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                                             September 26, 2013

  It's an interesting thing about
  the Hearst-Owned San Francisco       I'd love to see an initiative
  Chronicle...                         requiring any company that
                                       uses San Francisco in their
  They often seem to really have it    name to prominently specify
  in for Oakland, the stories they     their actual owners.
  run about Oakland's evident
  problems always have an "Abandon         PLACE_FIRST
  all hope!" tone to them.

  Have they bought real estate on the West side of
  the bay, and don't want anyone thinking about
  moving to Oakland?

  Or maybe they're trying to soften the place
  up for a clean-up the streets campaign (i.e.
  move those housing projects out-of-town...
  perhaps near San Quentin?).

  Or it could be a kind of reflexive social
  response, it's just the attitude of the                                      
  kind of people who want to work for a           As I've mentioned before:          
  disguised conservative organ like the           in SF, the Republicans             
  Chronicle... it might not even precisely        are non-starters, so               
  be racism, just a conviction that the           the establishment maintains        
  neat and clean suburban slick lifestyle         control of the Democrats           
  is the only one worth living.                   instead.  The Chron will           
                                                  score points with the locals       
                                                  by sneering at the national-       
      But myself, I'm happy to play               level Republicans, but on          
      along, and I tell stories                   local issues they're with          
      about the gunplay of Oakland                the big money, all the way.        
      ever chance I get.                                                             
                                                                                    
                 CLOSE_GUNSHOTS
                                    In fact, there was a shooting
         No one who's been          on 7th Street, just a block
         scared by SF               from my apartment, just last
         gentrification             week.
         passes up a
         weapon to scare
         away the wimps.


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