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Underground Treasures Lost in Oakland
Eltyna McCree, a downtown Oakland business owner for the past 35 years and owner of boutique Underground Treasures, 1701 Webster St., is being forced to close.
Chair of the South of Broadway Merchants Association and chair of the Oakland Small Business Association, McCree has spent nearly two decades in downtown Oakland area.
Underground Treasures was honored earlier this year as the 2013 Best of Oakland award in the Women’s Clothing Category. The business has been a staple in the community for one-of-a-kind apparel.
“I never saw it coming,” said McCree, adding that she was given the 60-day notification.
First expected to move by the end of December, but she says she was able to extend her time till the end of January. The skyrocketing rent prices were not affordable, and McCree decided to close her doors.
“It’s gentrification in the biggest way,” she said.
She says the city is not making it easy for small retail businesses in the downtown area, as it becomes more marketable for entertainment-based businesses.
When Underground Treasures closes down, the space will be used to expand the Vietnamese restaurant, Pho84.
McCree says the landlord told the restaurant owner that she was retiring, and that’s why the space was now available, something McCree says that she has never said.
Three other spaces were vacant adjacent to her, and she could have moved there, but accommodations were not made, according to McCree.
“I’m not taking it personal, it’s just falling on me. It’s painful to go out business,” she said. “They waited to those spaces were taken and then dropped it on me.”
And now all she can do is try to sell most of her merchandise before the end of January. She says she needs at least 100 women to come to the store and purchase $200 worth of merchandise. She says this will close out the business associated with the store.
For more information, call Eltyna McCree at (510) 625-9407.
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Supreme Court Decision Confirms Convicted Felon Will Assume Presidency
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In a 5-4 ruling, the court stated that Trump’s concerns could “be addressed in the ordinary course on appeal” and emphasized that the burden of sentencing was “relatively insubstantial” given that Trump will not face prison time. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court’s three liberal justices in the majority, with four conservative justices dissenting.
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
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The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s emergency request to block criminal proceedings in his New York hush money case, ensuring that a sentencing hearing will proceed as scheduled on Friday. The decision makes it official that, on January 20, for the first time in its history, the United States will inaugurate a convicted felon as its president.
In a 5-4 ruling, the court stated that Trump’s concerns could “be addressed in the ordinary course on appeal” and emphasized that the burden of sentencing was “relatively insubstantial” given that Trump will not face prison time. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court’s three liberal justices in the majority, with four conservative justices dissenting.
Trump was convicted in May for falsifying business records related to a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg argued that the Supreme Court lacked jurisdiction to intervene in a state criminal case, particularly before all appeals in state courts were exhausted.
Trump’s legal team claimed the sentencing process would interfere with his transition to power and argued that evidence introduced during the trial included official actions protected under the Supreme Court’s prior ruling granting former presidents immunity for official conduct. Merchan, the New York judge who presided over the trial, ruled in December that the evidence presented was unrelated to Trump’s duties as president.
Prosecutors dismissed Trump’s objections, stating that the sentencing would take less than an hour and could be attended virtually. They said the public interest in proceeding to sentencing outweighed the President-elect’s claims of undue burden.
Justice Samuel Alito, one of the four dissenting justices, confirmed speaking to Trump by phone on Wednesday. Alito insisted the conversation did not involve the case, though the call drew criticism given his previous refusals to recuse himself from politically sensitive matters.
The sentencing hearing is set for Friday at 9:30 a.m. in Manhattan. As the nation moves closer to an unprecedented inauguration, questions about the implications of a convicted felon assuming the presidency remain.
“No one is above the law,” Bragg said.
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