Oakland News SF Bay Area By Zennie62Media Inc & Zennie Abraham
Oakland News SF Bay Area By Zennie62Media Inc & Zennie Abraham
In an Oakland that seems to be bent on giving away the development store to tech companies, guess what the second largest employer is? Give up? It’s tourism-related activities, according to Mark Everton, the President of Visit Oakland: The Oakland Convention and Visitors Bureau. He talked with this vlogger just after his presentation to the […]
LakeFest Oakland was an attempt to restore the fun brought to the Lake Merritt neighborhood, and in particular Adams Point, by the great event of the 1990s Festival At The Lake. The big difference between LakeFest Oakland and Festival At The Lake is the former was just one day, and the latter was three days: […]
Oakland Lake Merritt is slowly being cleaned up and transformed by the large number of projects big and small that comprise Measure DD. Measure DD is a198.25 million bond measure that was passed by Oaklanders like this blogger in 2002. Think about the Oakland back then (chances are you weren’t here). The Mayor was Jerry […]
Hungry, it seems, to push out poor people of color, (just being honest) The City of Oakland and the Oakland City Council has embarked on a sad pattern of selling public land for the good of a private organization, and not the public. The latest example of this problem involved something called The Derby Parcel, […]
Chris Young, who this blogger has known since the 2008 Obama For America campaign, threw his hat into the ring for the nine candidate (so far) 2018 Oakland City Council District 4 Race. His determination, out of the gate, earned him the endorsement of the incumbent District 4 Representative Annie Campbell Washington. UPDATE: Chris Young […]
The City of Oakland Rules and Legislation Committee of the Oakland City Council will hear two important items this Thursday, June 29: a resolution urging the Oakland City Administration to continue to work with public labor unions post a Janus decision, and a proposal to tax Transportation Network Company (TNC), such as Uber and Lyft […]
Federal Judge William Alsup dismissed Oakland, San Francisco climate change lawsuit. The City of Oakland and City and County of San Francisco’s very misguided attempt to penalize oil companies for alleged damages tied to global warming was thrown out today by United States District Court for the Northern District of California Federal Judge William Alsup, […]
This blogger was personally informed today that The City of Oakland is still working with famed sports lawyer Jim Quinn on the paperwork associated with filing a lawsuit against the Oakland Raiders and the National Football League. A source too close to the matter to mention (and not with or part of any Oakland Raiders […]
At this week’s City Council Meeting, which lasted well past midnight, the Oakland City Council and grassroots community advocates accomplished some major milestones. The Council passed the midcycle budget amendments for the 2018-2019 fiscal year, including significant improvements that we advocated for. We made important progress on independent community oversight of the police department, and […]
The City of Oakland has announced that it’s celebrating its home-grown, Cal-Berkeley star, NBA legend, and now NBA Hall of Fame member Jason Kidd. The location, date, and time for the event is 1075 62nd Street, Oakland, CA, Saturday, June 30, 2018, 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Here’s the details from the City of Oakland […]
The race for California Assembly District 15 Seat is now down to two people: Jovanka Beckles vs Buffy Wicks, and Beckles comes out of the gate swinging a haymaker. A press release announcing a slew of endorsements, most notably the Mayor of Berkeley Jesse Arreguin. Here’s the full list: Jesse Arreguin, Mayor of Berkeley Vinnie […]
Oakland and its Mayor Libby Schaaf took a major step toward construction of a new ballpark. A new baseball stadium for the Oakland A’s with the passage of AB 734 (Bonta) today in the California State Senate Environmental Committee. The legislation, if passed by the full legislature (and that’s a certainty) will streamline the environmental […]
Oakland – It was a weird chance meeting, tonight. At Oakland City Hall, I just finished interviewing Mark Everton, the President and CEO of Visit Oakland, at the side of the outer entrance landing in front of the Council Chambers at at the Oakland City Council that’s closest to the Mayor’s Office, and was headed […]
Wow. The City of Oakland Department of Transportation is just about two years old, and it’s already gaining media – the negative kind and from Oaklanders. The Oakland DOT was started as part of the City of Oakland’s 2015-2017 Budget, and came with lofty goals of providing a kind of center of decisions for public […]
The Oakland Grand and Bellevue Intersection Traffic Control Lights are on, and click here for an update. On September 17th of 2017, this blogger made a Zennie62 on YouTube vlog calling for traffic lights at the very dangerous intersection of Grand Avenue and Bellevue Avenue near Lake Merritt in the Adams Point neighborhood. The reason […]
Jovanka Beckles forgot Buffy Wicks. Jovanka Beckles and her campaign staff were so happy to win the race for second place in the “top two” California Assembly District 15 Primary, they forgot there was a number one, and sent a press release that said, well, they won – save for the little mention of a […]
The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Joint Powers Authority plans to hold a “special meeting” on the proposed extension of the Oakland Raiders lease at the stadium. As to when that would happen, the answer this blogger received is “soon”, and that was from Scott McKibben, the Coliseum JPA Executive Director. That news came after this blogger […]
Oakland District Three Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney issued her newsletter for the week, and in it, pointed to the June 19th Oakland City Council Meeting as the first one where the mid-cycle review of the 2017-2019 Biennial Municipal Budget will be held. The 2017-2019 “Biennial Municipal Budget” is another way of referring to the two-year-budget […]
News from The City of Oakland in the form of this press release on seeking Oaklanders input for capital projects. Zennie62Media posts this in service to the Oakland Community: The City of Oakland is updating our process to identify and select capital projects for funding. Capital projects improve and maintain Oakland’s public facilities and infrastructure. […]
UPDATE: Oakland Coliseum JPA to set special meeting date on Oakland Raiders lease. The planned meeting to review the Oakland Coliseum JPA / Oakland Raiders Proposed Lease Extention was cancelled due to a lack of a quorum. As I understand it from one Coliseum JPA board member who did not wish to be quoted, the […]
The producers of an Oakland Museum of California event called “Beyond Imagining – a Virtual Experience of Justice and Healing” have asked me to tell you about their event tomorrow, Saturday, June 16th from 3 pm to 6pm. Dr. Shakti Butler and World Trust Organization will premiere its first-ever film in the VR (virtual reality) […]
UPDATE: “Beyond Imagining” Oakland Museum Event In VR Saturday June 16th The Oakland Museum of California (where our fearless leader Zennie Abraham is shown above at the “At Oakland Museum Off The Grid” event from 2016) announces its events and special programs in July and August, including events to celebrate the final weeks of major […]
UPDATE: Oakland Coliseum JPA Meeting on Raiders Lease cancelled until July. Raiders remain without an agreement beyond 2018. A cat-and-mouse game and odessey that started last year when the National Football League granted the Oakland Raiders the right to officially relocate to Las Vegas, and after what the organization worked on allegedly behind the collective […]
Thanks to a tip from a viewer via Facebook, Matt McDuh, this blogger learned that Henry William Sintay AKA “Jogger Joe” was released from jail in Oakland early this morning. A check of the Alameda County Inmate Database reads that the name “Henry Sintay” is not there, whereas it appeared there after he was […]
Best breakfast restaurant in Oakland? That’s a personal question. This post is meant to start a fight that needed to happen long ago. What’s the best place for breakfast in Oakland, California? Everyone has their favorites, and for reasons as different as the people who give them. But for this blogger, who’s lived in Oakland […]
Given the success of Uber and Lyft ride-share tech companies (or what are called “transportation network companies”) more and more cities, towns, and municipalities have looked for ways to extract tax dollars from them. Now, Oakland is set to consider a way to earn revenue from riders using Uber, Lyft, or any other transportation network […]
Henry William Sintay AKA “Jogger Joe” was arraigned in Oakland this Wednesday June 13 morning on one count of 1st degree robbery. If you recall, Henry William Sintay is also the man who, last Saturday June 9, took the possessions of a homeless African American man named “Drew” and insensitively tossed them into Lake Merritt […]
It’s nice to see that soon-to-be Oakland-based company Blue Shield of California is a major sponsor for the fourth year in a row of the 2018 San Francisco Pride Celebration and Parade also called SF Pride. As a nonprofit health plan with 4 million members across California, Blue Shield says it is dedicated to supporting […]
Morgan Bach, Zennie62 vlogger and Oakland Adams Point – Lake Merritt resident, is in Gaza, and posted this livestream video-blog three hours ago, today. “This is Morgan and I’m here with Susannah and friends, and we’re here to express our support and solidarity with the people of Gaza, who have been marching for the Right […]
On the morning of Friday, June 15th, at 8:30 am, the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum Joint Powers Authority Board will meet at Oracle Arena to take up an exciting possibility: the XFL at the Oakland Coliseum in 2020. That year would be the last one for NFL Football, with the planned depature of the Oakland […]
Right now, Henry Sintay AKA “Jogger Joe”, is sleeping at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, and after being booked and housed in Downtown Oakland at the Glenn E. Dyer Detention Facility at 550 6th St, in Downtown Oakland on a charge of 1st degree robbery and with bail set at $100,000. On Wednesday morning, Mr. […]
The Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce is hosting Elizabeth “Betsy” Lake as the speaker guest for its “Economic Development Forum”, tomorrow, June 13th. She is the newly hired “Deputy City Administrator, Major Projects”, but she has a history with the Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal development project in West Oakland. It was Elizabeth “Betsy” Lake […]
The 2018 Warriors Parade starts in Downtown Oakland at 11 am, just hours from now. If you’re wondering what to expect, or you own a business and and didn’t get the memo, here’s your chance to catch up. Oakland Distruct Two Councilmember Abel Guillen posted this livestream of Monday’s Oakland City Hall briefing for the […]
UPDATE: Zennie Abraham meets, talks to, Henry Sintay, Jogger Joe. UPDATE: Matt Nelson issues statement after arrest of Henry Sintay in Oakland. UPDATE: Henry Sintay, “Jogger Joe” Tossed Oakland Homeless Man’s Clothes In Lake Merritt, Had Help To Rob Matt Nelson The nightmare that was Henry Sintay AKA “Jogger Joe” ended at 1pm pst, […]
This blogger’s first post and Zennie62 on YouTube vlog, was a celebration of the completion of 601 City Center in Downtown Oakland, the last truly large building for the 30-year-old City Center Development Complex. Now, the 12 block development that was the result of the Oakland Redevelopment Agency’s removal of Victorian homes during the early […]
UPDATE: 601 City Center Oakland Marketing fears to obviously show black Oaklanders. 601 City Center fills in the last giant hole in a larger project called Oakland City Center. Established 30 years ago, Oakland City Center is the end result of a California urban renewal project that started back in the early 70s, when […]
The Buffy Wicks For Assembly campaign sent this statement Monday morning. As of now, the former Obama Campaign Aide is the lead vote-getter in the California Assembly District 15 Race, and is awaiting the outcome of vote counts beween challengers Richmond Councilmember Jovanka Beckles and Oakland District 1 Councilmember, Dan Kalb. Beckles leads Kalb by […]
With the start of last week, no one knew anyone called “Jogger Joe” in Oakland, but by the end of the week, and after the man we now know by the name Henry Sintay, and is knicknamed “Jogger Joe”, attacked the well-being of an Oakland homeless man named Jru, and physically assaulted an Oaklander named […]
