COUNCIL PRESIDENT NIKKI FORTUNATO BAS, DISTRICT 2 VICE-MAYOR REBECCA KAPLAN, AT-LARGE COUNCILMEMBER CARROLL FIFE, DISTRICT 3 May 14, 2021 Rob Manfred Commissioner, Major League Baseball Via Email Re: Oakland City Council Leadership and A’s Howard Terminal Project Dear Commissioner Manfred: I hope this letter finds you and yours well and healthy. The Oakland City Council … Read more
https://youtu.be/2Z9mHz0jdTU ONN – Howard Terminal Or Bust Dave Kaval Is Right Because Oakland A’s Have No Place To Go – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube Howard Terminal Or Bust Dave Kaval Is Right Because Oakland A’s Have No Place To Go. Think Major League Baseball and the Oakland A’s have some place else to take the … Read more
Youth Beat to Host Creating in Place: Take 2, a Virtual Screening Party and Fundraiser on Tuesday to Celebrate and Support OUSD’s Aspiring Filmmakers Oakland, CA — On Tuesday, May 18, Youth Beat will host Creating In Place, a virtual screening party and fundraiser to showcase and support OUSD’s aspiring media makers. The event will … Read more
This is typical: a white so-called journalist I don’t know or who’s name I’ve never seen takes to white-owned social media to tag me simply because, when it all boils down to basics, I am holding an opinion that’s different and opposite their own on a controversial subject. I never call myself a journalist; I’m … Read more
The East Oakland Stadium Alliance, the group formed of Oakland-based firms that depend on the Port of Oakland and its land for their livelihood, are rightly concerned about their collective future in considering Howard Terminal as site for a ballpark for the Oakland Athletics. But, rather than advance a plan that has as its objective … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOicjRUIWEg ONN – Tony Buzbee Did Approach Deshaun Watson Reps For $100K Settlement Contrary To Recent Claims – video by the YouTube channel in the video’s upper left hand corner. Tony Buzbee Did Approach Deshaun Watson Reps For $100K Settlement Contrary To Recent Claims via IFTTT Note from Zennie62Media and OaklandNewsNow.com : this video-blog post … Read more
The latest news on the Oakland A’s quest for a new stadium in Oakland (let’s forget the United States and relocation for a moment), has this emailed letter from Oakland City Councilmembers Nikki Fortunato Bas, Rebecca Kaplan, and Carroll Fife. It does not include the Mayor of Oakland, thus setting up the danger of a … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yonU4-77Pgg ONN – Pyro’s Pastrami Jack London Square Is Oakland’s Best Kept Secret – video by the YouTube channel in the video’s upper left hand corner. Chef Cash Caris and Anahita Cann are the owners of Pyro’s Pastrami, a homemade pastrami sandwich pop-up they operate near a train station in Jack London Square in Oakland, … Read more
The East Oakland Stadium Alliance, the advocacy organization that has played an unproductive role in the matter of a baseball stadium ballpark for the Oakland Athletics, continues to push the idea that the Oakland A’s build at the dangerous site that is the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum Complex. The photo above that marks this blog … Read more
In Lead Up to Announcement of 2021 Alameda County Classified School Employees of the Year, OUSD Announces District’s 2021 Classified School Employees of the Year Oakland – They are the glue that holds together Oakland Unified School District and ensures that our schools run smoothly. They are Paraprofessionals and staff from Clerical and Administrative Services, … Read more
Oakland –– A recent federal court ruling regarding the nationwide eviction moratorium adopted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not change the City of Oakland’s current eviction and rent increase moratorium, which remains in effect during the COVID emergency and until rescinded by the Oakland City Council. On March 27, 2020, … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60nq8KokmUI ONN – Talk’s Las Vegas Athletics For Oakland Relocation But Portland Has 50K Signatures For MLB Ballpark – video by the YouTube channel in the video’s upper left hand corner. Talk’s Las Vegas Athletics For Oakland Relocation But Portland Has 50K Signatures For MLB Ballpark Somehow Las Vegas has been positioned as the front … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSHWEqG4BAM ONN – Livestream: Blame To Go Around In Oakland A’s Relocation Threat? Start With Oakland Athletics – video by the YouTube channel in the video’s upper left hand corner. Livestream: Blame To Go Around In Oakland A’s Relocation Threat? Start With Oakland Athletics The day started with Oakland A’s President Dave Kaval’s letter to … Read more
Oakland’s Chief Information Officer Andrew Peterson Receives Harari Conscious Leadership and Social Innovation Award Oakland – Information Technology Department Chief Information Officer, Andrew Peterson has been awarded the Harari Leadership Award from the University of San Francisco (USF) for his work in bridging theory and practice in the fields of conscious leadership and social innovation. … Read more
Oakland City Councilmember Sheng Thao and Supporters of the Oakland Mutual Aid Collective Will Visit CCPA & CUES/Futures on Tuesday, May 11 to Distribute PPE Kits to Students Oakland – On Tuesday, students at CCPA and Community United and Futures elementary schools will receive a visit from Oakland City Councilmember Sheng Thao, Oakland Promise CEO … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcpzBw1BONc ONN – Sharing The Beauty Of Lake Merritt, Oakland, California – Mothers Day 2021 – video by the YouTube channel in the video’s upper left hand corner. At times, enjoying the first amendment for the sake of the first amendment is required. Rights we don’t use, we lose. And only exercising them for potentially … Read more
Oakland: As global trade booms, the container shipping industry is introducing another new vessel service at the Port of Oakland. The Port said today that Taiwan-based Wan Hai Lines launched its weekly AA5 Service here last month. The route links three ports in China and one in Taiwan with the Ports of Oakland and Seattle. … Read more
The Oakland FY 2021-23 Proposed Policy Budget reflects the City of Oakland’s failure to realize it’s in the 21st Century, and is bent on a guns (police) vs. butter (homeless and social services) structure. No where in the FY 2021-23 Proposed Policy Budget is there substantial discussion of, and evidence of a comprehensive plan to … Read more
I hope Mother’s Day was fantastic for our beloved sisters, aunties, grandmothers, daughters, mothers & more — chosen and blood. Mother’s Day morning, I joined the senior volunteers with Toi Shan Association to surprise them with flowers and stroll the streets to support community safety in Chinatown. On Friday, Oakland Mayor Libby Mayor Schaaf released … Read more
Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland At-Large Councilmember, is asking for the Oakland City Council to adopt new, effective homeless solutions We recently received the report from the City Auditor detailing the failures of the Oakland Administration’s current primary strategies around homelessness. We recognize that we must implement real improvements, including rapidly expanding deeply affordable housing, providing permitted … Read more
This is the latest Howard Terminal Oakland blog post effort by Zennie62Media’s Oakland News Now to bat down the wave of completely wrongheaded so-called news “articles” regarding Howard Terminal. Without naming names, the latest of these sad anti-Oakland attempts to kill a ballpark idea the authors clearly don’t understand was titled “What the Oakland A’s … Read more
From Oakland to Atlanta. The mass shooting in Atlanta, where eight people were murdered by a real messed up dude who blamed Asian women for his sexual problems (a hate crime if there ever was one), a 21 year old white man named Robert Aaron Long, have shaken Oakland. (It also shook me too. Vlogging … Read more
Oakland Vice-Mayor Rebecca Kaplan Of The Oakland City Council Has Housing and Homelessness Plan for Action Oakland, CA — Today, March 22, 2021, Oakland Vice-Mayor Rebecca Kaplan is presenting her “Housing and Homelessness Plan for Action” at the 1PM Special Life Enrichment Committee (“LEC”) meeting. The Vice-Mayor has continuously called on the City of Oakland … Read more
Barbara Lee U.S. Congresswoman From Oakland On Anti-Asian Hate Crime Legislation She’s Working On ONN – Barbara Lee U.S. Congresswoman From Oakland On Anti-Asian Hate Crime Legislation She’s Working On – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube Watch the vlog On MSNBC Barbara Lee U.S. Congresswoman From Oakland On Anti-Asian Hate Crime Legislation She’s Working On. Stay … Read more
Fox Oakland Opening Gala Event Produced By Phil Tagami, City Of Oakland – February 5th 2009 From YouTube Channel: February 9, 2009 at 07:56AM ONN – Fox Oakland Opening Gala Event Produced By Phil Tagami, City Of Oakland – February 5th 2009 The majestic Fox Oakland Theater reopened with a bang as a lavish gala … Read more
Oakland City Council Oakland District Three Councilmember Carroll Fife Posted This On March 19th, 2021 Dear movement family, I often find myself up late and night and early in the morning with the weight of countless burdens on my heart and mind. As I fight for the things poor people deserve: housing, healthcare, liberatory and … Read more
United Airlines Buy On Board Snacks Are Back On United Fights With Revamped Menu April 1 2021 ONN – United Airlines Buy On Board Snacks Are Back On United Fights With Revamped Menu April 1 2021 – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube Watch the vlog United Airlines Buy On Board Snacks Are Back On United Flights … Read more
5 Minute Story: Lubna and Pebble From YouTube Channel: March 15, 2021 at 01:07PM ONN – Oakland Public Library On YouTube 5 Minute Story: Lubna and Pebble Reading of “Lubna and Pebble” with Ms. Quinn. Note from Zennie62Media and OaklandNewsNow.com : this video-blog post demonstrates the full and live operation of the latest updated version … Read more
PART 2 OAKLAND PROBATION GOES CRAZY!!! FIRST AMENDMENT From YouTube Channel: March 18, 2021 at 07:12PM ONN – This Bay Area Transparency YouTube Vlog Got Two Oakland Alameda County Sheriff Probation Officers Demoted As the Facebook post over at the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department reports, two Oakland Police Probation Officer were demoted after the above … Read more
Oakland, CA – Oakland City Administrator Ed Reiskin today announced his appointment of Ms. Erin Roseman as Oakland’s new Director of Finance, effective April 19. Ms. Roseman is a dynamic and seasoned finance professional and results-driven leader with 20 years’ experience. An Oakland resident, she joins the City of Oakland from the Transbay Joint Powers … Read more
21st Annual OUSD Celebration of Latino Academic Excellence: “Our Beautiful Struggle / Nuestra Hermosa Lucha” Set for Thursday, March 25 Oakland – The OUSD Office of Equity Latino Student Achievement (LSA) and Oakland Latino Educators (OLE) will host the 21st Annual OUSD Celebration of Latino Academic Excellence for students across the District. This year our … Read more
The House of Representatives voted to extend the deadline for the Paycheck Protection Program. Here’s President Biden’s statement, below. Small businesses are the engines of our economy, the glue of our communities, and account for half of private sector employment. But since the start of this pandemic, more than 400,000 small businesses have permanently closed … Read more
Mills College is closing. Mills College is closing. Mills College is closing. Mills College is closing. No matter how many times I write that reality, it reads like a dream. But the place I never believed would not be part of Oakland has announced it’s closing. The last time I remembered anything like this almost … Read more
PART1 OAKLAND PROBATION GOES CRAZY!!! FIRST AMENDMENT From YouTube Channel: March 17, 2021 at 05:20PM ONN – Bay Area Transparency Visits The Oakland Probation Department For 1st Amendment Audit That Fails This is the first visit for Bay Area Transparency to the Oakland Probation Department. Note from Zennie62Media and OaklandNewsNow.com : this video-blog post demonstrates … Read more
Peralta Board of Trustees Thanks Chancellor for her Leadership During One of Most Difficult Periods in Nation’s and Peralta District History Oakland – The Peralta Community College District (PCCD) Board of Trustees thanks Dr. Carla Walter for her leadership of the Peralta Colleges for the past eight months and praised her stewardship of the District … Read more
Jon Gruden, Mike Mayock Raiders Dumpster Fire: Dumps Rodney Hudson, Offensive Line, Livestream From YouTube Channel: March 16, 2021 at 10:21PM ONN – Jon Gruden, Mike Mayock Raiders Dumpster Fire: Dumps Rodney Hudson, Offensive Line, Livestream What the heck is going on? Some of it is poor negotiating, some giant sensitivity, and the other is … Read more
Oakland City Council Vote For MACRO Police Free Mental Health Program Gets Community Leaders Props ONN – Oakland City Council Vote For MACRO Police Free Mental Health Program Gets Community Leaders Props – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube Watch the vlog Oakland City Council Vote For MACRO Police Free Mental Health Program Gets Community Leaders Props … Read more
Small businesses account for 44 percent of U.S. GDP, create two-thirds of net new jobs, and employ nearly half of America’s workers. Now, millions of main street small businesses – especially Black- and Brown-owned small businesses – are struggling to make ends meet in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crisis. Without … Read more
Sheng Thao (D4) and Councilmember Treva Reid (D7) denounced the illegal sideshows taking place across Oakland Oakland, California – On Monday, Council President Pro Tempore Sheng Thao (D4) and Councilmember Treva Reid (D7) denounced the illegal sideshows taking place across Oakland. “The rise in sideshow activity we’re seeing is dangerous for Oakland families including those … Read more
March 16,2021 Oakland Council Meeting: Discussing Oakland’s Steps to Recovery & MACRO March 15, 2021 At Today’s, March 16, 2021, Oakland Council meeting, I am introducing my proposed budget allocations to close the City’s short fall and restore vital community services — allowing for a just and healthy recovery. My colleagues, Council president Nikki Bas … Read more