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In cafes, on street corners, at work, everyone is talking about one thing. And that is Oakland’s ridiculous housing costs. Displacement has seemingly eclipsed public safety as residents’ and elected officials’ main concern of the day. Last week, Mayor Libby Schaaf announced a set of proposals to tackle the housing affordability crisis. It’s a reflection of how critical the situation has become that she chose to address this issue before releasing the public safety plan she has been promising for months now.

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Hardcore Prince guitar-freaks — those who yearn for an entire album of six-string slash-and-burn in the mold of Jimi Hendrix, Ernie Isley, Eddie Hazel and Prince himself on “Purple Rain” and “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man” — will find much to love on “Plectrumelectrum.”. Prince, 56, is an appreciator as much as an innovator, and he compresses about 50 years of guitar history into 12 tracks: the screaming punctuations on the feedback-saturated “Ain’tTurninRound” and “AnotherLove,” the Curtis Mayfield-style lyricism of “Whitecaps,” the punky urgency of “Marz.” But though the 3rdEyeGirl rhythm section of Donna Grantis, Hannah Ford Welton and Ida Nielsen provides a solid foundation, and shares some lead vocals, the songs feel slight, a touch predictable.