Mickey Martin is about to go to prison. The charge was something both he and the State of California say is not a crime: selling medicinal marijuana.
Mosswood
Protesters march downtown Oakland on Monday afternoon.
North Oakland medicinal pot producer no criminal, supporters say
January 5, 2010 – 10:57 am
Moving forward on bike lanes near MacArthur BART
December 17, 2009 – 8:43 pm
After receiving a $242,500 grant to improve bicycle access around North Oakland’s MacArthur BART station, the city is moving ahead on a series of measures. New bicycle signs are being added to to 40th Street, 41st Street, West Street, Webster Street, and Shafter Avenue
Mosswood garden dispute reflects the neighborhood’s uneasy change
November 3, 2009 – 7:00 am
In Mosswood Park’s community garden, two local businessmen have installed a growing area that displays their new eco-technology. It’s got vegetables, goldfish, and self-contained watering–and it’s set off deep divisions among the neighbors.
Game on: at Mosswood, hoops tradition endures
September 4, 2009 – 9:44 am
It’s the gritty urban basketball Mecca where Gary Payton and Jason Kidd developed the toughness and skill that would make them NBA All-Stars.
The Way it Was
May 22, 2009 – 9:26 am
By STEVE SALDIVAR. Last Sunday afternoon, Matt Siee dressed in knee high socks with a wool white top picked up a 42-ounce ash bat to play baseball circa 1886.
School board to parents: No closures for now
October 9, 2008 – 8:17 pm
By LINNEA EDMEIER
Oct. 8 — The anxiety over the possibility of some school shutdowns played out in tonight’s Oakland Board of Education meeting as individuals and groups took the microphone to passionately say, “Don’t close our small schools.”
In the wake of announcing a plan to study closing certain schools in order to increase fiscal stability, [...]
“Green collar” rally calls for enviro-helping jobs
September 28, 2008 – 6:43 pm
by KRISTINE WONG
Sep. 27 — Most Saturdays, Mosswood Park is filled with a lively mixture of families, dog walkers, and weekend soccer warriors. Today, a different group of voices rang out from the park’s center stage – those of environmentalists, builders, and students who rallied for new jobs to improve both the economy and the [...]