Join Us to Support Literacy in Oakland
By some estimates one in four Oaklanders is hampered by a serious lack of English literacy skills; but Oakland Library’s Second Start Program has been…
How to Pick a City Attorney, Oakland-style
This morning I finally made it down to Cana, our wonderful new café and restaurant on Lake Park Avenue near Lakeshore, for a café con…
Notes from the Dog Park Meeting or How I Spent a Rainy Night in Oakland
A couple of hundred people gathered on a chilly, windy night in central Oakland at the Lakeshore Baptist Church to discuss the most pressing problem…
Breaking News: Man Bites Dog in Oakland?
Ok, so we don’t yet know what will happen in the ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan, and we don’t know if we’ll get to vote…
Time for the Leaders to Follow
“This is for my folkers who got bills overdue this is for my folkers, umm check 1-2 this is for my folkers never lived like…
How do you define a Conservative?
Once upon a time in America, young people, workers, and fighters for social justice coined a phrase, “speak truth to power”. Most of us have…
Two Degrees of Separation in Oakland
Welcome to my view of Oakland with a little bit of the rest of the world thrown in. I’m just one of the many bloggers,…
What the Pundits Missed.
I wrote this piece on why Batts and other chiefs often don’t last long in that job. Though Batts may be staying, the issues remain….
A Better Memorial for Chauncey
This is an old post from the Grand Lake Guardian that I wrote the day after Chauncey Bailey was assassinated on his way to work…