Stories you shouldn’t miss:
1. The Chronicle’s Demian Bulwa has an excellent piece on how the murder trial of Johannes Mehserle may be as much about the life of victim Oscar Grant as it is about the ex-BART cop. That’s because Mehserle’s attorneys plan to put Grant’s troubled past on trial when the case goes to court tomorrow in Los Angeles. But Grant’s family says the young man was beginning to turn his life around when he was fatally shot in the back.
2. Foreclosures are no longer relegated to low- and middle-class neighborhoods and have now spread to wealthier sections of the Bay Area, the Chron reports. The newspaper credits the trend to the state’s continued high unemployment rate and to adjustable rate mortgages.
