Jerry Brown calls himself ‘missionary’ to oil executives in climate change fightSacramento Bee (blog)Brown championed environmental causes when he was…

Jerry Brown says he’d run for another term as Oakland mayorSan Francisco ChronicleThirteen candidates have filed to run in the…

Citywide: Kaiser abandons “forbidden garden” plan in OaklandContra Costa TimesWhen Oakland Mayor Jean Quan delivers her State of the City…

Citywise: Kaiser abandons “forbidden garden” plan in OaklandFremont BulletinWhen Mayor Jean Quan delivers her State of the City address at…

KTVU San FranciscoBrown, who served as Oakland’s mayor for eight years, joked that he might run for mayor again, saying…

At city hall, Oakland can follow Berkeley’s leadSan Francisco ChronicleOne of the reasons I chose to live in Oakland instead…

Walsh Targets Inequality, But What Can A Mayor Actually Do?WBURHe’d spent years in traditional social service programs but had seen…

Los Angeles TimesObama administration officials met with a nationwide task force of state and local leaders in Los Angeles Thursday…

Jill Broadhurst v Nicolas Heidorn For Oakland City Council Jill Broadhurst has a challenger in the race for the Oakland…

Former Dallas Cowboys player Josh Brent avoided prison Friday and instead was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 10…

USA TODAYRetired Dallas Cowboy Josh Brent was convicted of intoxication manslaughter in the death of his friend and teammate Jerry…

On Thursday, I was reminded of why carry my camcorder everywhere I go, and even as I have a new…

UPDATE: Libby Schaaf Files Papers To Run For Mayor Of Oakland Libby Schaaf shocks Oakland with Mayor’s Race talk. She…

California Governor Jerry Brown took time to answer questions about the LAX Shooting after the groundbreaking for the Oakland Global…

Chevron Richmond announced the start of a  $15.5 million Community Revitalization Initiative, a five-year plan to stimulate the city’s economy…

Anne Gust Brown, the First Lady of California and an Oakland resident with her husband, California Governor and former Mayor…

This is a press brief on President Obama’s call to California Governor Jerry Brown on the matter of the Yosemite…

The Yosemite Fire is growing to fantastic proportions, and if you have any doubts about that statement, look at the…

San Francisco is not the first SF Bay Area NFL city to bid for the right to host a Super…

Miami, San Francisco, and Houston all have their Super Bowl bids in to the NFL, as per a Twitter tweet…

The San Francisco 49ers, the City and County of San Francisco, SF Mayor Ed Lee, and the San Francisco Super…

UPDATE: a friend called to assert that Dr. Floyd Huen does not drink and the video-person was being inappropriate to…

Michael Peevey is in big trouble. (Note: Follow @Zennie62 on Twtter) Michael Peevey, the President Of the California Public Utilities…

The Waiting Room, last year’s award-wining, independent documentary about Oakland’s Highland Hospital, spun off the Storytelling Project, a “location-based social…

Bloomberg reporters Darrell Preston and Aaron Kuriloff wrote an article on the Oakland Raiders and the need for a new…

Jerry Brown of the Dallas Cowboys is dead because of something he and teammate Josh Brent did that could have…

If you think it’s easy to just file a lawsuit and collect millions from a medical malpractice issue via court,…

Over the past five years, Oakland, California, this blogger’s home, has developed (and this is strictly by observation) a new…

The speculation continues over why Oakland Councilmember Ignacio De La Fuente’s running against Oakland’s At-Large City Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan. The…

The Oakland Army Base Project that was approved by the Oakland City Council via a first vote on the enabling…

In yesterday’s news conference, California Governor Jerry Brown pointed to schools around the state as being the targets to take…

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan did what Ron Dellums and Jerry Brown did not do: get together Oakland business leaders and…

Any doubt about how California Governor Jerry Brown feels about Oakland, where he was Mayor of Oakland from 1999 to…

Morrie Turner is the symbol of Oakland’s unique way it expresses its diverse culture. The famous cartoonist best known for…

The email from the City of Oakland’s media contact had a title that was clear as a bell: “Oakland City…