OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL | Blasts of gunfire rang just outside a session of an Oakland City Council committee hearing Tuesday afternoon. The shooting, which earlier reports say included casualties, occurred during the City Council’s Community and Economic Development Committee meeting… Read More ›
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Uber’s Head of People and Places can’t pronounce names of Oakland officials
Renee Atwood, Uber’s global head of people and places OAKLAND | Uber is coming to Oakland. The ride-hailing company will move into the vacant Sears Building on Nineteenth Street and Broadway in 2017, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced Wednesday. Or,… Read More ›
Outrage in Oakland over Michael Brown
OAKLAND | FERGUSON | In the hours since a St. Louis County prosecutor announced there will no be no indictment against the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown this summer in Ferguson, Missouri, hundreds of people protesting the… Read More ›
The Skinny: Oakland City Council Meeting, Jan. 7, 2014
Oakland City Council Preview1 Frank Ogawa PlazaTuesday, Jan. 7, 5:30 p.m.[FULL AGENDA HERE] >>> REASON TO FILL OUT A SPEAKER’S CARD First #oakmtg of 2014 this Tuesday. LATHAM SQUARE (Item 14) The City Council will hear both side of a slowly-building… Read More ›
