Verdict in Johannes Mehserle trial: Involuntary manslaughter

Updated 11:40 pm: After a day of peaceful protests, on Thursday night a small group of protesters turned violent in downtown Oakland, looting and damaging downtown businesses in the wake of the Johannes Mehserle verdict. Earlier that day, a Los Angeles jury found the former BART police officer guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the January, 2009, death of Oscar Grant.

Locals weigh in on meaning of Mehserle trial

As a Los Angeles jury deliberates in the case of California vs. Johannes Mehserle, The Bay Citizen’s reporters fanned out from El Cerrito to Oakland’s Fruitvale to San Francisco to ask residents what they think about the case and its coming verdict.

You Tell Us: Stop the fear – Oakland will be just fine

Oakland’s 420,000 residents will go on with their lives in the days following the Mehserle trial, the verdict, and whatever protests that may occur. They will continue to live peaceful and productive lives, working, playing, raising their families, and enjoying one of the most beautiful cities on the planet.

You Tell Us: Rebuild Oakland’s streets to make them safer

With a bicycle fatality, a little girl hit by a car and multiple car accidents along Market Street in the past couple of months, it’s high time that this community begin a dialogue about the relationship between pedestrians, bicycles, automobiles, safety and the design of roadways and our public spaces.

Photo project: 24 Hours in Oakland

We sent ten reporters out with their cameras, and invited community members to help us capture images of a day in the life of the city. Work and play, rest and motion: Just an ordinary 24 hours in Oakland. There will never be another one exactly like it.

Community Op-Ed page launches tomorrow!

Got something to say? We’ll give you a place to say it! Tomorrow, Oakland North will launch our brand new community Op-Ed page, and we’re inviting our readers to contribute essays of approximately 500 – 1,000 words on any Oakland-related topic of community interest. Please send all submissions for consideration to: staff@oaklandnorth.net — we’ll choose some to appear on our Op-Ed page. Oakland North will have the right to edit submissions for length, clarity and spelling/grammar. We’re looking for thoughtful…

Got an opinion for our new community Op-Ed page?

Hi Oakand North readers, The Arizona boycott, the gang injunction, the mayor’s race … got an opinion about a local issue? Or just want to share your perspective about life as an Oakland resident?  We’d love to hear what you have to say! Next week, Oakland North will launch our brand new community Op-Ed page, and we’re inviting our readers to contribute essays of approximately 500 – 1,000 words on any Oakland-related topic of community interest. Please send all submissions…

Congratulations, Oakland North graduates!

Today the first class of Oakland North reporters graduates from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Dozens of student journalists have served on the Oakland North staff since the site was launched in autumn, 2008, and many more have offered stories as freelance contributors. As the students graduate from the two-year masters program today, their departure marks the completion of the first class of J-school students to have come through the program since launch of the school’s hyperlocal digital reporting…