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Oakland North no Oakland North staff@oaklandnorth.net staff@oaklandnorth.net (Oakland North) Oakland North oakland, california, food, bikes http://oaklandnorth.net/wp-content/themes/oaklandnorth/images/itms/oaklandnorth-itms.jpg http://oaklandnorth.net/category/crime/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/05/09/few-answers-about-jordans-medical-retirement-at-press-conference/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/05/09/few-answers-about-jordans-medical-retirement-at-press-conference/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 16:22:45 +0000 Samantha Masunaga http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=96430 City and police officials expressed their surprise at Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan’s abrupt resignation, but had few details about what prompted the Wednesday morning announcement.]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/05/09/few-answers-about-jordans-medical-retirement-at-press-conference/feed/ 2 http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/05/08/oakland-police-chief-howard-jordan-announces-resignation/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/05/08/oakland-police-chief-howard-jordan-announces-resignation/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 21:28:29 +0000 Samantha Masunaga http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=96350 Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan announced Wednesday morning that he is stepping down from the department and seeking medical retirement. The abrupt resignation came moments before a scheduled news conference with Jordan and former New York City and Los Angeles Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, which was quickly canceled. Bratton was set to present a crime reduction plan that was a part of a $250,000 contract that brought in a six-member...]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/05/08/oakland-police-chief-howard-jordan-announces-resignation/feed/ 4 http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/05/03/oakland-at-work-driving-a-bus-for-ac-transit/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/05/03/oakland-at-work-driving-a-bus-for-ac-transit/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 20:00:43 +0000 Samantha Masunaga http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=96095 The sky starts to lighten as Joyce Masih heads out to her bus. It's just after 6 a.m. at the AC Transit bus yard in Hayward, and Masih is all smiles.]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/05/03/oakland-at-work-driving-a-bus-for-ac-transit/feed/ 1 http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/05/01/after-the-raid-public-opinion-favors-legalization-but-federal-raids-continue-across-the-state/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/05/01/after-the-raid-public-opinion-favors-legalization-but-federal-raids-continue-across-the-state/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 21:00:18 +0000 Madeleine Thomas http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=95948 Oakland resident Sableu Cabildo was diagnosed at the end of 2011 with a kind of brain cancer known as an astrocytoma. It originated on the right side of her thalamus, the lobed mass under the cerebral cortex that acts like the brain’s switchboard, regulating sensory perception and motor functions. Because of the cancer, Cabildo has been steadily losing her short-term memory and her balance. She stutters sometimes, and to be on the safe side, doesn’t drive at night anymore. To alleviate some of the symptoms of her cancer and the harsher side affects of her medications, Cabildo, 34, has a medical marijuana prescription. It’s helped to calm her mood swings and improve her diminished appetite. It also dulls the pain from the migraine headaches caused by her disease. It lets her sleep at night.]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/05/01/after-the-raid-public-opinion-favors-legalization-but-federal-raids-continue-across-the-state/feed/ 0 http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/30/memorial-held-for-transgender-woman-killed-last-year/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/30/memorial-held-for-transgender-woman-killed-last-year/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:00:07 +0000 Madeleine Thomas http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=96041 One year ago, Brandy Martell was fatally shot in downtown Oakland. On Monday, the one-year anniversary of her death, a candlelight vigil was held at Franklin and 13th, the scene of Martell’s murder.]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/30/memorial-held-for-transgender-woman-killed-last-year/feed/ 1 http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/19/childrens-hospital-doctor-talks-oaklands-violence-trauma-consequences/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/19/childrens-hospital-doctor-talks-oaklands-violence-trauma-consequences/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:00:14 +0000 Debora Silva http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=95544 Allison Briscoe-Smith, the director of the Center for the Vulnerable Child at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, sees consequences in Oakland’s violence that extend far beyond the victims to become a public health issue for the entire community.]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/19/childrens-hospital-doctor-talks-oaklands-violence-trauma-consequences/feed/ 1 http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/18/after-the-raid-first-oaksterdam-then-legal-battles-for-harborside-health-center/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/18/after-the-raid-first-oaksterdam-then-legal-battles-for-harborside-health-center/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:00:53 +0000 Madeleine Thomas http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=95518 He might direct the largest medical marijuana dispensary in the country, but Steve DeAngelo isn’t scared of the government’s attempts to shut it down. “The federal government has thrown everything they had at us and we met them and we pushed back,” DeAngelo said, referring to Harborside Health Center, where he serves as founder and executive director. “It’s a drug war machine that’s bound for extinction.”]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/18/after-the-raid-first-oaksterdam-then-legal-battles-for-harborside-health-center/feed/ 2 http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/17/city-council-talks-opd-complaint-intake-new-job-center-and-cutting-ties-with-goldman-sachs/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/17/city-council-talks-opd-complaint-intake-new-job-center-and-cutting-ties-with-goldman-sachs/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:00:20 +0000 Vanessa Rancaño http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=95419 Several dozen people gathered on the steps of City Hall ahead of Tuesday’s city council meeting to show support for a resolution to fund the West Oakland Job Resource Center.]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/17/city-council-talks-opd-complaint-intake-new-job-center-and-cutting-ties-with-goldman-sachs/feed/ 5 http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/08/civil-rights-complaint-resolved-at-skyline-high-school/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/08/civil-rights-complaint-resolved-at-skyline-high-school/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:50:46 +0000 Pendarvis Harshaw http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=95044 In early March, Skyline High School and the Oakland Unified School District resolved a complaint filed by the high school’s Black Student Union nearly a year ago. The resolution could change how students file complaints, allow random audits of students’ class schedules, offer training for teachers on how to deal with complaints of racial discrimination, and require the school to provide annual logs of complaints to the US Department of...]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/08/civil-rights-complaint-resolved-at-skyline-high-school/feed/ 3 http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/08/memorial-honors-lives-lost-during-last-years-oikos-university-campus-shooting/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/08/memorial-honors-lives-lost-during-last-years-oikos-university-campus-shooting/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:00:29 +0000 Samantha Masunaga http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=95056 One year later, Oikos University and community members are still dealing with the aftermath of the campus shooting that killed seven.]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/08/memorial-honors-lives-lost-during-last-years-oikos-university-campus-shooting/feed/ 0