oakland talks trash
Councilmembers, Community Groups Push Mayor for Funding for Homeless, Job Training and Trash Cleanup
Posted in Affordable Housing, Business, Desley Brooks, Economic Development, Environment, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Illegal dumping, Libby Schaaf, Oakland Job Programs, Oakland Talks Trash, Police-Public Safety, Politics, Rebecca Kaplan Members of East Oakland…
Congress of Neighborhoods Says Mayor’s Illegal Dumping Proposal is “Insufficient”
Posted in Community, Elections 2018, Environment, Health, Illegal dumping, Libby Schaaf, Oakland Talks Trash “The time for partial solutions and unmet promises is over,” says…
City Seeks to Curb Growing Illegal Dumping Crisis
Posted in Community, Oakland Talks Trash By Ken Epstein Oakland is facing a public health crisis caused by illegal dumping,…
Waste Management Loses Vote, Sues City
Posted in Community, Economic Development, Environment, Health, Labor, Oakland Talks Trash By Ken Epstein The country’s biggest trash hauler is refusing to take no…
Civicorps and City of Oakland Work Together to Train Youth as Truck Drivers
Posted in Business, Climate change, Community, Economic Development, Education/Schools/Youth, Environment, Labor, Oakland Talks Trash Recycling and organics truck driver Wulliam Montolla By Ken Epstein Oakland may…
Plan to Divert Garbage from Landfill to Produce Green Energy Awaits Waste Management OK
Posted in Business, Climate change, Economic Development, Environment, Health, Oakland Talks Trash EBMUD green digesters at Oakland Army Base in West Oakland By Ken…
Pressure Grows for Tagami to Turn Over Army Base Property to CWS
Posted in Army Base Jobs, Business, Economic Development, Environment, Health, Labor, Oakland Talks Trash By Post Staff Connected with the implementation of the Oakland’s garbage…
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…
Waste Management Helped Pay for Lawsuit Filed by West Oakland Group
Posted in Business, Community, Economic Development, Health, Labor, Oakland Job Programs, Oakland Talks Trash By Tasion Kwamilele A group of West Oakland residents, alarmed by…
Community Groups Build East Oakland Neighborhood Power
Local residents attend recent meeting to oppose illegal dumping. By Ken Epstein Some of the major community…