The City of San Leandro and the San Leandro Chamber of Commerce will host the annual State of the City address with Mayor Stephen Cassidy Thursday, March 28 at 6 p.m. at the San Leandro Senior Community Center, 13909 East 14th St., next to San Leandro Hospital. “This is a dynamic and challenging time...

Three local high school students joined Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) in the recent 13th Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage. The pilgrimage of more than 20 Members of Congress included events, meetings and tours in Birmingham, Selma and Montgomery, Alabama. This three-day passage, March 1-3,  through living history demonstrated the powerful role that non-violence and courage...

By Mieasha Harris It was Black Friday in November, and like many other holiday shoppers, Sharon A. Kidd-Lewis, was standing in line with hundreds of other people waiting to buy one of the latest electronic gadgets that was at the top of the lists of a lot of children. Reaching the front of the...

By Tanya Dennis Internet payday loans that offer money  due by the next pay day can cost up to $30 per $100 borrowed.  The consumer, already on shaky financial ground, typically faces annual interest rates (APRs) of 650 percent. which is among the reasons why  these loans have been controversial since their inception 20...

By Ken A. Epstein A proposed decision on how to divide up federal job money for youth for the next two years is stirring charges that nonprofits that provide services to Latinos and young people in West Oakland are excluded and that the decision favors the bigger, better-funded agencies. “When do you show fairness?”...