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He welcomes the new spending pressure which has resulted from the Governor's new funding formula, but says the district needs to be strategic in how it will spend the additional revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is this temptation to just look at it like new money,” Harris said. “(The board) is saying ‘No.’ Let’s figure out how we can rethink the way we’re doing this to deliver better outcomes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is not the first state to channel money in this way. Most states have a weighted student funding formula. The method has produced significant academic results in states like New York. But there are mixed results in others states like Illinois.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, most educators in California agree the state’s education finance system had to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/ms/mm/\">California State School Board President Michael Kirst\u003c/a> has been pushing for an overhaul. He admits there will be more squabbles within local school communities as parents, educators and school trustees determine which strategies should be funded. However, Kirst is confident local school boards will make better decisions than Sacramento lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The local boards will be more politicized because the state was specifying over a third of their (state funding),” Kirst said. “Now (school board trustees) will have to catch the flak for what they are doing more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new system, school boards will also be required to rely on parent groups at each school to shape and build strategies. Kirst says now parents should also have a bigger say in their child’s education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents and other people can get to their local school board. Only a handful of lobbyists get to Sacramento. 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This board is appointed under the authority of Government Code section 3612, subdivision (a), because a strike will, if permitted to occur, significantly disrupt public transportation services and endanger the public’s health, safety, or welfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three individuals appointed to the board of investigation are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Southworth, Chairperson\u003cbr>\nJosie Camacho\u003cbr>\nMicki Callahan\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Government Code prohibits any strike or lockout while the board completes its investigation. (Gov. Code, § 3612, subd. (b).)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board is directed to provide me with a written report within seven days. For the sake of the people of the Bay Area, I urge both sides to take this matter seriously and to continue working to find a fair solution.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Southworth has been deputy secretary and general counsel at the California Transportation Agency since 2013. He held multiple positions at the California Attorney General’s Office from 1997 to 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho has been executive secretary-treasurer at the Alameda Labor Council since 2010. She was director of constituent services in the Office of Mayor Ron Dellums from 2007 to 2009. She is a founder of the national Asian Pacific Islander constituency group and has served on the board of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates and Congresswoman Barbara Lee's advisory committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callahan has been director of Human Resources for the City and County of San Francisco since 2007, where she served as employee relations director in 2005. She held multiple positions at the State Mediation and Conciliation Service from 1996 to 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c!--more-->Update, 3:10 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Officials with the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 say they will return to negotiations with AC Transit later today. Gov. Jerry Brown still hasn't announced whether he will grant the district's request to initiate a 60-day cooling-off period in the dispute. ATU 192 has notified AC Transit it could strike as early as midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:30 Wednesday: \u003c/strong>Still no word from Gov. Jerry Brown's office on whether he will start the process for a cooling-off period. AC Transit officials said this morning they've sent a letter to Yvonne Williams, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 president, seeking a resumption of talks in the dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Earlier post (Tuesday):\u003c/strong> Gov. Jerry Brown has yet to act on a week-old request from the East Bay's AC Transit for a 60-day cooling-off period to head off what could be a transit nightmare for many in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, the union representing the district's 1,800 bus drivers, mechanics and other workers gave notice they could strike as early as 12:01 a.m. Thursday. That would force the 100,000 or so people who ride AC Transit every weekday, including 7,000 or so transbay riders, to seek alternate transportation. And with a BART strike also possible, a bus strike would eliminate a key option for stranded train riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AC Transit contract dispute has been simmering for months, with Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/AC-Transit-workers-reject-2nd-contract-offer-4863342.php\" target=\"_blank\">twice rejecting contract offers\u003c/a> from the district. AC Transit officials asked Brown last week to start the process that could lead to a 60-day cooling-off period but didn't disclose that until the union issued its strike notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=03001-04000&file=3610-3616\" target=\"_blank\">state law\u003c/a>, a governor can start the process when he or she determines a transit strike would \"significantly disrupt public transportation services and endanger the public's health, safety or welfare.\" Just as he did in August when BART was on the verge of a strike, Brown would begin the process by appointing a board of inquiry. Depending on the board's finding, he could request (and would likely get) a court order for a cooling-off period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in the BART contract battle, the AC Transit standoff involves big financial issues. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c!--more-->Update, 3:10 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Officials with the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 say they will return to negotiations with AC Transit later today. Gov. Jerry Brown still hasn't announced whether he will grant the district's request to initiate a 60-day cooling-off period in the dispute. ATU 192 has notified AC Transit it could strike as early as midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:30 Wednesday: \u003c/strong>Still no word from Gov. Jerry Brown's office on whether he will start the process for a cooling-off period. AC Transit officials said this morning they've sent a letter to Yvonne Williams, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 president, seeking a resumption of talks in the dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Earlier post (Tuesday):\u003c/strong> Gov. Jerry Brown has yet to act on a week-old request from the East Bay's AC Transit for a 60-day cooling-off period to head off what could be a transit nightmare for many in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, the union representing the district's 1,800 bus drivers, mechanics and other workers gave notice they could strike as early as 12:01 a.m. Thursday. That would force the 100,000 or so people who ride AC Transit every weekday, including 7,000 or so transbay riders, to seek alternate transportation. And with a BART strike also possible, a bus strike would eliminate a key option for stranded train riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AC Transit contract dispute has been simmering for months, with Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/AC-Transit-workers-reject-2nd-contract-offer-4863342.php\" target=\"_blank\">twice rejecting contract offers\u003c/a> from the district. AC Transit officials asked Brown last week to start the process that could lead to a 60-day cooling-off period but didn't disclose that until the union issued its strike notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=03001-04000&file=3610-3616\" target=\"_blank\">state law\u003c/a>, a governor can start the process when he or she determines a transit strike would \"significantly disrupt public transportation services and endanger the public's health, safety or welfare.\" Just as he did in August when BART was on the verge of a strike, Brown would begin the process by appointing a board of inquiry. Depending on the board's finding, he could request (and would likely get) a court order for a cooling-off period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in the BART contract battle, the AC Transit standoff involves big financial issues. The contract voted down earlier this month included 3 percent pay increases in the first two years of a three-year contract, with 3.5 percent in the third year. But the contract also includes a substantial increase in health-care payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What our members really felt strongly they couldn't absorb was the cost of the health-care premiums, up to $283 a month,\" Local 192 President Yvonne Williams said earlier today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two sides have not held negotiations in more than two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115103\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/15/115088/Oakland-redistricting/screen-shot-2013-10-14-at-8-28-43-pm-659x591/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-115103\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115103\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/Screen-Shot-2013-10-14-at-8.28.43-PM-659x591-e1381880503593.png\" alt=\"Map #17, one of two maps under consideration at the Oakland City Council meeting on Oct. 15. (Courtesy Oakland Local)\" width=\"640\" height=\"574\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map #17, one of two maps under consideration at the Oakland City Council meeting on Oct. 15. (Courtesy Oakland Local)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Barbara Grady, \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/2013/09/redistricting-under-way-in-oakland-you-can-be-involved-sept-17/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Local\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 48 maps or pieces of maps that suggest various \u003ca title=\"redistricting\" href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PBN/OurOrganization/PlanningZoning/OAK041315\" target=\"_blank\">redistricting\u003c/a> possibilities for the City of Oakland have been honed down to two maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca title=\"City Council\" href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityCouncil/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">City Council\u003c/a> will discuss those two maps at its meeting tonight, October 15, debating whether they improve equality of representation for all voters in Oakland. The meeting will be held 5:30 p.m. at City Hall in Council chambers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those 48 maps include 10 maps submitted by Oakland residents this summer by residents using the City’s Maptitude software, three maps that the City’s consultant drew early on as possibilities, and 35 maps of Oakland or parts of Oakland that were hand-drawn at a community forum on redistricting hosted September 18 by a coalition of non-profit organizations called Oakland Votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/26/peralta-board/oaklandlocallogo/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95476\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95476 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/oaklandlocallogo.jpg\" alt=\"oaklandlocallogo\" width=\"177\" height=\"99\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two maps (above and \u003ca title=\"here\" href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/image/oak043262.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>) incorporate changes proposed on the other maps and the most frequently heard suggestions at the half a dozen city meetings held on redistricting since early summer. Both were drawn by the City’s consultant, National Demographics Corp., which describes them as “attempts to put the many different comments and requests together into a plan that draws on the public input and balances the competing nature of some of the requests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both, for instance, put the Maxwell Park neighborhood in one district, rather than having it split among three the way it is now. They also take a sliver on the east side of Lake Merritt that for some reason was grouped with West Oakland in District 3 and put it with contiguous areas instead in District 2 which includes Chinatown. They also move part of the San Antonio neighborhood from District 2 and put it in 5, to keep the populations of each district almost the same, and have compact districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/marketingmaterial/oak043130.pdf\">\u003c!--more-->Map #17\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This map is taking a lot of different ideas from different people,” said the NDC consultant for Oakland, Douglas Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main thing it does is bring the Maxwell Park neighborhood into one district, 6, instead of splitting this tight-knit group of residents into three districts, as is the case currently. Johnson said it makes District 4 more cohesive by not having it “wander into the hills.” More details are \u003ca title=\"here\" href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/marketingmaterial/oak043131.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"HERE.\" href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/image/oak043262.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Map #18\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Map #18 puts Maxwell Park in District 4, again bringing it all into one district, just a different one, and then it adjusts Districts 5 and 6 to balance the population changes resulting from Maxwell Park being combined into District 4, according to the consultant. It also restores Broadway Terrace as the boundary between Districts 1 and 4, which was the case before the last redistricting in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what neither map does is significantly change Oakland’s districts from what they currently are, despite many calls for creating districts that would be socio-economically “cohesive” so that people with like concerns, such as relying on transit, could have a representative rather than someone who needs to represent both transit riders and those who have cars, those needing food assistance and those who don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months since June when the City first announced it would do redistricting this year, the 10th year since the last time redistricting occurred, a number of people have proposed that redistricting allow flatland neighborhoods of East Oakland more voice in City and school district affairs by drawing districts that are socio-economically cohesive rather than including districts that have both very low-income areas and very high-income areas of the Oakland Hills. Some proposed maps did that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the City Council Rules and Legislation Committee met October 3, Council members Libby Schaaf of District 4 and Pat Kernighan of District 2 said they heard from their constituents that they did not want a dramatic change in districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an interesting debate this year. Oakland is always struggling with how we represent all parts of our city. I heard great arguments on all sides and a campaign to align districts in more socio-economic clusters,” Councilwoman Schaaf said at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I went out to my constituents, I did not find an appetite for that. I found more fear of dramatic changes. So from what I am hearing and feeling, I would recommend focusing our discussion on maps with less significant changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Spiker, the technology director of the \u003ca title=\"Urban Strategies Council\" href=\"http://urbanstrategies.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Strategies Council\u003c/a>, said the two maps the Rules Committee decided to put before the full Council do not address the socio-economic clout issue. “Neither seem to have taken the blank canvas approach, more like considering the current lines and looking at subtle tweaks to accommodate just some of the community feedback. Given this was a chance at a whole rethink, these two proposed maps are disappointing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From his reading, Map #17 expands District 4 (Montclair) further below MacArthur Boulevard, but it reunifies most of Maxwell Park into District 6. It removes part of San Antonio from District 2. “I’’ve heard neighborhood concerns about that.” Map # 18, he said, also reunifies Maxwell Park but places it in District 4 (Montclair). “The resulting District 6 does not appear to meet compactness and contiguity requirements: it is not compact! District 2 has the same issues for San Antonio as in map #17,” he said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday night is a chance for the public to speak about the two maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's earlier coverage at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/18/oakland-redistricting/\">\"Oakland's Low-Income Communities Look to Gain Power Through Redistricting.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two maps (above and \u003ca title=\"here\" href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/image/oak043262.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>) incorporate changes proposed on the other maps and the most frequently heard suggestions at the half a dozen city meetings held on redistricting since early summer. Both were drawn by the City’s consultant, National Demographics Corp., which describes them as “attempts to put the many different comments and requests together into a plan that draws on the public input and balances the competing nature of some of the requests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both, for instance, put the Maxwell Park neighborhood in one district, rather than having it split among three the way it is now. They also take a sliver on the east side of Lake Merritt that for some reason was grouped with West Oakland in District 3 and put it with contiguous areas instead in District 2 which includes Chinatown. They also move part of the San Antonio neighborhood from District 2 and put it in 5, to keep the populations of each district almost the same, and have compact districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/marketingmaterial/oak043130.pdf\">\u003c!--more-->Map #17\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This map is taking a lot of different ideas from different people,” said the NDC consultant for Oakland, Douglas Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main thing it does is bring the Maxwell Park neighborhood into one district, 6, instead of splitting this tight-knit group of residents into three districts, as is the case currently. Johnson said it makes District 4 more cohesive by not having it “wander into the hills.” More details are \u003ca title=\"here\" href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/marketingmaterial/oak043131.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"HERE.\" href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/image/oak043262.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Map #18\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Map #18 puts Maxwell Park in District 4, again bringing it all into one district, just a different one, and then it adjusts Districts 5 and 6 to balance the population changes resulting from Maxwell Park being combined into District 4, according to the consultant. It also restores Broadway Terrace as the boundary between Districts 1 and 4, which was the case before the last redistricting in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what neither map does is significantly change Oakland’s districts from what they currently are, despite many calls for creating districts that would be socio-economically “cohesive” so that people with like concerns, such as relying on transit, could have a representative rather than someone who needs to represent both transit riders and those who have cars, those needing food assistance and those who don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months since June when the City first announced it would do redistricting this year, the 10th year since the last time redistricting occurred, a number of people have proposed that redistricting allow flatland neighborhoods of East Oakland more voice in City and school district affairs by drawing districts that are socio-economically cohesive rather than including districts that have both very low-income areas and very high-income areas of the Oakland Hills. Some proposed maps did that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the City Council Rules and Legislation Committee met October 3, Council members Libby Schaaf of District 4 and Pat Kernighan of District 2 said they heard from their constituents that they did not want a dramatic change in districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an interesting debate this year. Oakland is always struggling with how we represent all parts of our city. I heard great arguments on all sides and a campaign to align districts in more socio-economic clusters,” Councilwoman Schaaf said at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I went out to my constituents, I did not find an appetite for that. I found more fear of dramatic changes. So from what I am hearing and feeling, I would recommend focusing our discussion on maps with less significant changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Spiker, the technology director of the \u003ca title=\"Urban Strategies Council\" href=\"http://urbanstrategies.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Strategies Council\u003c/a>, said the two maps the Rules Committee decided to put before the full Council do not address the socio-economic clout issue. “Neither seem to have taken the blank canvas approach, more like considering the current lines and looking at subtle tweaks to accommodate just some of the community feedback. Given this was a chance at a whole rethink, these two proposed maps are disappointing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From his reading, Map #17 expands District 4 (Montclair) further below MacArthur Boulevard, but it reunifies most of Maxwell Park into District 6. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_114722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/11/san-jose-gets-split-ruling-in-suit-over-as-move/oaklandcoliseum/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-114722\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-114722\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/OaklandColiseum.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland A's at their current home, O.co Coliseum. ((Kwong Yee Cheng/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"376\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland A's at their current home, O.co Coliseum. (Kwong Yee Cheng/\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/98153629@N00/9659994199/in/photolist-fHBZJ8-f9dhKY-fHUy5A-fHUxPm-fHBYqg-fHUwVU-fHBYQ4-fHBU7D-fHUyW9-fHUuy5-fHBWz2-fHUv6A-fHBW1p-fHBV9c-fHBYAX-fHUu6q-fHUukd-fHBXVr-84Nbzn-7C9LAW-fHBUAM-5aUypU-4Gcz6X-bXYZfE-5aUxv1-ejBkMW-ejvmJP-ejvBBx-ejyuUg-ejB5af-fHUwnE-f9djPo-fHUzcd-fHBX2c-5aUzf1-a4o4xs-cA6TWu-cA6Uuo-cA6V9G-cA6ThQ-cA6VMU-cA6Wrb-a4kcPe-4GgKrj-bB6o9j-6fJ598-p5QHX-4VVvY8-8rsfb1-8rsfkY-8rp8KX\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A federal court judge in San Jose threw out a big part of the city's lawsuit against Major League Baseball, an action that accuses the sport's officials and team owners of violating antitrust laws by failing to act on the Oakland A's request to move to the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte also ruled that San Jose can go ahead with its claim that Major League Baseball has broken state law by interfering with its contract to sell the A's a stadium site. The city's lawyers say that ruling creates an opening for a resolution of the longstanding dispute over the A's relocation because baseball officials, including Commissioner Bud Selig, will try to avoid testifying about why the A's move has been blocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A's and San Jose have been working for more than four years to make the move happen, with the city and team signing a deal that would let the A's buy downtown parcels where the team would build a 32,000-seat stadium. But major league owners have never acted on the request. That's because the San Francisco Giants have refused to give up their exclusive territorial rights to the South Bay. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"They're going to now have to give depositions as to why they wouldn't allow Oakland to go down there.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Last June, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/18/san-jose-city-council-votes-to-sue-mlb-over-as-move/\" target=\"_blank\">the city sued\u003c/a>, saying baseball's failure to act on the request and its system of exclusive territories amounted to monopolistic behavior barred by federal anti-trust laws. The suit also alleged baseball had illegally interfered with San Jose's contract with the A's. That \u003ca href=\"http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/tortious_interference\" target=\"_blank\">tortious interference\u003c/a> had cost the city money, the San Jose suit alleged, and damaged its future economic prospects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/175443473/Ruling-in-San-Jose-v-Major-League-Baseball-et-al\" target=\"_blank\">26-page ruling\u003c/a> (embedded below), Whyte stuck closely to 60 years of federal case law in dismissing San Jose's antitrust claims. He noted that many courts have questioned a 1922 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that exempted baseball from the nation's antitrust statutes. Whyte said he agreed with earlier jurists that the exemption is “unrealistic, inconsistent, or illogical.\" But like them, he concluded it's up to Congress, not the courts, to remove the exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the contract-interference claim, Whyte found that the city had presented a substantial enough claim that that part of the case can proceed. Joe Cotchett and Philip Gregory, the lead attorneys for San Jose, say that depositions and document disclosure in the case could prove embarrassing for MLB Commissioner Bud Selig, team owners and the Giants.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\"They're going to now have to give depositions as to why they wouldn't allow Oakland to go down there,\" Cotchett said after the ruling was released. \"Bud Selig now has to come into court and under oath testify.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The issue all along has been Major League Baseball refusing to deal with either the city or the A's on this issue and delaying and delaying and delaying,\" Gregory said. \"Now they have the prospect of having to open their books and allow the citizens of San Jose to see the real reason why the team hasn't been allowed to relocate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cotchett told KQED he doesn't think things will get that far. He thinks that under pressure to reveal what goes on behind MLB's closed doors, something will give. \"I think the case, at this point, will get resolved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major League Baseball released a statement suggesting it believes the case will get resolved, too -- in its favor, in court:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Major League Baseball is pleased that the Court dismissed the heart of San Jose's action and confirmed that MLB has the legal right to make decisions about the relocation of its member Clubs. The Court dismissed all of San Jose's state and federal law claims challenging that right. We are confident that the remaining state law claims, which assert that San Jose's costs associated with the option agreement for the sale of real estate were increased by the timing of MLB's decision-making process, will be decided in MLB's favor, and that San Jose has not suffered any compensable injury.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed also issued a statement: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I am pleased that the judge has allowed our case to move forward. Major League Baseball’s unfair and anti-competitive actions are costing San Jose residents millions of dollars in annual tax revenues that could go towards paying for more police officers, firefighters, libraries, road repairs and other critical services. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose filed this lawsuit after waiting patiently for more than four years for a decision from Commissioner Selig. The court’s decision this brings us one step closer to paving the way for San Jose to host a major league ballclub.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>(Gregory and Cotchett also hailed Whyte's ruling in language that will warm the hearts of their South Bay clients and infuriate A's partisans still hurting after last night's season-ending loss to the Detroit Tigers: \"While the A's may have lost a playoff series last night, the city [of San Jose] and the A's won in court today,\" Gregory said.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a takeaway, I'm going to turn to Wendy Thurm, a journalist and former lawyer whose tweets\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/04/oakland-as-san-jose-baseball-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\"> we followed closely\u003c/a> during Judge Whyte's hearing on the MLB dismissal motion last week. She \u003ca href=\"http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/san-jose-mlb-oakland-athletics-antitrust-lawsuit-court-order/\" target=\"_blank\">writes on the Fangraph sports site\u003c/a> this afternoon:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>So, now what?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no question that the antitrust claims were the main attraction in the lawsuit. MLB wants to keep its exemption in place, and San Jose’s challenge to it presented a threat. That threat is gone, for now, as the city decides whether to immediately appeal the court’s order. Whether San Jose can appeal now — with the one state law claim surviving the motion to dismiss — is a complicated question. Typically, courts do not permit piecemeal appeals. San Jose also lost the ability to ask the court to force MLB to permit the A’s to relocate. That kind of remedy would have been potentially available only under the antitrust law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, the city can proceed on its interference claim. That means MLB will be forced to turn over documents related to its decision-making process and MLB witnesses — including Commissioner Selig, the members of his Blue Ribbon Commission on the relocation, and MLB owners — will have to answer questions under oath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My guess is that San Jose will try to proceed on two tracks: ask the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to hear an appeal on the antitrust claims immediately and start issuing subpoenas for documents and depositions. MLB will resist both an immediate appeal and San Jose’s effort to dig deep on the league’s decision-making process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To me, Judge Whyte’s order screams “settlement” — in the sense that neither side got what it wanted and there might be just enough to get the two sides talking about a resolution. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_114722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/11/san-jose-gets-split-ruling-in-suit-over-as-move/oaklandcoliseum/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-114722\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-114722\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/OaklandColiseum.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland A's at their current home, O.co Coliseum. ((Kwong Yee Cheng/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"376\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland A's at their current home, O.co Coliseum. (Kwong Yee Cheng/\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/98153629@N00/9659994199/in/photolist-fHBZJ8-f9dhKY-fHUy5A-fHUxPm-fHBYqg-fHUwVU-fHBYQ4-fHBU7D-fHUyW9-fHUuy5-fHBWz2-fHUv6A-fHBW1p-fHBV9c-fHBYAX-fHUu6q-fHUukd-fHBXVr-84Nbzn-7C9LAW-fHBUAM-5aUypU-4Gcz6X-bXYZfE-5aUxv1-ejBkMW-ejvmJP-ejvBBx-ejyuUg-ejB5af-fHUwnE-f9djPo-fHUzcd-fHBX2c-5aUzf1-a4o4xs-cA6TWu-cA6Uuo-cA6V9G-cA6ThQ-cA6VMU-cA6Wrb-a4kcPe-4GgKrj-bB6o9j-6fJ598-p5QHX-4VVvY8-8rsfb1-8rsfkY-8rp8KX\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A federal court judge in San Jose threw out a big part of the city's lawsuit against Major League Baseball, an action that accuses the sport's officials and team owners of violating antitrust laws by failing to act on the Oakland A's request to move to the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte also ruled that San Jose can go ahead with its claim that Major League Baseball has broken state law by interfering with its contract to sell the A's a stadium site. The city's lawyers say that ruling creates an opening for a resolution of the longstanding dispute over the A's relocation because baseball officials, including Commissioner Bud Selig, will try to avoid testifying about why the A's move has been blocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A's and San Jose have been working for more than four years to make the move happen, with the city and team signing a deal that would let the A's buy downtown parcels where the team would build a 32,000-seat stadium. But major league owners have never acted on the request. That's because the San Francisco Giants have refused to give up their exclusive territorial rights to the South Bay. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"They're going to now have to give depositions as to why they wouldn't allow Oakland to go down there.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Last June, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/18/san-jose-city-council-votes-to-sue-mlb-over-as-move/\" target=\"_blank\">the city sued\u003c/a>, saying baseball's failure to act on the request and its system of exclusive territories amounted to monopolistic behavior barred by federal anti-trust laws. The suit also alleged baseball had illegally interfered with San Jose's contract with the A's. That \u003ca href=\"http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/tortious_interference\" target=\"_blank\">tortious interference\u003c/a> had cost the city money, the San Jose suit alleged, and damaged its future economic prospects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/175443473/Ruling-in-San-Jose-v-Major-League-Baseball-et-al\" target=\"_blank\">26-page ruling\u003c/a> (embedded below), Whyte stuck closely to 60 years of federal case law in dismissing San Jose's antitrust claims. He noted that many courts have questioned a 1922 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that exempted baseball from the nation's antitrust statutes. Whyte said he agreed with earlier jurists that the exemption is “unrealistic, inconsistent, or illogical.\" But like them, he concluded it's up to Congress, not the courts, to remove the exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Joe Cotchett and Philip Gregory, the lead attorneys for San Jose, say that depositions and document disclosure in the case could prove embarrassing for MLB Commissioner Bud Selig, team owners and the Giants.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\"They're going to now have to give depositions as to why they wouldn't allow Oakland to go down there,\" Cotchett said after the ruling was released. \"Bud Selig now has to come into court and under oath testify.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The issue all along has been Major League Baseball refusing to deal with either the city or the A's on this issue and delaying and delaying and delaying,\" Gregory said. \"Now they have the prospect of having to open their books and allow the citizens of San Jose to see the real reason why the team hasn't been allowed to relocate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cotchett told KQED he doesn't think things will get that far. He thinks that under pressure to reveal what goes on behind MLB's closed doors, something will give. \"I think the case, at this point, will get resolved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major League Baseball released a statement suggesting it believes the case will get resolved, too -- in its favor, in court:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Major League Baseball is pleased that the Court dismissed the heart of San Jose's action and confirmed that MLB has the legal right to make decisions about the relocation of its member Clubs. The Court dismissed all of San Jose's state and federal law claims challenging that right. We are confident that the remaining state law claims, which assert that San Jose's costs associated with the option agreement for the sale of real estate were increased by the timing of MLB's decision-making process, will be decided in MLB's favor, and that San Jose has not suffered any compensable injury.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed also issued a statement: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I am pleased that the judge has allowed our case to move forward. Major League Baseball’s unfair and anti-competitive actions are costing San Jose residents millions of dollars in annual tax revenues that could go towards paying for more police officers, firefighters, libraries, road repairs and other critical services. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose filed this lawsuit after waiting patiently for more than four years for a decision from Commissioner Selig. The court’s decision this brings us one step closer to paving the way for San Jose to host a major league ballclub.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>(Gregory and Cotchett also hailed Whyte's ruling in language that will warm the hearts of their South Bay clients and infuriate A's partisans still hurting after last night's season-ending loss to the Detroit Tigers: \"While the A's may have lost a playoff series last night, the city [of San Jose] and the A's won in court today,\" Gregory said.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a takeaway, I'm going to turn to Wendy Thurm, a journalist and former lawyer whose tweets\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/04/oakland-as-san-jose-baseball-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\"> we followed closely\u003c/a> during Judge Whyte's hearing on the MLB dismissal motion last week. She \u003ca href=\"http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/san-jose-mlb-oakland-athletics-antitrust-lawsuit-court-order/\" target=\"_blank\">writes on the Fangraph sports site\u003c/a> this afternoon:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>So, now what?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no question that the antitrust claims were the main attraction in the lawsuit. MLB wants to keep its exemption in place, and San Jose’s challenge to it presented a threat. That threat is gone, for now, as the city decides whether to immediately appeal the court’s order. Whether San Jose can appeal now — with the one state law claim surviving the motion to dismiss — is a complicated question. Typically, courts do not permit piecemeal appeals. San Jose also lost the ability to ask the court to force MLB to permit the A’s to relocate. That kind of remedy would have been potentially available only under the antitrust law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, the city can proceed on its interference claim. That means MLB will be forced to turn over documents related to its decision-making process and MLB witnesses — including Commissioner Selig, the members of his Blue Ribbon Commission on the relocation, and MLB owners — will have to answer questions under oath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My guess is that San Jose will try to proceed on two tracks: ask the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to hear an appeal on the antitrust claims immediately and start issuing subpoenas for documents and depositions. MLB will resist both an immediate appeal and San Jose’s effort to dig deep on the league’s decision-making process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To me, Judge Whyte’s order screams “settlement” — in the sense that neither side got what it wanted and there might be just enough to get the two sides talking about a resolution. 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"content": "\u003cp>Staff of \u003ca href=\"http://visitoakland.org/\">Oakland's tourism bureau \u003c/a>will hit the road Saturday to spread the word about all that's good in the East Bay city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112153\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Oakland-Ray-640.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-112153\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Oakland-Ray-640-300x209.jpg\" alt='\"Ray,\" the mobile visitor center. (Photo courtesy of VisitOakland.org)' width=\"300\" height=\"209\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Ray,\" the mobile visitor center. 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They'll also address any concerns people may have about crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's all part of a larger campaign to improve the city's image and draw more tourist dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alison Best\u003c/strong>, president and CEO of Visit Oakland, the city's tourism bureau, spoke with KQED's \u003cstrong>Mina Kim\u003c/strong> about the push to get more visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the interview:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\">\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F111485237&show_artwork=true&maxwidth=900\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://soundcloud.com\" target=\"_blank\">SoundCloud\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the edited transcript:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MINA KIM\u003c/strong>: Ms. Best, I understand you hired a consultant to learn what visitors think about the city. 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We really have an opportunity to shine a positive spotlight on Oakland, and which many cities have done very well for years. I mean, if you or I were to go to New Orleans, we would go because we know there's great music, and there's great food, and there's a pulse there that drives us to that place. I think we need to define what's special about Oakland, and then get that out so that people have something to define us by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KIM\u003c/strong>: What city improvements are you advocating for to make the city more tourist friendly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BEST\u003c/strong>: Way-finding is the most obvious. Looking at the entry points into Oakland. What do those entry points look like? We have the new, beautiful Bay Bridge, but how can we have people come off the bridge and know clearly where they're going? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Barbara Grady, \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/2013/09/redistricting-under-way-in-oakland-you-can-be-involved-sept-17/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Local\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-111642\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/oakkred-e1379530006437.png\" alt=\"oakkred\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\">Oakland this fall will be redrawing the lines that define City Council and Board of Education election districts, a process called \u003ca title=\"redistricting\" href=\"http://www.oaklandnet.com/redistricting\" target=\"_blank\">redistricting\u003c/a>. While the word conjures up thoughts of boring wonkiness, what’s at play are many of the rights won in the historic Voting Rights Act and equal representation for Oakland’s various socio-economic enclaves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of Oakland residents and community groups are getting involved and calling it an opportunity to give more electoral power to Oakland’s low-income residents of color in flatland neighborhoods that currently are merged with wealthier hills neighborhoods into voting districts. (See \u003ca title=\"map\" href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/marketingmaterial/oak041386.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a> above for current districts)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redistricting happens every 10 years, following the U.S. Census, as required by city charter if populations shifts have occurred. Since 2003, West Oakland or District 3 has grown a lot and is now more than 10 percent more populous than Districts 2 and 5, which means the city must adjust its districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, Oakland purposely carved itself into districts that included both low-income and wealthy neighborhoods so the interests of both would be addressed by each City Council and school board representation. This criteria was again stated in a city memo about redistricting plans earlier this year that suggested including both “hills and flatland” neighborhoods in most districts. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, many community groups and even City Council members are saying that such blended districts may have diluted the voices of low-income people around such issues as transportation, school resources, and delivery of city services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-95476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/oaklandlocallogo.jpg\" alt=\"oaklandlocallogo\" width=\"177\" height=\"99\">“Local electoral districts are the building blocks of democracy and determine how city services are delivered, how educational opportunity is constructed and how we participate in governance,” writes the \u003ca title=\"Oakland Votes Redistricting Coalition\" href=\"http://www.oaklandvotes.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Votes Redistricting Coalition\u003c/a> in a open letter to the City Council that the coalition is circulating at public meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today flatland communities of color and low-income voters still experience disenfranchisement. Gerrymandered districts divide communities like Chinatown and Maxwell Park, and deliver affluent hill voter majorities in too many districts,” it continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition will hold a city-wide \u003ca title=\"meeting\" href=\"http://www.oaklandvotes.org/september18/\" target=\"_blank\">meeting\u003c/a> Wednesday night, Sept. 18, for residents to get involved in redistricting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten new maps have been proposed by various residents, City Council members and the city’s consultant for redistricting, National Demographics Corp. Many of the maps focus on making districts more cohesive and sensical, getting rid of slices that extend into other parts of the city. Many would carve out more homogenous districts, for example in the Fruitvale or Deep East, so voters in these districts can be heard. See proposed maps at the bottom of this \u003ca title=\"City Web Page\" href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PBN/OurOrganization/PlanningZoning/CityCouncilRedistricting/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Web page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Voting Rights Act states that district lines should not be drawn to prevent minorities from having a majority and that lines should respect “communities of interest” and natural geographic or man-made boundaries like rivers or highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Oakland’s current districts have some funny shapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, District 5, which includes most of the Fruitvale neighborhood, also has a wide arm that extends across 580 up to the Piedmont border. District 4 covers the vast winding roads of Montclair but also reaches into a narrow part of East Oakland along High Street. Districts 6 and 7 represent East Oakland, but also the very wealthy hills neighborhoods east of Route 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Gerrymandered districts divide communities like Chinatown and Maxwell Park, and deliver affluent hill voter majorities in too many districts.' – Oakland Votes Redistricting Coalition\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That means the needs of schools in the East Oakland flatlands – low-income neighborhoods with under-resourced schools – are answered by the same school board representative who also must listen to hills voters whose children might go to private schools or public schools where there are parent donations, supply programs and equipment not seen in the flatland schools. And the issues of access to transportation for low-income people without cars are different from the concerns of wealthier residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is almost evenly composed of African-American, white, Latino and Asian voters, but we have four City Council members who are white,” pointed out coalition member Sharon Cornu. According to the last U.S. Census, Oakland’s population is 28 percent African-American, 26 percent white, 25 percent Latino and 19 percent Asian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The talk now is about forming homogenous “communities of interest” and neighborhood-defined districts so that socioeconomic groups would have representation on city and school district boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council, which ultimately will vote on this, sounds ready to listen. Council Member Dan Kalb (District 1) met with constituents and urged them to get involved at an redistricting explanatory meeting held in his district, and Council Member Desley Brooks (District 6) has proposed a new map. The city of Oakland and the National Demographics Corp. consultant held meetings in July and September in each district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One set of maps that garnered a lot of attention and discussion were drawn by resident J. Douglas Allen-Taylor. His idea is that socioeconomic groups should have discrete representation so their needs don’t get lost by louder or more powerful voices in a blended rich and poor district. His maps would mean groups could elect their own representative on the City Council and school board. His map is pictured below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-111641\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/map.png\" alt=\"map\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone can propose a map by using this \u003ca title=\"Maptitude online software application\" href=\"http://www.onlineredistricting.com/buckeye/redist/videos/NewPlan.html\" target=\"_blank\">Maptitude software application\u003c/a> for Oakland redistricting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or you can email comments or ideas to strategicplanning@oaklandnet.com, or call the redistricting hotline at (510) 238-3079.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next two months, important citywide meetings are planned. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Barbara Grady, \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/2013/09/redistricting-under-way-in-oakland-you-can-be-involved-sept-17/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Local\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-111642\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/oakkred-e1379530006437.png\" alt=\"oakkred\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\">Oakland this fall will be redrawing the lines that define City Council and Board of Education election districts, a process called \u003ca title=\"redistricting\" href=\"http://www.oaklandnet.com/redistricting\" target=\"_blank\">redistricting\u003c/a>. While the word conjures up thoughts of boring wonkiness, what’s at play are many of the rights won in the historic Voting Rights Act and equal representation for Oakland’s various socio-economic enclaves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of Oakland residents and community groups are getting involved and calling it an opportunity to give more electoral power to Oakland’s low-income residents of color in flatland neighborhoods that currently are merged with wealthier hills neighborhoods into voting districts. (See \u003ca title=\"map\" href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/marketingmaterial/oak041386.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a> above for current districts)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redistricting happens every 10 years, following the U.S. Census, as required by city charter if populations shifts have occurred. Since 2003, West Oakland or District 3 has grown a lot and is now more than 10 percent more populous than Districts 2 and 5, which means the city must adjust its districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, Oakland purposely carved itself into districts that included both low-income and wealthy neighborhoods so the interests of both would be addressed by each City Council and school board representation. This criteria was again stated in a city memo about redistricting plans earlier this year that suggested including both “hills and flatland” neighborhoods in most districts. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, many community groups and even City Council members are saying that such blended districts may have diluted the voices of low-income people around such issues as transportation, school resources, and delivery of city services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-95476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/oaklandlocallogo.jpg\" alt=\"oaklandlocallogo\" width=\"177\" height=\"99\">“Local electoral districts are the building blocks of democracy and determine how city services are delivered, how educational opportunity is constructed and how we participate in governance,” writes the \u003ca title=\"Oakland Votes Redistricting Coalition\" href=\"http://www.oaklandvotes.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Votes Redistricting Coalition\u003c/a> in a open letter to the City Council that the coalition is circulating at public meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today flatland communities of color and low-income voters still experience disenfranchisement. Gerrymandered districts divide communities like Chinatown and Maxwell Park, and deliver affluent hill voter majorities in too many districts,” it continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition will hold a city-wide \u003ca title=\"meeting\" href=\"http://www.oaklandvotes.org/september18/\" target=\"_blank\">meeting\u003c/a> Wednesday night, Sept. 18, for residents to get involved in redistricting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten new maps have been proposed by various residents, City Council members and the city’s consultant for redistricting, National Demographics Corp. Many of the maps focus on making districts more cohesive and sensical, getting rid of slices that extend into other parts of the city. Many would carve out more homogenous districts, for example in the Fruitvale or Deep East, so voters in these districts can be heard. See proposed maps at the bottom of this \u003ca title=\"City Web Page\" href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PBN/OurOrganization/PlanningZoning/CityCouncilRedistricting/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Web page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Voting Rights Act states that district lines should not be drawn to prevent minorities from having a majority and that lines should respect “communities of interest” and natural geographic or man-made boundaries like rivers or highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Oakland’s current districts have some funny shapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, District 5, which includes most of the Fruitvale neighborhood, also has a wide arm that extends across 580 up to the Piedmont border. District 4 covers the vast winding roads of Montclair but also reaches into a narrow part of East Oakland along High Street. Districts 6 and 7 represent East Oakland, but also the very wealthy hills neighborhoods east of Route 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Gerrymandered districts divide communities like Chinatown and Maxwell Park, and deliver affluent hill voter majorities in too many districts.' – Oakland Votes Redistricting Coalition\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That means the needs of schools in the East Oakland flatlands – low-income neighborhoods with under-resourced schools – are answered by the same school board representative who also must listen to hills voters whose children might go to private schools or public schools where there are parent donations, supply programs and equipment not seen in the flatland schools. And the issues of access to transportation for low-income people without cars are different from the concerns of wealthier residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is almost evenly composed of African-American, white, Latino and Asian voters, but we have four City Council members who are white,” pointed out coalition member Sharon Cornu. According to the last U.S. Census, Oakland’s population is 28 percent African-American, 26 percent white, 25 percent Latino and 19 percent Asian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The talk now is about forming homogenous “communities of interest” and neighborhood-defined districts so that socioeconomic groups would have representation on city and school district boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council, which ultimately will vote on this, sounds ready to listen. Council Member Dan Kalb (District 1) met with constituents and urged them to get involved at an redistricting explanatory meeting held in his district, and Council Member Desley Brooks (District 6) has proposed a new map. The city of Oakland and the National Demographics Corp. consultant held meetings in July and September in each district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One set of maps that garnered a lot of attention and discussion were drawn by resident J. Douglas Allen-Taylor. His idea is that socioeconomic groups should have discrete representation so their needs don’t get lost by louder or more powerful voices in a blended rich and poor district. His maps would mean groups could elect their own representative on the City Council and school board. His map is pictured below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-111641\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/map.png\" alt=\"map\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone can propose a map by using this \u003ca title=\"Maptitude online software application\" href=\"http://www.onlineredistricting.com/buckeye/redist/videos/NewPlan.html\" target=\"_blank\">Maptitude software application\u003c/a> for Oakland redistricting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or you can email comments or ideas to strategicplanning@oaklandnet.com, or call the redistricting hotline at (510) 238-3079.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next two months, important citywide meetings are planned. In addition to the coalition meeting Sept. 18, the City Council Rules Committee will hold a meeting Oct. 3 to discuss process of redistricting, and then the full City Council will hold a hearing Oct. 15 to select from the proposed redistricting maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 15, the City Council is scheduled to hold a first reading of a proposed redistricting ordinance. And on Nov. 19 it is scheduled to have a final hearing and vote on new district boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 18: \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandvotes.eventbrite.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Redistricting meeting\u003c/a>, 6-8 p.m., HUB Oakland, 1423 Broadway\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oct. 3: \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">City Council Rules Committee, \u003c/a>10:45 a.m., City Council Chambers, 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, 3rd floor\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/chaincutting20130902-640a.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-109560\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/chaincutting20130902-640a.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom cuts a chain with a blow torch to ceremonially open the Bay Bridge on Sept. 2. He is flanked by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. (Photo by Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom cuts a chain with a blowtorch to ceremonially open the Bay Bridge on Sept. 2. He is flanked by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED) \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Guide: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/04/how-to-get-to-the-new-bay-bridge-bike-path/\" target=\"_blank\">How to Get to That Stunning New Bay Bridge Bike Path\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:05 p.m.\u003c/strong> KQED's Bryan Goebel reports:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bicycle and pedestrian path is now open on the new Bay Bridge eastern span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and other East Bay mayors cut a bicycle chain to mark the official opening of the Alexander Zuckermann Bicycle-Pedestrian Path. Even though it won't go all the way to Yerba Buena Island until 2015, Quan said, \"Just enjoying that will become the experience that people all over the area, and probably the world, will want to have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The path is named after a tireless \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Alexander-Zuckermann-founder-of-the-East-Bay-2547646.php\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay bicycle advocate\u003c/a> who died in 2007. His son, David Zuckermann, was there for today's events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just like a dream, really,\" Zuckermann said. \"I think it's just more beautiful than you could imagine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2-mile path on the south side of the new eastern span takes you to just west of the tower. It's accessible by bicycle and foot from Emeryville and West Oakland and open from sunrise to sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://baybridgeinfo.org/sites/default/files/images/BayTrail_MAP_SEP_2012_REV.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109777\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Bay-Bridge-Trail-Map-e1378250606255.png\" alt=\"Bay Bridge Trail Map\" width=\"526\" height=\"376\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you can't quite get there yourself, KQED Science has put up this \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/KQEDscience?feature=watch\" target=\"_blank\">video\u003c/a> of the newly opened path, shot with Google Glass and sped up to twice its normal playback speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/KNCGfJNsF7M\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Tuesday 8:33 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/New-Bay-Bridge-same-old-traffic-4782880.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle\u003c/a> this morning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Bay Bridge debuted its new, towering east span Tuesday, but the morning commute is no different than normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic across the bridge is typical of a weekday, the California Highway Patrol reported Tuesday morning. Cars were bumper to bumper at the toll plaza early and the speed across the bridge was about 40 mph, the CHP said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED's Dan Brekke gave this report from earlier in the commute, around 7 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For whatever reason, the commute down the Eastshore Freeway through Berkeley seemed to get heavy and slow earlier than usual this morning. It could have been a surge of people returning to work after Labor Day. Or maybe it was a deliberate slowdown in the pace of the metering lights at the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza to feed traffic onto the new span more deliberately than usual. Or perhaps something unknown. Or all of the above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I caught a ride in the casual carpool from North Berkeley with a Prius driver who is very … deliberate. Traffic looked terrible from the University Avenue overpass and was backed up on the entrance ramp. But she worked her way over to the carpool lane toward the bridge without much of a problem, and from there we cruised — first slowly, then almost at the speed limit — all the way on to the bridge. Traffic on the span itself seemed lighter and calmer than usual with little of the jockeying and lane changing you expect in the morning commute. Then, as the new bridge’s suspension tower came into view, everyone seemed to slow down to take in the sight. Even though the California Highway Patrol has been warning people not to use the new right-hand shoulder unless they have an emergency, I saw one driver parked there, apparently enjoying a stop-and-gawk moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, the bridge returned to normal as we passed through the cleaned-up Yerba Buena tunnel. Having gotten their first look at the new bridge, most drivers seemed to step on it as they emerged onto the western suspension span.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_24002703/first-morning-commute-new-bay-bridge-span-underway\" target=\"_blank\">Contra Costa Times reports\u003c/a> that the CHP said one driver already had been arrested for DUI in the wee hours, near the toll plaza, and \"another driver was caught stopped on the old eastern section of the bridge taking photographs, (CHP Officer Sam) Morgan said. The driver apparently accessed the old span by way of Yerba Buena Island.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Joanne Elgart Jennings took this\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9wNjYwyRFs\" target=\"_blank\"> video\u003c/a> last night of the first cars driving over the new span:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/X9wNjYwyRFs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a \u003ca href=\"http://bcove.me/5696liek\" target=\"_blank\">time-lapse video\u003c/a> of the opening procession, from the Bay Area News Group:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cobject id=\"flashObj\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\">\u003cparam name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=2645646384001&playerID=76675348001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAF4Pseg~,AuucDCy8Ix3VSqgy6atYY7v7OFM-6GmW&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"base\" value=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\">\u003cparam name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\">\u003cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=2645646384001&playerID=76675348001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAF4Pseg~,AuucDCy8Ix3VSqgy6atYY7v7OFM-6GmW&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"swliveconnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\">\u003cembed width=\"620\" height=\"349\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1\" flashvars=\"videoId=2645646384001&playerID=76675348001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAF4Pseg~,AuucDCy8Ix3VSqgy6atYY7v7OFM-6GmW&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" swliveconnect=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10:15 p.m.: From Bay City News:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Bridge, complete with a newly constructed eastern span, opened hours earlier than scheduled, transit officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge had been closed since last Wednesday night while construction crews finalized work on the new eastern span connecting Oakland to Yerba Buena Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge was scheduled to be reopened by 5 a.m. Tuesday but the work was finished faster than anticipated, Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dougherty made the announcement at a celebration held in Oakland this afternoon for the new span, a self-anchored suspension bridge that is replacing an old cantilever bridge that opened more than 75 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Finally. 24 years in the making. First civilian cars on the new eastern span of the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BayBridge&src=hash\">#BayBridge\u003c/a> with an CHP escort \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/JOlFhbQprY\">pic.twitter.com/JOlFhbQprY\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Cy Musiker (@CyrusKQED) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CyrusKQED/statuses/374763880473305089\">September 3, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>UPDATE: New \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BayBridge&src=hash\">#BayBridge\u003c/a> is now open. \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/OHTnw5DhLV\">http://t.co/OHTnw5DhLV\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— 511 Bay Area (@511SFBay) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/511SFBay/statuses/374763645286502400\">September 3, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 8:45 p.m.:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>This just in: the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BayBridge&src=hash\">#BayBridge\u003c/a> will open tonight between 9 and 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— CaltransHQ (@CaltransHQ) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CaltransHQ/statuses/374738861177307136\">September 3, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6:00 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, flanked by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, ceremonially opened the Bay Bridge after cutting its chain with a blowtorch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway patrol is leading a procession of classic cars with officials and dignitaries across the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still no word on the exact time the bridge will open to the public tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:45 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty just announced during the ceremonial opening of the new eastern span that the bridge will open tonight, far ahead of the scheduled opening time at 5 a.m. tomorrow morning. Dougherty did not give a time for the opening, so we're still waiting for that crucial detail. Stay tuned.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:15 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Speaking at the Bay Bridge reopening ceremony, Metropolitan Transportation Commission Executive Director Steve Heminger said, \"We are opening the new bridge before the next earthquake, and thank God.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"None of us will forget that, first and foremost, the new east span is a public safety project,\" Heminger said. \"And despite the journey’s length, it has been completed before the arrival of our next big earthquake.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The contributions that this bridge will make to the Bay Area are enormous,\" said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was elected in 1989, and I have been waiting for this day along with all of you,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 3 p.m.: \u003c/strong>The Bay Bridge reopening ceremony is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here's an earlier report from Bay City News on the impending bridge opening: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans officials will consider today whether to open the eastern span of the Bay Bridge before its scheduled debut at 5 a.m. Tuesday, a bridge spokesman said this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state public transit agency, which is putting finishing touches such as lane painting on the 2.2-mile span, will assess how close they are to completing the project, bridge spokesman Andrew Gordon said at a news conference in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109511\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/baybridge20120826.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109511\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/baybridge20120826-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"A worker walks on the bike path next to the new Bay Bridge self-anchored suspension tower. After nearly 12 years of construction and an estimated price tag of $6.4 billion, the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will open tonight. The new self-anchored suspension tower is the world's largest. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker walks on the bike path next to the new Bay Bridge self-anchored suspension tower. After nearly 12 years of construction and an estimated price tag of $6.4 billion, the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will open tonight. The new self-anchored suspension tower is the world's largest. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A decision could be made about an earlier opening by 3 p.m. today, when dignitaries including Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee are to attend a private opening ceremony and cut a golden chain at about 4:30 p.m. to celebrate the bridge's completion, Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as of this morning, Caltrans officials were still looking at opening the bridge at 5 a.m. Tuesday, Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol will deploy officers on the bridge once it opens to make sure motorists are following the 50 mph speed limit and are not pulling over to look at the bridge, Officer Daniel Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the bridge does open, CHP officers in patrol cars will be blocking lanes in front of traffic to keep auto speed \"nice and low,\" Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP officers want to make sure that drivers do not succumb to the temptation of stopping to view the new bridge while driving on it, and anyone who blocks traffic will be cited, Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The opening may come as a surprise for the motoring public,\" Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And here's the Associated Press scene-setter on the opening of the new eastern span:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be no public celebration with tens of thousands of pedestrians and fireworks when the ribbon is cut on the new, $6.4 billion eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Monday. Instead, after years of delays and cost overruns, the inauguration of the one of the state's most expensive public works projects will be marked with a relatively low-key event that may not even include the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109516\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/bay-bridge-maintenance.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109516 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/bay-bridge-maintenance-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"While the new eastern span of the bay bridge is being put into place, the western span was covered with maintenance workers over the weekend. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While the new eastern span of the bay bridge is being put into place, the western span was covered with maintenance workers over the weekend. (Photo by Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"People are tired, but everyone's very excited,\" bridge spokesman Andrew Gordon said on Monday morning. \"It's kind of this last lap so to speak, the last leg of this marathon. We are all looking forward to getting to the finish line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The invitation-only inauguration is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m., with a formal chain-cutting ceremony 90 minutes later. About 20 cars, ranging from vintage models to modern electric vehicles, are then expected to take a spin across the span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government officials, labor leaders, survivors of the 1989 earthquake that collapsed two 50-foot sections of the old eastern span and people who were alive when the Bay Bridge first opened in 1936 are expected to attend. Gov. Jerry Brown, who was closely involved in planning the bridge when he was mayor of Oakland, is expected to skip the ceremony to be with his wife at a family gathering in Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new span and the rest of the bridge will not immediately be opened to traffic. It closed on Wednesday night so crews could do final work, and they were still striping, putting up signs and putting down roadway markers on Monday, Gordon said. Some barrier railing also needed to be put up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge is scheduled to open to traffic by 5 a.m. on Tuesday, though it could open earlier. Gordon said a decision will be made on Monday afternoon and could be announced at the ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new section of bridge, designed to make the span safe during earthquakes, has been under construction for almost a decade and follows years of political bickering, engineering challenges and cost overruns. It replaced a structure that was damaged during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March more than two dozen rods, used to anchor the roadway to important earthquake safety structures, cracked after they were tightened. The discovery threatened to delay the bridge's opening by months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge will open with a temporary fix for the broken rods while the permanent repair, expected to be completed in December, is being installed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transportation officials approved the temporary fix last month and voted to open the bridge as originally planned around the Labor Day weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gordon said on Monday that there was not enough time for a public celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for such a celebration originally called for a bridge walk with more than 100,000 people, fireworks, a half-marathon and a concert.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just like a dream, really,\" Zuckermann said. \"I think it's just more beautiful than you could imagine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2-mile path on the south side of the new eastern span takes you to just west of the tower. It's accessible by bicycle and foot from Emeryville and West Oakland and open from sunrise to sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://baybridgeinfo.org/sites/default/files/images/BayTrail_MAP_SEP_2012_REV.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109777\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Bay-Bridge-Trail-Map-e1378250606255.png\" alt=\"Bay Bridge Trail Map\" width=\"526\" height=\"376\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you can't quite get there yourself, KQED Science has put up this \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/KQEDscience?feature=watch\" target=\"_blank\">video\u003c/a> of the newly opened path, shot with Google Glass and sped up to twice its normal playback speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/KNCGfJNsF7M\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Tuesday 8:33 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/New-Bay-Bridge-same-old-traffic-4782880.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle\u003c/a> this morning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Bay Bridge debuted its new, towering east span Tuesday, but the morning commute is no different than normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic across the bridge is typical of a weekday, the California Highway Patrol reported Tuesday morning. Cars were bumper to bumper at the toll plaza early and the speed across the bridge was about 40 mph, the CHP said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED's Dan Brekke gave this report from earlier in the commute, around 7 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For whatever reason, the commute down the Eastshore Freeway through Berkeley seemed to get heavy and slow earlier than usual this morning. It could have been a surge of people returning to work after Labor Day. Or maybe it was a deliberate slowdown in the pace of the metering lights at the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza to feed traffic onto the new span more deliberately than usual. Or perhaps something unknown. Or all of the above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I caught a ride in the casual carpool from North Berkeley with a Prius driver who is very … deliberate. Traffic looked terrible from the University Avenue overpass and was backed up on the entrance ramp. But she worked her way over to the carpool lane toward the bridge without much of a problem, and from there we cruised — first slowly, then almost at the speed limit — all the way on to the bridge. Traffic on the span itself seemed lighter and calmer than usual with little of the jockeying and lane changing you expect in the morning commute. Then, as the new bridge’s suspension tower came into view, everyone seemed to slow down to take in the sight. Even though the California Highway Patrol has been warning people not to use the new right-hand shoulder unless they have an emergency, I saw one driver parked there, apparently enjoying a stop-and-gawk moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, the bridge returned to normal as we passed through the cleaned-up Yerba Buena tunnel. Having gotten their first look at the new bridge, most drivers seemed to step on it as they emerged onto the western suspension span.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_24002703/first-morning-commute-new-bay-bridge-span-underway\" target=\"_blank\">Contra Costa Times reports\u003c/a> that the CHP said one driver already had been arrested for DUI in the wee hours, near the toll plaza, and \"another driver was caught stopped on the old eastern section of the bridge taking photographs, (CHP Officer Sam) Morgan said. The driver apparently accessed the old span by way of Yerba Buena Island.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Joanne Elgart Jennings took this\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9wNjYwyRFs\" target=\"_blank\"> video\u003c/a> last night of the first cars driving over the new span:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/X9wNjYwyRFs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a \u003ca href=\"http://bcove.me/5696liek\" target=\"_blank\">time-lapse video\u003c/a> of the opening procession, from the Bay Area News Group:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cobject id=\"flashObj\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\">\u003cparam name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=2645646384001&playerID=76675348001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAF4Pseg~,AuucDCy8Ix3VSqgy6atYY7v7OFM-6GmW&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"base\" value=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\">\u003cparam name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\">\u003cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=2645646384001&playerID=76675348001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAF4Pseg~,AuucDCy8Ix3VSqgy6atYY7v7OFM-6GmW&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"swliveconnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\">\u003cembed width=\"620\" height=\"349\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1\" flashvars=\"videoId=2645646384001&playerID=76675348001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAF4Pseg~,AuucDCy8Ix3VSqgy6atYY7v7OFM-6GmW&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" swliveconnect=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10:15 p.m.: From Bay City News:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Bridge, complete with a newly constructed eastern span, opened hours earlier than scheduled, transit officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge had been closed since last Wednesday night while construction crews finalized work on the new eastern span connecting Oakland to Yerba Buena Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge was scheduled to be reopened by 5 a.m. Tuesday but the work was finished faster than anticipated, Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dougherty made the announcement at a celebration held in Oakland this afternoon for the new span, a self-anchored suspension bridge that is replacing an old cantilever bridge that opened more than 75 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Finally. 24 years in the making. First civilian cars on the new eastern span of the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BayBridge&src=hash\">#BayBridge\u003c/a> with an CHP escort \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/JOlFhbQprY\">pic.twitter.com/JOlFhbQprY\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Cy Musiker (@CyrusKQED) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CyrusKQED/statuses/374763880473305089\">September 3, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>UPDATE: New \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BayBridge&src=hash\">#BayBridge\u003c/a> is now open. \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/OHTnw5DhLV\">http://t.co/OHTnw5DhLV\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— 511 Bay Area (@511SFBay) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/511SFBay/statuses/374763645286502400\">September 3, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 8:45 p.m.:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>This just in: the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BayBridge&src=hash\">#BayBridge\u003c/a> will open tonight between 9 and 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— CaltransHQ (@CaltransHQ) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CaltransHQ/statuses/374738861177307136\">September 3, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6:00 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, flanked by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, ceremonially opened the Bay Bridge after cutting its chain with a blowtorch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway patrol is leading a procession of classic cars with officials and dignitaries across the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still no word on the exact time the bridge will open to the public tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:45 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty just announced during the ceremonial opening of the new eastern span that the bridge will open tonight, far ahead of the scheduled opening time at 5 a.m. tomorrow morning. Dougherty did not give a time for the opening, so we're still waiting for that crucial detail. Stay tuned.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:15 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Speaking at the Bay Bridge reopening ceremony, Metropolitan Transportation Commission Executive Director Steve Heminger said, \"We are opening the new bridge before the next earthquake, and thank God.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"None of us will forget that, first and foremost, the new east span is a public safety project,\" Heminger said. \"And despite the journey’s length, it has been completed before the arrival of our next big earthquake.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The contributions that this bridge will make to the Bay Area are enormous,\" said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was elected in 1989, and I have been waiting for this day along with all of you,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 3 p.m.: \u003c/strong>The Bay Bridge reopening ceremony is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here's an earlier report from Bay City News on the impending bridge opening: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans officials will consider today whether to open the eastern span of the Bay Bridge before its scheduled debut at 5 a.m. Tuesday, a bridge spokesman said this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state public transit agency, which is putting finishing touches such as lane painting on the 2.2-mile span, will assess how close they are to completing the project, bridge spokesman Andrew Gordon said at a news conference in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109511\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/baybridge20120826.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109511\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/baybridge20120826-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"A worker walks on the bike path next to the new Bay Bridge self-anchored suspension tower. After nearly 12 years of construction and an estimated price tag of $6.4 billion, the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will open tonight. The new self-anchored suspension tower is the world's largest. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker walks on the bike path next to the new Bay Bridge self-anchored suspension tower. After nearly 12 years of construction and an estimated price tag of $6.4 billion, the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will open tonight. The new self-anchored suspension tower is the world's largest. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A decision could be made about an earlier opening by 3 p.m. today, when dignitaries including Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee are to attend a private opening ceremony and cut a golden chain at about 4:30 p.m. to celebrate the bridge's completion, Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as of this morning, Caltrans officials were still looking at opening the bridge at 5 a.m. Tuesday, Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol will deploy officers on the bridge once it opens to make sure motorists are following the 50 mph speed limit and are not pulling over to look at the bridge, Officer Daniel Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the bridge does open, CHP officers in patrol cars will be blocking lanes in front of traffic to keep auto speed \"nice and low,\" Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP officers want to make sure that drivers do not succumb to the temptation of stopping to view the new bridge while driving on it, and anyone who blocks traffic will be cited, Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The opening may come as a surprise for the motoring public,\" Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And here's the Associated Press scene-setter on the opening of the new eastern span:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be no public celebration with tens of thousands of pedestrians and fireworks when the ribbon is cut on the new, $6.4 billion eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Monday. Instead, after years of delays and cost overruns, the inauguration of the one of the state's most expensive public works projects will be marked with a relatively low-key event that may not even include the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109516\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/bay-bridge-maintenance.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109516 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/bay-bridge-maintenance-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"While the new eastern span of the bay bridge is being put into place, the western span was covered with maintenance workers over the weekend. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While the new eastern span of the bay bridge is being put into place, the western span was covered with maintenance workers over the weekend. (Photo by Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"People are tired, but everyone's very excited,\" bridge spokesman Andrew Gordon said on Monday morning. \"It's kind of this last lap so to speak, the last leg of this marathon. We are all looking forward to getting to the finish line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The invitation-only inauguration is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m., with a formal chain-cutting ceremony 90 minutes later. About 20 cars, ranging from vintage models to modern electric vehicles, are then expected to take a spin across the span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government officials, labor leaders, survivors of the 1989 earthquake that collapsed two 50-foot sections of the old eastern span and people who were alive when the Bay Bridge first opened in 1936 are expected to attend. Gov. Jerry Brown, who was closely involved in planning the bridge when he was mayor of Oakland, is expected to skip the ceremony to be with his wife at a family gathering in Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new span and the rest of the bridge will not immediately be opened to traffic. It closed on Wednesday night so crews could do final work, and they were still striping, putting up signs and putting down roadway markers on Monday, Gordon said. Some barrier railing also needed to be put up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge is scheduled to open to traffic by 5 a.m. on Tuesday, though it could open earlier. Gordon said a decision will be made on Monday afternoon and could be announced at the ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new section of bridge, designed to make the span safe during earthquakes, has been under construction for almost a decade and follows years of political bickering, engineering challenges and cost overruns. 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For another … it was never the architectural marvel of that other bridge over by Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of East Bay commuters will feel a little twinge of sadness this week. The old span did its job remarkably well, long past its recommended use-by-date. It also had a certain aesthetic charm: the rhythmic bump of your car passing over its concrete sections, the flicker of natural light between the supports on the lower deck, the flash of gorgeous views on either side. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graphic artist Carol Klammer noticed it one day years ago when she snapped a photo while driving on the bridge. (She knows: bad idea. She was young and reckless.) 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So why should this particular issue -- the challenges facing black boys in Oakland -- matter so much to people throughout the Bay Area and beyond?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've heard African-American males described as an \"endangered species\" -- a population plagued by almost every imaginable societal ill. The problem is well known, but the solutions are far less evident. Our coverage in \"Even Odds\"\u003cem> \u003c/em>is a chance to talk not just about what's wrong, but about what could help make it right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It surprised me how challenging it was to interview some of the people involved with the initiatives we reported on. Part of the art of interviewing is asking the right question in the right way to put people at ease, to get to their hearts as well as their heads. I found that some of our interviewees wanted to hedge their opinions about the plight of black kids, concerned about ruffling feathers or drawing ire. But that's exactly what I needed to know: why these educators care about young African-Americans and how committed they are to helping them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is not just a story about race. It's about the future of the Bay Area, an economic anchor of a state that's more diverse than most. It's about whether we are committed to restoring a sizable portion of our future workforce to employability, or to willfully allowing it to languish and turn into a liability. It's about living up to our reputation as a region that celebrates diversity, respects minority interests and strives to make opportunities for all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of all, it’s about our common humanity, our shared future and our survival. 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