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One killed, four wounded in East Oakland shootings ThursdayTri-Valley HeraldOAKLAND — An 18-year-old man was fatally shot and another wounded in a Thursday afternoon gunbattle in East Oakland, one of several shootings that injured three other people in a bloody five-hour period, police said. The man who was fatally wounded …Bus shooting punctuates violent day […]
Bus shooting punctuates violent day in OaklandSan Francisco Chronicle(02-20) 18:49 PST SAN FRANCISCO — Two men opened fire near an AC Transit bus in East Oakland, but no one was hit in one of several shootings throughout the city. The bus shooting happened near 82nd and Bancroft avenues about 4:15 p.m. when two …Two injured […]
Case against Oakland boy accused of arson attack aganst agender teeen stays …Oakland TribuneOAKLAND — The criminal case against a 16-year-old accused of setting fire to an agender teen’s skirt on an AC Transit bus, causing severe burns, will stay in adult court under a judge’s ruling Thursday in Alameda County Superior Court. Oakland High […]
AC Transit Workers Approve Tentative Agreement, Strike AvertedCBS LocalOAKLAND (CBS SF) — Alameda-Contra Costa Transit workers have ratified a tentative contract agreement, averting a possible strike threatened after union votes rejected two previous agreements earlier this year, AC Transit officials said. Members of … and more …read more Source: San Francisco News By Google
Bank Robbery in Dania Beach, Florida. Just on the heels of the Arapahoe High School Shooting, here’s information on a bank robbery in Florida. It comes from this blogger’s friend Beth Silverberg on Facebook: After being stuck in Dania Beach for over two hours due to the Bank Robbery in Dania Beach I realize how […]
San Francisco ChronicleOn their first weekend together since that terrible day of fire and fear nearly a month ago, Sasha Fleischman’s family puttered around their house in Oakland on Saturday, doing as much as they could that resembled normal. Dad Karl Fleischman fried eggs …Oakland teen set on fire describes horrific ordealKERO-TV 23Oakland teen set […]
The Transbay Transit Center held a first-of-its-kind outreach event on Thursday of last week, when it invited LGBT-ran business representatives to a mixer at its headquarters in San Francisco. Generally, an large public works organization like the Transbay Transit Center will have women and minority-focused events to make sure firms ran by women and minorities […]
The BART Strike that has impacted the travel and commute patterns throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, and especially from the East Bay to the West Bay, is over. BART released the following statement from General Manager Grace Crunican: “I am happy to announce the BART system will be open and fully operational at 3pm […]
Oakland is about to face a total stoppage of work on Monday, as the City of Oakland, BART, and reportedly AC Transit workers will all stop working on that day. The issue across the board boils down to management not giving the workers pay increases after they have sustained pay losses either voluntarily or managerially […]
Transbay Transit Center San Francisco is progressing toward its eventual 2017 completion and opening. And to the end of keeping you informed of not just the construction progress, but also areas of San Francisco that are impacted and may compromise your travel if you’re not planned for them, here’s the latest update, this one for […]
As New York, New Jersey, and other nearby states recover from Hurricane Sandy, there’s a lot of emphasis placed on waiting for large utility companies to get power back to areas that have lost it. And while there are reports that this is happening rapidly in some places, that’s not the case in others. A […]
Joel Young, the AC Transit Board Member and now former candidate for the California Assembly District 18 Seat that’s now a contest between Alameda Vice Mayor Joel Young and Peralta Community College District Trustee Abel Guillen, is reportedly quite unhappy and has become the political target of the local SEIU. Meanwhile, some are unbelievably shocked […]
Election note: Scott Walker win a win for President Obama. In the latest Oakland News, the hottest and nastiest local California Assembly District race is history, and under the “top two” rule adopted in 2010 as the result of Proposition 14, Alameda Vice Mayor Bonta will face Peralta Board Of Trustees Member Abel Guillen again […]
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan just sent out an email that basically reminds the Golden State Warriors that Oakland exists. That’s the best way to put it since 90 percent of the local media (except this blogger) was ready to already send the Warriors to San Francisco without even a ground breaking ceremony. (Which, I think, […]
Great news for the America’s Cup in San Francisco: it was approved for September 2013. That means we’ll see more episodes with cool yachts, like the one I drove that was part of the BMW Racing Team: Here’s the press release details: San Francisco — It’s full speed ahead for the 2013 America’s Cup race […]
The first big candidates forum will be held tomorrow, Tuesday night, at the Rockridge Public Library 5366 College (near Rockridge BART) at 6:30 pm (for pizza and networking) and the event itself starts at 7 PM. It pits the three candidates – Rob Bonta, Abel Guillen, Joel Young – against each other and before a […]
As reported yesterday in this space, a tipster sent an email that explained in some detail possible sites for the movement of the Occupy Oakland encampment currently at Oakland City Hall Plaza. Now, in the blog post, this blogger took time to question the authenticity of the email, but what bloggers do is (in most […]
So Apple’s about to introduce the much anticipated iPhone 5 on Tuesday morning at 10 AM (and not at Moscone Center, but at Apple’s Headquarters in Cupertino). What’s the deal? Well, that Apple’s not holding such an incredibly important event at Moscone Center in San Francisco is a big deal in itself. Moscone Center has […]
In this new Oakland News, Joel Young, the AC Transit Board Member and candidate for the Oakland 18th District Assembly Seat in the California Assembly, was cleared of sex attack charges. Alameda County Judge Judge Jacobson cleared AC Transit Director Joel Young of any wrongdoing in a peculiarly complicated case where, as the story now […]
That the San Francisco TransBay Terminal Area Plan has been released, let alone that the new San Francisco TransBay Terminal is under construction (and forget for the moment Wednesday’s press conference), is just plain remarkable. As the video from the press conference will show, this is a huge project, and a much needed one. When […]
Last week this blogger reported the unfortunate news about AC Transit’s Joel Young, and at his request, published his statement on the sex scandal involving he and his ex-girlfriend. This is what was written: AC Transit Board Member Joel Young, considered by some a front-runner in the 2012 race to replace California Assembly District 16 […]