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Drummond: Still much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving
She approached me while I was pumping gas at my neighborhood ARCO. A withered, 90 pounds of skin and bones. Could I help her with some money...
Oakland Tribune, 11/24/09 by Tammerlin Drummond · More from publication -
Tammerlin Drummond: Oakland finally may be turning corner with
OAKLAND'S NEW police Chief Anthony Batts is an insomniac. When Batts came to meet with this newspaper's editorial board last Thursday, he was...
Oakland Tribune, 11/22/09 by Tammerlin Drummond · More from publication -
Some public servants thumb their noses at the rules
WHAT IS IT with public officials who act as though the rules apply to everyone but them? According to the Internal Revenue Service, Mayor Ron...
Oakland Tribune, 11/10/09 by Tammerlin Drummond · More from publication -
Tammerlin Drummond: Putting low-income youth to work a good use of
WHEN I was in high school, there were plenty of jobs for teens who wanted them. I took tickets and served refreshments at a movie theater. Then...
Oakland Tribune, 11/08/09 by Tammerlin Drummond · More from publication -
Mayor Ron Dellums' $239,000 tax headache
I HAD no idea who the Joneses were. But when I was growing up, my mother and grandmother were forever telling me to stop trying to keep up with...
Oakland Tribune, 11/03/09 by Tammerlin Drummond · More from publication -
What's race got to do with it?
A 15-YEAR-OLD GIRL chugs brandy after her homecoming dance and becomes incapacitated. She is lying semiconscious on a bench in a secluded area at...
Oakland Tribune, 11/01/09 by Tammerlin Drummond · More from publication -
Drummond: Community must stand up, turn in Fruitvale killers
Someone out there knows who is responsible for a violent night in the Fruitvale last summer that claimed one life, wrecked two others and caused...
Oakland Tribune, 10/27/09 by Tammerlin Drummond · More from publication -
Tammerlin Drummond: Oscar Grant murder trial to move but Oakland not
"How can you possibly have a free and fair trial when people are swinging from lamp posts outside the courthouse, ranting about killer cops and...
Oakland Tribune, 10/25/09 by Tammerlin Drummond · More from publication -
Drummond: Mehserle trial out of Oakland, not out of the woods
"How can you possibly have a free and fair trial when people are swinging from lamp posts outside the courthouse, ranting about killer cops and...
Oakland Tribune, 10/20/09 by Tammerlin Drummond · More from publication -
Neighbors try to transform MacArthur span from "killing fields"
IN 2008, so much blood spilled on MacArthur Boulevard between 74th and 82nd avenues that people took to calling the eight-block stretch in East...
Oakland Tribune, 10/14/09 by Tammerlin Drummond · More from publication
