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Barbara Lee doesn’t need any reminders; she’s got a tough job ahead of her.
“We’ve been working very hard,” she told KQED on Tuesday, a week before she is set to be sworn in as Oakland’s next mayor.
The hometown progressive hero, who represented the region for nearly three decades in Congress, takes the helm at a particularly fraught moment for this perennially underdog city, where crime has remained stubbornly high, the school district is in disarray, and homelessness and encampments have reached crisis levels…