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Many great inventions claim Oakland as their birthplace, but which ones really hail from here? The Mai Tai? The squeegee? The phone booth? We put some of Oakland’s most famous inventions to the credibility test.
With the 8th pick in the 2010 draft, the Oakland Raiders chose Rolando McClain from Alabama.
The staff of Oakland North is embarking on a special project to document 24 hours in the life of Oakland. Starting on Sunday April 25 at 11 am and continuing until Monday April 26 at 11 am, we’ll fan out across Oakland and attempt to capture the essence of this place we call home.
The San Francisco man assaulted on Telegraph Avenue last Saturday died today at Oakland’s Highland Hospital. Yesterday, police arrested two 18-year-old suspects. The Chronicle has the full report.
We’re putting out a call for Earth Day photos this week from any community group/organization/school in Oakland that is holding an event! We’ll collect photos all week and publish as many as we can on Thursday (the official Earth Day). Photos can be emailed directly to lillian.mongeau@oaklandnorth.net from now through Thursday evening – we’ll add to the slideshow as the day goes on. Note: iPhone, BBerry and newer cell phone pics are totally acceptable! Details to include: Who is in…
Oakland North correspondents Shannon Service and Josh Wolf sit down to review footage of last week’s dance party at UC Berkeley and discuss their impressions of what they saw that night.
Last month, Stanford student and Tibetan activist Tenzin Seldon got a letter from Google explaining that someone in China was spying on her through her Gmail account. Now, because of cyberattacks like the one on Seldon, and China’s attempts to limit free speech, the Internet giant is considering pulling out of China.
As most people are focusing on the construction of the new Bay Bridge—slated to be finished by 2013—others are thinking of ways to reuse parts of the old one