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New California law clamps down on pimps trafficking children

following orders of others to sell sex appear to be growing with the recession. OAKLAND — Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley and state Sen. Sandré Swanson celebrated a legislative and prosecutorial victory Thursday in an ongoing effort to ...

From BARBARA GRADY, Contra Costa Times,  30 Oct 2009

New law clamps down on pimps trafficking children

the new law an important deterrent to pimps. OAKLAND — Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley and state Sen. Sandré Swanson celebrated a legislative and prosecutorial victory Thursday in an ongoing effort to combat what they described as a ...

From BARBARA GRADY, Inside Bay Area,  29 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Sandré Swanson

Green Jobs training program set to begin

finalized, so they haven't been announced. OAKLAND — The Oakland Green Jobs Corps, an ambitious plan to lift at-risk youths out of lives of poverty and violence and place them into jobs helping the environment, this month is recruiting its first ...

From BARBARA GRADY, Inside Bay Area,  1 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Ella Baker

East Oakland shows signs of being epicenter of foreclosure crisis

Oakland ACORN members take a tour of foreclosed properties between 73th and 78th Avenues and Lockwood and Weld Streets in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday May 7, 2008. According to ACORN, there are over 150 abandoned homes from 78th to 89th Avenue. (Ray ...

From BARBARA GRADY, Inside Bay Area,  29 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Don Perata

Oakland Hills fire contained in an hour; scares residents

not 100 percent sure of the cause. It is still under investigation, but it started at the base of the hill right off the road," Edwards said. OAKLAND — A brush fire broke out Thursday morning across 3 acres of steep hillside above Old Tunnel Road — ...

From BARBARA GRADY AND PAUL DAVID LAMPE, Contra Costa Times,  13 Jun 2008
Related Topics: James Edwards

Lines at Oakland soup kitchens keep growing

so long for this food that it runs from 23rd Street around the block, down San Pablo Avenue to MLK Avenue," said St. Vincent de Paul's communications director, Colleen Miller. About 800 people show up for hot meals each day. On Wednesday, when brown ...

From BARBARA GRADY, Contra Costa Times,  12 Jun 2008

Oakland blogger to cover Democratic National Convention

OAKLAND — As the Democratic National Convention gets under way in August, Oakland blogger Zennie Abraham will be on the convention floor with a microphone poised to pick up discussions of race, predatory lending, infrastructure improvement and other ...

From BARBARA GRADY, Contra Costa Times,  3 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Democratic National Committee,  Barack Obama,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Jerry Brown

Crowd aboard Hornet remembers war dead

attendance seemed to regard the day as much more than a holiday from work. Many had tears in their eyes, as they listened or prayed or as they cast flowers into the Bay from the port side of the ship at the end of the ceremony. ON BOARD THE U.S.S. ...

From BARBARA GRADY, Contra Costa Times,  26 May 2008

Dentists, seniors warn against governor's plan to cut dental benefits for adults on Medi-Cal

the 800 dental patients her clinic sees in a month would not seek dental care if they did not have Denti-Cal, the dental health component of Medi-Cal. OAKLAND — Advocates for seniors and the low-income gathered at a Fruitvale district health clinic ...

From BARBARA GRADY, Contra Costa Times,  20 May 2008
Related Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger

A SAFE PLACE Nonprofit caters to needs of sexually exploited youth

WHEN OAKLAND police find young girls on the street involved in prostitution, one of the first things they do is call for a counselor from MISSSEY Inc. needs may be. The counselor provides a sisterly shoulder to lean on during a time of crisis and ...

From BARBARA GRADY, Inside Bay Area,  28 Apr 2008

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