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News, Full Disclosure, May 19, 2010
AC Transit's Duplication of Service

The agency is planning more across-the-board service cuts, but it could save money by dramatically reducing the number of buses that go to San Francisco.
- by Robert Gammon
- Tags: Full Disclosure, AC Transit, BART, Crocker Highlands, Jerry Cauthen, MUNI, Bay Bridge, Linton Johnson, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Clarence Johnson, Rocky Fernandez, Greg Harper, Stuart Cohen, TransForm

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Blogs, Seven Days, May 4, 2010
Tuesday Must Read
- by Robert Gammon
- Tags: Politics, Education, Environment, Transportation, Oakland teachers’ union, strike, Betty Olson-Jones, Cal students, hunger strike, Arizona’s new anti-immigration law, UC Berkeley, Wheeler Hall, truckers, Port of Oakland, California Air Resources Board, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, PG&E, public power, Pacific Gas & Electric, Sacramento River levees, trees, US Army Corps of Engineers, Hurricane Katrina, Wal-Mart, hazardous materials, Ron Dellums, Richard Lee, Oaksterdam University, Tax Cannabis 2010

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Small Business Monthly, Business Profile, Apr 28, 2010
Up and Down With OAK

The airport lost about a third of its traffic in the recession. For the facility and its tenants, now comes the rebuilding.
- by Jan Greene
- Tags: Business Profile, Small Business Monthly, Oakland International Airport, Southwest Airlines, Fedex, American Airlines, Continental Airlines, Southwest Airlines, JetBlue, Silver Dragon, Lilly Mar-Chee, Andale, Max's Deli, Fenton's Creamery, Deborah Ale Flint, Pixar, Njambi Mungai, See's Candies, HMSHost, California Pizza Kitchen, Starbucks, Susan Goyett, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Otaez Restaurant

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News, Eco Watch, Mar 24, 2010
More Sprawl in Pleasanton?

Although understandable, a recent court ruling could produce more suburban tract developments — unless state law is changed.
- by Robert Gammon
- Tags: Eco Watch, Pleasanton's housing cap, affordable housing, Frank Roesch, global warming, climate change, greenhouse-gas emissions, Tom Bates, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Richard Marcantonio, Urban Habitat, Senate Bill 375

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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, Feb 3, 2010
John Yoo Gets Away With It

A Justice Department investigation reportedly will recommend only a slap on the wrist for the UC Berkeley law school professor who authorized torture.
- by Robert Gammon
- Tags: Seven Days, Barack Obama, UC Berkeley, John Yoo, Jay Bybee, Office of Professional Responsibility, Boalt School of Law, David Margolis, Dick Cheney, David Addington, Bush Justice Department, Bay Area Toll Authority, Bay Bridge, Tom Bates, Chris Daly, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, BART, Oakland airport, AC Transit, Federal Transit Administration, East Bay MUD, San Francisco Bay, San Francisco Baykeeper, Berkeley City Council, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, PG&E

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Blogs, Seven Days, Jan 28, 2010
MTC Decides to Gamble on $70 Million in Federal Funds
- by Robert Gammon
- Tags: Politics, Business, Transportation, BART, Metropolitan Transportation Commission

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News, Full Disclosure, Jan 27, 2010
A Pattern of Discrimination

The threat to revoke funding for the Oakland airport connector may also imperil BART's plans for San Jose.
- by Robert Gammon
- Tags: Full Disclosure, Obama Administration, Oakland airport connector, BART, Federal Transit Administration, Guillermo Mayer, Richard Marcantonio, Public, Peter Rogoff, Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Tom Bates, Linton Johnson, Elizabeth LaPorte, Ninth Circuit, Kim Manolius, Valley Transportation Authority

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Voters are souring on sales taxes, so why not increase taxes on gasoline to pay for transportation projects?

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The city's police chief talked a much better game than he played, and a recent scathing report may be the real reason why he quit.

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A group of low-income AC Transit riders are battling for more bus service and affordable housing.

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The city, police, and school district joined forces to win a $10.7 million federal grant for community policing around middle schools.

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The transit agency has dealt with two protests in the past week without resorting to killing cellular service.

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The president capitulates to the GOP once again and agrees to an all-cuts budget deal.

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Oakland's city attorney has thought about resigning his post and now offers himself as a mediator for $400 an hour.

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MTC and Caltrans are proposing a bike and pedestrian pathway along the western span of the Bay Bridge. But will it find funding?

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While spending more than $40 million on a failed political campaign, the utility also disclosed that the gas-line that blew up in San Bruno was slated to be replaced.

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The agency is planning more across-the-board service cuts, but it could save money by dramatically reducing the number of buses that go to San Francisco.

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The airport lost about a third of its traffic in the recession. For the facility and its tenants, now comes the rebuilding.

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Although understandable, a recent court ruling could produce more suburban tract developments — unless state law is changed.

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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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A Justice Department investigation reportedly will recommend only a slap on the wrist for the UC Berkeley law school professor who authorized torture.

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The threat to revoke funding for the Oakland airport connector may also imperil BART's plans for San Jose.

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