Economy
This fall, AC Transit officials announced a proposal to reduce bus service by 15 percent. A reshuffling of agency funds has brought the reduction down to 8 percent. At a Tuesday evening meeting, riders were invited to learn more about how service cuts will affect them.
Full-bellied, bleary-eyed, and shaking the last vestiges of their turkey-induced tryptophan hangovers, shopoholics and bargain-hunters nationwide kicked off the holiday spending season, lining up before dawn the morning after Thanksgiving to raid their favorite stores on Black Friday. But while consumers flocked to big-box stores across the Bay Area, local North Oakland retailers reported a much quieter beginning to the year’s shopping season.
Oakland North visits the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist library on Telegraph Avenue, whose catalog includes some 30,000 titles on political economy, revolutionary tactics and radical thought.
Tighter enforcement of parking rules in Oakland has angered the city’s cab drivers, who complain about a lack of taxi stands.
The Mayor’s Community Toy Drive, which is sponsored by Mayor Ron Dellums and several council members, began Saturday with a sign-up event.
Acupuncturists, Ayurvedic specialists, and massage therapists are responding to the growing demand in the Bay Area for alternative health care right in Oakland’s center of Western medicine—“Pill Hill.”
An all-day sit-in at U.C. Berkeley’s Wheeler Hall ended peacefully this evening, as protesters who had occupied the second floor of the central campus building were escorted out by police officers and faculty observers.
Students and supporters gathered outside UC Berkeley, while approximately 50 students had barricaded themselves inside Wheeler Hall in protest.
A statement from the University of California’s Office of the President argues that financial aid and other help will ease the impact of fee hikes.