Caught Cat Brooks for a 37 minute interview from her mountain perch and via the Zennie62Media network. The actress that become activist, and almost the Mayor of Oakland (I still think Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and Cat must have lunch and really get to know each other, but I digress), was in, as she told … Read more
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra Loses To OBOT Oakland Bulk Terminal In 9th Circuit ONN – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra Loses To OBOT Oakland Bulk Terminal In 9th Circuit The Office Of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra became the latest California organization to lose to Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal or OBOT in the … Read more
Oakland – The Oakland City Council voted unanimously to send a new Oakland business tax structure law into motion by placing a measure on the November 2022 ballot. Oakland’s business tax structure has not seen a major overhaul in almost forty years. The Oakland City Council was united in its desire to see a progressive, … Read more
Oakland – Oakland’s Police Commission late Thursday night unanimously enacted the strongest language in the nation banning the use of neck holds and protecting individuals from asphyxia (when someone is deprived of oxygen) in encounters with police. The policy comes in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, who died of asphyxia … Read more
Rashidah Grinage On The Oakland Police Commission Ballot Measure, Calls To Defund Oakland Police ONN – Rashidah Grinage On The Oakland Police Commission Ballot Measure, Calls To Defund Oakland Police Rashidah Grinage, one of the creators of the Oakland Coalition for Police Accountability, talked about the Oakland City Counciil’s vote to advance the ballot measure … Read more
The City of Oakland has lost yet another legal battle against the bulk terminal project it helped create, and against Phil Tagami, the man it once tried to get out of the project via The Tioga Report in 2011. Overall, The City of Oakland has racked up approximately $10 million in legal fees to date. … Read more
Oakland from a distance – Even though we’re in the middle of a worldwide pandemic, some people insist on maintaining their pre-pandemic behaviors and won’t get a clue: such is true for the extreme left in Oakland and the SF Bay Area, who are starting to look like the extreme right in rural Florida and … Read more
The Oakland Police Commission (Measure LL) was created by a vote of 83 percent of Oakland’s residents in 2016 as a way of taking oversight of the Oakland Police Department from a federal district court judge sitting in San Francisco and giving it to the people of our city. But the strong independent Police Commission … Read more
On Insight Terminal Solutions Oakland Rumor Of Innovative Plan For Coal ONN – The Oakland Protocol: Insight Terminal Solutions Innovative Plan For Coal By John Siegel Finally, the long-awaited Insight Terminal Solutions Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal innovative plan for coal through Oakland was revealed. It’s called “The Oakland Protocol”. The idea of the Oakland … Read more
