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Posts Tagged ‘measure KK’

This week in potholes: Great Pave continues, vigilantes chip in, too

By Amalya Dubrovsky | October 4, 2019

Oakland residents react to The Great Pave, a $100 million effort to repave streets equitably across the city.

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McElhaney missing meetings as criticism intensifies over ethics complaint: “Where is your council president?”

By Katie Parish | October 19, 2016 | 1

At the Oakland City Council meeting on Tuesday night, tensions flared as councilmembers discussed a June Alameda County civil grand jury report, which found that an Oakland city councilmember violated government ethics and conflict of interest rules.

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Schaaf talks Oakland “moon shot” at State of the City address

By Katie Parish | October 17, 2016 | 2

Schaaf opened her State of the City speech with a clip of President John F. Kennedy’s famous “moon shot” speech at Rice University in 1962, during which he promised Americans that the United States would put a man on the moon.

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U.S. has modest job gains in September, East Bay economy is still growing

By Nate Sheidlower | October 13, 2016

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that the U.S. unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 5 percent in September. Meanwhile, the most recent data for the Bay Area shows Alameda County’s unemployment rate at 4.6 percent as of August.

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Measure KK aims to solve Oakland’s pothole problems

By Katie Parish | October 11, 2016 | 2

In November, voters will decide on Measure KK, which asks if the city should approve a general bond that would invest up to $600 million for street and sidewalk repairs and to fix aging public buildings and parks.

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