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- Tab: This is exactly why Pay-Go is a horrible way to govern in the first place. If you can’t get five votes on the Council for a program, then it shouldn’t...
- Patrick: Nice. I really like the “sweeper witch” that runs between the two of them. Or is that Kernighan trying to keep them apart?
- Max Allstadt: Max would like to jump in and sternly demand that they solve their differences using this wonderful local innovation in dispute resolution:...
- ConcernedOakFF: I think the the last recommendation is great. Oh yeah…that will never happen with our current mayor. Get rid of him too. We need new blood. If this city...
- Navigator: Ken and WFB, I’m glad to hear that you guys are pro-active in making your community better. I wish Oakland had many more residents like you. Ken, when I lived...
- SF2OAK: Unfortunately our choices are slim for a Mayor- who wants the job- yes I know Perata & IDF but they are too polarizing, and who can get elected. Also unfortunate are...
- SF2OAK: Mike Spencer said use bait cars- today an article http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/18/ BAJD146AHC.DTL re people w/ suspended licenses trailed...
- Ken O: Navigator- Yes there’s spray paint and tagging going on. Solution: do what I did: grab some paint and cover it up yourself. I’ve done it recently on stop...
- Max Allstadt: Nav, They’re not particularly emboldened. That wall is in a fairly unpopulated industrial area. Max’s law of Graffiti Economics: If the free market...
- We Fight Blight: I agree with Navigator. Blight and crime are interrelated. If as a community we do not address blighted conditions, including graffiti, it sends a subtle and...
- Navigator: Max, The picture of that wall which you posted says it all. It shows the utter contempt these graffiti hoodlums have for their community. There is even twelve foot...
- Max Allstadt: Nah. I just feel that Measure Y and policing are way way more important topics than graffiti. And I thought we went off topic with the post about how horrible our...
