Oakland Unified School District plans to eliminate 100 classified workers’ positions
Kaiser Permanente gets into new negotiations with workers unions
Oakland City Council gives schools $1.2 million in one-time funding for the school year
New exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California celebrates untold queer history
“The future is queer, because the present is not enough” — that’s the opening line on the description for the Oakland Museum of California’s new exhibit called “Queer California: Untold read more…
From square dance to political activism at Oakland’s Marxist library
It’s Friday night at 6501 Telegraph Avenue in Oakland. A group of young people in their late twenties are standing in front of a white building. “Must be a bar,” read more…
New measure extends the working hours of Oakland’s Public Libraries
A man sat on a bench in the Oakland Main Library branch on a recent overcast Monday and asked for the time. It was 5:34 p.m. “What time do they read more…
Tales of Two Cities: Locked Up
Welcome back to the Tales of Two Cities podcast! This episode is about being locked up. This week we’ll meet formerly incarcerated people who share their experiences behind bars and read more…
Kaiser Permanente plans to save money by terminating its entire gardening crew
Gardeners in the Northern California region would be replaced by landscape contractors, possibly displacing 60 full-time workers from their jobs. read more…
Vietnamese refugees dream of a “Little Saigon” in East Oakland
Oakland’s Vietnamese community hopes to memorialize their homeland and attract tourists to a little enclave of businesses in East Oakland with the creation of a Business Improvement District called “Little read more…
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