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Thursday, 29 September 2022

An old California mining town is reappearing in a shriveling lake

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — With the ongoing drought, local lakes and rivers are facing the impacts of wildlife dying… and communities reemerging?

Residents of the Kern County community of Kernville may have noticed a reemerging city as the drought soaks up Lake Isabella.

According to Dianna Anderson, a Kern River Museum curator, pig styes and cedars of Murphy Ranch of Old Kernville are starting to reemerge from the lake in the Southern Sierra Nevada.

Old Kernville is a long-gone town that has survived massacres, gold rushes and floods, according to Sierra Nevada Geotourism. The once-thriving community originally named Whiskey Flat, or “Demon Rum” by the ladies of the town, now sits at the bottom of the man-made Lake Isabella reservoir. The town was flooded when the reservoir was built in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

The community first started to grow in the 1860s when miners followed whiskey dealer Adam Hamilton from the old mining town of Quartzburg down to the flat, according to Anderson. Once Whiskey Flat started becoming a family town, it was renamed Kernville after artist Edward M. Kern, who mapped the area.

One piece of history that has not yet reemerged from the lake dates back to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal: the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). According to Anderson, Old Kernville used to have a CCC camp structure.

The CCC is considered “one of the most successful of Roosevelt’s New Deal programs.” The corps employed young men during the Great Depression who planted trees, constructed trails and established more than 700 state parks, according to an article on the History website.

But as Bakersfield grew, the community wanted to stop flooding at the bottom of the valley, so they built a dam, Anderson said.

This put the buildings and homes of a once thriving community under water – but they may not be submerged for much longer.

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Family sues Atria Park after woman dies from drinking cleaning solution

SAN MATEO, Calif. (KRON) - The family of a 93-year-woman who was given dishwashing solution is filing a lawsuit against Atria Park — the nursing home in charge of taking care of her.

Three people were rushed to the hospital the weekend of Aug. 27. She and another man died.

The lawsuit claims 93-year-old Trudy Maxwell was giving detergent stronger than Drano.

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The investigation continues and so far authorities have not said it was an accident or criminal in nature.

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Here's where to get free coffee today

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) - Happy National Coffee Day!

To celebrate the festivities, some of the nation's biggest coffee sellers are offering deals, including a free cup o' Joe.

For example, Krispy Kreme is offering a free iced or brewed hot coffee today, no purchase necessary! If you're a rewards member, you can also receive a free donut.

Wendy's is offering a free small coffee with any in-app purchase from now through Wednesday.

Panera is offering a free two-month membership today to its Unlimited Sip Club. Afterward, a membership is $10.99 per month. Anyone already signed up is eligible to get $2 off on select beverages.

Dunkin' is giving a free medium coffee, hot or iced, with any purchase to its DD Perks members.

Burger King is giving a free small iced coffee to anyone who orders through its app or on its website any purchase over one dollar, during breakfast hours (till 10:30 a.m. locally) at participating locations both today ant tomorrow.

And, through the end of the year, McDonald's is offering one 99 cent iced or premium roast coffee per day with any in-app purchase.

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Now all that caffeine is something to celebrate!

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California suburbs rank poorly in new study

Living in large cities like Los Angeles or San Francisco can be out of many peoples’ price range, but supposedly cheaper alternatives, such as living in a suburb, can be just as expensive.

A new study from Smart Asset revealed which suburbs near California’s major cities, like Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland, were the best and worst places to live.

According to its website, the study considered a suburb to be an area with a population of 5,000 to 100,000. The study included about 494 suburbs nationwide.

No suburb from California was ranked in the top 100.

The results were compiled into three categories: jobs, affordability and livability.

Each category was worth 100 points.

Southern California

For L.A. County, Malibu ranked the highest, earning the 446^th spot on the nationwide list. The city earned 49.46 for its job score, 7.09 for affordability, and 45.92 for livability.

Hermosa Beach came in second place, earning the 464^th spot. The beach town earned 32.03 for its job score, 14.23 for the affordability score and 49.73 for its livability score.

467^th: Newport Beach
476^th: West Hollywood
480^th: Santa Monica
485^th: Redondo Beach
486^th: Culver City
488^th: Manhattan Beach

Northern California

Suburbs near the Bay Area performed better in the study overall.

Tiburon, a wealthy Marin County enclave north of San Francisco, earned the highest spot, ranking 124^th on the list, for suburbs up north. This area earned a 93.03 for the jobs score, 7.30 for affordability and 80.32 for its livability score.

Half Moon Bay, a foggy beach town on the Peninsula, ranked 267^th. Half Moon Bay earned an 85.61 for the jobs score, 6.30 for affordability and 51.49 for the livability score.

272th: Mountain View
285^th: Palo Alto
439^th: Napa
455^th: Sausalito

The entire list can be viewed here.

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IRS failed to send child tax credit to millions: audit

(NEXSTAR) – The Biden administration's advanced child tax credit payments proved to be a "godsend" for many low-income families, but a recent audit found that the IRS also failed to send money to millions of taxpayers who qualified.

The audit, released Tuesday by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), found that overall, the agency was 98% accurate when issuing the 178.9 million payments between July and November of 2021.

The 2% inaccuracy, however, involved billions of dollars and affected millions of households.

The IRS neglected to send 8.3 million payments – about $3.7 billion – to 4.1 million taxpayers who were eligible. Programming errors were to blame, according to the IRS. In July, taxpayers with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number were mistakenly excluded, and, in August, if only one spouse updated bank account information the household didn't receive the advanced payment.

While some qualifying people didn't receive their payments, the IRS did mistakenly send 3.3 million payments, valued at $1.1 billion, to 1.5 million taxpayers who weren't eligible to receive the money, the audit found. People who received the money in error needed to claim it on their taxes earlier this year, unless their annual income qualified them for "full repayment protection."

The TIGTA report, which was sent to IRS managers involved with the tax credit rollout, made several recommendations to prevent future erroneous payments, to which the agency has agreed, according to the TITGA. Some of the mistaken payments were made for children who were too old or who were claimed on multiple tax returns.

The IRS said in its official response to the report that it had already started flagging accounts in 2021 to prevent additional payments, and in August and September issued roughly $728 million in payments to impacted taxpayers. The IRS advised other taxpayers whose payment issues they couldn't address to file for the credit on their 2021 tax returns before this past deadline.

The IRS set up a list of FAQs to guide affected taxpayers through the tax filing process.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene's husband files for divorce

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to correctly identify the Floyd County Superior Court.

(The Hill) - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) husband filed for divorce Wednesday on the grounds that the marriage is “irretrievably broken,” according to court documents.

Perry Greene is also asking the Floyd County Superior Court to seal the divorce proceedings, “because the parties’ significant privacy interest in sealing the records outweighs the public’s minuscule interest in access to said records.”

The filing contends that “sensitive personal and financial information” will likely be revealed throughout the case, “which would negatively impact the parties’ privacy interests.”

Perry Greene's divorce petition requests an equitable division of the pair’s assets and debt. The filing notes that he and his wife have already separated.

“Marriage is a wonderful thing and I’m a firm believer in it. Our society is formed by a husband and wife creating a family to nurture and protect,” Marjorie Greene said in a statement shared with Nexstar's The Hill.

"Together, Perry and I formed our family and raised three great kids. He gave me the best job title you can ever earn: Mom. I’ll always be grateful for how great of a dad he is to our children,” she said, adding that the matter is “private and personal.”

The congresswoman didn’t directly mention the divorce filing in her statement but signed a document included in the Floyd County court docket confirming receipt of her husband's divorce filings.

In a statement obtained by the Hill, Perry Greene called Marjorie his “best friend” and said the pair are heading in different directions.

“Our family is our most important thing we have done. As we go on different paths we will continue to focus on our 3 incredible kids and their future endeavors and our friendship,” Perry Greene said.

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Wednesday, 28 September 2022

Stopping mass shootings before they happen

(KRON) -- When mass shootings happen, they raise the question: How do we prevent these things from happening again?

According to two organizations, the best way to prevent these types of crimes is by reaching out to individuals before they become involved in any sort of violence, specifically Oakland's youth.

"Avoidable, regrettable, unnecessary. We need to fix it." That was Sedrick Tydus' reaction when he heard about the mass shooting in Oakland on Wednesday.

Tydus mentors Black boys in middle and high school with the 'OK Program of Oakland'. The program aims to prevent young children from getting involved in crimes such as gun violence.

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"For us to start working with our young people and try to show them a way instead of letting the streets show them a way of living," said Glen Upshaw Sr.

Upshaw Sr. is a violence interrupter with 'Youth ALIVE!'. He believes part of the problem is the prevalence of guns, something he calls an epidemic.

"I feel like when you start having 12 to 13-year-olds with guns it's a problem. Something's wrong. It's not just the community or the household, something is wrong with the system that these guns are being available to our youth," said Upshaw Sr.

He said when an incident like the one near the Bay Area Technology School happens, all "Youth Alive!" resources are moved to preventing further related incidents.

"We try to find out who was the shooter, who was the victim and we try to get to folks of influence to try and get them not to retaliate," said Upshaw Sr.

Sedrick Tydus and Glen Upshaw Sr. both said they care about the City of Oakland and the people who live in it, and they are going to continue to fight to make it a safer place.

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