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  • September 2008

    • Scraper Bikes Catch Big Ride on YouTube

      NPR  |  Sep 14, 08 1:00 PM CDT

      Scraper Bikes Catch Big Ride on YouTube

      (Newser) - Scraper bike fever is sweeping the globe, thanks to a music video posted on YouTube by teenage friends in Oakland, NPR reports. These tricked-out bicycles are named after big, bright, and bold old-model cars fitted with wheels so large they scrape the rims. Unable to afford a car, the “Scraper Bike King” fitted his two-wheeled ride with oversize wheels, fixed Oreo and Skittles wrappers between the spokes, and spray-painted the frame. More »

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      Oakland  • bicycle  • bikes

  • April 2008
  • March 2008

    • New 'University' Goes to Pot

      NPR  |  Mar 10, 08 3:21 PM CDT

      New 'University' Goes to Pot

      (Newser) - It's sort of a slacker's med school: An Oakland activist started Oaksterdam University to train students to work in the medical marijuana industry, reports NPR. Oaksterdam offers a single $75 course, which teaches students about pot's political and legal history as well as the botany of the much-loved herb. "You don't want seeds in your cannabis," says the founder. "It's like seedless grapes." More »

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      California  • marijuana  • medical marijuana  • cannabis  • Oakland  • botany

  • August 2007

    • Editor's Murder Shows Failure of Tolerance

      Slate  |  Aug 7, 07 2:47 PM CDT

      Editor's Murder Shows Failure of Tolerance

      (Newser) - The notoriously irreligious Christopher Hitchens decries the Oakland police's tolerance of Your Black Muslim Bakery, one of whose employees has been arrested for the murder of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey. In an op-ed for Slate Hitchens writes that the bakery is in fact a front for jihadism and that Bay Area law enforcement is guilty of "official apathy— amounting to collusion." More »

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      murder  • racism  • Muslim  • jihad  • Oakland  • Christopher Hitchens  • Chauncey Bailey  • tolerance  • Your Black Muslim Bakery

    • Teen Confesses to Killing Journalist

      San Jose Mercury News  |  Aug 6, 07 10:30 AM CDT

      Teen Confesses to Killing Journalist

      (Newser) - A 19-year-old man arrested last week in a police raid on an Oakland bakery has confessed to shooting journalist Chauncey Bailey, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Detectives say Devaughndre Broussard, a self-described "good soldier," targeted the Oakland Post editor because he had been investigating the bakery and the controversial group that operates it. More »

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      murder  • journalist  • Oakland  • Chauncey Bailey  • Nation of Islam  • Your Black Muslim Bakery  • Oakland Post  • bakery

    • Cops Raid Bakery Linked to Editor's Assassination

      Inside Bay Area (Oakland)  |  Aug 3, 07 6:25 PM CDT

      Cops Raid Bakery Linked to Editor's Assassination

      (Newser) - Police, SWAT teams, and bomb units descended on an Oakland bakery shop today that was linked to the murder of Chauncey Bailey. Bailey, an editor a the Oakland Post who was writing a story about Your Black Muslim Bakery, was gunned down yesterday on his way to work; the Oakland Tribune reports that police discovered the shotgun used in the murder during today's raid. More »

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      California  • murder  • editor  • Oakland  • raid  • Chauncey Bailey  • Your Black Muslim Bakery  • bakery

    • Newspaper Editor Assassinated

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Aug 2, 07 5:39 PM CDT

      Newspaper Editor Assassinated

      (Newser) - The editor of an Oakland newspaper was shot dead in broad daylight today in what police say they believe was a contracted hit, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Chauncey Bailey was a fixture in the African-American community, known for aggressive coverage of issues and confrontational interviews with city officials. But the motives behind his killing remain unknown. More »

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      murder  • assassination  • journalist  • black community  • Oakland  • Chauncey Bailey  • hitman  • Oakland Post

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