Bryan Parker, center, helped Castlemont High’s football team raise $14,000 for new uniforms. OAKLAND | On a blustery late afternoon at Oakland’s Castlemont High School in July, members of the football team’s receiving corps ran play after play. “Thirty-two-in!” called… Read More ›
Oakland City Council Committee Meetings1 Frank Ogawa Plaza, City Hall, first floorTuesday, May 12, 2015, start at 9:30 a.m.[FULL AGENDA HERE]Twitter hashtag: #oakmtg FINANCE & MANAGEMENT Oakland plans to borrow $170 million with Tax and Revenue Anticipation Notes to create… Read More ›
Desley Brooks: “Our city has been torn upby angry, young white people, but that’s not the perception that goes out.“ OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL | Councilmember Desley Brooks can sometimes confound even her strongest supporters with a propensity toward inflammatory and… Read More ›
Oakland Mayor-elect Libby Schaaf at press conference Thursday morning at City Hall with Mayor Jean Quan in the background. PHOTOS/Steven Tavares OAKLAND | MAYOR | Oakland’s current and future mayor addressed the media two days after Libby Schaaf’s surprisingly easy… Read More ›
Michael Johnson OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL | DISTRICT 6 | Rarely do you see Oakland Councilmember Desley Brooks shrink from a good fight. But, running against three challengers who are all vigorously ringing the bell of change for the downtrodden East… Read More ›
Oakland City Council Preview1 Frank Ogawa PlazaTuesday, Apr. 1, 5:30 p.m.[FULL AGENDA HERE]Twitter hashtag: #oakmtg >>> REASON TO FILL OUT A SPEAKER’S CARD The crematorium proposed for East Oakland could incinerate 3,000 bodies a year. ASHES TO ASHES Last year,… Read More ›
