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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Beth Willon and Joshua Johnson\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 546px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/liccardo-cortese.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-148933\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/liccardo-cortese.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose mayoral candidates Sam Liccardo, left, and Dave Cortese. \" width=\"546\" height=\"393\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose mayoral candidates Sam Liccardo, left, and Dave Cortese.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">Y\u003c/span>ou would almost think San Jose mayoral candidates Sam Liccardo and Dave Cortese just like to hang out with each other: In the nearly four months since the June primary election, they've met six times to debate the issues facing the Bay Area's biggest city and their visions for handling them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left !important;font-size: 14pt\">\n\u003caside class=\"right\">\u003cstrong>Listen\u003c/strong> to the San Jose mayoral debate and read the wrap-up \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/san-jose-mayoral-candidates-liccardo-cortese-go-head-to-head-on-city-issues/\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/aside>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>One thing's very clear as Cortese, who sits on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors meets Liccardo, a member of the San Jose City Council, for a seventh time Monday night: They differ sharply on what it will take to keep the city safe and financially stable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The key questions in the debate, at eBay and moderated by Joshua Johnson of KQED News with KQED Silicon Valley reporter Rachael Myrow: Should San Jose shift course on \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/San_Jose_Pension_Reform,_Measure_B_(June_2012)\" target=\"_blank\">Measure B\u003c/a>, the 2012 City Charter amendment that imposed sweeping changes on public pensions? And what impact has Measure B had on public safety in the city?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Chuck Reed and his City Council allies championed the measure as a crucial step in reining in out-of-control pension costs. The proposal, which required steep new employee pension contributions among many other provisions, won with a 69 percent \"yes\" vote -- and drew \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=3182\" target=\"_blank\">a barrage of lawsuits\u003c/a> from unions and retired city workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last December, a Santa Clara County judge \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/25342\" target=\"_blank\">struck down key elements\u003c/a> of the measure, including a provision that would allow the city to impose higher pension contributions for current employees and another that would permit suspension of cost-of-living increases for retirees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates disagree on what to do next. Liccardo, like Reed, supported an appeal of last December's court ruling and said in \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/News/ci_26372865/Sam-Liccardo:-San-Jose-doesnt-need-to-spend-more-money-to-be-safer\" target=\"_blank\">a Mercury News op-ed\u003c/a> piece earlier last month that \"anyone who suggests we should overturn Measure B to improve safety had better identify a way to pay for those retirement costs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese has called for a settlement of the suits and negotiations to bring pension costs under control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/News/ci_26626118/San-Jose-mayors-race-heats-up-as-candidates-battle-over-key-police-issue\" target=\"_blank\">Cortese and Liccardo are also at odds \u003c/a>on the impact Measure B has had on the city's Police Department and on crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese argues that Measure B led to an exodus from the department, which has lost hundreds of officers over the last several years, many leaving for jurisdictions with better pay and benefits. That, he says, has led to a spike in violent crime. \u003ca href=\"http://cortesecampaign.com/about-dave/on-the-issues/\" target=\"_blank\">His remedy\u003c/a>: fill 140 unstaffed positions in the Police Department, improve neighborhood policing and gang prevention, and establish collaborative crime-fighting efforts with residents and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo says that budget problems caused by rising pensions, not the ballot proposal, led officers to leave the department and that the loss of staff has been minimal since Measure B's passage. He argues that the city has already made progress in reducing violent crime and that the Police Department can improve its performance -- and public safety -- through smart investments in efficiency and technology such as wearable cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He insists the real risk to the Police Department arises from the threat of fiscal instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, there are other pressing issues in this race. Perhaps the biggest: affordable housing in a place that \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2014/02/26/americas-most-overpriced-cities/\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes named earlier this year as California's most overpriced city\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen for Liccardo to detail a housing impact fee levied on developers of new residential construction. Cortese gives a variation on that theme supporting a fee charged to commercial developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since this debate is taking place at eBay and is hosted by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, you can expect some questions that touch on the technology sector. For instance, how do the candidates plan to stem the tide of tech startups going to the Peninsula and San Francisco instead of San Jose?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has promoted \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Twitter-tax-break-cost-city-4-2-million-last-year-5573881.php\" target=\"_blank\">tax breaks\u003c/a> that persuaded fast-growing firms like \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/02/business/twitter-helps-revive-a-seedy-san-francisco-neighborhood.html\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://mashable.com/2013/10/11/square-headquarters/\" target=\"_blank\">Square\u003c/a> to stay in the city. Other established tech companies are choosing to expand on the Peninsula instead of San Jose because, in part, that is where their younger workforce wants to live. Will the candidates have any solutions for making San Jose more appealing to 20-something engineers and scientists?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the divergence on some issues, Liccardo and Dave Cortese personally have a lot in common. Both are Italian-Americans who graduated from Bellarmine College Preparatory High School in San Jose and became lawyers. Both are socially progressive Democrats from wealthy, established families.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/payprotest092514.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148609\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/payprotest092514-640x370.jpg\" alt=\"SEIU President Mary Kay Henry and fast-food workers occupy a North Oakland McDonalds earlier this month. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/payprotest092514-640x370.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/payprotest092514-1028x594.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/payprotest092514.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SEIU President Mary Kay Henry and fast-food workers occupy a North Oakland McDonald's earlier this month. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/169374791&color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days before Christmas last year, dozens of people marched in circles around a Jack in the Box restaurant on Telegraph Avenue in North Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Give her her job back!” they chanted, protesting the firing of Ilda Amadour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"FhsGHGY6V1vaWSBNVZvGuGOHXne92498\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a good employee. I work hard for $8.75 an hour.” said Amadour. “Jack in the Box feels like they can walk all over us and we're not taking it no more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then another chant rang out, making it clear that Amadour and the rest of the crowd, which included other fast-food workers, weren’t just advocating for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fifteen dollars! A union! Fifteen dollars! A union!” they cried as they marched to a second Jack in the Box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those two basic demands -- $15 an hour and a union contract -- have become the battle cry for millions of fast-food workers across the country. With unions on a decades-long downslide, \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Service Employees International Union\u003c/a> President Mary Kay Henry saw a chance to connect with disgruntled workers at companies like McDonald's and Jack in the Box and change the public conversation around stagnant wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What union they become a part of or what membership they have is sort of secondary to the first job, which is to make sure they win $15 and a union,” said Henry. The union has spent a reported $10 million on the campaign, which has spread from New York to Chicago, Detroit and the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If San Francisco and Oakland can raise their minimum wage and there can still be job growth and small business growth, it shows that what the right wing is saying is wrong. This is not a job killer. This is a job creator,” Henry added.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">How a president's remarks and a campaign by fast-food workers has struck a chord in the Bay Area.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Over the last two years, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu1021.org/politics/raise-the-bay/\">“Raise the Bay”\u003c/a> regional effort has recruited and trained dozens of fast-food employees to tell their stories in order to change public perceptions of who they are and what their lives are like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance: workers like KFC employee Shonda Roberts, with two daughters in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was probably working (at KFC) six months, and an organizer happened to come in and had a petition there to up the pay — minimum wage $15 — and I signed it [and] went to a meeting,\" Roberts recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then they flew me out to Detroit maybe six months later for a conference. And when I saw 1,500 young adults, all fast-food workers just standing in solidarity, I was hooked. It was like a drug,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Obama mentioned the minimum wage in his \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/sotu\" target=\"_blank\">2014 State of the Union address\u003c/a>, calling on “every mayor, governor and state legislator in America\" to take on the issue. UC Berkeley economist Ken Jacobs said Obama’s remarks were a coup for ongoing local efforts in Bay Area communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has really changed the debate.” said Jacobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose was ahead of the wave of Bay Area minimum-wage campaigns, with voters approving \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/election2012/2012/09/26/in-san-jose-voters-ponder-raising-minimum-wage-by-25-percent/\" target=\"_blank\">a raise to $10 an hour\u003c/a> (and future increases) in 2012. Earlier this year, both \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/06/east-bay-minimum+wage-conversation-spreads/\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-minimum-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley\u003c/a> moved to raise minimum wages. And this fall, voters in San Francisco and Oakland will consider ballot initiatives that would raise wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some local chambers of commerce and many business owners have argued against the hefty minimum-wage increases, saying that increased costs for employers will lead to layoffs and hurt workers, not help them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael LeBlanc, founder and principal of \u003ca href=\"http://www.picanrestaurant.com/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">downtown Oakland's Picán restaurant\u003c/a>, voiced those very concerns when he appeared before the Oakland City Council in July to testify against a campaign to raise the city's minimum wage by more than 35 percent. That proposal, placed on Oakland's November ballot through a petition drive led by a community group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.liftupoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Lift Up Oakland\u003c/a>, would hike minimum pay from $9 to $12.25 an hour, effective next March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the minimum wage increases in the form that Lift Up Oakland has it, I will lose eight or nine people, and I don’t have a choice about that,” LeBlanc told the council as it considered an alternate proposal for a more gradual increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council voted down the alternative, which would have raised wages to $12.25 next October and $13.50 in 2018. 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Commissioner of Baseball\u003c/a> — or rather, on a key part of the city’s case that focuses on Major League Baseball’s exemption from federal antitrust law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose officials filed the suit last year in an attempt to force major league owners to let the Oakland A’s relocate to the South Bay. That move has been blocked for five years by the San Francisco Giants, the franchise that holds baseball’s territorial rights to San Jose and the rest of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s action is an appeal of a lower court’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_24290747/judge-dismisses-san-jose-antitrust-claims-against-mlb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dismissal of most of San Jose’s case\u003c/a>. A three-judge panel will hear about 20 minutes of oral argument from each side. The judges aren’t expected to issue a ruling until sometime this fall, and either side might appeal their decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. Tuesday’s proceedings will be streamed live \u003ca href=\"http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/view_video.php?pk_vid=0000006503\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In advance of the hearing, I spoke with Nathaniel Grow, a law professor at the University of Georgia who specializes in sports law and has written \u003ca href=\"http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/56snn7zy9780252038198.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a book\u003c/a> on the \u003ca href=\"http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/259/200/case.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1922 Supreme Court ruling\u003c/a> that has protected the major leagues from antitrust actions in the past. Grow says the law is not on San Jose’s side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got not only three Supreme Court decisions that are binding precedents, but the 9th Circuit has their own binding precedent from the 1970s, saying that this very same issue, relocation of franchises, is covered by baseball’s antitrust exemption. San Jose has to get out of that and come up with some way to convince the judges on the 9th Circuit to ignore all that and rule in their favor. Whereas Major League Baseball’s case is much cleaner. All they have to do is say, ‘Look, this is what the law is, this is how it applies’ — there really isn’t a lot of discretion for the appellate court to exercise its judgment here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grow says the last time that Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption came before the Supreme Court was in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And there the Supreme Court said, ‘You know, Congress has known about this for 50 years at this point. They’ve thought about acting, they’ve never acted, so it’s not our place to touch it now. That would be unfair to Major League Baseball to reverse this protection that they’ve been relying on for five decades.’ And I think if this case were to get to the Supreme Court level, that’d be the argument — 40 years later, is it even less fair to MLB to act, or is Congress being so negligent that it’s time for the court to step in?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grow rates San Jose’s chances of succeeding at the 9th Circuit at less than 10 percent, and he thinks the high court would probably decline to hear an appeal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if the Supreme Court does take the case, then I think that’s a really bad sign for Major League Baseball. I don’t see the court wading into this highly contentious, controversial issue for a fourth time only to issue what is sure to be a highly criticized opinion affirming baseball’s antitrust exemption. So, if the Supreme Court agrees to take the case, San Jose would likely win one way or another, either through a settlement or a judicial decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Grow if San Jose’s argument — that the A’s want to move, and only MLB’s intransigence is stopping them — was damaged when the A’s owners \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/06/Coliseum-board-approves-10-year-deal-with-oakland-athletics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed a 10-year lease extension at the Oakland Coliseum last week\u003c/a> and said they’re talking with architects and \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_26287681/approach-architect-oakland-ballpark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">looking at sites for a new ballpark in Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it certainly doesn’t help, in part because it casts doubt on San Jose’s standing to bring a suit — since they can’t claim damages for losing a baseball team that they might have never had:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the past, courts have often said unless a team is 100 percent contractually committed to moving, there is no case yet. And that would be the worst possible outcome for San Jose — for the 9th Circuit to rule that there’s no standing here. If the 9th Circuit affirms the dismissal on ‘no standing’ grounds, there’s very, very, very little chance the Supreme Court would review that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that the court won’t be ruling for a few months, I asked Grow what clues might we get from the oral arguments? He cautioned against trying to read too much into questions from the bench:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Especially here, where the city faces such a strong uphill climb to get over those Supreme Court precedents. The judges will undoubtedly ask some pointed questions of Major League Baseball, because they have to treat both sides a little critically in order to be fair. But if you started to get the sense that at least two of the three judges are willing to disregard precedent — or if they start to suggest the precedents are so outdated that it isn’t binding any more — that’s the type of language that might get San Jose a victory here. It’s much more likely, though, that the judges are critical of San Jose’s case, and that indicates they’re likely to rule for Major League Baseball.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5 p.m.:\u003c/strong> A divided San Jose City Council voted against all of the tax measures Tuesday afternoon. While 10 out of the 11 members said they wanted a quarter-cent sales tax increase, the members could not decide how the money should be spent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Chuck Reed, Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen and council members Sam Liccardo, Rose Herrera, Pete Constant and Johnny Khamis wanted to earmark the estimated $34 million a year from the tax increase to public safety. Council members Ash Kalra, Don Rocha, Xavier Campos and Kansen Chu wanted the money to go to the general fund. Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio voted against both tax proposals. Tax measures need a supermajority, or 8 votes, to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council will not have another to chance to put a general tax measure on the ballot until 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two measures meant to soften some provisions of Measure B, the city's controversial 2012 pension reform plan, also did not go through. The initiatives would have allowed police officers to return to the city at their pre-Measure B pension rates, and streamlined the process for injured police and firefighters to go on disability. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A proposition to hold union negotiations in public also stalled. The council directed city staff to continue the meet with unions on employee pensions and public bargaining. Council members unanimously voted against a measure that would have increased the marijuana business tax from 10 percent to 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only measure to go through to the ballot? 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San Jose's current sales tax is 8.75 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/33388\" target=\"_blank\">a poll funded by the City Council\u003c/a>, 67 percent of respondents favored the general sales tax, 71 percent the public safety tax and 65 percent the road repair tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the general sales tax measure has the least support, it's also the easiest to pass. Special-purpose measures need a two-thirds majority while general taxes need only a majority. 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Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese, Liccardo's mayoral rival, favors a general tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Measure B-Related Initiatives\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure B, enacted by nearly 70 percent of voters in June 2012, required existing city employees to make additional contributions to their pension plans or pay up to 16 percent of their paycheck into a retirement fund. The measure allowed employees to avoid the extra fees by opting into a less generous plan with smaller payouts and later retirement ages. New employees must pay up to 50 percent of their pension costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/95792/\" target=\"_blank\">including the police\u003c/a>, quickly sued, saying that their retirement benefits were previously approved in their labor contracts. 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The ruling was appealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed would like to the case to go the California Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's important for the people of California to be able to do that and get clarity on the law, so that we're not in this straitjacket of never being able to fix things when we get into fiscal problems,\" Reed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed changes to Measure B would guarantee a city job to police officers or firefighters who are injured on the job and make it easier for officers who are unable to work for more than a year to qualify for disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a couple of minor changes to what the voters appealed,\" Reed said. \"There's been a lot of confusion about what it takes to qualify for disability retirement in San Jose, so we just wanted to make it real clear that if an officer is injured on the job and can't work, they're going to get a disability retirement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another measure would give San Jose police officers who left the department the same benefits they had if they return by January 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third measure would allow public access to employee bargaining negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the changes do not address several of labor's concerns, including the amount workers must pay toward their pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marijuana Tax and Dispensaries\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed also wants to increase the marijuana business tax from 10 percent to 15 to 20 percent. 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San Jose's current sales tax is 8.75 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/33388\" target=\"_blank\">a poll funded by the City Council\u003c/a>, 67 percent of respondents favored the general sales tax, 71 percent the public safety tax and 65 percent the road repair tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the general sales tax measure has the least support, it's also the easiest to pass. Special-purpose measures need a two-thirds majority while general taxes need only a majority. 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Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese, Liccardo's mayoral rival, favors a general tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Measure B-Related Initiatives\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure B, enacted by nearly 70 percent of voters in June 2012, required existing city employees to make additional contributions to their pension plans or pay up to 16 percent of their paycheck into a retirement fund. The measure allowed employees to avoid the extra fees by opting into a less generous plan with smaller payouts and later retirement ages. New employees must pay up to 50 percent of their pension costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/95792/\" target=\"_blank\">including the police\u003c/a>, quickly sued, saying that their retirement benefits were previously approved in their labor contracts. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-136127\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS10391_SJ-Mayor-L-R-Councilmembers-Madison-Nguyen-Pierluigi-Oliverio-Rose-Herrera-Sam-Liccardo-and-Santa-Clara-Supervisor-Dave-Cortese-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Candidates for San Jose mayor, from left to right: Madison Nguyen, Pierluigi Oliverio, Rose Herrera, Sam Liccardo, and Santa Clara Supervisor Dave Cortese. (Cy Musiker/KWQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candidates for San Jose mayor, from left to right: Madison Nguyen, Pierluigi Oliverio, Rose Herrera, Sam Liccardo, and Santa Clara Supervisor Dave Cortese. (Cy Musiker/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Wednesday, 7:35 a.m.:\u003c/strong> With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, Santa Clara Supervisor Dave Cortese and San Jose City Councilman Sam Liccardo will compete in November to replace outgoing Mayor Chuck Reed. The top three vote-getters, according \u003ca href=\"http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/51635/132035/Web01/en/summary.html\" target=\"_blank\">to the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters\u003c/a>, are:\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Dave Cortese:\u003c/strong> 33.6 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Sam Liccardo:\u003c/strong> 25.1 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Madison Nguyen:\u003c/strong> 21.2 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Wednesday 1:20 a.m.:\u003c/strong> With 477 of 485 precincts reporting, Sam Liccardo is likely to hold onto his lead over Madison Nguyen and will face Dave Cortese in the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Midnight:\u003c/strong> With 197 of 485 precincts reporting, it appears that Dave Cortese will certainly be on the ballot in November, but it is not yet clear who his opponent will be. As of midnight Wednesday, Sam Liccardo had 25 percent of the vote and Madison Nguyen had 22 percent. For the latest returns, visit the \u003ca href=\"http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/51635/132019/Web01/en/summary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Clara Elections website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Tuesday 10:40 p.m.:\u003c/strong> With 57 of San Jose's 485 precincts reporting — and we don't know what proportion of mail-in ballots have been counted yet — the top three are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Cortese, 33.9 percent\u003cbr>\nSam Liccardo, 24.4 percent\u003cbr>\nMadison Nguyen: 22.5 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese is confident he'll stay atop the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\"I was on my way down here at 8:01 p.m. and I got a text from my campaign manager and he said, '60,000 votes, you have 33.75 percent,' \" says Cortese. \"My response to him was, 'That’ll hold. That’s not going to change.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Tuesday 9:15 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Though the race is not close to being called, City Councilman Sam Liccardo says he's confident he'll be facing Dave Cortese in the mayor's race in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Last year at this time, we were predicted to finish fourth or somewhere thereabouts,\" Liccardo told KQED reporter Charla Bear. \"We’ve had just an incredible surge of support.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Tuesday, 8:50 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Dave Cortese has jumped to an early lead, but who will he face in November? \u003ca href=\"http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/51635/131975/Web01/en/summary.html\">Madison Nguyen and Sam Liccardo are neck and neck\u003c/a> for the second-place position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Not everyone at San Jose City Hall is running to replace termed-out Mayor Chuck Reed. It just seems that way. The crowded field of eight candidates includes four current City Council members and a county supervisor. Three candidates are seen as the favorites: Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese, Councilman Sam Liccardo and Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"c9b628fb19419223df2f229714b74dc2\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the first open San Jose mayor's race in eight years. Public safety clearly has become the top issue for many voters. The city’s rising crime rate has damaged San Jose's reputation as one of the nation’s safest large cities. Emergency response times have worsened as well, and that is partly a legacy of the pension reform battles Reed waged with the city's unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose’s police force has shrunk by more than a third, to about 900 officers, with many moving to neighboring cities to escape the effects of Measure B, a voter-approved pension reform plan spearheaded by Reed that is now tied up in legal challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese, Liccardo and Nguyen all stated at a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/san-jose-mayor-election\">recent debate\u003c/a> that reducing the crime rate would be their top priority, as did the other two candidates on hand, Pierluigi Oliverio and Rose Herrera.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS10391_SJ-Mayor-L-R-Councilmembers-Madison-Nguyen-Pierluigi-Oliverio-Rose-Herrera-Sam-Liccardo-and-Santa-Clara-Supervisor-Dave-Cortese.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-136127\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS10391_SJ-Mayor-L-R-Councilmembers-Madison-Nguyen-Pierluigi-Oliverio-Rose-Herrera-Sam-Liccardo-and-Santa-Clara-Supervisor-Dave-Cortese-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Candidates for San Jose Mayor, from left to right: Madison Nguyen, Pierluigi Oliverio, Rose Herrera, Sam Liccardo, and Santa Clara Supervisor Dave Cortese. 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The debate was sponsored by a coalition of neighborhood groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had a lot of burglaries in my neighborhood of Willow Glen.” Carruthers said, “So, yeah, I’d like to see the police walk the streets instead of staying in their cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carruthers seems almost embarrassed by her city’s rising crime rate. San Joseans have always taken pride in having one of the nation’s safest large cities. Emergency response times have worsened as well. And the problem is partly a legacy of pension reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose’s police force has shrunk by more than a third, to about 900 officers, with many jumping to neighboring cities to escape the effects of Measure B, a voter-approved pension reform plan now tied up in the courts and spearheaded by Reed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All five mayoral candidates at this debate said reducing the crime rate would be their top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First one would be public safety,” said City Councilwoman Madison Nguyen in her opening statement. “We right now have less than 1,000 sworn police officers patrolling our streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen promised to bring back the burglary unit eliminated in 2012. And she said she’d crack down on police cadets if they quit after graduating from expensive city-run police academies. “They need to stay with us for at least five years. If they decide to leave, then they need to pay back that money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That line drew a round of applause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose’s large Asian-American community is split in its support of Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American whose family came to the U.S. after the fall of Saigon and worked in the strawberry fields of the San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen faced down a recall attempt by Vietnamese-Americans after she resisted efforts to rename a commercial neighborhood “Little Saigon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been a close ally of Reed, the father of Measure B and another statewide pension reform measure. But so has the other leading candidate on the council, Sam Liccardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me the two most serious problems we’ll need to face are fiscal sustainability and public safety,” Liccardo said at the Willow Glen debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo is a South Bay native and former prosecutor who touts a crime reduction plan that involves networking video surveillance cameras at businesses around the city, and using data analytics to do smarter deployment of a reduced force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Very simple approaches, but basically a restoration of community policing is what’s going to enable us to be a safer city,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo boasts endorsements from major figures in San Jose’s business community and from two former mayors, and he’s the most out-front about continuing Reed’s program of fiscal reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We now have a $3 billion unfunded liability in this city.” Liccardo said, “and we cannot simply accept the idea that our children and grandchildren will pay for our inability to solve that problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo and Nguyen are the top two of four council members running for mayor — with Rose Herrera and Pierluigi Oliverio trailing behind in the most recent polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera has based her campaign on the argument that San Jose needs more jobs to increase its tax base. “Downtown san Jose is the most empty downtown city in the country during the daytime,” she said at the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fill downtown, Herrera wants the city to speed up the permitting process, “That means changing how we do business down at City Hall,” she said, “taking on a revolutionary idea that Phoenix and other cities have done that I’m putting forward, and that is 24-hour permitting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliverio’s big idea is to “heal the divisions in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way we can do that,”he said, “is to make union negotiations public. So, you can attend as a citizen. Right now it’s a closed-door process, and the only thing that comes out of that process is angst, brinkmanship and hurt feelings that leads to too much hostility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if we’re being watched by the public,” Oliverio said, “everyone will be kind, everyone will be honest, and we’ll have a different day in this city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other top contender is Santa Clara Supervisor and former Councilman Dave Cortese. He’s the favorite of labor groups, and he told the crowd at the Willow Glen debate that the city wouldn’t be in such a mess if his council opponents had any good ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The policies are not working. We need to restore the trust in this city. We have broken morale in this city. It’s time for a change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese notes the city is losing not just police officers. Planning department staffing is down 30 percent, public works by 20 percent. And Cortese is the one candidate who says he would work with city unions to settle the legal battle over Measure B, rather than continue to fight for the measure in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tell me how you restore trust and morale when litigating with your own employees.” Cortese said, “It’s not going to happen. This war you’ve been hearing about needs to end. It’s time for reconstruction in this city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That version of “labor peace” has made Cortese, no surprise, the favorite of San Jose’s municipal unions. And their support could make all the difference in this race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re phone-banking every night,\" said South Bay Labor Council Executive Director Ben Field in a recent interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Field said labor activists plan to call more than 100,000 likely voters urging them to vote for Cortese and pro-union candidates for the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cortese is really the only candidate who’s gonna turn the city in a better direction,” Field said. “There are five serious candidates, and four of them are all committed to a path that this current mayor has set, which has really been a disaster for the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor wields a powerful tool in this campaign: a well-endowed independent expenditure fund to pay for phone banks and mailers on Cortese’s behalf. Contributors include labor groups, politicians like Rep. Anna Eshoo and a pair of local cardrooms that have just chipped in $25,000 each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That independent spending has prompted a countereffort by Silicon Valley businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want Sam Liccardo’s candidacy to fall through because he was outspent two or three to one,” says Carl Guardino, the well-connected CEO of the nonpartisan Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which lobbies on behalf of high-tech and civic interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guardino rarely makes endorsements. But he’s making a personal exception for Liccardo, in gratitude for the candidate's early support for campaigns to bring BART to San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has been a champion on a lot of issues that are in his purview as a San Jose City Council member,” Guardino said, “but also on regional, state and federal issues standing shoulder to shoulder with the innovation economy and the tech community in Silicon Valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guardino and his wife are raising funds in $1,000, $10,000 and $25,000 chunks from tech executives like Steve Wyman of TIVO and high-powered lawyers like Joe Cotchett — with home addresses from San Francisco to Los Altos to San Jose. Guardino insists the fund won’t attack other candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is pro-Sam Liccardo,\" he said. \"It is not anti-anyone else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many voters in San Jose may be wary of a divisive campaign between unions and big business. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS10391_SJ-Mayor-L-R-Councilmembers-Madison-Nguyen-Pierluigi-Oliverio-Rose-Herrera-Sam-Liccardo-and-Santa-Clara-Supervisor-Dave-Cortese.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-136127\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS10391_SJ-Mayor-L-R-Councilmembers-Madison-Nguyen-Pierluigi-Oliverio-Rose-Herrera-Sam-Liccardo-and-Santa-Clara-Supervisor-Dave-Cortese-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Candidates for San Jose Mayor, from left to right: Madison Nguyen, Pierluigi Oliverio, Rose Herrera, Sam Liccardo, and Santa Clara Supervisor Dave Cortese. (Cy Musiker/KWQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candidates for San Jose mayor, from left to right: Madison Nguyen, Pierluigi Oliverio, Rose Herrera, Sam Liccardo and Santa Clara Supervisor Dave Cortese. (Cy Musiker/KWQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">San Jose is getting a new mayor. Incumbent Chuck Reed has served his limit of two terms. But Reed’s battles with city unions over pension reform are still shaping the mayoral campaigns of the top five candidates ahead of the June 3 primary.\u003c/span>\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cbr style=\"color: #000000\">Public safety, for instance, has become the top issue for many voters. “Crime is always top of my mind,” said Susan Carruthers recently at a mayoral debate near her home in the middle-class Willow Glen neighborhood. The debate was sponsored by a coalition of neighborhood groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had a lot of burglaries in my neighborhood of Willow Glen.” Carruthers said, “So, yeah, I’d like to see the police walk the streets instead of staying in their cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carruthers seems almost embarrassed by her city’s rising crime rate. San Joseans have always taken pride in having one of the nation’s safest large cities. Emergency response times have worsened as well. And the problem is partly a legacy of pension reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose’s police force has shrunk by more than a third, to about 900 officers, with many jumping to neighboring cities to escape the effects of Measure B, a voter-approved pension reform plan now tied up in the courts and spearheaded by Reed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All five mayoral candidates at this debate said reducing the crime rate would be their top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First one would be public safety,” said City Councilwoman Madison Nguyen in her opening statement. “We right now have less than 1,000 sworn police officers patrolling our streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen promised to bring back the burglary unit eliminated in 2012. And she said she’d crack down on police cadets if they quit after graduating from expensive city-run police academies. “They need to stay with us for at least five years. If they decide to leave, then they need to pay back that money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That line drew a round of applause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose’s large Asian-American community is split in its support of Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American whose family came to the U.S. after the fall of Saigon and worked in the strawberry fields of the San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen faced down a recall attempt by Vietnamese-Americans after she resisted efforts to rename a commercial neighborhood “Little Saigon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been a close ally of Reed, the father of Measure B and another statewide pension reform measure. But so has the other leading candidate on the council, Sam Liccardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me the two most serious problems we’ll need to face are fiscal sustainability and public safety,” Liccardo said at the Willow Glen debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo is a South Bay native and former prosecutor who touts a crime reduction plan that involves networking video surveillance cameras at businesses around the city, and using data analytics to do smarter deployment of a reduced force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Very simple approaches, but basically a restoration of community policing is what’s going to enable us to be a safer city,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo boasts endorsements from major figures in San Jose’s business community and from two former mayors, and he’s the most out-front about continuing Reed’s program of fiscal reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We now have a $3 billion unfunded liability in this city.” Liccardo said, “and we cannot simply accept the idea that our children and grandchildren will pay for our inability to solve that problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo and Nguyen are the top two of four council members running for mayor — with Rose Herrera and Pierluigi Oliverio trailing behind in the most recent polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera has based her campaign on the argument that San Jose needs more jobs to increase its tax base. “Downtown san Jose is the most empty downtown city in the country during the daytime,” she said at the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fill downtown, Herrera wants the city to speed up the permitting process, “That means changing how we do business down at City Hall,” she said, “taking on a revolutionary idea that Phoenix and other cities have done that I’m putting forward, and that is 24-hour permitting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliverio’s big idea is to “heal the divisions in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way we can do that,”he said, “is to make union negotiations public. So, you can attend as a citizen. Right now it’s a closed-door process, and the only thing that comes out of that process is angst, brinkmanship and hurt feelings that leads to too much hostility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if we’re being watched by the public,” Oliverio said, “everyone will be kind, everyone will be honest, and we’ll have a different day in this city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other top contender is Santa Clara Supervisor and former Councilman Dave Cortese. He’s the favorite of labor groups, and he told the crowd at the Willow Glen debate that the city wouldn’t be in such a mess if his council opponents had any good ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The policies are not working. We need to restore the trust in this city. We have broken morale in this city. It’s time for a change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese notes the city is losing not just police officers. Planning department staffing is down 30 percent, public works by 20 percent. 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And their support could make all the difference in this race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re phone-banking every night,\" said South Bay Labor Council Executive Director Ben Field in a recent interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Field said labor activists plan to call more than 100,000 likely voters urging them to vote for Cortese and pro-union candidates for the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cortese is really the only candidate who’s gonna turn the city in a better direction,” Field said. “There are five serious candidates, and four of them are all committed to a path that this current mayor has set, which has really been a disaster for the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor wields a powerful tool in this campaign: a well-endowed independent expenditure fund to pay for phone banks and mailers on Cortese’s behalf. Contributors include labor groups, politicians like Rep. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[vimeo 93798936 w=500 h=281]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>A tall building, a breathtaking (if not death-defying) descent, a pair of very excited peregrine falcon parents, some fluffy peregrine babies, pigeon bits and lots of bird poop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s your summary of a wonderful video put together and posted over the weekend by John Lewis, one of a large community of peregrine enthusiasts tracking the process of \u003ca href=\"http://sanjoseperegrines.editme.com/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fernando and Clara\u003c/a>, peregrine falcons raising four little birds on a sheltered rooftop at San Jose City Hall. (Bonus shots: \u003ca href=\"http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg/nestcamSJ.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the live City Hall nest cam\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis’s video features helmet-cam sequences showing Glenn Stewart, a UC Santa Cruz biologist whose research specialty is predatory birds, as he rappelled down the side of City Hall to the falcons’ nest box last Friday. There, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/scientists-band-san-jose-peregrine-falcon-chicks/nfnjf/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he examined the peregrine nestlings\u003c/a> to determine their sex — there are two males and two females — and to band them for future tracking. (Bonus trivia fact: The young are called eyasses, an \u003ca href=\"http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eyas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eyas\u003c/a> being a nestling hawk or falcon. “Eyas” \u003ca href=\"http://www.merriam-webster.com/audio.php?file=eyas0001&word=eyas&text=%5C%CB%88%C4%AB-%C9%99s%5C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is pronounced\u003c/a> “EYE-iss.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video also reveals that peregrine falcons’ wild behavior does not comport with human notions of tidiness and is unlikely to earn the \u003ca href=\"http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/product-reviews/history/welcome-gh-seal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval\u003c/a>. The nest box is strewn with bits of leftover prey, \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/npjOSLCR2hE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">late and expired pigeons\u003c/a> and whatnot, that the parents have brought to the kids. And there’s no getting around it, the nest box is just smeared with bird poop. Gross? Or nature? You decide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason the peregrine falcons at San Jose City Hall (and everywhere else) are a big deal? Here’s how UC Santa Cruz describes the importance of the birds and the San Jose project:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>… Biologists at UC Santa Cruz and Cornell University collaborated in the mid-1970s to restore a nearly extinct Peregrine Falcon population. At the time, two pairs were known in California—none could be found nesting east of the Mississippi River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Widespread use of the persistent pesticide, DDT, contaminated the environment worldwide resulting in eggshell thinning that decimated the Peregrine population. DDT was banned by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1972. For the next three decades, the U. C. Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group bred falcons in large aviaries, hatched thin-shelled eggs, climbed to the Cliffside nests of these birds, and restored the California population to an estimated 250 pairs—up from just 2 pairs.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>We have already pronounced the video wonderful, and we stand by that opinion with one small reservation. The soundtrack consists of assorted fanfares and musical curlicues lifted from the soundtrack of Steven Spielberg’s “E.T.” Too cute by half for these wild birds, we think, though as always, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_gustibus_non_est_disputandum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">de gustibus non est disputandum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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