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"Time is of the essence. I've got to get my product out. If I don't get my product out in time, the investors walk away. So if I tell them I'm sitting in a city waiting for approval, they go, that's your problem. Now then, once we get approved, there's secondary timing issues. A lot of cities have, are compartmentalized on the inside. So the Planning Commission might have given you, and the Building Department gave you the permit, but they're not really watching what the inspectors are doing. So the inspectors then inspect, and they have certain standards of care, not all of it's objective. And then they say, you have to do this. I thought this is all I had to do. Well, it'll come back in 30 days. And then all of a sudden there's another delay. And so some of the better cities now we call concierge services. They're very aware of what's happening once the approval begins. And what's the end of that? And then they're going to problem solve as opposed to, well, it's not 100%. You missed one, two, and three out of 20. We'll come back in 30 days. Sorry. No, that's helpful. And a large number of cities want life science companies to move to their cities. First, can you define life science? Because there's different buckets of it. And cities might not be separating out those buckets. And then second, what makes one city more competitive than another? And I think a lot of these you've talked on flexible zoning, which you just sort of alluded to. And then the next part is tie it. But can you elaborate more on the life science? Again, it's going life science. As you mentioned, there's several areas, buckets. It could be anything from A to laboratories to manufacturing to R &D to research. Pure life science needs to be next to a research university. So there's a reason why you have Emeryville, city of Alameda, South San Francisco as major life science centers. You have Berkeley, University of California, Stanford, and you have UCSF. The professors and the ecosystem of research between the research institutes, plus we have three labs in the Bay Area. So you just can't take a life science company and move it to ready. It just doesn't happen because there's a back and forth between the universities, the labs, the military labs and the Genome Center, for instance, in Berkeley. And so therefore the professors sometimes have their own companies or sometimes they're doing research. So life science in and of itself has to be in the inner Bay, in those areas. So I would call that the 680 corridor. I would call that the 880 corridor, the 101 corridor around those areas. That's why you see all the new buildings occurring in that. It's temporarily delayed because of the real estate bumps we're going through. The second thing then for a city is that it has to have, depending upon life science, remember life science can be life science with laboratories. If it's advanced food manufacturing, they need a lot of water. So you have to have access to water. So for instance, Vacaville and Fairfield have access to Lake Berryessa, which is good water for laboratories and advanced food production. So that's a plus in their favor. Plus they have Davis nearby there as a research university. If it's manufacturing and doesn't entail water flushing, that could be medical instruments, for instance. Fremont has developed into a node of a lot of advanced manufacturing. They also like to cluster. One reason they cluster is that ideas get exchanged between companies. Second is they can steal employees from each other and they're very comfortable with that. So again, if you have isolated outposts 40 miles apart, there's not that exchange. And so that's why you see density occurring in South San Francisco. And that's why you see density occurring in Emeryville. That's why you see density occurring in parts of Tri-Valley. Then the other one is power. Are the cities investing in power infrastructure? Right now, because of all kinds of reasons, PG &E has to bury a lot of cables, transmission tower lines, etc. It could take a year plus to get a hookup for advanced power transformers. That becomes a factor. Ironically, the city of Alameda has its own power company. So they have a migration of almost a million nine square feet of life science have gone into that city versus another service. So all these are taken into account. OK, that's interesting. I appreciate that. You talked a bunch about ecosystems within that, companies clustering together to build out an ecosystem. Further elaborate on that. Talked earlier about an example with Tesla that maybe you could share or there's anything else like that. Yeah. So again, cities have to think regionally. If what we call a major tenable is into Fremont, it doesn't hurt Hayward, Castro Valley or San Mateo. It helps. So wherever the big company lands, there's usually a 30 mile distance around 40 mile that benefits. So in the case of Tesla, one reason why Tesla in its infancy chose Fremont, it went into the new army orders, the old Toyota facility. Already in place was an ecosystem. What does that mean in English? So right now, Tesla doesn't manufacture really. It assembles parts. So the FOB manufacturer is in San Leandro. The person who makes the battery pack cover is in Hayward. So I can go down the list. Let's imagine there's 50 parts that go into the car. They're located in the surrounding community cities. And then and really, then Tesla asked the question, in their case, they have a four hour rule. We were working three shifts. We have some just in time product delivery. We want to make sure we need 20 extra component parts in the supply chain. It's there. So therefore, the ecosystem becomes important. So again, the advantage of the Bay Area, the inner Bay, the East Bay, is that in place are various elements of that ecosystem for advanced manufacturing. Some of these things can actually do two or three different companies. So the guy who makes the FOB for Tesla could be doing another product for a different manufacturing process that uses the same kind of, let's say, software. What's interesting, by the way, will be the role of the secondary airports. People are looking at airports as great hubs now, not Oakland, San Francisco. Let's say in the future, you can see Byron, Livermore, Buchanan, Fairfield, Hayward, San Mateo, Moffett Field as airports where you fly in products from another part of the state. And then it's delivered to Fremont or it's delivered to South San Francisco. That's the story. I was just taking notes on that. That's a good to talk about the use of airports and the roles they can play. It's often talked about Byron Airport, how they've gotten into drone testing. And I know Hayward Airport has two or three companies, including Autonomous Chopper Company and some others there. And it shows that there's only eventually so much that those people can do at the airport itself because they're small facilities, but it builds it further along. And I also remember a few years ago when the car companies, the major car companies were in crisis, Chrysler and GM. Ford went and advocated for their loan bailouts from the federal government because Ford, who was in better financial shape, needed that key fob people to stay in business and not lose that second account because it kept their pricing up. Same with the tires or the axle companies. And it was all of those component parts that make a difference in that ecosystem. Yes. So if a major company moves to Fremont, San Leandro benefits and vice versa. So what can from a broker's perspective, what can a city do to attract a business? What tools in the Bay Area should we have? There are several. And again, the cities should, first of all, think of themselves as a sub region. Yes, I want to keep a metric of how many jobs are created inside my individual city boundaries. So how many jobs did I create in Walnut Creek this year versus last year, et cetera? But on the other hand, Tesla is not going to move into Walnut Creek unless it has an ecosystem that spans the entire federal county area and or its workforce. So on one level, the city should be talking regionally to each other about where is the where's workforce housing? Where is where is my power coming from? Where's my water coming from? And then inside their cities, they should be talking about streamlining a process and real streamlining. And this has to be top down. And so streamlining is like Fremont to back of the law. We interviewed with Vacaville is that they we want these kinds of sectors to come into our city. We should do an interview process and see what they need. So that's one thing cities should do. Interview brokers and the actual employers. What do you need? What do you see? We then pre approve with all the complications or mitigate any of the issues that you're kind of used to bring to the city. So therefore, when you say you're going to bring 50 people in the company to my city, you already have in place a process for swift approval over the counter versus a public hearing. Even the state has stepped in and limited for housing, in some cases, five public hearings now because some cities were taking 20. You're talking about Richmond there. Keep going back and forth. And there's not an end game. So cities should be talking to their neighbors. And then the other reason why they have to talk is that we have to get our transportation dollars. We're competing with areas within the Bay Area. We're competing with Southern California. We're competing with other states. We need the East Bay to get our fair or unfair share of transportation dollars. So how do we talk together as a region? Again, if the roads aren't improved, if the mass transit isn't improved, et cetera, et cetera, then it doesn't matter what our city is, we lose as a region. Yeah, those are some good points. I appreciate that. Now, I want to challenge everybody is one of those points you talked about. Has a city sat down with their broker community and asked them what difficulties have they had for businesses? And I want to challenge every city that's listening to this, whether it's an economic development person, a community development director or a city manager, go and challenge your city to meet with your broker community, engage a conversation with them and get feedback from somebody who's in there. And I also want to say create a sport car. Right. Ed, do you ever score a city like, hey, you did a good job on this? The answer is yes and yes. Some cities do. Some cities go through the motion. Some cities seriously take input from developers, tenants and brokers and consultants. And what's the opportunities and what are the constraints? But again, the new companies coming in and growing in our market are unlike the companies of the last 30 years. So I have what we call a lot of legacy effect. We're still preparing for yesterday's employment sectors, and we assume we have assumptions based on that. So it's time to reach out again in a more comprehensive manner. And what are the new industry, the new advanced sectors looking for? And then what's what is the opinion of the market as to how good or bad we are? And yes, there is an informal scorecard that you said some people keep. Again, let's imagine I'm OK with going into a region, i.e. Tri-Valley. So what's the difference between the Livermore, Dublin or Pleasanton? Is it just name change? Is there a difference in property? Is there a difference in property taxes, assessments, business taxes, infrastructure, power, approval process, etc. And then so I'm like, here's my metrics for approval, here's my metrics for cost of rent or availability of land. Or once I rent, can I grow? Or etc. So, yes, there are metrics. So cities should be aware of how they're rated. That's good. That's a good takeaway for you. In addition to being a broker, you talked about other parts of your business where you're actually consulting with a number of cities on economic development studies. Talk to us more about the work you do and how you help cities. Yeah, since I'm a little bit different than the average broker, I do a lot of transactions, big and small. And again, that's a good calling and there's money in it. I'm a good region for that purpose. But since I live in the future on the path of my deals, I just sold two and a half acres by the Castro Valley Bar Station. I'm about to do a hospital transaction. Probably doesn't happen until two twenty five down the list. I therefore have to predict timelines. I have to give a rating to my clients as to how long it takes to get something done, etc, etc, etc. So I live in that world. So then, on the other hand, since I'm a bit of a policy wonk and I'm on regional business boards, cities then ask me and I have cities on my boards. Hey, Ed, be very specific with us. What should we be doing more than just general bromides? So then I get hired sometimes in conjunction with an economist, sometimes with a planner or community development person. And I operate, as I say, I'm a 500 foot level. How does the general plan actually affect this business park, this property? And yes, it sounds good, but what are the actual hurdles and opportunities in that given area? And so I can get rather specific for a minor consulting study as to how do you drive traffic? How do you get certain kinds of retailers? How do you whatever. And so that's what I do in a minor consulting. That's great. Just to know more about your perspective and how you work with the cities is you're not just a broker who's leading your industry, but you're actively involved in a number of organizations in your community, as we talked about earlier. And there's probably a dozen more I didn't name in the intro, but you're actively partnering with them through these organizations, through your economic development work. And it's a good perspective for cities to go out and listen to you with how you can help develop things. I have a few takeaways from here that some of the cities should pay attention to. One is flexible zoning, how that can help attract people within limits, within certain areas of your cities. But how can you we're not talking about making a warehouse into housing. I mean, maybe we should, but just flexible zoning. How can you take an office and put it into medical space? How could you make it a bank available to the hospital expansion next door? I heard you talk about time to permit approval process, a concierge process, just a key contact that cities can have to for a business to go to. I heard you talk about the importance of developing an ecosystem, not just recruiting one business, but how do you look at the businesses you have and you can grow an ecosystem around that. And with that, the cluster effect, which is also part of that ecosystem. Cities, companies want to cluster together. We talked about water and power infrastructure. We talked about the logistic operations at secondary airports. And we challenge cities to meet with business brokers. So that's actually seven takeaways. Solid takeaways, in my opinion, that's a good value for leaders to have. Ed, do you have anything else you want to add to those takeaways or anything else you want to share? Brucks. OK, so right now, everybody's the latest planning mode is walkable cities. So how do we put bike paths? How do we create pedestrian friendly cities? Meanwhile, 40 percent of what we consume, we order over the Internet. OK, when it comes to us, it comes in a truck. So let's talk about trucks. So first of all, we imported from overseas or from elsewhere in the West and it comes in a big truck. That big truck needs to go to a million square foot depot somewhere. So Tracy and Fairfield, quote, or Livermore have big warehouses. Then it's broken down to a midsize truck and then it might be broken down to your Amazon style panel truck. OK, everybody's now running into a shrunken roads to allow a bike path. So all the truck does is double park and block it. Where is the loadie? Again, it's it's nice and it's a good value to improve bike safety. I've had my share of running into things on my bicycle. It's also fair to say that we don't want to get hit as we walk a sidewalk by a car coming on the sidewalk. But then where we have to account for logistics of the last mile, so to speak. Where do we where do those trucks go and how do we accommodate them down the road? You're going to see drones landing on top of buildings and doing freight top down. But we have to start thinking about that. I heard Jeff Bezos speak at the venture capitalist Andreessen Horowitz group. A couple of years ago, I mean, everything's a couple of years ago when you go pre-Covid and he talked about by 2027, his goal was 75 percent of deliveries would take place into a form of bulk locker. Right. So you start seeing those in the Whole Foods, but you also see them in apartment building complexes and places. And if they're residential suburban houses, drone delivery to your backyard. So if you think about my house, I'm sure your house is probably very similar to open space in the backyard. Right. Well, why have a driver come down the road if they can go to those logistical airports and then fly out hundreds of drones a day and land right in your backyard? Hey, it reduces traffic. It deals with the logistical challenge and can bring most packages to people. It's just something that stood out to me that he said that will happen. But then you're going to have privacy issues. It's not like airplanes where there's a central command that says you have this flight pattern. You're going to have individual operators with small to large sized drones delivering. So you're going to see some regulation so you don't have 25 drones running into each other or even have drone platforms. The FAA controls above 200 feet. So Amazon has already developed an elevator system where tower goes to 210 feet on a platform. Drone lands on top of the tower and then elevator takes down to a truck or to a yard. So planners now have to worry about this, not just. All right. Maybe we got off subject there, but I thought that was was fascinating. But it also goes back to economic development at those airports and just some things that cities should talk about. Tell us a little bit more about yourself personally. What hobbies do you have outside of economic development in real estate? I have several hobbies. One is I love to travel.And I've hitched around the world now. I was older. I can't do that as much. I've been allowed to. So I love to travel and I love to go anywhere. And I did a bike trip down the Danube a few years ago and we're going to do some other trips. The second thing is I have a lot of reading. I help support the libraries in the area, i.e. Walnut Creek. I have my own library, 4000 books. Then third is I like to write. So I write poetry, short stories. If I get the time, I'll write my novel. Then I like to do things with my grandkids. And my wife is athletic and she's an adventurer just like me, soulmate. So we like to do those kinds of things. I love biking, so I'm going to have to learn more about that trip. One last hobby. I did construction in Alaska during college. I was an ammonia pipe fitter in Dutch Harbor and I got I've been to Alaska at least eight times doing deep sea fishing from the Bering Sea to the southeast. Catching halibut, salmon and whatever. You're definitely active. That sounds like a lot of fun. And then last question is, how do our viewers learn more about you and connect with you? I have a LinkedIn page and I have a high profile of various business groups. So if you just Google, you'll find my name. Great. And we'll put all that in the show notes. Appreciate your time today. Thanks. Thank you very much. I'd like to thank our sponsors, Capstone Government Affairs and Economic Development, a firm where I serve as managing partner. For more information, check us out at www.capstonegov.com and follow us on LinkedIn by typing in Capstone Government. 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"Uses are more complicated now. It's no longer a just move into a building. I might have some uses that require a use permit of some sort. So all those factors, can I expand? So I mean, there was a case history recently in a Silicon Valley tenants that we're going to be upgrading and improving our infrastructure with machines every six months. We cannot go into your area or your building city. If we have to get an approval each time, can we get a blanket approval as long as we conform to the zoning? So things like that. Along those lines with zonings and approvals and CPs, alters you mentioned, from a broker's perspective, what makes one city better than another? Talk specifically about that approval process. Let's talk about that. First, we should talk about regional. So my workforce, we use what we call the phrase 360 commute shed. So depending upon the kind of tenant, so the original migration of tenants in the 80s and early 90s was from San Francisco to the greater East Bay. That's why you saw all the buildings built in San Ramon, Pleasanton, 680 Coroner, places like that. And one reason they moved is their workforce was there. So they followed the workforce in that case. So it wasn't that they didn't like San Francisco. So that's Chevron. That was Wells Fargo. That was B of A, Metropolitan Life Insurance, all the big users in that area. So they actually followed the workforce. And one reason why you follow your workforce, there's studies that if you have a one way commute of over an hour and 10 minutes or an hour and a half one way, you're going to lose 40 to 50 percent of your workforce. Therefore, I might love San Francisco or might love downtown L.A., but I have to go where I think I can get my workforce. And where's my workforce of the future? So first of all, it's a regional decision before it's a city decision. So even if I locate in a city as central as Walnut Creek, I might have some of my workforce coming from Fairfield, Benicia, Richmond, Oakland, South San Francisco and Tri-Valley. So what then? So therefore, the first question is, where is my workforce? Where is my future workforce? To answer the second question of where is my future workforce? I have a salary range that I can afford as a company. And the current insurance and banks are usually in the 60 to 130 thousand range. You then work that backwards. And if I hire somebody for one hundred thousand, one hundred twenty thousand, will that person be able to pay rent or buy a house in a given region? If they can't, if their average rental, if the average apartment rents are forty thousand a year, if the average mortgage is five thousand a year, five thousand a month, rather, then I have to move further afield. So that's why you see companies now leaving the inner bay, going to Sacramento and Austin region. Then within a region, once a decision is made that I can, my current workforce is in a given region, let's say East Bay. Then let's say the second thing is I know that I can afford my workforce over the next 10 years to live there and pay them the market rates. Then what city do I go to within a sub region? There, every city is the best when you ask the cities, but then we make decisions based on location to transportation, locations relative to interchanges, locations relative to barred mass transit. Because again, if I have people coming in from 360 degrees, 20 miles, let's say to 40 miles away from any given point, if I'm in Fairfield, how do I get to East County? If I'm in Fairfield, how do I get to San Ramon? If I'm in Tracy, how do I get to Walnut Creek? Or if I'm in Fremont, how do I get to Walnut Creek? So then we tried to centrally locate where most of those workers are. And then within that region, what cities have the better approval process? Because the new kinds of tenants that are coming into the region are not the back office tenants. That was pretty simple build out. Cubes, called them Dilbert Farms. That's what you saw the original migration wave. Now we have laboratories, we have more involved IT, more involved investment in infrastructure and more complicated uses. So then the question is, if we're going to grow and expand, what city next to a transportation central can best accommodate our strategy of expansion and with approvals? And then second, what's the business environment? Some cities, unfortunately, in our area have raised their business payroll tax to extraordinarily high. They're in effect, some companies won't go there. You go next door. All right. Let's I want to hit on this permit process more. And how does the time to impact a decision matter, the time to approve permits and everything impact these businesses? And recently I met with the city of Vacaville and they talked about 90 days to approval. We talk about Fremont often comes up in meetings as they could fast track approval process. Yet, as I was reading today about Richmond is trying to build a housing development, which was approved by planning in March, was filed in October of last year, has yet to come before city council. And already there's three lawsuits over people not wanting to go there. How does that time impact a decision and how can cities then look to speed up the process? It absolutely impacts the decision. Again, hiring and operations is what companies think about real estate. The box is secondary. So if I'm getting funding and I now have a laboratory grant to expand my laboratory from 10 to 50,000 feet, hire 30 more workers. That's my main goal is to get up and running. So if the box is not going to be ready by the time I have the money and I can hire these people, I'm not going to move to that box. So, so real estate doesn't drive the decision, even though that's what I do for a living. It's the operation and the operation then says I was given our investors gave us money to set up an operation where we received special funding from a federal government or private enterprise, private fund, whatever the case. I have to hire 50 people and put them somewhere in three months to six months. So if I hear that the process is a year, it's not even I can't even consider that. I might like the building better. That takes a year. But my operation then hurts. And it's the operation that makes the money, brings in the revenue. So so especially now in the advanced manufacturing and life science and biotech and advanced food production, you hear about series one funding where basically I'm in incubator small space. I then get series two where I get enough money to hire 50 people. I want to be up and running in 90 days. So that's why you're hearing our four different cities, Vacaville, Fremont, City of Alameda, have actually risen to the occasion and say we will put in place zoning that expects these tenants. And therefore, when they apply, it's over the counter versus let's reinvent the wheel each time, have a public approval process, design review, planning commission, city council and take a year. And then, by the way, then you have to get service hookup. PG &E is taking an extreme amount of time. Water, depending upon what water district and all that adds to time and time kills. That's understandable. So elaborate on that. We were talking about time, but let's talk about specific zoning problems your clients run into with cities. You touched on a lot of it, particularly around the time. We talked about office space being in cubicles, having to be transformed. But what type of zoning problems have you recently run into and maybe give one or two examples? OK, so I can do that. General office space is pretty easy. OK, you have a building, a box, you have power and you just design where you put your private offices and you go through the permit process. Unfortunately, most city current general plans across the Bay Area, with certain exceptions, are yesterday planning zonings. So, for instance, if I'm a 10,000 foot, 40 person firm, I'm going to have cubicles for engineers and I'm going to have an area for 3D printing to make proof of concept, small product run. And then I need a place to store product for the back door. Am I an office tenant? Am I an R &D tenant doing research? Am I in a lab? Most zonings try to have black and white mutual exclusive characterizations. And so there's no zoning in most cities for what I just described. So then we have to go get a use permit. They have to give me an exception to allow to do those two or three different operations inside the same envelope. And so why not plan for that, since that's the future tenant, and then do it over the counter? Again, I have a time, I am competing as a company with 20 other companies around the world.
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"From a broker's perspective, what makes one city better than another? Talk specifically about that approval process. Let's talk about that. First, we should talk about regional. So my workforce, we use what we call the phrase 360 commute shed. So depending upon the kind of tenant, so the original migration of tenants in the 80s and early 90s was from San Francisco to the greater East Bay. That's why you saw all the buildings built in San Ramon, Pleasanton, 680 Coroner, places like that. And one reason they moved is their workforce was there. So they followed the workforce in that case. So it wasn't that they didn't like San Francisco. So that's Chevron. That was Wells Fargo. That was B of A, Metropolitan Life Insurance, all the big users in that area. So they actually followed the workforce. And one reason why you follow your workforce, there's studies that if you have a one way commute of over an hour and 10 minutes or an hour and a half one way, you're going to lose 40 to 50 percent of your workforce. Therefore, I might love San Francisco or might love downtown L .A., but I have to go where I think I can get my workforce. And where's my workforce of the future? So first of all, it's a regional decision before it's a city decision. So even if I locate in a city as central as Walnut Creek, I might have some of my workforce coming from Fairfield, Benicia, Richmond, Oakland, South San Francisco and Tri -Valley. So what then? So therefore, the first question is, where is my workforce? Where is my future workforce? To answer the second question of where is my future workforce? I have a salary range that I can afford as a company. And the current insurance and banks are usually in the 60 to 130 thousand range. You then work that backwards. And if I hire somebody for one hundred thousand, one hundred twenty thousand, will that person be able to pay rent or buy a house in a given region? If they can't, if their average rental, if the average apartment rents are forty thousand a year, if the average mortgage is five thousand a year, five thousand a month, rather, then I have to move further afield. So that's why you see companies now leaving the inner bay, going to Sacramento and Austin region. Then within a region, once a decision is made that I can, my current workforce is in a given region, let's say East Bay. Then let's say the second thing is I know that I can afford my workforce over the next 10 years to live there and pay them the market rates. Then what city do I go to within a sub region? There, every city is the best when you ask the cities, but then we make decisions based on location to transportation, locations relative to interchanges, locations relative to barred mass transit. Because again, if I have people coming in from 360 degrees, 20 miles, let's say to 40 miles away from any given point, if I'm in Fairfield, how do I get to East County? If I'm in Fairfield, how do I get to San Ramon? If I'm in Tracy, how do I get to Walnut Creek? Or if I'm in Fremont, how do I get to Walnut Creek? So then we tried to centrally locate where most of those workers are. And then within that region, what cities have the better approval process? Because the new kinds of tenants that are coming into the region are not the back office tenants. That was pretty simple build out. Cubes, called them Dilbert Farms. That's what you saw the original migration wave. Now we have laboratories, we have more involved IT, more involved investment in infrastructure and more complicated uses. So then the question is, if we're going to grow and expand, what city next to a transportation central can best accommodate our strategy of expansion and with approvals? And then second, what's the business environment? Some cities, unfortunately, in our area have raised their business payroll tax to extraordinarily high. They're in effect, some companies won't go there. You go next door.
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What Makes One City Better Than Another? Broker Ed Del Beccaro Weighs In
"From a broker's perspective, what makes one city better than another? Talk specifically about that approval process. Let's talk about that. First, we should talk about regional. So my workforce, we use what we call the phrase 360 commute shed. So depending upon the kind of tenant, so the original migration of tenants in the 80s and early 90s was from San Francisco to the greater East Bay. That's why you saw all the buildings built in San Ramon, Pleasanton, 680 Coroner, places like that. And one reason they moved is their workforce was there. So they followed the workforce in that case. So it wasn't that they didn't like San Francisco. So that's Chevron. That was Wells Fargo. That was B of A, Metropolitan Life Insurance, all the big users in that area. So they actually followed the workforce. And one reason why you follow your workforce, there's studies that if you have a one way commute of over an hour and 10 minutes or an hour and a half one way, you're going to lose 40 to 50 percent of your workforce. Therefore, I might love San Francisco or might love downtown L .A., but I have to go where I think I can get my workforce. And where's my workforce of the future? So first of all, it's a regional decision before it's a city decision. So even if I locate in a city as central as Walnut Creek, I might have some of my workforce coming from Fairfield, Benicia, Richmond, Oakland, South San Francisco and Tri -Valley. So what then? So therefore, the first question is, where is my workforce? Where is my future workforce? To answer the second question of where is my future workforce? I have a salary range that I can afford as a company. And the current insurance and banks are usually in the 60 to 130 thousand range. You then work that backwards. And if I hire somebody for one hundred thousand, one hundred twenty thousand, will that person be able to pay rent or buy a house in a given region? If they can't, if their average rental, if the average apartment rents are forty thousand a year, if the average mortgage is five thousand a year, five thousand a month, rather, then I have to move further afield. So that's why you see companies now leaving the inner bay, going to Sacramento and Austin region. Then within a region, once a decision is made that I can, my current workforce is in a given region, let's say East Bay. Then let's say the second thing is I know that I can afford my workforce over the next 10 years to live there and pay them the market rates. Then what city do I go to within a sub region? There, every city is the best when you ask the cities, but then we make decisions based on location to transportation, locations relative to interchanges, locations relative to barred mass transit. Because again, if I have people coming in from 360 degrees, 20 miles, let's say to 40 miles away from any given point, if I'm in Fairfield, how do I get to East County? If I'm in Fairfield, how do I get to San Ramon? If I'm in Tracy, how do I get to Walnut Creek? Or if I'm in Fremont, how do I get to Walnut Creek? So then we tried to centrally locate where most of those workers are. And then within that region, what cities have the better approval process? Because the new kinds of tenants that are coming into the region are not the back office tenants. That was pretty simple build out. Cubes, called them Dilbert Farms. That's what you saw the original migration wave. Now we have laboratories, we have more involved IT, more involved investment in infrastructure and more complicated uses. So then the question is, if we're going to grow and expand, what city next to a transportation central can best accommodate our strategy of expansion and with approvals? And then second, what's the business environment? Some cities, unfortunately, in our area have raised their business payroll tax to extraordinarily high. They're in effect, some companies won't go there. You go next door.
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"Action committee save America has spent more than 40 million on legal expenses for Trump and his aides multiple on legal cases this year. It's still hot in Arizona, but CBS News meteorologist David Parkinson tells us. Thanks for watching. Thanks for watching. Agrees today. They have been above it every day since June 30th. And this may be the first day that they are without it. So is the heat gone? No, it's just on hiatus. We'll be back by the end of the week, unfortunately for Arizona and there's triple digit heat and humidity in Texas and on into the deep south. San Francisco investigating is the placing of a giant X sign on top of the downtown headquarters of Twitter. It's the new symbol rolled out by owner Elon Musk. The question for the city is about proper permits for some neighbors. It's a nuisance. We came home and tried to watch a movie and it was flashing so bright that even with the shades down, it was so distracting that we had to leave the room. The National Institutes of Health today launching a new series of studies to test possible treatments for long COVID. Millions have experienced those issues that can include brain fog, fatigue, and sleep problems. Wall Street right now the Dow is down 27 points, S &P down six. This is CBS News. Higher with minimal effort and max speed with Indeed. Their hiring solution platform helps you attract, interview, and hire candidates efficiently. Visit indeed .com slash credit. 103 on top final day of July. It's a Monday, the 31st 81 degrees now heading to the mid Good afternoon nice to have you along. I'm Mark Lewis with the top local stories we're following this hour. internal An investigation has found that a former top advisor to DC Mayor Muriel Bowser
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"Within the first day. Now try ZipRecruiter free at ZipRecruiter .com slash free. ZipRecruiter .com slash F R E I need somebody, not just anybody. When I was younger, So much younger than today. I never needed Thanks your and love open up the doors. Help me if you can, I'm feeling down. And I do appreciate Trippy and round. Help me get my feet back on the ground. Won't you please, And now my life has changed in so My independence seems to vanish in the haze. W C P T 8 20 Chicago's progressive talk where facts matter. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Stephanie Miller. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It is the Stephanie Miller show coffee with Carlos. I can can just touch on something quickly on Instagram. Somebody posted. Yes, but you're not talking about Hunter Biden and you're ignoring and you're protecting the powerful. First of all, Hunter, has nothing to do with. It's all alleged. He said he's pleading guilty on tax fraud, which many people have never had to do and be and think it doesn't matter how the corruption of the democratic. Nobody's free from corruption. Kennedy's not free. Tulsi Gabbard. Can you explain what is there? There is a tax file. He paid it back. Right. He paid the. I'm not protecting anybody. I'm telling you, I'm going to be vote regardless of a perfect record or a non perfect record of the person who has the best chance after a primary to beat Trump. I'm not protecting anybody. I'm protecting as a voter as my vote is going to protect democracy. Also, Biden's record is spectacular. It's the best record. It's the best record of almost any president in history. We are at a 50 year unemployment low on and on. Inflation down. I can't even. That's what. This is not one of the most presidencies successful ever. It's only because I think, Carlos, what you're saying, this sort of polarized is tribal environment we're in, that this would even be a contest with anybody else. Political purity, which doesn't exist and it will never win elections. And again, I love that there's trouble in Jimmy Dore world and he's being expose. And all the culties are coming after the guy that leaves. But Crystal Boy was trying for office, that Hunter Biden is not running for. Yes, Hunter Biden is a private citizen. It there. Right. Yes, exactly. And we we're saying a poster just said, literally, there is zero. I don't know what you get zero in polling. There is zero interest among Democrats or about Hunter Biden. This was Frank Luntz who pulled that. Yeah. Yeah. Not even Kennedy's talking about Hunter Biden. No credit, I guess. Yeah, I guess he was a drug addict. You're on with Carlos. Hi. Good morning. Carlos is a good talker. Yes, he is. he is. Yes, Just wind him up. I tell you. I only had to wind him once in a while. Stephanie, our governor over here in New Mexico, Michelle Grisham. Lujan That's who I made governor with Sexy Liberal. Thank you for reminding me. She was only a congressman. I helicopter hear her coming over my apartment going up to the governor's mansion. Then we she's know home. You live in Santa Fe, so that would happen. Yeah, she's fantastic. She did Santa Fe. Yeah, she did Santa Fe Well, she was fantastic. Yeah, there's a cat living in the governor's mansion. Everybody loves to know. So I wanted to say something. I love her even more. She's a crazy cat lady. I want to say something About first ladies, the women and men I know here, and in California, too. We care a lot about who the first lady is. And we like to think of Jill Biden working for military families and Michelle Obama growing vegetables behind the White House and all that. And Melania, something seriously wrong with her. But I'm wondering if RFK Jr. has a wife and a family. He does. Yes, Cheryl Hines, actress Cheryl I feel like you left out Melania's important work straddling airplanes naked or whatever. Melania is the only first lady who's hoo -ha we've seen. Yeah, very true. A lot. Exactly. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. She was straddling something. Do you remember what it was, Carlos? It was an airplane seat, a private plane Yeah, seat. I'm sorry. She was straddling a private plane naked. Money. I like to straddle money Privates on the money. Okay. Tracy in Mesa, Arizona. You're on with Carlos. Hello, Trace. Hey, I've been trying for like six weeks to get back on with Carlos. First of all, I So was relieved when we heard Jack Smith's voice after seeing those same four still photos with that menacing scowl. Yeah. I was And worried that when he finally stepped up to the podium that it was going to be a Mike Tyson situation. We have the Buller Yeah. Yeah. Pigeons. I got some indictments. The pigeon. Well, I was, I was worried he was going to say, if Donald Trump thinks that he's above the rule of law, he's going to fade into it. It wasn't that I do wish Merrick Garland sounded a little less like droopy dog. That's all I'm I wish he sounded a little more like Mr. T. That's my personal dream. But she would pity the fool. Yes. 29 minutes after the hour coffee with Carlos rule. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. You are listening to W. C. P. T. 8 20. 8 Here's the latest Chicago weather update from the water ology weather center. I'm meteorologist jennifer Wieczynski few scattered showers storms and early this afternoon, mostly cloudy and high around 90° winds out of the southwest around 10 to 15 per hour gusting as high as 25. Then for tonight, partly cloudy skies develop a low near 73 thursday sunshine high arou chance for showers and th storms blend of clouds and sunshine develops a high around 93. That's your latest Chicago weather update. Currently it's 81. Mhm. I'm dr Anthony liesawitz and this is climate connections. Mhm. Mhm. At a Taco Bell in south san Francisco, Diners
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"Ever hear of the W N T pathway. The wind pathway is throughout the body and utilizing it may support treatment in a number of conditions. Including M s osteoporosis, irritable bowel disease and even severe alcoholic hepatitis. Craig Parker is the CEO of Serous Unknown in South San Francisco. Well, Craig, Welcome to technician. Thanks for having me speaking with you Earlier. I learned some things about the liver and my jeans, said the liver. But I didn't know before, So let's start there. I think we all know that the liver filters toxins, But what else does deliver dear? Well, it also has what's called a synthetic function or a function of making things And some of the things that makes it are really critical for body functions are clotting proteins. And so many of the proteins that when you get cut, cause your blood to clot are manufactured in the liver. As you mentioned. The liver also has a critical function filtering out certain things that filters out certain toxins. Many of the drugs that we all take our metabolized or broken down by the liver. And the liver is also able to regenerate itself. So many people may know that it's one of the few organs there upon injury can regenerate itself. In fact, when we give certain types of liver transplants The person giving the liver's load with their liver. Their liver can grow back and the person receiving that lobe that lobe can grow. And what we know from. Actually, some of the founders of Sarazen is that there's a biological process that's driving that regeneration, and that's referred to as the wind or Wnt pathway. How does that work? What happens? Well, we know in certain situations like drinking too much alcohol or if someone has hepatitis C, the damages their liver. That some of these wind proteins are produced, and they act on cells in the liver. These specific cells are called the parasites, but their liver cells are those cells that Provide that critical function of making proteins and metabolizing drugs and filtering out toxins and these wind proteins act on those cells and those cells can divide and make more liver cells. And ultimately, if you have more liver cells, you have better liver function. So has certain patients who have very damaged livers. They're not able to keep up with breaking down toxins metabolizing drugs, making those clotting proteins. But if you can give them enough normal liver cells, they can have normal liver function. And we know that the winds pathway or this went biological process. Is responsible for that regeneration in the liver and in many other organs. Well, let's get specific to our behaviors. Let's say we drink vodka or or any other hard alcohol, but we'll stick to vodka. What happens in the liver? When you drink vodka? Alcohol actually kills those liver cells kills them. It's not like well over time, eventually. No You drink vodka. It kills liver self, if you drink a lot, So you know if you couldn't tell you exactly how many drinks but I'm quite sure that if you had half a bottle of vodka, you would kill liver cells. And you'd be engaging this normal physiologic process of regeneration or repair. Now The problem is, if you do that every night Your body is not going to keep up with that damage and in many other liver diseases like hepatitis C, where you have a virus that's continuously damaging those liver cells. Unless you get rid of the virus unless you stop drinking the alcohol. Your body is not going to be able to keep up for a long time with that with that liver damage so you can out drink your liver. You can absolutely out. Drink your liver. Um, and the types of patients that we hope to treat and had provided clinical benefit, too. Are patients who are chronic alcoholics. Who typically have a binge episode and they end up in the hospital because, as you said, they just out, drank their liver's ability to keep up and it's it's likely because they had chronic alcoholism that they were teetering on that point. Already. And that one binge episode. Sometimes it's an infection or some other medical complication pushes them beyond that point where the liver can keep up. Now, how does the liver No in a normal circumstance, and you know 111 vodka, you know, occasionally or any other thing that could happen that might damage deliver. How does the liver no to restore damaged cells or create replacement self? Yeah. I talked about this wind pathway and this being a normal function of the body. It's much more complex than that, though, and we don't understand all of the signals that are involved in the liver, regenerating one of the interesting aspects Delivery generating that we don't completely understand is why it doesn't continue to just grow out of control. Right? So if you have this sort of accelerator On regeneration and forming new liver cells. Um and you're activating it with damage. Why doesn't it just keep going? So we've got really big livers. What? Ships of really big livers. And many organs have this limiting capacity. It's referred to as the rheostat function, rheostat meaning like a thermostat in your house, right? There is a set point. And we don't know what all the signals are that contributes that set point. We know some of them and the biology is quite complex. But we know there is this Sort of limitation function. And so when you have damage you're activating the wind pathway and others. You're getting this regeneration proliferation of cells formation of the normal structure of the Oregon so we know In the case of our candidate molecules, For example, When you stimulate this regeneration, the liver looks totally normal. You don't get a bunch of growth in one area or too many at one type of cell. It all looks very normal. And that's probably a very complex process that regulates all of that. But there is this limitation factor this self regulating or self governing aspect to it. So it won't go very far. But how does it notice? Start? How does it know to do that say, Oh, we gotta We have some liver cells. We need to repair liver cells We need to replace. So the damage activates. This went gene, and it can be active even in an undamaged situation. So in our intestines, for example. Many people know that. You know if you have some gastrointestinal distress, you know you eat some food That didn't agree with you. Um One thing that happens is the cells lining your intestines secrete a bunch of fluid. That's why you can have diarrhea is all that fluid coming out.
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"My neighbor up the street, uh, was double vaccinated with the fighter back in, and he just came down with Covid. About a week ago. He went to a group of you know, one of those guys. Weekends and a bunch of his friends also came down with Covid. They were also vaccinated, So we brought it home and gave it to his kids. Um, didn't we all sort of see this coming when the CDC first came out and said, if you're vaccinated, there's no reason that you should be worried about being indoors without a mask, and we all looked at each other and said, Are you crazy? There is no way and that's before the delta variant was really getting a foothold. And now that it is Thank God. The Delta Variant wasn't the first one because can you imagine how many people would be dead if the delta variant was the very first version of Covid? Well, there was a moment there was a Belgian woman the other day that actually got sick from two different variants. That got into her body and kind of that's what we're worried about. You know, obviously they combine right, right? Yeah. And then we get around our vaccinations. Like, you know, I'm I try to maintain my composure when I When I talk about these people who won't get vaccinated. But you know, if it if it endangers people I care about then I raise up the volume and I think we all should. You know, I'm just glad we live in San Francisco where most people that go into a store are still wearing their mask. We were up in Tahoe for a little vacation. And I would say 80% of the people in a safe way. We're not wearing masks. Whereas down here I would say 10% do not wear masks. It's a totally different world. You know, we all think we can wish it away. Right? You know, But science doesn't work like that. Good call, man. Thank you so much. Let's go to Mike. And in South San Francisco, Mike, you're on KGO. Thanks for calling. Okay. Okay, so I'm vaccinated. Um, good, Robert Pandemic. I've never worn a mask outside because the science tells you that you're not going to get cold it from outside, but Monica Gandhi. She's an infectious disease doctor up at UCSF. She all but said that the Barria specifically now this is just the very specifically. Um, and she didn't say it verbatim. But we're at her community. And then I've spoken with several doctors that agreed and said, yes, the Barry is that you know, Here's the problem, though. There's not a wall around the Bay Area. Follow me so people can come in and the herd immunity that were you know that So the people that would normally be safe because all the people around you are vaccinated. Um, they're not because people can come in who aren't vaccinated and they can spread the virus, the variant, and so that's the problem with it. See, I'm just I'm following the doctors and following the science and good saying No, no, no, no, no, that's not a scientist. Scientists won't talk about her immunity you'll talk about that's an epidemiologist, you know, infectious disease, but no serious hold on. Infectious disease. Specialists of the ones you should be listening to right now. Because we're not anywhere. We're not going to get to her immunity. We're not forget about her community. We're not going to get there. The official there is absolute. Yeah. Mikey, I listen what I said okay. Herd immunity exists when you have somewhere between 70 and 80% of the people vaccinated, But we don't have a wall around California or the Bay Area, So people come and go like you heard the story about the guy that went to Vegas and come back from Hollister. He got all these people. He got his family sick. See again. We don't have heard immunity exists if the whole world Could get that vaccination like you know, with smallpox. We did the same thing. We got it, and we eradicated it. Thanks for the call. But that's important that you understand that. Okay, so all right, coming up Cemetery County Supervisor David Cannibal. We'll talk about Uh, you know what It's like to be in this situation right now, with a lot of people asking a lot of difficult questions. I'm chip. This is kgo. If you've got an insurance question, you could talk to your nana. But she probably just tell you how she ensured her couch from stains by covering it with plastic..
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"Like hosting free drinks and food like let's go you have to do is download retaliating and i was like what is this. Remember those days. we're also innocent. They must've been awesome being at. Ut during south by so actually. I barely went to southbound. I mean i'm the worst off night ever like. I'm the worst representative of austin. Because i never went into very few live music. I wouldn't into one. acl. I'd never went to south by south west events. You know i was not a big attendee. So now there you can go back now go back and i i mean i don't know austin is still an extrapolation of what it was in in college. It's still it's always gonna be that moment in your life for you really well okay. So as far as a tech scene. Like the thing that i always you say about about austin and this is true anymore but maybe was was never to extend and i do not want to fend off nights out there because i absolutely love austin but to like san francisco or like in terms of in terms of a tech scene. I always say austin's where we're young people go to retire. It's really don't think i mean it anymore. But just like the work culture there was laid back and if you want laid back work culture like austin's a fantastic place again. I don't think this is even true anymore. I think now seattle had this reputation for a long time. Absolutely did like especially after. Not during the microsoft's heyday but after the doj handicap paker soft and like they went through their decade-long fallow period. Yeah this is absolutely oh like you see people move from san francisco to seattle. It's okay yeah. They made a bunch of money. They want to get the no state income tax there to chill definitely not the case anymore but that was a knock for a long time so i get it i get it and great can both places it is and it is okay. Do you think it's going to be well. We'll get to the question. Do you think it's gonna be different after covid. But i think they're absolutely. I've a one of the reasons that i moved here in. Twenty seventeen was if you really wanted to be the best and you really wanted to hustle like and you worked in our industry you had come san francisco exactly you know you could justify be another but you were just justifying like this is where it all was what do you what do you think now. Do you think forward. Yeah moving target for me. I mean like covid was like a mesmerizing experience. Right and like once when you're in cove it feels like it's never gonna end now starting to feel like things are actually it is actually ending. You can go to dinner and stuff like this. This which is which is amazing. An only possible because we're in person. We're still here so i like that. Yeah and not. Everybody's left san francisco. Maybe the loudest people on the internet go on twitter. If feels like everybody's left san francisco. I'm not sure everybody's left san francisco. I don't think so. I know a lot of people who are still here. So question is like what was cool about san francisco for me used to be like everybody comes to town even the people that live in the south bay periodically like once a week. At least you know everybody from south bay is coming to the city. If you wanna schedule meeting with somebody from the south bay you can just wait. And they'll come to the city or you'll be going to south band. You can meet them and south bay. My big worry with covid was like nobody's gonna move around anymore. Be sitting in their home at the same time. San francisco still feels like a dilapidated goes down right now. Yeah so it's like you're a huge problems here. Really big problem really big problems that have of co bid really unveiled them in a win. I don't know way. That wasn't as resident runner. Did you used to run around sandwiches or do you still use used to still do. Although i'm not an his great shape as i was pre covid. But i love running around all the bear. That's one of the best parts about the bay area to me is in the city in the south bay in marin in the east bay you go for runs. That are just world class. And it's not a bummer. At this point you still feel with people but but no okay. Well i used to run around downtown market street and that's become really gnarly gnarly but it's become more on our. I guess. I just have to change my. Oh no i do. Like bernal and glen park glen canyon. Okay all right. I guess that stuff hasn't changed yet. No those parts of the city we lived in nowy and like it hasn't really changed. It hasn't changed at all. Yeah i think part of the appeal of nowy is that like and glen. Park and vernal is like it. Feels like you're living in palo alto but you're living in san francisco right. There was an appeal. Is what you're saying till like no. I'm living in downtown san francisco. Yeah yeah is that. I've lived and use to feel safer than now. It used to feel like they're And probably used to feel like. I'm in the middle universally. This is like amazing. Yeah was hustling and bustling. But now it's like you know. Van nastase under construction forever. And there's your under its under construction. I think it'll depend on. What are the big companies like. What is stripe do. Aren't they like leaving their headquarters that they just built. Yeah they built that new headquarters and they now a space in south san francisco. Thank yeah i think it's impossible to predict at this point like i mixed view like i was just talking to a ceo who said that he was pulling his office and they pulled the office at the beginning of the pandemic and said like do you want a physical office to go back to and it used to be like seventy percent said yes and now it's only like thirty percent or twenty percent chance but we'll see what actually happens then you'd like you know you have amazon saying people have to go back to work in the office. I think google saying the same thing. They backpedaled a little bit. Yup i'm sure the management of these companies the Executive management would love to. Have you know people still coming back to. Hq to work because you get so much more your employees if you can enforce that but you know we may have gone through a one way doorway door. You know yeah. I don't know how it's going to play out. It's going to be like. I would never go back to an office. I totally you used to drive to the office. And madonna right like. Oh yeah well also just like our careers in what we do is just so so not. I sound like a broken record. I'm relaxed like our careers are on the internet. Like there's no reason to you know what my dream is. I would love to realize in the next few years. I think we're the question we're wrestling with on. This is like do we stay. How long do we stay in the city or do we move to the suburbs. My my wife's families from her in her family's on marin marin such great place. We'll probably do that at some point but my dream is i would love to have like a house and then in the backyard a studio like actually my very specific role model is michael lewis at his family. It's amazing they live in berkeley. They've gotta a compound with. I think i think four properties on the compound so there's like the main house and then he and his wife eat have cottage studio. Wow his wife's tabitha soren. Who has the mtv bj now. She's artist so she has a studio artist..
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"That I'm having right now and if you'll just follow me, I don't mean to be one of those outrageous but I am outraged about this. I'm very upset is that United Healthcare put out a statement saying that they were going to start determining after the fact whether or not your visit to an emergency room Was an emergency, and if it was not an emergency, they will not be reimbursing the provider. And what happens if the provider in this case the emergency room? The doctor of the hospital, whoever else might be involved? What happens if they don't get paid? The X ray tech radiologists? All this? What happens if they don't get paid? They send the bill to you. So At issue, of course, is that you're not a doctor. So you don't know when you're going to the emergency room. Whether or not not a doctor, you don't know going to emergency room whether or not what you have is an emergency. So how would you possibly know if it's an emergency and how? Because now the insurance companies decided they are going to determine after the diagnosis, whether or not you should have gone To the emergency room. David is in South San Francisco. He's joining us now. Thanks for calling the 80 88 10. David. Good ear from you. What's what's going on there, man. Have. Well, you're really enthusiastic, informative broadcaster and I really appreciate the job you do. Thank you. I've got 13 year old twin boys. So the last 26 years I've been with Kaiser Permanente. And about eight years ago, Kaiser implemented a nurse triage. Telephonically so You know, whenever there's been a question, it's just, you know, Give me calm. Don't run it through the questions, and then they'll determine. Yeah, either have an appointment with Your general or specialists or build. I'll tell you to take it on into emergency. So I got to give him credit for that. I like that. The one issue that I have, however, is let's suppose that you call that triage nurse and you say, which is smart, David, By the way, I want to point out that I do appreciate that. They've done that. And you bring that to my attention. One of the issues that I'm having with what you HC is saying is that let's suppose you call the triage nurse and you say I'm having pain in my chest, right? That triage nurse is going to tell you one of two things either. Get your butt in here or sit tight. I'm sending the ambulance, right? Probably. I'm sending the ambulance right. Go ahead. Yeah, I'll give you something. Okay? In the last 20 years fully then I have personally only been two emergency twice, and one of them was after having a Four or five course Italian meal. I charted having some pain and it turned out, okay? It turned out to be. We're going to give you e k g. We're going to give you e G went in. And all I really needed was my lamp. So he been there. This is what I'm saying, David, but you don't know before that you're not having. Yes. Thank you. Exactly my point. That's exactly Thanks, David. Good to other time. The other time. Go ahead. And as you go in I got caught with a piece of metal right to the left of the pack. Near the near the arm and know whether it hit any structures and not so you know, you just go right on in. But of course a little just a little side note. Um I do know that you know, people that are on medical insurance that are that around the state. You know,.
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"Just south of the White Mountains. And we talked while her new well was being drilled. And she told me she was without water for weeks before she could get help from the state. Basically can't do anything without water. I mean, I couldn't drink Couldn't take a shower just started a new job. It's always racing around everywhere. Trying to get junks from everybody and water. My whole house was filled. The bathroom was filled with drugs. Did you have to flush the toilet? Then you're cooking after it was worse than camping. So Terry does now have a new deeper well, but the state is worried. We might see another drought this year so it might expand that aid program. It's also starting to have focused on finding more reliable water connections for towns. If this pattern continues, and we're hearing a lot more messaging about water conservation, and what about wildfires? It's not something you really associate with New England. But do these flash droughts make them more likely? This is something that Nate and I and another reporter, actually looking at the summer with our larger environment report and collaborative, the history and risk of major wildfires outside of the Western U. S. You know pretty much anywhere. You look in the country. There is a history of wildfire and there are forests that are prone to fire. We've just forgotten about that in a lot of places, including here in the Northeast. These are dry conditions that Make fires more likely to spread out of control or to threaten life and property. When they do start. I've been talking to a forest ranger in the Eastern White Mountains named Jim Innis, and he's planning what he has described as sort of an unusually proactive prescribed fire in a neighborhood on the very edge of the national forest, where he also happens to live himself, he says. All these dry spells and watching those big fires out West is all making him nervous. You know, every time come out here and it's a dry hot, windy day. I'm like, Oh, gosh, please, not today. It's just All it would really take back there honestly, is someone to throw a cigarette down when it's really dry, and you know how pine needles are. They just take power and this actually let our state government to take first time step last fall of banning smoking and campfires near public woodlands For several weeks during a drought here in Colorado, the federal government went even further than just fire restrictions Last year. Last fall, the U. S Forest Service temporarily closed more than a million acres of public land northwest of However, as a preemptive measure to keep people from setting off new fires. So this isn't just a really bad year or two years. I mean, this sounds long term, What are the long term impacts we might see as climate change makes droughts longer. And more frequent well one in the Colorado River basin That's getting more attention lately as hydropower. Those dams that hold back the rivers huge reservoirs churn out electricity for rural power providers and tribal communities in the southwest and low water makes it harder to do that. Here's Len Schilling with the Bureau of Reclamation. That's the federal agency that manages dams in the West. He oversees Hoover Dam outside Las Vegas. As the lake levels go down. We have less pressure pushing on those turbines. And that's really what impacts how much power we can deliver. So as as the late diminishes, we just can't produce as much power one federal agency, the Western Area Power Administration has already started discussing a possible rate increase because of the lower levels and in kind of a nightmare scenario. Both Lake Powell and meet have levels where no power can be produced, which if they were to drop That low It would have this cascade of effects throughout the region. Something else folks might not think about is water contamination during droughts. There was a big federal study recently that found Wells can have higher levels of chemicals like arsenic during droughts. You know, there's less water, things get more concentrated. We have a lot of naturally occurring arsenic in northern New England, and it's in the bedrock, which is where Wells are drilled. So this is another public health issue with droughts. And officials in New Hampshire are having to push for more well testing. Yeah. And Leila. I mean, I think the bigger takeaway from all of this is that we're kind of already living in a changed world, and that's going to force some tough decisions. You know, here in California, you know where homes were still being built in forested areas. Some people aren't able to get fire insurance and this is something the state's insurance commissioner, Ricardo Lara, has been talking about a lot. Some of them are paying more for insurance and for their actual mortgage. And if what happens if you can't find insurance for your home, you can't felt at home that home then drops in property value, which hurts tax bases for communities that are already strapped trying to make ends meet. This is not just happening in California but in built environments all over the world, and it's only getting worse. So while you know we hear about all of the acute effects of climate change over the next few months, fires droughts, I think it's really important to remember these long term challenges ahead. That's NPR's Nate brought in Southern California along with Annie Ropeik in New Hampshire. And Luke Runyon in Colorado. Thank you all for your reporting. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This is NPR news. 19 minutes after five o'clock. Good morning. I'm Sandy Althouse, John McConnell. He's already here, and he's got some traffic for us where we have to Joan, by the way. Good morning. Good morning. It is a good morning for the most part, happy Friday, but a little couple little slowdowns. Road work related while they pick up cones overnight work that's wrapping up north beyond oil drive approaching the Golden Gate Bridge right before the toll closet Slow and South 11 in South San Francisco between oyster Point in Grand. It's a little slow, but both of those should be dissipating soon. 80 westbound er Central Avenue them. Yep. You stall in the right land other We're not seeing much of a slowdown there add a little pocket of heavy traffic in.
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"You're listening to form I'm Rachel Myrow, and I'm talking with Donna hello from Bloomberg's San Francisco bureau about Tesla and it's eccentric Celebrity CEO. Founder Elon Musk. We've got some calls now. So let's go to them when we talked to Michael, Michael. Thank you for joining us. Good morning. Yeah. So you know, you let off the hours saying, you know, people have very polarized reactions to even musk in terms of Well, anyway, I number of things. Um, I personally am not in one extremely other. I'm not instead really quite talking about the guy. He on the one hand, he seems very sincere about wanting to do really important things for humanity in terms of getting us off carbon and developing the possibility of humanity having a future in space, because you know the Earth is not gonna be around forever. On the disaster happened to Earth because an asteroid or whatever that would just be the end of our civilization, and he's been really successful, right? I mean, testes are amazing Cars. Space X has done amazing things. Um, but at the same time, you know, he's just total young. Who on Twitter You know, he's like our former president in terms of how erratic use and he's been a total covert denial ist he's refused to follow public health orders at his Tesla factory. Just like He is very difficult to come to a single decision about this man because there's just so many divergent tends to him. Donna, the thoughts there. Yeah. I mean, I think that's actually true. I think I think And I think it's fine to kind of hold both opinions right. You could admire him for all that he has accomplished and all that he has done to kind of push both the auto industry and aerospace forward in directions that no one thought possible. 20 years ago, and you can also be incredibly frustrated by his statements on Cove it by his, you know, tussles with the Alameda County Department of Public Health over the plant by his, you know, anti union stance when it comes to unionization. On by think that those that unites of holding those their space to sort of hold both of those things that I think that you know people who work for them hold both of those. Both of those things also, let's go to comments. Thank you, by the way, Michael. For those thoughts, Dipper asks, are Tesla's accounting practices still considered her creative? And what impact do you think the electric Ford 1 50 announcement yesterday will have on demand for the tests. Let truck From an accounting perspective. I mean, it'll be interesting to see how Bitcoin is accounted for. When it comes to, you know the next quarter. I have. I'm not an accountant. I have a lot of questions about that. You know when it comes to the Ford F 1 50. I mean, I think what you're seeing is that You know, this is sort of hard for me to even believe, because I'm someone who actually cycles and takes public transit quite a bit. But trucks and SUVs sell more than sedans. And the big sort of fight now in the auto market in the U. S is over Tracks, you know, I think musk tweeted last night he was kind of congratulating forward for their vehicle. Now consumers have more options. I think that's great. I mean, the more options that people have when it comes to buying an electric vehicle, whether it's a car or a truck or an SUV. The better for all of us. You know, I think that the cyber truck and the Ford truck are there hitting slightly different market segments, But neither vehicles actually out yet, so how that will shake out remains to be seen. You know, people who follow the company will know that Tesla's building factories in China and Germany as well as operating the one that it has here locally in Fremont. On and must cause has gone to some lengths on Twitter to complain about government bureaucracy there as well as here but but it also must be said that that he And his companies plural seem to do a pretty good job. You know, in the tussle for government contracts on things like satellites, for instance. Yeah, I think one other point. I mean, Tessa was also building a massive factory in Austin, Texas, which is where the cyber truck will be built. So you know, he has operations now in California in Nevada, in Texas, in Buffalo, New York, outside of Shanghai, and in Berlin, So I mean, this is a company that is rapidly expanding globally and is You know, basically building building factories on three continents simultaneously, So no small feat there. They have a lot on their plate. But, yeah, I mean, Space X is a major contractor of the U. S. Government. They have contracts with national to fly astronauts to the international space station. They have contracts with the Air Force to launch You know satellites and they, you know they have gotten funding or incentives from the Federal Communications Commission to help you know, bring bring broadband to rural communities. So They're very savvy about applying for government contracts for sure. I think we've got time for a least one more call. Why don't we go to Jan in South San Francisco? Yeah, I just wanted to ask is, uh, Elon Musk. Is he a guess at what he's trying to do it? It's just trying to inflate his stock price because I asked, this is what he's promoting. Just doesn't make any sense or it's not reasonable for in the biggest example of that is the Communist vehicle technology. It's just he basically make this The sky and, you know, pining Guy promised almost like having like flying cars and We've given into showing that the technology is just not there for that. Don't think it ever will be. And you know, the final point I want to make is that you know you want must has a track record of just I would say kind of being less than honest lays. The latest example of that was that truck that came out the basic thing is, he makes these wild promises and there's just not even close to reality. So these carrots what? You all think it out? Um, Dad, You know, I don't hold on one second, because Jan, I I think that there's a sort of related comment from Cuyler..
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"Not able to produce. Enough housing everyone. Well i mean. I think broadly when we think about this we have to think about how. Housing reflects gulfs in society I mean i. I was a. There's some pretty amazing statistics that came out over the last week Record mortgage sales in the last quarter of twenty twenty at the level of The housing bubble of was the highest Set of of mortgage sales since two thousand six and at the same time you have massive rental debt evictions is terrible precarity at the low end And so what. The crisis on housing is is is pretty much a direct reflection of the crisis of inequality which is very acute in california and of course across the country now as far as as california's options. I do think it's pretty interesting when you have Companies like salesforce saying that the nine to five workday is over When you have all of these Firms saying that that working from home is going to be a reality for the long term And what that has done in terms of the mix of population At one point a rental rates in san francisco were down. Twenty to thirty percents I don't think that's a long term solution. Obviously but it does show that. There's a changing mix in terms of demand That actually gives an opportunity perhaps For supply to begin to catch up. We obviously have to build more housing in in california. There's been You know there have been attempts to do that. legislatively that have faltered And certainly there's a growing movement that is pushing back against sort of the traditional structures that prevent housing from being built. I also think that You know i it. In my area. I see a duplexes and multi family units torn down to build mcmansions. An i think so at at that sort of other end of the scale That's something that needs to be addressed so You know. I think you can't really disassociate this issue from what's going on in broader society and i i in terms of economic inequality night. Do think that You know. I did respond to as we had little back and forth exchange about it and i think that it's hard to disassociate what's going on in california on housing and really on everything without talking about the very peculiar in particular structures of government within the state mean prop thirteen. Was this massive experiment in subsidizing Suburban sprawl essentially and This is the california law that limits property taxes. Pretty pretty tightly. That's correct and and it's it's hard to sort of break out of that because there are all these ways that direct democracy an are tall failed experiment with direct. Democracy in california intersects with the ability to do good policy at the legislative level So you know the structure of california government I think doesn't get enough attention in how it pushes against the need for better solutions cutter. What do you make of the idea that a trend toward work from home could permanently change. What are what are housing. Needs are now as as david could imagine a situation for example where a lot. More companies are allowing people to work from home full time in the tech industry that means less demand for housing in the bay area more throughout the country. And so maybe our supply of housing lines up better with demand. But i can also imagine other things i mean. My understanding is that you know the the significant The significant out migration from the city of san francisco the the primary this nation for that has been suburban counties around south san francisco so you might have a little bit of of the easing of the housing crisis within the city but that could actually make it worse in the suburbs i could also imagine especially upper income households Where people are going to be working from home. They might decide that. They need a dedicated home office and so people who might previously have bought a two bedroom home decide. They need a three bedroom home. That could actually increase the strain on the existing housing supply as you know the the reduction demand for commercial real estate is offset by even more demand for housing. People need more house per person That means there's even more of housing shortage. So what do you. What do you see is how that is affecting the situation in california. Does that make things easier does it. Maybe even make them horder. This is a great question and whatever it comes up. Every time. I talk to people so i think this. Just remember for a moment. What kind of economy. We have And just think about that i. So we haven't economy that over the past forty years as has been documented by everybody on the left and the right and they have differing opinions about it but the fundamental shift nobody disagrees with. Is that our economy has become more intellectual We do more work with our brains and finance attackers sort of two things. That are exemplified by this. And people in those professions have higher incomes in greater productivity in greater mobility. And then we have this sort of vast service class that has basically replaced manufacturing into the middle has been hollowed. And what i think is what is unique about that and what what makes this structure so difficult in cities is that these two groups of highly unequal wages. Have to live next to each other. You the service class in cities is essentially defined as all the work. You can't automate all the work that has to be done in person and You know so. Impure in san francisco or la or any of these places. Sorta go to any commercial sector and you'll see a bunch of people going into Buildings and then you'll see them going out to get their lunches and then you know at their homes. You'll see a wherever their homes are. You'll see a bunch of people working in the neighborhood while they're not there and that's what our economy looks like and that's why our housing problem is so difficult because these these people who are bound bound by their proximity have to live in the same. You know housing market basically and we do not have enough housing and do not have enough ways to subsidize housing to make this To make this work that same thing is true everywhere pretty much. In america people are to the extent that people are leading san francisco. Places boise idaho to phoenix to austin to seattle. All of those places have major housing problems. All boise's housing prices are up twenty percent over the past year. If you go to boise right now and you drive. On the premium. You will see back to california graffiti on the side of the road. They're having a huge. The last mayoral election They had a kind of fringe candidate but he got a lot of attention. Shoe proposed a higher property. Taxes specifically for californians. So that they wouldn't come to boise and And this this is to some extent old phenomenon. If you you know as far back as the seventies oregon bumper stickers it's do not california. Don't california kate or gannan right so this is an old thing but what is what is underlying it. Is this same basic problem. Which is that. I think it's a sometimes they sort of portray the salesforce work from home stories. As if everyone's gonna move off to some like you know field in montana and we won't have a housing problem anymore. But that's not what's happening. They're going to go to each again as you said they're going to either go to suburbs which just creates the same. How just it's the same. Housing markets doesn't help anything right and And to the duly the state. They're not they're going to other metro areas that already have significant housing problems again. Go go google like housing market denver housing market nashville housing market. Minneapolis housing market austin same stories. Now they're not as extreme as the bay area but Homelessness and all these sort of attendant problems that company rapidly rising housing prices are increasingly visiting those places. One of the things. I love about housing in. It's so suited.
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"I think doesn't get enough attention in how it pushes against the need for better solutions. Qatar what do you make of the idea that a trend toward work from home could permanently change. What are what are housing. Needs are now as as dave describes could imagine a situation for example. Where a lot. More companies are allowing people to work from home full time in the tech industry that means less demand for housing in the bay area more throughout the country and so maybe our supply of housing lines up better with demand but i can also imagine other things i mean. My my understanding is that you know the the significant The the significant out migration from the city of san francisco the the primary this nation for that has been suburban counties around south san francisco so you might have a little bit of of the easing of the housing crisis within the city but that could actually make worse in the suburbs. I could also imagine especially upper income households where people are going to be working from home more. They might decide that. They need a dedicated home office and so people who might previously have bought a two bedroom home decide. They need a three bedroom home. That could actually increase the strain on the existing housing supply as the reduction demand for commercial. Real estate is offset by even more demand for housing if people need more house per person that means there's even more of a housing shortage. So what do you. What do you see is how that is affecting the situation in california. Does that make things easier does it. Maybe even make them horder. This is a great question and whenever it comes up every time. I talk to people so i think this just remember for a moment what kind of economy we have. And just think about that. I so we haven't economy that over the past. Forty years as has been documented by everybody on the left and the right and they have differing opinions about it but the fundamental shift. Nobody disagrees with that. Our economy has become more intellectual We do more work with our brains and finance attackers sort of two things. That are exemplified by this. And people in those professions have higher incomes in greater productivity in greater mobility. And then we have this sort of vast service that has basically replaced manufacturing into the middle has been hollowed and is what is unique about that. And what what makes this structure so difficult in cities. Is that these two groups of highly unequal wages. Have to live next to each other. You the service class in cities is essentially defined as all the work. You can't automate all the work that has to be done in person. And so in pure in san francisco or la or any of these places you sorta go to any commercial sector and you'll see a bunch of people going into office buildings and then you'll see them going out to get their lunches and then you know at their homes. You'll see a wherever their homes are. You'll see a bunch of people working in the neighborhood while they're not there and that's what our economy looks like and that's why our housing problem is so difficult because these these people who are bound bound by their proximity have to live in the same. You know housing market basically and we do not have enough housing. Do not have enough ways to subsidize housing to make this To make this work that same thing is true everywhere pretty much. In america people are to the extent that people are leading san francisco They're going to places like boise. Idaho to phoenix to austin to seattle. All those places have major housing problems. All boise's housing prices are up twenty percent over the past year. If you go to boise right now and you drive on the premium you will see. Go back to california graffiti on the side of the road They're having a huge. The last mayoral election They had a kind of fringe candidate but he got a lot of attention. Shoe proposed a higher property. Texas specifically for californians so that they wouldn't come to boise and And now this is to some extent old phenomenon. If you the as far back as the seventies oregon bumper stickers do not california. Don't california kate oregon right so this is an old thing but what is what is underlying it. Is this same basic problem. Which is that. I think it's a sometimes they sort of portray the salesforce work from home stories. As if everyone's gonna move off to some like you know a field in montana and we won't have a housing problem anymore. But that's not what's happening. They're going to go to each again as you said they're going to either go to suburbs which just creates the same. How you just it's the same. Housing markets doesn't help anything right and and to the extent that they do leave the state. They're not they're going to other metro areas that already have significant housing problems again. Go go google like housing market denver housing market housing market. Minneapolis housing market austin same stories. Now they're not as extreme as the bay area but Homelessness and all these sort of attendant problems that company rapidly rising housing prices are increasingly visiting those places. One of the things. I love about housing. And it's it's so suited for the show left right and center is that you can't There is not a great partisan ideology on housing You know you you don't you hear republicans talk so much about california's to regulated. And all that but you know when when you start talking to people about deregulating single family housing neighborhoods. It turns out people on the left and people on the right of very resistant to it for very different reasons but they end up in the same place making housing more plentiful as it has aspects of it that are kind of free market straight from the right but it also has changes neighborhoods and makes them more accessible to poor people which seems like it's the left. Yeah helen what do you. What do you make of that. I'm always struck by how the there isn't a clear ideological. Divide on this issue. I think a lot of it is because a lot of people when they're engaging in housing policy. They don't really think that they're doing policy or radio or ideology at all. They're talking about what they want their neighborhood to be like but in in very simple terms zoning regulation The government comes in and tells people what they can and can't do with their own property. How much building can be on it. What kind of use there can be. How many housing units. Why isn't there more unanimity among conservatives about the idea. That solution to our housing crisis is to deregulate and allow people to to do what they wanted to do. More with the real estate that they own. it's not just libertarians. it's also traditionalist who rather unexpectedly sometimes find themselves on connor's side of the housing debate. I love what he said about this issue. Creating unlikely bedfellows because your listeners may not know but my magazine. The american conservative has a long running series on new urbanism where we have a long standing record of support for more dense housing. More walkable neighborhoods. And that's not just because zoning regulations regulations it's also because those communities are more communitarian so there's a traditionalist angle on this question as well that being said as a conservative i i do have to dispute the liberal conventional wisdom that. What's wrong with california is an undersupply of housing and i think the next couple of years are going to vindicate the conservative position on that because look at san francisco. Rents are going down. It's becoming more affordable to get an apartment there but even if that trend continues and it becomes a lot more affordable to get housing the city of san francisco. That's not gonna fix what's wrong with that city. You're still going to have a district attorney. Who won't up violent criminals. You're still going to have an economy that looks like more that looks more like a latin american countries economy than an american with a hollowed out middle class so it's not all just about housing but to the extent that.
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California Wildfire Takes The Home Of A Veteran Firefighter
"Devastation in California from deadly wildfires is historic so far this year thousands of wildfires have devoured more than a million and a half acres an area more than three times larger than Los Angeles where I am the Lmu lightning complex fire is now the second largest in the state's history and the flames did not spare Andy Stan Dana's home. He's a twenty three year veteran with the South San Francisco Fire Department. He spent decades saving other people's homes A-. Lost everything as he put it less Wednesday, his farm, his home, many of his animals but he and his wife are safe and he and his wife Sarah Hawkins join me on the line from winters California about an hour northeast of San Francisco. Thank you both for taking some time for us. I can't imagine what you've been through. Thank you for having us. Anti I WANNA start with you, I mean as I said, you've been a firefighter for twenty three years your own property now, hard hit by this fire just talk to me about this fire if you've ever battled anything like. I have not in not many people can say that they've battled in fires or been in fires or experience fires. Of such size and magnitude and at the speed that this move. Seemed unprecedented will yeah I mean talked to any Andy you at home asleep and off-duty when when it came your property and can you take me to the moment when you realize that it was this out of control? We actually received multiple phone calls back to back from our neighbor than they lost everything also, but they called US woke up and said Hey. We've been giving notification from their son who is a local firefighter that it's bad. Up I went outside and did a quick assessment of what I could see and I could see The Ridge linked to behind us. All aglow and we're talking miles and miles of miles from my right to my left as I looked out the back door I hurried in and woke up Sarah. We quickly got dressed through a few things in bags. Made sure we had identification with us in a little bit of money in made sure the cars were pointed out I then went out to kind of assess what was going on based on my training and years of service saying what am I seeing and I've never seen a fire front of that size coming towards off sweep had fires back there in the past than it seemed like everything changed the winds picked up it turned ninety degrees on US instead of coming out of the West that came out of the north. and. The Sarah had joined me to kind of just see what was going on and by that time we turned around and realize there is a flaming front coming behind us. From our north and it was going to flank our exit we ran for the cars and we got out of there with flames. Close enough that I had to get in on the passenger side of the truck instead of the driver's side because it was too much fire on that side of the car to get in and we. Got Out it just came so quick. Well. I'm so. Relieved that you tour safe? Sarah what. was going through your mind I mean, did you feel like you were going to get out of there somehow? Lows pure adrenaline when we had gone out to assess where the flames were coming from where the fire was coming and all of a sudden just hear this roar from the North was kind of shocking that it was coming so fast and the flames were as high as they were they should not have been that high. And it was like we gotta go and I ran in the house and grabbed the dog and just I had to literally throw her into the car because she was so panicked at the flames and just. Get Out. Have you been able to assess what you've lost in what condition the properties in. We've lost everything. But our barn Oliver farming equipment, our greenhouse, the house, the house is just. A six inch layer of crumbled drywall and shattered tile. And We lost all of our Jeanne you're. does that we were retaining the GO-TO you're talking about him in Europe prize? Breeders? Should say. What are those goats mean to you? Have worked really hard on my breeding program and every year we have babies and I bottle feed all of them so that they'll be friendly and I know all of them I know all their names I delivered all of them there. It's It's not just a place obviously Sarah this is your livelihood and your business already we were in a in a pandemic in a faltering economy I mean how have you even begun to think about how you move forward and what's next now? Just, barely spend an hour or two just looking through. Shirts at a donation place and like shoes and supplies. We don't. You know we have a couple of t shirts and we have a couple of pairs of shorts. There's so much to do. Just regarding the house burning down. and. Trying to figure out next steps because there's not really much of a handbook on. When you're houses burned down where the two of you know I take it you're safe now. Yeah. We're currently staying with a friend best friends people ask if we're safe and we're like, we are safe. Now you know we do have a place to stay for now, but we can't stay here for six months. India are you go back into to? Fight these fires again soon or are you going to get some time away to deal with? What's how might department? My Department was Gracious. Enough to. Extend, as much time as I needed I I was able to take vacation for the immediate tour after it happened. But? Yes. I will be going back to work. Soon enough and will be there for the public as a protector in. Twenty years in the fire department another eight years before that on ambulances. So I've been serving the public for over thirty one years and continuing until. Retirement sometime in the near future. Andy. And Sarah Hawkins I'm I'm just glad you two are together and safe and You know we'll be thinking about you. Thank you. Thank you so much.
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New year, new laws: Here are some of the changes coming Jan. 1, 2020
"The stock and bond markets are closed for the new year's day also government offices banks and the post office but a lot that could affect you changed when that crystal ball dropped at midnight new laws in virtually every state you can place your sports bets through draft kings in New Hampshire now making sports gambling legal in twenty states plus the district of Columbia recreational marijuana is now legal in Illinois the eleventh state to do this it's still illegal at the federal level a number of states now require sexual harassment training in the workplace as a result of the me too movement but thirty two states still have no requirements a landmark California law will classify gig workers as employees not contractors over and post mates are suing also in the Golden State home builders will be required to put solar panels on roofs and a strict new data privacy law goes into effect minimum wages in twenty one states are higher today and more cities will pay you fifteen dollars an hour yeah there is some push back from some industries on that but the trend to push wages up is growing he still can't live on a thirty five hour a week minimum wage job in most states but there are significant gains in twenty twenty the number of cities and counties with at least a fifteen dollar pay floor has doubled to thirty two with Washington DC Los Angeles and south San Francisco among others raising rates either today or later this year according to pay core if you work in twenty one states you'll see more in your paycheck this wait for other states raise their rates later this year nearly half the nation's minimum wage workers are covered but there are no games in the two states with the lowest minimum wage in those would be Georgia and Wyoming those jobs will still pay just five dollars and fifteen cents an hour and the federal minimum wage isn't much better stock at seven twenty five an hour since twenty
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