Writing a budget is about the numbers, and it is also about our values. After the release of Mayor Libby Schaaf’s budget proposal, the law requires...
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond has appointed Oakland School Boardmember Roseann Torres as co-chair of his statewide Closing the Achievement Gap Initiative. Torres will...
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office and the County Board of Supervisors are facing a growing furor from Oakland residents and community groups demanding an independent audit...
The Arab American Foundation presented their 2019 Award for Individual Achievement to former Berkeley Mayor Gus Newport at their annual Kahlil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Awards...
More than 1,000 apartments, retail and commercial space to revive Seventh Street Decades after BART rolled through West Oakland destroying what was once a vibrant, Black,...
Golden Gate University School of Law featured Contra Costa County District Attorney and alumna Diana Becton as the keynote speaker at its recent commencement program held...
California Treasurer Fiona Ma has appointed Frederick Jordan of San Francisco to the California High-Speed Rail Authority Peer Review. The California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group...
California Treasurer Fiona Ma says Dr. Scott best in her field and has decades of experience California Treasurer Fiona Ma has appointed Dr. Beverly A. Scott...
The Board of Education’s Community of Schools Policy calls on us to reimagine our school system to ensure a quality school for all Oakland students. We...
City Council President Rebecca Kaplan has called a special City Council meeting in June to present proposed amendments to the $3.2 billion, two-year budget proposal recently...
The Oakland City Council has taken a first step in codifying building standards currently used for Tuffshed encampments, approving housing facilities for the homeless that could be...
As the 2018-19 Oakland Unified School District’s (OUSD) academic year winds down in the wake of an historic teachers’ strike, Oakland educators, students, and their supporters...
Almost half of the injured scooter riders in Austin, Texas, identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its first-ever study of dockless electric...
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...
Mayor Libby Schaaf’s administration this week released its proposal for the city’s $3.2 billion, two year-year budget for 2019-2021, which must be approved by the end...
The City Council this week honored small businesses in the city, recognizing “the key role that they play in driving Oakland’s economy and contributing to the...
Oakland’s Community Police Review Agency (CPRA) released a shocking report on May 3 exonerating four Oakland police officers who shot and killed an unconscious man, Joshua...
Mayor Pauline Russo Cutter and San Leandro City Councilmembers Deborah Cox, Ed Hernandez, and Vice Mayor Corina Lopez invite the community to a Town Hall meeting...
Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker made a last-minute change to the City Council agenda before Tuesday’s Council meeting, altering the title of—and adding content to—a proposed...
Members and supporters of the voter-created Oakland Police Commission went to City Council this week to seek support to end city administrators’ continuous foot dragging and...
Oakland’s Public Works Department (PWD) placed a notice on a privately owned portable toilet near Raimondi Park on April 26, instructing homeless residents camped there to...
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...
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...
The Oakland City Administrator’s Office has prevented the Oakland Police Commission from fulfilling certain elements of the Police Commission enabling ordinance, the law that grants the...
Oakland residents are fighting for more power to oversee the actions of the Oakland Police Department (OPD). On April 2, 2019, attorneys for the Coalition for...
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