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Police: SF murder-suicide stemmed from neighbor dispute
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) -- The deaths of two men in San Francisco were ruled a murder-suicide and investigators believe the incident stemmed from an longtime dispute between neighbors, police said Friday.
The San Francisco Police Department said officers found two men suffering from gunshots wounds inside two neighboring homes on Farallones Street at 6:12 p.m. Wednesday.
Investigators said they determined that a 65-year-old man shot himself after he shot his 45-year-old neighbor.
"The SFPD Homicide Detail is leading the investigation. Investigators believe that this is an isolated incident that stemmed from an ongoing dispute between neighbors. The suspect killed the victim and then took his own life," SFPD wrote.
Police did not release the two men's names.
The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to call the San Francisco Police Department's tip line at 1-415-575-4444.
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SEE IT: Activists at Starbucks superglue themselves to counter to protest upcharge for non-dairy milk
(NEXSTAR) – Two activists were arrested on Wednesday after supergluing their hands to the café counters at a Starbucks in Seattle.
The two people were among a group of protestors who entered the coffee shop at the Starbucks headquarters in Seattle to protest the chain’s practice of charging extra for customers who request milk alternatives.
“Save the planet, save the cows, stop the vegan upcharge now!” the activists shouted after making their way to the counter, as seen in video livestreamed to Facebook by PETA.
“This week, ahead of Earth Day, Starbucks is failing customers and failing the climate,” one of the protestors yells out in the middle of the store. “We’re heading into a climate catastrophe, and Starbucks is still charging up to 80 extra cents for people to get the vegan milk, a sustainable option.”
Paul McCartney asks Starbucks to stop charging extra for plant-based milk
The duo remained glued to separate counters inside the Starbucks for less than two hours before police officers unglued their hands. A representative for PETA claims the two have been charged with theft of services and destruction of property, but a spokesperson for the Seattle Police Department said neither person was booked or charged at the scene. Both activists were arrested but released after being interviewed and identified, the police spokesperson told Nexstar.
An activist with PETA stands with his hand glued to the café counter at the Starbucks headquarters in Seattle. (PETA/Facebook)
A representative for the prosecutor's office was not immediately available to confirm the charges against the protestors.
Starbucks has also responded to Wednesday's incident, telling Nexstar that the company respects its "customers’ rights to respectfully voice their opinions so long as it does not disrupt our store operations."
PETA’s latest stunt comes three weeks after Paul McCartney, a longtime vegetarian and animal-rights activist, partnered with PETA to urge former-Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson to end the chain’s surcharges for alternative milks. (Previous Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz took over for Johnson, who stepped down in early April.)
“My friends at PETA are campaigning for this to happen … I sincerely hope that for the future of the planet and animal welfare you are able to implement this policy,” McCartney wrote in the letter, in part.
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PETA has long campaigned against Starbucks’ surcharge for plant-based milk, arguing that it not only contributes to the support of dairy farmers, but unfairly discriminates against vegan customers. Also affected are lactose-intolerant customers, “most of whom are people of color,” PETA has previously said.
Starbucks itself acknowledged in Nov. 2021 that “dairy is the biggest contributor to Starbucks carbon footprint.” At the time, Starbucks said it was working on new approaches to sourcing sustainable dairy, but did not announce any plans to scale back on dairy offerings or make it more affordable for customers who request non-dairy options.
Starbucks locations in the U.S. currently charge extra to customize its beverages with non-dairy milk. A “splash” of the same non-dairy milk can be added to certain coffee beverages free of charge, Starbucks says.
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Gilroy Garlic Festival canceled indefinitely
(KRON) - The Gilroy Garlic Festival has been around for 42 years, so this is going to be a shock to many. Festival organizers say they are not moving forward with the event for the foreseeable future.
The festival's board of directors announced this citing lingering issues from the COVID-19 pandemic along with prohibitive insurance requirements by the city of Gilroy.
The world famous garlic festival has become apart of Gilroy's heritage since the 1970's.
Thousands of people travel from all over to experience various dishes with garlic in it and see famous chefs cook it up, and the event has raised millions of dollars for local charities.
Unfortunately, the board says the garlic festival will never be the massive event it has been in the past.
Instead it could one day be a more intimate local festival allowing the community to celebrate still but all of that is unknown.
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People who go every year will surely be disappointed and sad to hear this, especially after all the festival has survived.
In 2019, a mass shooting happened at the festival killing three people and injuring 17 others.
It was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic and last year it was a drive-thru event.
The festival board says its disappointed and hopes to bring this garlic festival back in some capacity, some day, but it certainly won't be this year.
This morning we will be reaching out to the board to learn more about the decision to stop the festival.
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Classes resume at UC Berkeley
BERKELEY (KRON) - In-person classes and other campus operations resumed at UC Berkeley on Friday, one day after the school was locked down due to a threat of violence.
Chancellor Carol Christ called it "an unsettling day for our community" in a press release.
"We can now share that an individual threatened violence against specific members of our campus community," Christ stated. "The University of California Police Department (UCPD) located the individual off-campus and the matter was resolved. An all-clear message was issued at approximately 2 p.m."
UC Berkeley police did not immediately respond to a KRON4 request for comment asking if there was an arrest made, if the person that officers were searching for is a student, if there will be any charges from the Alameda County District Attorney's office, and where the person was found.
Shelter-in-place at UC Berkeley lifted
Christ stated she hopes students have the opportunity to "reflect, find community and support one another." The press release also links to campus resources including counseling and psychological services for students, employee assistance for faculty, and Berkeley recalibrate, where the entire campus community can find wellness information and resources.
"While we are fortunate that no one was injured in this incident, we recognize the alarm and the anxiety this caused," Christ stated. "Our sense of safety and security was threatened; our academic and research pursuits were interrupted; and, for some, past experiences with violence may have resurfaced. We recognize that the incident was especially trying for those in buildings where there was police activity."
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Sherri Papini's husband files for divorce after guilty plea
REDDING, Calif. (KRON) -- Sherri Papini's husband loyally stood by her side for years.
Even after federal prosecutors revealed she staged an elaborate kidnapping hoax in Redding, Calif. to secretly visit her ex-boyfriend 600 miles away from home, Keith Papini continued supporting his wife.
But Keith Papini apparently had a change of heart on Wednesday when he filed for divorce in Shasta County Superior Court, according to the Sacramento Bee newspaper.
Keith Papini's court filing requested a "dissolution with minor children" from his 39-year-old wife. It was filed just two days after Sherri Papini pleaded guilty in a federal courtroom to lying to FBI agents about her fake kidnapping.
The couple stayed together through a six-year saga spurred in November 2016, when the mother of two vanished from her neighborhood.
Her husband told the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office that when he arrived home from work, his wife and kids were not there. The children had never been picked up by their mother from daycare, as she usually did every day.
Sherri Papini's disappearance set off frantic search efforts throughout Northern California.
“When a young mother went missing in broad daylight, a community was filled with fear and concern,” said U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert.
The stay-at-home mom suddenly re-appeared when motorists spotted her running along Interstate 5 in Woodland, Calif. on Nov. 24, 2016.
Sherri Papini had a chain around her waist and injuries on her body. She told authorities that she had been kidnapped at gunpoint by two Hispanic women. She provided descriptions to an FBI sketch artist along with extensive details of her purported abduction.
When Papini was taken to a hospital, she initially refused to talk to law enforcement officers and would only speak with her husband.
In reality, authorities said, the whole time Sherri Papini was missing she stayed with a former boyfriend in Orange County.
To make her story more believable, Papini injured herself, according to an affidavit. Talbert said, "Ultimately, the investigation revealed that there was no kidnapping."
FBI agents found Sherri Papini's ex-boyfriend and discovered he had picked her up in Redding.
Her ex-boyfriend agreed to cooperate with investigators.
The affidavit states, “Ex-boyfriend admitted to investigators that he helped Papini ‘run away.’ Ex-boyfriend explained that Papini was a ‘good friend’ and she had asked him for help. Papini told him that her husband was beating and raping her and she was trying to escape. Papini told ex-boyfriend that she had filed police reports, but the police were not doing anything to stop her husband’s abuse. Ex-boyfriend and Papini had known each other since they were 13 or 14 years old. The two also had a romantic relationship and had previously been engaged.”
Even after investigators told Keith Papini that his wife had been with her ex-boyfriend and FBI agents suspected that she made her elaborate story up, Keith Papini continued supporting her publicly.
She was still making false statements as recently as August 2020, when prosecutors said an FBI agent and a Shasta County sheriff’s detective showed her evidence indicating she had not been abducted.
Sherri Papini admitted to her hoax for the first time earlier this month.
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She released a written statement through her defense attorney that read, "I am deeply ashamed of myself for my behavior and so very sorry for the pain I’ve caused my family, my friends, all the good people who needlessly suffered because of my story and those who worked so hard to try to help me. I will work the rest of my life to make amends for what I have done."
On Monday she pleaded guilty to lying to federal law enforcement officers and mail fraud. The charges carry penalties of up to five years in prison for lying and up to 20 years for mail fraud.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Teen paralyzed by car in San Jose dies 11 years later
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) -- A pedestrian who was hit by a car in San Jose in 2011 and was left paralyzed, died of her injuries this week, police announced.
The incident took place on January 8, 2011, at about 1:10 a.m., when officers responded to the area of Camden and Bascom avenues where a traffic collision involving a vehicle and a pedestrian had taken place. SJPD said an early 2000s grey or silver sedan heading east on Camden hit a teen girl, who was in a marked crosswalk.
1 dead after San Jose vehicle pursuit, collision
She was taken to a local hospital with major injuries where she fell into a coma and subsequently became a quadriplegic, police said. On Tuesday, more than 11 years after the incident, police said the victim died of her injuries sustained from the collision while in hospice care.
SJPD said the hit and run investigation will be re-opened in an effort to generate leads. This marks the 26trh fatal collision and the 28th traffic death of 2022 as well as the 16th pedestrian fatality.
The victims identify will be released by the Santa Clara COunty Coroner's Office.
Anyone with information on this investigation is urged to contact Detective Bowen of the San Jose Police Department's Traffic Investigations Unit at 408-277-4654 or at [email protected]
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How gas prices have changed in San Francisco in the last week
Average gas prices in the United States are creeping up again after a steady decline in recent weeks. The average cost for a gallon of regular gasoline is $4.12—about five cents more than it was a week ago.
Volatility in the crude oil market is being driven globally by several major factors: Russia’s war in Ukraine and drop in production due to sanctions; the closure of several Libyan oil fields and export terminals due to political protests; and falling demand amid China’s COVID-19-related lockdowns in Shanghai.
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To track the impacts across the U.S., Stacker compiled statistics on gas prices in San Francisco, CA metro area and created free to use gas price widgets for every metro area using data from AAA.
Gas prices are current as of April 21. State gas tax data is from World Population Review. Three states—Connecticut, Georgia, and Maryland—have temporarily suspended gas taxes to defray costs for consumers while prices are up.
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San Francisco by the numbers
- Current price: $5.79
--- California average: $5.69
--- California gas tax: $0.53 per gallon (#2 highest among all states)
- Week change: -$0.01 (-0.2%)
- Year change: +$1.70 (+41.6%)
- Historical expensive gas price: $5.95 (3/29/22)
Metros with the most expensive gas
#1. San Luis Obispo-Atascadero-Paso Robles, CA: $5.89
#2. Napa, CA: $5.86
#3. Ventura, CA: $5.80
Metros with the least expensive gas
#1. Lawton, OK: $3.56
#2. Warner Robins, GA: $3.59
#3. Corpus Christi, TX: $3.61
States with the highest gas tax per gallon
#1. Pennsylvania: $0.59
#2. California: $0.53
#3. Washington: $0.52
States with the lowest gas tax per gallon
#1. Alaska: $0.0895
#2. Hawaii: $0.16
#3. Virginia: $0.162
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Why was CNN+ dropped shortly after debut?
(NewsNation) —The door is being shut on CNN's paid streaming service CNN+ almost as quickly as it opened.
CNN announced this week that the service will end on April 30, just weeks after it debuted.
After being pumped with $300 million in funding, the demise of CNN+ is drawing harsh criticism from those who say the idea was a demonstration of arrogance rather than practicality by CNN.
"Since my mother is watching, I will acknowledge that rejoicing in other's failures is perhaps ungentlemanly, so let us be clear, our issue is pointing out the arrogance of those executives who believed in CNN+," Leland Vittert, host of NewsNation's "On Balance," said Thursday. "They actually thought there was a market for Jake Tapper's book club; they wanted people to pay for this."
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NewsNation's Dan Abrams, host of "Dan Abrams Live," has been a critic of the idea for CNN+ since its inception. Like Vittert, he empathized with the journalists and crew who may lose their jobs because of the ill-fated idea.
"While I predicted that CNN+ would go the way of the Betamax and Microsoft Zune, at this point I am not going to stomp on the grave ... a lot of people left good jobs to go there and hundreds may lose their jobs," Abrams said.
Abrams was particularly critical of former Warner Bros. CEO Jason Kilar, who said on April 5 that CNN+ was performing ahead of his expectations and painted the streaming service as a success.
CNN+ was priced at $5.99 per month and expected it would break even after four years in existence. CNN expected it would bring in 2 million subscribers in its first year and would grow exponentially to 15-18 million subscribers.
"That turned out to be a completely ridiculous prediction," Abrams said. "Was it group think? What made them believe that the brand was that popular?"
Abrams said this will be remembered as one of the "great failures" in media.
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Frank Sesno, a former Washington bureau chief for CNN and now the director of strategic initiatives at George Washington University, said on "Dan Abrams Live" that this was a "colossal miscalculation" by CNN.
"A colossal, gigantic case of hubris thinking this was going to be the next revolution in news," Sesno said.
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Sesno pointed out that CNN was a leader in revolutionizing news for cable television and the internet but argued it widely missed the mark with CNN+.
"On so many different levels, it just seemed tone-deaf," Sesno said. "It is one of the great case studies in business school in how to mismanage a brand and launch a new product."
Lauding CNN for its coverage of the Ukraine war, calling it "heroic," Sesno argued CNN needs to get back to its roots: journalism.
"They introduced a new product, and all it did was confuse the audience, and it was rejected by the audience," Sesno said.
CNN+ was conceived before CNN was taken over by Warner Bros. Discovery, a media mega-giant. The new leaders of Warner Bros. Discovery quickly let it be known they considered CNN+ to be an ill-conceived idea, according to the Associated Press.
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In a memo to employees Thursday, incoming CNN Chief Executive Chris Licht said consumers wanted “simplicity and an all-in service” rather than stand-alone offerings. Discovery had previously suggested that it wanted to merge the new company’s separate streaming services, which include Discovery+ and HBO Max, into a single app.
In a Thursday town hall, executives also said that the service's inability to show live breaking news was a crucial failing. Because of contracts with cable and satellite companies, CNN+ could not stream the CNN television network.
“It's a little bit like The New York Times subscription without The New York Times,” said J.B. Perrette, head of Discovery's streaming services.
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Perrette said Discovery had learned from trying to launch its own news service in Poland, and in seeing the experiences of other paid streaming services in the United States such as Fox Nation, that CNN+ could not expect to get near 1 million subscribers. Unlike CNN+, which was charging customers $5.99 a month, broadcast networks like ABC, CBS and NBC offer free news-streaming services.
“Those are the facts,” Perrette said. “We've learned from painful history, financially costly history.”
If the company is going to go in a different direction than CNN+, “we can't let it go on one second more than it needs to,” he said.
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Contra Costa County introduces water restrictions
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY (KRON) - The rain we got late last year and the small amounts of showers from this year haven't been enough to address the ongoing drought.
So instead, the Contra Costa Water District is now calling for customers to conserve 15% compared to what they used in 2020.
The board voted this week to move into stage two of its water shortage plan.
This is because we're facing a third consecutive dry year.
Right now, a big chunk of the state continues to be in an extreme drought.
The Bay Area is under a severe drought.
Aside from the new rules the Contra Costa Water District is considering more measures to conserve water.
The district is proposing a temporary drought surchage of up to 15% starting in July.
For the average customer who uses 260 gallons of water per day the surcharge would be about 28 cents per day or about $8 a month.
Customers who use 200 gallons per day or less would receive a refund to offset the drought surcharge for treated water customers.
Officials say it's water allocation from the federal central valley project will be added with local supplies and water stored in its Los Vaqueros reservoir.
They say its at 58% capacity.
So in order to conserve they are asking people starting this week to conserve 15% compared to what they used in 2020.
In the meantime, they will have a public hearing to discuss the proposal.
That meeting is scheduled for June 15.
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Vets honored with flight to D.C.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) - After calling it off for the past two years because of COVID-19, this morning dozens of US war veterans will be taking off to Washington D.C.
It is being organized by a national group called "honor flight," which gives thousands of war veterans across the country the chance to see memorials like the Vietnam War Memorial.
This morning's group will include 25 Vietnam veterans, four Korean War veterans and one World War Two veteran.
The group will be in Washington D.C. for three days to see the memorials and pay their respects to fallen friends in combat.
Everybody has a fascinating story, and they are proud of the lives they lived serving after the war, too.
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Traffic impacted due to San Jose traffic death
SAN JOSE (KRON) - Police are on the scene of a traffic death early Friday, according to a tweet from the San Jose Police Department.
Two vehicles were involved in an incident in the area of North 1st Street and the Montague Expressway.
People are being asked to use alternate routes as "traffic will be impacted while we conduct this investigation."
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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MSNBC airs audio of McCarthy saying he considered asking Trump to resign
(The Hill) – Audio released on Thursday confirms that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he was considering asking former President Trump to resign in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, according to a recording aired on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” and shared by reporters from The New York Times.
In the audio clip, which is also now included in the Times’ report on the matter, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) asks the House GOP leader if he was hearing that Trump might resign or had any reason to believe it could happen.
Referring to the likelihood that Congress would impeach Trump, McCarthy says, “The only discussion I would have with him is that I think this will pass, and it would be my recommendation you should resign. I mean, that would be my take but I don’t think he would take it. But I don’t know.”
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In a lengthy statement issued earlier on Thursday in response to the Times’ reporting, before the audio was aired, McCarthy denied that he had ever said such a thing during a House leadership call on Jan. 10, 2021.
The reporting is based on a forthcoming book by New York Times reporters Alex Burns and Jonathan Martin, titled “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future.”
”The New York Times’ reporting on me is totally false and wrong,” McCarthy said. “It comes as no surprise that the corporate media is obsessed with doing everything it can to further a liberal agenda. This promotional book tour is no different. If the reporters were interested in truth why would they ask for comment after the book was printed?”
According to the Times, Mark Bednar, a spokesperson for McCarthy, also pushed back against the reporting, saying, “McCarthy never said he’d call Trump to say he should resign.”
The Hill has reached out to the offices of McCarthy and Cheney for comment.
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The development comes months ahead of the November midterms, in which Republicans are seeking to regain majorities in the House and Senate. McCarthy is eyeing the House Speaker’s gavel if his party takes control of the lower chamber.
Days after the Capitol riot, McCarthy claimed in a public statement that “the president bears responsibility” for the insurrection, adding “these facts require immediate action from President Trump, accept his share of responsibility, quell the brewing unrest and ensure President-elect Biden is successfully able to begin his term.”
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Welfare check leads police to fatal shooting victim
(BCN) - A fatal shooting is under investigation by Oakland police after a person was found dead during a welfare check last week, police said Thursday.
Officers went shortly after 4:30 p.m. April 14, to the 1500 block of 23rd Avenue to conduct the welfare check and found a person with an apparent gunshot wound.
The victim's name was not available Thursday morning from the Alameda County coroner's bureau. Police said Thursday they had no additional information they could share.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to please call the Oakland Police Department's Homicide Division at (510) 238-3821 or the tip line at (510) 238-7950.
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Celebration of Baja California wine and shellfish coming to California
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- The Mexican Consulate in San Diego is bringing a little bit of Baja California's Guadalupe Valley north of the border, specifically its world-renowned wines and shellfish.
The Baja Wine & Shellfish Fest is geared toward Americans from Southern California who have yet to venture to the Guadalupe Valley just south of Tijuana near the border.
"The big challenge that we have is to reach out to that 65 percent of San Diegans who live 30 minutes away from Baja who never go down there in the weekend, who do not know the competitive advantages that Baja has," said Carlos González Gutiérrez, Mexico's Consul General in San Diego and one of the event organizers.
Seafood such as oysters, clams, abalone and mussels from Ensenada will be featured at Baja Wine and Shellfish Fest in San Diego. (Courtesy: Baja Shellfish Farms)
It will be held on the grounds of the Mexican Consulate in downtown San Diego.
"The Baja Wine & Shellfish Fest ... is going to be a celebration of wines you can get in Valle de Guadalupe as well as shellfish that you can get from Ensenada.”
Carlos González Gutiérrez is Mexico's Consul General in San Diego. (Salvador Rivera/Border Report)
The event is scheduled from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.
"It's for anybody who wants to come and test the wine and perhaps test the shellfish, come to the Mexican Consulate, here we have our beautiful patio and will be open to whomever wants to try it," González Gutiérrez said, adding that world-class wines from the Guadalupe Valley will be offered as well as seafood such as clams, oysters, mussels, abalone and snails.
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González Gutiérrez hopes the food and wine will make a memorable impression on those who attend and will decide to visit Baja California in the future.
"We’re hoping to hook a few of those people by offering the best of Baja, the best of Ensenada and Valle de Guadalupe.”
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Santa Claus is coming … to Congress?
(The Hill) -- A two-term city council member who helped implement community policing strategies in the New York Police Department, ran security for a U.S. territory and served on a panel of defense experts at the Federal Emergency Management Agency wants to take his experience to Washington in a special election to be held later this year to replace the late Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska).
His name is Santa Claus.
Claus, 74, is among the 48 candidates who filed to run for the remainder of Young’s term earlier this month. He will face off against a who’s-who of Alaska politics, including former Gov. Sarah Palin (R), former Senate Majority Leader John Coghill (R), surgeon Al Gross (I), state Sen. Josh Revak (R) and former Interior Department official Tara Sweeney (R), in a first-of-its-kind primary election in which the top four contenders, regardless of party, advance to an August ranked-choice runoff.
The others have connections and support in the state’s small political world. The powerful Alaska Native Corporations back Sweeney, while Young’s widow backs Revak, both of whom co-chaired Young’s campaign. Palin, though she hasn’t appeared on an Alaska ballot since the 2008 presidential election, has backing from former President Donald Trump.
But Claus, born Thomas O’Connor in Washington, D.C., before moving to New York City and a Connecticut boarding school, has a resume unlike any of the others.
In an interview this week, Claus detailed an eclectic professional history that began shortly after he graduated from New York University, where he completed doctoral coursework in educational communication and technology, though he never got around to writing his dissertation.
He served as a special assistant to the Deputy Police Commissioner in New York City, where he helped implement community policing strategies under then-Mayor John Lindsay (R) in the late 1970s. At the time, New York police cars were black and white; a study out of Kansas City showed residents reacted better to cars painted in a light blue, a scheme the city uses even today.
“Back then, they were really making efforts and putting money where their mouths were to improve community relations,” Claus said. “I was only 23 when I was appointed, so it was kind of a baptism by fire.”
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He served as the founding director of the Terrorism Research and Communications Center, a group of volunteer academics who sought to understand and disrupt or counter the foundations of terrorist groups operating both at home and abroad. As a part of that work, he was appointed to FEMA’s National Defense Executive Reserve, though he said his group’s approach went unheeded by national security officials.
“We felt it was better to talk to terrorists and terrorist groups to find out why they were dong what they were doing and see what the underlying issues were,” Claus said. “Back then they didn’t want to hear it.”
“Every single thing we brought to their attention has come to pass,” he said. “That changed my perspective on how government agencies tend to work.”
Disillusioned, O’Connor moved to the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he won a job as chief of safety and security at the territory’s port, overseeing two international airports and four marine ports.
“We were addressing issues like alien smuggling, drug smuggling, things like that,” he said. “A lot of illegal immigrants, a lot of other drugs would get into the United States because there wasn’t any real assistance from some of the federal agencies.”
After stints managing a radio station in Telluride, Colo., and as vice president of a public television station in Lake Tahoe, O’Connor was looking for something new. He had become a monk, and in 2004, he had grown a beard that came out a bushy white; friends encouraged him to play the role of Santa Claus to cheer up children.
A fortuitous walk down the street erased any doubts.
“I was walking to the post office and I was praying, like monks tend to do,” he said. “I was asking god what I should do with the gift, this appearance. and about 20 seconds after I finished my prayer, this white, nondescript car came up. This fella drove by and shouted, ‘Santa, I love you!”
That day, he called the county to explore how to legally change his name. Then he launched a 50-state bus tour, seeking out governors, senators and members of Congress to buttonhole on issues of children’s health and welfare.
“That tour was pretty well received, so I knew I can capture the attention of independents, Republicans and Democrats because I’ve done it,” he said. “It’s kind of a powerful tool. It sounds ridiculous at some level, but it’s very, very powerful.”
Santa felt he belonged at the North Pole, and the small town of about 2,200 people near Fairbanks welcomed him. He served as a senior park ranger for the borough park system nearby, and a stint on the Alaska Public Broadcasting Commission. Along the way, he met Young, whom he says he admired for Young’s membership in the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, though they didn’t agree on much else.
“He asked me back then if I was going to run against him because he’d heard I would. I said no,” Claus said. “He was a tough one to move out of there, if you will.”
But when Young died on an airplane flight from Los Angeles to Seattle last month, Claus said he thought he could bring his experience to Congress. He does not plan to fundraise; his only campaign expense has been the filing fee he paid to get on the ballot, and he asks potential volunteers to operate on their own.
“I don’t like that whole fundraising campaigning stuff for anybody to do if they’re in office. Why are we paying legislators to campaign and fundraise instead of doing their jobs?” he said.
Initially, Claus only planned to run for the remaining four months of Young’s term. But amid what Claus called a groundswell of support, he said he is now considering a longer political career.
“They’re trying to convince me to run for the full two-year term,” Claus said. “If I do that, I would pledge to do it without the fundraising and campaigning aspect to it during the special election term. So I would just be there representing them.”
Claus describes his politics as in line with those of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), though he has not asked Sanders for an endorsement. He supports legalized marijuana, which Alaska voters approved in 2014; an expanded child tax credit; a wealth tax; and the PRO Act. His experience battling Facebook, which kicked him off its platform repeatedly, and Twitter, which has denied him a blue checkmark, has him interested in the power and role of social media companies.
“Social media platform issues are fascinating,” he said.
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And though he opposes war, he says Alaska’s geographic position will make it an epicenter in years to come amid rising tensions with Russia and climate change that is putting new focus on the Arctic Circle.
“Alaska’s a pretty big defense center up here,” he said. “Alaska’s going to be a big deal over the next couple of years, and I think I have enough experience and perspective and attitude to represent the folks up here in Alaska.”
The state’s new all-party primary and ranked-choice runoff system has opened new opportunities for outsider candidates, Claus said. Big money will mean less in a system in which voters get to rank candidates, and Alaskans are far less likely to follow the partisan instincts of voters in the Lower 48 — Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) won re-election in 2010 as a write-in candidate, after losing the Republican primary; two of the state’s last seven governors have been independents, and the state House has been controlled by a coalition that includes Democrats, Republicans and independents.
So now Santa sees an opportunity to bring some Christmas cheer to Washington.
“Here’s a chance for voters to circumvent the party system and actually vote for somebody they think would do some good without all these external pressures and money,” Claus said. “Isn’t that going to be a swift kick you know where?”
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Earth Day: Did you know ...?
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — With the globe warming and the polar ice caps melting at an unprecedented rate, most climate scientists are predicting doom and gloom barring drastic changes from humans across the world.
Friday is Earth Day.
Though eyes are focused on the 21st century and beyond, the environmentalist movement is shockingly young, firmly taking root less than 60 years ago and encapsulated by the holiday.
The holiday came from the work of Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson. According to the Earth Day network, Nelson had been concerned about the deterioration of America’s environment long before the first Earth Day in 1970.
In the 1960s, cars chugged leaded gasoline by the gallon, factories spit out pollutants with impunity and most of the world spun on, unaware of the health hazards and environmental destruction in their wake.
THE TIPPING POINT
For Nelson, the tipping point happened in January 1969, when headlines started pouring in from the West Coast. A well owned by Union Oil had blown about six miles off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, leaking an estimated 3 million gallons of crude oil.
Within days, the oil had reached the shoreline, turning Santa Barbara’s beaches black. At its peak, the oil slick stretched 35 miles. Thousands and thousands of birds and other sea life were killed. President Richard Nixon and a cadre of lawmakers, including Nelson, visited Santa Barbara to see the damage firsthand and learn more about what they could do.
Barry Cappello, the former city attorney for Santa Barbara, shared his story with Pacific Standard as part of an oral history of the 1969 spill. He said the shocking aspect of the spill was the incompetence of Union Oil and the government agencies. There was no clean-up plan. Government officials had bales of hay brought in and hired people off the street to lap up the oil with hay and pitchforks.
“This could probably never happen today because no government agency would ever allow them to drill a well the way they drilled in this well,” Cappello told Pacific Standard. “Today, you have governmental agencies to monitor this. You can’t put a platform out without having a detailed plan on how you’re going to do it, what’s going to be involved. … Then, there was nothing. No governmental agency. Zero.”
Oil-soaked material piles up along the seawall at the Santa Barbara Harbor days after an oil spill leaked approximately 3 million gallons of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean. (Courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard)
GENERATING A MOVEMENT
In the wake of the Santa Barbara oil spill, Nelson wanted to capture the energy and attention of the moment to get Americans to care about the environment. Inspired by the antiwar protests held by students and young adults, Nelson focused his energy on college campuses, proposing a day focused on learning about how to protect the environment and taking action.
Nelson worked to drum up support with his fellow Democrats, but he knew he would need help on the other side of the aisle. Luckily, there was an obvious choice: U.S. Rep., Pete McCloskey, R-Calif., who was also an outspoken advocate for environmental programs.
President Richard Nixon and First Lady Thelma Nixon plant a tree outside the White House to commemorate Earth Day in 1970. (Courtesy of White House Archives)
Nelson also partnered with some young activists to help their movement gain traction. Among them was recent Stanford University graduate Denis Hayes, who served as the president of Stanford’s student body and organized several protests against the Vietnam War. Hayes is credited with helping Nelson settle on April 22 as the day for Earth Day, selecting a day in between spring break and final exams.
From there, the network focused on the country’s biggest cities and biggest polluters. Students at virtually every college across the country had planned a rally. In all, an estimated 20 million Americans took part.
The message of the first Earth Day was dire, or at least interpreted that way by most media. On “CBS Evening News,” legendary news anchor Walter Cronkite started his report with the words, “Act or die.” Reporters highlighted there was little violence and that they were prepared for protests similar to the antiwar movement.
MOVING FORWARD
Despite the initial coverage and confusion, the Earth Day campaign was considered a success. Millions of Americans across the country were mobilized and voicing their concerns. Environmentalism had become a major political issue. Within months, lawmakers in Washington took action, launching the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and passing new laws focused on the environment, including the Clean Air Act.
In 1972, Congress passed significant amendments to the Clean Water Act, dedicated to making every waterway clean enough for safe fish consumption and recreation. By 1973, Congress passed more laws, including some focused on the dangers of insecticides and other poisons. It also passed the Endangered Species Act, credited with protecting hundreds of species from extinction.
In the years that followed, the Earth Day campaign stretched beyond U.S. borders, bringing its message to the world. Organizers played up the 20-year anniversary of the first Earth Day. On April 22, 1990, approximately 200 million people across 141 countries took part in Earth Day activities.
Now, Earth Day is considered the largest secular holiday in the world, marked by more than 1 billion people every year across more than 190 countries.
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Here's what your favorite candy flavors say about your personality
NEW YORK (StudyFinds.org) - Like sour candy more than other flavors? It’s possible you might be an extrovert. That’s just one takeaway from a new survey of 2,000 candy lovers which finds a person’s preference for certain sweets may say a lot about their personality and lifestyle choices.
In addition to being extroverted (59%), sour candy connoisseurs also identified themselves as more “eccentric” (53%), “funny” (50%), and “sarcastic” (51%). Meanwhile, chocolate lovers tended to describe themselves as “optimistic” (76%) and “shy” (67%). Fans of mint were most likely to say they’re “thoughtful” (78%).
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People who eat candy every day were more likely to identify as “night owls” instead of “early birds,” (43% vs. 17%).
Overall, three in four respondents eat candy at least once a week, and more than one in four (27%) claim to eat it every day. While 42 percent would offer to share their candy with friends or family members, almost two in 10 would keep it all to themselves – including twice as many women than men.
The poll also asked its 2,000 respondents – all of whom expressed a fondness forgett
beforehand – to pick their all-time favorite jelly bean flavor for even more specific personality mapping.
“National Jelly Bean Day offers one day a year for flavor feuds that dominate the jelly bean world to take center stage,” says Rob Swaigen, Vice President of Global Marketing at Jelly Belly Candy Company, in a statement. “Whatever flavor you prefer, we love any opportunity to celebrate what makes you uniquely you through candy.”
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Sour lemon jelly bean fanatics mirrored their sharp-tongue taste preferences in their personality, with 69 percent identifying as “honest.”
Cherry jelly bean lovers were more likely to be dog people (38%), while buttered popcorn lovers favored cats (43%) — and cotton candy fans are most likely to consider themselves not animal people (13%). Age may also play a factor in the type of jelly bean flavor you prefer. Almost one in five baby boomers say licorice is their favorite, compared to just six percent of Gen Z.
For pear jelly bean lovers, “eccentricity” is a common personality type. Close to six in 10 align with that description, putting them alongside cherry (68%) and buttered popcorn (59%) fans as the most likely to consider themselves eccentric.
Just because two-thirds (67%) of orange jelly bean lovers like to volunteer in their free time doesn’t mean they’d give lottery money to a charitable cause. Orange lovers were also the most likely to invest the money if they won (38%).
However, cherry jelly bean lovers are going off the grid. Perhaps because 79 percent identify as introverts, 29 percent would purchase their own private island if they won the lottery.
“Just as no two personalities are alike, no two flavor preferences are alike either,” Swaigen adds.
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