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Turner joined a gang so he could belong, and his life got worse. He was involved in the murder of a rival gang member, a 15-year-old boy. Initially he says he wanted a job with Merit only because it paid good money. But then he came to appreciate it on a different level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After awhile, you’re in here, you start to understand the value of a dollar, where our money goes,” he says. “And that is a strong thing that you learn here, about giving back to your victim.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Merit employees gave about $8,000 to the San Joaquin County Victim Witness emergency fund. Program Coordinator Gabriela Jaurequi says the fund helps people like 38-year-old ranch hand Mario Dominguez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dominquez was hit head-on by a drunken driver who was trying to pass a semi truck. Today Dominguez sits in a hospital bed in a two-room apartment he shares with his wife and 18-month-old daughter, Julie. 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Google even issued its own tongue-in-cheek statement about the voyage, which began at San Francisco's Treasure Island about 2 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"It’s been a busy six months for our barge and it’s grown tired of all the attention, so we are moving it to Stockton where it can have a break, enjoy the city’s delicious asparagus and warmer climate, and get a bit of rest before its next chapter.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>To hear Stocktonians tell it, they're expecting the barge to do more than snack on local produce. Here's the city's mayor, quoted by Sacramento's KCRA TV: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a statement, Stockton Mayor Anthony Silva said the move is a sign of \"profound economic recovery\" for Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now with things getting better every day in Stockton, and a big name like Google coming here, (other businesses) will consider coming here, too,\" Silva said.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> The Google barge, long the subject of rumors and minor controversy, has left San Francisco Bay. Its new home, at least for now: Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stockton Record \u003ca href=\"http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140306/A_NEWS/403060327\" target=\"_blank\">has the story\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Google Inc.'s mysterious floating technology showroom is due to take up residence at the Port of Stockton, the port director confirmed today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Aschieris said the port has made arrangements, through agents working on behalf of Google, to house the tech company's barge that had been under construction at its previous mooring at Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've reached an agreement for them to dock at the Port of Stockton,\" he said. \"I'm absolutely delighted to have this agreement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the pact, the port would house the Google barge for six months, with Google paying the standard dockage fee. Given the watercraft's roughly 200-foot length, that would be about $10,000 a month, Aschieris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know when the arrival time is, but it could be anytime in the next six months, but it's also likely sooner than later,\" he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>We'll go with sooner. Helicopters from Bay Area news outlets have tracked the barge, propelled by two tugboats, as it moves east from Antioch. Twitter has been relayed the occasional semi-goggle-eyed report from along the route of the 80-mile voyage:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GoogleBarge\">@GoogleBarge\u003c/a> Hey! I just spotted you passing my house on the San Joaquin! How do you like the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CADelta&src=hash\">#CADelta\u003c/a> so far? Will u help us stop the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BDCP&src=hash\">#BDCP\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Dawn Gulick (@DawnGulick) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DawnGulick/statuses/441594897649258496\">March 6, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The barge is expected to arrive in Stockton, also known as Mudville, Fat City and (as of this writing) The Jewel of the San Joaquin, late Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since \u003ca href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57608585-93/is-google-building-a-hulking-floating-data-center-in-sf-bay/\" target=\"_blank\">its existence was reported last year\u003c/a>, onlookers have been speculating about exactly what the megacraft is and what the megacompany intends to do with it. Would it be a floating data center? A floating store? The consensus, \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2013/10/30/googles-crazy-barge-scheme-your-complete-guide/?tid=pm_national_pop\" target=\"_blank\">semi-confirmed\u003c/a> by Google itself, is that the barge is being turned into a floating showroom for Google technologies. (CNET's Daniel Terdiman broke the Google barge story last fall and wrote \u003ca href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57619673-93/google-barge-%2435-million-and-counting/\" target=\"_blank\">the definitive \"life and times of the Google barge\" story\u003c/a> for the tech news site last week. He says the company has sunk $35 million into the project so far.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The minor controversy around the barge has centered on where the thing will be docked long term. 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"content": "\u003cp>Filipinos constitute the largest Asian-American population in California. Surprised? According to the last \u003ca href=\"http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-11.pdf\">U.S. Census\u003c/a>, there are nearly 1.5 million Filipino-Americans living in the Golden State, most in Southern California and the Bay Area. It’s a fascinating story, but it doesn’t get a lot of play in our history books. San Francisco State Associate Professor of History Dawn Mabalon is keen to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the early 20th century, the center of Filipino-American life was in Stockton. Surprised about that, too? This makes sense when you consider that initially, most Filipinos crossing the Pacific came to work in the fields of the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back when she was an undergraduate at UCLA, Mabalon had an Oprah-style “aha!” moment, realizing that her own family history was History, with a capital H. That diner her grandfather, Pablo Mabalon, owned for 50 years? It was a cornerstone of the Filipino community in downtown Stockton, when “Little Manila” was home to the largest population of Filipinos outside the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What followed was a personal, political and academic journey, culminating in Mabalon's new book, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=47141\">Little Manila is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California\u003c/a>.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 410px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/29/little-manila-the-heart-of-filipino-california/little-manila-3-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109458\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-109458 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Little-Manila-31.jpeg\" alt='Filipinos dressed up for photos headed back home, in order to send the message \"Doing well here in California!\" Filipinos dressed up for photos headed back home, in order to send the message \"Doing well here in California!\" (Courtesy: Filipino American National Historical Society)' width=\"410\" height=\"517\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking good sends the message \"Doing well here in California!\" (Courtesy: Filipino American National Historical Society)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The book really begins here,” Mabalon says, standing at the corner of Lafayette and El Dorado, outside a mini-mall that was part of an urban redevelopment scheme in the 1990s. Over the roar of a Highway 4 exit, the result of another urban redevelopment in the 1960s, Mabalon acknowledges that it’s hard to imagine this was the heart of Filipino America in the 1920s and '30s. It took her years of digging through records, photos and letters to build a picture of a world lost to all but a few people old enough to remember personally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the U.S. took the Philippines as a colony in 1902, many young people made their way over the Pacific to seek their fortunes closer to the heart of the empire. Some came for a university education, only to discover professional fields were not open to “brown people” at the time. Others answered promotional campaigns promising farmers fortunes for the taking in the sugarcane fields of Hawaii. Those who tried to organize for better working conditions, once they got wise to the scam, soon found themselves unable to get hired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/29/little-manila-the-heart-of-filipino-california/10-october-larry-itliong-fanhs/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109207\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-109207 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/10-OCTOBER-Larry-Itliong-FANHS-e1377887439189.jpg\" alt=\"School children learn about Cesar Chavez and the grape boycott he became famous for, but not about the people like Larry Itliong who started the boycott.\" width=\"640\" height=\"639\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California schoolchildren learn about Cesar Chavez and the grape boycott he became famous for, but not about his Filipino-American partner-in-arms, Larry Itliong. (Courtesy: Filipino American National Historical Society)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So it was that a growing number of Filipinos began to travel a seasonal path between the agricultural heartland of California north to the salmon canneries of Alaska. They made a name for themselves as hard workers, especially cutting asparagus in the Delta. “They were considered some of the most skilled, highly efficient workers,” Mabalon says. She goes on to muse drolly that “farmers had some racist reasons why they wanted Filipinos. They said, 'Well, we’re shorter, we’re closer to the ground, and our skin is impervious to the peat dust that’s here in the Delta.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downtown Stockton became a community center for this peripatetic population. Mabalon says a farmworker could list her granddad’s diner as a permanent address and collect his mail there. Foremen roamed the streets, putting together crews to harvest crops like \u003ca href=\"http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i?ammem/fsaall:@FILREQ%28@FIELD%28DOCID+@LIT%28fsa2000000876/PP%29%29+@FIELD%28COLLID+fsa%29%29\">lettuce\u003c/a>, celery, tomatoes and peaches. “People would come here to find out where their cousins or relatives had gone,” Mabalon says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the 1920s, this was the heart of Filipino America. You have almost 100,000 living on the West Coast on the eve of World War II.” From February through May, asparagus season in the Delta and San Joaquin Valley, you might find 15,000 Filipinos living in single-resident-occupancy hotels in Stockton, attending local churches, or hanging out at union halls, pool halls and taxi dance halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_dance_hall\">Taxi dance halls\u003c/a>? Originally developed in San Francisco, these were private clubs where taxi dancers (women) were paid to dance with patrons (men). Most Filipinos in Stockton were young men, sent by their families on the presumption they'd send money back to the hometown for a few years, then return. Thanks to segregation -- and ethnic tensions with Chinese- and Japanese-Americans -- many Filipino men found themselves hard up for a date on Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a place like the Rizal Social Club (see photo), they could dress to the nines and dance with White and Mexican women. What about \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws\">anti-miscegenation\u003c/a> laws? Mabalon says a club owner in those days could pay off local police to look the other way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were Filipino bands, of course, playing all the big hits of the Jazz Age, but if they cut records, it would be news to Professor Mabalon. One tantalizing hint of that era: the great Nat King Cole took up the iconic love song \"\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahil_Sa_Iyo\">Dahil Sa'yo\u003c/a>,\" or \"Because of you.\" Cole wasn't the only non-Filipino to tackle the Tagalog lyrics, but I dare you to get the song out of your head after listening to this beautiful rendition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrD_FSdRzRU]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they had in Hawaii, Filipinos fought against racial and economic oppression in the fields. Stockton local \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Itliong\">Larry Itliong\u003c/a> was among those who started organizing agricultural workers in the 1930s. The first major agricultural strike after World War II was an asparagus strike in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1965, he helped organize what was called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/_board.php?mode=view&b_code=cc_his_research&b_no=10482\">Delano Grape Strike\u003c/a>, demanding the federal minimum wage. In the past, farmers used ethnic groups against each other to crush labor actions, but this time, Mexicans under the leadership of Cesar Chavez joined the Filipinos, and the rest is history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many groups that started picking fruit and produce in California, Filipinos eventually moved up and out. After U.S. immigration laws were liberalized in 1965, many more Filipinos immigrated from the Old Country, and most of them settled in big cities on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/29/little-manila-the-heart-of-filipino-california/img_2235/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109060\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-109060 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/IMG_2235.jpg\" alt=\"A sign marks the spot where three derelict buildings are all that's left. Professor Mabalon hopes to see these buildings restored, housing museum space that tells of the neighborhood's history.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign marks the spot where three derelict buildings are about all that's left of Little Manila. (Rachael Marcus/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stockton city officials built a freeway off-ramp just next to Little Manila. The neighborhood began to crumble. One by one, many of the SRO hotels were torn down. The building that housed Pablo Mabalon's diner was torn down in 1999, replaced by a McDonald's restaurant and a 76 gas station. Whatever the impetus, it's not an area most visitors would want to linger in today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mabalon has big dreams for this neighborhood. She helped found the \u003ca href=\"http://www.littlemanila.org/\">Little Manila Foundation\u003c/a>, which fended off the demolition of three remaining buildings from the era. They put up street banners with photographs recalling the glory days. They got the area designated as a historic site. The Foundation hopes to restore those buildings, and set up a museum inside one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why bother? 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(Courtesy: Filipino American National Historical Society)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So it was that a growing number of Filipinos began to travel a seasonal path between the agricultural heartland of California north to the salmon canneries of Alaska. They made a name for themselves as hard workers, especially cutting asparagus in the Delta. “They were considered some of the most skilled, highly efficient workers,” Mabalon says. She goes on to muse drolly that “farmers had some racist reasons why they wanted Filipinos. They said, 'Well, we’re shorter, we’re closer to the ground, and our skin is impervious to the peat dust that’s here in the Delta.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downtown Stockton became a community center for this peripatetic population. Mabalon says a farmworker could list her granddad’s diner as a permanent address and collect his mail there. Foremen roamed the streets, putting together crews to harvest crops like \u003ca href=\"http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i?ammem/fsaall:@FILREQ%28@FIELD%28DOCID+@LIT%28fsa2000000876/PP%29%29+@FIELD%28COLLID+fsa%29%29\">lettuce\u003c/a>, celery, tomatoes and peaches. “People would come here to find out where their cousins or relatives had gone,” Mabalon says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the 1920s, this was the heart of Filipino America. You have almost 100,000 living on the West Coast on the eve of World War II.” From February through May, asparagus season in the Delta and San Joaquin Valley, you might find 15,000 Filipinos living in single-resident-occupancy hotels in Stockton, attending local churches, or hanging out at union halls, pool halls and taxi dance halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_dance_hall\">Taxi dance halls\u003c/a>? Originally developed in San Francisco, these were private clubs where taxi dancers (women) were paid to dance with patrons (men). Most Filipinos in Stockton were young men, sent by their families on the presumption they'd send money back to the hometown for a few years, then return. Thanks to segregation -- and ethnic tensions with Chinese- and Japanese-Americans -- many Filipino men found themselves hard up for a date on Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a place like the Rizal Social Club (see photo), they could dress to the nines and dance with White and Mexican women. What about \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws\">anti-miscegenation\u003c/a> laws? Mabalon says a club owner in those days could pay off local police to look the other way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were Filipino bands, of course, playing all the big hits of the Jazz Age, but if they cut records, it would be news to Professor Mabalon. One tantalizing hint of that era: the great Nat King Cole took up the iconic love song \"\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahil_Sa_Iyo\">Dahil Sa'yo\u003c/a>,\" or \"Because of you.\" Cole wasn't the only non-Filipino to tackle the Tagalog lyrics, but I dare you to get the song out of your head after listening to this beautiful rendition.\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/nrD_FSdRzRU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/nrD_FSdRzRU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they had in Hawaii, Filipinos fought against racial and economic oppression in the fields. Stockton local \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Itliong\">Larry Itliong\u003c/a> was among those who started organizing agricultural workers in the 1930s. The first major agricultural strike after World War II was an asparagus strike in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1965, he helped organize what was called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/_board.php?mode=view&b_code=cc_his_research&b_no=10482\">Delano Grape Strike\u003c/a>, demanding the federal minimum wage. In the past, farmers used ethnic groups against each other to crush labor actions, but this time, Mexicans under the leadership of Cesar Chavez joined the Filipinos, and the rest is history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many groups that started picking fruit and produce in California, Filipinos eventually moved up and out. After U.S. immigration laws were liberalized in 1965, many more Filipinos immigrated from the Old Country, and most of them settled in big cities on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/29/little-manila-the-heart-of-filipino-california/img_2235/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109060\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-109060 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/IMG_2235.jpg\" alt=\"A sign marks the spot where three derelict buildings are all that's left. Professor Mabalon hopes to see these buildings restored, housing museum space that tells of the neighborhood's history.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign marks the spot where three derelict buildings are about all that's left of Little Manila. (Rachael Marcus/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stockton city officials built a freeway off-ramp just next to Little Manila. The neighborhood began to crumble. One by one, many of the SRO hotels were torn down. The building that housed Pablo Mabalon's diner was torn down in 1999, replaced by a McDonald's restaurant and a 76 gas station. Whatever the impetus, it's not an area most visitors would want to linger in today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mabalon has big dreams for this neighborhood. She helped found the \u003ca href=\"http://www.littlemanila.org/\">Little Manila Foundation\u003c/a>, which fended off the demolition of three remaining buildings from the era. They put up street banners with photographs recalling the glory days. They got the area designated as a historic site. The Foundation hopes to restore those buildings, and set up a museum inside one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why bother? Mabalon says Little Manila has stories to tell us, about Filipino history, California history and, ultimately, American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A judge accepted Stockton's bankruptcy application on Monday, making it the most populous city in the nation to enter bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_68627\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/06/22/stockton-wobbles-toward-bankruptcy/stockton-ca-leads-nation-in-rate-of-foreclosures/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68627\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-68627 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/StocktonSign0422.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein said the bankruptcy declaration was needed to allow the city to continue to provide basic services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's apparent to me the city would not be able to perform its obligations to its citizens on fundamental public safety as well as other basic government services without the ability to have the muscle of the contract-impairing power of federal bankruptcy law,\" Klein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of nearly 300,000 people has become emblematic of government excess and the financial calamity that resulted when the nation's housing bubble burst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its salaries, benefits and borrowing were based on anticipated long-term developer fees and increasing property tax revenue. But those were lost in a flurry of foreclosures beginning in the mid-2000s and a 70 percent decline in the city's tax base.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's creditors wanted to keep Stockton out of bankruptcy — a status that will likely allow the city to avoid repaying its debts in full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argued the city had not cut spending enough or sought a tax increase that would have allowed it to avoid bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Walsh, an attorney for the bond holders, declined to comment after Monday's ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the city said the city's budget and services had been cut to the bone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing to celebrate about bankruptcy,\" said Bob Deis, Stockton's city manager. \"But it is a vindication of what we've been saying for nine months.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chapter 9 bankruptcy case is being closely watched nationally for potential precedent-setting implications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $900 million that Stockton owes to the California Public Employees' Retirement System to cover pension promises is its biggest debt. So far Stockton has kept up with pension payments while it has reneged on other debts, maintaining that it needs a strong pension plan to retain its pared-down workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The creditors who challenged Stockton's bankruptcy petition are the bond insurers who guaranteed $165 million in loans the city secured in 2007 to pay its contributions to the CalPERS pension fund. That debt got out of hand as property tax values plummeted during the recession, and money to pay the pension obligation fell short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal observers expect the creditors to aggressively challenge Stockton's repayment plan in the next phase of the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2009 Stockton had accumulated nearly $1 billion in debt on civic improvements, money owed to pay pension contributions, and the most generous health care benefit in the state — coverage for life for all retirees plus a dependent, no matter how long they had worked for the city.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Stockton, California, lays claim to a lot of undesirable superlatives: it’s America’s foreclosure capital, \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mli45hdlg/11-stockton-calif/\">an annual contender on the Forbes “Most Miserable” list\u003c/a>, and the United States’ largest bankrupt city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92020\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?attachment_id=92020\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92020\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-92020\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Stockton_skyline-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"Stockton built its downtown up on borrowed money\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stockton built its downtown up on borrowed money\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the city might lose that last claim, depending on the outcome of a federal court hearing scheduled to begin Monday. Stockton would still be broke if a judge rules against it. It just wouldn’t be officially bankrupt. A group of bond insurers is arguing Stockton didn’t do everything it could to balance its books before declaring for Chapter 9 protection last June. Therefore, they say, it violated state bankruptcy laws. The insurers want the city to raise taxes and cut pension payments, among other steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How the federal judge rules – and how the city pays off the hundreds of millions of dollars it owes – will provide clues for how other financially stressed municipalities across California and the country will deal with pensions and employee benefit programs they can no longer afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Stockton Got Here\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you visit Stockton, it isn’t always obvious you’re in America’s largest bankrupt city. The city of 300,000 boasts a gleaming riverside arena and baseball stadium. Last weekend, fans decked out in St. Patrick’s Day outfits streamed into the downtown entertainment complex to watch the Stockton Thunder hockey team take on the Bakersfield Condors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92021\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?attachment_id=92021\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92021\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-92021\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/stockton_library-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton closed its Fair Oaks library branch in 2010, to save money\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stockton closed its Fair Oaks library branch in 2010, to save money\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Drive a couple of miles from downtown, though, and it’s a different picture. The Fair Oaks Public Library sits abandoned and forgotten. Its doors are boarded up, its signs are whited out, and neighbors say its parking lot attracts homeless people at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city closed Fair Oaks Public Library in 2010. The closure has more in common with the downtown hockey arena than you might think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things were going pretty well for Stockton in the early 2000s. Revenue was up after a decade-long slump, and property values were exploding. Median home values jumped from around $100,000 to more than $400,000. It felt like a renaissance, so the city borrowed more than $100 million to build the arena, the adjoining baseball stadium, and a brand new waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were all excellent projects,” said City Councilwoman Kathy Miller, “but it was a huge amount of debt. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The borrowing – along with employee benefits that grew more generous by the year – put Stockton on the hook for a lot of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then the bottom fell out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The recession hit and revenue plummeted,” said Miller. “We went from a high of about $205 million to, last year, around $155 million. So no matter how you slice it that is a huge reduction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockton's leaders slashed and slashed, cutting $90 million from the budget between 2010 and 2012.They reduced employee pay and benefits. They shuttered the Fair Oaks Library, and cut hours at other library locations. City officials cut the police department’s staff by a quarter, and laid off more than 30 fire fighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last year, Stockton still faced a $26 million dollar deficit. So it declared bankruptcy, becoming the largest American city to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“You Expect That To Hold Water”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockton’s decision attracted international attention. Al Seibel worked for Stockton for 33 years, maintaining the city's parks and golf courses. One recent morning, he searched his shelves for a DVD as he talked to a reporter about the city’s bankruptcy. He was looking for the recording of his recent interview with a French television station. Seibel has also talked to journalists from Belgium, Japan and Switzerland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The international press wants to talk to Seibel because he’s one of more than 1,000 Stockton retirees who suddenly lost their health insurance when the city declared bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s, Stockton started offering lifetime health care benefits to city employees as part of a bargaining strategy aimed at keeping salary increases down. But Stockton never set aside the money required to properly fund the health care program. When the recession hit, it couldn’t afford the plan, and the city council voted to eliminate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we were to properly fund the program and make it available to everyone, we need to immediately set aside 30 percent of our payroll now and into the next 30 years,” read city manager Bob Deis’ letter to Stockton retirees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city allowed retirees to stay on its plan for another year, at a much higher rate. So Seibel had two options: pay a monthly premium of more than $1,100, for health care, or go without insurance. At age 61, Seibel is still years away from receiving health coverage through Medicare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I only get $2,100 a month [in pension payments],” said Seibel, who has heart and ulcer problems. “By the time I’d pay that insurance and my mortgage I’d have nothing left. It really wasn’t a choice. It was forced on me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision left Seibel and other retirees outraged and unprepared. Mark Anderson, who worked for the Stockton police department for 22 years, said his health care plan now boils down to “hoping we’re OK.” His wife Joni recently fell down the stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Luckily all I ended up with was some bruising,\" she said. \"If I would have required surgery or something without having medical care, it would have killed us. Financially we would have lost everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“If I had known 20 years before I retired, 'OK, I’m not going to have medical,' I would have started an account putting money away.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“When you’re given something in a written contact that you’ve worked for 33 years, you expect that to hold water,” said Seibel. “If I had known 20 years before I retired, 'OK, I’m not going to have medical,' I would have started an account putting money away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockton’s city manager and mayor both turned down repeated requests for interviews. Councilwoman Kathy Miller voted to eliminate the retiree health care. She says the city didn’t have any other option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that, more than any other decision, was the toughest for the council to make,\" she said. \"That was a budget expense that was going to go from $9 million to $14 million in 12 months and just grew exponentially.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>A Court Challenge\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockton justified eliminating retirees’ health care by saying it was the only way to protect pension payments, which weren't cut. But the insurance companies that are holding the bag on the hundreds of millions of dollars that Stockton owes in bond payments are now challenging the city’s decision to keep pensions intact. In a federal court filing, the insurers claim that before the city filed for Chapter 9 protection, it should have cut pension payments and raised taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their argument boils down to this: the state’s public employee retirement system, CalPERS, is Stockton’s largest creditor. By refusing to negotiate reduced payments into the retirement system, Stockton is negotiating in bad faith with its other creditors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the bond insurers want to say is you can't do anything to us unless you're making cuts everywhere you can,” explained University of Pennsylvania Law School professor David Skeel, a bankruptcy expert. “And the elephant in the room is Stockton's pensions, which they have suggested they're not going to cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Stockton pays into three CalPERS-administered pension plans. These obligations totaled a bit less than $24 million in 2011, \u003ca href=\"http://www.stocktongov.com/files/2011_CAFR.pdf\">the last year a full financial report is available for the city\u003c/a>. Stockton and CalPERS’ legal response to the creditors’ argument: CalPERS acts as a trustee, not a creditor, and the city has a legal obligation dictated by “a well-developed, substantial body of state law” to continue its payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bond insurers are using the dispute to challenge Stockton’s eligibility for bankruptcy. Skeel doesn’t expect the argument to prevail at next week’s hearing, but thinks the insurers may be able to force the city to cut pension payments during later negotiations. Skeel said the insurers are pressing the issue hard, because they're worried about the growing number of cities going broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you're a bond insurer,\" said Skeel, \"you say, ‘Oh my, I didn't think this could happen. It's happening in a significantly-sized city -- Stockton; it could happen almost everywhere.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if a federal judge ultimately rules cities can scale back pension benefits for retirees – a move legally prohibited for decades – other financially troubled cities may take similar steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skeel said local governments across the country should “take note as carefully as they can” while Stockton sorts through the major issues at the heart of its problems, and looks for solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When is it OK to go back on promises that you made to these employees?\" mused Skeel. \"What limitations ought there be on that? Who should be held responsible and how widely should the sacrifice be shared? These are big questions, I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Stockton continues to negotiate with its numerous creditors.\u003ca href=\"http://www.stocktongov.com/files/News_2013_2_26_CityAmbacAgreement.pdf\"> It agreed on a $22 million repayment plan with a bond insurer last month\u003c/a>, and people involved in talks say an agreement on a more limited retiree health care plan isn’t out of the realm of possibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day nobody’s going to be happy,” said former City Manager Dwane Milnes, who has represented retirees in negotiations. “You just hope they’re all equally unhappy. I think that really is the best outcome.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Stockton, California, lays claim to a lot of undesirable superlatives: it’s America’s foreclosure capital, \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mli45hdlg/11-stockton-calif/\">an annual contender on the Forbes “Most Miserable” list\u003c/a>, and the United States’ largest bankrupt city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92020\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?attachment_id=92020\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92020\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-92020\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Stockton_skyline-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"Stockton built its downtown up on borrowed money\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stockton built its downtown up on borrowed money\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the city might lose that last claim, depending on the outcome of a federal court hearing scheduled to begin Monday. Stockton would still be broke if a judge rules against it. It just wouldn’t be officially bankrupt. A group of bond insurers is arguing Stockton didn’t do everything it could to balance its books before declaring for Chapter 9 protection last June. Therefore, they say, it violated state bankruptcy laws. The insurers want the city to raise taxes and cut pension payments, among other steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How the federal judge rules – and how the city pays off the hundreds of millions of dollars it owes – will provide clues for how other financially stressed municipalities across California and the country will deal with pensions and employee benefit programs they can no longer afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Stockton Got Here\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you visit Stockton, it isn’t always obvious you’re in America’s largest bankrupt city. The city of 300,000 boasts a gleaming riverside arena and baseball stadium. Last weekend, fans decked out in St. Patrick’s Day outfits streamed into the downtown entertainment complex to watch the Stockton Thunder hockey team take on the Bakersfield Condors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92021\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?attachment_id=92021\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92021\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-92021\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/stockton_library-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton closed its Fair Oaks library branch in 2010, to save money\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stockton closed its Fair Oaks library branch in 2010, to save money\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Drive a couple of miles from downtown, though, and it’s a different picture. The Fair Oaks Public Library sits abandoned and forgotten. Its doors are boarded up, its signs are whited out, and neighbors say its parking lot attracts homeless people at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city closed Fair Oaks Public Library in 2010. The closure has more in common with the downtown hockey arena than you might think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things were going pretty well for Stockton in the early 2000s. Revenue was up after a decade-long slump, and property values were exploding. Median home values jumped from around $100,000 to more than $400,000. It felt like a renaissance, so the city borrowed more than $100 million to build the arena, the adjoining baseball stadium, and a brand new waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were all excellent projects,” said City Councilwoman Kathy Miller, “but it was a huge amount of debt. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The borrowing – along with employee benefits that grew more generous by the year – put Stockton on the hook for a lot of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then the bottom fell out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The recession hit and revenue plummeted,” said Miller. “We went from a high of about $205 million to, last year, around $155 million. So no matter how you slice it that is a huge reduction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockton's leaders slashed and slashed, cutting $90 million from the budget between 2010 and 2012.They reduced employee pay and benefits. They shuttered the Fair Oaks Library, and cut hours at other library locations. City officials cut the police department’s staff by a quarter, and laid off more than 30 fire fighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last year, Stockton still faced a $26 million dollar deficit. So it declared bankruptcy, becoming the largest American city to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“You Expect That To Hold Water”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockton’s decision attracted international attention. Al Seibel worked for Stockton for 33 years, maintaining the city's parks and golf courses. One recent morning, he searched his shelves for a DVD as he talked to a reporter about the city’s bankruptcy. He was looking for the recording of his recent interview with a French television station. Seibel has also talked to journalists from Belgium, Japan and Switzerland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The international press wants to talk to Seibel because he’s one of more than 1,000 Stockton retirees who suddenly lost their health insurance when the city declared bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s, Stockton started offering lifetime health care benefits to city employees as part of a bargaining strategy aimed at keeping salary increases down. But Stockton never set aside the money required to properly fund the health care program. When the recession hit, it couldn’t afford the plan, and the city council voted to eliminate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we were to properly fund the program and make it available to everyone, we need to immediately set aside 30 percent of our payroll now and into the next 30 years,” read city manager Bob Deis’ letter to Stockton retirees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city allowed retirees to stay on its plan for another year, at a much higher rate. So Seibel had two options: pay a monthly premium of more than $1,100, for health care, or go without insurance. At age 61, Seibel is still years away from receiving health coverage through Medicare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I only get $2,100 a month [in pension payments],” said Seibel, who has heart and ulcer problems. “By the time I’d pay that insurance and my mortgage I’d have nothing left. It really wasn’t a choice. It was forced on me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision left Seibel and other retirees outraged and unprepared. Mark Anderson, who worked for the Stockton police department for 22 years, said his health care plan now boils down to “hoping we’re OK.” His wife Joni recently fell down the stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Luckily all I ended up with was some bruising,\" she said. \"If I would have required surgery or something without having medical care, it would have killed us. Financially we would have lost everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“If I had known 20 years before I retired, 'OK, I’m not going to have medical,' I would have started an account putting money away.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“When you’re given something in a written contact that you’ve worked for 33 years, you expect that to hold water,” said Seibel. “If I had known 20 years before I retired, 'OK, I’m not going to have medical,' I would have started an account putting money away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockton’s city manager and mayor both turned down repeated requests for interviews. Councilwoman Kathy Miller voted to eliminate the retiree health care. She says the city didn’t have any other option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that, more than any other decision, was the toughest for the council to make,\" she said. \"That was a budget expense that was going to go from $9 million to $14 million in 12 months and just grew exponentially.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>A Court Challenge\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockton justified eliminating retirees’ health care by saying it was the only way to protect pension payments, which weren't cut. But the insurance companies that are holding the bag on the hundreds of millions of dollars that Stockton owes in bond payments are now challenging the city’s decision to keep pensions intact. In a federal court filing, the insurers claim that before the city filed for Chapter 9 protection, it should have cut pension payments and raised taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their argument boils down to this: the state’s public employee retirement system, CalPERS, is Stockton’s largest creditor. By refusing to negotiate reduced payments into the retirement system, Stockton is negotiating in bad faith with its other creditors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the bond insurers want to say is you can't do anything to us unless you're making cuts everywhere you can,” explained University of Pennsylvania Law School professor David Skeel, a bankruptcy expert. “And the elephant in the room is Stockton's pensions, which they have suggested they're not going to cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Stockton pays into three CalPERS-administered pension plans. These obligations totaled a bit less than $24 million in 2011, \u003ca href=\"http://www.stocktongov.com/files/2011_CAFR.pdf\">the last year a full financial report is available for the city\u003c/a>. Stockton and CalPERS’ legal response to the creditors’ argument: CalPERS acts as a trustee, not a creditor, and the city has a legal obligation dictated by “a well-developed, substantial body of state law” to continue its payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bond insurers are using the dispute to challenge Stockton’s eligibility for bankruptcy. Skeel doesn’t expect the argument to prevail at next week’s hearing, but thinks the insurers may be able to force the city to cut pension payments during later negotiations. Skeel said the insurers are pressing the issue hard, because they're worried about the growing number of cities going broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you're a bond insurer,\" said Skeel, \"you say, ‘Oh my, I didn't think this could happen. 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"disqusTitle": "6 Reasons to Live in 'Miserable' Stockton While Working in 'America's Best City' San Francisco",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/A3yche1xVUo\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77065\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/mural.jpg\" alt=\"A new mural in downtown Stockton. Screenshot courtesy of Benjamin Saffold.\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new mural in downtown Stockton. Screenshot courtesy of Benjamin Saffold.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I live in what’s been described as one of California’s most miserable and most violent communities. I work in what’s been described as America’s best city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My job is in San Francisco, which this week was named America’s best city for 2012 by \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-26/san-francisco-is-americas-best-city-in-2012\">Bloomberg Businessweek\u003c/a>. Things are so good in the city by the Bay that as the economy continues to struggle, we’re discussing whether or not San Francisco has \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201209250900\">too many tech jobs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My home, meanwhile, is in Stockton, which made news this week when one of its favorite sons - Oakland A’s pitcher Dallas Braden - \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/09/27/video-im-outta-here-as-pitcher-dallas-braden-leaving-stockton-over-crime-fears/\">brought a bat to an anti-violence meeting\u003c/a> for protection and said he was leaving town. As of Wednesday night there had been \u003ca href=\"http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120928/A_NEWS/209280320/-1/A_SPECIAL0311\">50 homicides\u003c/a> in the city this year. In comparison, San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Through-hard-times-S-F-killings-at-historic-lows-2441692.phphttp://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Through-hard-times-S-F-killings-at-historic-lows-2441692.php\">recorded\u003c/a> a total of 50 homicides in 2011. Recordnet.com, the website for the local newspaper (and my former employer), has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=A_SPECIAL0311\">special page\u003c/a> dedicated just to homicides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Stockton is \u003ca href=\"http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=a_special0267\">bankrupt\u003c/a> and, according to Forbes, miserable; the magazine \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/2011/02/02/stockton-miami-cleveland-business-washington-miserable-cities.html\">has ranked it\u003c/a> as the country’s most miserable city twice in the last four years. It’s also been hit hard by the housing crisis - The Huffington Post called Stockton \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/10/stockton-california-is-fo_n_417704.html\">“Foreclosureville, USA.”\u003c/a> And Stockton has one of the highest \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/23/suburbs-poverty-rates_n_978058.html\">poverty rates\u003c/a> for a suburban area in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite all that and my two-and-a-half hour one-way commute, I’m not leaving Foreclosureville for Fog City any time soon. My reasons for staying are listed below. News Fix editor and known San Francisco snob Jon Brooks says it reads like the desperate boosterism of someone living in a city under siege. What say you? Leave a comment at the bottom of the post and let us know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Stockton is cheap.\u003c/strong> On Tuesday I wrote a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/09/25/would-you-live-in-a-san-francisco-apartment-the-size-of-a-living-room/\">post\u003c/a> about legislation that would permit 220-square-foot “micro” apartments in San Francisco. Estimated rent: $1,200-$1,500 a month. That’s about what I pay in Stockton to rent a remodeled three-bedroom house with hardwood floors, granite countertops and central heat and air. In its reporting on the “micro-units” ordinance the New York Times \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/us/micro-unit-apartment-proposal-divides-san-francisco.html\">noted\u003c/a> that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The average rent for a studio apartment in (San Francisco) is $2,126, an increase of 22 percent since 2008, according to RealFacts, a company that tracks apartment rental data in cities across the country.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In Stockton, meanwhile, you can rent a \u003ca href=\"http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4303-Pinehurst-Cir-Stockton-CA-95219/15317571_zpid/\">house\u003c/a> that has four bedrooms, three bathrooms and is 10 times the size of a micro unit for $2,300.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s not just the real estate that is cheap. You can get dinner for two at one of Stockton’s better restaurants for less than $100, wine and drinks included. Which brings me to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cstrong>2. Stockton has some great and affordable restaurants.\u003c/strong> OK, so San Francisco is most likely the restaurant capital of the universe. But you'd be surprised by the dining experience you can have in Stockton for half the cost of a meal in the city (as we Stocktonians call San Francisco.) You might consider checking out \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/siamese-street-thai-restaurant-stockton\">Siamese Street\u003c/a>, a Thai establishment whose owners spent $500,000 importing their decor from Thailand. You’ll also want to stop at Tandoori Nites, an unassuming strip mall Indian joint that has even impressed some Bay Area reviewers on \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/tandoori-nites-stockton\">Yelp\u003c/a>. Total cost for dinner for two at either restaurant, including wine or drinks? $50 or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Stockton is in the middle of pretty much everything.\u003c/strong> It’s 146 miles from San Francisco to the glorious coastline of Big Sur, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps?saddr=San+Francisco,+CA&daddr=Big+Sur&hl=en&ll=37.024484,-121.981201&spn=2.618043,4.943848&sll=37.77493,-122.419416&sspn=1.296032,2.471924&geocode=FVJmQAIdKAe0-CkhAGkAbZqFgDH_rXbwZxNQSg%3BFVVxKQIdmFu9-ClVWKRN-4-NgDFi47fxx9elFg&mra=ls&t=m&z=8\">Google Maps\u003c/a>. From Stockton, it’s about the same - 171 miles. But it’s a lot tougher for San Francisco residents to get to California’s inland wonders than it is for Stockton residents. In four hours or less, and without having to battle Bay Area traffic, you can drive from Stockton to here...\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/yosemite.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77052\" title=\"yosemite\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/yosemite.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yosemite National Park. Photo by Sebastian Bergmann/Flickr.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>...and here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77053\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/cascade.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77053\" title=\"cascade\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/cascade.jpeg\" alt=\"Cascade Lake, foreground, and Lake Tahoe, background. Photo by rickz/Flickr.\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cascade Lake, foreground, and Lake Tahoe, background. Photo by rickz/Flickr.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But honestly, I typically don’t enjoy road trips out of Stockton on the weekends. In part, that’s because...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. I love my neighborhood in Stockton.\u003c/strong> Since 2005 I’ve lived in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.stocktonmiraclemile.com/\">Miracle Mile\u003c/a>, a small enclave of boutiques, restaurants and older homes in the middle of the city. It’s a welcoming community where many of the the business owners are on a first-name basis with the residents. I can spend an afternoon shopping and an evening bar-hopping in the Mile and I’ll know most of the shop proprietors well enough to have friendly conversations. The neighborhood also is safe, and the residents and business owners help keep it that way. A few years back one of the landlords in the neighborhood helped chase down a purse snatcher and hold him until police arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Stockton is home to two top-notch minor league sports facilities.\u003c/strong> The city’s decision to spend more than $60 million on entertainment and sports facilities in recent years has been roundly criticized as Stockton has fallen into bankruptcy. But the money has helped give the city and its residents two minor-league sports jewels: the 10,000-seat \u003ca href=\"http://www.stocktonlive.com/venues/detail/stockton-arena\">Stockton Arena\u003c/a> and the 5,000-seat \u003ca href=\"http://www.milb.com/team1/page.jsp?ymd=20081120&content_id=482097&vkey=team1_t524&fext=.jsp&sid=t524\">Stockton Ballpark\u003c/a>. The arena is home to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.stocktonthunder.com/\">Stockton Thunder\u003c/a>, a minor-league hockey team that typically draws more than 6,000 fans per contest. It’s a great place to see a game - the facilities are modern, tickets are typically around $15 and there isn’t a bad seat in the house. The ballpark, meanwhile, is home to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.milb.com/index.jsp?sid=t524\">Stockton Ports\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.milb.com/team4/page.jsp?ymd=20090116&content_id=496988&vkey=team4_t524&fext=.jsp&sid=t524\">high single A\u003c/a> affiliate of the Oakland A’s. In 2005, the year it opened, the ballpark was included on Sports Illustrated’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050715/SPORTS/507150333\">“Summer Essentials”\u003c/a> list as the baseball stadium fans had to visit. It’s a gorgeous facility that gives fans an incredible view of baseball and beautiful sunsets over the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Tickets on the park-like home run hill section can cost as little as $1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/ballpark.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77056\" title=\"Stockton Ballpark. Photo by Matt Beckwith/Flickr.\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/ballpark.jpeg\" alt=\"Stockton Ballpark. Photo by Matt Beckwith/Flickr.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stockton Ballpark. Photo by Matt Beckwith/Flickr.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. Stocktonians are resilient, and they deserve some love.\u003c/strong> Sure, we all have our breaking point. Braden has said he’s leaving Stockton because he had been the victim of an attempted carjacking and that his grandmother's apartment was robbed. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kcra.com/news/local-news/news-stockton/Oakland-A-s-star-Braden-attends-Stockton-crime-meeting-with-bat/-/12969936/16758062/-/q2np49/-/index.html\">He also said \u003c/a>Stockton police advised him to move. That advice from the cops might drive any Stockton resident to put their home on the market. But many residents choose to stay in Stockton despite its challenges, and they’re working to make the city a better place. You can see some of their enthusiasm in this year's \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.172223409551288.37303.111970755576554&type=3\">\"Dear Stockton\" project\u003c/a>, which led to the downtown mural at the top of this post and in part has photographed local teens and others offering messages of support to the city. Those photographs were then blown up and wrapped around a downtown building as a message of hope to Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/dearstockton1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77048\" title=\"dearstockton1\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/dearstockton1.jpg\" alt='Photos from the \"Dear Stockton\" project.' width=\"640\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos from the \"Dear Stockton\" project wrapped around a building in downtown Stockton. Photo courtesy of Benjamin Saffold.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77049\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/dearstockton2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77049\" title=\"dearstockton2\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/dearstockton2.jpg\" alt='Photos from the \"Dear Stockton\" project wrapped around a building in downtown Stockton. Photo courtesy of Benjamin Saffold.' width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos from the \"Dear Stockton\" project wrapped around a building in downtown Stockton. Photo courtesy of Benjamin Saffold.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77050\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/dearstockton3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77050\" title=\"dearstockton3\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/dearstockton3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Gomez poses with his photo from the \"Dear Stockton\" project in downtown Stockton. Photo courtesy of Benjamin Saffold.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77051\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/dearstockton4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77051\" title=\"dearstockton4\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/dearstockton4.jpg\" alt='Whitney Ramirez poses with her photo from the \"Dear Stockton\" project in downtown Stockton. Photo courtesy of Benjamin Saffold.' width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whitney Ramirez poses with her photo from the \"Dear Stockton\" project in downtown Stockton. Photo courtesy of Benjamin Saffold.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Saturday residents also will be gathering to show support for the city during “Stockton is Magnificent,” a festival created in part as a response to Forbes’ description of Stockton as America’s most miserable city. You can find details \u003ca href=\"http://www.visitstockton.org/events-calendar/Stockton-Is-Magnificent\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Stockton is cheap.\u003c/strong> On Tuesday I wrote a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/09/25/would-you-live-in-a-san-francisco-apartment-the-size-of-a-living-room/\">post\u003c/a> about legislation that would permit 220-square-foot “micro” apartments in San Francisco. Estimated rent: $1,200-$1,500 a month. That’s about what I pay in Stockton to rent a remodeled three-bedroom house with hardwood floors, granite countertops and central heat and air. In its reporting on the “micro-units” ordinance the New York Times \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/us/micro-unit-apartment-proposal-divides-san-francisco.html\">noted\u003c/a> that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The average rent for a studio apartment in (San Francisco) is $2,126, an increase of 22 percent since 2008, according to RealFacts, a company that tracks apartment rental data in cities across the country.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In Stockton, meanwhile, you can rent a \u003ca href=\"http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4303-Pinehurst-Cir-Stockton-CA-95219/15317571_zpid/\">house\u003c/a> that has four bedrooms, three bathrooms and is 10 times the size of a micro unit for $2,300.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s not just the real estate that is cheap. You can get dinner for two at one of Stockton’s better restaurants for less than $100, wine and drinks included. Which brings me to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cstrong>2. Stockton has some great and affordable restaurants.\u003c/strong> OK, so San Francisco is most likely the restaurant capital of the universe. But you'd be surprised by the dining experience you can have in Stockton for half the cost of a meal in the city (as we Stocktonians call San Francisco.) You might consider checking out \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/siamese-street-thai-restaurant-stockton\">Siamese Street\u003c/a>, a Thai establishment whose owners spent $500,000 importing their decor from Thailand. You’ll also want to stop at Tandoori Nites, an unassuming strip mall Indian joint that has even impressed some Bay Area reviewers on \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/tandoori-nites-stockton\">Yelp\u003c/a>. Total cost for dinner for two at either restaurant, including wine or drinks? $50 or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Stockton is in the middle of pretty much everything.\u003c/strong> It’s 146 miles from San Francisco to the glorious coastline of Big Sur, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps?saddr=San+Francisco,+CA&daddr=Big+Sur&hl=en&ll=37.024484,-121.981201&spn=2.618043,4.943848&sll=37.77493,-122.419416&sspn=1.296032,2.471924&geocode=FVJmQAIdKAe0-CkhAGkAbZqFgDH_rXbwZxNQSg%3BFVVxKQIdmFu9-ClVWKRN-4-NgDFi47fxx9elFg&mra=ls&t=m&z=8\">Google Maps\u003c/a>. From Stockton, it’s about the same - 171 miles. But it’s a lot tougher for San Francisco residents to get to California’s inland wonders than it is for Stockton residents. In four hours or less, and without having to battle Bay Area traffic, you can drive from Stockton to here...\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/yosemite.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77052\" title=\"yosemite\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/yosemite.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yosemite National Park. Photo by Sebastian Bergmann/Flickr.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>...and here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77053\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/cascade.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77053\" title=\"cascade\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/cascade.jpeg\" alt=\"Cascade Lake, foreground, and Lake Tahoe, background. Photo by rickz/Flickr.\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cascade Lake, foreground, and Lake Tahoe, background. Photo by rickz/Flickr.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But honestly, I typically don’t enjoy road trips out of Stockton on the weekends. In part, that’s because...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. I love my neighborhood in Stockton.\u003c/strong> Since 2005 I’ve lived in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.stocktonmiraclemile.com/\">Miracle Mile\u003c/a>, a small enclave of boutiques, restaurants and older homes in the middle of the city. It’s a welcoming community where many of the the business owners are on a first-name basis with the residents. I can spend an afternoon shopping and an evening bar-hopping in the Mile and I’ll know most of the shop proprietors well enough to have friendly conversations. The neighborhood also is safe, and the residents and business owners help keep it that way. A few years back one of the landlords in the neighborhood helped chase down a purse snatcher and hold him until police arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Stockton is home to two top-notch minor league sports facilities.\u003c/strong> The city’s decision to spend more than $60 million on entertainment and sports facilities in recent years has been roundly criticized as Stockton has fallen into bankruptcy. But the money has helped give the city and its residents two minor-league sports jewels: the 10,000-seat \u003ca href=\"http://www.stocktonlive.com/venues/detail/stockton-arena\">Stockton Arena\u003c/a> and the 5,000-seat \u003ca href=\"http://www.milb.com/team1/page.jsp?ymd=20081120&content_id=482097&vkey=team1_t524&fext=.jsp&sid=t524\">Stockton Ballpark\u003c/a>. The arena is home to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.stocktonthunder.com/\">Stockton Thunder\u003c/a>, a minor-league hockey team that typically draws more than 6,000 fans per contest. It’s a great place to see a game - the facilities are modern, tickets are typically around $15 and there isn’t a bad seat in the house. The ballpark, meanwhile, is home to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.milb.com/index.jsp?sid=t524\">Stockton Ports\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.milb.com/team4/page.jsp?ymd=20090116&content_id=496988&vkey=team4_t524&fext=.jsp&sid=t524\">high single A\u003c/a> affiliate of the Oakland A’s. In 2005, the year it opened, the ballpark was included on Sports Illustrated’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050715/SPORTS/507150333\">“Summer Essentials”\u003c/a> list as the baseball stadium fans had to visit. It’s a gorgeous facility that gives fans an incredible view of baseball and beautiful sunsets over the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. 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Braden has said he’s leaving Stockton because he had been the victim of an attempted carjacking and that his grandmother's apartment was robbed. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kcra.com/news/local-news/news-stockton/Oakland-A-s-star-Braden-attends-Stockton-crime-meeting-with-bat/-/12969936/16758062/-/q2np49/-/index.html\">He also said \u003c/a>Stockton police advised him to move. That advice from the cops might drive any Stockton resident to put their home on the market. But many residents choose to stay in Stockton despite its challenges, and they’re working to make the city a better place. You can see some of their enthusiasm in this year's \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.172223409551288.37303.111970755576554&type=3\">\"Dear Stockton\" project\u003c/a>, which led to the downtown mural at the top of this post and in part has photographed local teens and others offering messages of support to the city. 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"content": "\u003cp>At a community anti-violence meeting at a Stockton park, hometown hero and Oakland A's pitcher \u003ca title=\"http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=460284\" href=\"http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=460284\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Braden\u003c/a> attended with a bat, telling reporters he needed it to protect himself and his grandmother. This in spite of the fact that police were there to address the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Braden, known for his fiery, emotional personality, told Sacramento's KCRA that he had been the victim of an attempted carjacking last week and that his grandmother's apartment was robbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"http://www.kcra.com/news/local-news/news-stockton/Oakland-A-s-star-Braden-attends-Stockton-crime-meeting-with-bat/-/12969936/16758062/-/q2np49/-/index.html\" href=\"http://www.kcra.com/news/local-news/news-stockton/Oakland-A-s-star-Braden-attends-Stockton-crime-meeting-with-bat/-/12969936/16758062/-/q2np49/-/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">He also said he talked to Stockton police \u003c/a>and they said the only advice they could give him was to move. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.kcra.com/news/Dallas-Braden-sounds-off-about-Stockton-crime/-/11797728/16759892/-/1p3jya/-/index.html\">Watch the video here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Arm yourself or get out!\" he says a police officer told him. \"It's the wild west. The boys in blue, they're outgunned.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Braden says he's put his house on the market and will move to Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, CBS Sacramento broadcast an \u003ca href=\"http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/09/26/as-pitcher-gets-heated-at-stockton-anti-violence-meeting-says-hes-moving/\">interview with Braden where he accused the police of lying to the community\u003c/a> about the way they respond to crime:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://CBSSAC.images.worldnow.com/interface/js/WNVideo.js?rnd=750434;hostDomain=video.sacramento.cbslocal.com;playerWidth=385;playerHeight=288;isShowIcon=true;clipId=7772209;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=CBS.SAC%252Fworldnowplayer;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed\">\u003c/script>\u003ca href=\"http://video.sacramento.cbslocal.com\" title=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My anger is for the fear of our community!\" he exclaimed. Braden has been in Stockton since he was a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockton has struggled mightily since the economy's crash in 2008, ultimately \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/06/26/stockton-bankruptcy-looms-as-mayor-pessimistic-live-coverage-city-council-meeting-530-p-m/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/06/26/stockton-bankruptcy-looms-as-mayor-pessimistic-live-coverage-city-council-meeting-530-p-m/\" target=\"_blank\">declaring bankruptcy\u003c/a> over the summer. Forbes magazine called Stockton the \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/04/22/stockton-fights-most-miserable-city-title-from-forbes-interview-with-forbes-editor/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/04/22/stockton-fights-most-miserable-city-title-from-forbes-interview-with-forbes-editor/\" target=\"_blank\">most miserable city in America\u003c/a> in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All during this time, Braden fully supported his home town. He even has 209 -- the area code which includes Stockton -- tattooed across his belly. But he's apparently outta there, once he sells his house.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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