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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 [...]

Sep 09, 2008 | 0 Comments

MediaNews Deserves Credit

Independent citizens bring local perspective, competition of ideas into editorial board discussions.
by Clint Reilly
When it comes to making informed decisions about the latest ballot initiative, candidates for public office or how to manage the current water shortage, newspaper editorial boards occupy a place of singular distinction among opinion shapers.
But historically, the editorial positions that newspapers [...]

Aug 10, 2008 | 0 Comments

SJ Mercury News Welcomes Community Member

Teresa Alvarado introduced as paper’s first community editorial board member.
There’s a new name and title on the Editorial Board list at the top of the opposite page. Meet Teresa Alvarado, our first community member - which calls for both an explanation and a celebration.
Like the news departments of this paper, we’re looking for ways to [...]

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, [...]

Jul 14, 2008 | 0 Comments

Opening up the Opinion Pages

Women woefully underrepresented on newspaper opinion pages.
For much of the past 30 years, a debate has raged over the ideological bent of the country’s news outlets. Republicans attack the New York Times‘ op-ed page as a bastion of “liberal bias,” while Democrats decry the free-market conservatism that appears on the Wall Street Journal’s opinion pages. [...]

Jun 22, 2008 | 0 Comments

Obama Faces Editorial Board Scorn

For most politicians, endorsement interviews are either a recipe for stress or an opportunity to set the record straight.
For the better part of the past year, Barack Obama has handled his obligatory endorsement grillings with aplomb, appearing comfortable and relaxed as he sat down with newspaper editorial boards across the country.
For his part, Obama used [...]

Jun 19, 2008 | 0 Comments

Reclaiming our Democracy

by Andrew Thompson
(BayPress-Marin IJ)
What makes a healthy democracy?
If all it took were elections, voter turnout and media coverage, then California would boast one of the leanest, most advanced democracies on earth. Unfortunately, the system requires more than endless elections, passive voter engagement and vacuous punditry.
At its core, the success of our democracy depends on the [...]

Jun 11, 2008 | 1 Comment

BayPress Moves Forward

From concept to organization.
When the Bay Area Citizens Editorial Board Project launched earlier this year, it was little more than an interesting idea sketched in broad strokes. The concept was to provide the editorial boards of each of the 11 participating Bay Area newspapers with an engaged, independent citizen member to serve as a link [...]

Jun 07, 2008 | 0 Comments

Editorial Boards and the Public Interest

by Clint Reilly
Many people already know the details of my battles with media companies to preserve vigorous competition among paid subscription daily newspapers in our Bay Area. It’s a struggle I take very seriously. Without diversity in media ownership - and thus contrasting journalistic viewpoints - the public is unable to clearly discriminate, reflect, and [...]

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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)