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A’s fans are adept at shrugging off bad news. And last week they smartly ignored negative headlines, opting instead to celebrate big wins, a no-hitter, and 50 years of Oakland baseball.
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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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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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Activists are also garnering support for a statewide ballot initiative to repeal Costa Hawkins.
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Compelling true-story drama recounts an eminent domain nightmare.
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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.
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Re: “Libraries on the Brink”
The mayor's scenario C is actually not based on the parcel tax. It's based on employee concessions AND the parcel tax. The parcel tax alone won't do much at all.
Worse still is the timing. If there is a proposal for parcel tax, it has to be approved by a public vote. The ballot goes out in November, but the new fiscal year begins July 1st. Would they close the libraries for July through November? Maybe, but that wouldn't do the job either.
If we're going to spend the money on the libraries and other services, we have to collect it. The property taxes are collected at the end of one year and the beginning of the next. By the time the measure was passed, it would be too late to collect it with the 2011-2012 taxes. It would have to wait until the following fiscal year, 2012-2013. That is, the tax couldn't be collected until the end of 2012. Any library services dependent on those taxes would have to wait until the end of next year. Scenario C isn't the answer.