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Instead of welcoming the cannabis industry into the light, Oakland's new rules are putting many out of business, while others are disappearing into the illicit market.
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Developer Danny Haber's project to rebuild a red-tagged live-work warehouse has been stalled by environmental review and could be delayed further.
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The new Berkeley restaurant soars with handmade curry pastes, quality ingredients, and traditionally bold flavors.
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Small farmers had hoped to usher in California's new legal cannabis market, but the state's high taxes and fees and a loophole in its regulatory scheme are allowing Big Weed to take over.
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An imaginative map from the creator of the East Bay Yesterday podcast illustrates Oakland's natural and industrial history.
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The Elmwood's new fast-casual restaurant is a welcomed evolution of the red sauce joint.
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Activists are also garnering support for a statewide ballot initiative to repeal Costa Hawkins.
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We endorse Oakland Councilmember Dan Kalb and former Obama White House aide Buffy Wicks in the June 5 primary.
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A group of East Oakland youth in the Scraper Bike Team say San Leandro police keeping confiscating their bicycles — sometimes at gunpoint.
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It will break us from the chains of capitalistic individualism and the destructive car-centric lifestyle.
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Hundreds of people gathered last night to demand that the city hire additional public works crews to clean up garbage and focus on the most impacted neighborhoods.
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After years of criticism over the Raiders deal, East Bay officials now can try to wipe the slate clean and recoup hundreds of millions of dollars from the NFL and Mark Davis.
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The Korean-American artist specializes in dance-worthy club beats that feel quiet and cozy.
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True Shoah story takes a disconcertingly sweet point of view.
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Jon Hamm's new movie makes a hash of Lebanon, but it's high-class hash.
Re: “Oakland Police Search Without Warrants”
Up in Humboldt County a similar building-code scheme was used to get bench warrants, without evidence, permitting entry to one property suspected of 'code violations,' with a half-dozen armed deputies fanning out from there. The fun part was, case law says cops can operate freely in securing "open fields" near any old non-crime scene--so the cops went warrant-free as far as two miles away into peoples' homes and yards looking for . . . whatever, under cover of the far-off routine, evidence-free warrant. A big stink two years ago toned down this particular approach up there, but the lower evidentiary standard for building code warrants means that even 'warranted' raids can be completely unwarranted.