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ONN – Las Vegas Ferritas Brothers Want To Own NFL Team – Oakland Raiders? According to a series of tweets and an email from the author of the popular blog “Vital Vegas,” Frank Fertitta and Lorenzo Fertitta, known as the Fertitta Brothers, are interested in an NFL team – most likely, the Las Vegas-bound … Read more
Nikki Bas, Loren Taylor, and Sheng Thao are the new representatives of Oakland City Council Districts 2, 6, and 4, respectively. To all of them, I say congratulations and welcome to the Oakland City Council. All of you have worked hard to get to your new public service responsibilities. But, of the three of you, … Read more
As I write this, I’m in Fayette County, Georgia where it’s Thursday, November 8th, 3:25 AM EST. I’ve been here at my Mom’s home to keep her company. While I do this, I’m maintaining an apartment in Oakland that I’ve seen maybe 51 days out of this year. I’m here for my Mom and because … Read more
Jovanka Beckles, Richmond Councilmember and California Assembly District 15 Candidate, issued the following statement on the election: As the ballots continue to be counted, we are celebrating our victory in bringing together an unprecedented coalition of community, labor, environmental, LGBTQ and national political organizations in our East Bay movement to put people over profit. Our … Read more
LOS ANGELES — UC Berkeley, UC Los Angeles and University of Southern California – three top California universities – released research which found that limiting skyrocketing rent increases will help stabilize California’s broken housing market. Each report studied the immediate need and value of allowing communities to implement rent control policies to address their own … Read more
OAKLAND, Ca. (November 5, 2018) — If elected to represent District Four at the City Council, Oakland City Council District 4 Candidate Joseph Tanios will improve the lives of Oakland’s residents in many ways and stop Oakland from killing pets to make room for more coming in the shelter. No-kill pet shelters only euthanize animals … Read more
It’s November 5th , 2018, and the Salesforce Transit Center, or what this blogger calls “The House That Maria Ayerdi Kaplan built,” opened to much fanfare on August 12th of this year, has been closed since September 25th, when the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) announced that fissures were discovered in one of the … Read more
ONN – Mayor Schaaf Says Police Chief Not Asked To Resign, Just Fake News By Opponents A very upset Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf called me to say that the news published in this space that she asked for Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick’s resignation were false news, and “nothing more than fake news by my … Read more
ONN – Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick Asked To Resign By Mayor Libby Schaaf. Breaking News by Zennie62Media. I have been told by two sources that Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf was approached by Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick, who asked for a raise as per her contract. Mayor Schaaf refused her request. The Chief balked, … Read more
If Google Trends current information is to be taken as a predictor of the outcome of the Oakland Mayoral Election, then a cold, direct, dispassionate reading of it points to an Election Day victory for Cat Brooks over current Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf. But What’s Google Trends? But what’s Google Trends? Google Trends is the … Read more
The 1.4 million member Courage Campaign announced its endorsement for Jovanka Beckles for AD 15. Eddie Kurtz, Executive Director of the California-based Courage Campaign, stated: “Now more than ever, California needs strong, bold and progressive leadership in Sacramento. Courage Campaign is proud to endorse Jovanka Beckles — a true progressive champion who will be both … Read more
OAKLAND, Ca.- With only 4 days left before the election, Joseph Tanios, City Council candidate and longtime city employee, is getting hit with swastikas on his election signs. Tanios is running to represent District 4, which includes the Montclair, Piedmont Pines, Dimond, and Laurel neighborhoods. Thursday evening Tanios spoke out on his Facebook page saying: … Read more
“Always forward, never one step back”, those words spoken by my former NAACP colleague and freedom fighter Rev. William Barber III of North Carolina have stuck with me for the better part of a decade. In 2002, while other jurisdictions were rolling back voter protections and preventing people of color and women from accessing the … Read more
Berkeley, CA.- Today Jovanka Beckles issued a press release regarding contributions made on her behalf by the California African American PAC, an outside independent expenditure campaign. Chevron, Tesla, Disney, the California Prison Guards and pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly all contributed to the PAC. Filings show that the California African American PAC listed the contribution on … Read more
The Oakland Raiders vs. SF 49ers Thursday Night Football Game (TNF) is called “Battle Of The Bay” by the National Football League. Battle of the Bay Featured on ‘Thursday Night Football’ Raiders-49ers Thursday at 8:20 PM ET on FOX, NFL Network & Amazon Prime Video ‘NFL GameDay Kickoff’ Airs at 6:00 PM ET ‘FOX NFL … Read more
ONN – MGM Resorts Does NY Jets Partnership Why Not Las Vegas-Bound Oakland Raiders? On Wednesday, Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts International announced a partnership in sports gaming with an NFL team: not the Oakland Raiders but the New York Jets. It has been described by MGM Resorts as a “first-of-its-kind partnership making MGM Resorts the … Read more
Candidate for Assembly District 15 Jovanka Beckles today stated: “I was disturbed to learn this week that an independent expenditure committee supporting me, called the California African American PAC, is partly funded by corporations, billionaires, and interest groups like Chevron, Tesla, Sheryl Sandberg, and the California Medical Association. ONN Note: Buffy Wicks posted her response … Read more
2018 Oakland Mayoral And City Council Candidate Questionnaire by Zennie62Media This 20-question questionnaire was designed to give Oaklanders a chance to evaluate, at once, the plans and philosopies of all of the participants in the Oakland Mayoral Race and the Oakland City Council Race for District 2, District 4, and District 6. This is 2018 … Read more
Today Senator Bernie Sanders endorsed Jovanka Beckles for Assembly District 15 following a weekend rally in Berkeley. “While in Berkeley, I had the chance to meet with Jovanka Beckles, and I was impressed by her commitment to progressive values. In the State Assembly, she will fight for Medicare for all, a living wage for all … Read more
2018 Oakland Mayoral And City Council Candidate Questionnaire by Zennie62Media This 20-question questionnaire was designed to give Oaklanders a chance to evaluate, at once, the plans and philosophies of all of the participants in the Oakland Mayoral Race and the Oakland City Council Race for District 2, District 4, and District 6. This is 2018 … Read more
Berkeley, CA.– AD 15 candidates Buffy Wicks and Jovanka Beckles appeared on KQED Forum’s program on Tuesday, October 23. Unfortunately, Ms. Beckles was not truthful and mislead listeners about her record and her proposals on housing — a crucial issue for the voters of AD 15. The audio can be found here. Following are the … Read more
Statement by Jovanka Beckles on Synagogue Killings in Pittsburgh Armed with an assault rifle and at least three handguns, a man shouting anti-Semitic slurs opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday morning, killing at least 11 people and wounding six others. The Anti-Defamation League said the attack was among the deadliest against the Jewish community … Read more
Stadium hotel tax revenue’s a problem for the Oakland Raiders in Las Vegas. It starts with this spreadsheet, this bond issue, and a little bit of simple math: the first year of debt service for the $647 million Las Vegas Stadium Bond Issue is $36,003,763 – take that, multiply it by 1.5 (because that represents … Read more
