MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN-RECORDER — Why are we consistently faced with only being able to choose between the lesser of two evils each election cycle?
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...
Attending this week’s Rules and Legislation Committee to support a moratorium on the sale of public property were ( L to R): John Jones III, Kitty...
A new City of Oakland report showd that during the past two years African American workers obtained a little over 9 percent of journeyman and apprentice...
The City of Oakland is hosting a public meeting Monday, Jan 8 for Oakland’s small, minority and women-owned construction firms to learn about the latest proposal...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee released after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey saying g the president’s action an “abuse of power (that) signals a full-blown...
Caption: Authors of the Soda Tax Measure HH were Oakland City Councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan, Desley Brooks and Annie Campbell Washington. In a presentation at this...
By Joy Resmovits, L.A. Times State Assemblyman Tony Thurmond (D-Richmond) will run for state superintendent of public instruction. He announced his candidacy in a statement last week that focused...
Eighty-five percent say they want to require developers to hire local workers first Expressing broad unanimity, 92 percent of Oakland residents rank homelessness as an “extremely”...
About 1,000 supporters of “Day Without a Woman,” International Women´s Day rallied Wednesday afternoon at Oakland City Hall. Photo by Ken Epstein Thousands of Bay Area...
The announcement of one of the most important Oakland public works restoration projects in recent memory went virtually unnoticed during the recent mayoral campaign. Last September,...
Tuesday was a day to celebrate the changing of the guard in Oakland, as Mayor Libby Schaaf, three councilmembers, three school boardmembers and the new...
Chevron has agreed to have Contra Costa Health Services (CCHS) oversee the investigation of the Dec. 18 flaring at the Richmond Refinery and to keep the...
Did you know that the government is one of the largest spenders of goods and services throughout the U.S.? Every year, the government spends an average...
Stockton City Council passed a resolution (5-2) on Tuesday to admonish Mayor Anthony Silva for releasing confidential information presented in closed sessions about the near-hire of...