Community
City Debates Minimum Wage Increase
By Ken A. Epstein While some members of the Oakland City Council are lining up behind the…
17-Story Condo Tower at Jack London Square Entrance?
By Ken A. Epstein The City Council’s Community and Economic Development committee is rushing to send a…
West Oakland Development Plan Goes to Council
By Ken Epstein The West Oakland Specific Plan, a federally funded effort to develop guidelines for the…
School District Wants to Sell School Property to Build Apartments
Posted in Community, Education/Schools/Youth, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures “We are not surplus,” said teachers and communit members who went to the Oakland school district’s…
Council Members Kill Police Accountability Measure
Posted in Community, Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety, Politics By Ken A. Epstein A push by a community coalition asking the Oakland City…
Larry Moore’s Three-Decade Fight for Justice
Posted in Community, Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety “This adversity has made a stronger individual out of me, and I continue fighting…
Gallo Backs Community Call for Police Accountability
Posted in Community, Police-Public Safety By Ken Epstein Councilmember Noel Gallo is pushing the City Council to consider placing a…
Merchants Say New International Blvd. Buses Will Damage Businesses
Posted in Business, Community, Economic Development, Gentrification, Responsive Government, Transportation Fruitvale District businessmen want to know if Mayor Quan will help them By Post…
Brooklyn Basin on a Fast Track, Largest Residential Development in City’s History
Posted in Community, Economic Development, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Labor, Oakland Job Programs, Responsive Government By Ken A. Epstein Media, labor groups and civic leaders were almost…
Defeating Strom
Posted in Commentary, Community, Equal Rights/Equity The year we saved the Voting Rights Act By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor By the fall…