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<![CDATA[Drummond: Quan State of the City ignores big elephants in the room]]>
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<![CDATA["Oakland is on the rise," the mayor proclaimed. "It's been a pretty good year except for a few bumps." Excuse me? A few bumps?]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Tammerlin Drummond / Oakland Tribune Columnist)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:29:40 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Your Turn: No need to change federal law to protect against West Nile]]>
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<![CDATA[Your editorial on Feb. 4 incorrectly stated that there needs to be a change in federal law before pesticides can be sprayed to protect against West Nile virus and other mosquito-borne diseases.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Barbara Boxer / Contra Costa Times Your Turn /  &#169; Copyright 2011, Bay Area News Group)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:59:21 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Sunday Perspective: Cal's student athlete high performance center should show us the money]]>
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<![CDATA[To a chorus of "Go Bears!" a ribbon-cutting ceremony opened the opulent Simpson Student-Athlete High Performance Center (SAHPC). Its enormous $153 million budget may rank it among the most expensive edifices ever built on the Berkeley campus.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Brian Barsky / Contra Costa Times Your Turn /  &#169; Copyright 2011, Bay Area News Group)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:54:00 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Your Turn: Must end crime and violence in downtown Walnut Creek]]>
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<![CDATA[As we have all learned as a community over the past couple of weeks, a great deal of Walnut Creek's police resources on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights are spent controlling alcohol-induced crime and violence in our downtown.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Kristina Lawson  / Contra Costa Times Your Turn /  &#169; Copyright 2011, Bay Area News Group)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:52:32 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Your Turn: Community collaboration leads toward a world-class future]]>
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<![CDATA[On Jan. 24, the Concord City Council did right by its residents when it approved a visionary plan to revitalize the shuttered Concord Naval Weapons Station.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Greg Feere, Amie Fishman, Jeremy Madsen, and Rosanne Nieto  / Contra Costa Times Your Turn /  &#169; Copyright 2011, Bay Area News Group)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:52:08 -0700]]>
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