Published: May, 2003 A Taste of Oakland 2003 on May 8 will offer just the right ingredients for an evening of food and fun. There’ll be tasty morsels and beverages from a variety of Oakland’s restaurateurs, garnished with lively blues music and spirited dance performances. Sponsored by the Oakland Convention & Visitors Bureau (OCVB) in […]
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East Bay French-American School To Host Annual
Published: May, 2003 On Sunday, June 1, from 11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m., the East Bay French-American School (Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley) will host its sixth annual "La Place du Marché." The school’s lower campus, located at 1009 Heinz Avenue and 9th Street in Berkeley, will be transformed into an authentic French marketplace, complete with […]
PortFest: Fun and Music and Nothing but Fun and Music
Published: May, 2003 Oakland’s waterfront is well-known for being the economic engine of the region, moving cargo to and fro around the world. But it’s also taking on a second life as a hotbed of fun times and good living. What’s attracting people is the stunning natural beauty of the Oakland/Alameda Estuary It’s a work […]
What the AC Transit Bus Driver Knows
Published: May, 2003 Carry things in our arms or back-packed in a canvas lump, lunches we will eat later at work, newspapers, CDs, a thermos, survival packs swung over a shoulder as we climb the stairs to our favorite seat hoping it’s empty, the one nearest the door, in the back, or on the Bay […]
For Whom the Bridge Tolls are Slated: $79 Million for Ferries
Published: May, 2003 On Thursday, April 17, Senator Don Perata invited press and regional transit advocates to join him in announcing the details of a comprehensive regional Bay Area traffic relief plan, Senate Bill (SB) 916. This bill, which proposes a dollar toll increase on state-owned bridges to fund regional transit projects, is scheduled […]
THE IRAQ WAR READER
Published: May, 2003 Three weeks into the war, Saddam Hussein’s control over Iraq has crumbled. The question now is: Was that the easy part? America now has responsibility to keep order in Iraq, put a new government in place, and get the economy and oil fields running again. Long-repressed people, including the country’s Shiite majority […]
Paving the Way for Buses – The Great GM Streetcar Conspiracy, (Con’t)
Published: May, 2003 In Part I, we found that General Motors (GM) was introduced to the concept of buying up transit and replacing it with "modern" buses thanks to the animosity towards transit of New York Mayor Hylan and newspaper owner William Randolph Hearst back in the 1920s. In 1974, Bradford C. Snell presented a […]
Judge Orders Carnival Cruise Line to Stop Illegal Dumping
Published: May, 2003 In settlement of a lawsuit against cruise lines by environmental groups, Carnival Cruise Lines admitted to illegally dumping ballast water into California ports and was ordered by a judge to stop unlawful practices that threaten to spread aquatic invasive species to coastal waters. The lawsuit, filed in April 2002 in Los Angeles […]
Port of Call: Cayenne, French Guyana
Published: May, 2003 Wanted for short-term occupancy with an option to colonize: quaint, oceanfront property in the equatorial region, new world. Should have multiship port with navigable river access to interior. Prefer a native population of savages for exploitation and forced labor, possible Christian conversion, eventual extermination. Room for two major raw materials, gold preferred. […]
On the Oakland Waterfront, Seafarers Club Breaks New Ground
Published: May, 2003 Clergy who serve seafarers on ships docked in San Francisco Bay recently celebrated a major expansion to their office and hospitality center, which is located adjacent to the Seventh Street Marine Terminal in the heart of the Port of Oakland. Known as the Seafarers Club, the facility is operated by the Episcopal […]