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Tammerlin Drummond: Where was the sense of urgency in Alameda drowning?
LAST WEEK, Alameda officials made public police and fire records in connection with the Memorial Day suicide-by-drowning of Raymond Zack on Crown Memorial Beach. 

 

Police Sgt. Longmire sues Oakland again, now in state court
Derwin Longmire
The former Oakland homicide detective who led the oft-criticized probe of journalist Chauncey Bailey's 2007 slaying sued the city of Oakland for discrimination and retaliation this week in Alameda County Superior Court, even as his federal discrimination lawsuit against the city continues.  
 
 

 

California public employees defend 'modest' pension benefits
Public employees, saying they are tired of being lumped together with the few who have been snared in pension scandals, struck back Wednesday with what they called their own "truth squad" on pensions at the Capitol.  

 

Political Blotter: Feds clarify medical pot policy
This is a sampling from Bay Area News Group's Political Blotter blog. Read more and post comments at www.ibabuzz.com/politics.July 1Anyone who cultivates, sells or distributes marijuana on a large scale -- including local or state officials in jurisdictions with laws allowing the drug's medical use 

 

Gay marriage advocates celebrate from coast to coast
From coast to coast, in New York City and San Francisco, the country's largest gay pride parades Sunday added something new to the annual show of racy floats and rainbow-colored fishnet stockings. 

 

 

U.S. report rebukes feds' monitoring of Dugard kidnapper Phillip Garrido
District judge releases confidential audit to show agents have made vital improvements. 

 

 

Richmond soccer coach helps kids avoid gang life
Former gang member uses soccer, gang connections to steer kids away from violence 

 

 

Caution: Crisis ahead
From BART to Caltrain to the Valley Transportation Authority, every Bay Area transit agency has hiked fares and reduced train and bus service to plug deep budget holes. But the changes have produced fewer riders and even less revenue '” leading some to worry that the transit system has entered a death spiral. 

 

 

Three East Bay ZIP codes, life-and-death disparities
Richard Angelis lives in Walnut Creek on a tree-lined street in ZIP code 94597, where life expectancy is 87.4 years. But 12 miles southwest of Angelis' home, in the Oakland neighborhood of Sobrante Park, there are nights when Calixto Orantes, 53, hits the ground in a cold sweat inside his small rented home as gunfire erupts nearby. He lives in ZIP code 94603, where life expectancy plunges to 71.2 years. 

 

Road to college just got bumpier
California high school students with their sights set on a public university better step up their game, admissions officers and guidance counselors say. An unprecedented time of upheaval and funding cuts in the state university systems will leave less room for narrowly missed deadlines, poor senior-year grades and incomplete course work 

 

Montclair group dedicates bench to fallen Oakland officers
Members of the Montclair Safety & Improvement Council and other area residents dedicated a stone bench to honor the four Oakland policemen killed in 2009 in the line of duty. The bench is in Shepherd Canyon Park, where the group planted four redwood trees two years ago for the fallen officers.  

 

Oakland Tribune editorial: The public needs answers to the latest BART police shooting incident
FOR THE second time in less than three years, BART police Sunday fatally shot a man on a station platform.The cases were very different. In 2009, Oscar Grant was unarmed and being held face down on the ground at the Fruitvale station, the New Year's Day crowd was chaotic, and the officer later said 

 

 

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