I was walking down to Jack London Square along Broadway when I came across the graffiti. It was in big, red letters:

The essence of Carroll Fife’s willful twisting of reality is contained in these two quotes, which are from an Oaklandside Q&A a few days ago.

Talk about chutzpah! This grifter, “Madame D.A.” as she calls herself, has the nerve to compare backers of the recall effort against her to the Jan. 6 insurrectionists who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election. “These are election deniers," said Price. "We had an election. We won the election by an overwhelming majority. It wasn’t a small close election and so the people who lost, they lost, and when you lose an election you shouldn’t be able to overturn the will of the voters. That’s what happened during the insurrection on Jan. 6."

We’ve all heard about the “fiscal cliff” BART is headed towards. The system is asking the State for hundreds of millions to avert cutting entire lines. At the same time, BART officials admit they’re losing at least $25 million a year to fare jumpers. But what is the system doing about that?

I went for a walk around Lake Merritt yesterday, for the first time in months; and I’m pleased to say Lakeside Park is cleaner and more tent-free than it’s been in years. Granted, every once in a while there’s a dirty little tent, and at the Athol Plaza Tennis Courts, which we finally cleaned up after years of demanding the city do it, the courts themselves remain clear. But they’re surrounded by another growing tent city.