California Trippin'
James Poulos, Ed. ·
Jul 14, 2010 at 9:10am
Usually dwarfed and kept in deep shadow by San Francisco's politics of crazy, the East Bay now looks like a backward echo from some dystopian California of the not-too-distant future: periodic riots, cops too 'understaffed' to enforce the law, and government budgets kept afloat by the pot tax.
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Jun '10
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The Left loves the poor, threatened, and abused (e.g. those living in East Oakland) so much that they keep creating more and more of them, by chasing jobs and opportunities out.
May '10
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I grew up in Oakland and this is very sad. The attitudes expressed after the Mehserle verdict suggest the entire city ossified in 1975. Ron Dellums' refusal to support the verdict, implicitly agreeing with the mob judgment was appalling to me.
May '10
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Jul '10
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Oakland is San Francisco except for being poor and ugly. Ron Dellums is Maxine Waters in pants.
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Add to that the loopy politics and anti-growth policies of Berkeley, where I live next door to Oakland, and you have a great experiment in incentives. With Oakland and Berkeley doing everything possible to drive out jobs, what happens? You guessed it: Emeryville. Emeryville used to be a tiny town best known for gambling and other activities of ill-repute (it sounded like fun, actually), sandwiched in between Berkeley and Oakland. By appealing to business, it has become a mecca of stores like Ikea, Gap and Old Navy, and Best Buy (which cannot get zoning in Berkeley) and the home to high-tech companies like Pixar. Berkeley residents who deign to shop where most other Americans shop can be seen driving over to Emeryville on the weekends, or to other surrounding towns to seek out Costco and Walmart.