The Oakland City Council Embarrasses Itself.
After I got home from last Tuesday’s Oakland City Council meeting, I left a post on facebook that I was embarrassed by the council’s behavior…
After I got home from last Tuesday’s Oakland City Council meeting, I left a post on facebook that I was embarrassed by the council’s behavior…
Come stroll Lakeshore Avenue in the 25th Annual Easter Parade and Derby Decorating Contest and attend the 4th Annual Spring Festival at the Lakeshore Baptist…
Let’s get this out of the way first. The attack on Oaksterdam and other dispensaries in Oakland yesterday was not just useless and a waste…
My Movement Manifesto 1) I will support a movement that is governed by true democracy not supermajorities in which small minorities always win: a) By…
Back in the Elihu Harris years’ Oakland’s marketing department came up with a bumper sticker to promote a good buzz for the Town. It stated,…
“This is what democracy looks like” is almost as good a slogan as “we are the 99%.” Those slogans represent the gist of the…
Oakland has some of the most successful ethnic-based small business districts in the country like a vibrant Chinatown (not a tourist mecca like SF), an…
OEA Decries Union Busting-teachers offered part-time temporary work- two administrators rehired while a former administrator and retired Chevron exec gets top pay to “consult” and…
Until recent years most Americans had grown inured to the proposition that automobiles would take more and more of our community real estate. Not only…
Alex Miller-Cole is a typical Oaklander and an exceptional person. He is typical because he arrived here from somewhere else and has remade his life…