Where's mayor?NO RESIDENT CAN walk the streets of Oakland safely either day or night. Where is the mayor?When you request his presence at a citizen gathering he is nowhere to be seen.  

Kudos to the city's finestI JUST READ the article Matt O'Brien wrote about the police and the firefighters voluntarily offering to defer raises ("Cops, firefighters accept lower pay," May 1), and I'm thrilled to see such cooperation among our city's public safety officers and the city staff.  

Regional needs trump school THE ADULT DAY care program for frail seniors in the Tri-Valley is scheduled to be closed. On June 30, the lease for use of the Livermore school district's property on Sonoma Avenue in Livermore by the Friendship Center program expires.  

Move would result in lower test scores  

MONEY FOR PUBLIC education should not be cut. That is not to say that school boards, community college and California State University boards of trustees or the University of California Board of Regents have always spent their budgets wisely.