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News, Seven Days, Dec 30, 2009
2009 Ends With a Whimper

Disability rights advocates win a big victory, but cities worry that it will further tax their finances. Plus wi-fi on BART.
- by Chris Thompson

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News, Seven Days, Feb 4, 2009
A Hellish Week in Oakland

Mayor Dellums heckled, police chief Tucker resigns, and Bobb flees to Detroit.
- by Chris Thompson
- Tags: Seven Days, Ron Dellums, Oscar Grant, Wayne Tucker, Robert Bobb, Johannes

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News, Seven Days, Jan 5, 2011
A New Day in Oakland

Larry Reid becomes council president as Jean Quan is sworn in as mayor. Plus, Jerry Brown's budget plan would kill Oakland's ballpark proposal.
- by Robert Gammon
- Tags: Seven Days, Fox Theater, Jean Quan, Larry Reid, Jane Brunner, Don Perata, Ignacio De La Fuente, Desley Brooks, Gary Yee, Jody London, Jerry Brown, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Fabian Nunez, Alameda City Council, Ann Marie Gallant, Teresa Highsmith, Nancy O'Malley, Johannes Mehserle, Oscar Grant

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News, Seven Days, Mar 10, 2010
A New Face in the Mayor's Race?

Oakland Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan is seriously considering a run, and although she's a relative newcomer, she has a shot at winning.
- by Robert Gammon

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News, Seven Days, Jan 13, 2010
A New Police Department in Oakland

Anthony Batts admits mistakes and holds commanders accountable for a botched raid that killed two cops.
- by Robert Gammon
- Tags: Seven Days, Ron Dellums, Anthony Batts, Oakland Police Department, Oakland A's, Rick Orozco, Chris Mufarreh, Lovelle Mixon

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News, Seven Days, Jan 14, 2009
A Night of Anger

An unruly mob undoes decades of progress in a single evening.
- by Chris Thompson
- Tags: Seven Days, Rickey Henderson, Baseball Hall of Fame, Johannes Mesherle, Oscar

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News, Seven Days, Mar 3, 2010
A Symptom of the Problem

Oakland city staffers create a double standard for parking violations in an effort to appease city councilmembers.
- by Robert Gammon and Kathleen Richards
- Tags: Seven Days, Montclair, Broadway Terrace, parking ticket, Larry Reid, Desley Brooks, Pat Kernighan, Jane Brunner, Jean Quan, Ron Dellums, Rebecca Kaplan, Yelp, Gregory S. Weston, Dianne Feinstein, Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, El Niño, brown pelicans.

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News, Seven Days, Oct 14, 2009
A Tram to Nowhere?

The Oakland City Council votes to support a $500 million airport project, despite evidence it's a boondoggle. Plus, Oakland rolls back meter hours.
- by Robert Gammon
- Tags: Seven Days, Oakland City Council, BART, Oakland airport connector, Rebecca Kaplan, Jane Brunner, Jean Quan, Ignacio De La Fuente, Nancy Nadel, Pat Kernighan, AC Transit, Van Hool, Loni Hancock, Gillig, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Brown, gay marriage, Oakland Raiders, Measure Y

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News, Seven Days, Sep 16, 2009
A Year to Forget

State lawmakers end the legislative session without addressing some of California's worst problems. Plus, two Spanish judges are now investigating a UC Berkeley professor.
- by Robert Gammon

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News, Seven Days, Apr 4, 2012
AC Transit Finally Buys American

The transit agency officially ends its long-term deal to buy expensive, foreign-made buses. Plus, Perata and De La Fuente's newest questionable deal.
- by Robert Gammon
- Tags: Seven Days, AC Transit, Buy American rules, Van Hools, David Armijo, Rick Fernandez, Chris Peeples, Greg Harper, Don Perata, Ignacio De La Fuente, SMG, Hope 2012, Anne Willcoxon, Perata Consulting LLC

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News, Seven Days, Jun 9, 2010
Advantage BART Cop as Oscar Grant Case Goes to Trial

Defense lawyers for Johannes Mehserle, the ex-transit cop who shot and killed Oscar Grant, win key pretrial motions as opening statements in the trial get underway this week.
- by Robert Gammon
- Tags: Seven Days, Johannes Mehserle, Oscar Grant, BART, Michael Rains, Robert Perry, California Republican Party, Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, Jerry Brown, Barbara Boxer, Steve Poizner, Tom Campbell, UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, gang injunction, North Oakland gang, John Russo, Anthony Batts, AC Transit, BART, Hills Conservation Network, East Bay Regional Parks District, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, National Marine Fisheries Service, Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, Liz Figueroa, Alameda County Board of Supervisors

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News, Seven Days, Jul 28, 2010
Alameda Point Mini-City Leveled

The city council voted to kill plans by developer SunCal for a massive housing project on the former Alameda Naval Air Station. Plus, Oakland approves giant pot farms.
- by Robert Gammon
- Tags: Seven Days, Alameda Point, Alameda Naval Air Station, Alameda City Council, SunCal, Lehman Brothers, Lena Tam, Anna Marie Gallant, Teresa Highsmith, Alameda County District Attorney's Office, Michele Ellson, Oakland City Council, AC Transit, ACLU, Byron Williams, Johannes Mehserle, Oscar Grant, BART, Anthony Batts

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News, Seven Days, Sep 7, 2011
Amazon's Gambit

The online giant is hoping that its offer to create 7,000 jobs in California will convince legislators to delay the state's new sales tax law until 2014.
- by Robert Gammon
- Tags: Seven Days, Jerry Brown, Amazon.com, sales tax, Gray Davis, Nancy Skinner, Loni Hancock, George Runner, Solyndra, solar, Obama administration, Barbara Parker, John Russo Jean Quan, Goodwin Liu, EPA

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News, Seven Days, May 19, 2010
Arizona's Law and Racial Profiling

East Bay cities join the boycott over the new anti-illegal-immigration law as evidence of racial profiling emerges in one of the nation's most liberal cities.
- by Robert Gammon
- Tags: Seven Days, Arizona's new anti-illegal-immigration law, UC Berkeley, McClatchy-Ipsos, Center for Constitutional Rights, American Civil Liberties Union, teacher seniority rights, Governor Schwarzenegger, Chevron, BART, Kenton Rainey, Oscar Grant, Robert Birgeneau, Wheeler Hall

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News, Seven Days, Apr 29, 2009
Backpedaling in the East Bay

The City of Berkeley says never mind to its strict new greenhouse gas rules, and ex-Oakland City Manager Robert Bobb may not run for mayor after all.
- by Robert Gammon

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News, Seven Days, May 22, 2013
Bad Training by OPD Led to Three Deaths

An arbitrator rules that poor training by the Oakland Police Department — not poor decisions by police commanders — led to the deaths of two officers and a murder suspect.
- by Robert Gammon
- Tags: Seven Days, Oakland Police Department, Lovelle Mixon, Bay Bridge, Jerry Brown

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News, Seven Days, Mar 28, 2012
Barbara Parker's Tough Stand

Oakland's city attorney warns against illegal interference by councilmembers. Plus, March Madness: The Public Officials Behaving Badly Edition.
- by Robert Gammon
- Tags: Seven Days, Barbara Parker, Deanna Santana, Desley Brooks, John Russo, Doryanna Moreno, Jane Brunner, Ignacio De La Fuente, Nadia Lockyer, Michael Meehan, Mary Hayashi, Chris Magnus, David Muhammad, Desley Brooks, Ross Mirkarimi, Jean Quan

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News, Seven Days, Feb 17, 2010
BART Arrogance Kills Airport Connector

The agency underestimated a civil rights complaint and failed to comprehend that the Obama administration is not like its predecessor.
- by Robert Gammon
- Tags: Seven Days, BART, Oakland airport connector, Obama administration, Bush administration, civil rights, Federal Transit Administration, Peter Rogoff, 964 Civil Rights Act, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, AC Transit, Dorothy Dugger, federal stimulus, Berkeley City Council, Tom Bates, Berkeley Patients, Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley, ranked choice voting, Berkeley Daily Planet, San Francisco Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abel Maldonado

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News, Seven Days, Aug 19, 2009
BART Brass Hangs Tough

Agency board refuses to give in to union, negotiates new deal with workers, and avoids transit strike. Plus, downtown Berkeley is becoming a music mecca.
- by Robert Gammon
- Tags: Seven Days, BART, Oakland Tribune, Willie Brown, Jerry Brown, Freight and Salvage, UC Theater, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Slim's, Great American Music Hall, Berkeley Zoning Adjustment, Bayer, City of Oakland, Ron Dellums, Oakland City Council, Berkeley Daily Planet, foreclosures, consumer bankruptcies, Bloomberg News, Gary Gee, Oscar Grant, Peripheral Canal, Darrell Steinberg, John Mackey, Whole Foods

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News, Seven Days, Feb 18, 2009
BART Cop Craziness

The Oscar Grant case gets more complicated, while East Bay cities prepare for more layoffs.
- by Chris Thompson
- Tags: Seven Days, BART, Oscar Grant, Johannes Mehserle, Michael Rains, Tony Pirone, Tom

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Disability rights advocates win a big victory, but cities worry that it will further tax their finances. Plus wi-fi on BART.

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Mayor Dellums heckled, police chief Tucker resigns, and Bobb flees to Detroit.

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Larry Reid becomes council president as Jean Quan is sworn in as mayor. Plus, Jerry Brown's budget plan would kill Oakland's ballpark proposal.

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Oakland Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan is seriously considering a run, and although she's a relative newcomer, she has a shot at winning.

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Anthony Batts admits mistakes and holds commanders accountable for a botched raid that killed two cops.

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An unruly mob undoes decades of progress in a single evening.

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Oakland city staffers create a double standard for parking violations in an effort to appease city councilmembers.

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The Oakland City Council votes to support a $500 million airport project, despite evidence it's a boondoggle. Plus, Oakland rolls back meter hours.

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State lawmakers end the legislative session without addressing some of California's worst problems. Plus, two Spanish judges are now investigating a UC Berkeley professor.

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The transit agency officially ends its long-term deal to buy expensive, foreign-made buses. Plus, Perata and De La Fuente's newest questionable deal.

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Defense lawyers for Johannes Mehserle, the ex-transit cop who shot and killed Oscar Grant, win key pretrial motions as opening statements in the trial get underway this week.

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The city council voted to kill plans by developer SunCal for a massive housing project on the former Alameda Naval Air Station. Plus, Oakland approves giant pot farms.

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The online giant is hoping that its offer to create 7,000 jobs in California will convince legislators to delay the state's new sales tax law until 2014.

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East Bay cities join the boycott over the new anti-illegal-immigration law as evidence of racial profiling emerges in one of the nation's most liberal cities.

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The City of Berkeley says never mind to its strict new greenhouse gas rules, and ex-Oakland City Manager Robert Bobb may not run for mayor after all.

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An arbitrator rules that poor training by the Oakland Police Department — not poor decisions by police commanders — led to the deaths of two officers and a murder suspect.

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Oakland's city attorney warns against illegal interference by councilmembers. Plus, March Madness: The Public Officials Behaving Badly Edition.

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The agency underestimated a civil rights complaint and failed to comprehend that the Obama administration is not like its predecessor.

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Agency board refuses to give in to union, negotiates new deal with workers, and avoids transit strike. Plus, downtown Berkeley is becoming a music mecca.

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The Oscar Grant case gets more complicated, while East Bay cities prepare for more layoffs.

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