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Placed on December 26th, 2008 by Lisa

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posted on
March 19th, 2009
from
Brooklyn Avenue
based in
Oakland

Rest in peace, Parkway Speakeasy Theater

This news has been ricocheting around Oakland and beyond at a rapid pace, so you have probably heard by now that the Parkway Theater (Picture! Pub! Pizza!) on Park Boulevard will be locking its doo ...

posted on
January 27th, 2009
from
Brooklyn Avenue
based in
Oakland

Chief Wayne Tucker resigns from OPD

A postscript to what I wrote last week about the lack of accountability in the Oakland Police Dep ...

posted on
January 24th, 2009
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Brooklyn Avenue
based in
Oakland

In lieu of regular blogging here

I was nudged by a local reader in a comment several weeks ago and encouraged to post more often. I plead guilty to blogger negligence. I hoped that I would increase the pace of posts this year afte ...

posted on
January 24th, 2009
from
Brooklyn Avenue
based in
Oakland

Rewarding failure (or worse) in Oakland

What's a word for the opposite of accountability? When instead of holding people responsible for mistakes or misbehavior, you actually reward them for it? Words suggested by my thesaurus, such as i ...