November 1, 2012, 12:05 AM
Construction companies are pumping tens of thousands of dollars into the race for the Bay Area Rapid Transit board in an effort to unseat incumbent Director Lynette Sweet. The construction firms accuse Sweet of meddling in bids for BART construction work and are backing 25-year-old Zakhary...
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October 22, 2012, 12:05 AM
Big changes are coming to San Francisco’s most heavily traveled and historic bus line – but few people know about them, according to a new survey of transit passengers. Plans to install two separated bus-only lanes on Geary Boulevard to speed up the 38-Geary line have been in...
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October 12, 2012, 12:05 AM
BART has quietly reopened the bidding to develop valuable real estate near the Millbrae BART station, leading to calls for a public hearing on negotiations that have been shrouded in secrecy and marred by accusations of favoritism. Last May, the BART board voted to enter into exclusive...
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August 16, 2012, 12:05 AM
When the Bay Area Rapid Transit District received $92 million in federal stimulus funds in 2009, it promised to create “thousands of jobs.” But to make its numbers after the money was spent, the transit agency resorted to pressuring and cajoling, emails obtained by California Watch...
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July 20, 2012, 12:05 AM
Update, July 20, 2012: This story updates with information about when the new BART policy changes would take effect. BART leaders have decided to alter the transit agency's free speech-related policy after discovering that a private school and church in West Oakland used unaccompanied...
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July 10, 2012, 12:05 AM
BART has exonerated a police officer who shot and killed a knife-wielding homeless man on the Civic Center platform last July, The Bay Citizen has learned. The results of the BART police department's yearlong internal investigation came five months after the San Francisco district attorney...
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June 28, 2012, 12:05 AM
UPDATE, June 28, 2012: The Alameda County Social Services Agency provided a response regarding allegations of child abuse at St. Andrew private school. The Oakland Unified School District has put a controversial church school on notice that its federal funding may be cut off if...
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June 26, 2012, 12:05 AM
During the BART shutdown earlier this month, as thousands of frustrated commuters waited hours for a ride across San Francisco Bay, 95 AC Transit buses sat empty. The idle coaches, representing 17 percent of the transit agency’s 569-bus fleet, were “in the yard for mechanical...
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June 25, 2012, 11:05 PM
Scrutiny of a West Oakland church school accused of abuse by parents and students is growing, with BART officials now questioning the school's right to solicit for donations in stations and state officials investigating whether federal funds should have gone to school leaders. The...
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June 14, 2012, 2:57 PM
Oakland's school board has ordered a formal investigation of a church school, a school board member confirmed today, following a meeting last night where angry parents of former students accused the school of exploiting and abusing children.
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June 13, 2012, 2:01 AM
School officials in Oakland heard an earful Wednesday night from parents and former students of Saint Andrew Missionary Baptist Church Private School, which sends students out to panhandle at BART stations. The school may be private, but a joint CBS 5 and California Watch investigation found...
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June 8, 2012, 12:05 AM
Oakland school board members are calling for the district to investigate whether a private school accused of abuse is inflating enrollment numbers to get more than its share of taxpayer funding. The board members were responding to a California Watch investigation into a West Oakland K-12...
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June 4, 2012, 11:05 PM
St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church, where some former students have accused a teacher of physical abuse, has inflated its enrollment and gained thousands in extra federal dollars.
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June 4, 2012, 2:01 AM
Two years ago, a CBS 5 investigation raised questions about their school and fundraising practices. Now, a joint investigation with our media partners at California Watch is raising new questions about how the school is getting tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars.
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February 8, 2012, 12:05 AM
Data provided by Bay Area Rapid Transit covering calendar year 2006 through October 2011 show a 20 percent increase in the number of bike theft reports, with eight stations – Walnut Creek, Pleasant Hill/Contra Costa Centre, Dublin/Pleasanton, Ashby, Fremont, North Berkeley, MacArthur and...
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