City Of Oakland

City of Oakland Gets Coal Ban By Lawsuit Settlement, Owes Phil Tagami An Apology

The City of Oakland, through the newsletter of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, has announced that it gained the ban on the transport and handling of coal in and through Oakland. She posted this: The fight against coal in Oakland has been won! Today, City Attorney Parker announced a settlement with the developers of the Oakland […]

Howard Terminal EIR: Community Group Blasts Oakland A’s Ballpark District Says Oakland Post

City’s of Oakland Environmental Report on Oakland A’s Project Fails to Protect Health and Safety of Local Residents, Says Community Coalition Zennie Abraham’s Note: The Oakland Post, long a critic of The Oakland A’s Howard Terminal Ballpark District Project, printed an article that’s worth reading. Because its not online, the digital version is presented here […]

Oakland Redistricting Commission Final District Map for Review and Comment

Oakland Redistricting Commission Proposes Final District Map for Review and Comment 15-member Commission tasked with setting new district boundaries for the Oakland City Council and School Board Oakland, CA – Oakland’s independent Redistricting Commission is seeking public review and comment on Draft Map F3, the only map under consideration for final adoption. The proposed final […]

Loren Taylor Oakland Councilmember Hails Community Helping Each Other

District 6 Matters Newsletter: We Are Off To A Great Start! MLK Weekend Events, First Council Meeting of 2022 & Community Updates From the Office of Councilmember Loren Taylor ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Two weeks into the new year, and we are already off to a great start! While we are still navigating the […]

How Oakland Can Develop An Economic Engine To Help Keep Restaurants Open

It’s January 4th, 2022, and we, collectively, as a world, America, and our states, and finally cities like our Oakland, find ourselves still in the clutches of the Coronavirus Pandemic. In all, the toll it has taken on us is as massive as it is depressing: 284 million cases and 5.4 million people dead, worldwide. […]

Oakland Restaurant Week 2022 Moves From January To March, Amid Omicron Variant Concerns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIVmYrCCEnU Oakland News Now – Oakland Restaurant Week 2022 Moves From January To March, Amid Omicron Variant Concerns – video made by the YouTube channel with the logo in the video’s upper left hand corner. OaklandNewsNow.com is the original blog post for this type of video-blog content. One trip to the website of Visit Oakland, […]

Oakland Man Flashes Gun In Video Called “East Oakland Money Vill, Streets Aint No Joke”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVGUynC88W0 Oakland News Now – Oakland Man Flashes Gun In Video Called “East Oakland Money Vill, Streets Aint No Joke” – video made by the YouTube channel with the logo in the video’s upper left hand corner. OaklandNewsNow.com is the original blog post for this type of video-blog content. In the video, the man shows […]

Oakland Poor Communities of Color Hot Spot For Lead Contamination

New Racial Equity Analysis Confirms Oakland is a Hot-Spot for Lead Contamination; Concentration is Greatest in Low-Income Communities of Color Findings will guide how Oakland and Alameda County will use $24 million settlement with the lead paint industry to reduce racial disparities in lead poisonings Oakland, CA – The City of Oakland released a new […]

Port of Oakland Ship Turning Basins Study Ready For Public Review

U.S. Army Corps releases draft Integrated Feasibility, Environmental Assessment Oakland, Calif. – Dec. 20, 2021:The Port of Oakland, in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) San Francisco District, has reached a key milestone in the planning process to widen the Oakland Harbor turning basins to accommodate larger container ships calling North America.  The comment period starts today, Monday, December 20, 2021, for the USACE draft Integrated Feasibility Report and Environmental Assessment […]

Ignacio De La Fuente Enters 2022 Oakland Mayor Race

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmlXkLuL230 Oakland News Now – Ignacio De La Fuente Enters 2022 Oakland Mayor Race – video made by the YouTube channel with the logo in the video’s upper left hand corner. OaklandNewsNow.com is the original blog post for this type of video-blog content. Ignacio De La Fuente Enters 2022 Oakland Mayor Race – Field Now […]

Loren Taylor Oakland Councilmember, Mayoral Candidate, Talks Run, Oakland Problems

A wide-ranging talk on the District 6 Councilmember’s run for Mayor of Oakland, and Oakland’s future. Loren Taylor Oakland Councilmember, Mayoral Candidate, Talks Run, Oakland Problems ZENNIE62MEDIA, Inc. is proud to present Zennie Abraham’s interview with Oakland District Six Councilmember Loren Taylor. This is his platform to share why he’s running for Mayor. We’ll also […]

Sheng Thao’s New Oakland Mayor’s Race Video Forgets Black Men Exist

Not dealing with this one bit, I don’t care who it’s from. Oakland City Councilmember Sheng Thao is someone I considered a friend, but this video she put out makes me think twice about that. It’s the video for her run to be Mayor of Oakland, and in its rush to have people talk about […]

Oakland CM Loren Taylor Blasts Sheng Thao, Nikki Bas Over Spike Of His Violence Reso

Oakland District Six Councilmember and candidate for both re-election and Oakland Mayor (not a legal position to be in, but that’s for another time), took to Instagram to vent his spleen over the way Oakland City Council President Nikki Fortunado Bas and Oakland District 4 (Oakland Hills / Montclair) Councilmember and Mayoral Candidate Sheng Thao […]

Sheng Thao Oakland D4 Councilmember Police Hiring Plan Press Conference For December 2, 2021

https://youtu.be/hXgvNx3trL8 Oakland News Now – Sheng Thao Oakland D4 Councilmember Police Hiring Plan Press Conference For December 2, 2021 – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube. OaklandNewsNow.com is the original blog post for this content. Sheng Thao Oakland D4 Councilmember Police Hiring Plan Press Conference For December 2, 2021 Oakland, California – Calling the City’s efforts to […]

Oakland News Crew Security Guard Shot During Attempted Robbery Dies

Oakland Police Department sent a press release to Zennie62Media that reads as follows The Oakland Police Department would like to make you aware that early this morning the assigned guard of a local media news crew who was shot on November 24th, 2021, in the 300 block of 14th Street, has succumbed to his gunshot(s) […]

Sheng Thao Oakland Councilmember Fights To Protect Head Start

Oakland Council President Pro Tempore Sheng Thao, District Four, Focuses on Head Start Oakland – Decades of research has shown that the first five years of a child’s life are crucial to physical, cognitive, and emotional development that will affect that child for their entire life.  Head Start provides comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition, […]

City of Oakland Seeks Cultural Strategists For City Government Projects

Oakland – The Oakland Fund for Public Innovation, in partnership with the City of Oakland, invites qualified Oakland cultural practitioners to respond to a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for a new round of the Cultural Strategists-in-Government Program. The strategists will bring new perspectives and creative thinking to help City staff address some of the greatest […]

Oakland 2022 Election Could Result In Zero Black Male Councilmembers For First Time Since 1963

As it looks right now, if Oakland District Six Councilmember Loren Taylor does elect not to run for re-election and pursues the job of Mayor of Oakland, and then loses, Oakland will be without a black man as a councilmember for the first time since 1963. To me, that we’re in such a situation presents, […]

Renovated Oakland Athol Tennis Courts Reopens Following Transition of Homeless into Supportive Housing

Celebration Brought Together Oakland Youth + Adult Tennis Players, Unhoused Residents and Neighbors for Ribbon Cutting and Tennis Programming Oakland — On, Saturday, November 13, 2021, Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas convened a grand reopening celebration of the newly renovated Athol Tennis Courts next to Lake Merritt. The courts previously held a homeless encampment of […]

Anne Kirkpatrick, Former Oakland Police Chief, Files Lawsuit Against City Of Oakland

Press Release: “Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick was Fired in Retaliation for Exposing Oakland Police Commission Corruption, Abuse of Power, According to Whistleblower Lawsuit Filed Today. Kirkpatrick Seeks Damages from City for Retaliatory Firing.” San Francisco — Attorneys for former Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick filed a whistleblower lawsuit today alleging that she was fired […]

Councilmember Taylor Brings Experience Leading Disruptive Innovation To Oakland’s Public Safety Transformation

(NOTE:  There is still time to apply for a role on Oakland’s Reimagining Public Safety Taskforce.  Apply Now – Click Here)  Prior to serving as District 6 representative, Councilmember Loren Taylor guided efforts to transform heavily regulated and bureaucratic industries including healthcare services, medical devices, utilities, and telecommunications. As co-chair of Oakland’s new Taskforce to […]

City Of Oakland Budget Adjusted For Pandemic-Caused $122 Million Deficit, Fails To Ask For Bailout

Zennie62Media note: that a budget can be structured during a Worldwide Pandemic and not include a calculation for a request for a Federal Government Bailout is totally wild. The Mayor of Oakland needs to think and do out of the box, because we’re not in a situation that allows the same-old, same-old. A dollar figure […]

City of Oakland Launches Operation HomeBase For Homeless Residents Vulnerable To COVID-19

Oakland, CA – Mayor Libby Schaaf, Vice Mayor Larry Reid, and City Councilmember Loren Taylor joined with community and philanthropic leaders today to announce the opening of Operation HomeBase, a new COVID-19 isolation trailer program located on Hegenberger Road in East Oakland. The new trailers were donated by the State of California to the City […]

Insight Terminal Solutions Oakland Bulk And Oversized Terminal Updated FAQ

Insight Terminal Solutions And Oakland Bulk And Oversized Terminal FAQ

City Of Oakland vs Oakland Raiders Lawsuit Motion To Dismiss Hearing Set For July 19th

City Of Oakland vs Oakland Raiders NFL Motion To Dismiss Hearing Continued To July 19th ONN – City Of Oakland vs Oakland Raiders NFL Lawsuit Motion To Dismiss Hearing Continued To July 19th Also, this vlogger read the 33-page Raiders motion arguments and sums up its intellectual problems in the video-blog. Stay tuned. Oakland News […]

Oakland Decriminalizes Magic Mushrooms: A White Drug Of Gentrification Few Blacks Use

Oakland Decriminalizes Magic Mushrooms: A White Drug Of Gentrification Few Blacks Use ONN – Oakland Decriminalizes Magic Mushrooms: A White Drug Of Gentrification Few Blacks Use The City of Oakland City Council took up a resolution (not an initiative as some have reported) to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms, or “Magic Mushrooms”, at the committee level on […]

Oakland Students In SF To Protest Were Lied To About A Coal Terminal

Oakland Students In SF To Protest Were Lied To About A Coal Terminal   ONN – Oakland Students In SF To Protest Were Lied To About A Coal Terminal The students that went over to San Francisco to protest the Bank of Montreal on Friday, did so on the basis of a lie. The Oakland […]

Greg McConnell Of Oakland Jobs And Housing Coalition On OBOT

Greg McConnell Of Oakland Jobs And Housing Coalition On OBOT

“No Coal In Oakland” Mistaken Jobs Numbers On OBOT

“No Coal In Oakland” Mistaken Jobs Numbers On OBOT

Hey Oakland, A True Green New Deal Has Nothing To Do With Socialism

Hey Oakland, A True Green New Deal Has Nothing To Do With Socialism

Oakland Bulk And Oversized Terminal: Ask City Of Oakland Where’s The Jobs?

Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal: what happened to the promised jobs from OBOT, which was to replace the closed Oakland Army Base? Ask the Oakland City Council and the Oakland City Attorney. The Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal project promised thousands of jobs and tens of thousands of worker hours for Oakland residents, new trade […]

City Of Oakland Knew Oakland Bulk & Oversized Terminal Handled Coal

City Of Oakland Knew Oakland Bulk & Oversized Terminal Handled Coal In 2009 ONN – City Of Oakland Knew Oakland Bulk & Oversized Terminal Handled Coal In 2009. The Oakland City Attorney announced that she filed a brief in the City’s appeal of the decision for Phil Tagami, the OBOT Developer, in OAKLAND BULK & […]

On Oakland Bulk And Oversized Terminal And Coal And Global Warming

On Oakland Bulk And Oversized Terminal And Coal And Global Warming ONN – Oakland News Now Note: this post demonstrates the full and live operation of the latest version of an experimental Zennie62Media mobile media video-blogging system network – part of a new approach to the production of media. The uploaded video is from a […]

Oakland Coal Talk Masks Truth On Phil Tagami’s Oakland Bulk And Oversized Terminal

Oakland Coal Talk Masks Truth On Phil Tagami’s Oakland Bulk And Oversized Terminal

Iron Ore, Coal Export Fueled By China; Can Oakland Benefit?

The discussion of energy in Oakland has become more policized than it should be. For example, the planned Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal is a multi-modal facility designed to serve the Pacific Rim’s demand, particularly India and China. But, because of the rightful concern about climate change, combined with a lack of understanding of what […]

Alex Epstein On “Moral Case For Fossil Fuels” And Oakland Coal

Alex Epstein On “Moral Case For Fossil Fuels” And Oakland Coal

Oakland Bulk & Oversized Terminal 2013: City Touted Jobs, No Coal Fears

The Oakland Bulk & Oversized Terminal is a project under development and also the focus of much misunderstanding (its not a coal plant) and legal controversy (it’s not a coal terminal). But, in 2013, it was the “Oakland Global” Oakland Army Base Reuse Project, the darling of Oakland elected officials when it was introduced. At […]

City Of Oakland Manager: Developer Phil Tagami Has Contractual Rights In OBOT Coal Issue

Oakland, CA – A now-former City of Oakland Manager who talked to Zennie62Media on the condition of anonymity said that Phillip “Phil” Tagami, Managing Partner of California Capital and Investment Group, and developer of the planned Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal (OBOT) had “contractual rights” to build the facility. That news flies in the face […]

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