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|  | Mindset of the madness: Mack God rules the streetsIn 2010, Oakland had more than 500 separate shootings -- more than one per day, every day, for weeks and months on end. Some involved so deeply in street life that experts say they have slipped into a kind of alternate reality in which the rules the rest of society lives by don't apply | |
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|  | Database shows $12.2 billion in Bay Area public employee salariesA hospital administrator in Alameda County, a deputy police chief in San Francisco and a physician in Santa Clara County grossed more than $500,000 each in pay last year - the top three 2009 salaries in a database containing 200,000 public employees now available online. | |
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|  | Key Prop 8 witness who opposed same-sex marriage decides it is OK after allThe chief witness who testified in favor of California's gay marriage ban during a landmark trial on the measure's constitutionality reluctantly came out in favor of gay and lesbian unions on Friday, saying he now thinks "that the time for denigrating or stigmatizing same-sex relationships is over." | |
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|  | Hometown Hero: Ex-drug addict brings hope to RichmondAs the founder and director of Men and Women of Purpose, a Richmond-based nonprofit that offers programs aimed at reducing violence, recidivism, homelessness, drug abuse and chronic unemployment, Antwon Cloird keeps a breathless schedule. | |
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|  | Caution: Crisis aheadFrom 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. | |
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|  | Three East Bay ZIP codes, life-and-death disparitiesRichard 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. | |
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|  | Road to college just got bumpierCalifornia 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 | |
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