Last week, Assemblymember Mike Gipson (D-Carson) demanded Sacramento County officials stop housing foster children in a former juvenile correction center. The lawmaker, who authored Assembly Bill...
Schools across the Golden State received a windfall of $44.6 billion in local property tax revenue, according to the 2021-22 California Board of Equalization’s (BOE) Annual...
Five months after declaring a fiscal emergency and predicting that they'd run out of funds by early this year, officials at San Benito County's only hospital...
As members of the Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy (FAME) and the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (IM4H) we have created a Moral Budget Platform...
Twenty-five years ago, UC Berkeley Professor Harley Shaiken could not know the future that awaited undergraduate Julie Chavez Rodriguez. But even then, he was struck by...
A man is facing multiple felony charges for allegedly drug dealing and possessing a large amount of fentanyl, announced the San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins....
State Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a brief Friday asking a federal district court judge to strike down a lawsuit challenging the state's law requiring social...
The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post: Week of May 3 - 9, 2023
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price shared her vision and determination to fulfill the goals of the historic civil rights movement, to work with the community...
Despite opposition of the trustees, many community leaders and city officials are moving forward for an educational future for the campus. In a statement released this...
Kampala Taiz-Rancifer, OEA second vice president, said, “We’re bargaining for safe, stable, and racially just community schools. Our proposals for wages are to provide the kind...
The 2024 general election is over a year away but candidates across California have begun throwing their hats in the ring to run for state office....
The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post: Week of April 26 - May 2, 2023
The state has spent billions of dollars on homelessness in recent years. So why is the crisis getting worse instead of better? That's what a bipartisan...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta drew his support for a multi-state effort to hold the gun industry accountable in times of gun violence. Bonta joined 17...
The community-wide demand to save HNU is growing stronger and more organized. A new coalition, “Reclaim Holy Names,” was scheduled to hold an online town hall...
In a media release, the union announced that voting began on Monday: “Instead of negotiating a fair contract for the safe, stable, and racially-just schools our...
On March 28, one day after three children and three adults were shot at the Covenant School, a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tenn., the California...
The latest statewide snowpack measurement from the California Department of Water Resources is another indication that the tremendously wet winter might have been too much of...
The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post: Week of April 19 - 25, 2023
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-12), Co-Chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus, released the following statement on Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine et al v....
Since it happened over the Easter holiday, the parallel cannot be overlooked. Resurrection was in the air. Just five days after his political death, Oakland native...
In a big blow to health insurance in the U.S., a federal judge has ruled that insurers no longer have to pay for preventive care services...
Last week, the White House approved major disaster support for California’s recovery from a series of severe storms that have battered the state. According to a...
Although California Senate Bill 357 was intended to alleviate arrests of willing sex workers under anti-loitering laws, it opened up a Pandora’s box loophole that hinders...