Article: Dave Newhouse: Barack Obama and Chauncey Bailey

A confluence of thoughts hit me Monday: The Chauncey Bailey Project, the Oakland Tribune, the Pulitzer Prize, Oakland's disturbing crime situation, Barack Obama, Paul Cobb, and the last time I saw Chauncey Bailey, one week before his killing.

The Tribune has won two Pulitzers for photographic excellence -- Bill Crouch's 1950 photo of two airplanes nearly colliding in midair, and the Tribune's coverage of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

Now the Tribune has launched The Chauncey Bailey Project, whose leader-of-the-pack investigative reporting of Bailey's death has graced this newspaper and is worthy of Pulitzer consideration.

I worked with Bailey at the Tribune. Besides being a diligent ...

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