Many Oakland business people are asking whether Oakland is still a good place to invest. When I talk to people working for big and small businesses around the city, I hear this question constantly: “Is...
My concern is for those children who are rejected by the local charters and private schools. Either their parents don't have the savvy to get them in, or once they fail there the charters and...
Measure I will do nothing to solve Oakland’s fiscal mess, or to address the fact that Oakland is over $450 million in debt for pension obligations it can’t afford.
What has happened to us as a culture and people when we enjoy watching a fight, more concerned with videotaping on a cell phone than calling for help, and take a national past time and...
If you walk every day, like I do, then you've probably had a few near-death experiences while trying to overcome what is probably the biggest barrier in pedestrian safety: crossing the street.
We not only need to ask why it is that the city of Oakland's Black population is shrinking, but, just as crucially, why is it that so many non-Black people are coming to Oakland from...
What does it say about a city of Oakland's size to have only four libraries left? What does it say to propose closing the Oakland History Room and the African-American Museum and Library? Does it...
We have an overburdened animal shelter and a police department that is in no position to enforce new animal welfare laws. Oakland doesn’t need policies that encourage people to breed, kill and eat animals for...
All of us support the idea of children having a healthy school lunch. But what does that really mean? And are the children in the Oakland Unified School District getting it?
By Laura Counts, Julie Quiroz-Martinez, and Christopher Frost
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Next year, Peralta Elementary in North Oakland will have overcrowded classrooms—while one classroom will sit empty. Despite the fact that Oakland Unified has announced a dramatic plan to shield elementary schools from layoffs of credentialed...
For too long, Oakland's public safety dialog has been framed as a contest between advocates for community policing and crime prevention programs, on the one hand, and supporters of adequate police staffing, on the other....
At first, I thought they might be looking at their victim, reacting to their bloody deed, her with a glee in her face that approached the psychotic, him with a rather more appropriate look of...
Police Chief Anthony Batts came to Oakland with the promise that he would have the resources to do the job. Instead of beefing up the department, it has been cannibalized. We have gone from 803...
As sure as it’s the New Year, it’s also school selection season in Oakland. Obsessing about kindergarten is one of those things almost every middle-class parent here does, as normal as buying a family membership...
This Weekend in Oakland
Looking for something fun to do? Community events and activities for the weekend of May 17-19, 2013.
