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Sustainable, Healthy Use Of Lake Merritt – Nikki Fortunato Bas, Oakland District 2 Councilmember

Sustainable, Healthy Use of Lake Merritt: Pilot Program Beginning this Weekend The issues at Oakland’s Lake Merritt are complex, with groups having different needs and perspectives, all of which are important and that we are working to honor — families and elders facing challenging issues living at the Lake, entrepreneurs / vendors of color seeking […]

Oakland City Council President Rebecca Kaplan Calls For New Solutions To Speeding Problem

Rebecca Kaplan Calls for New Solutions to Oakland’s Speeding Problems & Requests Support From the State Legislature at the October 6, 2020 Oakland City Council Meeting Oakland, CA —It seems that every day there is a report of a fatal hit and run or reckless speeding that has resulted in serious injury on Oakland’s streets. […]

Mayor Schaaf, Affordable Housing Partners, Open Estrella Vista Apartments On Emeryville Border

Oakland – Mayor Libby Schaaf and affordable housing partners will open a new apartment community on the Emeryville border that serves mainly working families, seniors, veterans, people with special needs and the formerly homeless. Estrella Vista illustrates an innovative partnership between public and private organizations (including a dozen financial supporters), and the cities of Oakland […]

Bank Of America PPP Loan Mess Leads To Wrongly Asking Americans To Give EIDL Money Back

Bank Of America’s PPP Loan (Payroll Protection Program) Program Is A Horrible Mess Early on, Bank of America was the focus of a lawsuit because the banking giant was not properly processing the Payroll Protection Program Loans that were applied for as million of businesses were being impacted by or fearing impact of the Coronavirus. […]

Today: Oakland High School Giveaway Of $40,000 Of Computers Courtesy Of RRRComputer.org

Oakland – On Wednesday, September 30, more than a dozen students will receive refurbished MacBook Air computers, in the second day of this giveaway from RRRComputer.org, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization. The first day was last week when about 20 students received the devices, in a program that is separate from the #OaklandUndivided campaign. The […]

Donald Trump Brings Proud Boys And Oakland Back Into Focus During Presidential Debate With Joe Biden

Donald Trump Brings Proud Boys And Oakland Back Into Focus During Presidential Debate With Joe Biden ONN – Donald Trump Brings Proud Boys And Oakland Back Into Focus During Presidential Debate With Joe Biden Donald Trump Brings Proud Boys And Oakland Back Into Focus During Presidential Debate With Joe Biden Just when it seemed like […]

Zogg Fire And Glass Fire Declared A State Of Emergency

Zogg fire and Glass fire declared a state of emergency From YouTube Channel: September 29, 2020 at 10:52AM ONN – California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Monday night after wildfires tore through Napa, Sonoma and Shasta counties, killing at least three people and forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate. The […]

Alameda County 911 Ambulance Provider Falck New Increased Offer To Paramedic EMT Union

Oakland – Alameda County’s emergency 911 ambulance provider Falck Northern California has offered an improved pay and benefits package to its 450 Alameda County EMT and paramedic employees represented by the National Association of Government Employees (NAGE) Local 510. Falck and union representatives are negotiating a new agreement, currently proposed for three years. The previous […]

Oakland’s Red Bay Coffee champions diversity and “fourth wave” of coffee

Oakland’s Red Bay Coffee champions diversity and “fourth wave” of coffee From YouTube Channel: September 28, 2020 at 12:15PM ONN – Red Bay Coffee, a black-owned coffee brand based in Oakland, California, is roasting “Beautiful Coffee to the People.” Owned by Keba Konte and his wife, Rachel, their roots are planted in what the company […]

What Do Coal Miners Think Of Some Oaklanders Idea That Coal Can Be Replaced By Renewables?

Oakland From A Distance – In the ongoing debate against and legal challenges to the Insight Terminal Solutions Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal, there are two one constant refrains heard. One is that the Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal (where Insight Terminal Solutions is a Zennie62Media content client) is a coal terminal, when it’s not, […]

OUSD Unveils New High School Building at Madison Park Academy, School In East Oakland

On Tuesday, OUSD Unveils New High School Building at Madison Park Academy, School in East Oakland Neighborhood with Troubled Past Oakland – East Oakland’s Sobrante Park neighborhood, a shining new feature will have a huge impact on the lives of countless young people. The Madison Park Academy (MPA) campus has a new building for its […]

NFL Las Vegas Raiders 36-20 Loss New England Patriots. 250 Yards Allowed Rushing. 2-1 AFC West

NFL Las Vegas Raiders 36-20 Loss New England Patriots. 250 Yards Allowed Rushing. 2-1 AFC West ONN – NFL Las Vegas Raiders 36-20 Loss New England Patriots. 250 Yards Allowed Rushing. 2-1 AFC West Vasu Vaddiparty vlogs about the Las Vegas Raiders 36-20 Loss to the New England Patriots Sunday but tells people not to […]

Chan Gailey: In 1996 Oakland Raiders Said He Was An Offensive Genius, Now He’s Miami Dolphins OC

Chan Gailey: In 1996 Oakland Raiders Said He Was An Offensive Genius, Now He’s Miami Dolphins OC ONN – Chan Gailey: In 1996 Oakland Raiders Said He Was An Offensive Genius, Now He’s Miami Dolphins OC In February of 1996, when I held the title of Economic Advisor to Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris, I was […]

Nikky Raney on Ken Jeong’s “I Can See Your Voice”

Nikky Raney on Ken Jeong’s “I Can See Your Voice” From YouTube Channel: September 27, 2020 at 08:37PM ONN – Ken Jeong has a new show coming out where he along side recent Masked Singer winner Adrienne & Cheryl Hines to see if people are good singers based on their voice. Will you be watching? […]

Oakland’s Future: Solving Homelessness, Housing for All!

Oakland’s Future: Solving Homelessness, Housing for All! From YouTube Channel: September 25, 2020 at 01:00PM ONN – Listen and engage with homelessness & housing experts to create comprehensive solutions for Oakland’s housing crisis. Create a dialogue with the community to ensure all people of Oakland are housed. Join Tri Ngo, Candidate for Oakland District 1 […]

LIVE: Coronavirus sceptics take to streets of London for new round of protests

LIVE: Coronavirus sceptics take to streets of London for new round of protests From YouTube Channel: September 26, 2020 at 06:45AM ONN – Coronavirus sceptics are protesting against measures imposed to curb the pandemic, on Saturday, September 26, in London. Last Saturday, thousands of protesters joined demonstrations around Trafalgar Square, where some of the them […]

Lyft Spends $100K On TV Ads Against Rebecca Kaplan In Oakland City Council At-Large Race

Oakland – Just hours after it was announced that Lyft had dumped $100K into television ads against Oakland City Councilmember At-Large Rebecca Kaplan, allegedly lying about her record on housing, the At-Large Councilmember has received a number of new endorsements in the fight to stop the oligarchs from buying Oakland. “This is not about housing,” […]

Cannabis Is Diversity Featuring Oakland Extracts Founder Terryn Buxston

Cannabis Is Diversity Featuring Oakland Extracts Founder Terryn Buxston From YouTube Channel: September 23, 2020 at 07:39PM ONN – Meet Terryn Buxston, CEO and Founder of Oakland Extracts, a company that was started for the community. In Terryn’s words, “Because we believe that our Town should have access to great quality hash at a price […]

Allison Jones Rushing Is Donald Trump’s Couch-Potato Conservative Replacement For RBG

If Donald Trump picks Allison Jones Rushing to replace the legendary, late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it will be the worst pick any President Of The United States has made in recent memory. Why? Because Allison Jones Rushing, the United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, is being […]

Rebecca Kaplan Wants New Solutions To Oakland’s Speeding Problems, Wants State Legislature Support

Oakland — It seems that every day there is a report of a fatal hit and run or reckless speeding that has resulted in serious injury on Oakland’s streets. It has become a precarious endeavor for anyone, but especially the elderly and children, to cross the street or even walk on the sidewalk. We need […]

Oakland Awarded $20 Million For Permanently Affordable Housing

City of Oakland Awarded $20M in California State Homekey Funding Projects to provide 163 units of permanently affordable housing for homeless and those vulnerable to homelessness Oakland –– Yesterday, the City of Oakland was awarded $20 million for two housing projects targeting some of the City’s most vulnerable residents. Governor Newsom announced the Homekey awards […]

Oakland City Council 2020 Race: Union Committee To Replace Lynette Gibson McElhaney With Carroll Fife, Kaplan, Formed

 The 2020 Oakland City Council race gets stranger and stranger as documents show (it’s always “documents show”, huh) that the Alameda Labor Council and the AFL-CIO have formed a committee called “Oakland 2020 Committee to Replace Lynette Gibson McElhaney And Elect Carroll Fife and Rebecca Kaplan to the Oakland City Council, sponsored by Alameda […]

Oakland’s Zendaya, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Awele Makeba Score Emmy Awards For 2020

Oakland – The annual celebration for excellence in television entertainment, the 72nd Emmy Awards show on ABC on Sunday night, September 20, was a huge night for Oakland Unified School District, and people with roots here. The District can add three Emmys to the collection of awards amassed throughout the years by alumni, staff, former […]

City Of Oakland, Center For Cultural Innovation Launch Grant Programs For Artists, Nonprofits

Oakland, CA – The City of Oakland received $36.9 million in State of California CARES Act funding. Through the Oakland CARES Fund for Artists and Arts Nonprofits, $1.425 million of those funds will go to support individual artists and arts nonprofit organizations that have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Oakland CARES Arts Organizational […]

Oakland Forgot Economic Development And It Shows In The Very Condition Of The City

The Oakland that I knew is dead. It was a city that had over 100 job training programs and several low interest loan and grant programs for businesses. It was a city that was unafraid to embrace manufacturing, transportation, and heavy industry, as much as it demanded and caused the development of an economy comparatively […]

The Alley Cat Bar Oakland: A Drunken Rendition Of New York, New York

The Alley Cat Bar Oakland: A Drunken Rendition Of New York, New York From YouTube Channel: May 14, 2014 at 02:46AM ONN – The Alley Cat Bar Oakland: A Drunken Rendition Of New York, New York The Alley Oakland, California, at 3325 Grand Avenue, has it’s moments. Like this one just over a month ago, […]

Nikky Raney Discusses Controversy Surrounding Disney’s Mulan

Nikky Raney Discusses Controversy Surrounding Disney’s Mulan ONN – Nikky Raney Discusses Controversy Surrounding Disney’s Mulan Although I have not seen this movie for myself, I have done some research behind why some people are calling for this movie to be boycott. This Disney live action seemed promising and I was hopeful for it, but […]

Time To Stop The Left / Right Coal / No Coal Divide And Fix Oakland And America’s Economy Now

Time To Stop The Left / Right Coal / No Coal Divide And Fix Oakland And America’s Economy Now ONN – Time To Stop The Left / Right Coal / No Coal Divide And Fix Oakland And America’s Economy Now Time To Stop The Left / Right Coal / No Coal Divide And Fix Oakland […]

Oakland Councilmember Dan Kalb On ITS Phil Tagami Bulk Terminal After Latest Court Win vs City

Oakland Councilmember Dan Kalb On ITS Phil Tagami Bulk Terminal After Latest Court Win vs City ONN – Oakland Councilmember Dan Kalb On ITS Phil Tagami Bulk Terminal After Latest Court Win vs City Oakland Councilmember Kalb and I talked after the City of Oakland lost its anti-SLAPP lawsuit attempt against developer Phil Tagami and […]

Congresswoman Barbara Lee Statement On The Passing Of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Barbara Lee released the following statement on the passing of Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “Our country mourns the loss of a giant, an icon, and a warrior for democracy, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In her nearly three decades of service on our nation’s highest court, she fundamentally changed […]

City of Oakland Seeks Applicants for New Homeless Advisory Commission

City of Oakland Seeks Applicants for New Homeless Advisory Commission. 9-member board recommends strategies to remedy homelessness and advises on priorities for Vacant Parcel Tax funds for homeless services Oakland, CA – The City of Oakland is establishing its first-ever Homeless Advisory Commission and is seeking nine qualified Oakland residents to sit on the inaugural […]

Leigh Steinberg Famed Sports Agent Predicted Tigers Woods Comeback In 2010

Leigh Steinberg Famed Sports Agent Predicted Tigers Woods Comeback In 2010 From YouTube Channel: February 16, 2010 at 06:12PM ONN – Leigh Steinberg Famed Sports Agent Predicted Tigers Woods Comeback In 2010 In 2010, Leigh Steinberg,the famed sports agent and Cal Berkeley grad who now with Chris Cabott represents Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes […]

Lake Merritt Wildlife Refuge 150th Anniversary. (see description)

Lake Merritt Wildlife Refuge 150th Anniversary. (see description) From YouTube Channel: September 16, 2020 at 03:00AM ONN – Lake Merritt Wildlife Refuge 150th Anniversary 80min. Closed Captioned 1920×1080 1. 150th Anniversary Intro by Mayor Schaaf 2. Samuel Merritt & the Tidal Slough 3. Paul Covel & the Rotary Nature Center 4. Wildlife Refuge: Birds & […]

Sanpete Utah Needs Insight Terminal Solutions Oakland Bulk And Oversized Terminal For Jobs

Sanpete County Utah has a population of over 27,000 people, and is located 122 miles south of Salt Lake City, Utah. Of late, in the ongoing push to build the much-needed Insight Terminal Solutions Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal and replaced the lost low-skill, well-paying jobs that went away with the closure of the Oakland […]

Oakland Broadway: Main Street Of The Future And Regional Hub – By Morten Jensen

Oakland Broadway – Main Street of the Future and Regional Hub From YouTube Channel: July 17, 2020 at 08:23PM ONN – Oakland Broadway: Main Street Of The Future And Regional Hub – By Morten Jensen Note: Morten Jensen is President of JRDV Urban International, Oakland, who writes. Broadway in downtown Oakland has the potential to […]

Nights Getting Cold In Oakland, Shelters Burn, People DIE – by Derrick Soo

Nights getting Cold, Shelters Burn, People DIE by Derrick Soo ONN – Nights Getting Cold In Oakland, Shelters Burn, People DIE – by Derrick Soo Mayor Libby Schaaf has FORCED people to live in only “Soft” shelters on Oakland’s streets. My Tiny Home HOA’s would remove these “Death Shelters” from many hazards including intentional “Burnouts”. […]

Economic Renewal Agenda: Congresswoman Barbara Lee Joins Senator Markey, Rep. Haaland, Grassroots Coalition

Congresswoman Barbara Lee Joins Senator Markey, Rep. Haaland, Grassroots Coalition in Announcing Economic Renewal Agenda Today, Rep. Barbara Lee joined U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Congresswoman Deb Haaland (NM-01) and a coalition of grassroots groups; labor unions; Black, Brown and Indigenous leaders from across the country to introduce a bold plan for economic […]

City of Oakland Opens Additional Respite Centers In Response To Unhealthy Air Quality

Oakland – On Friday, the City of Oakland activated respite centers in response to unhealthy air quality stemming from the ongoing wildfires in the region. Today, the City is opening two additional sites that will operate at least through Sunday. These new locations will also be staffed by disaster service workers from the City of […]

Rebecca Kaplan Asks Oakland To Open Health-Compliant Clean Air Cooling Centers – Update

Update on Rebecca Kaplan’s Call for the City of Oakland to Open Health-Compliant Clean Air Cooling Centers. Response to City Administration Report to be heard September 15 at 1:30pm Oakland – On August 26, 2020, I shared with you my ongoing efforts to request the Oakland City Administration to open health-compliant Clean Air Cooling Centers, […]

East Bay Comfort Food | World Famous HotBoys | Oakland’s Best Fried Chicken Sandwich | OAKLAND Eats!

East Bay Comfort Food | World Famous HotBoys | Oakland’s Best Fried Chicken Sandwich | OAKLAND Eats! From YouTube Channel: September 11, 2020 at 12:31PM ONN – So we traveled across the bridge to have some Oakland/East Bay FOOD! The East Bay has so much culture and some of the friendliest people in the Bay […]

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