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Despite calls to diversify its police force, Oakland struggles to recruit women and Black officers.
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Tokers fiddled while the industry burned.
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With cocktails, a fresh aesthetic, and a focus on unusual regional dishes, the family-run restaurant stands out from the pack.
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Plus, a gay marriage opens and closes and opens.
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The collective celebrates two years of preserving local culture — and throwing great day parties.
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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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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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Activists are also garnering support for a statewide ballot initiative to repeal Costa Hawkins.
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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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The East Bay R&B singer has been called a 'musical medium.'
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Compelling true-story drama recounts an eminent domain nightmare.
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True Shoah story takes a disconcertingly sweet point of view.
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The Korean-American artist specializes in dance-worthy club beats that feel quiet and cozy.
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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: “Recycling and Anxiety in Berkeley”
RE: single-bin recycling in Oakland. I've visited Waste Management's Davis St. facility and talked with the people there. Don't worry, they do indeed have a pick-line of people and an automated sorter that goes through your mixed recycling. I'm not a huge fan of this kind of "single stream" recycling because it leads to degraded paper and glass that can't be used for as many things in it's next life, but WM didn't put in all that expensive sorting equipment just to landfill your recycling. There are plenty of things that people put in their bins (e.g., any plastic other that #1 and #2 bottles) that definitely do end up in landfill, but that's always been the case and no one claims it isn't (if other plastics are accepted, chances are they're being incinerated in China).