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Emerging from the darkness of the BART station onto Market into a beautiful, clear late afternoon, I was struck by the fact there was virtually no traffic and that crowds had taken to the street in a state of excited confusion. Sirens were sounding off in the distance. I wondered where fires might have broken out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't remember talking to anyone, but was looking at building facades to see if anything had broken loose and fallen to the sidewalk. Walking up the middle of Market, I turned around and looked back down the street. It's a sight that today would be instantly recorded on 10,000 smartphones: The flagpole atop the Ferry Building had been bent by the violence of the quake and was leaning at a steep angle. That image dispelled any doubt that something huge had taken place. And of course, that was just the beginning of a series of scenes that revealed the disaster's dimensions: the partial collapse of a section of the Bay Bridge; the shocking wreckage of the double-deck Cypress freeway in West Oakland, fires and building collapses in San Francisco's Marina, much of downtown Santa Cruz shaken to ruins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10344284\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 275px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/10639697_10204258705763797_4265185443369547158_n.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/10639697_10204258705763797_4265185443369547158_n.jpg\" alt=\"Front page of the San Francisco Examiner, Oct. 18,1989. 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Collecting dispatches and pictures from staffers all over the Bay Area, we spent most of the night piecing together a single edition -- was it 12 pages? -- and managed to get it printed. The lights didn't come on again until well into Night Two, and after that, things went back to something like normal in our newsroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not to say things ever really went back to \u003cem>feeling\u003c/em> normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My last haunting image of the quake comes from the second or third night after the earth shook. I had carpooled back to the East Bay from the paper, which involved using the San Mateo Bridge, then riding up the Nimitz Freeway past the Oakland Coliseum and toward the wreckage of the Cypress structure. 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"content": "\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">[vimeo 104048048 w=640 h=360]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As we all know by now, California is in a serious state of drought. Some parts of the state are getting hit harder than others. The Central Valley is one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We wanted to show what this long dry year has meant for one of the country’s richest farming areas. So, producer Suzie Racho and I headed down Highway 99 to meet up with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org\" target=\"_blank\">The California Report’s\u003c/a>\u003c/em> Central Valley bureau chief, Sasha Khokha, who’s based in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our first stop was a cattle auction in the Tulare County town of Visalia. Agriculture is king here. Tulare County just passed Fresno as the top farm county in the nation. There are more cows than people in this county. Dairy alone is a $2 billion industry. But add in citrus, almonds, walnuts, pistachios and cotton, and the total is nearly $8 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145450\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 369px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/almonds-small.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-145450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/almonds-small.jpg\" alt=\"Dominic Pitigliano walks in an almond orchard during harvest season. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"369\" height=\"208\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominic Pitigliano walks in an almond orchard during harvest season. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Almonds are particularly lucrative and Dominic Pitigliano is one of the larger growers in Tulare County. We met him in an almond orchard in Woodville. As we spoke, a large harvesting machine moved along the rows, gripping each trunk one a time and shaking it until the almonds rained down. You could easily think there was an earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pitigliano is 33 years old — that’s young for a Central Valley farmer. He owns about 1,000 acres of almonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a hard year with the drought and no water allocation,” he tells us. “We’ve had a lot of diseases in the trees because of the lack of water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep these trees alive, growers like Pitigliano are drilling down for water -- in some cases hundreds of feet below the surface. It’s like putting a huge straw in the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I mean, we can live without a TV, we can live without cellphones, but we can’t live without water.'\u003ccite>—Gladys Colunga\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a race to the bottom because everybody doesn’t wanna see the valley dry up,\" Pitligano says. “Then again you don’t want to lose everything you’ve put your heart and soul into your whole life just disappear because you sat on your hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Pitigliano and other \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/07/15/californias-drought-is-hurting-farmers-more-than-food-consumers/\" target=\"_blank\">farmers are worried sick about the drought\u003c/a>, we saw lots of orchards with acres of newly planted small trees. Pitliagno told us young almond and citrus trees use less water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So people have a wide range of tree ages,” he says. “They rip out high-using trees and plant young trees.” As for his own orchards, Pitliagno says, “I’m hedging my bets that in three years it’s going to be back to normal and I’ll be able to grow my crops again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers here are \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/06/02/drought-drives-drilling-frenzy-for-groundwater-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\">drilling lots of new wells\u003c/a> to keep the farms going during the drought. All that groundwater pumping is affecting everyone -- on the farm or off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gladys Colunga lives in the Tulare County farmworker town of Monson. It’s surrounded by orchards and vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145488\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 380px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/field-reporting.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/field-reporting.jpg\" alt=\"Sasha Khokha (left) and Scott Shafer (right) interview Dominic Pitigliano (center) at an almond orchard in Tulare County. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sasha Khokha (left) and Scott Shafer (right) interview Dominic Pitigliano (center) at an almond orchard in Tulare County. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My husband came home one day from work, he took a perfectly good shower, and then I went to use the restroom. And when I flushed the toilet, nothing but dirt came out,” she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her husband works the fields and his hours were cut this summer because of the drought, so the family has less money. On top of that, their well went dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Colungas have six kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a lot of laundry to do with no water. So they’re hauling water from neighbors and friends in barrels in the back of their pickup, and then scooping it into buckets to wash dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also trying to save enough water to run the swamp cooler that provides relief from the triple-digit heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s upsetting is that just down the road there are orchards behind us drowning in water,” Colunga says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that they need to get their crops as well, but then we’re a family, we have children and we need that water. I mean, we can live without a TV, we can live without cellphones, but we can’t live without water. We have the right to have that basic thing. It’s water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145451\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 325px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/gladys-small.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-145451\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/gladys-small.jpg\" alt=\"Gladys Colunga gathers water from buckets outside of her home in Monson.(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"325\" height=\"183\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladys Colunga gathers water from buckets outside her home in Monson.(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sasha and I told Tulare County Supervisor Allen Ishida about the conversation we had with Gladys Colunga. We asked what he would say to people like her who can’t afford to drill their own wells, even though they own their property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The county does not have funds to help her,” Ishida says. “It’s the individual’s responsibility to take charge of the situation they’re in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His point: The government can’t use public funds to help private well owners. So families like Gladys Colunga’s are pretty much out of luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-term solution for communities like Monson may be to hook into a nearby town’s water system. But meanwhile, groundwater levels are dropping -- fast. Tulare County is issuing a record number of permits for people who want to drill wells, and Ishida says he knows that’s having an impact on the drinking water wells for nearby residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point in time, it’s a property right that you have,” Ishida notes. “You can drill a well and take the water that you need without any regulations by us or the state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ishida is also a citrus farmer. We met him in one of his neighbor’s orange groves that had been abandoned due to the drought. It looked like a forest of thousands of brown dead trees with shriveled-up oranges.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"left long\">\n\u003ch3>More from the Central Valley:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/21/at-89-worlds-oldest-square-dance-caller-keeps-the-central-valley-dancing/\" target=\"_blank\">World’s Oldest Square Dance Caller Keeps Central Valley Dancing [Video]\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/22/communal-project-in-fresno-dakota-eco-garden\">Communal Project in Fresno Has Found a Different Way to Treat the Homeless [Video]\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/27/a-reporter-in-the-san-joaquin-valley-finds-fertile-ground-for-storytelling/\">A Reporter in the San Joaquin Valley Finds Fertile Ground for Storytelling\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I just hope someone doesn’t start a fire in here,” Ishida says. “I mean, all it takes is a match, and 40 acres are going to go up in flames.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ishida’s neighbors aren’t doing well because they have no groundwater. But his own orchards are OK. He bought river water from water contractors — at 10 times the normal price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water is like liquid gold in the Central Valley these days. And Ishida says he’s not sure he can afford that again next year. Still, he’s hopeful. “You need to be optimistic, no matter what business you’re in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just folks living here who have a lot at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People need to remember, this is not just the San Joaquin Valley,” Ishida warns. “This is happening throughout the state of California. We could have 100,000 wells or more go out by October throughout the state. I mean it’s everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145453\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 396px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/mike-clark.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145453\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/mike-clark.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Clark, President of the Poplar Community Services District, in front of Poplar well. (Annabelle Beecher/KQED)\" width=\"396\" height=\"223\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Clark, president of the Poplar Community Services District, in front of Poplar's main well. (Annabelle Beecher/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what worries people like Mike Clark. He runs the water system for the town of Poplar, which has a population of 2,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not going to do any good if all these towns dry up and we don’t have any water,” Clark says. “(Then) you’ve got nobody to work the fields, because they don’t live here anymore. So it’s kind of a double-edged blade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average income in Poplar is about $13,000 per individual, he says. “I got residents that live in Poplar, if I raise the water rate by $5, they gotta go one day without eating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town’s main well is straining to pull enough water this summer. Sometimes they’ve had to turn on \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201005140850/a\" target=\"_blank\">a backup well contaminated with nitrates\u003c/a>. Residents are being warned that the water’s not safe to drink or cook with — especially for babies and pregnant women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Mike Clark and others in towns like Poplar, it can seem like farmers are using as much water as they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145491\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 283px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/sasha.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145491\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/sasha.jpg\" alt=\"Allen Ishida is a third-generation citrus farmer and is a Tulare County Supervisor. He shows Scott Shafer and Sasha Khokha his neighbor's farm in Lindsay, which has let 40 acres of oranges go. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\" width=\"283\" height=\"339\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Ishida is a third-generation citrus farmer and a Tulare County supervisor. He shows Scott Shafer and Sasha Khokha his neighbor's farm in Lindsay, which has let 40 acres of oranges go. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They can waste water all they want and nobody’s sayin’ nothin’,” Clark says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drought is starting to pit neighbor against neighbor — those with water and those without it. But the idea that farmers get too much of the water doesn’t sit well with growers here, including Dominic Pitigliano. He says critics aren’t seeing the whole picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did they grow the dinner they had last night?,” he asks. “They probably haven’t. Most people, they go to the store, buy everything they need for dinner that night, so they’re happy. So it’s hard for them to look at us bad when they’re taking advantage of everything we’ve given them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drought is top of mind here — you hear it on talk radio, in cafes and restaurants. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As we all know by now, California is in a serious state of drought. Some parts of the state are getting hit harder than others. The Central Valley is one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We wanted to show what this long dry year has meant for one of the country’s richest farming areas. So, producer Suzie Racho and I headed down Highway 99 to meet up with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org\" target=\"_blank\">The California Report’s\u003c/a>\u003c/em> Central Valley bureau chief, Sasha Khokha, who’s based in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our first stop was a cattle auction in the Tulare County town of Visalia. Agriculture is king here. Tulare County just passed Fresno as the top farm county in the nation. There are more cows than people in this county. Dairy alone is a $2 billion industry. But add in citrus, almonds, walnuts, pistachios and cotton, and the total is nearly $8 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145450\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 369px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/almonds-small.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-145450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/almonds-small.jpg\" alt=\"Dominic Pitigliano walks in an almond orchard during harvest season. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"369\" height=\"208\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominic Pitigliano walks in an almond orchard during harvest season. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Almonds are particularly lucrative and Dominic Pitigliano is one of the larger growers in Tulare County. We met him in an almond orchard in Woodville. As we spoke, a large harvesting machine moved along the rows, gripping each trunk one a time and shaking it until the almonds rained down. You could easily think there was an earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pitigliano is 33 years old — that’s young for a Central Valley farmer. He owns about 1,000 acres of almonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a hard year with the drought and no water allocation,” he tells us. “We’ve had a lot of diseases in the trees because of the lack of water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep these trees alive, growers like Pitigliano are drilling down for water -- in some cases hundreds of feet below the surface. It’s like putting a huge straw in the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I mean, we can live without a TV, we can live without cellphones, but we can’t live without water.'\u003ccite>—Gladys Colunga\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a race to the bottom because everybody doesn’t wanna see the valley dry up,\" Pitligano says. “Then again you don’t want to lose everything you’ve put your heart and soul into your whole life just disappear because you sat on your hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Pitigliano and other \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/07/15/californias-drought-is-hurting-farmers-more-than-food-consumers/\" target=\"_blank\">farmers are worried sick about the drought\u003c/a>, we saw lots of orchards with acres of newly planted small trees. Pitliagno told us young almond and citrus trees use less water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So people have a wide range of tree ages,” he says. “They rip out high-using trees and plant young trees.” As for his own orchards, Pitliagno says, “I’m hedging my bets that in three years it’s going to be back to normal and I’ll be able to grow my crops again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers here are \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/06/02/drought-drives-drilling-frenzy-for-groundwater-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\">drilling lots of new wells\u003c/a> to keep the farms going during the drought. All that groundwater pumping is affecting everyone -- on the farm or off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gladys Colunga lives in the Tulare County farmworker town of Monson. It’s surrounded by orchards and vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145488\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 380px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/field-reporting.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/field-reporting.jpg\" alt=\"Sasha Khokha (left) and Scott Shafer (right) interview Dominic Pitigliano (center) at an almond orchard in Tulare County. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sasha Khokha (left) and Scott Shafer (right) interview Dominic Pitigliano (center) at an almond orchard in Tulare County. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My husband came home one day from work, he took a perfectly good shower, and then I went to use the restroom. And when I flushed the toilet, nothing but dirt came out,” she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her husband works the fields and his hours were cut this summer because of the drought, so the family has less money. On top of that, their well went dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Colungas have six kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a lot of laundry to do with no water. So they’re hauling water from neighbors and friends in barrels in the back of their pickup, and then scooping it into buckets to wash dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also trying to save enough water to run the swamp cooler that provides relief from the triple-digit heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s upsetting is that just down the road there are orchards behind us drowning in water,” Colunga says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that they need to get their crops as well, but then we’re a family, we have children and we need that water. I mean, we can live without a TV, we can live without cellphones, but we can’t live without water. We have the right to have that basic thing. It’s water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145451\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 325px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/gladys-small.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-145451\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/gladys-small.jpg\" alt=\"Gladys Colunga gathers water from buckets outside of her home in Monson.(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"325\" height=\"183\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladys Colunga gathers water from buckets outside her home in Monson.(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sasha and I told Tulare County Supervisor Allen Ishida about the conversation we had with Gladys Colunga. We asked what he would say to people like her who can’t afford to drill their own wells, even though they own their property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The county does not have funds to help her,” Ishida says. “It’s the individual’s responsibility to take charge of the situation they’re in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His point: The government can’t use public funds to help private well owners. So families like Gladys Colunga’s are pretty much out of luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-term solution for communities like Monson may be to hook into a nearby town’s water system. But meanwhile, groundwater levels are dropping -- fast. Tulare County is issuing a record number of permits for people who want to drill wells, and Ishida says he knows that’s having an impact on the drinking water wells for nearby residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point in time, it’s a property right that you have,” Ishida notes. “You can drill a well and take the water that you need without any regulations by us or the state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ishida is also a citrus farmer. We met him in one of his neighbor’s orange groves that had been abandoned due to the drought. It looked like a forest of thousands of brown dead trees with shriveled-up oranges.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"left long\">\n\u003ch3>More from the Central Valley:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/21/at-89-worlds-oldest-square-dance-caller-keeps-the-central-valley-dancing/\" target=\"_blank\">World’s Oldest Square Dance Caller Keeps Central Valley Dancing [Video]\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/22/communal-project-in-fresno-dakota-eco-garden\">Communal Project in Fresno Has Found a Different Way to Treat the Homeless [Video]\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/27/a-reporter-in-the-san-joaquin-valley-finds-fertile-ground-for-storytelling/\">A Reporter in the San Joaquin Valley Finds Fertile Ground for Storytelling\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I just hope someone doesn’t start a fire in here,” Ishida says. “I mean, all it takes is a match, and 40 acres are going to go up in flames.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ishida’s neighbors aren’t doing well because they have no groundwater. But his own orchards are OK. He bought river water from water contractors — at 10 times the normal price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water is like liquid gold in the Central Valley these days. And Ishida says he’s not sure he can afford that again next year. Still, he’s hopeful. “You need to be optimistic, no matter what business you’re in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just folks living here who have a lot at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People need to remember, this is not just the San Joaquin Valley,” Ishida warns. “This is happening throughout the state of California. We could have 100,000 wells or more go out by October throughout the state. I mean it’s everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145453\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 396px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/mike-clark.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145453\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/mike-clark.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Clark, President of the Poplar Community Services District, in front of Poplar well. (Annabelle Beecher/KQED)\" width=\"396\" height=\"223\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Clark, president of the Poplar Community Services District, in front of Poplar's main well. (Annabelle Beecher/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what worries people like Mike Clark. He runs the water system for the town of Poplar, which has a population of 2,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not going to do any good if all these towns dry up and we don’t have any water,” Clark says. “(Then) you’ve got nobody to work the fields, because they don’t live here anymore. So it’s kind of a double-edged blade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average income in Poplar is about $13,000 per individual, he says. “I got residents that live in Poplar, if I raise the water rate by $5, they gotta go one day without eating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town’s main well is straining to pull enough water this summer. Sometimes they’ve had to turn on \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201005140850/a\" target=\"_blank\">a backup well contaminated with nitrates\u003c/a>. Residents are being warned that the water’s not safe to drink or cook with — especially for babies and pregnant women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Mike Clark and others in towns like Poplar, it can seem like farmers are using as much water as they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145491\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 283px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/sasha.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145491\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/sasha.jpg\" alt=\"Allen Ishida is a third-generation citrus farmer and is a Tulare County Supervisor. He shows Scott Shafer and Sasha Khokha his neighbor's farm in Lindsay, which has let 40 acres of oranges go. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\" width=\"283\" height=\"339\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Ishida is a third-generation citrus farmer and a Tulare County supervisor. 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But one thing we heard repeatedly during our road trip is that the Central Valley is about much more than farmers on tractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">[vimeo 104034738 w=640 h=360]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nancy Holmes grabs an olive from a bowl on the kitchen counter. “I think these oughta be test-driven before they go in the pasta,” she says with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s dinnertime at Dakota EcoGarden in Fresno. The folks gathered here to cook and share a meal aren’t related — but they’re all connected by homelessness. Some are advocates like Dixie Salazar, a local poet and painter. Others, like Brittani Fanciullo and Holmes, are survivors of life on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I was gonna be basically living out of my truck and you know, fortunately, this situation came up.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"All right, pass me everything!” Fanciullo says enthusiastically, looking at a table full of summery dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything all at once?” someone asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Fanciullo, 30, spends plenty of time in this kitchen. She does a lot of cooking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They [my housemates] always drag me into cooking, and tons of cleaning, and I always do what I can out in the yard,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fanciullo says she does her part because she gets to live at Dakota EcoGarden for free. She moved in nine months ago, sober after years of drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dakota EcoGarden is a communal project for the homeless spearheaded by retired schoolteacher Nancy Waidtlow. She wanted to create a safe space for people to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I’m sure being over 70 years old and not having that much to lose is part of it,” says Waidtlow with her characteristic dry humor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, she took her savings and some inheritance money and bought and refurbished a $64,000 house with a yard roomy enough for nine tents on pallets and an organic garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/tents.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-145381\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/tents.jpg\" alt=\"There are around ten residents living at Fresno's Dakota Eco Garden. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are about 10 residents living at Fresno's Dakota EcoGarden. 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Although there is the occasional conflict, so far things seem to be running pretty smoothly, with everyone lending some expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One resident installed solar panels so the tents could have electricity. Others tend the garden, like 58-year-old Frank, who asked not to use his real name. Frank ran his own business until he had some debilitating health problems. While he looks for a new job, he’s also putting his agriculture degree to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I’ve seen some little infestation here and there, of course. Aphids got to the squash, too,” he says pointing to a row of vegetables in the organic garden. “So that’s what’s going on, but see, you can see the tomatoes are really doing well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he’s thankful for the opportunity to live here. “I was gonna be basically living out of my truck and you know, fortunately, this situation came up and it’s worked out great. I mean you could say it’s a symbiotic relationship -- no pun intended!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not far from the garden is another green project, the EcoShelter. It’s essentially an off-the-grid tiny house designed by renowned local architect Art Dyson and built by retired professor Jerry Bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/tent-panel.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-145375 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/tent-panel.jpg\" alt=\"The Dakota Eco Garden in Fresno features solar panels that power fans and LED lights. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dakota EcoGarden in Fresno features solar panels that power fans and LED lights. 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"content": "\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">[vimeo 98598350 w=640 h=360]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the shadow of the glistening, problem-wracked new Bay Bridge, the original eastern span is coming down piece by piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, equipped with standard-issue hard hat, bright orange safety vest, plastic goggles and borrowed work boots, I venture onto the live demolition site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approaching from the Oakland side, we take an access road that feeds into the severed lower deck of the original span. 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(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Continuing west: The darkness of the lower deck fades away as you walk out of the shadow of the upper deck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers mill around the last 100 yards of the eastern section of the bridge, marked by a final barricade with the warning: “Active Demolition, No access beyond this point.” A forklift rumbles by, and I can feel the bridge wobble and sway beneath me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/danger-sign.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-139574\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/danger-sign.jpg\" alt=\"A final barricade on the edge of the eastern half of the old Bay Bridge. 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Now the old east span is in two parts, separated by a 500-foot gap — and the bay, 300 feet below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/view-from-the-edge.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-139581\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/view-from-the-edge.jpg\" alt=\"The view from the edge of the eastern half of the old east span of the Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from the edge of the eastern half of the old east span of the Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stretching out from under the edge is a roughly 50-foot wooden platform,strewn with cables and construction debris. This platform, and the slanted wooden structures along the sides of the bridge, serve as mobile debris shields intended to prevent as much as 95 percent of construction debris from falling into the bay, according to chief project engineer Bill Howe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/steel-cutting.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-139583\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/steel-cutting.jpg\" alt=\"A worker cuts through the a section of the cantilever truss section of the old Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker cuts through the a section of the cantilever truss section of the old Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the wind cooperates, work continues. Several men don headgear and pile into a yellow metal basket that hoists them even farther above the bay. With temporary support beams in place, the men resume the arduous task of cutting through the superstructure, severing steel columns that will then be lifted out of place, piece by piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 326px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/demo-diagram.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-139586 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/demo-diagram.jpg\" alt=\"Two color-coded diagrams depicting the demolition process. Provided by the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Seismic Safety Project coalition.\" width=\"326\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two color-coded diagrams depicting the demolition process. Provided by the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Seismic Safety Project coalition.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Bill Howe, one of the goals of the demolition project was to have it take place essentially in the reverse order in which the bridge was constructed. Engineers consulted a \u003ca href=\"http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf4h4nb6gf;developer=local;style=oac4;doc.view=items\" target=\"_blank\">collection of photographs\u003c/a> on display at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library documenting the bridge’s construction from 1933 to 1936.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at those photographs, and compare them to the way the dismantling is going, they’re very nearly identical. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the shadow of the glistening, problem-wracked new Bay Bridge, the original eastern span is coming down piece by piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, equipped with standard-issue hard hat, bright orange safety vest, plastic goggles and borrowed work boots, I venture onto the live demolition site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approaching from the Oakland side, we take an access road that feeds into the severed lower deck of the original span. As we pass through the first of three security checkpoints, the scene turns apocalyptic — a single truck driving down the center of an abandoned roadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/rearview.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-139573\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/rearview.jpg\" alt=\"A rearview mirror reflects the apocalyptic scene driving onto the old Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rearview mirror reflects the apocalyptic scene driving onto the old Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Behind a second and then a third security gate, construction materials appear strewn along the side of the road. A little further, the hum of traffic on the new, neighboring bridge is slowly replaced by the din and whir of construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a dozen vehicles are parked in front of a final gate — the last few hundred yards are traveled on foot. Stepping out of the truck and onto the concrete deck stripped bare of asphalt, I pass a pile of twisted metal. It's a discarded traveler, part of a scaffolding system that maintenance workers used to access hard-to-reach parts of the old bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/workers-deck.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-139578\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/workers-deck.jpg\" alt=\"Emerging from the shadow of the upper deck on the old east span of the Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerging from the shadow of the upper deck on the old east span of the Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Continuing west: The darkness of the lower deck fades away as you walk out of the shadow of the upper deck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers mill around the last 100 yards of the eastern section of the bridge, marked by a final barricade with the warning: “Active Demolition, No access beyond this point.” A forklift rumbles by, and I can feel the bridge wobble and sway beneath me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/danger-sign.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-139574\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/danger-sign.jpg\" alt=\"A final barricade on the edge of the eastern half of the old Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"368\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A final barricade on the edge of the eastern half of the old Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Work is temporarily halted on account of wind direction. About a dozen men stand around, waiting for the headlong easterly winds to shift south-southeast so that any potentially noxious debris set loose by cutting through 80-year-old steel can be carried away from workers on both bridges, old and new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delay lets me slip behind the final barricade and walk to the edge. The first part of the eastern span to go is the cantilever truss section, starting with the suspended span stretching between the two towers. Now the old east span is in two parts, separated by a 500-foot gap — and the bay, 300 feet below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/view-from-the-edge.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-139581\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/view-from-the-edge.jpg\" alt=\"The view from the edge of the eastern half of the old east span of the Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from the edge of the eastern half of the old east span of the Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stretching out from under the edge is a roughly 50-foot wooden platform,strewn with cables and construction debris. This platform, and the slanted wooden structures along the sides of the bridge, serve as mobile debris shields intended to prevent as much as 95 percent of construction debris from falling into the bay, according to chief project engineer Bill Howe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/steel-cutting.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-139583\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/steel-cutting.jpg\" alt=\"A worker cuts through the a section of the cantilever truss section of the old Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker cuts through the a section of the cantilever truss section of the old Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the wind cooperates, work continues. Several men don headgear and pile into a yellow metal basket that hoists them even farther above the bay. With temporary support beams in place, the men resume the arduous task of cutting through the superstructure, severing steel columns that will then be lifted out of place, piece by piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 326px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/demo-diagram.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-139586 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/demo-diagram.jpg\" alt=\"Two color-coded diagrams depicting the demolition process. Provided by the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Seismic Safety Project coalition.\" width=\"326\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two color-coded diagrams depicting the demolition process. Provided by the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Seismic Safety Project coalition.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Bill Howe, one of the goals of the demolition project was to have it take place essentially in the reverse order in which the bridge was constructed. Engineers consulted a \u003ca href=\"http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf4h4nb6gf;developer=local;style=oac4;doc.view=items\" target=\"_blank\">collection of photographs\u003c/a> on display at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library documenting the bridge’s construction from 1933 to 1936.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at those photographs, and compare them to the way the dismantling is going, they’re very nearly identical. It’s just the reverse order of the way the bridge was built,” Howe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/I0035761A.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-139589\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/I0035761A-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the suspended span of the Bay Bridge, dated March 22, 1936. (Courtesy: The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the suspended span of the Bay Bridge, dated March 22, 1936. 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"content": "\u003cp>Shoddy bolts, bad welds, dangerous rust, frayed cables. With \u003cem>even more\u003c/em> reports of problems on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, we — like everyone in the Bay Area — are suffering from bad news fatigue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We thought we’d remedy this by basking in the glory of the old San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, relived through decades of Hollywood movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Bay Bridge opened to the public in November 1936, it was seen as a technological marvel, an engineering feat that exemplified mankind’s ability. Since then, the bridge has made numerous notable film appearances over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">[vimeo 97857852 w=640 h=360]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, all the clips we scrounged up show the still-functioning, towered suspension span of the bridge west of Yerba Buena Island, overlooking the more modest beauty of the cantilevered eastern stretch that is disappearing piece-by-piece in front of our eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With sometimes glaring anachronistic errors, relive the 75-year history of the Bay Bridge in stunning Technicolor (and less-stunning black and white).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034172/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Shadow of the Thin Man\"\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> (1941) (0:00-1:15) (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6cvDVgz_OE\" target=\"_blank\">Trailer\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/shadow-still.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-138711\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/shadow-still.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"482\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from \"Shadow of the Thin Man\" (1941), directed by W.S. Van Dyke.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Myrna Loy and the mustachioed William Powell are pulled over for speeding on the upper deck of the bridge. The outdoor scene on the bridge, with Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill visible in the background, includes an impressive tracking shot amid three lanes of traffic. In what will become a bit of a trend, the plot has the two characters traveling eastbound (the next shots include the MacArthur Maze and later, Golden Gate Fields) despite heading west toward the city. \u003cem>(*the clip has been edited from the original).\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037366/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\">\"Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo\"\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> (1944) (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaLgSlbS1lk\" target=\"_blank\">1:15-2:05\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138713\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/thirty-seconds-still.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-138713\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/thirty-seconds-still.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"468\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from \"Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo\" (1944), directed by Mervyn LeRoy.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's easy to forget the still-new \"superstructure\" was still awe-inspiring nearly 10 years after it was completed. Also impressive, the terrific shot of a B-25 bomber flying under the Bay Bridge. Such shots led to the film, starring Spencer Tracy as Lt. Col. James Doolittle of \"Doolittle Raid\" fame, winning an Oscar for Best Special Effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Graduate\"\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> (1967) (2:04-2:40)(\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsdvhJTqLak\" target=\"_blank\">Trailer\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/graduate-still2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-138718\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/graduate-still2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from \"The Graduate\" (1967), directed by Mike Nichols.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dulcet tones of Simon & Garfunkel and vivid Technicolor bring us to the most recognizable Bay Bridge clip. Dustin Hoffman's character, Ben Braddock, inconceivably travels westbound ... to Berkeley?! An anachronism that's hard to ignore, bested only by the beauty of the single, slow-moving 35-second tracking shot revealing the towered suspension span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/?ref_=nv_sr_2\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>\"Koyaanisqatsi\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (1982) (2:40-2:50)(\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PirH8PADDgQ\" target=\"_blank\">Trailer\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138703\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/bay-bridge-still-koyaanisqatsi.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-138703\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/bay-bridge-still-koyaanisqatsi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"352\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from \"Koyaanisqatsi\" (1982), directed by Godfrey Reggio.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Blink and you'll miss it. The Godfrey Reggio-directed visual documentary, accompanied by the rhythmic chaos of Philip Glass' score, features two incredibly brief POV shots driving through the Yerba Buena Island tunnel into the sunlight of the western span. But strangely, in typical anachronistic mystery, those shots are cut out-of-order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119190/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\">\"George of the Jungle\"\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> (1997) (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WtqtD--OiE\" target=\"_blank\">2:50-5:25\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/george-still.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-138715\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/george-still.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"471\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from \"George of the Jungle\" (1997), directed by Sam Weisman.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunky, 1990s Brendan Fraser swings on \"the biggest rope bridge he had ever seen.\" Complete with stranded parachutist, sweeping aerial shots and the poetic line, \"To swing, or not to swing?\" (yes, really), the \"George of the Jungle\" action sequence is perhaps the climax of the Bay Bridge's cinematic history. \"Watch out for that ...\" straight-to-video sequel, \"George of the Jungle 2\" (2003).\u003cem> (*the clip has been edited from the original)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Also impressive, the terrific shot of a B-25 bomber flying under the Bay Bridge. Such shots led to the film, starring Spencer Tracy as Lt. Col. 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Dustin Hoffman's character, Ben Braddock, inconceivably travels westbound ... to Berkeley?! An anachronism that's hard to ignore, bested only by the beauty of the single, slow-moving 35-second tracking shot revealing the towered suspension span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/?ref_=nv_sr_2\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>\"Koyaanisqatsi\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (1982) (2:40-2:50)(\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PirH8PADDgQ\" target=\"_blank\">Trailer\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138703\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/bay-bridge-still-koyaanisqatsi.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-138703\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/bay-bridge-still-koyaanisqatsi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"352\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from \"Koyaanisqatsi\" (1982), directed by Godfrey Reggio.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Blink and you'll miss it. The Godfrey Reggio-directed visual documentary, accompanied by the rhythmic chaos of Philip Glass' score, features two incredibly brief POV shots driving through the Yerba Buena Island tunnel into the sunlight of the western span. 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"content": "\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LiBf4jQ814?rel=0&w=640&h=360]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Talking to James Houston today, it's difficult to imagine the troubled young man he was back in 1996, when he shot and killed a neighbor during an argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He spent 17 years behind bars at San Quentin State Prison, where he earned a college degree, became an addiction counselor and even pitched a tech startup to some Silicon Valley venture capitalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before 2009, even a model inmate like Houston had little chance of ever leaving prison. The parole board was reluctant to let \"lifers\" out, and when it did, the governor would often overturn its decision. In 2000, for example, 13 lifers were released as Gov. Pete Wilson reversed 92 percent of the parole board’s findings that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"c49e9bf6daa345011a9fa090f12f204b\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that began to change when a key California Supreme Court ruling limited the reasons that lifers may be denied parole. The board and the governor can no longer consider the severity of the crime alone, and they now have to ask how dangerous the person is today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, 443 lifers got out as Gov. Jerry Brown let 81 percent of the parole board’s decisions stand. At a recent rally for victims' rights, Brown said, “I’m worried about a number of things, but after we catalog our worries, we have to do what our job is, and I try to do that with common sense and a certain degree of compassion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recidivism rate for lifers is less than 1 percent, according to the Stanford Criminal Justice Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Houston has two jobs. By day, he drives Richmond's roughest blocks looking for the young men most likely to shoot someone or be shot. He's an outreach worker at the Richmond Office of Neighborhood Safety, which many credit as an important reason violent crime is reducing in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of these kids have never had a man take an interest in them without eventually asking for something in return,\" said Houston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At night he's an addiction counselor at Options Recovery Services in downtown Berkeley. Just-released lifers go there to get help finding housing, employment and things like a ride to Target to buy a toothbrush and soap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after his release, Houston has moved from transitional housing to a tidy house in Richmond, where he checks his 6-year-old stepson's homework while his wife makes lasagna. The couple knew each other as teenagers, and reconnected decades later when she sent him a letter at San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His older son, James Jr., was 10 months old when he went to prison. Now 18, James Jr. keeps a large stack of letters Houston wrote him from prison. \"I wanted to be like 'Leave It to Beaver'-- to be able to kiss my son on the cheek, show him a different type of man,\" said Houston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He now has a second chance.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svnQoIeFDko&w=640&h=360]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I’ve been on a racehorse only once. I was 19, in probably the best physical shape of my life, and a jockey friend arranged for me to get on a nice, tame filly early one morning at \u003ca href=\"http://www.arlingtonpark.com\" target=\"_blank\">Arlington Park\u003c/a> racetrack outside Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"7c8de28a299b8100c61e1ba044b48f0a\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was working there that summer in the licensing office and in love with the racehorses. They seemed wild, unpredictable and fast. I wanted to know what it would be like to ride one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also loved the sport itself: how the need for luck unites the lowliest backstretch worker and the wealthiest horse owner at post time. Anyone can win. That’s why California Chrome caught my eye a few weeks ago. He’s a cheaply bred California horse with no business being in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kentuckyderby.com\" target=\"_blank\">Kentucky Derby\u003c/a>. But he’s won his last four races by more than 25 lengths and is now poised to knock off some of the heaviest hitters in the racing game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Junior, as his owners call him, is pretty but not exceptional-looking: a medium-size chestnut with a big white blaze down his face and four white feet. To me, he looks joyous when he runs past the finish line, bounding along, ears pricked forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133950\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS10000_IMG_5206-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-133950\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS10000_IMG_5206-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The 3-year-old thoroughbred enjoys a quiet moment in his stable. 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The top stud in Kentucky (Tapit) costs $150,000.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Chrome’s trainer, 77-year-old Art Sherman, has never entered a horse in the Derby. The top trainer in the country, Todd Pletcher, has run 36. Currently, he’s bringing four.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>California Chrome has four white feet, long considered bad luck.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dumb Ass Partners is a name that probably shouldn’t be in the history books.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>I went to the former McClellan Air Force Base outside Sacramento to meet co-owner Martin, of Yuba City. Turns out he’s also from Chicago and got hooked on racehorses at Arlington Park when he was 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I loved the track,” Martin said. “I wasn’t supposed to bet. You’re supposed to be 18 but I was big enough and had a mustache, so they let me bet. I never won a lot but it was a blast. When I got a license I drove myself out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin’s first date with his wife was taking her to a racetrack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple years ago he decided to take his savings and get into the racehorse business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I don’t bet on other horses anymore,” he said. “It’s not as fun as owning your own horse, your own sports franchise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin met Steve Coburn, and they agreed to buy Love the Chase for $8,000. She gave birth to California Chrome, and both families fell in love with him. “After we got the call he was born, we drove for two hours and he was already up and running around his mom when we got there. He was handled by people right from the start. He’s a people horse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They named him by having a waitress draw from a bunch of names they put in a hat. (Perry had submitted “Seabizquick.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I also loved the sport itself: how the need for luck unites the lowliest backstretch worker and the wealthiest horse owner at post time.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>They were so nuts about him that last spring when the Las Vegas winter book opened up, allowing gamblers to wager early on the May 3 Kentucky Derby, Martin sent his 24-year-old daughter on a mission to Vegas with $500 to bet on their horse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has this cute baby face, and all these guys were saying, ‘You don’t want to bet on this Cal-bred.’ And she said, 'He’s \u003cem>my\u003c/em> horse!' She got odds of 275-1,\" Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin is a big man, deliberate and thoughtful. He fully believed when he bred Love the Chase to Lucky Pulpit that he was picking winning bloodlines. As he heads to Kentucky with his family and friends, he believes his horse will prove he’s the best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The battle here is putting together the right team. We have the right team now. We have an old-school trainer, we went on old-school breeding. We have a good jockey, who’s not just in the moment but also thinking 50 jumps ahead,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrome’s jockey, Victor Espinoza, is the only one of Chrome’s team who has Derby experience. In 2002 he was selected at the last minute to ride a horse named War Emblem. That year Saudi Prince Ahmed bin Salman reportedly spent a million to buy War Emblem ahead of the Derby. He was quoted as wanting to win the race that badly. They did win. (A ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, bought a Derby horse this year named Cairo Prince. He got injured and is out of the race.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Espinoza said riding California Chrome this year is very different: “More pressure. I know the horse and the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I went to the stable at Los Alamitos (Orange County) one morning to talk to the team and see California Chrome, a TV crew mounted a small camera on the chest of Willie Delgado, who exercises Chrome in the mornings. Another crew had put one on his helmet the morning before. They are all trying to capture what it looks like, what it feels like, to be on a horse running that fast. I’ve always wished I could have ridden a horse in a race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why I got on that filly at Arlington Park back in the day. I made it once around the track that morning. My arms were too weak to even pull her up. A pony rider had to catch us and bring her to a stop. That was embarrassing enough. But when I dismounted at the barn, my legs were so weak that my knees buckled and I fell on my butt in front of the stable folks. Everyone got a big chuckle out of that. My jockey friend was kind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s what happens to everyone the first time,\" he said, grinning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133953\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9903_IMG_5109-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-133953 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS9903_IMG_5109-lpr-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"California Chrome was born in the Central Valley near I-5, and his mother cost only $8,000. (Julia McEvoy/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Chrome was born in the Central Valley near I-5, and his mother cost only $8,000. 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