PITCH: Confusion swirls around residential street parking near Kaiser Oakland
About 1,700 homes around Kaiser's Permanente's MacArthur Boulevard campus have, or will soon be eligible for, city permits to park on their own streets. Kaiser will foot the bill for the permits, which have become more necessary as traffic has increased during the construction of… Read More »
PITCH: Will This Winter See California's Katrina?
Tucked into the water-sharing deal passed by the California legislature last fall was authorization for a new governing body to oversee the state's Sacramento-San Joaquin River delta. This watershed, part of the largest estuary on the west coast of the Americas, includes a large network… Read More »
PITCH: Investor’s Club: Do the UC Regents Spin Public Funds into Private Profit?
With thousands of students protesting huge tuition hikes, the public needs to know who benefits from controlling the University of California’s $53 billion in Wall Street investments. That is billion, with a B!
Several very wealthy, politically powerful men…
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PITCH: Underground Economies: The Pot Biz
As we head into the New Year unemployment in Oakland pegged at 17 percent (in contrast to 12 percent nation-wide), and with many Oaklanders deeply under-employed, tales of the underground economy--what we all do to get by that the Department of Labor doesn't track--take on… Read More »
PITCH: Mid-Market Blight - Issues at the Center of our City.
Since the city outlawed signage and tore up the thoroughfare for BART construction in 1970, mid-Market has remained an odd no-man's land in the heart of an affluent, world-class urban center.
Tourists strolling down the picturesque boulevard of upper Market, shopping bags in tow,… Read More »
PITCH: The Story Behind the World's Biggest Dam Removal
In September 2009, after years of bitter fighting, Native American tribes, fishermen, farmers, and utility executives agreed to a plan to remove four dams on the Klamath River in Northern California. The tentative agreement could lead to the biggest dam removal project in world history.… Read More »
PITCH: Who benefits from the legalization of medical marijuana?
Medical Cannabis has been a hot topic in California for several years and especially since Prop 215 was passed. The debate heated up even more when, on October 19th, the Obama Administration announced that federal prosecutors would not pursue medical marijuana users… Read More »
PITCH: New Depression in Los Angeles?
While President Obama and the Congress are preoccupied with health care legislation and the war in Afghanistan, the unemployment elephant in the room gets larger by the month.
Nearly one fifth of American workers are jobless or are working fewer hours than they need, and… Read More »
PITCH: The cost of the DNA backlog
A year ago, the LA City Auditor reported that the backlog of DNA samples waiting to be tested by the Los Angeles Police Department had grown to nearly 7,000 with hundreds languishing beyond the legal deadlines.
This year, the LAPD says it reduced that backlog… Read More »
PITCH: SF city downsizing slashes workers’ paychecks
The total number of employees laid off by the city since the summer budget cutbacks has been devilishly hard to determine. But beyond the numbers of people laid off, which was relatively low, we will uncover the true impact of the cuts on low- to… Read More »
