On Monday, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13), Chair of the Majority Leader’s Task Force on Poverty and Opportunity, released the following statement in response to the Trump...
Healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente and the Service Employees International Union–United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) reached an agreement this week to stop the outsourcing of 63 gardeners...
Wells Fargo Bank gave a $2 million grant to an Oakland-based small business lender on Monday morning, according to bank officials. The donation to Main Street...
On Monday April 22, 2019, a group of concerned Black men met with U.S. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier at the offices of Fisher Realtors in Richmond for...
Emi Nakamura, a UC Berkeley economist, is this year’s recipient of the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal , widely viewed as second only in prestige to...
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) formally introduces a bill that she and others hope will help to stop federal agencies from overlooking Black-, other minority-, and...
Applications accepted through May 28 for Measure W Working Group With a new transient occupancy tax (TOT) for West Marin in place since the start of...
PG&E asked California regulators for a $1.1 billion rate hike December 13, saying more than half the money would be spent on improving wildfire safety. The...
It’s no secret: This is a tough economy for most workers. Largely stagnant wages and the rising costs of health care, housing, food and transportation affect...
God on Wall Street When Pres. Trump signed into law the overreaching tax cut in 2017, what was suspected was true in that wealthy American elites received...
AC Transit’s East Bay Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is going to permanently and drastically change International Boulevard from a four-lane boulevard with ample parking to a...
Last week, as Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., convened a House Financial Services Committee hearing, featuring the CEOs of Wall Street’s biggest banks, the financial watchdog group...
County Settles with Nonprofit Trust on Litigation The County of Marin, the San Geronimo Advocates, and a nonprofit trust that owns the former San Geronimo Golf...
The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) now appears to be under a modified form of direct state control, according to some observers. But the school district...
Paul Cobb to Interview on SIRIUS XM’s “Inside The Issue’s,” Podcast on Channel 126, with Wilmer J. Leon, III, Ph.D. Paul Cobb, owner and publisher of...
In a packed chamber in Oakland on Tuesday morning, March 26, 2019, Alameda County Supervisors Scott Haggerty, Richard Valle, Nate Miley, Keith Carson, Wilma Chan, in...
San Mateo resident Gloria Brown didn’t get a good night’s sleep. Her husband, Arthur Brown, 79, has Alzheimer’s disease and had spent most of the night...
Community Support Awareness to Value Energy (SAVE), a faith-based organization in Oakland, has been selected by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) to participate in a...
Economists have recently started to talk about the U.S. trade deficit being at a decade high of $796 billion dollars. According to Wikipedia, the balance of...
16th annual Black College Expo to provide Bay Area students pipeline to college Wells Fargo has teamed up with the Oakland Black College Expo in an...
Oakland firefighters are close to winning a pay raise from the City of Oakland, the result of a long and contentious negotiation period , which was...
For African American millennials, the dream remains deferred – and in some cases, is a nightmare. “The American Dream, the idea that anyone can succeed through...
While special education support staff in the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) broadly back the Oakland Education Association’s (OEA) proposed strike and its demands to increase...
Photo by Photo by TJPA (Transbay Joint Powers Authority) Salesforce Transit Center, or what I call “The House That Maria Ayerdi Kaplan built,” and that opened to...
The Oakland Private Industry Council (PIC) is hosting interviews for applicants who wish to start training and being working in the construction trades, 10 a.m., Monday,...
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