(l to r) Mayoral candidates Libby Schaaf, Nancy Sidebotham, Cat Brooks and Saied Karamooz. Last Thursday evening, the first debate of the 2018 Oakland Mayor’s race...
John S. McCain, a Naval aviator, prisoner of war in Vietnam, a Republican congressman and senator from Arizona, and a two-time contender for the presidency, died...
Civil rights attorney Pamela Price kicked off her campaign this week for Oakland Mayor. In a video announcing her candidacy, Price vowed to bring a new...
AB 3224, authored by Assemblymember Tony Thurmond (D-Richmond), will protect Californians against private sector employees determining eligibility for Medi-Cal, CalFresh, and CalWORKs applicants. The bill passed...
Allen Temple Baptist Church’s Pastor Emeritus J. Alfred Smith, Sr., has issued a strong statement of support for Councilmember Desley Brooks’ bid for reelection to represent...
Photo from the Cat Brook from Oakland Facebook page. Joined by about 50 supporters, actress, journalist and activist Cat Brooks, filed her papers Wednesday at City...
As a resident of District 4 for the past 17 years, Joseph Simmons is largely known as the senior pastor of Greater St. Paul Church in...
Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta and the California Association of Bilingual Educators Political Action Committee have endorsed Tony Thurmond for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. “Californians...
Oakland City Council Member Dan Kalb, Richmond City Council Member and AD 15 Candidate Jovanka Beckles and Berkeley School Board Member Judy Appel. Jovanka Beckles, candidate...
As the federal government failed to meet a court-ordered deadline to reunite immigrant families Thursday, Bay Area parents and grandparents announced a 3-day hunger strike—the first in...
The following are some of the outpouring of statements on Facebook from Oakland residents following the news that former Congressman, Oakland Mayor and Berkeley City Councilmember...
Deputy Chief Leronne Armstrong Mayor Libby Schaaf’s administration and the Oakland Police Department are facing questions about whether they have a serious plan to end racial...
With the cost of housing continuing to rise in California and across the country, U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris has introduced legislation to provide rent relief...
Esther Goolsby spoke at the committee meeting Tuesday, July 17th. A proposed moratorium that would block the sale of public land until the City Council adopts...
The City Council’s Rules and Legislation Committee has been granted the authority, announced this week by the City Attorney’s office, to decide which measures authored by...
City Council committees will be considering major issues next week including a moratorium on the sale of public land and placing a “Career Jobs Now!” charter...
Dockless bikes are available in cities across the country. Councilmember-at-Large Rebecca Kaplan has co-authored an ordinance with Councilmembers Lynette Gibson McElhaney and Noel Gallo to establish...
The Oakland school board asked the City Council not to sell the property to the charter school Thirty-six people were signed up to speak at this week’s...
From left to right: Elder Jay D. Pimentel, Rev. Amos Brown, Mayor London Breed, Rev, Dr. Frederick Douglas Haynes, III . By Mrs. Frankie Gillette A...
Representatives of City of Oakland unions speak at Tuesday’s Council meeting supporting a resolution opposing the Supreme Court’s recent Janus decision Representatives of the City of Oakland’s labor...
“(This) enabling legislation … assures that the staff and the legal adviser will operate under the supervision of the commission and not the city administration,” said...
Proposal offers a city-subsidized “incentive” for small landlords to displace tenants, says housing rights activist James Vann The Oakland City Council is scheduled Tuesday to decide on a...
By Larry White |Attorney Oakland’s City Council is poised to enact an enabling ordinance that would fill in the gaps in Measure LL, which created the Oakland...
Martin MacKerel (left) and Matthew Gerring protest the Oakland Oversized & Bulk Terminal in front of developer Phil Tagami’s Crocker Highlands home during a youth-led “zombie...
The Rules and Legislation Committee of the Oakland City Council was scheduled this week to hear a resolution proposed by Councilmember-at-Large Rebecca Kaplan urging the City...
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