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Complain about the media representation of Oakland all you want. Last week, in the national media, Oakland was portrayed as a great place to live, work, and dine, with restaurants where people come up to your table and greet you like a long-lost neighbor.
That Oakland. You know it? It’s the backdrop of a profile in the New Yorker magazine on Ishmael Reed, novelist, playwright, poet, and resident of Oakland. Hills? Oh no, the flats. Reed is a jazz guy; He B-flat.
Hopefully, the joker in Reed laughs at that pun. It’s because of Reed that I am a writer. But let me not forget Flossie Lewis, my high school English teacher, and current Oakland resident. Lewis set me up. Reed delivered the punch.
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San Francisco considers spending $20K on trash can prototypes
By KTVU staff
KTVU s Christien Kafton reports.
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco is working on a plan to replace the city s public trash cans. Prototypes they re looking at testing will cost in the neighborhood of $20,000 apiece.
While that s the price for the prototypes, the Department of Public Works said the actual units they ll order to replace some 3,000 trash cans will be much less.
The department said the current trash cans, especially the green conventional trash cans, are frequently targeted by people looking for valuables inside who break locks, damage the hinges and scatter trash everywhere in the process.