Hillary Clinton sits down to talk issues at Oakland waffle house
By John Wildermuth Updated 6:21 pm, Friday, May 27, 2016
Oakland moved into the national spotlight Friday morning when Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, dropped by a Jack London Square restaurant to hear from local leaders about what the city is doing right.
The hour-long discussion focused not only on the type of long-term troubles that plague cities, including soaring housing costs, crime, education concerns and lack of economic opportunity, but also on what Oakland is doing to deal with those problems.
I want to know how the federal government and me, particularly, can be a better partner, Clinton said. I want to be a champion for Oakland and all the other Oaklands in the country, hardscrabble cities scrambling to come up with innovative solutions to their problems.
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