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Apr 13, 2009 | 3 Comments

Your New Job: News Distributor

Where will we get the news of tomorrow? Probably from each other, according to Jeff Jarvis.
Long gone are the halcyon days of the neighborhood paperboy tossing ink-on-paper into our front yards. As Jeff Jarvis explains, news distribution is becoming a community endeavor:

Mar 18, 2009 | 0 Comments

Chronicle gone-icle!

In recent weeks, Hearst has announced that it may sell or close the Chronicle due to headline-making losses.
Two weeks ago, Maitland “Sandy” Zane – a longtime writer at the San Francisco Chronicle – died of cancer at 80 years of age. Sandy never won a Pulitzer.
But, like many of the great characters who passed through [...]

Sep 11, 2008 | 0 Comments

Beyond the Restaurant Robberies

Oakland’s public safety issues won’t disappear with a few high-profile arrests. It will take bigger thinking and interagency cooperation to make a sustainable difference.
by Jayson Landeza (BayPress-Oakland Tribune)
Oakland breathed a long-overdue sigh of relief recently with the arrest of two suspects in connection to the city’s rash of take-over style robberies. Catching the alleged criminals [...]

Jul 17, 2008 | 0 Comments

Green Building Standards and Workforce Housing - Are they at Odds?

by Toby Brink
(BayPress - Tri-Valley Herald)
The California Building Standards Commission (CBSC) is currently considering several options for the development of green building standards that will address building efficiency from initial design and construction to the deconstruction and removal of the structure.
There is not doubt that these efforts are well intended and, in the long run, [...]

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Oct 19, 2009

Oakland Local Goes Live!

If you live, work or play in Oakland, do yourself a favor and get over to Oakland Local, the newest, freshest source of Oakland-specific news and commentary on the web. Spearheaded by Susan Mernit and backed by a Knight Foundation grant, Oakland Local is another great addition to the growing community of East Bay news and blog sites.

Sep 14, 2009

Thanks BART

Nothing like paying more and getting less:

Starting at 7pm tonight, the Bay Area Rapid Transit District will cut its service by 25% during non-peak periods (ie, most of the time). This compares unfavorably to AC Transit’s 15% service cut, and was not accompanied by a public input process like the one AC Transit has undertaken in recent weeks. (Full story)