CalMatters Commentary - A decades-long debate over the fate of Oakland’s Interstate 980 freeway may be nearing an end as political figures call for its demolition.
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Jerry Brown, who had served two terms as governor of California and had run unsuccessfully for president three times and the U.S. Senate once, re-entered politics in 1997 by declaring his candidacy for mayor of Oakland.
Brown delivered the last segment of the radio talk show that had occupied him af