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Oakland Tribune editorial: State lawmakers must restore California Public Records Act
Oakland Tribune editorialcontracostatimes.com
Posted:   06/18/2013 01:27:53 PM PDT
June 18, 2013 9:40 PM GMTUpdated:   06/18/2013 02:40:30 PM PDT
Without the state Public Records Act, we would never know about the Oakley City Manager’s $366,500 taxpayer-funded mortgage scheme, the Washington Township hospital CEO’s $800,000-plus annual compensation or the retired San Ramon Valley fire chief’s $310,000 yearly pension.
We would be ignorant of broken bolts on the Bay Bridge, the cover-up of Moraga teachers sexually abusing students, a BART train operator who collected salary and benefits totaling $193,407, the former BART general manager who received $420,000 the year after she was fired or the Port of Oakland executives who spent $4,500 one night at a Texas strip club.
As the state Legislature declared in the preamble to the records law, “access to information concerning the conduct of the people’s business is a fundamental and necessary right of every person in this state.”

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San Leandro sued for targeting gay men with undercover sting operation
By Paul T. Rosynsky Oakland Tribunecontracostatimes.com
Posted:   06/13/2013 10:39:56 AM PDT
June 13, 2013 5:40 PM GMTUpdated:   06/13/2013 10:40:20 AM PDT
SAN LEANDRO — The city and its police department are being sued in federal court for violating the civil rights of gay men by having officers conduct undercover sting operations in hopes of stopping sexual activity in a restroom near the San Leandro Marina.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of two men arrested during an undercover sting, could eventually represent dozens of gay men who were arrested for attempting to conduct a lewd act in public but never charged with a crime.
Prostitution was not a factor in any of the cases cited in the federal lawsuit.

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San Leandro sued for targeting gay men with undercover sting operation
By Paul T. RosynskyOakland Tribunemercurynews.com
Posted:   06/12/2013 05:09:56 PM PDT
June 13, 2013 12:19 AM GMTUpdated:   06/12/2013 05:19:53 PM PDT
SAN LEANDRO — The city and its police department are being sued in federal court for violating the civil rights of gay men by having officers conduct undercover sting operations in hopes of stopping sexual activity in a restroom near the San Leandro Marina.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of two men arrested during an undercover sting, could eventually represent dozens of gay men who were arrested for attempting to conduct a lewd act in public but never charged with a crime.
Prostitution was not a factor in any of the cases cited in the federal lawsuit.

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A homeowner called police to say someone calling himself “Dave” who spoke with a Caribbean accent, had just threatened her, saying a bomb had been placed at her house and it would explode in 30 minutes.
Arriving officers blocked off vehicle traffic at Heath Street near Marylinn Drive and evacuated three homes. They told occupants of a fourth house to shelter in place. Authorities searched the area for about an hour, but no explosive device was located, police said.
At 3:07 p.m., officers called an all clear. No suspects are known in this case, police said.
Man reports prostitute stole his money at motel
On June 6 at about midnight, police responded to a robbery at Heritage Inn Milpitas at 378 W. Calaveras Blvd.
A 22-year-old San Jose man, who celebrated his birthday the day before, told police he contacted a prostitute online and arranged to meet her at the inn that night, police said.

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If there’s one thing that Singer-Vine excels at, it’s conveying male pathos. If you like poignant, bruising, achingly well-executed depictions of dudes brooding in the ‘hood, Licks is larded with them. Amid the insult-volleying and occasional beatings in dark alleyways, the film supplies a long succession of meaningful close-ups — of D staring at the ceiling, or Rell (played by Hunt’s brother, Koran Streets) studying an old photograph of Martin Luther King, or of Ty (Devon Libran) and D sitting on the dock, gazing over the San Francisco Bay.
What’s lacking, unfortunately, is a fully fleshed-out female character. That’s particularly problematic because Licks tackles such issues as childhood prostitution and domestic violence — albeit in a rather myopic way. The women are all stock characters — two no-nonsense matriarchs, three prostitutes, one “fallen” waif, and none of them ever question their circumstances. The younger women’s fortunes depend entirely on the men who manipulate them; the older women serve only to guide those men along.

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The haves and have-nots have always existed. But today as Silicon Valley’s thundering tech frenzy reverberates throughout the Bay Area, thanks to dazzling products and huge profits from such companies as Google (GOOG), Apple (AAPL) and Twitter, the often glaring and excessive wealth of the “have-even-mores” is hard to miss.
“My girlfriend works for a high-end caterer and one of their clients rented out Alcatraz for a 20-year-old’s birthday party,” said Alfred Janske, 60, an unemployed business manager who lost his family home in Oakland’s Glenview neighborhood in 2011 to foreclosure and now depends on food stamps. “They spent thousands of dollars on a high-end florist and it took them two days just to set up the lights.”
As Janske sees it, “this is the insanity of America, with the very rich having the money to segregate out the rest of society so they don’t have to deal with the prostitutes on the corner like I see every night.”

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Not too assuring – right? — but we move on.  Up a couple of blocks is a school, where neighbors come out on their lawns as classes end just to let the drug dealers know they are watching.  Up another block is a public facility that has handball in the evenings to keep kids off the street.  Up another block is a street known to locals for its hefty prostitution traffic.  On weekends, the street is littered with condoms.  We turn the corner to go back to our cars; I need to get back to work, and Danny has a vigil that evening with families victimized in the past week.  Along the way, we stop to greet someone else – older, but also on a bike.  He was parked in the shade of a tall tree.  “Need to take a rest.  Hot day,” he said.  Danny nodded, taking inventory.  Just another day, to be sure, where anything could go wrong.  But he smiled.

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… Investment in breakthrough discoveries in scientific research and assurance that the benefits of the inventions belong to the public and not just to the few.
High tech old school hacks: But after hiring a coven of veteran Washington political consultants, including campaign manager Rob Jesmer, former executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, FWD.us put up TV ads praising GOP immigration-reform allies Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, for opposing Obamacare, and Mark Begich of Alaska for supporting oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
In other words, Zuckerberg is so tunnel-visioned about immigration reform (especially H-1B visas for foreign-born engineers), he is willing to say or do damn near anything to support those he thinks will help him on the issue. Which caused venture capitalist Vinod Khosla to tweet: “Will FVD.us prostitute climate destruction and other values to get a few engineers hired & get immigration reform?”

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Arrests following suspicious-subject stops: 1:04 a.m. on 15000 Hesperian Boulevard; 10:46 p.m. on 1200 Davis Street..Stolen vehicle recovered 1:52 a.m. Estabrook Street and Washington Avenue.Robbery reported: 1:54 a.m. on the 900 block of 143rd Avenue; 8:35 p.m. on 300 East 14th Street.Bicyclist arrest 3:49 a.m. Lewelling boulevard at Inverness Street.Vehicles reported stolen: 6:35 a.m. on 1100 Harrison Street; 6:39 a.m. on 1300 Leonard Drive.Vandalism: 9 a.m. on 14800 Washington Avenue. Burglary reported 9:20 a.m. on 600 Dutton Avenue.Injury accidents: 11:30 a.m. on Lark Street at 150th Avenue; 11:51 a.m. Doolittle Drive at Adams Avenue.Stolen vehicle recovered 1:03 p.m. Apple and Pippin streets. Hit-and-run 3:51 p.m. on 1200 Davis Street.Traffic-stop arrest 5:01 p.m. Lafayette and Best avenues; 5:32 p.m. Bancroft and 103rd avenues. Prostitution reported 6:54 p.m. on 2100 block of Washington Avenue.Drunk or drugs arrest 7:28 p.m. on 15500 East 14th Street.Details on suspected cause of May 4 limo fire released by news station. 

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The haves and have-nots have always existed. But today as Silicon Valley’s thundering tech frenzy reverberates throughout the Bay Area, thanks to dazzling products and huge profits from such companies as Google (GOOG), Apple (AAPL) and Twitter, the often glaring and excessive wealth of the “have-even-mores” is hard to miss.
“My girlfriend works for a high-end caterer and one of their clients rented out Alcatraz for a 20-year-old’s birthday party,” said Alfred Janske, 60, an unemployed business manager who lost his family home in Oakland’s Glenview neighborhood in 2011 to foreclosure and now depends on food stamps. “They spent thousands of dollars on a high-end florist and it took them two days just to set up the lights.”
As Janske sees it, “this is the insanity of America, with the very rich having the money to segregate out the rest of society so they don’t have to deal with the prostitutes on the corner like I see every night.”

See the full article from “San Jose Mercury News”

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