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		<title>Cuts to basic services jeopardize Oakland&#8217;s recovery</title>
		<link>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2011/06/service-cuts-jeopardize-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow two groups of four Councilmembers will present competing budgets for adoption by the City of Oakland. By far the most controversial of all proposed cuts is Mayor Jean Quan&#8217;s threat to cut 90% of the staff of the Oakland Public Library, violating the terms of the 2004 Measure Q parcel tax that provides additional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Mayor Quan&#8217;s visibility also productivity?</title>
		<link>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2011/04/is-mayor-quans-visibility-also-productivity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the four-year snoozefest of Ron Dellums’ administration, Mayor Jean Quan is enjoying a honeymoon with voters who approve of her high visibility. To solve Oakland’s enormous budget deficit and make a dent in unemployment, she will need to produce significant gains in jobs and business taxes. Given her anti-business stances on the City Council, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent reports on AC Transit are mistaken</title>
		<link>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2009/10/recent-reports-on-ac-transit-are-mistaken/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACT Transit produced a lot of news recently, because several important decisions were made. The Board voted for a non-binding resolution to &#8220;buy American,&#8221; service cuts were postponed while the agency sought to transfer Congestion Management and Air Quality funds from capital improvements to operations, and long-time General Manager Rick Fernandez resigned. If you learned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Grant protests miss the big picture</title>
		<link>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2009/03/oscar-grant-protests-miss-the-big-picture/</link>
		<comments>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2009/03/oscar-grant-protests-miss-the-big-picture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://futureoakland.wordpress.com/?p=453</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had an hour between meetings to have coffee with my mother in Rockridge. I thought it would be a good opportunity to twitter the latest BART protest, and hopefully to pick up a few more readers of my microblog thanks to intrepid, live reporting of what promised to be a large and potentially [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Oakland voters choose cops over kids</title>
		<link>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/12/oakland-voters-choose-cops-over-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/12/oakland-voters-choose-cops-over-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In July, Councilmember Jean Quan presented an alternative to the Kids First 2 measure that would appear on the ballot as Measure OO. Though acknowledging that the city could ill-afford any funding increases, Ms. Quan held no hope that a Kids First 2 ballot measure could be defeated. “I know it will pass, because kids [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statistical surprise: Civil servants overpaid</title>
		<link>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/08/statistical-surprise-civil-servants-significantly-overpaid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last month, A Better Oakland has presented three different measurements of Oakland’s employee compensation, which is currently being negotiated with the unions by a professional team under the direction of the Interim City Administrator and the Council. These are excellent data to determine an appropriate level of city employee compensation. The data show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council calls emergency meeting to discuss Kids, cops</title>
		<link>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/07/council-calls-emergency-meeting-to-discuss-kids-cops/</link>
		<comments>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/07/council-calls-emergency-meeting-to-discuss-kids-cops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon, the City Council scheduled a special meeting for Wednesday evening (PDF). On the agenda are two ballot questions for November: the Kids First initiative, and the police services parcel tax. The drastic step of a last-minute special meeting during the recess, according to a source with knowledge of today&#8217;s action, was prompted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council acknowledges failure of the LLAD</title>
		<link>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/07/council-acknowledges-failure-of-the-llad/</link>
		<comments>http://futureoaklandblog.com/2008/07/council-acknowledges-failure-of-the-llad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At closed session this morning, the Oakland City Council acknowledged that the renewal of the Landscaping and Lighting Assessment District failed. After the city announced the assessment district passed in June, ORPN activist David Mix claimed that the consultants who ran the election miscalculated the proper voting weights of different parcels, including the decisive vote [...]]]></description>
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