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• stinkingpig commented on Cody's Books of Berkeley, RIP
  trickledown, that's exactly the issue... a lot of policies are built around keeping businesses from being successful, and the end result is that a lot of Berkeley residents do 50% or more of their shopping in neighboring towns like Emeryville and El Cerrito. I do think it will change eventually, but I also think the Shattuck and Telegraph neighborhoods are going to get worse before they get better. Let's not forget that Cody's left Telegraph in the first place because of problems with crime, filth, and parking... problems that are endemic to both Telegraph and Shattuck shopping areas. It's harder...
• oakling commented on Cody's Books of Berkeley, RIP
  We really should be sorry that a bookstore cannot stay in business in Berkeley of all places. This is a common and totally reasonable reaction - but it's not the problem. Cody's was literally surrounded by thriving independent bookstores, all of which are still thriving. Like Charlie Wade wrote: Please don't use Kepler's as a shining example of how to make such a model work. They shut down and blamed a 'bad lease' for their predicament. Uh... hello? You SIGNED that lease, no one made you sign a 'bad lease'. Make book on it (no pun intended): Kepler's will be...
• Antonio commented on Cody's Books of Berkeley, RIP
  I was their last sysadmin. I'm coming back here. However I need to edit (HEAVILY) my response first......
• eustace commented on The Amazing Joy Buzzards volume 1: Here Come the Spiders
  They don't look very joyful on the cover....
• farren commented on Cody's Books of Berkeley, RIP
  Charlie Ward seems to be the kind of person who decides for himself what a situation is, regardless of the facts. I work at Kepler's now, although I didn't when they shut down, and the only thing I can say is that the real reasons Kepler's closed its doors were far more complex than just "a bad lease". In point of fact, we're pretty stable now, profitable even, and not going away any time soon. And yes, it was a bad lease. Signed when the business plan was a lot more optimistic than the dot.com bust allowed. "no one made...