Believe me, I don’t typically find myself at a community meeting on city zoning updates on a Saturday morning. But this one was being held just a few blocks from my house at Peralta Elementary School. How could I not go? I was interested in learning more about the zoning process.
I have a whole cohort [...]
Well, Happy Bill of
Rights Day!
On this day in 1791 the
Bill of Rights went into
effect when Virginia
became the 11th state to
ratify them.Â
These first 10 amendments
became part of the
beloved constitution that
we all know so well
(right?...
All of us at Planting
Justice are excited for
our first end-of-year
fundraising party at the
Humanist Hall!
Come celebrate the hard
work and quick progress
Planting Justice has made
creating tangible change
throughout the Bay Area
towards a more just ...
âThe
reality is we cannot
afford, either in blood
or treasure, an
open-ended war. It is
wrong,â
Rep. Barbara Lee told a
crowd of around 100 on a
sunny Monday lunch hour
in front of the Federal
Building in downtown O...
Oakland Local has just
celebrated its 1-month
anniversary and it is
finding a hospitable home
in Oakland and digging in
for the long-haul.
We have received some
wonderful feedback and
Oaklanders (and many
others around the Bay)
seem to be finding a
va...
Blog: Eric Clapton and by Dave K.
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— "I never met my father,"
Mr. Clapton told his
biographer in 1985. "And
I realized that the
closest I ever came to
looking into my father's
eyes was when I looked
into my son's eyes." --
from an interview in The
Ottawa Citizen --
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Blog: The TRUTH about the climate by Bob J.
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It’s a climategate
christmas
http://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=dpQXY4tWaoI
The history of British
winters
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Blog: The reason by Mark D.
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The reasonChristmas can
be a joyful time for
many,gift
giving,receiving,visiting
and parties,music and
laughter;for
others,well,things can be
very different,the season
is
depressing,painful,isolat
ed,pretending to go
alongwith the
merriment,... more