At Montclair Elementary School Oakland, More than one-hundred students, families and staff members met on Wednesday evening, August 15, 2018 to honor Wanda Redman-Eklund who recently passed away. Wanda Redman-Eklund had taught music at Montclair Elementary School for decades before retiring at the end of the 2016-17 school year. Just one year later, on July … Read more
Oakland News Now – Oakland A’s Best Houston Astros 4 to 3, KC Chiefs Mahomes Drops Bomb On Falcons NFL Preseason. The Zennie62 Livestream talk was late night and lively. The Oakland A’s came back to defeat the Houston Astros 4 to 3 in the 10th inning on a walkoff home run by Matt Olson. … Read more
Lake Merritt and the City of Oakland and USRowing are hosting the 2018 US Rowing Masters National Championships at Lake Merritt which started Thursday August 16 and go to August 19, 2018 (racing daily from 8 am to 6 pm). Sunny and warm in Oakland today, and Lake Merritt is a bustling pile of rowers and boats … Read more
Sheng Thao, candidate for Oakland City Council District 4, became the first candidate certified to qualify for the ballot for her race by the Alameda County Registar of Voters, this week. Sheng Thao also continues to pick up critical endorsements as the campaign approaches Labor Day. Last week, the Alameda Labor Council made Sheng their … Read more
Oakland News Now – Oakland’s Andrew Barnard introduces “Death To Racism” T-Shirts at Peet’s Coffee in Downtown Oakland. I met Andrew via Oakland City Council District Four Candidate Kenzie Smith. And that was a chance encounter at the new Peet’s Coffee at 1615 Broadway in the Flatiron Building in Downtown Oakland. Andrew explains that the … Read more
The Burlington Avenue Apartment Rent Strike in Los Angeles should be a lesson to Oakland and the Bay Area: Tenant union activists, and their attorneys, no matter how well-intentioned, don’t always know the law and many times give bad advice to tenants in rent-increase situations. For example, take the “rent strike” going on at … Read more
City of Oakland Public Works Department press release announces series of three events across Oakland invites residents to drop off unwanted bulky items for free disposal, where they will also learn how to get the same service at their own home’s curbside. Note: City Of Oakland Can Buyout Alameda County Share Of Oakland Coliseum, But … Read more
SalesForce Transit Center, developed by Maria Ayerdi Kaplan, San Francisco’s a social media gem! SalesForce Transit Center’s first regular commute day was Monday, August 13th, and Oakland News Now checked in on the social media perspective of the major event in San Francisco Bay Area history. The giant facility, originally planned by its developer Maria … Read more
After decades, California Proposition 13 will be the focus of a tax reform initiative, and its on the November 2020 ballot. On Tuesday, August 14th, 2018, Schools and Communities First, a powerful statewide coalition of nearly 300 endorsing community organizations, labor unions, business leaders, philanthropic foundations and elected officials, announced the submission of over 860,000 … Read more
Oakland News Now – Elihu Harris, Former Oakland Mayor and I talk Oakland elections 2018 and Oakland Politics. Elihu was Oakland’s 46th Mayor from 1991 to 1999, and prior to that the youngest person ever elected to the California Assembly. I was Mayor Harris’ Economic Adviser from 1995 to 2001, and given a range of … Read more
Donald Penn has signed a contract that resulted in a pay cut after it was restructured according to NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported, and from an unnamed source. Mr. Penn, one of the NFL’s best left tackles, is rehabbing from Lisfranc surgery. Meanwhile, UCLA’s 6′ 9” Kolton Miller, the Raiders 2018 NFL Draft 1st … Read more
Oakland’s Emily Palen Is Knightress M1 and she teams with Stymie and The Pimp Jones Luv Orchestra, Felsen, August 16th at The Neck Of The Woods, 406 Clement Street, 94118. Performance starts at 8 PM PDT. Oakland’s Emily Palen is an incredible violinist and singer, who has performed with The Foo Fighters, John Paul Jones, … Read more
The San Francisco 49ers lost a legal battle to the City of Santa Clara and the Santa Clark Stadium Authority last week, as an arbitrator ruled in Santa Clara’s favor. Now, the SF 49ers pay higher rent to the Santa Clara Stadium Authority, to the tune of $262,000 more. That the Niners have sought a … Read more
The Laurel Street Fair, which takes up all of Mac Arthur Blvd from 35th Avenue to just before High Street, is going on right now. Today Laurel Street Fair along MacArthur Blvd. 35th Ave. to Maybelle Ave. stop in Showin' Out Hair Gallery for our Anniversary Sale #laurelstreetfair #showinoutsale #showinouthair A post shared by @ … Read more
In the 2018 Oakland Elections, there are record numbers of candidates running for the Mayor Of Oakland and Oakland City Council District Four Seat – 17 people including incumbent Mayor Libby Schaaf, and 10 people in the case of the Oakland City Council District Four Seat (and had 12 names). UPDATE: the Oakland City Clerk … Read more
The Oakland Raiders beat the Detroit Lions 16 to 10, and while the story is that Jon Gruden returned to the Oakland Coliseum, and earned an NFL Preseason victory on his first try in too many years, the one true tale all of the reporters will miss is that the Raiders, for the first time … Read more
Oakland News Now – Jon Gruden’s Oakland Raiders best the Detroit Lions 16 to 10, and gave the coach called Chucky his first win in returning to NFL Football as Head Coach of the Silver and Black. The highlights were many: 1) A multiple offense that moved the quarterback pocket. 2) A bruising running game … Read more
Incumbent Oakland City Council District Two Councilmember Abel Guillen officially filed for re-election in the 2018 Oakland City Council District Two Race about 20 hours ago, according to his Twitter tweet to the time of this post: It’s official! Joined by supporters, I took the Oath of Office to continue my public service as your … Read more
Oakland News Now – Jesse Smith sets virtual office for Mayor of Oakland Run. The new Peet’s Coffee on Broadway and Telegraph Avenue in Downtown Oakland at 1615 Broadway, has already become a community center. Because of its location right smack in the middle of the central business district of Oakland, you are likely to … Read more
While other media types suspected that only men were behind the opposition to the Oakland A’s Howard Terminal Ballpark, I knew better: it was Vivian Kahn. This is what I wrote at Oakland News Now on August 4th 2018 (My birthday!) The Oakland A’s are still deep in the “exclusive negotiating agreement” period, where two … Read more
In this Oakland Election News Update (and not “Oakland County” election news, Oakland, California election news) for Thursday, August 9th, Cat Brooks filed to run for Mayor of Oakland yesterday at Oakland City Hall (where else?). It was a big day for Cat, who’s successfully taken her activism against Oakland’s incumbent Mayor Libby Schaaf and … Read more
In this Oakland Elections News, The 2018 Oakland Block By Block Organizing Network (BBBON) Candidates Forum held Wednesday night at Allen Temple Baptist Church, featured what were said to be “selected persons running for elected office in Oakland. Or, as Former Oakland Mayor Jean Quan put it on Twitter, as only Jean can “As local … Read more
Oakland Police accused of racism, again. The Oakland Police arrest of Najari Smith of the popular Rich City Rides, is rapidly disolving into yet another set of claims that the Oakland Police Department is racist as the story spreads around the Internet and around mobile devices. But before we continue, what is “Rich City Rides”? … Read more
Oakland News Now – Donald Lacy, the creator of the Oakland “Love Life” slogan and idea for signs as one enters Oakland, reported that one such sign was stolen at Bancroft And Durant Avenue. Lacy wrote this one Facebook: “ok are yawl ready for this? I did a shoot today for a film project Im … Read more
Darryl Stinnette of Texas is the Bay Bridge Shooting victim. The victim of the Monday August 6 SF / Oakland Bay Bridge Shooting, where an SUV driver and passenger were the target of a drive-by shooting early that morning, was identified as 31-year-old Darryl Stinnette of Texas. He was taken to San Francisco General, but … Read more
SF / Oakland Bay Bridge shooting news. The Bay Bridge Eastbound level is backed up and after a shooting between two men that reportedly happened at 2:30 AM PST this Monday, August 6th. The San Francisco Bay Area’s becoming a dangerous place. This blogger can’t help but wonder if the violence and increase in hate … Read more
Pamela Harris, Sheng Thao, And Nayeli Maxson all took this photo on Saturday, August 4th (this blogger’s birthday) and then Sean Dugar, who’s Ms. Harris’ campaign aide / manager (I suppose they’ll correct me on that) tagged me on Facebook, to make sure I saw the photo. So, without being hit over the head, my … Read more
The Oakland A’s are still deep in the “exclusive negotiating agreement” period, where two sites for a new baseball stadium, the Oakland Coliseum and Howard Terminal near Jack London Square, are under scrutiny. UPDATE: Oakland A’s New Ballpark Landed CEQA Fast-Track Legislation From State Of California To speed up the environmental approval process, Oakland A’s … Read more
Pamela Price, the Oakland lawyer who challenged Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley in this year’s election contest, and who represented Jasmine Abuslin (AKA Celeste Guap), the woman at the center of the Oakland Police Sex Scandal, is officially running for Mayor of Oakland. That’s right. With her website from her race for the Alameda … Read more
Zennie Abraham note: I received the press release below from the NP Strategy Group out of Washington, D.C., representing a coalition of civil rights organizations. What follows is the text, with a few technical, search-related adjustments. National coalition of organizations denounces Facebook’s political advertising policy as restrictive, anti-immigrant, and silencing advocacy by select communities. … Read more
In 2020, The Alley Cat Bar, at 3325 Grand Avenue, is still going strong and surviving the Pandemic. Oakland – Rod Dibble was not just the The Alley Oakland Piano Bar’s star, but an Oakland Institution. In truth he and the place at 3325 Grand Avenue near Allen Michaan’s Grand Lake Theater, Lake Merritt, and … Read more
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has officially filed for re-election as the 50th Mayor of Oakland. Considering this is the 50th Anniversary of the Oakland A’s in Oakland, and the 50th Anniversary of The Big Mac, maybe the Mayor’s timing is just right. The fact is, Libby faces a field of challengers that, put together, adds … Read more
Sheng Thao, Oakland City Council District Four Race Candidate, and Chief of Staff to Oakland Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan, earned the backing of the popular California Assemblyman Rob Bonta in the Oakland City Council District Four Race. (Sheng Thao announces she has filed document signatures for Oakland City Council District Four Race.) So, in the press … Read more
