Health
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…
Oakland “Dumps” Waste Management
Posted in Community, Economic Development, Education/Schools/Youth, Environment, Health, Labor, Oakland Job Programs, Oakland Talks Trash, Responsive Government By Ken A. Epstein Waste Management (WM) lost out on…
Local Activists Threaten to File Civil Rights Complaint Against Army Base Project
Complaint could jeopardize $25 million in federal funds By Ken A. Epstein Oakland community environmental leaders have…
“World Asthma Day” in Alameda County
Posted in Education/Schools/Youth, Health By Spencer Whitney The Alameda County Asthma Coalition, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, and the…
Planning Commission to Rule on West Oakland Customs Inspection Station
Posted in Business, Community, Economic Development, Environment, Equal Rights/Equity, Health Hearing to Be Held Wednesday, April 2 Ken A. Epstein Reversing its previous position,…
Reid, Brooks, Gallo Get Tough on Trash
Posted in Community, Environment, Health By Ken A. Epstein The East Oakland Beautification Council, while only in existence for less than…
Acta Non Verba Farm Grows in East Oakland
Posted in Community, Health By Richard Kevin Cartwright Walking through the wide expanse of nurtured and cultivated vegetable beds –…
Children’s Hospital’s Continued Insensitivity Criticized
Posted in Community, Equal Rights/Equity, Health By Tasion Kwamilele Oakland clergy are still demanding answers from Children’s Hospital Oakland in regards…
City Wants Answers to Garbage Dumping, Graffiti
Posted in Community, Environment, Health, Oakland Talks Trash District Attorney’s Office Says Dumpers Will Be Prosecuted By Ken A. Epstein A kick-off…
Protest Over $1,000 Per Pill Price of New Hepatitis C Drug
Posted in Health By Post Staff Outraged over the price of Solvaldi, Gilead Sciences’ new Hepatitis C drug, approved…