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The California Hotel was a popular venue for acclaimed recording artist like James Brown, Ray Charles and Billie Holiday. Photo courtesy of EBALDC.

Oakland celebrates groundbreaking for renovation of historic California Hotel

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The sound of jazz—a melody, harmony, rhythm, or timbre—hadn’t filled the lobby of the California Hotel, just off San Pablo Avenue, for more than a decade. And as over a hundred people filled into the...
Developers who wanted to renovate Oakland's historic California Hotel faced new, stricter guidelines on air quality from the city of Oakland. Oakland's new rules are modeled after guidelines that will affect the entire Bay Area on May 1, 2010. The rules have caused disagreement between affordable housing advocates and air quality activists. Photo courtesy of Sanfranman59.

New air quality guidelines get mixed response

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When it comes to the interests of low-income people, affordable housing and clean air advocates usually work side by side in Oakland and the Bay Area. However, the issue of impending air quality guidelines for...