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News Analysis: Oakland Begins Sparring Over Economic Development

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Tuesday May 08, 2007
The jockeying over the future direction of Oakland’s economic development in the Ron Dellums Years—how much it will continue on the path laid down by former Mayor Jerry Brown and how much it will break new ground—began in earnest last week with the release of an Oakland Chamber of Commerce study that both implicitly criticized Brown’s failures and embraced his goal of concentrating commercial development in the city’s downtown core. -more-

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Letters to the Editor

Tuesday May 08, 2007

Reader Commentaries

Commentary: Work Time and Global Warming

By Charles Siegel
Tuesday May 08, 2007
As part of the Measure G process, Berkeley should consider policies to give employees the option of down-shifting economically by working less. Though it is not much talked about, choice of work hours is one key to dealing with global warming. -more-

Commentary: The Reckless Jetski Driver Protection Act

By Paul Kamen
Tuesday May 08, 2007
The official title is California Assembly Bill AB 1458, also known as the Boater Safety Education Bill now working its way through the various legislative committees in Sacramento. But if you look carefully at what it will do and who it will affect, you might be tempted to give it a different name. -more-

Commentary: Sunshining the Selection of Library Trustees

By Gene Bernardi, Peter Warfield and Jane Welford
Tuesday May 08, 2007
Should Berkeley’s City Council continue to rubber-stamp the Board of Library Trustees’ (BOLT’s) choice for trustee at its Tuesday May 8 meeting? Or, will the council hold off on re-appointing the incumbent trustee, Susan Kupfer, so that the ad hoc Committee for Sunshining Selection of Library Trustees, which the council itself set up, can continue and conclude the work it has begun? -more-