You Choose Bay Area: New online planning tool offers ways to envision growth, shape policies
Article by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Fri, 25 Mar at 4:49am.

By 2035 there will be an estimated 1.2 million new jobs and 900,000 new households within the Bay Area.

Where will all of these people live? Where will the new housing be built? How will people get around? Will the air we breathe and the water we drink be clean? Will we still be able to enjoy extensive and accessible open spaces?

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Crosswalks in Oakland: Speak up to help shape new policy
Article by Ruth Miller.
Last updated at Thu, 27 Jan at 9:24am.

Oakland’s Supervising Transportation Engineer Joe Wang recently unveiled a revised draft crosswalk policy, which includes a series of questions about a crosswalk’s location and use, leading the city to determine if it should be made more visible to increase the safety of pedestrians.

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Recipes for Change: A New Report (summary by Colleen Lynch)
Blog entry by Oakland Food Poli....
Last updated at Wed, 9 Jun at 12:03pm.

Published in April, the Prevention Institute’s report, Recipes for Change, offers program and policy recommendations to make healthy food more accessible for all communities.

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Oakland Food Policy Council needs your support
Blog entry by Oakland Food Poli....
Last updated at Mon, 7 Jun at 12:28am.

 

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Single Payer Broadband: The Broadband Plan and the Movement for a People's Media
Blog entry by Tracy Rosenberg.
Last updated at Mon, 22 Mar at 9:33pm.

As we arrive at the end of the long health care reform battle with something less than nirvana, media activists have been waiting with bated breath for the release of the long-awaited National Broadband Plan from the Federal Communications Commission.

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Rep. Barbara Lee Holds Oakland Rally & Press Event to Urge End of the Occupation of Afghanistan
Article by Ryan Van Lenning.
Last updated at Thu, 26 Nov at 5:17am.

“The reality is we cannot afford, either in blood or treasure, an open-ended war. It is wrong,” Rep. Barbara Lee told a crowd of over 100 on a sunny Monday lunch hour in front of the Federal Building in downtown Oakland.

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