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"content": "\u003cp>Ask any gardener: Nothing tastes so sweet as something you grew yourself, even in the big city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Silicon Valley was paved over with concrete, it was the Valley of Heart’s Delight, boasting some of the world’s richest topsoil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there’s poetic irony in the fact that some techies can’t wait to get their hands in that soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s just soothing. It’s healing,\" says PayPal cloud manager Anant Kumar. He bought a home in San Jose in 2000. He tore out the grass straight away and planted a garden. \"I started out with what was easy: pumpkins, squashes, zucchinis, tomatoes, chili peppers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anant Kumar originally hails from the big city of New Delhi, in India, but his father grew up on a farm. Bitter melons – a taste of Kumar's home – are coming soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-118496\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Valley Verde is offering workshops for beginning urban gardeners, as well as seedlings to re-plant back home.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25757_Photo-May-25-11-43-22-AM-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valley Verde is offering workshops for beginning urban gardeners, as well as seedlings to re-plant back home. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You saute them with a few onions, maybe add a little bit of mango powder. You got to try it!\" Kumar insists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kumar is keen to spread the good word about gardening. Along with several PayPal colleagues, he volunteered to build a greenhouse for a San Jose non-profit called \u003ca href=\"http://www.valleyverde.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Valley Verde\u003c/a>, which helps low-income families grow their own food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent sunny day, the group celebrated the greenhouse’s grand opening in San Jose’s first “urban agriculture incentive zone.” What was a used car lot is now covered with raised planting beds and stacks of bagged soil. \"It looks amazing,\" Kumar gushes, \"and I think we need more of this in the city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are workshops for beginners, and seedlings to replant back home. Property owner Thang Do says he does intend to develop on the land eventually, but in the meantime, he’s game to lend the land to gardeners. \"I mean, what’s not to like about this?\" he asks, rhetorically, before acknowledging, \"The city and the county take a hit on something like this because they’re giving landowners like me a property tax break.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-118498 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut.jpg\" alt='Thang Do addresses a crowd that gathered for the grand opening of the greenhouse on his property. He plans to develop after five years but is happy to let Valley Verde have the run of the place before then. 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He plans to develop on the land after five years, but is happy to let Valley Verde have the run of the place before then. Do says \"At a time when national politics is so divisive, nice to see local community come together.\" \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State law \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Assembly-bill-would-extend-tax-break-to-turn-10963151.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">changed in 2014\u003c/a> to incentivize landowners like Do by assessing the property value as relatively cheap farmland – not pricey downtown lots. But the concept is taking more time than anticipated to take root. It’s taken years to get counties and cities to make the necessary local rule changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s frustrating how long it takes because it seems like a no-brainer. It seems like you could just make it happen. But government is government,\" Do says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is it worth the bother? 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Property owner Thang Do says he does intend to develop on the land eventually, but in the meantime, he’s game to lend the land to gardeners. \"I mean, what’s not to like about this?\" he asks, rhetorically, before acknowledging, \"The city and the county take a hit on something like this because they’re giving landowners like me a property tax break.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-118498 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/RS25756_Photo-May-25-11-42-46-AM-qut.jpg\" alt='Thang Do addresses a crowd that gathered for the grand opening of the greenhouse on his property. He plans to develop after five years but is happy to let Valley Verde have the run of the place before then. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:55 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Most of the 14,000 people forced to leave their homes by flooding southeast of downtown San Jose have been allowed to go home, city officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city said Thursday morning that about 3,800 people from 1,100 residences are still under mandatory evacuation orders as crews work to pump water out of their inundated neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city announced that much of an area west and north of a mandatory evacuation zone north of Interstate 280 and west of U.S. 101 had escaped serious flooding, and residents there were allowed to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But three areas remain evacuated — \u003ca href=\"http://sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/66354\" target=\"_blank\">see the city’s official map\u003c/a> — as authorities try to drain standing water left behind after Coyote Creek, swollen with floodwater spilling from Anderson Reservoir, overflowed on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those neighborhoods include the neighborhood immediately surrounding William Street Park, just south of downtown; the Rock Springs area, where flooding first occurred Tuesday afternoon; and three mobile home parks near Old Oakland Road in north San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the three areas still under mandatory evacuation orders, Rock Springs appeared to be the hardest hit. Floodwaters were the deepest there, and a sewage pumping station that serves the neighborhood was inundated and knocked out of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials say they expect the bill for repairs to flooded property to be in the tens of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> program Thursday morning, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said the city needs to work with the Santa Clara Valley Water District, which operates Anderson Reservoir, to find out why the available streamflow data for Coyote Creek failed to alert officials to the potential for widespread flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some technical issues that need to be resolved, and we need to figure quickly, because I know rains will continue this season,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Fiedler, the water district’s chief operating officer, also appeared on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>. He disputed suggestions that his agency was responsible for stream conditions near Rock Springs that some city officials have said may have contributed to flooding there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The particular stretch around one of those areas in question is property that’s not owned by the water district,” Fiedler said. “The area by Rock Springs in fact is owned by the city of San Jose. In fact, much of the stream land … unless there’s been improvements made over the years, are not owned by the district, so we don’t regularly maintain those.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:10 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> City officials say they’re going house to house in neighborhoods inundated by floodwaters late Tuesday and early Wednesday to assess the extent of damage and decide when residents can return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire Department and other city crews are also pumping water out of mobile home parks and other areas where water that surged outside the banks of Coyote Creek has not receded naturally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the city has issued \u003ca href=\"http://sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/66339\" target=\"_blank\">a checklist\u003c/a> of procedures for residents when they return to flooded homes, officials still haven’t said when the 14,000 people forced to leave their homes will be able to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be people allowed to return tonight,” said Dave Sykes, director of the city’s emergency operations center. Those areas cleared for residents to return would be posted on the city’s website, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those evacuated were from three areas, the city said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Mobile home parks near Old Oakland Road: South Bay Mobile Home Park, Golden Wheel, and River Bend Mobile Home Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Neighborhoods near Williams Street Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rock Springs neighborhood\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Assistant Fire Chief Robert Sapien said continuing concern about water that had been contaminated as it flowed the 30 miles from over-full Anderson Reservoir to San Francisco Bay was cited as the chief reason the mandatory evacuation order was still in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water between Anderson Lake to the end point of the bay in San Jose means it has traveled through every product source available between those two points,” Sapien said. “That includes vehicle fuels, oils, any homes that may have had pesticides, any sewage backups that may have occurred, anything that was in the creekways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sapien advised anyone who comes into contact with the water to wash thoroughly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other developments:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The city said it would maintain emergency shelters at Evergreen High School and James Lick High School. Two other shelters were closed because they were lightly used, officials said.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The San Jose Water Co., which provides drinking water to the inundated area, advised customers its supplies are uncontaminated and safe to consume.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The city of San Jose has established a fund to help those affected by the flood. Donations can be made through the San Jose mayor’s office — or \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjmayor.org\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.sjmayor.org\u003c/a> — or the Silicon Valley Community Foundation — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sjflood\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sjflood\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:20 p.m.:\u003c/strong> San Jose officials say residents forced to leave their homes late Tuesday and early Wednesday by inundation along Coyote Creek should not return immediately because of concern about contaminated floodwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water is not safe,” Mayor Sam Liccardo said during a media briefing Wednesday morning. “There is contamination in this water, and the contamination runs the gamut” from gasoline and oil to raw sewage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not safe for people to go into the water to go back to their homes,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the city was looking at whether it had done enough to alert residents along the path of the creek, which overflowed because of flood releases from the Santa Clara County Water District’s Anderson Reservoir, that they might have to evacuate their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the first time that a resident is aware that they need to get out of a home is when they see a firefighter in a boat, then clearly there’s been a failure,” Liccardo said. “We are assessing what it is that happened that led to that failure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor said about 400 residents had been rescued from their homes by emergency crews in boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials expressed uncertainty about exactly why the flooding happened when and where it happened. From \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/22/san-jose-flood-update-mandatory-evacuations-expand-overnight-about-14000-affected/\" target=\"_blank\">the San Jose Mercury News account\u003c/a> of their remarks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Assistant City Manager Dave Sykes said the breach of the creek Tuesday morning in the Rock Springs neighborhood near Kelley Park “happened at a flow level much below the capacity of the channel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the issue we need to investigate,” Sykes said. “We were not anticipating flows to come out of the channel at that time. So we need to figure out what went on. Were there blockages? What were the issues that contributed to flows coming out of the channel at that point?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sykes later added: “We weren’t expecting to have issues at Rock Springs for many, many hours, and we certainly weren’t expecting Rock Springs to be the first place we had issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said “clearly there was a failure” leading to the unprecedented flooding that left some homes in nearly eight feet of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One failure, according to the mayor, is the city was told by the Santa Clara Valley Water District that the area wouldn’t flood unless water flow topped 7,400 cubic feet per second. But waters began creeping into neighborhoods well before that level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re learning is the data’s wrong and we need to understand why that is,” Liccardo told this news organization following a press conference Wednesday. “Obviously that’s something we need to undertake in partnership with other agencies that have the experts. We don’t have the hydrologists. They do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachael Gibson, the district’s emergency operations center spokeswoman, said that model was based on “best available data,” and hydrologists were analyzing flow rates Wednesday afternoon. They did not immediately know what rate was reached on Tuesday and Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gibson added that other factors are tough or impossible to predict, such as blockages in the creek that could affect capacity.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Thousands of San Jose residents and city officials are facing a massive cleanup after overnight flooding along Coyote Creek prompted emergency evacuations in neighborhoods along the stream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although waters were slowly receding by dawn Wednesday, flooding was still a concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although the rain has largely stopped, flooding is continuing along Coyote Creek as reservoirs continue to spill and creek flow is extremely high,” said Cheryl Wessling, a spokeswoman for the city’s Emergency Operations Center, in an email early Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those high flows, which flooded the Rock Springs neighborhood southeast of downtown Tuesday afternoon, led to a 12:15 a.m. evacuation order covering about 14,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city set up evacuation centers at the Mayfair and Shirakawa community centers, overnight shelters at Evergreen Valley and James Lick high schools, and winter warming centers at four library branches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inundation follows weeks of storms that have slammed the region. The last system in the most recent series of storms, on Presidents Day, hit the South Bay with particularly heavy rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deluges have filled Anderson Reservoir to capacity, causing water to rush down the dam’s spillway and into Coyote Creek. The stream flows through neighborhoods in South San Jose, then east of downtown to the bayside community of Alviso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High water flooded a wide area southeast, east and northeast of downtown and prompted the 12:15 a.m. evacuation order for the area adjacent to Coyote Creek north of Interstate 280, west of U.S. 101 and south of Highway 237.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flooding forced the closure of more than a dozen roads, including both directions of 101 between I-280 and I-880.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Valley Water District officials said Wednesday morning that their crews had completed temporary repairs to Coyote Canal, work that was aimed at preventing more flooding onto 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The expanded evacuation orders early Wednesday came hours after fire crews rushed to rescue hundreds of people in the city’s Rock Springs neighborhood, where homes and cars were inundated under several feet of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11328231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11328231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-800x1035.jpg\" alt=\"City of San Jose map showing area where evacuations were ordered after Coyote Creek flooded. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-160x207.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-960x1242.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-240x311.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-375x485.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-520x673.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap.jpg 989w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City of San Jose map showing area where evacuations were ordered after Coyote Creek flooded.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have specific numbers for other water rescue operations, but I can tell you in my career this is probably the biggest,” San Jose Fire Department Capt. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:55 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Most of the 14,000 people forced to leave their homes by flooding southeast of downtown San Jose have been allowed to go home, city officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city said Thursday morning that about 3,800 people from 1,100 residences are still under mandatory evacuation orders as crews work to pump water out of their inundated neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city announced that much of an area west and north of a mandatory evacuation zone north of Interstate 280 and west of U.S. 101 had escaped serious flooding, and residents there were allowed to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But three areas remain evacuated — \u003ca href=\"http://sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/66354\" target=\"_blank\">see the city’s official map\u003c/a> — as authorities try to drain standing water left behind after Coyote Creek, swollen with floodwater spilling from Anderson Reservoir, overflowed on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those neighborhoods include the neighborhood immediately surrounding William Street Park, just south of downtown; the Rock Springs area, where flooding first occurred Tuesday afternoon; and three mobile home parks near Old Oakland Road in north San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the three areas still under mandatory evacuation orders, Rock Springs appeared to be the hardest hit. Floodwaters were the deepest there, and a sewage pumping station that serves the neighborhood was inundated and knocked out of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials say they expect the bill for repairs to flooded property to be in the tens of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> program Thursday morning, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said the city needs to work with the Santa Clara Valley Water District, which operates Anderson Reservoir, to find out why the available streamflow data for Coyote Creek failed to alert officials to the potential for widespread flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some technical issues that need to be resolved, and we need to figure quickly, because I know rains will continue this season,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Fiedler, the water district’s chief operating officer, also appeared on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>. He disputed suggestions that his agency was responsible for stream conditions near Rock Springs that some city officials have said may have contributed to flooding there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The particular stretch around one of those areas in question is property that’s not owned by the water district,” Fiedler said. “The area by Rock Springs in fact is owned by the city of San Jose. In fact, much of the stream land … unless there’s been improvements made over the years, are not owned by the district, so we don’t regularly maintain those.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:10 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> City officials say they’re going house to house in neighborhoods inundated by floodwaters late Tuesday and early Wednesday to assess the extent of damage and decide when residents can return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire Department and other city crews are also pumping water out of mobile home parks and other areas where water that surged outside the banks of Coyote Creek has not receded naturally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the city has issued \u003ca href=\"http://sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/66339\" target=\"_blank\">a checklist\u003c/a> of procedures for residents when they return to flooded homes, officials still haven’t said when the 14,000 people forced to leave their homes will be able to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be people allowed to return tonight,” said Dave Sykes, director of the city’s emergency operations center. Those areas cleared for residents to return would be posted on the city’s website, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those evacuated were from three areas, the city said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Mobile home parks near Old Oakland Road: South Bay Mobile Home Park, Golden Wheel, and River Bend Mobile Home Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Neighborhoods near Williams Street Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rock Springs neighborhood\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Assistant Fire Chief Robert Sapien said continuing concern about water that had been contaminated as it flowed the 30 miles from over-full Anderson Reservoir to San Francisco Bay was cited as the chief reason the mandatory evacuation order was still in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water between Anderson Lake to the end point of the bay in San Jose means it has traveled through every product source available between those two points,” Sapien said. “That includes vehicle fuels, oils, any homes that may have had pesticides, any sewage backups that may have occurred, anything that was in the creekways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sapien advised anyone who comes into contact with the water to wash thoroughly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other developments:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The city said it would maintain emergency shelters at Evergreen High School and James Lick High School. Two other shelters were closed because they were lightly used, officials said.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The San Jose Water Co., which provides drinking water to the inundated area, advised customers its supplies are uncontaminated and safe to consume.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The city of San Jose has established a fund to help those affected by the flood. Donations can be made through the San Jose mayor’s office — or \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjmayor.org\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.sjmayor.org\u003c/a> — or the Silicon Valley Community Foundation — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sjflood\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sjflood\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:20 p.m.:\u003c/strong> San Jose officials say residents forced to leave their homes late Tuesday and early Wednesday by inundation along Coyote Creek should not return immediately because of concern about contaminated floodwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water is not safe,” Mayor Sam Liccardo said during a media briefing Wednesday morning. “There is contamination in this water, and the contamination runs the gamut” from gasoline and oil to raw sewage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not safe for people to go into the water to go back to their homes,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the city was looking at whether it had done enough to alert residents along the path of the creek, which overflowed because of flood releases from the Santa Clara County Water District’s Anderson Reservoir, that they might have to evacuate their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the first time that a resident is aware that they need to get out of a home is when they see a firefighter in a boat, then clearly there’s been a failure,” Liccardo said. “We are assessing what it is that happened that led to that failure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor said about 400 residents had been rescued from their homes by emergency crews in boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials expressed uncertainty about exactly why the flooding happened when and where it happened. From \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/22/san-jose-flood-update-mandatory-evacuations-expand-overnight-about-14000-affected/\" target=\"_blank\">the San Jose Mercury News account\u003c/a> of their remarks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Assistant City Manager Dave Sykes said the breach of the creek Tuesday morning in the Rock Springs neighborhood near Kelley Park “happened at a flow level much below the capacity of the channel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the issue we need to investigate,” Sykes said. “We were not anticipating flows to come out of the channel at that time. So we need to figure out what went on. Were there blockages? What were the issues that contributed to flows coming out of the channel at that point?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sykes later added: “We weren’t expecting to have issues at Rock Springs for many, many hours, and we certainly weren’t expecting Rock Springs to be the first place we had issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said “clearly there was a failure” leading to the unprecedented flooding that left some homes in nearly eight feet of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One failure, according to the mayor, is the city was told by the Santa Clara Valley Water District that the area wouldn’t flood unless water flow topped 7,400 cubic feet per second. But waters began creeping into neighborhoods well before that level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re learning is the data’s wrong and we need to understand why that is,” Liccardo told this news organization following a press conference Wednesday. “Obviously that’s something we need to undertake in partnership with other agencies that have the experts. We don’t have the hydrologists. They do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachael Gibson, the district’s emergency operations center spokeswoman, said that model was based on “best available data,” and hydrologists were analyzing flow rates Wednesday afternoon. They did not immediately know what rate was reached on Tuesday and Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gibson added that other factors are tough or impossible to predict, such as blockages in the creek that could affect capacity.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Thousands of San Jose residents and city officials are facing a massive cleanup after overnight flooding along Coyote Creek prompted emergency evacuations in neighborhoods along the stream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although waters were slowly receding by dawn Wednesday, flooding was still a concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although the rain has largely stopped, flooding is continuing along Coyote Creek as reservoirs continue to spill and creek flow is extremely high,” said Cheryl Wessling, a spokeswoman for the city’s Emergency Operations Center, in an email early Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those high flows, which flooded the Rock Springs neighborhood southeast of downtown Tuesday afternoon, led to a 12:15 a.m. evacuation order covering about 14,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city set up evacuation centers at the Mayfair and Shirakawa community centers, overnight shelters at Evergreen Valley and James Lick high schools, and winter warming centers at four library branches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inundation follows weeks of storms that have slammed the region. The last system in the most recent series of storms, on Presidents Day, hit the South Bay with particularly heavy rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deluges have filled Anderson Reservoir to capacity, causing water to rush down the dam’s spillway and into Coyote Creek. The stream flows through neighborhoods in South San Jose, then east of downtown to the bayside community of Alviso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High water flooded a wide area southeast, east and northeast of downtown and prompted the 12:15 a.m. evacuation order for the area adjacent to Coyote Creek north of Interstate 280, west of U.S. 101 and south of Highway 237.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flooding forced the closure of more than a dozen roads, including both directions of 101 between I-280 and I-880.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Valley Water District officials said Wednesday morning that their crews had completed temporary repairs to Coyote Canal, work that was aimed at preventing more flooding onto 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The expanded evacuation orders early Wednesday came hours after fire crews rushed to rescue hundreds of people in the city’s Rock Springs neighborhood, where homes and cars were inundated under several feet of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11328231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11328231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-800x1035.jpg\" alt=\"City of San Jose map showing area where evacuations were ordered after Coyote Creek flooded. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-160x207.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-960x1242.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-240x311.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-375x485.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-520x673.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap.jpg 989w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City of San Jose map showing area where evacuations were ordered after Coyote Creek flooded.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have specific numbers for other water rescue operations, but I can tell you in my career this is probably the biggest,” San Jose Fire Department Capt. Mitch Matlow said Tuesday afternoon. “In the history of San Jose, I don’t know if it’s been bigger, but this is probably in the top 10.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Seoung was among the residents rescued by fire crews. “At some parts of the street the water is as high as your waist, my waist,” Seoung said. “I’m 6 feet tall and my waist is about 30 inches off the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said Tuesday that officials suspect a breach of the creek’s bank caused the rapid flooding in Rock Springs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly, there’s a source in the creek where there’s a significantly large amount of water that’s rushing in,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"title": "Why Does San Jose Have So Many Urban Islands?",
"headTitle": "Why Does San Jose Have So Many Urban Islands? | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> listener Kristin Seitz was looking at a map of San Jose when she noticed an awful lot of holes. The city’s territory isn’t one undivided shape, but rather resembles a piece of Swiss cheese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seitz wondered: Why are there so many unincorporated “urban islands” in the San Jose area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out, first we went to Jane Power’s house. When you stand on her front porch, you’d think you’re in San Jose. Walk 10 minutes south and you can be at San Jose City College. Drive a few miles east and you can be in the city’s downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Power and her neighbors cast their ballots, they don’t get to vote for San Jose representatives or ballot measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when they call for police, it’s not the San Jose police that will come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because despite being completely surrounded by San Jose on all sides, Power doesn’t live in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She lives in the unincorporated island of Burbank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10961044\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10961044\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-400x334.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Power stands in front of her home in Burbank, an unincorporated island in San Jose. \" width=\"400\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-400x334.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-800x668.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-1920x1603.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-1180x985.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-960x802.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Power stands in front of her home in Burbank, an unincorporated island in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I like being special and Burbank is special,” says Power, who chairs the \u003ca href=\"http://www.burbanksj.org/\">Burbank Community Association\u003c/a>, a collection of residents who gather to talk about community issues. “There’s a feeling of neighborhood. That’s something that a lot of places in the Bay Area just don’t have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All around San Jose you’ll find islands just like Burbank — small communities that are completely surrounded or bordered by San Jose or Campbell, but aren’t actually part of any city at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some of these islands are open land, many look just like any other neighborhood. Nearly 5,000 people live in Central Burbank alone, and they fall under the jurisdiction of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10958602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10958602 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"Henni Kaufman, Jane Power, Pete Sclafani and Ken Colson, members of the Burbank Community Council, stand in front of Power's home in Burbank.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henni Kaufman, Jane Power, Pete Sclafani and Ken Colson, members of the Burbank Community Association, stand in front of Power’s home in Burbank. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But what is it that Burbank \u003cem>doesn’t\u003c/em> have that an incorporated city might?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one, there are no city taxes. There’s no city government or business tax, and if there’s an issue that might sound like a job for city government, residents call their county supervisor. When someone in Burbank calls 911, the county sheriff responds — not San Jose police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/282905937″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burbank’s school district consists of \u003ca href=\"http://www.lbsd.k12.ca.us/Page/1\"> one elementary school \u003c/a>with a different enrollment process than schools just a few miles away. Burbank isn’t connected to San Jose’s sewer system, so in 1940 they established\u003ca href=\"http://www.burbanksanitary.org/\"> their own sanitary district.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burbank residents say they feel removed from the high-rises and tech industries changing San Jose. The small bungalows and Craftsman-style homes built for cannery workers and blue-collar folks leave them with a desire to preserve a way of life that predates the modern definition of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like the ’50s,” says Henni Kaufman, treasurer of the Burbank Community Association. “I do a lot of yard work and I’m out there and the kids come and talk to me. They ride their bicycles up and down the sidewalk, and neighbors really watch out for one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former San Jose resident had no idea that she was moving into an unincorporated community when she bought her home in 1984. Now, the difference is clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I have the opportunity to do something to improve the quality of the community because it’s manageable.’\u003ccite>Ken Colson, Director of the Burbank Sanitary District\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The community feel translates on a political level, too, says Ken Colson, who sits on the board of directors of the Burbank Sanitary District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have the opportunity to do something to improve the quality of the community [because] it’s manageable,” says Colson. “We can get on the phone and call our county supervisor and he has a staff that responds. The city? [That] would be tough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Historic Artifact\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jane Power’s home was one of the first houses built in her subdivision in 1905. The bedrooms have no closets and the street in front of her home is so narrow that you can park on only one side of it. Perhaps it was the perfect width for a horse-drawn carriage, but not enough for the cars of today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas like Burbank developed long before the neighborhoods around them did, says Bill Shoe, the principal planner of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/dpd/Programs/Islands/Pages/UrbanIslands.aspx\">Santa Clara Planning Department\u003c/a>. In fact, developers began building the first residential tracts in Burbank as early as 1904. Shoe says these islands are a direct result of the way San Jose expanded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re like a window into the history of urbanization in the county,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After World War II, the suburbanization of San Jose mirrored national trends. Returning veterans, the advent of the car and expanding freeways incentivized the city to expand its borders as a way to grow its tax base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this growth wasn’t always uniform or rational. Because some land was easier to annex than others, the city would skip over pockets of land to continue its outward growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It resulted in an irregular and dysfunctional set of boundaries,” Shoe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pockets of land that got skipped over were often neighborhoods with homes built by those who worked at the canneries or in agriculture before the war — long before anyone thought about suburbanization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10961231\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10961231 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/6074154702_c17ae6e62d_o-400x320.jpg\" alt=\"The Burbank Community Theater\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/6074154702_c17ae6e62d_o-400x320.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/6074154702_c17ae6e62d_o.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Burbank Theater on Bascom Avenue opened in 1949. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/bvna/6074154702/in/photolist-afKCuN-afGWjt-9Q2eb-69rpNv-h2x6F-afKEeS-h2xac-9Q2fB-afGWc2-h2x5e-fmGgu-afGStK-afGSpt-9Q2dN-h2x9o-9Q2dC-h2x6e-afGTXX-afKEGh-afGV8B-9Q2fj-h2x5v-9Q2fN-fmGjX-afGUR6-9Q2gW-afKEvW-afKFFE-h2xb9-h2x7F-9Q2g6-9Q2hs-h2x7f-9Q2ei-h2xc9-9Q2hm-9Q2dw-afKCzd-afKGKE-afGUMg-h2x8p-afGV3g-9Q2gR-afGUfx-fmGhC-h2x8T-afGVZH-h2xaJ-fmGj7-h2xbB\">BVNA\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a reflection of the history,” says Shoe. “Of the time when cars were not as predominant, and when people still had horses and carriages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At their peak, there were likely hundreds of unincorporated islands in Santa Clara County, but the county did not keep documentation of these islands until they launched an island annexation program in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, the county still had 180 unincorporated areas. Eighty-nine percent of them were smaller than 150 acres. That number has been whittled down to 87 islands that remain today. The largest and most well-known include Burbank, Alum Rock and Cambrian.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Plans to Annex\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While there aren’t as many unincorporated urban islands as there once were, the county plans to eventually dissolve them all into neighboring and surrounding cities, says Neelima Palacherla, executive officer of the Local Agency Formation Commission of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palacherla says the county simply wasn’t built to provide services to unincorporated islands. Sometimes, she says, this system gets confusing for both the county and unincorporated residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There could be a lot of confusion for residents who live in an island regarding who provides services to them in an emergency. Who do they call?” says Palacherla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New residents, like Henni Kaufman, sometimes have no idea they moved into an unincorporated area. Some don’t find out until an emergency or an election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are things like sidewalks. In San Jose, all major developments must have sidewalks. In unincorporated islands, they’re simply not required — though sometimes residents put them in themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10954171\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 866px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10954171 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/UnincorporatedSCC.jpg\" alt=\"The unincorporated island of Burbank. \" width=\"866\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/UnincorporatedSCC.jpg 866w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/UnincorporatedSCC-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/UnincorporatedSCC-800x517.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The unincorporated island of Burbank. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/dpd/Programs/Islands/Pages/UrbanIslands.aspx\">Santa Clara Department of Planning and Development\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“By annexing into a city, they know that they’re receiving or will be receiving services from an agency — which is the city — that was created and geared to provide services to their neighborhood and their area, as opposed to the county, which has to provide these services in a very scattered manner,” Palacherla says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t expect mass annexation any time soon. There are plenty of obstacles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of … just how lengthy [annexation] could be, and how expensive and cumbersome, many of the city’s residents and county are not interested in going through this process,” Palacherla says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annexation is perceived to be so cumbersome, she says, that the county is working on creating a more streamlined process. The traditional process starts with the proposed annexation, then moves onto zoning designations, community meetings for larger areas, and planning commission and city council hearings. Sometimes, in between all of this, there are protests from residents. In other cases, cities simply don’t see any financial benefit to annexation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most contentious annexation battle in recent history happened in 2011, when San Jose and the neighboring city of Campbell fought to win over the hearts of 1,000 residents in a 103-acre island known as Cambrian 36.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cambrian residents had a strong unincorporated neighborhood association that protested annexation at public hearings in San Jose. The city had its eye on the promise of new tax revenue to be generated by the island’s annexation. The deal ended in a $1 million settlement between the two cities. Campbell got the island, and San Jose got the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose has stepped up its annexation proceedings over the last 10 years, taking over dozens of islands as part of an \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1632\">annexation collaboration\u003c/a> between the county and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There might be a time in the near future when it becomes a focus of the cities, but it’s hard to predict,” says Shoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burbank residents who want to hold onto their unincorporated status are nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10958604\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10958604 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"A welcome sign in Burbank. \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A welcome sign in Burbank. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We in the Burbank area are challenged,” Colson says. “We’re brainstorming how we can keep some semblance of an identity here and keep this kind of character.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents like Jane Power say it’s about saving the community from the redevelopment that has changed San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to keep the unique housing,” she says. “We don’t want to have it bulldozed down and have another high-rise take up three or four lots where we have single-family housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Shoe says it’s unclear when full annexation of the remaining pockets will happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until then, Burbank will remain exactly the way Jane Power likes it: special.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> listener Kristin Seitz was looking at a map of San Jose when she noticed an awful lot of holes. The city’s territory isn’t one undivided shape, but rather resembles a piece of Swiss cheese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seitz wondered: Why are there so many unincorporated “urban islands” in the San Jose area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out, first we went to Jane Power’s house. When you stand on her front porch, you’d think you’re in San Jose. Walk 10 minutes south and you can be at San Jose City College. Drive a few miles east and you can be in the city’s downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Power and her neighbors cast their ballots, they don’t get to vote for San Jose representatives or ballot measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when they call for police, it’s not the San Jose police that will come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because despite being completely surrounded by San Jose on all sides, Power doesn’t live in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She lives in the unincorporated island of Burbank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10961044\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10961044\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-400x334.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Power stands in front of her home in Burbank, an unincorporated island in San Jose. \" width=\"400\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-400x334.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-800x668.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-1920x1603.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-1180x985.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4738-960x802.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Power stands in front of her home in Burbank, an unincorporated island in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I like being special and Burbank is special,” says Power, who chairs the \u003ca href=\"http://www.burbanksj.org/\">Burbank Community Association\u003c/a>, a collection of residents who gather to talk about community issues. “There’s a feeling of neighborhood. That’s something that a lot of places in the Bay Area just don’t have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All around San Jose you’ll find islands just like Burbank — small communities that are completely surrounded or bordered by San Jose or Campbell, but aren’t actually part of any city at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some of these islands are open land, many look just like any other neighborhood. Nearly 5,000 people live in Central Burbank alone, and they fall under the jurisdiction of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10958602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10958602 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"Henni Kaufman, Jane Power, Pete Sclafani and Ken Colson, members of the Burbank Community Council, stand in front of Power's home in Burbank.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4757-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henni Kaufman, Jane Power, Pete Sclafani and Ken Colson, members of the Burbank Community Association, stand in front of Power’s home in Burbank. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But what is it that Burbank \u003cem>doesn’t\u003c/em> have that an incorporated city might?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one, there are no city taxes. There’s no city government or business tax, and if there’s an issue that might sound like a job for city government, residents call their county supervisor. When someone in Burbank calls 911, the county sheriff responds — not San Jose police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/282905937″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/282905937″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burbank’s school district consists of \u003ca href=\"http://www.lbsd.k12.ca.us/Page/1\"> one elementary school \u003c/a>with a different enrollment process than schools just a few miles away. Burbank isn’t connected to San Jose’s sewer system, so in 1940 they established\u003ca href=\"http://www.burbanksanitary.org/\"> their own sanitary district.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burbank residents say they feel removed from the high-rises and tech industries changing San Jose. The small bungalows and Craftsman-style homes built for cannery workers and blue-collar folks leave them with a desire to preserve a way of life that predates the modern definition of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like the ’50s,” says Henni Kaufman, treasurer of the Burbank Community Association. “I do a lot of yard work and I’m out there and the kids come and talk to me. They ride their bicycles up and down the sidewalk, and neighbors really watch out for one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former San Jose resident had no idea that she was moving into an unincorporated community when she bought her home in 1984. Now, the difference is clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I have the opportunity to do something to improve the quality of the community because it’s manageable.’\u003ccite>Ken Colson, Director of the Burbank Sanitary District\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The community feel translates on a political level, too, says Ken Colson, who sits on the board of directors of the Burbank Sanitary District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have the opportunity to do something to improve the quality of the community [because] it’s manageable,” says Colson. “We can get on the phone and call our county supervisor and he has a staff that responds. The city? [That] would be tough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Historic Artifact\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jane Power’s home was one of the first houses built in her subdivision in 1905. The bedrooms have no closets and the street in front of her home is so narrow that you can park on only one side of it. Perhaps it was the perfect width for a horse-drawn carriage, but not enough for the cars of today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas like Burbank developed long before the neighborhoods around them did, says Bill Shoe, the principal planner of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/dpd/Programs/Islands/Pages/UrbanIslands.aspx\">Santa Clara Planning Department\u003c/a>. In fact, developers began building the first residential tracts in Burbank as early as 1904. Shoe says these islands are a direct result of the way San Jose expanded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re like a window into the history of urbanization in the county,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After World War II, the suburbanization of San Jose mirrored national trends. Returning veterans, the advent of the car and expanding freeways incentivized the city to expand its borders as a way to grow its tax base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this growth wasn’t always uniform or rational. Because some land was easier to annex than others, the city would skip over pockets of land to continue its outward growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It resulted in an irregular and dysfunctional set of boundaries,” Shoe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pockets of land that got skipped over were often neighborhoods with homes built by those who worked at the canneries or in agriculture before the war — long before anyone thought about suburbanization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10961231\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10961231 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/6074154702_c17ae6e62d_o-400x320.jpg\" alt=\"The Burbank Community Theater\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/6074154702_c17ae6e62d_o-400x320.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/6074154702_c17ae6e62d_o.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Burbank Theater on Bascom Avenue opened in 1949. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/bvna/6074154702/in/photolist-afKCuN-afGWjt-9Q2eb-69rpNv-h2x6F-afKEeS-h2xac-9Q2fB-afGWc2-h2x5e-fmGgu-afGStK-afGSpt-9Q2dN-h2x9o-9Q2dC-h2x6e-afGTXX-afKEGh-afGV8B-9Q2fj-h2x5v-9Q2fN-fmGjX-afGUR6-9Q2gW-afKEvW-afKFFE-h2xb9-h2x7F-9Q2g6-9Q2hs-h2x7f-9Q2ei-h2xc9-9Q2hm-9Q2dw-afKCzd-afKGKE-afGUMg-h2x8p-afGV3g-9Q2gR-afGUfx-fmGhC-h2x8T-afGVZH-h2xaJ-fmGj7-h2xbB\">BVNA\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a reflection of the history,” says Shoe. “Of the time when cars were not as predominant, and when people still had horses and carriages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At their peak, there were likely hundreds of unincorporated islands in Santa Clara County, but the county did not keep documentation of these islands until they launched an island annexation program in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, the county still had 180 unincorporated areas. Eighty-nine percent of them were smaller than 150 acres. That number has been whittled down to 87 islands that remain today. The largest and most well-known include Burbank, Alum Rock and Cambrian.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Plans to Annex\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While there aren’t as many unincorporated urban islands as there once were, the county plans to eventually dissolve them all into neighboring and surrounding cities, says Neelima Palacherla, executive officer of the Local Agency Formation Commission of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palacherla says the county simply wasn’t built to provide services to unincorporated islands. Sometimes, she says, this system gets confusing for both the county and unincorporated residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There could be a lot of confusion for residents who live in an island regarding who provides services to them in an emergency. Who do they call?” says Palacherla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New residents, like Henni Kaufman, sometimes have no idea they moved into an unincorporated area. Some don’t find out until an emergency or an election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are things like sidewalks. In San Jose, all major developments must have sidewalks. In unincorporated islands, they’re simply not required — though sometimes residents put them in themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10954171\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 866px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10954171 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/UnincorporatedSCC.jpg\" alt=\"The unincorporated island of Burbank. \" width=\"866\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/UnincorporatedSCC.jpg 866w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/UnincorporatedSCC-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/UnincorporatedSCC-800x517.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The unincorporated island of Burbank. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/dpd/Programs/Islands/Pages/UrbanIslands.aspx\">Santa Clara Department of Planning and Development\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“By annexing into a city, they know that they’re receiving or will be receiving services from an agency — which is the city — that was created and geared to provide services to their neighborhood and their area, as opposed to the county, which has to provide these services in a very scattered manner,” Palacherla says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t expect mass annexation any time soon. There are plenty of obstacles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of … just how lengthy [annexation] could be, and how expensive and cumbersome, many of the city’s residents and county are not interested in going through this process,” Palacherla says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annexation is perceived to be so cumbersome, she says, that the county is working on creating a more streamlined process. The traditional process starts with the proposed annexation, then moves onto zoning designations, community meetings for larger areas, and planning commission and city council hearings. Sometimes, in between all of this, there are protests from residents. In other cases, cities simply don’t see any financial benefit to annexation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most contentious annexation battle in recent history happened in 2011, when San Jose and the neighboring city of Campbell fought to win over the hearts of 1,000 residents in a 103-acre island known as Cambrian 36.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cambrian residents had a strong unincorporated neighborhood association that protested annexation at public hearings in San Jose. The city had its eye on the promise of new tax revenue to be generated by the island’s annexation. The deal ended in a $1 million settlement between the two cities. Campbell got the island, and San Jose got the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose has stepped up its annexation proceedings over the last 10 years, taking over dozens of islands as part of an \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1632\">annexation collaboration\u003c/a> between the county and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There might be a time in the near future when it becomes a focus of the cities, but it’s hard to predict,” says Shoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burbank residents who want to hold onto their unincorporated status are nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10958604\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10958604 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"A welcome sign in Burbank. \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/0M6A4771-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A welcome sign in Burbank. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We in the Burbank area are challenged,” Colson says. “We’re brainstorming how we can keep some semblance of an identity here and keep this kind of character.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents like Jane Power say it’s about saving the community from the redevelopment that has changed San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to keep the unique housing,” she says. “We don’t want to have it bulldozed down and have another high-rise take up three or four lots where we have single-family housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Shoe says it’s unclear when full annexation of the remaining pockets will happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The assignment seemed simple enough. Reverend Jeff Moore, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjosenaacp.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose/Silicon Valley Branch\u003c/a> of the NAACP, approached visual artist \u003ca href=\"http://www.markharrisstudiosf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Harris\u003c/a> and asked him to pull together a small collection of his artwork to show in the lobby of the administrative offices of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.esuhsd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Side Union High School District\u003c/a> in San Jose for Black History Month in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what Harris did, curating together 11 paintings, in consultation with Moore, who works at the district’s Independence High School as a counselor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say it’s agitprop,” says Harris of the selection of works, done in mixed media, collage, acrylic and egg tempera. “It’s definitely something thought-provoking. It’s not something you’re going to walk by and not have a second thought about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few hours after the artist’s paintings went up on display, they were taken down. Harris heard the news about the removal second-hand from Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some parents who’d come into the administration offices were offended by the work.” Moore also said the district superintendent, Chris Funk said a school district shouldn’t take a political stance, “which I think is ridiculous,” Harris says. “The fact that the superintendent was uncomfortable with the exhibit was disappointing also.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12709112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12709112\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of "Den of Iniquity" by San Francisco visual artist Mark Harris. "Whenever you tell a cultural group that they can't tell their own story, that's how things get whitewashed," Harris says.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of “Den of Iniquity” by San Francisco visual artist Mark Harris. “Whenever you tell a cultural group that they can’t tell their own story, that’s how things get whitewashed,” Harris says. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Mark Harris)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Art has gone up on display to celebrate African American History Month at the offices for the past three years. Funk says that to date, there had been no concerns in part because the displays had been made up of historical artifacts like books, quilts, and representations of famous African Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no intention to embarrass or harm Mr. Harris,” Funk says. “He seems to be a very talented artist. I’m sorry he got caught up in a situation where Mr. Moore was not upfront about what his motives were and what his expectations were. I didn’t approve the art. I didn’t approve the artist. I didn’t have a chance to review the art beforehand. It was just — smack, hit you in the face — when you walked in. That’s why I took it down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funk says there is a time and place for political expression, such as at the recent March on Washington or at last weekend’s airport protests. “But we’re not here to advocate one position or another as a public institution,” Funk says about his decision to remove Harris’ works. “I have Republicans and Democrats on my board, among my teachers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore says he did not intend to surprise Funk and his colleagues. He says he visited the offices to talk to the superintendent at one point before the exhibition went up, but that Funk was in a meeting when he arrived. Past displays, Moore says, have in fact included content that could be deemed as political, ranging, subject-wise, from African culture to figures like Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X and President Barack Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the material for those exhibitions was pulled from Moore’s own home, as well as the homes of other people involved with \u003ca href=\"http://www.esuhsd.org/Students--Parents/Student--Parent-Groups/African-American-Student-Advocates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African American Student Advocates\u003c/a>, a district stakeholder group made up largely of adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many people were offended? How many people were upset?” Moore says. “White supremacy is a topic of conversation right now. I thought this was timely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12709115\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12709115 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23972_To-Be-Young-Gifted-and-Criminalized-qut-800x1016.jpg\" alt=\""To Be Young Gifted and Criminalized" by San Francisco visual artist Mark Harris, who also teaches. "I want to inspire students to use their voices and be involved in this new movement that's happening. It's their future. If I can inspire them to use their voices, that's me doing my job."\" width=\"800\" height=\"1016\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23972_To-Be-Young-Gifted-and-Criminalized-qut-800x1016.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23972_To-Be-Young-Gifted-and-Criminalized-qut-160x203.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23972_To-Be-Young-Gifted-and-Criminalized-qut-768x975.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23972_To-Be-Young-Gifted-and-Criminalized-qut-1020x1295.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23972_To-Be-Young-Gifted-and-Criminalized-qut-1920x2438.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23972_To-Be-Young-Gifted-and-Criminalized-qut-1180x1498.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23972_To-Be-Young-Gifted-and-Criminalized-qut-960x1219.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23972_To-Be-Young-Gifted-and-Criminalized-qut-240x305.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23972_To-Be-Young-Gifted-and-Criminalized-qut-375x476.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23972_To-Be-Young-Gifted-and-Criminalized-qut-520x660.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23972_To-Be-Young-Gifted-and-Criminalized-qut.jpg 1613w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“To Be Young Gifted and Criminalized” by San Francisco visual artist Mark Harris, who also teaches. “I want to inspire students to use their voices and be involved in this new movement that’s happening. It’s their future. If I can inspire them to use their voices, that’s me doing my job.” \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Mark Harris)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moore says the African American Student Advocates had a previously scheduled meeting Thursday night at which Harris was to speak about his art work at the administrative offices. Now, he will be talking about the fact it was taken down, and retrieving the paintings to bring them home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My artwork expresses the real visceral outrage that a lot of African Americans have about the violence we’re still subjected to in the 21st century,” Harris says. “For centuries, we have been told not to speak out about it. You don’t have to like it. It’s not only my history. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The assignment seemed simple enough. Reverend Jeff Moore, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjosenaacp.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose/Silicon Valley Branch\u003c/a> of the NAACP, approached visual artist \u003ca href=\"http://www.markharrisstudiosf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Harris\u003c/a> and asked him to pull together a small collection of his artwork to show in the lobby of the administrative offices of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.esuhsd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Side Union High School District\u003c/a> in San Jose for Black History Month in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what Harris did, curating together 11 paintings, in consultation with Moore, who works at the district’s Independence High School as a counselor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say it’s agitprop,” says Harris of the selection of works, done in mixed media, collage, acrylic and egg tempera. “It’s definitely something thought-provoking. It’s not something you’re going to walk by and not have a second thought about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few hours after the artist’s paintings went up on display, they were taken down. Harris heard the news about the removal second-hand from Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some parents who’d come into the administration offices were offended by the work.” Moore also said the district superintendent, Chris Funk said a school district shouldn’t take a political stance, “which I think is ridiculous,” Harris says. “The fact that the superintendent was uncomfortable with the exhibit was disappointing also.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12709112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12709112\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of "Den of Iniquity" by San Francisco visual artist Mark Harris. "Whenever you tell a cultural group that they can't tell their own story, that's how things get whitewashed," Harris says.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23971_Den-of-Iniquity-001-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of “Den of Iniquity” by San Francisco visual artist Mark Harris. “Whenever you tell a cultural group that they can’t tell their own story, that’s how things get whitewashed,” Harris says. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Mark Harris)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Art has gone up on display to celebrate African American History Month at the offices for the past three years. Funk says that to date, there had been no concerns in part because the displays had been made up of historical artifacts like books, quilts, and representations of famous African Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He says he visited the offices to talk to the superintendent at one point before the exhibition went up, but that Funk was in a meeting when he arrived. Past displays, Moore says, have in fact included content that could be deemed as political, ranging, subject-wise, from African culture to figures like Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X and President Barack Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the material for those exhibitions was pulled from Moore’s own home, as well as the homes of other people involved with \u003ca href=\"http://www.esuhsd.org/Students--Parents/Student--Parent-Groups/African-American-Student-Advocates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African American Student Advocates\u003c/a>, a district stakeholder group made up largely of adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many people were offended? How many people were upset?” Moore says. “White supremacy is a topic of conversation right now. I thought this was timely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12709115\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12709115 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/RS23972_To-Be-Young-Gifted-and-Criminalized-qut-800x1016.jpg\" alt=\""To Be Young Gifted and Criminalized" by San Francisco visual artist Mark Harris, who also teaches. "I want to inspire students to use their voices and be involved in this new movement that's happening. It's their future. 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It’s their future. If I can inspire them to use their voices, that’s me doing my job.” \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Mark Harris)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moore says the African American Student Advocates had a previously scheduled meeting Thursday night at which Harris was to speak about his art work at the administrative offices. Now, he will be talking about the fact it was taken down, and retrieving the paintings to bring them home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My artwork expresses the real visceral outrage that a lot of African Americans have about the violence we’re still subjected to in the 21st century,” Harris says. “For centuries, we have been told not to speak out about it. You don’t have to like it. It’s not only my history. 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"content": "\u003cp>Like most of us living in the Bay Area who are lucky enough to have a roof over our heads, Daniel Hughes says he has looked away when walking past homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I observed in my own behavior, as well as people on the street, was just how difficult it was to confront how someone has fallen so low,” says Hughes, who serves as the artistic director and conductor of \u003ca href=\"http://www.choralproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Choral Project\u003c/a>, a community choir in San Jose. “The regular man’s reaction to that is to try to ignore it and pretend it’s not there, because it really does force us to confront our own humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That response, or lack thereof, is exactly what \u003cem>Street Requiem\u003c/em> is designed to confront. Choral groups around the world have performed the work since its debut in 2014 — and donated proceeds to support the homeless in cities from Melbourne, Australia to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/304880949″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the Choral Project is performing \u003cem>Street Requiem\u003c/em> in San Jose and Santa Cruz, two Silicon Valley cities with \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2016-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">substantial homeless populations\u003c/a>. 10 percent of the net proceeds from the choir’s shows will be donated to the Office of Social Ministry at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.stjosephcathedral.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saint Joseph Cathedral Basilica\u003c/a> in downtown San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathleen McGuire, one of the co-creators of \u003cem>Street Requiem\u003c/em>, spent 13 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. She led a number of high profile groups, including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgmc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus\u003c/a> and a homeless choir in San Francisco called \u003ca href=\"http://www.singersofthestreet.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Singers of the Street\u003c/a> (SOS).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGuire was inspired to launch SOS by a fellow Australian choral conductor, \u003ca href=\"http://www.jonathonwelch.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathon Welch\u003c/a>, who’s started two homeless choirs himself, in Australia. He also came up with the idea for \u003cem>Street Requiem\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf_exeHB9JA?list=PLwHx0O0gnxuj3Vnf5RZBtImSqzAGvjQrK]”There are so many people who die on the streets every year, who nobody mourns, and nobody knows their name,” McGuire says. \u003cem>Street Requiem,\u003c/em> she says, “is really about the experience of the person on the street, and yes, trying to put the audience, as well as the performers, into a different mindset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Street Requiem\u003c/em> draws from multiple musical traditions, foremost among them Roman Catholic religious music. The “Requiem Æternam” movement, or “Eternal Rest” in Latin, for instance, is a prayer asking God to hasten the journey souls take from purgatory to heaven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve taken some core elements of the traditional requiem, but we’ve put it into modern vernacular,” McGuire says. “We’ve also taken out some of the very overtly Christian language to try and make it more accessible to people of faith but not a specific religion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Excerpt from “Ubi Caritas – Charity and Love”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is it that scares you when it’s change I’m looking for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is it that scares you that make you bar the door?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is it that scares you when my hand’s stretched out this way?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is it that scares you that makes you turn away?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ubi caritas et amor deus ibi est.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>(Where there is charity and love, there you will find the spirit of God.)\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Street Requiem\u003c/em> also addresses the multiple ways people die on the street across the world every day — not just as a result of exposure to the elements, but also through crime and government oppression. One of the most touching movements, “Gloria,” includes a phrase from the Zulu language commonly sung at South African funerals and demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Senzeni na means ‘What have I done?’ or ‘What have we done?'” McGuire says. “It also means, ‘What have we done, as a society, to each other?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGuire is not the only musician involved in the project who feels the homeless crisis applies to all of us. That’s why the Bay Area-based, internationally renowned mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade is involved in the San Jose and Santa Cruz performances of \u003cem>Street Requiem\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12685633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12685633\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt='\"The more you go back to [Street Requiem], the more you discover new levels of depth,\" says Daniel Hughes, artistic director and conductor of The Choral Project in San Jose. \"The depth of emotions I have to this music and the issues just continues to increase.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut-960x541.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“The more you go back to [Street Requiem], the more you discover new levels of depth,” says Daniel Hughes, artistic director and conductor of The Choral Project in San Jose. “The depth of emotions I have to this music and the issues just continues to increase.” \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not very hard to end up on the street.” says von Stade, who has performed \u003cem>Street Requiem\u003c/em> in Dallas, San Mateo, San Francisco and with an Australian choir at Carnegie Hall. “Nobody’s that different than we are. They’ve just had unbelievably tragic circumstances and they’re circumstances that are beyond people’s control.” Over the years, she’s also worked with a couple of organizations that provide opportunities for poor children to learn music, including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youngmusiciansco.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Young Musicians Choral Orchestra\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With real estate prices as high as they are in Silicon Valley, choir members can’t help but resonate with the thought that we’re all potentially one crisis away from the streets, and that any one of us could fall prey to a layoff, a health crisis, crime, or indifference from friends and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s heavy stuff, acknowledges Choral Project baritone Wilfred Matthews. He’s been singing with the community choir for 13 years, commuting from as far away as Sacramento at one point to be a part of the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12685634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12685634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut-800x453.jpg\" alt='The Choral Project rehearses Street Requiem at Willow Glen United Methodist Church in San Jose. \"It’s very moving,\" says alto Kathy Armstrong, \"but also uplifting at the same time. It’s great fun to sing.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut-800x453.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut-768x435.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut-1020x578.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut-1180x669.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut-960x544.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut-240x136.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut-375x213.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut-520x295.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Choral Project rehearses Street Requiem at Willow Glen United Methodist Church in San Jose. “It’s very moving,” says alto Kathy Armstrong, “but also uplifting at the same time. It’s great fun to sing.” \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matthews sang \u003cem>Street Requiem\u003c/em> two years ago when it was performed in San Francisco and San Mateo. “It was such a moving work,” Matthews says. “I felt like I could contribute in a little way, you know, even with my own small voice, to spreading the message of hope for the marginalized in our society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthews says the work has helped to change the way he interacts with people living on the streets. “I actually look at them in the eye,” he says. “I don’t walk away like I used to before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>The \u003cstrong>Choral Project\u003c/strong> performs \u003cstrong>Street Requiem\u003c/strong> on Wednesday, Feb. 15, at the \u003cem>Saint Joseph Cathedral Basilica\u003c/em> in San Jose; and Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017 at Peace United Church of Christ in Santa Cruz. \u003ca href=\"http://www.choralproject.org/categories/street-requiem/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here.\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Like most of us living in the Bay Area who are lucky enough to have a roof over our heads, Daniel Hughes says he has looked away when walking past homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I observed in my own behavior, as well as people on the street, was just how difficult it was to confront how someone has fallen so low,” says Hughes, who serves as the artistic director and conductor of \u003ca href=\"http://www.choralproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Choral Project\u003c/a>, a community choir in San Jose. “The regular man’s reaction to that is to try to ignore it and pretend it’s not there, because it really does force us to confront our own humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That response, or lack thereof, is exactly what \u003cem>Street Requiem\u003c/em> is designed to confront. Choral groups around the world have performed the work since its debut in 2014 — and donated proceeds to support the homeless in cities from Melbourne, Australia to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/304880949″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/304880949″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the Choral Project is performing \u003cem>Street Requiem\u003c/em> in San Jose and Santa Cruz, two Silicon Valley cities with \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2016-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">substantial homeless populations\u003c/a>. 10 percent of the net proceeds from the choir’s shows will be donated to the Office of Social Ministry at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.stjosephcathedral.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saint Joseph Cathedral Basilica\u003c/a> in downtown San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathleen McGuire, one of the co-creators of \u003cem>Street Requiem\u003c/em>, spent 13 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. She led a number of high profile groups, including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgmc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus\u003c/a> and a homeless choir in San Francisco called \u003ca href=\"http://www.singersofthestreet.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Singers of the Street\u003c/a> (SOS).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGuire was inspired to launch SOS by a fellow Australian choral conductor, \u003ca href=\"http://www.jonathonwelch.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathon Welch\u003c/a>, who’s started two homeless choirs himself, in Australia. He also came up with the idea for \u003cem>Street Requiem\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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/nf_exeHB9JA?list=PLwHx0O0gnxuj3Vnf5RZBtImSqzAGvjQrK'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/nf_exeHB9JA?list=PLwHx0O0gnxuj3Vnf5RZBtImSqzAGvjQrK'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>”There are so many people who die on the streets every year, who nobody mourns, and nobody knows their name,” McGuire says. \u003cem>Street Requiem,\u003c/em> she says, “is really about the experience of the person on the street, and yes, trying to put the audience, as well as the performers, into a different mindset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Street Requiem\u003c/em> draws from multiple musical traditions, foremost among them Roman Catholic religious music. The “Requiem Æternam” movement, or “Eternal Rest” in Latin, for instance, is a prayer asking God to hasten the journey souls take from purgatory to heaven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve taken some core elements of the traditional requiem, but we’ve put it into modern vernacular,” McGuire says. “We’ve also taken out some of the very overtly Christian language to try and make it more accessible to people of faith but not a specific religion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Excerpt from “Ubi Caritas – Charity and Love”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is it that scares you when it’s change I’m looking for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is it that scares you that make you bar the door?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is it that scares you when my hand’s stretched out this way?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is it that scares you that makes you turn away?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ubi caritas et amor deus ibi est.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>(Where there is charity and love, there you will find the spirit of God.)\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Street Requiem\u003c/em> also addresses the multiple ways people die on the street across the world every day — not just as a result of exposure to the elements, but also through crime and government oppression. One of the most touching movements, “Gloria,” includes a phrase from the Zulu language commonly sung at South African funerals and demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Senzeni na means ‘What have I done?’ or ‘What have we done?'” McGuire says. “It also means, ‘What have we done, as a society, to each other?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGuire is not the only musician involved in the project who feels the homeless crisis applies to all of us. That’s why the Bay Area-based, internationally renowned mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade is involved in the San Jose and Santa Cruz performances of \u003cem>Street Requiem\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12685633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12685633\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt='\"The more you go back to [Street Requiem], the more you discover new levels of depth,\" says Daniel Hughes, artistic director and conductor of The Choral Project in San Jose. \"The depth of emotions I have to this music and the issues just continues to increase.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut-960x541.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23888_Photo-Jan-23-7-27-40-PM-001-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“The more you go back to [Street Requiem], the more you discover new levels of depth,” says Daniel Hughes, artistic director and conductor of The Choral Project in San Jose. “The depth of emotions I have to this music and the issues just continues to increase.” \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not very hard to end up on the street.” says von Stade, who has performed \u003cem>Street Requiem\u003c/em> in Dallas, San Mateo, San Francisco and with an Australian choir at Carnegie Hall. “Nobody’s that different than we are. They’ve just had unbelievably tragic circumstances and they’re circumstances that are beyond people’s control.” Over the years, she’s also worked with a couple of organizations that provide opportunities for poor children to learn music, including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youngmusiciansco.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Young Musicians Choral Orchestra\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With real estate prices as high as they are in Silicon Valley, choir members can’t help but resonate with the thought that we’re all potentially one crisis away from the streets, and that any one of us could fall prey to a layoff, a health crisis, crime, or indifference from friends and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s heavy stuff, acknowledges Choral Project baritone Wilfred Matthews. He’s been singing with the community choir for 13 years, commuting from as far away as Sacramento at one point to be a part of the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12685634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12685634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut-800x453.jpg\" alt='The Choral Project rehearses Street Requiem at Willow Glen United Methodist Church in San Jose. \"It’s very moving,\" says alto Kathy Armstrong, \"but also uplifting at the same time. It’s great fun to sing.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut-800x453.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut-768x435.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut-1020x578.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut-1180x669.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut-960x544.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut-240x136.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut-375x213.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23886_Photo-Jan-23-7-24-00-PM-001-qut-520x295.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Choral Project rehearses Street Requiem at Willow Glen United Methodist Church in San Jose. “It’s very moving,” says alto Kathy Armstrong, “but also uplifting at the same time. It’s great fun to sing.” \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matthews sang \u003cem>Street Requiem\u003c/em> two years ago when it was performed in San Francisco and San Mateo. “It was such a moving work,” Matthews says. “I felt like I could contribute in a little way, you know, even with my own small voice, to spreading the message of hope for the marginalized in our society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthews says the work has helped to change the way he interacts with people living on the streets. “I actually look at them in the eye,” he says. “I don’t walk away like I used to before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "Protesters Gather Across Bay Area and Sacramento for Women's Marches Against Trump",
"title": "Protesters Gather Across Bay Area and Sacramento for Women's Marches Against Trump",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>We will update this post as more information is available.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 7:20 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huge crowds protested at Women's March demonstrations in Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento and San Francisco Saturday for a second day of actions against President Donald Trump and his administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstrations paralleled the large nationwide protests and the massive \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/21/washington-flooded-with-pink-as-womens-march-descends-on-d-c/\" target=\"_blank\">Women's March on Washington\u003c/a>, which drew an estimated 500,000 people to rally against the Trump administration's agenda, particularly on issues of women's rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/303889139\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today's Women's Marches follow Friday protests across the nation and in the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/20/trump-inauguration-protests-sweep-across-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area\u003c/a> after Trump's inauguration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11280902\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sf-civic-center-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands of people poured into Civic Center Plaza for the San Francisco Women's March.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11280902\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sf-civic-center-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sf-civic-center-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sf-civic-center-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sf-civic-center-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sf-civic-center-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sf-civic-center-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sf-civic-center-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sf-civic-center-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sf-civic-center.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of people poured into Civic Center Plaza for the San Francisco Women's March. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Women's March in San Francisco drew tens of thousands of demonstrators to Civic Center Plaza in the afternoon, followed by a march on Market Street through rain and wind that began after 4:30 p.m. The march was still going strong as of 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters chanted, \"Racist, sexist, anti-gay. Donald Trump go away,\" \"Hear our voice\" and \"My body, my choice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isabel Martinez, a ninth grader at Gateway High School in San Francisco, watched the march from the sidewalk. After talking about social movements in school, Martinez chose to come out to the march and participate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think Donald Trump has a lot of respect for women, coming out here gives me a chance to share what I have to say,” Martinez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Barnes chanted with other protesters as she carried a candle during the march.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not invisible and nobody is going to speak for us,” Barnes said. “We have a voice, we’ve had it the whole time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BrittanyKirstin/status/822977051007168512\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate demonstration against abortion took place at Civic Center shortly after 12 p.m. followed by a march. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Anti-abortion-protesters-march-in-San-Francisco-10874385.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> that thousands turned out at City Hall for the 13th annual Walk for Life West Coast. It was a protest that was scheduled well before the presidential election was decided. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11280900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/oakland1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands of people crowd Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland during the Women’s March rally on Jan.21, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11280900\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/oakland1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/oakland1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/oakland1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/oakland1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/oakland1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/oakland1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/oakland1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/oakland1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/oakland1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of people crowd Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland during the Women’s March rally on Jan.21, 2017. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, thousands gathered at Madison Park at 11 a.m. for a march to City Hall in downtown, according to KQED's Devin Katayama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters carried signs reading, \"Girls can fight\" and \"Nasty woman,\" a reference to comments Donald Trump made about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60,000 people packed into Frank Ogawa Plaza downtown, which was at near capacity at about 1:30 p.m., according to Oakland officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important to feel a sense of security and safety, and I think by a bunch of people coming out here should to do that,\" said Hayward resident Kelsey Shiell at the Oakland march. \"It really creates that community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RadioDevin/status/822911199461314560\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of my friends, especially my friends that are girls, feel like he’s sending the wrong message to girls of a young age like us,\" 12-year-old Mila Matos of Berkeley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDSashaKhokha/status/822908474409435136\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mood in Oakland was described as happy, and demonstrators said the march was a sign of unity designed to send a political message, Katayama said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ClydeDon/status/822975348425928704\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department said the protest and march was peaceful and that there were no arrests. Demonstrators left protest signs inside the 19th Street BART station after the march. One read, \"Nasty women get shit done and bow to no one.\" Another read, \"Please don't go back to sleep.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11280899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Sacramento2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands of demonstrators marched down the Capitol Mall during the Sacramento Women's March on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. The march culminated with a rally on the steps of the Capitol Building, with speakers, musicians and poetry performances.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11280899\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Sacramento2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Sacramento2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Sacramento2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Sacramento2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Sacramento2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Sacramento2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Sacramento2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Sacramento2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Sacramento2-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of demonstrators marched down the Capitol Mall during the Sacramento Women's March on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. The march culminated with a rally on the steps of the Capitol Building, with speakers, musicians and poetry performances. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, thousands began marching shortly after 11 a.m. from Southside Park to the state Capitol building where there will be speakers and a rally, according to KQED's Katie Orr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters carried signs reading, \"I'm with her\" with arrows pointing toward other women in the crowd. Another sign read, \"Let's talk about the elephant in my uterus,\" referring to the Republican party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento protest was peaceful, upbeat and communal as demonstrators marched shoulder to shoulder, according to KQED's Bert Johnson, who tweeted from the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento resident Linda Hsu marched with fellow members of the group Active Sacramento Lesbians. \"Lesbians are the best feminists,\" she said, and shouted, \"We love you all!\" to other marchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/bertjohnsonfoto/status/822891153544474624\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Jose, thousands gathered at City Hall for a march to Cesar Chavez Plaza. A San Jose Police Department spokesman estimated the march at about 25,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pragna Tantravahi, 20, is a De Anza College student and Fremont resident. She said the San Jose Women's March is the first protest she's attended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Equal pay and women's maternity leave is still a huge problem that we're still fighting for, and I think under a Trump presidency, that's going to be much harder to fight for,\" Tantravahi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/rachaelmyrow/status/822899779038388224\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bert Johnson, Devin Katayama, Queena Kim, and Tara Siler contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department said the protest and march was peaceful and that there were no arrests. Demonstrators left protest signs inside the 19th Street BART station after the march. One read, \"Nasty women get shit done and bow to no one.\" Another read, \"Please don't go back to sleep.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11280899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Sacramento2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands of demonstrators marched down the Capitol Mall during the Sacramento Women's March on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. The march culminated with a rally on the steps of the Capitol Building, with speakers, musicians and poetry performances.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11280899\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Sacramento2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Sacramento2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Sacramento2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Sacramento2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Sacramento2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Sacramento2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Sacramento2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Sacramento2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Sacramento2-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of demonstrators marched down the Capitol Mall during the Sacramento Women's March on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. The march culminated with a rally on the steps of the Capitol Building, with speakers, musicians and poetry performances. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, thousands began marching shortly after 11 a.m. from Southside Park to the state Capitol building where there will be speakers and a rally, according to KQED's Katie Orr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters carried signs reading, \"I'm with her\" with arrows pointing toward other women in the crowd. Another sign read, \"Let's talk about the elephant in my uterus,\" referring to the Republican party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento protest was peaceful, upbeat and communal as demonstrators marched shoulder to shoulder, according to KQED's Bert Johnson, who tweeted from the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento resident Linda Hsu marched with fellow members of the group Active Sacramento Lesbians. \"Lesbians are the best feminists,\" she said, and shouted, \"We love you all!\" to other marchers.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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When the original owners sold the church building in 1953, it was moved to the current parish’s location in East San Jose, reconstructed, and reconsecrated as a mission chapel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12617321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12617321 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23577_ca_santa-clara-county_mcdonnell-hall_0001-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"There have been multiple modifications to McDonnell Hall over the years, but it remains a tangible link to Cesar Chavez's activism in San Jose.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23577_ca_santa-clara-county_mcdonnell-hall_0001-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23577_ca_santa-clara-county_mcdonnell-hall_0001-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23577_ca_santa-clara-county_mcdonnell-hall_0001-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23577_ca_santa-clara-county_mcdonnell-hall_0001-qut-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23577_ca_santa-clara-county_mcdonnell-hall_0001-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23577_ca_santa-clara-county_mcdonnell-hall_0001-qut-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23577_ca_santa-clara-county_mcdonnell-hall_0001-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23577_ca_santa-clara-county_mcdonnell-hall_0001-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23577_ca_santa-clara-county_mcdonnell-hall_0001-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/RS23577_ca_santa-clara-county_mcdonnell-hall_0001-qut-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There have been multiple modifications to McDonnell Hall over the years, but it remains a tangible link to Cesar Chavez’s activism in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of the California State Parks Office of Historic Preservation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At that time, the Mayfair neighborhood was filling up with Mexican-American Catholics, and they asked the Diocese of San Francisco for their own church and a Spanish-speaking priest. Rev. Donald McDonnell was an activist priest, who encouraged his parishioners to get involved in politics, especially with issues that affected them directly. One of the parishioners who \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/_board.php?mode=view&b_code=news_press&b_no=11813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took McDonnell’s teachings to heart\u003c/a> was Chávez, whose farmworker parents had moved the family there from Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chávez later said his education began with the parish priest, according to Marc Grossman, who knew the civil rights icon for the last 24 years of his life and still serves as communications director for the Cesar Chavez Foundation. Chávez was in his early 20s when he met Father McDonnell, but the young man had only an eighth grade education at the time. Father McDonnell introduced to social justice literature in the Catholic Church as well as secular authors like Tolstoy and Machiavelli.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grossman says the priest “did, in a very quiet way, change the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later renamed McDonnell Hall, the modest chapel became a center for grassroots activism on several social fronts and a training ground for community leaders like Chávez. It was at the mission that he and others got involved with the Community Service Organization in the 1950s and ’60s as it conducted voter registration drives, civil rights lawsuits and legislative campaigns, as well as citizenship and literacy classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chávez would later apply what he learned in San Jose alongside Dolores Huerta to launch the United Farm Workers Union and organize the famous grape boycott that launched him to national prominence as a civil rights leader and advocate of nonviolent protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/nhl/news/LC/fall2016/OurLadyofGuadalupeChapel.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">application\u003c/a> for national historic status, El Teatro Campesino founder Luis Valdez (whose family members were parishioners at the mission in the 1950s), is quoted as saying McDonnell Hall not only still resonates as a symbol of the farmworker movement, but also serves as a broader symbol of an “ongoing struggle in the heart of humanity” for “social justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Watch a KQED Newsroom feature on Chávez in San Jose\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F5X64bXde0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national status for McDonnell Hall follows a \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2014/09/14/landmark-status-for-cesar-chavez-meeting-hall-in-east-san-jose/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">successful bid for state status\u003c/a> as a historic landmark a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) applauded the federal designation in \u003ca href=\"https://lofgren.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a press release\u003c/a>. “I’m so proud of the communal effort that has led to such a great recognition for this simple chapel where one of our greatest civil rights champions began a movement that changed lives throughout our nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historic landmark status, bestowed on more than 2,500 spots nationwide, comes with federal grants for preservation, program assistance and free publicity in National Park Service tourist and educational materials. 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During the 1940s, Neutra helped launch what we think of today as mid-century “California Modern” architecture.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">This story is part of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/pensions\">California’s Pension Crisis Project\u003c/a>, a reporting collaboration between Capital Public Radio, The Los Angeles Times and CALmatters to explore the consequences of a historic expansion of retirement benefits for California public employees. \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities and states across the country are facing public employee pension debt that is challenging and, in some cases, crippling their budgets. But some municipalities are experimenting with ways to solve that problem. In San Jose, California, voters passed a set of sweeping pension reforms back in 2012. The public employee unions fought back in court. Now a new initiative passed this November may offer a compromise that works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a rainy day in October. Three recruiting officers from the San Jose Police Department are standing behind a table in a bustling room on a nearby public university campus. Today is the school’s career fair and the SJPD booth is covered in schwag–stickers, pens, even tiny bottles of hand sanitizer–emblazoned with the Department’s logo. They’re hoping job-seekers will stop and apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11245181\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11245181\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/deputy_chief_michael_knox_-_ali_budner_499x665.jpg\" alt=\"Deputy Chief Michael Knox.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/deputy_chief_michael_knox_-_ali_budner_499x665.jpg 499w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/deputy_chief_michael_knox_-_ali_budner_499x665-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/deputy_chief_michael_knox_-_ali_budner_499x665-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/deputy_chief_michael_knox_-_ali_budner_499x665-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deputy Chief Michael Knox. \u003ccite>(Ali Budner/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Deputy Chief, Michael Knox says staffing numbers are at a dangerous low. In fact, he says they’re down at least 300 street-ready officers right now. “It causes us to put an enormous amount of stress on the existing staff,” Knox says “to make up for everyone who has left this department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He blames the exodus mostly on a watershed moment back in 2012. That’s when San Jose voters passed \u003ca href=\"http://www.mef101.org/Resources/12-0605%20-%20Measure%20B%20-%20Pension%20Plan%20Amendments.pdf\">local ballot measure B\u003c/a>. The initiative poured vinegar into the sweet tea of public worker compensation deals by making sweeping cuts to retirement pensions. Current employees would have to pay more for their retirement benefits or take a less generous pension. New employees would be offered less. All public workers would lose their disability protections as well the certainty of their pensions, altogether if there was a fiscal emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That has made it increasingly difficult to compete with other agencies,” says Knox. “And not only to recruit but to retain our staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the man who pioneered Measure B — former San Jose Mayor, Chuck Reed — says pension reform was necessary. When he took office back in 2007, he inherited a massive budget deficit. To deal with it, first he did all the things that make people hate politicians. He laid people off, raised taxes, and made deep cuts to public services. But he says pension costs were the real culprit.In the first two years of his term, the city’s pension debt had actually skyrocketed to almost a billion dollars. “And so when the choice was cutting services more, raising taxes more, or making some modification to retirement benefits,” Reed says, “the public was supportive of reasonable modifications.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11245186\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 499px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11245186\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/former_mayor_chuck_reed_-_ali_budner_499x374.jpg\" alt=\"Former Mayor Chuck Reed. \" width=\"499\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/former_mayor_chuck_reed_-_ali_budner_499x374.jpg 499w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/former_mayor_chuck_reed_-_ali_budner_499x374-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/former_mayor_chuck_reed_-_ali_budner_499x374-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/former_mayor_chuck_reed_-_ali_budner_499x374-375x281.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Mayor Chuck Reed. \u003ccite>(Ali Budner/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a hard and fast rule,” says Josh Rauh, professor of Finance at Stanford University. “But once more than 20 percent of the city’s revenues are going towards public employee pensions, people start saying ‘gee, this is untenable’. That’s what happened in San Jose. They crossed that threshold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure B passed with nearly 70 percent of the vote. Reed says, “It felt like the people of San Jose agreed with me that we needed to do something about retirement costs.” He argues it’s something other cities and state of California should be doing, but aren’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to a framed editorial cartoon on his office wall. It shows California as a Titanic-like ship sinking into the sea. And two men with life jackets reading “San Jose” and “San Diego” (another city that passed its own version of pension reform) are watching it sink from their tiny lifeboat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11245187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11245187\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Political cartoon in former Mayor Chuck Reed 's office.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Political cartoon in former Mayor Chuck Reed ‘s office. \u003ccite>(Ali Budner/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So San Diego and San Jose are rowing away in a pension reform lifeboat while the state of California sinks,” says Reed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But public employee unions saw Measure B differently. They despised the new law. And it wasn’t just them. Some in the business community worried about its effect on city agencies, especially public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reginald Swilley, a co-owner of the \u003ca href=\"http://minoritybusinessconsortium.com/\">Minority Business Consortium\u003c/a> in San Jose, was so upset about the number of officers the police department lost after Measure B passed, he said he had trouble talking about it. He’s an African American businessman and activist. “You know the problem with police and black people around the country, right?” He says. “We need good police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of Measure B eventually got their say. Soon after voters passed the measure in 2012, the public employee unions challenged its legality. A superior court judge struck down a handful of the law’s provisions — saying it was unconstitutional to alter benefits for current employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Jose made a risky gamble and it failed,” says Tom Saggau, spokesperson for the San Jose police officers and firefighters. He was at the table when the city and the unions negotiated an entirely new voter initiative (Measure F) based on the court ruling. It passed by a healthy margin this November. It’s a compromise that both sides seem happy with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the workers, says Saggau, “it’s a vested benefit, that restores disability protections, and keeps a promise that if you do what you say you’re going to do, have a career here in San Jose, you’re gonna have a retirement benefit that you’re gonna be able to support yourself on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the city says it will still save about $3 billion over the next 30 years. That’s because this compromise will significantly cut down on retiree health benefits and cost of living adjustments. It will also eliminate the “13th check” — an annual bonus payment public workers had received in the years before 2012.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">This story is part of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/pensions\">California’s Pension Crisis Project\u003c/a>, a reporting collaboration between Capital Public Radio, The Los Angeles Times and CALmatters to explore the consequences of a historic expansion of retirement benefits for California public employees. \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities and states across the country are facing public employee pension debt that is challenging and, in some cases, crippling their budgets. But some municipalities are experimenting with ways to solve that problem. In San Jose, California, voters passed a set of sweeping pension reforms back in 2012. The public employee unions fought back in court. Now a new initiative passed this November may offer a compromise that works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a rainy day in October. Three recruiting officers from the San Jose Police Department are standing behind a table in a bustling room on a nearby public university campus. Today is the school’s career fair and the SJPD booth is covered in schwag–stickers, pens, even tiny bottles of hand sanitizer–emblazoned with the Department’s logo. They’re hoping job-seekers will stop and apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11245181\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11245181\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/deputy_chief_michael_knox_-_ali_budner_499x665.jpg\" alt=\"Deputy Chief Michael Knox.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/deputy_chief_michael_knox_-_ali_budner_499x665.jpg 499w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/deputy_chief_michael_knox_-_ali_budner_499x665-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/deputy_chief_michael_knox_-_ali_budner_499x665-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/deputy_chief_michael_knox_-_ali_budner_499x665-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deputy Chief Michael Knox. \u003ccite>(Ali Budner/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Deputy Chief, Michael Knox says staffing numbers are at a dangerous low. In fact, he says they’re down at least 300 street-ready officers right now. “It causes us to put an enormous amount of stress on the existing staff,” Knox says “to make up for everyone who has left this department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He blames the exodus mostly on a watershed moment back in 2012. That’s when San Jose voters passed \u003ca href=\"http://www.mef101.org/Resources/12-0605%20-%20Measure%20B%20-%20Pension%20Plan%20Amendments.pdf\">local ballot measure B\u003c/a>. The initiative poured vinegar into the sweet tea of public worker compensation deals by making sweeping cuts to retirement pensions. Current employees would have to pay more for their retirement benefits or take a less generous pension. New employees would be offered less. All public workers would lose their disability protections as well the certainty of their pensions, altogether if there was a fiscal emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That has made it increasingly difficult to compete with other agencies,” says Knox. “And not only to recruit but to retain our staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the man who pioneered Measure B — former San Jose Mayor, Chuck Reed — says pension reform was necessary. When he took office back in 2007, he inherited a massive budget deficit. To deal with it, first he did all the things that make people hate politicians. He laid people off, raised taxes, and made deep cuts to public services. But he says pension costs were the real culprit.In the first two years of his term, the city’s pension debt had actually skyrocketed to almost a billion dollars. “And so when the choice was cutting services more, raising taxes more, or making some modification to retirement benefits,” Reed says, “the public was supportive of reasonable modifications.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11245186\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 499px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11245186\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/former_mayor_chuck_reed_-_ali_budner_499x374.jpg\" alt=\"Former Mayor Chuck Reed. \" width=\"499\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/former_mayor_chuck_reed_-_ali_budner_499x374.jpg 499w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/former_mayor_chuck_reed_-_ali_budner_499x374-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/former_mayor_chuck_reed_-_ali_budner_499x374-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/former_mayor_chuck_reed_-_ali_budner_499x374-375x281.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Mayor Chuck Reed. \u003ccite>(Ali Budner/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a hard and fast rule,” says Josh Rauh, professor of Finance at Stanford University. “But once more than 20 percent of the city’s revenues are going towards public employee pensions, people start saying ‘gee, this is untenable’. That’s what happened in San Jose. They crossed that threshold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure B passed with nearly 70 percent of the vote. Reed says, “It felt like the people of San Jose agreed with me that we needed to do something about retirement costs.” He argues it’s something other cities and state of California should be doing, but aren’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to a framed editorial cartoon on his office wall. It shows California as a Titanic-like ship sinking into the sea. And two men with life jackets reading “San Jose” and “San Diego” (another city that passed its own version of pension reform) are watching it sink from their tiny lifeboat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11245187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11245187\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Political cartoon in former Mayor Chuck Reed 's office.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Political cartoon in former Mayor Chuck Reed ‘s office. \u003ccite>(Ali Budner/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So San Diego and San Jose are rowing away in a pension reform lifeboat while the state of California sinks,” says Reed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But public employee unions saw Measure B differently. They despised the new law. And it wasn’t just them. Some in the business community worried about its effect on city agencies, especially public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reginald Swilley, a co-owner of the \u003ca href=\"http://minoritybusinessconsortium.com/\">Minority Business Consortium\u003c/a> in San Jose, was so upset about the number of officers the police department lost after Measure B passed, he said he had trouble talking about it. He’s an African American businessman and activist. “You know the problem with police and black people around the country, right?” He says. “We need good police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of Measure B eventually got their say. Soon after voters passed the measure in 2012, the public employee unions challenged its legality. A superior court judge struck down a handful of the law’s provisions — saying it was unconstitutional to alter benefits for current employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Jose made a risky gamble and it failed,” says Tom Saggau, spokesperson for the San Jose police officers and firefighters. He was at the table when the city and the unions negotiated an entirely new voter initiative (Measure F) based on the court ruling. It passed by a healthy margin this November. It’s a compromise that both sides seem happy with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the workers, says Saggau, “it’s a vested benefit, that restores disability protections, and keeps a promise that if you do what you say you’re going to do, have a career here in San Jose, you’re gonna have a retirement benefit that you’re gonna be able to support yourself on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the city says it will still save about $3 billion over the next 30 years. That’s because this compromise will significantly cut down on retiree health benefits and cost of living adjustments. It will also eliminate the “13th check” — an annual bonus payment public workers had received in the years before 2012.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "Does San Jose Deserve the Nickname 'Man Jose'?",
"headTitle": "Does San Jose Deserve the Nickname ‘Man Jose’? | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>The Big Apple, Sin City, the Big Easy — all famous nicknames for American cities. But have you heard of Man Jose? This week we explore if San Jose should be called Man Jose. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious/\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a new podcast from KQED that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listener Paul Schindler asked Bay Curious: “Does San Jose really deserve the nickname Man Jose?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you look at just the top-level census numbers, there are roughly the same number of men and women living in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Break those numbers down further, though, and you’ll find a \u003cem>big\u003c/em> difference among single people in their 20s and 30s. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://censusreporter.org/data/table/?table=B12002&geo_ids=16000US0668000&primary_geo_id=16000US0668000#valueType%7Cestimate\">2015 American Community Survey\u003c/a>, in this group there were roughly 134 men for every 100 women in San Jose. That’s a big disparity!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/299994983″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been this way for a while. In 2000, San Jose had more single guys than the entire state of Alaska.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The region is dominated by technology companies, and men tend to major in those kinds of degrees, like engineering or computer science, at higher rates than women,” says Marianne Cooper, a Stanford professor at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. “It seems they are coming out here for the jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens when there are more single men?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2015, \u003ca href=\"http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21648715-distorted-sex-ratios-birth-generation-ago-are-changing-marriage-and-damaging-societies-asias\">China\u003c/a> had 116 boys born for every 100 girls, and the Indian state of \u003ca href=\"http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21648715-distorted-sex-ratios-birth-generation-ago-are-changing-marriage-and-damaging-societies-asias\">Haryana\u003c/a> had an overall population of 114 males for every 100 females. Some claim that these imbalanced gender ratios will lead to large numbers of unmarried men in impoverished areas, causing spikes in violence and crime. Others argue these claims are \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/10/10/gender_ratios_and_violence_a_surplus_of_men_in_society_does_not_cause_more.html\">oversimplified\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristine Kilanski is a sociologist at Stanford studying boomtowns with distorted gender ratios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we look at working-class men, we hold assumptions about them and how they treat women. We don’t have the same assumptions about how middle-class men treat women. We know that workplace harassment is commonplace in the tech industry and the oil and gas industry,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kilanski lived in an oil boomtown for her research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s all these discourses about how putting a lot men together creates a lot of fights,” says Kilanski. “And there were a lot of fights in the bars. But I also saw men shopping in packs to get their groceries. They were living very much in family formations away from their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because San Jose’s single male population is largely employed and high-earning, it doesn’t receive the same kind of criticism as impoverished areas of China or oil boomtowns. Sometimes the gender disparity in San Jose is even viewed positively. In 2014,\u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/02/the-best-and-worst-cities-for-women-looking-to-marry/\"> the Pew Research Center\u003c/a> wrote that San Jose is the best place to go for women looking to marry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses have sprung up to cater to the dating needs of these well-to-do single guys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy Andersen is the founder and CEO of\u003ca href=\"http://www.linxdating.com/\"> Linx Dating\u003c/a>, a matchmaking service in the heart of Silicon Valley. Her beautiful office is in Ansel Adams’ old studio. Anderson got her start as a matchmaker after noticing the gender ratios while living in Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re looking for good guys, come to Silicon Valley to find them,” says Andersen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11231400\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11231400 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/IMG_3876-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Anderson of Linx Dating\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy Andersen of Linx Dating \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You could use Tinder to find a partner, but Andersen is for those who seek committed partnerships and might even be willing to move for it. She sets up couples across the Peninsula and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get a lot of emails from women based down in Los Angeles. These women are professionals, and these women are really crying out. They write me and say, ‘Amy, do you represent any gainfully employed men?’ They are looking for a guy who isn’t a wannabe actor or part-time model,” says Andersen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other companies play the numbers in more extreme ways. \u003ca href=\"http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/05/shipped-to-california.html\">One dating service\u003c/a> flew a plane full of single women from New York to meet Bay Area guys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLrnA85zm5w]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the dating scene like?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After talking to two dozen young people on the street, most had not heard the nickname Man Jose, but a number of them had noticed the distorted sex ratios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Probably when you’re at the bars you see the most males,” said local fitness instructor Justin Sweat. “They’re like vultures out there sometimes. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>The Big Apple, Sin City, the Big Easy — all famous nicknames for American cities. But have you heard of Man Jose? This week we explore if San Jose should be called Man Jose. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious/\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a new podcast from KQED that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listener Paul Schindler asked Bay Curious: “Does San Jose really deserve the nickname Man Jose?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you look at just the top-level census numbers, there are roughly the same number of men and women living in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Break those numbers down further, though, and you’ll find a \u003cem>big\u003c/em> difference among single people in their 20s and 30s. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://censusreporter.org/data/table/?table=B12002&geo_ids=16000US0668000&primary_geo_id=16000US0668000#valueType%7Cestimate\">2015 American Community Survey\u003c/a>, in this group there were roughly 134 men for every 100 women in San Jose. That’s a big disparity!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/299994983″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/299994983″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been this way for a while. In 2000, San Jose had more single guys than the entire state of Alaska.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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We don’t have the same assumptions about how middle-class men treat women. We know that workplace harassment is commonplace in the tech industry and the oil and gas industry,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kilanski lived in an oil boomtown for her research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s all these discourses about how putting a lot men together creates a lot of fights,” says Kilanski. “And there were a lot of fights in the bars. But I also saw men shopping in packs to get their groceries. They were living very much in family formations away from their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because San Jose’s single male population is largely employed and high-earning, it doesn’t receive the same kind of criticism as impoverished areas of China or oil boomtowns. Sometimes the gender disparity in San Jose is even viewed positively. In 2014,\u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/02/the-best-and-worst-cities-for-women-looking-to-marry/\"> the Pew Research Center\u003c/a> wrote that San Jose is the best place to go for women looking to marry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses have sprung up to cater to the dating needs of these well-to-do single guys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy Andersen is the founder and CEO of\u003ca href=\"http://www.linxdating.com/\"> Linx Dating\u003c/a>, a matchmaking service in the heart of Silicon Valley. Her beautiful office is in Ansel Adams’ old studio. Anderson got her start as a matchmaker after noticing the gender ratios while living in Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re looking for good guys, come to Silicon Valley to find them,” says Andersen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11231400\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11231400 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/IMG_3876-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Anderson of Linx Dating\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy Andersen of Linx Dating \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You could use Tinder to find a partner, but Andersen is for those who seek committed partnerships and might even be willing to move for it. She sets up couples across the Peninsula and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get a lot of emails from women based down in Los Angeles. These women are professionals, and these women are really crying out. They write me and say, ‘Amy, do you represent any gainfully employed men?’ They are looking for a guy who isn’t a wannabe actor or part-time model,” says Andersen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other companies play the numbers in more extreme ways. \u003ca href=\"http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/05/shipped-to-california.html\">One dating service\u003c/a> flew a plane full of single women from New York to meet Bay Area guys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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/sLrnA85zm5w'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/sLrnA85zm5w'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the dating scene like?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After talking to two dozen young people on the street, most had not heard the nickname Man Jose, but a number of them had noticed the distorted sex ratios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Probably when you’re at the bars you see the most males,” said local fitness instructor Justin Sweat. “They’re like vultures out there sometimes. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]f you’ve walked past Adobe’s corporate headquarters in downtown San Jose, you may have spotted them: four big orange LED lights that look like flat-head screws, turning in apparently random patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week’s Bay Curious question comes from listener Geoff Morgan, who wanted to know:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do the turning wheels on the top of the Adobe building mean?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To start with, it helps to know Adobe makes computer software for people who work with words, pictures and sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the core of our DNA, really, is art and technology,” says Siri Lackovic, the company’s senior brand strategist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why you’ll find clever art installations all over their office towers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbkhD0SDyI8]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siri is one of the two people on the planet who know the whole story behind the glowing orange orbs Geoff noticed. The other person, of course, is the guy who came up with the concept, New York artist \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/benrubin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Rubin.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hope is that someone would look up and say: ‘What is that?’ ” Ben says. “What is that thing trying to say, you know? What is its message?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The name of this installation is San Jose Semaphore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Semaphore, by definition, is really a form of visual communication,” Siri explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Way back when, the only way to communicate surreptitiously over a short distance — say, from land to a ship — would be to rely on flag bearers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would hold up the flag, and depending on the position of the flag, would let them know if it was safe to come in, or better to stay put,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This resonates with Geoff, the KQED listener who asked the question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually was in the Navy, and so I remember people communicating with flags, and it was always interesting to me because it looked very official, but a lot of times, they were talking about the latest baseball scores from ship to ship and things like that,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, the short story on San Jose Semaphore is that it’s an art installation. The \u003cem>long\u003c/em> story stretches back to artist Ben Rubin’s childhood in Boston during the 1970s. Back then, he owned a Heathkit shortwave radio. Sometimes, when he turned it on, he’d hear the strangest things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These sort of clicks and beeps and mechanized announcements,” Ben says. “Who could not listen to an encrypted message and not wonder what it says, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR reported in a 2000 feature for the “Lost and Found Sound” series, these were \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP5J9-D7_jw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">numbers stations\u003c/a>, shortwave radio broadcasts that historians believe transmitted messages to spies stationed around the world, starting in World War I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the average listener, the letters, numbers and songs broadcast on the stations sound random. 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Then they rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they’re in that resting position, that actually is a word or a letter,” Siri says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those of us who think with our ears better than with our eyes, Ben made an audio version of the code that plays on \u003ca href=\"http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/philanthropy/sjsemaphore/transmission.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adobe\u003c/a>’s website. Here’s a sample …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/294475506″ params=”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using just the audio alone, you could solve the code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody could,” Siri says. “I don’t know if I could have guessed that, but yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know about you, but this seems way too complicated for a person of average intelligence to crack. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the core of our DNA, really, is art and technology,” says Siri Lackovic, the company’s senior brand strategist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why you’ll find clever art installations all over their office towers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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/pbkhD0SDyI8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/pbkhD0SDyI8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siri is one of the two people on the planet who know the whole story behind the glowing orange orbs Geoff noticed. The other person, of course, is the guy who came up with the concept, New York artist \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/benrubin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Rubin.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hope is that someone would look up and say: ‘What is that?’ ” Ben says. “What is that thing trying to say, you know? What is its message?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The name of this installation is San Jose Semaphore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Semaphore, by definition, is really a form of visual communication,” Siri explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Way back when, the only way to communicate surreptitiously over a short distance — say, from land to a ship — would be to rely on flag bearers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would hold up the flag, and depending on the position of the flag, would let them know if it was safe to come in, or better to stay put,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This resonates with Geoff, the KQED listener who asked the question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually was in the Navy, and so I remember people communicating with flags, and it was always interesting to me because it looked very official, but a lot of times, they were talking about the latest baseball scores from ship to ship and things like that,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, the short story on San Jose Semaphore is that it’s an art installation. The \u003cem>long\u003c/em> story stretches back to artist Ben Rubin’s childhood in Boston during the 1970s. Back then, he owned a Heathkit shortwave radio. Sometimes, when he turned it on, he’d hear the strangest things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These sort of clicks and beeps and mechanized announcements,” Ben says. “Who could not listen to an encrypted message and not wonder what it says, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR reported in a 2000 feature for the “Lost and Found Sound” series, these were \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP5J9-D7_jw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">numbers stations\u003c/a>, shortwave radio broadcasts that historians believe transmitted messages to spies stationed around the world, starting in World War I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the average listener, the letters, numbers and songs broadcast on the stations sound random. 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The messages are almost impossible to crack, unless you \u003cem>also\u003c/em> have an enigma machine, and directions so that your rotating discs are set up the exact same way they are at headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Because Some of You Are Seriously Curious\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\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/mcX7iO_XCFA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/mcX7iO_XCFA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with San Jose Semaphore, Ben isn’t using an enigma machine, and neither are you. So he has to include the key to decode the message in the transmission. Periodically, the discs will flash a line, which, when decoded, says something like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>START MESSAGE TRANSMISSION 2-4-1: ROTUNDA\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nor\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>START MESSAGE TRANSMISSION 2-2-6: FACTION\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It always begins with “Start message transmission.” And then three numbers. And then a word. This is followed by chunks of text that make no sense unless you realize that the “start message” line is actually a header — a key — with the information necessary to decode the paragraph that follows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just the way that the German enigma operators needed, at the beginning of each day, to establish certain settings in the machine,” Ben says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, just for fun, Ben added another confusing element, inspired by the fact planes headed to and from San Jose International Airport fly incessantly over downtown. Every time an airplane passes close by Adobe’s office towers, the orange discs spin wildly for a bit, before returning to their regularly scheduled programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as complicated as all of this sounds, the code was cracked within a month of installation by Bob Mayo and Mark Snesrud, two scientists who were in town for a conference. They spotted the semaphore and became obsessed. They wrote an entire \u003ca href=\"http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/philanthropy/sjsemaphore/pdf/decoding.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scientific paper\u003c/a> explaining how they broke the code. The first sentence they decoded was …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The beginning of that performance was clear enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All they had to do then was plug that sentence in to Google, and presto: It’s a line from Thomas Pynchon’s \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crying_of_Lot_49\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“The Crying of Lot 49.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a novel that [Pynchon] wrote in the late ’60s that’s set in a kind of proto-Silicon Valley part of California,” Ben says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message was the entire book, from end to end, which took about three months to transmit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was both impressed and disappointed that it had fallen so quickly,” Ben laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he came up with a second code (a tougher code!) that hasn’t been cracked in four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get a lot of, ‘I think it says: Buy Adobe products,’ ” Siri says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think ‘Beam me up, Scotty,’ was probably the funniest one,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nope, it’s not that either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honestly, folks: If the first code was “The Crying of Lot 49,” the second code is not going to be so obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want to know who knows what the code is?” Siri teases. “Only two people in the world — the artist and then one other person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, she won’t give it up. 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