regional Medical Center, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said many East San José residents have no insurance or are underinsured, have lower health literacy, and often face language barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a result, many of these patients have chronic health conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes, and resulting comorbidities. All comorbidities that require the use of stroke, STEMI, and trauma services,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement issued Thursday, Carmella Gutierrez, a spokesperson for HCA’s Far West Division, said the campaign against the hospital is choosing “exaggeration to generate a false fear” in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990293\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990293\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Diangson, a member of Defensoras, a patient organizing committee with health nonprofit Latinas Contra Cancer, speaks at a rally outside Regional Medical Center in East San José on June 13. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Supervisor Cindy Chavez knows better. Yet, she has chosen to divide the community with grand-standing photo ops rather than engage in a conversation about sustainable healthcare and the facts,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HCA said in a letter to the county’s emergency services department that it has seen a 38% reduction in patients at Regional Medical Center’s trauma center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while a county report said the trauma center handles an average of 2,450 trauma patients annually, about a quarter of all reported trauma cases for the trauma system in the county, HCA disagreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reported volumes in the County’s impact statement are overstated and do not align with the reality at RMC,” the letter from HCA said. “We average four trauma patients per day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990290\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990290\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advocates pushing to stop the closure of Regional Medical Center’s trauma center carry a box made to look like a casket just outside the hospital in East San José on June 13. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The company also said that the county’s requirements for operating the trauma center are costly because they go beyond what the American College of Surgeons recommends, including having a neurological surgery backup physician, more training and education for physicians and nurses, and higher fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital also said it expects to lose more trauma patients as Washington Hospital in Fremont, in Alameda County, comes online as a trauma center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gong, the nurse, said HCA calling the campaign to stop the cuts exaggerated is deflecting from the heart of the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re gaslighting everybody,” Gong said. “We’re going to cut all the services that treat this side of town and underserved populations. And then when people fight back, we’re going to say, ‘Oh, but you’re upset that we’re taking away your services, well it’s how you’re receiving it, not what we’re doing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11987665,news_11988440\"]During the rally on Thursday, members of the coalition enacted a “funeral procession,” carrying black boxes made to look like caskets for 15 minutes near the hospital. The procession symbolizes the extra time it might take a patient to reach another trauma center in an emergency if the Regional Medical Center’s trauma center closes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Raj Gupta, the head of neurology and stroke services at the hospital, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988440/advocates-protest-planned-closure-of-east-san-jose-trauma-center\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who has spoken out\u003c/a> against the cuts, said he doesn’t like the greediness of HCA Healthcare, which made $5.2 billion in profit last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his colleagues are participating in the rallies to try to stop them or, at minimum, raise awareness of the cuts that could be coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can close my eyes and let it happen, right?” he said. “But the public will not know until Aug. 12, when a crisis occurs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the closure were to proceed, patients who needed such services would need to be transported to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, run by the county, or Stanford Hospital, which would have a “negative cascading effect” on the county health care system, the county said previously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The calls on Thursday to halt the cuts follow earlier requests by the group and county officials asking \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987665/advocates-urge-state-to-intervene-in-closure-of-san-jose-trauma-center\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Attorney General Rob Bonta\u003c/a> and the California Department of Public Health to investigate the planned cuts and to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general’s office on Thursday said it is reviewing the matter but is unable to comment on a potential or ongoing investigation “to protect its integrity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Governor’s office deferred comment to the California Health and Human Services Agency, who did not immediately respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez, as well as other elected leaders, doctors, nurses and patient advocates, are raising alarms over the cuts, which they say will lead to more deaths and worse health outcomes for people all over the region who rely on the critical services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990289\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990289\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Regional Medical Center in East San José is planning to close its trauma center and cut back other critical services on Aug. 12. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The changes happening are discriminatory, the group said, as they will hit hardest in the area around the hospital, an area of the county with larger proportions of families with low income and of people of color who are more likely to have a harder time accessing health care in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, on the west side of San José, HCA is planning a major expansion and remodel of its Good Samaritan Hospital near the Cambrian Park neighborhood, where there are more hospitals to address health care needs in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“HCA has yet again decided to place profits over patients,” Melissa Gong, a registered nurse at Regional Medical Center, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said many East San José residents have no insurance or are underinsured, have lower health literacy, and often face language barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a result, many of these patients have chronic health conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes, and resulting comorbidities. All comorbidities that require the use of stroke, STEMI, and trauma services,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement issued Thursday, Carmella Gutierrez, a spokesperson for HCA’s Far West Division, said the campaign against the hospital is choosing “exaggeration to generate a false fear” in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990293\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990293\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Diangson, a member of Defensoras, a patient organizing committee with health nonprofit Latinas Contra Cancer, speaks at a rally outside Regional Medical Center in East San José on June 13. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Supervisor Cindy Chavez knows better. 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