Steph Curry’s Car Accident Points To Warriors Need To Transport Players
Steph Curry was in a car accident where he emerged without an injury – by accounts, not a scratch. It could have been worse: the Golden State Warriors Star could have been killed. Steph Curry is arguably worth $500 million to the Warriors – about one-quarter or one-sixth of the organization’s franchise value. To one […]
Happy Thanksgiving Day 2018 In Oakland, California – Where’s Dinner?
Happy Thanksgiving Day, everyone! Here are some notes to help you through this Thanksgiving Day 2018 in Oakland, California. Today Is A SF BART Train and Parking Holiday The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) System (Notice the new, snark-oriented Twitter account?) informs us that today parking permits and fees will not be enforced at BART […]
Oakland Zoo Bids Farewell To Nikko The Gibbon, Moving To Santa Barbara Zoo
Oakland Zoo reports: White-handed gibbons are very social and monogamous – known to mate for life – and the popular Nikko The Gibbon, aged a mature 35 years, has been mate-less for almost a year. While he will be sorely missed at Oakland Zoo, zookeepers are confident he will be happier socially with his new […]
City Of Oakland Hosts 27th Annual Thanksgiving Dinner And Coat Giveaway
Oakland –– The City of Oakland’s Human Services Department is preparing for the winter and holiday seasons with key events that serve the community – the 27th Annual Thanksgiving Dinner, and the 27th Annual Coat Giveaway. Thanksgiving Dinner Partnering with Community Action Partnership, Communities United Committee, and the Emergency Food Providers Advisory Committee, 2018 marks […]
Raiders Lawsuit: Why Is Oakland Planning Oakland Raiders, NFL Lawsuit ?
Oakland’s much-talked about lawsuit against the Oakland Raiders and the National Football League itself is set to be ready by December according to its lawyers. But why is Oakland even planning legal action against its beloved team? There has been a ton of misinformation distributed about the environment that created the lawsuit, and what it’s […]
City Of Oakland: Shelter Beds Available In West And East Oakland
Shelter Beds in West and East Oakland St. Vincent de Paul Open Again Sunday, Providing Respite for Unsheltered Residents Oakland, CA – Air quality remains at “unhealthy” levels in Oakland, impacting sensitive and vulnerable populations, including our unsheltered residents. Shelter beds are available at two shelters—one in West Oakland and the other in East Oakland. […]
City Of Oakland Update On Unhealthy Air Quality, Resources For The Public
Oakland, CA — Our hearts go out to the victims and families of the Camp Fire in Butte County, which continues to burn, and the impacts are being felt across the region as air quality has worsened, fluctuating between “unhealthy” and “very unhealthy.” As of 10 am, the Air Quality Index is in the “very […]
On Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, Homeless Issue, And Regionalism: Steve Lowe
Steve Lowe, the developer of Old Oakland in Downtown Oakland, wrote this response to Oakland News Now creator and Zennie62Media Founder and CEO Zennie Abraham’s post on what Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf should do to get the County of Alameda to give it’s host city a necessary level of funding to cope with the homeless […]
Oakland Host City For President Obama’s Inaugural MBK Rising!
Oakland’s My Brother’s Keeper Coalition Touted as National Model OAKLAND, CA – Today, the My Brother Keeper Alliance (MBK Alliance) announced that Oakland will be the host city for MBK Rising!, its first national convening in February 2019. MBK Rising! will bring together the growing network of MBK Communities and boys and young men of […]
Oakland Mayor Schaaf Can Rip Homeless Funds From Alameda County, Here’s How
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has earned her place as the landslide-reelected 50th Mayor of Oakland. But rather than celebrate the occasion with a bold move to end Oakland’s homeless crisis, she takes to social media to whine about, of all things, the County of Alameda not providing enough money for Oakland’s needs. UPDATE: Steve Lowe, […]
Las Vegas Stadium Authority Meeting Of 11-14-2018 Commentary
ONN – Las Vegas Stadium Authority Meeting Of 11-14-2018 Commentary Oakland News Now Note: this post demonstrates the full and live operation of the latest version of an experimental mobile media video-blogging system network – part of a new approach to the production of media. The uploaded video is from a vlogger with the Zennie62 […]
Ahead Of Las Vegas Stadium Authority Meeting, Problems With Labor, Hotel Tax Revenue
Las Vegas Stadium is said by some publications to be ahead of schedule, but that view is suspect, at best. The Las Vegas Stadium Authority (LVSA) Meeting for November 14th 2018 is less than a day away, and the page presenting its agenda and background information point to problems, on-going and new. Finally, and for […]
Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris Interview On 2018 Oakland Elections
ONN – Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris Interview On 2018 Oakland Elections. A wide-ranging livestream interview with the 46th Mayor of Oakland on the 2018 Oakland City Council races. The future of Libby Schaaf, the 50th Mayor of Oakland who won re-election. Desley Brooks and her election challenge from Loren Taylor, who’s the new District 6 […]
Mandatory Seismic Retrofit For Oakland Residential Buildings At City Council
Dan Kalb, Oakland’s District One Councilmember, along with Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, have drafted a proposed ordinance called “Mandatory Seismic Retrofit For Soft Story Residential Buildings.” I’m proud to author this important public safety and anti-displacement Ordinance for #Oakland. #Oakmtg #seismicsafety #seismicretrofit #haywardfault #EastBay https://t.co/A2sWXQl8Gj — Dan KALB (@DanKalb) November 12, 2018 Right now, the […]
Phil Tagami City of Oakland Coal Lease Lawsuit – Interview With His Lawyer
ONN – Phil Tagami City of Oakland Coal Lease Lawsuit – Interview With His Lawyer David Smith of Manatt, Phelps, and Phillips. This is an edited version of the full transcript of our talk, today. Where there were words that were not correctly recorded by the YouTube system, I didn’t make the effort to […]
Nikki Bas: Get To Know New Oakland City Council District Two Representative
Nikki Bas, or Nikki Fortunato Bas, is the new Oakland City Council District Two Representative, having defeated incumbent Abel Guillen and challenger Kenzie Donte Smith. Bas becomes the first Filipino Oaklander to serve as Councilmember for District Two. In the case of now former Councilmember Guillen, Bas scored 51.45 percent of the vote, versus 42.30 […]
President Trump Shown Being Disrespectful To Black Female Reporters
ONN – President Trump Shown Being Disrespectful To Black Female Reporters Yamiche Alcindor, Abby Phillip, and April Ryan are three top White House television news reporters for The PBS NewsHour, CNN, and American Urban Radio Networks, respectively. They’re all, also black women. For reasons best known to himself at this point, President Donald Trump elected […]
White Oakland Celebrates Loren Taylor Win Over Desley Brooks – Postscript
Just after I wrote the Oakland News Now blog post “White Oakland Celebrates Loren Taylor Win Over Desley Brooks,” I received this text message from a friend of mine who I will not name so I can maintain our friendship. But this person wrote something I had to publicly present, respond to, and build a […]
Maria Ayerdi Kaplan As TJPA Boss Got Northern California Carpenters Award In 2016
In 2016, Maria Ayerdi Kaplan was celebrated by the Northern California Carpenters Regional Council for her work as Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) Executive Director and in developing what is now called Salesforce Transit Center. The NCCRC award was a plaque that read as follows: To Maria Ayerdi Kaplan, Executive Director Transbay Joint Powers Authority […]
Las Vegas Fertitta Brothers Want To Own NFL Team – Oakland Raiders?
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 […]
To Nikki Bas, Loren Taylor, and Sheng Thao, Welcome To The Oakland City Council
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, […]
Jovanka Beckles Campaign Statement On CA AD15 Election
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 […]
Yes On 10: Proposition 10 Will Help Solve California’s Housing Affordability Crisis
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 […]
Joseph Tanios Oakland City Council District 4 Candidate Wants “No-Kill” Shelter Policy
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 […]