Elections & Voting Rights
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…
Mayoral Candidates Dispute Council on Garbage Contract
Posted in Army Base Jobs, Economic Development, Education/Schools/Youth, Elections & Voting Rights, Health, Labor, Oakland Job Programs, Oakland Talks Trash Part 2 By Ashley Chambers With…
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…
Waste Management Uses Dirty Tricks to Overturn Garbage Deal
Posted in Business, Community, Economic Development, Elections & Voting Rights, Environment, Gentrification, Health, Oakland Job Programs, Oakland Talks Trash The corporation that lost the bid is circulating…
Urban Shield War Games Stir Up Oakland
Posted in Community, Elections & Voting Rights, Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety, Responsive Government By Post Staff Energized by images of police armed with…
Police Union Says City Lacks Plan to Deal with “Chaos on the Streets” – Mayoral Candidates Respond
Posted in Elections & Voting Rights, Police-Public Safety “Upcoming Urban Shield Weapons Expo in downtown Oakland is ‘an insult to…
Oakland Mayoral Candidates Talk Army Base Jobs
Posted in Army Base Jobs, Business, Economic Development, Elections & Voting Rights, Labor, Oakland Job Programs, Transportation By Ashley Chambers Oakland is in the midst…
Two More Measures on November Ballot? Why Not Police Accountability?
Posted in Elections & Voting Rights, Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety By Ken Epstein When a community coalition sought the city council…
Kaplan Jumps into Mayoral Race
Posted in Elections & Voting Rights By Ken Epstein Ending months of speculation, Councilmember-at-Large Rebecca Kaplan has joined the…