Gary Bell, a longtime local community leader who was elected to Richmond’s City Council in November, died at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek early...
Written by: Eric K. Arnold, Oakland Local One of the major criticisms applied to rap music these days is that the genre has become too corporate...
The news that the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges has decided to terminate accreditation for City College of San Francisco in July 2014 may...
Oakland has always struggled with illegal litter and dumping on its streets and graffiti on its businesses. From dumpsites filled with old tires and ripped up...
The explosive news came on July 3 when the Accrediting Commission of Community and Junior Colleges announced that it would withdraw accreditation from City College of...
After struggling for two years to overcome city staff resistance to carrying out a council-approved reform of intake of complaints against police, PUEBLO and other community...
Despite funding issues forcing the West Oakland Youth Center to remain closed for now, last week staff kicked off Friday Night Live, a new series of...
Angry community members packed into the City Council chambers to defend East Oakland Councilmember Desley Brooks, while Council President Pat Kernighan could even not find the...
The East Oakland Rainbow Teen Center is located in a beautifully renovated site that was built in 45 days at a cost to the public of...
Community members are responding angrily as news has began to spread that City Council President Pat Kernighan has called a special City Council meeting to reprimand...
Twenty members of Oakland’s clergy held a press conference Thursday in response to violence in the city and the recent shooting of 8-year old Alaysha Carradine,...
The Accrediting Commission of Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) has made a decision that could result in shutting down City College of San Francisco in July...
Members of the struggling Black community of San Francisco’s BayView Hunters Point have plenty reasons to feel as though they got the “short end of the...
At the City Council’s Rules and Legislation Committee meeting on last Thursday, Council President Pat Kernighan requested a special council meeting to censure Councilmember Desley Brooks...
In the future, when people talk about the extra difficulties in getting things done in Oakland city government, they may bring up the Army Base tenant...
A group of local nonprofit job agencies, calling themselves the Oakland Workforce Development Network, are calling on the City Council to reform the way the Oakland...
Last month, the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act and put the rights of voters of color at risk. This week, Oakland residents can step...
Oakland workers rally at City Hall during one-day strike Monday. Negotiations are continuing between the city and over 3,000 workers in SEIU Local 1021 and IFPE...
The Fair Housing of Marin (FHOM) Board of Directors has appointed Caroline Peattie as executive director, effective immediately. Prior to her appointment Peattie was serving as...
By Ken A. Epstein The Oakland City Council this week approved a 30-month contract that will allow a truck yard at the Oakland Army Base to...
Brendalynn Goodall (center), who is president of the East Bay StoneWall Democratic Club with partner Nancy Hinds (right). will celebrate 21 years of togetherness. They were...
“The mayor is (also) culpable,” said Grinage. By KenA. Epstein There is growing frustration between local advocates of police accountability and City Administrator Deanna Santana,...
Members of BART’s two largest unions overwhelming voted this week to give their leaders the authority to call a strike , while AC Transit workers are...
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