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Will Lowry: Don’t leave apartments out of Oakland Zero Waste plan
This guest post was written by Will Lowry, who was born in San Francisco, where he lives with his family. Will has worked in Oakland’s public schools and currently does online communication for the Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter. He considers it part of his online mission to encourage you to leave your computer [...]
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Ratna Amin: Open Data is SO Oakland
This guest post was written by Ratna Amin (@ratnaamin), an urban planner, former Oakland City Council staffer, and Government 2.0 explorer. She is organizing OakX (@Oak_X) – a collaborative effort to grow civic innovation (email: oakXinfo [at] gmail.com). Should the City’s data be free? The Oakland City Council will decide this Monday night on an [...]
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I’m running for BART Board
Two months ago I abandoned this blog, and I apologize for that. Soon after BART Director Bob Franklin announced that he would not seek reelection and would instead run for Oakland City Council, I decided to run for the open District 3 BART seat. The campaign has taken up the vast majority of free time [...]
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Two great Oakland parties for two great causes
In the next few days there are two fundraising events happening in Uptown for causes that I care deeply about. I hope you’ll consider joining me at one or both of these events. Emerge California East Bay Reception Saturday, January 14th from 6:30-8:30pm at Make Westing I wrote about Emerge California when I graduated from [...]
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Rediscovering Downtown Oakland: Cafes
Several weeks ago I promised to restart my Rediscovering Downtown Oakland series and asked for suggestions on what categories to cover. I’m starting off with Cathy’s request: “how about coffeeshops? with room to sit in?” I was a bit surprised, looking back at my 2009 series, that I had not covered cafes, especially since there [...]
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