Community
Army Base Developer Gets Amnesia on Promises to Hire West Oakland Workers
Posted in Army Base Jobs, Business, Community, Economic Development, Oakland Job Programs, Responsive Government, Transportation By Ken Epstein City agent and Army Base developer Phil…
Mayoral Candidates Call for Task Forces for Greater Community Voice in Making Policy
By Ken Epstein Some of Oakland’s mayoral candidates – from the highly visible frontrunners to the grassroots…
Will Proposed Coliseum City Benefit or Displace East Oakland Residents?
Posted in Arts and Culture, Business, Coliseum City, Community, Economic Development, Environment, Gentrification, Health, Housing/Foreclosures, Labor, Oakland Job Programs, Responsive Government, Transportation By Ken Epstein City officials seem to be moving…
Oakland Seeks Answers as Residents Continue to Be Displaced and Dispossesed
Photo courtesy of Oakland North. By Ken Epstein With all the talk of economic and housing market…
Desley Brooks Helps Family After City Sewer Workers Wreck Their Home
Posted in Community, Elections & Voting Rights, Health, Politics, Responsive Government By Ken Epstein Gerard and Christina Gray have been working with the…
Kaplan, Brooks Push for City to Pay Bills on Time
Posted in Business, Community, Economic Development, Elections & Voting Rights, Politics, Responsive Government Oakland City Council President Pro Tem Rebecca Kaplan and Councilmember Desley…
Tavis Smiley Discusses “Death of a King” in Bay Area
Posted in Arts and Culture, Community, Equal Rights/Equity By Tasion Kwamilele Imagine young boy being beaten by is father so severely…
Mayoral Candidates Side with Local Company Against Waste Multinational
Posted in Business, Community, Economic Development, Elections & Voting Rights, Labor, Oakland Job Programs, Oakland Talks Trash By Ashley Chambers Part 1 National trash hauling…
CWS Will Build “Clean, Modern” Facility in West Oakland
Posted in Business, Community, Economic Development, Education/Schools/Youth, Gentrification, Labor, Oakland Job Programs, Oakland Talks Trash, Responsive Government By Ken Epstein When people hear that California Waste Solutions…
City Council Settles Garbage Wars
Posted in Business, Community, Economic Development, Education/Schools/Youth, Environment, Gentrification, Oakland Talks Trash By Ken Epstein The Oakland City Council declared a victory and a truce…