Berkeley (City)

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Sep 3	Study Finds Unhealthy Effects of Foreclosures : OAKLAND – For 22 days earlier this year, Gilbert Aguilar lived without gas and electricity in his one-bedroom rental apartment here in East Oakland. The building went into foreclosure and the bank that took it over was his new landlord. “The banks have to be good landlords,” Agu...
Sep 3	Pro-Pot Advertisers Have a Tough Sell: The Proposition 19 campaign, which aims to legalize marijuana in California and make it taxable, has two problems: It's struggling to raise money and to purchase ad space with what little money it has. The Prop. 19 campaign has raised a little over $525,000 to spread its message, but some media o...
Sep 2	Report: SmartMeters Accurate, Customer Service Lacking: The California Public Utilities Commission Thursday received the results of an independent report on PG&E's SmartMeter program before holding a commission meeting in San Francisco where more people came to criticize the controversial meters. The report, conducted by The Structure Group, an en...

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Transbay Blog

Aug 18	An alternative approach to setting SB 375 targets: Earlier this month, agency staff at the State Air Resources Board (ARB) recommended a set of targets, which quantify how much regions throughout California should plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles and light duty trucks. Those targets will soon be evaluated by t...
Aug 13	Cornered: Yesterday, the Appeal published a weekend Muni update mentioning a permanent bus stop relocation that will go into effect starting this weekend. The update is ostensibly sourced from the SFMTA, although the agency’s official transit updates page lacks any mention of this particular it...
Aug 12	Are the proposed SB 375 targets ambitious enough to achieve California’s goals?: The State Air Resources Board (ARB) has now proposed regional targets for California’s eighteen metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), and Senate Bill 375 requires that the Board adopt by final targets by September 30, 2010. As previously discussed, the proposed targets are the p...

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Jeff Hobson's Election Picks

Jun 8	Recommendations for SF, Oakland, etc.: \| Statewide, see my friend Dan Kalb's recommendations.San Francisco: check out SPUR's analysis of SF propositions.
Jun 8	June 2010 voting summary: \| Here's how I'm voting today (on the Democratic Party ballot in 14th AD):Partisan Offices: Governor: Jerry Brown Lt. Gov: Gavin Newsom (mostly out of Northern CA bias) Secretary of State: Debra Bowen Controller: John Chiang Treasurer: Bill Lockyer Attorney General: Kamala Harris Insurance Co...
May 27	Recommendations from Dan Kalb: \| Check out comprehensive June ballot recommendations from Dan Kalb, who serves with me on the Board of the League of Conservation Voters of the East Bay. I don't agree with him on everything (I think he's more of a straight environmentalist and party Democrat than I am), but I respect his analy...

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