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Join us at 12:30 p.m. PT for a one-hour live-chat with editors, reporters and more on yesterday's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that declared Proposition 8, the November 2008 ballot measure banning same-sex marriage in California, unconstitutional.  
 
Live chat: Disappearing ethnic music categories with Martin G. Reynolds and Jim Harrington, Thursday, Feb. 2, noon PT

Join BANG Community Engagement Editor Martin G. Reynolds, Oakland Tribune music critic Jim Harrington and San Francisco native and five-time Grammy nominee, educator, composer, producer, percussionist and bandleader John Santos on Thursday, February 2 from noon to 1 p.m. PT for a chat about disappearing ethnic music categories.

 

The Raiders could have a new head coach by the end of the week, who are you hoping it is? Let us know during our Raiders live chat Tuesday at noon with Steve Corkran.  
 
Live chat: Visiting Oakland in 2012 with Martin G. Reynolds and Angela Woodall, Thursday, Jan. 12, noon PT
Join BANG Community Engagement Editor Martin G. Reynolds and Oakland Tribune Night Owl columnist Angela Woodall Thursday, Jan. 12 from noon to 1 p.m. PT for a chat about what's happening in Oakland, on the plate and around the town. 

Have you ever wanted to get your hands on public documents but didn't know how? Have you ever been told a document is not public when in fact it is? Have you ever been outraged at the salaries of government employees?  
 
Live chat: Inside the Oakland Raiders, Tuesday, noon
Bay Area News Group writer Steve Corkran answers your questions and provides insight on the team during a live chat Tuesday at noon.

 

How do you celebrate the holidays? Join Bay Area News Group senior editor for community engagement Martin G. Reynolds and Oakland Tribune reporter Kristin Bender for an online chat at noon Thursday, Dec. 15 and share your holiday traditions.  
 
Archived chat: Community engagement with Martin G. Reynolds and Spencer "OakFoSho" Mills, December 12, 11 a.m. PT

Building on coverage of Monday, December 12's West Coast port shutdown and our continuing coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement, citizen journalist and live-streamer Spencer "OakFoSho" Mills joined a one-hour chat starting at 11 a.m. today.

 

Bay Area News Group senior editor for community engagement Martin G. Reynolds, Oakland Tribune reporter Angela Woodall and former Oakland Tribune columnist spoke at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9.  
 
Archived chat: Community engagement with Martin G. Reynolds & Kristin Bender, Thursday, December 8, noon
Readers joined Bay Area News Group senior editor for community engagement Martin G. Reynolds and Oakland Tribune reporter Kristin Bender for a live chat at noon PT Thursday, December 8, 2011 about stories in need of coverage in 2012.  

On the heels of a recent community engagement discussion, the Bay Area News Group senior editor for engagement asked for and took questions on the West Oakland shooting, the Occupy movement and more.  
 
Live chat: Inside the Oakland Raiders, Tuesday, noon
Join Steve Corkran for some Oakland Raiders updates during a live chat Tuesday at noon.  

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Discuss this week's East Bay prep football playoff matchups with our Jimmy Durkin and Ben Enos today at noon.  
 
Transcript: Bay Area prep football playoffs updates
Live blog: East Bay prep football playoff updates, Friday, 7 p.m. 

Live chat: East Bay prep football playoffs, Monday, noon  
 
Live blog: Bay Area prep football playoffs updates, Friday, 7 p.m.
Live blog: East Bay prep football playoff updates, Friday, 7 p.m. 

What is community engagement and how should it be defined? You tell us! The Bay Area News Group recently announced plans to create open newsrooms and media labs as cornerstones of its new community engagement philosophy. While we have many ideas for how to make this all work, we want to hear from you.

 
 
Chat Transcript: Community engagement with Spencer "OakFoSho" Mills
The Oakland Tribune chatted with Spencer Mills, also known on Twitter as OakFoSho about his unlikely rise as an international social media sensation for his live streaming of the aftermath of the Occupy Oakland general strike. 

While George Clooney is still joined at the hip with his gal pal Stacy Keibler, there's another woman he's got his eyes one. Clooney, who seems to have another hit movie with "The Descendants," is predicting big things for his 20-year-old co-star, Shailene Woodley.  
 
Live chat: NCS football playoffs seeding meeting, Sunday at 2 p.m.
Get the details on which teams made the NCS playoffs and which ones didn't, and get analysis on the matchups and brackets from Ben Enos and Jimmy Durkin in a live chat Sunday at 2 p. 

Center fielder Coco Crisp was arrested in Arizona late Tuesday night on suspicion of driving under the influence. Scottsdale police pulled the 31-year-old over while he was driving his 2009 Rolls Royce Phantom Drop Head Coupe, according to ComcastSportsNet Bay Area.  
 
Oakland's McFadden, Janikowski, Kelly and Miller are named as alternates on the team  
 
 
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