OPINION: Community Correspondent
The cheerful storefront signs marked “Bernal Bucks welcome here!” have become a familiar site along Cortland Avenue, the main shopping artery of Bernal Heights. Each sign promises a different perk for spending Bernal Bucks—cash marked with a Bernal Bucks sticker—the rewards ranging from a free...
What's the difference between a street pimp putting a girl, boy or woman on the street to boost his economy and provide a perverse kind of entertainment and bringing a Killer Whale or other wild species into captivity to be pimped for education, entertainment and pleasure? In this case six tons,...
The Oakland Zoo has an amazing fleet of vehicles that crisscross the Bay Area in an effort to get out the message about their wonderful animals. Felicia Walker, a Program Animal Specialist at the Zoo, says the Zoo’s fleet of two Priuses and a sleek zoo van are used to bring educators and animals to...
The Alameda County Coliseum Commission has approved an initial study on building a new football stadium near the current Coliseum site. The stadium will be a dual-use site, meaning that both the Raiders and 49ers will use the stadium. Even though the 49ers are trying to move to Santa Clara, it...
Dave Chappelle just performed 21 straight shows in Oakland to an incredibly diverse group of people. Some nights he performed 5 hours straight without a break. And you know what he said he wanted to be when he was growing up—A TEACHER!! He is of course a teacher in another sense. He helps to...
The budget deficit still looms large in Oakland as in other California cities. Currently, the City is facing a $15 million deficit in this year’s spending. The Council has taken steps to reduce the deficit to about $10 million with one-time cash transfers between agencies and programs.
This is a...
When I finished business and law school last June, I didn’t think school would be on my mind for a long time. I don’t have kids, I’m not married, and I have had quite enough of the classroom for the imaginable future. Like many of my friends, my daily priorities focus around my career, my hobbies...
The Jack London Square project in Oakland is moving along rapidly. The $350 million transformation project started off with a seven-story parking garage next to the train station and the pedestrian bridge across the Square. Then, many restaurants such as Miss Pearl’s Jam House, Bocanova, and others...
Achieving postsecondary success needs to be a viable goal for all our students. From incarceration rates to life choices, college degrees are an increasingly critical indicator for students’ long-term success. On a national level, students who receive an associate degree earn 25 percent more than...
So here’s what my third grader learned about in school this week: the solar system, how to summarize a story, her eight-times-tables and a poem about longing for home.Her sister, in first grade, is working on writing words like run, ocean and country, and figuring out where the thousands go.Pretty...
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