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AC Transit Contest
Lenore Weiss, Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District
Celebrate your bus line, its passengers, and the neighborhood your bus runs through. Enter AC Transit's contest. Send us your stories, poems, or artwork.
The League of Women Voters presents two District 4 candidate forums with Jean Quan andDavid Stein:
October 17, 6:30 p.m., City Hall, Room 1
October 22, 7:30 p.m., Laurel Elementary School Cafeteria
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To Your Health
Obey Your Thirst
Paulette Avery, R.N., M.S.N.
The title I chose for this month's column is the slogan for a popular soft drink, but it can alsobe the guideline most of us use to be sure we are getting...
Voting on the "Strong Mayor" Issue Measure CC Factual Statement
Helen Hutchison
In 1998 voters passed an initiative for a six-year trial Charter change that took the Mayor off the City Council and put the Mayor in charge of city...
Violent Crime in Oakland
Jean Quan
I know from walking and talking to neighbors on every street in our district that the safest communities are well organized and have positive activities for youth.
Council Comment
Farewell
By Councilmember Dick Spees, District 4Editor's note: We owe the success of this paper to many, but to no one person more than ourretiring District 4...
Street Beat
Compiled by Sheila D'Amico
Photos Clifford Stevenson
We asked this question at the Laurel Community Festival on September 7:"What ideas do you have for solving the issue of violent crime in Oakland?
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Boulevard Bites
Toni Locke
In the 1980s, when I began as a rank-and-filer in the MacArthur Coalition, the Internet was an unborn babe. In the daily campaigns to clean up litter, remove...
City Council Candidates Quan and Stein Vie for District 4 Votes in November
To help voters choose, the Metro prints their replies to our questions, one for each of the
September, October, and November issues.
Question 2: We are concerned about the escalation of violent crime in the city. What steps would you take on the City Council to develop a sound public-safety...
The Imperfect Gardener
Adina Sara
What's in a Name?Lately, I've been forgetting the names of my favorite plants. Coreopsis and ceanothus keep getting interchanged, for obvious reasons, and...
Onions & Orchids
Peter Bond
Dear readers: This writer does search for individuals and businesses worthy of inclusion in this column, but he relies mostly on input from others.
Shenanigans on the Boulevard
Dennis Evanosky
Hoodlums have been spinning "donuts" at the intersection of Carson Street and Elinora Avenue in Redwood Heights at all hours.
Dealing with Crime in Oakland
David A. Stein
Reducing crime is more than catching criminals. It also requires consistent efforts to prevent crime and remove its causes.
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