The Oakland establishment LOVES being taken to the cleaners... Especially when they either get to funnel the money to crony's or playing to the crowd, cast hand to head and play victim to the Greek chorus of their faithful EBX bread and circuses cheerleaders.
Posted by
Bruce Ferrell
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Posted by
Sung Lee Sung
BART has proven time and again its police force is above the law. The forces of gentrification have further pushed the boundaries of the bad faith that they act with.
Posted by
Kelly H williams
There is a secret that Oakland residents must know. The local workers requirement quietly went from 10% like most cities to 50% pass by most city council and every year they get contribution money from the only 3 sewer company where one of the owner is Mayoga.
Posted by
smokinggun001
A quite good commentary. California is the land of unintended consequences, and, as witnessed with our decades long school funding fiasco, those consequences are often address in ways that aggravate the underlying problem.
Posted by
Vr Rm
Uh...anyone that contributes to a "charity" in lieu of state income tax payments will be subject to back taxes, penalties, and interest payments. It is likely to bankrupt a lot of Californians.
Posted by
Anthony Hynes
While the idea of rent control is appealing, the ability to protect residents from exorbitant increases in the cost of their housing, the price increases that would otherwise take place just gets passed on to new renters in the surrounding neigbhorhood . This is especially happens when demand goes through the roof, and there is not enough supply (new apartments being built) to counter that demand. The resulting scenario is an apartment unit that is renting for significantly less than market rate.
Posted by
Clarence C. Johnson
Across the country, civic government's procurement of IT resources remains a huge $$ pit, spending years generating a "request for proposal" and then more years evaluating proposals for systems that are obsolete before a single line of code is written (cf. http://www.govtech.com/biz/How-Government-…).
Posted by
richard k belew
The technical problems so often cited in the account are plainly what can be expected from a system integration project like this. These kinds of projects are notorious everywhere for big cost overruns, plagues of bugs, inability to deliver anything like what was envisioned by the client (and certainly the end users).
Posted by
Jack Whalen
It ain't rocket science, it's just a weed. Don't patronize the BigPotPharma profiteers.
I grow about 6 per year in my little back yard sufficient for the 'medical' needs of myself and a few needy friends.
Posted by
Patrick Monk RN
@KurtVonnegut I totally agree that Chicago is oftentimes left out of the conversation when discussing graffiti's contemporary roots. That's why I made sure to mention it by name in the first paragraph when discussing where graffiti migrated to the west from.
Posted by
Jordan_Ranft